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Saturday brought some big news for fans of Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone reboot.
The show is going black & white. The full-color version will still be there, but a black & white option will be available to anyone who wants to kick it old school and watch the suspense-horror series in a style that more closely mimics the look and feel of the original series.
It's important to note something hereThe Twilight Zone reboot is a CBS All Access exclusive. It doesn't air on TV at all. If you

The first seeds of SpaceX's Starlink project will soon be planted.
On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted out a photo of 60 satellites loaded into the fairing, or nose cone, of his company's Falcon rocket. The hardware represents a first step toward completing Starlink, an eventual satellite constellation that will beam high-speed internet down to Earth from space.
The fairing is the same one that carried a Tesla Roadster into space in 2018. Musk included a photo of that as well, just to give his follow

Real estate company Redfin has been testing a feature that will allow home buyers to place a bid on a property via the company’s website, according to The New York Times. It’s a move that is part of a trend within the real estate industry that could upend the traditional marketplace.The program looks to be a relaunch of a feature that the company debuted over a decade ago: Redfin Direct, which it touted as the “first online home-buying service” back in 2006. Then, the fe

Warning: This story contains spoilers for Season 8 of Game of Thrones.
Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones is supposed to be a big one. Per Emilia Clarke's recommendation, you should watch it on the "biggest TV" possible. Sunday is also Mother's Day, which has viewers wondering: Is this the day Cersei meets her end?
The theory makes sense. For one thing, Daenerys is ready to burn sh*t down after Cersei had Missandei killed. For another, Cersei is pregnant (unless she's lying about being pregnant

Haven't seen Avengers: Endgame yet? Well, SPOILERS AHEAD. Don't say you weren't warned.
I'll give it a minute, in case any unspoiled eyes stray down — by accident or by "accident" — a few extra lines. Anyone who's still here and reading should know that you're entering spoilertown... right about... now.
The big knockdown brawl in Endgame's final hour is notable for a number of things, not the least of which is bringing back everyone who was dusted at the end of Infinity War for a fin

Maybe you’re not about the subscription music life and still get your tunes from Pandora’s many streaming stations. If so, you can now play that music directly through Google’s Waze navigation app on iPhone. Last year, Waze added an audio player feature with integration from Spotify, NPR One, TuneIn Radio, and other services. Pandora says both its free and premium tiers are now supported on both the Android and iOS versions of Waze.“Better yet, this integration goes both

Game of Thrones is ending. But there's still plenty to talk about — and that's what we're going to highlight every Sunday until the final episode airs.  
It's all coming down to the wire now. With only two episodes left and all of the major players gathering in one place, what's left to ponder. There's going to be a big, bloody fight that someone will eventually "win," and to that victor will go the Iron Throne.
Right?
We'll seeGame of Thrones is known for its curveballs. And whi

Google’s Digital Wellbeing software is meant to be a helpful, transparent tool for monitoring your smartphone usage habits and striking a healthier balance between tech and life. But over the last couple weeks, a number of Pixel owners have come to the conclusion that it has the unwanted side effect of slowing down their device. There’s a very active thread on Reddit right now that includes many reports of improved performance when Digital Wellbeing is switched off. Some say the &ld

Pottermore and Warner Bros. have announced a new partnership called Wizarding World Digital, which is designed to merge all Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts content — from both the books and the films — under one domain.
This means that much of the content currently available on Pottermore will move to a different domainAccording to IGN, all "quizzes, features, and articles" will move to WizardingWorld.com around May 15, so never fear — you'll still be able to take the Sorting

Baby feet: a great way to celebrate Mother's Day.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex posted a new photo of baby Archie (more specifically, his feet) to Instagram on Sunday alongside a heartfelt Mother's Day message. The image's backdrop is full of forget-me-nots: Princess Diana's favorite flower. View this post on Instagram
A post shared by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (@sussexroyal) on May 12, 2019 at 6:21am PDTSEE ALSO: The first photos of Harry and Meghan's new baby are finally here
"Paying tri

HBO's Chernobyl was never going to be light, breezy TV show, but there's no way to prepare for what it does to you.
The five-part miniseries is an unmissable television event, but it is one that will harrow you, a horror story in the guise of a historical docudrama. Each second is riddled with nauseous anxiety. Knowing how this story ends does not in any way lessen the terror of watching it unfold in real time. 
On April 26, 1986, a nuclear reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power pl

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
Last Day of Spring is a sequel to one of my favorite games from last year, One Night, Hot Spring. The original visual novel followed a 19-year-old transgender woman named Haru as she goes on an overnight hot spring trip for her oldest friend Manami’s 20th birthday. It deals

