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It would be that in an exposé of Vice President Mike Pence, it's a reported comment from President Donald Trump about his veep's views that's putting the president right back in the hot seat.

Netflix just keeps raising the ceiling on its content aspirations. 

The company officially announced that it could spend up to $8 billion on original video in 2018—a cool billion dollars more than it had previously planned. 

Ted Sarandos, head of content at Netflix, recently said publicly that the company could hit the $8 billion mark, but Monday's quarterly earnings report made it official.

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Elon Musk wants his Big F'ing Rocket (yes, that's really what it's called) spacecraft to start transporting people to Mars as soon as 2024. Read more...

It's been almost two weeks since McDonalds revealed they hadn't produced enough promotional Szechuan sauce to satisfy the rabid Rick and Morty fanbase.

The dominoes keep falling for Harvey Weinstein. Days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts voted to expel the alleged rapist, the Producers Guild of America has also begun the process of kicking him out.

Get ready for the next generation of Pokémon in Pokémon Go. Video game sleuths from the group known as the Silph Road uncovered a whole bunch of hidden data added to Pokémon Go in its latest update. The intel suggests that the third generation of Pokémon may be coming to the game soon, along with some Halloween content.

Samsung wants to make sure you never lose your stuff again. And is tapping the Internet of Things to do it. 

Typos are a fact of life. Today's example: Newt Gingrich, tweeting his steadfast support for "Presideent Trtump."

Riddle me this: What has four arms, but also none?

Reader, it is the Hamburger Helper.

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In a tweet Monday, the famous glove, rapper, and corporate feminist confirmed the anatomy of its skeletal system — solving a mystery that internet denizens have been trying to solve for days.

If I must pic.twitter.com/avKPZm80CX

— Helper (@helper) October 16, 2017

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Sure, he's still a good dog, but he's also kind of a jerk.

A man sitting on a curb using his phone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil had an unexpected run-in with a local stray. The dog sneaks up behind the man, smells him, and then takes a piss right on his back.

The man is rightfully upset, and as he chases the dog away, another stray comes to check out the action. We're pretty sure the second dog bet the first dog to do it. Read more...

Google knows that your phone holds untold gigabytes of snapshots of your favorite animal friends. So the search giant is making it even easier to group those pics all together.

Durian is a spiny Asian fruit that emits a distinct odor, which many people find offensive. Some say it smells like rotting trash, others say it smells like "dick cheese."

Facebook just scored a huge win its quest to win over teens.

The company has acquired tbh, the anonymous app that's been going viral with teens. The app, which is targeted toward middle school and high school students, is a network that allows users to swap compliments by participating in anonymous "quizzes."

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It's proved to be a winning formula for tbh, which has been in the App Store's top ten for weeks. Читать дальше...

There's never a dull moment with these two. 

Last week Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson posted a video of himself working out with heavy chains around his neck. No big deal or anything. 

He explained in the video, "Putting in work. Big dogs eat. Little crying puppies stay on the porch." 

In his caption, he gave a shoutout to "all my big dogs around the world as we're over here quietly on our weekend grind earning sweat equity," and ended the post with "Heavy ass chains around your neck are always optional."

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So it turns out your Wi-Fi is vulnerable to hackers. A newly released research paper dropped a pretty sizable security bomb: The security protocol protecting most Wi-Fi devices can essentially be bypassed, potentially allowing an attacker to intercept every password, credit-card number, or super-secret cat pic you send over the airwaves.

Jay Iorio, futurist and Innovations Director for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association, joins us to talk about Artificial Intelligence on screen. Could we really fall in love with Her? Are Westworld's 'reveries' within reach? How does a Terminator know what's funny? 

Hillary Clinton has taken her What Happened book tour abroad, and the former Secretary of State had some pretty biting things to say about life, politics, and the Tweeter-In-Chief over the weekend. 

A scary moment up in the air turned even more horrific as passengers aboard a plummeting plane claimed the flight crew started freaking out.

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Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are engaged. Their relationship was rumored to have begun in November of 2016. The couple made their engagement official in January after posting matching photos on Instagram, with Turner captioning 'I said yes' and Jonas captioning it 'She said yes.'  Read more...

Researchers at Elon Musk's startup, OpenAI, think they have discovered the most efficient way to train artificial neural networks: have them compete against each other.

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The 'Aircon' watch might just be the solution to the age-old office argument on what the ideal temperature should be. This smart watch claims to cool you down or warm you up without touching the thermostat.  Read more...

It may still be seeking out strange new worlds, but it seems the ongoing mission of Star Trek now also includes strange new words.

There's a new bromance taking Washington, D.C., by storm, and we're not really sure how to feel about it.