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Given its massive box office, you likely saw Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice this weekend. And whether you loved it or hated it, chances are you had some questions about the portion of the movie you managed to stay awake for. As always, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you seek! What is…
This article discusses the plots of Mad Max: Fury Road, Ex Machina, and Room in their entirety. A video made the rounds last May that mashed the catchy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt theme song with footage from Mad Max: Fury Road. How funny, the video seemed to imply, that these two wildly different pieces of…
Get the five stories that will challenge you to rethink the world by signing up for MicCheck Daily. Love of the Force has awakened once again with the release of the first trailer for forthcoming Star Wars spinoff movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. There’s lots of things to look forward to from the trailer. At the most…
VIDEO April 7, 2016 The Alternate Ending to How The Force Awakens Should Have Ended. This scene was originally written to be part of our Main Force Awakens HISHE, but it was cut because the scale of the short was already pretty full. Since the scene was longer than most of the other sketches, and…
First it was ridicule, now it’s outrage. George Mason University’s decision to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is facing an internal backlash, with dozens of professors and staff members signing a petition that warns the move would be harmful to the school and insulting to many students and…
Tegan and Sara are back with the follow-up to 2013’s Heartthrob. Their eighth album, Love You to Death, is out June 3. They’ve now shared the first single from the record, “Boyfriend,” which debuted on Beats 1 this afternoon. Hear it and see the single art below. Before premiering “Boyfriend,” Sara Quinn spoke with Matt Wilkinson about her inspiration…
‘Supermoon’ is taken from the new 65daysofstatic record, ‘No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe’, the official soundtrack to the procedurally generated science fiction computer game ‘No Man’s Sky’. Pre-order is available now with exclusive an second album of soundscape/sound design from http://www.lacedrecords.com http://www.65daysofstatic.com Sweet 2016/04/08 12:40:54 +0000 I love it. So very much!…
Last November, at the offices of Gawker Media, a series of editors were summoned, one by one, via direct message on Slack, the company’s inner-office chat and collaboration platform, to a conference room. The executive managing editor wanted a word, they were told. Workers who hadn’t been messaged began to notice that the names of…
Submitted by Thorstein Polleit via The Mises Institute, Some politicians want to ban cash, arguing that cash is helping criminals. The first steps in that direction are the withdrawal of big denomination notes and the limits imposed on cash payments. Proponents of a ban on cash claim that this will help fight criminal transactions —…
We know that being a developer is hard, and building on a platform is not a decision to be made lightly. Many platforms have burned developers and we frequently see that risk highlighted. This is our response. An ecosystem, a real platform, is shared. We are growing fast, but no one company alone could grow…