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‘Trolls’ kicks off Comic-Con with neon happiness and Justin Timberlake
SAN DIEGO — With everything going on in the world, Comic-Con started in a happy place. A candy-colored, sing-songy, hourly-hugging happy place. Trolls, the original ‘toon from Dreamworks Animation, kicked off the 2016 offerings at Hall H, where Con-goers grabbed … Continue reading
‘Metroid: Federation Force’ gets a new video and a free demo
Metroid: Federation Force is more than just the four-player competitive “Blast Ball” mode — think rugby, but with laser guns — that some fans got angry about last year. There’s also a mode where you can shoot at alien beasts, … Continue reading
A man wants you to play ‘Pokémon Go’ on his lawn for a beautiful reason
The internet lets everyone share their opinions pretty easily, but some people prefer to go the old-fashioned route first. When royjdoug tweeted a note aimed at Pokémon Go users that he actually typed up, printed out and hung in his … Continue reading
RIP Taylor Swift mural popped up in Australia and people are actually leaving flowers
One graffiti artist in Melbourne, Australia, may have just crossed the line with their new RIP Taylor Swift mural. The street art popped up shortly after the most recent news broke of the bad blood between Taylor Swift, Kanye West … Continue reading
Edward Snowden’s phone case will tell you if you’re being tracked
Edward Snowden stepped into the world of product design Thursday as he unveiled a concept for a new phone case that can detect when the device’s radio is transmitting. He presented the design for the case, which wires into the … Continue reading
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and why people are freaking out over those NATO comments
Right around the time the Republican National Convention serenaded Ted Cruz with boos, the New York Times dropped an interview with Donald Trump. It would take something particularly insane from Trump to cut through the kind of ready-made media story … Continue reading
Festival goers get massively pranked by a mysterious porta potty
Anytime you’re at an outdoor festival, the line for the semi-sanitary porta potties will be a long wait. Especially when an entire wedding procession takes their sweet time leaving. This was the tragically hilarious plight last June for attendees of … Continue reading
One year on Earth seen from a million miles away
In July last year, NASA relayed the very first image taken by its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (ironically, EPIC for short). The image marked the first of its kind to show the sunlit side of the Earth. A year later, … Continue reading
Japan ups its Kit Kat game with liquid nitrogen
Once again, countries outside the USA get the coolest Kit Kat treats — this time, literally. Tokyo pop-up shop “Kit Kat Chocolatory Wonderland” delves into the world of molecular gastronomy with the “Minus-196 Degrees Celsius Kit Kat,” which is frozen … Continue reading
One Direction’s Liam Payne is going solo, too
Liam Payne is also going his own direction. The One Direction member announced Thursday that he’s signed a deal with the UK’s Capitol Records, becoming the third member of the group to report a solo deal. “Happy to have signed … Continue reading
