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The biggest story in entertainment this year wasn't just one story. It was hundreds, thousands, millions of different stories connected by a single horrifying thread. 

Because ransomware and playing a game of nuclear chicken aren't enough for Kim Jong-un, it now looks like North Korea is behind a recent bitcoin theft as the cryptocurrency's value continues to skyrocket. 

President Trump got the go-ahead to build that wall. No, not that one — the one on the coast of his County Clare golf course in Ireland.

Congratulations to Elon Musk, who apparently is having a much better time online than the rest of us plebeians. 

There's enough new TV to make a longtime fan want to curl up and hide out until they renew The Office, but most of us choose to soldier on and explore these plentiful new frontiers. 2017 was a year of much-buzzed new television – can these shows maintain their promise in the new year and their second seasons? We'll have to wait and see.

Europe is currently struggling to absorb an influx of refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and parts of Africa. Germany alone has taken in more than a million people since 2015, many of whom have sought asylum status. This wave of immigration has led to political upheaval, with the rise of right-wing political parties in Germany, Poland, Austria, and Hungary, among others. 

Instagram loves to secretly test new features on some of its users and get feedback before deciding on whether it should roll them out for everyone.

Tesla is currently mired in "production hell," but owners are still extremely satisfied with their brand new all-electric vehicles.

Let's be honest here, 2017 has had nothing but disappointments and mediocrity. 

As Amazon's plan for world domination has swallowed Whole Foods, competing supermegachain Walmart is rolling out more plans to fight back in an ongoing battle of David Goliath versus Goliath.

The way we receive content has obviously changed over the last few years, and Cardi B has benefited from it.

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2017’s great year of LGBTQ filmmaking doesn’t start and end with Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino’s dreamy, sun-dappled tale of summer romance. If laden glances between Oliver and Elio have whetted your appetite for queer stories on the big screen, the last 12 months have had a lot to offer. 

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Facebook is getting more musical. In what's been quite the long-time coming for the social network, Facebook has signed its first-ever deal for music rights with a record label. 

The extremely addictive real-time strategy game Civilization VI is now available on iPad, and it's free to download with a reduced price to fully unlock.

Magic Leap's first mixed reality headset, the Leap One, is coming in early 2018. It looks pretty damn neat, assuming it delivers on everything it's promising — and as long as you can get over its weird design.

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The wrist-worn fitness tracker, as a category, is well past its zenith.

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Is Jimmy Fallon worthy of interviewing Cardi B? Unclear! But interview Cardi B he did.

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Nintendo's decades-spanning magazine Nintendo Power is back after a five-year hiatus, this time in the form of a podcast.

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