The Jonas Brothers were Saturday Night Live's musical guests on May 11, but they also popped up in a sketch. 
"Judge Court" starred Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, and host Emma Thompson as three daytime TV judges. They're best friends, they're all on the same show ("the only courtroom with three judges"), and they are all deeply bad at their jobs.
The Jonases show up near the end of the sketch. They're accused of destroying a man's home, which they admit to. (Nick, in fact, admits to arson.) T

Scrolling through @SighSwoon on Instagram is the equivalent of picking up a mysterious book at a thrift shop and falling into words that both enlighten and entertain.  
Gabi Abrao, a 24-year-old Los Angeles native, is the mind behind one of Instagram's shiniest hidden gems. SighSwoon showcases self-reflective memes and guides on how to feel things, whether it's simple pleasures or a broken heart. It’s a treasure trove of content tailored for millennials navigating creative lives. 

On Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed the 60 satellites his company will be launching this week — the first batch of thousands of satellites that SpaceX hopes to deploy in the years ahead to provide global internet coverage from space. Musk tweeted a picture of the satellites packed tight together inside the nosecone of the Falcon 9 rocket that will take the spacecraft to orbit.
The satellites are the first operational units of SpaceX’s Starlink initiative, a planned mega-const

On Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed the 60 satellites his company will be launching this week — the first batch of thousands of satellites that SpaceX hopes to deploy in the years ahead to provide global internet coverage from space. Musk tweeted a picture of the satellites packed tight together inside the nosecone of the Falcon 9 rocket that will take the spacecraft to orbit.
The satellites are the first operational units of SpaceX’s Starlink initiative, a planned mega-const

Emma Thompson hosted Saturday Night Live's Mother's Day episode on May 11, and fellow moms Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a cameo to help her explain "mom speak."
"Sometimes it can be hard to decipher what our mothers are, in fact, saying," Thompson explained. "They do speak in code."
If your mom says she just wants to "relax in the backyard" this Mother's Day? She wants to smoke weed. If she says you look tired? She thinks you look bad. And when she announces she's heading off to book club, she'

In a hefty New York Times report from May 7 we learned that Donald Trump — brace yourself, this might come as a shock — isn't actually the financial wizard he claims to be. In fact, during a 10-year period in the '80s and '90s, he lost, quote!, "more money than any American taxpayer."
This is also notably the period when he, uh, received a co-author credit on the bestselling book Trump: The Art of the Deal. This is a president, remember, who ran his election campaign in part on the p

If you remember where you were when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface for the first time — or you know someone whose memory stretches back to the summer of ‘69 — NASA needs your help.The space agency is getting ready for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 on July 20th, and as part of its preparations, it’s asking the public to record their memories of that historical moment. NASA plans to use some of the recordings on its social media accounts

Is there a joke here? Isn't this just what politics-as-usual looks like in 2019?
The latest Saturday Night Live cold open paid a visit to NBC's Meet the Press, as host Chuck Todd (Kyle Mooney) sits down with three key GOP legislators — Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Susan Collins, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — to ask an important question. What would it take to make you stop supporting Donald Trump?
The answer, in real life and in joke life, is absolutely nothing. This isn'

Happy Mother's Day! And what a great way to start the day by checking out all the best deals around the internet. Ranging from flash storage, smart home, garden goods, gaming device, and many more. If you forgot to get your mom a gift for Mother's Day? Don't worry as you still have time. Simply download Amazon Prime Now app, as they are offering two-hour delivery.
With loads of great offers to pick from, here are some examples if you are struggling to think of somethingKindle Paperwhite for $89.

Outfitting your home with a state-of-the-art security system used to cost an arm and a leg, but not anymore. With the Internet of Things smart devices getting more sophisticated and cheaper by the year, you can now lock down 24/7 surveillance of your home for a fraction of the price and effort of older setups.
One seriously quality example is the Lizatech WiFi Home Alarm Security System, now available at a markdown of $50At $149.99, the Lizatech is a great deal when compared to comparable models

In an electrified world that's increasingly on the go, it's challenging to wind down and get a full eight  hours of shuteye. Not surprising, then, that the web is oozing with sleep hacks.
Popular hacks run the gamut from taking melatonin supplements in the evening to dozing off to binaural beats, to even turning off the tech an hour before bed. But might we suggest one more: the time-honored tradition of ensuring the bedsheets you sleep on are softer than a baby's butt.
Here's a great place

"TIFU by asking Reddit which ethnic group to exterminate."
On Saturday, the Formula 1 auto racing subreddit r/Formula1 received some unexpected viral attention when one Redditor's poorly-worded post got wildly misinterpreted by the online community. 
"If you could eliminate a race within the year, which would it be, and why?" the doomed post reads.
"From my perspective, and it’s not going to be a popular one, but it would have to be Monaco," OP continues. 
"As years have gone by,