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It’s one of those fun little usability glitches in the grab-bag of buggy software that is the human brain that people crave novelty, but hate change. Case in point: The general shit-losing that happened this morning, when Instagram screwed up and pushed an update to its scrolling system to “a few orders of magnitude…

One gets the sense, as 2018 dies a typically dismal suckgasm of a death, that the internet might soon be reaching Peak Jeff Goldblum. Is there a limit for our seemingly endless enjoyment of charming befuddlement, bizarre pauses, and twinkle-eyed mischief? How much jazz music are we expected to tolerate in the name of…

Fans of techno-dystopia—and hey, who living in our current reality isn’t, at least to some extent, right?—are in luck tomorrow, with Netflix releasing its latest movie-length Black Mirror installment, Bandersnatch, onto its servers for admirers to enjoy, for a certain, very tense value of “enjoy”. Even better: The…

The Nintendo Switch is better with friends, and you can add an extra player (or two, for certain games) by picking up an extra set of Joy-Con. $67 is a few bucks less than usual, but we don’t expect it to last long.

Why do we romanticize criminal cops? That was the question that intrigued director Karyn Kusama when she first began thinking about Destroyer, her new film starring Nicole Kidman as grizzled, hard-drinking LAPD detective Erin Bell in a gender-swapped version of the archetypical “rogue cop who plays by their own…

After one very powerful, very bejeweled finger snap, the fate of many of Earth’s mightiest heroes—along with about half of all living things, human and otherwise—remains uncertain (though the outlook is not good). But the future of the street-level crimefighters who comprise the Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic…

Microsoft Office. Do people still use Microsoft Office? People with kids and school projects maybe? Anyway, if you still use Office, you can buy a year’s subscription to Office 365 Home (with licenses for up to six people) for its usual $100 today, and Amazon will toss in a $50 gift card. The deal is only available…

“Ragnar was wrong. It is always a matter of blood.”

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, December 27. All times are Eastern.

In what we can only assume was a devious attempt to crush its future competition by inducing all of its fans to brutally murder each other, Netflix kicked off a brand new Marvel Cinematic Universe flame war yesterday, when it started streaming this year’s multi-billion blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War with a…