Category: What’s On

The FCC has made its initial proposal as to how it intends to do away with net neutrality — and despite what leadership there has said, that’s definitely how the document reads. You are free to make your thoughts known on the notice of proposed rulemaking, as it’s called, and here’s how to do it. Because millions of commenters nearly crashed the entire system when net neutrality was being established, the FCC has prudently improved the process ahead of the “significant

There's rich material to be mined from the premise of The Circle, a new thriller set in the offices of a tech giant that's like Google, Facebook, and Apple all rolled into one. Unfortunately, the film has neither the patience nor the insight to dig very deeply at all. Instead, it blows the whole concept to rubble and pats itself on the back for having the insight to drop such truth bombs.Directed by James Ponsoldt and based on a novel by

Google’s internal startup incubator, Area 120, unveiled last year, has to date led to the creation of a number of projects, including a personal stylist app Tailor, a voice messenger Supersonic, and most recently, an app for watching YouTube videos together called Uptime. We’ve now spotted another app in development over there called Appointments, a salon booking tool. Appointments has not yet been publicly released to the app stores or web, but its project page is currently live at salon.area120.com.The app appears to

A cancer survivor shared her moving story of how she came to embrace her prosthetic leg on reality dating show First Dates. Sarah, 21, was on a date with Phil, who lost his mum to breast cancer when he was 17, when she talked about her experience of dating after having her leg amputated. "When I first went dating, I had my leg covered up so that the guys I went on dates with couldn't see that I had my leg

Ontario capital Toronto. The province is hosting the first major universal basic income test in North America in 30 years.Image: carlo allegri/getty imagesBy Patrick Kulp2017-04-26 01:15:48 UTCThousands of randomly chosen Canadians may soon receive free checks in the mail. The province of Ontario just announced that a major trial run of a universal basic income program could begin as early as this summer.Universal basic income is a largely untested policy concept in which every citizen would get a regular government

Uber is making its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plans more concrete, via new partnerships announced today during its Elevate conference focused on the VTOL industry. The partnerships are with established aeronautics and emerging VTOL players, including Aurora Flight Sciences, Embraer, Bell Helicopter, Pistrel Aircraft, Mooney and ChargePoint, and will focus on two markets initially, including Dallas in the U.S. and Dubai abroad. The partners will provide various elements of the technology requirements for Uber to run its so-called Elevate Network,

Seagulls are commonly known for their thievery of beach and boardwalk snacks. Occasionally, though, they'll get their beaks on other miscellaneous items. On Friday, a seagull in Newton Abbot, England, was photographed with something quite surprising in its beak.Someone shared the following pictures on the Spotted Newton Abbot Facebook page with a caption that said: "Hi Spotted Newton Abbot, can you please post this picture below. Someone's false teeth were found on a bench on Torquay Harbour at lunchtime. Unfortunately anyone

Earlier this month, a Tor node operator in Russia was arrested in a potential misunderstanding about the nature of the decentralized network. Dmitry Bogatov, a lecturer at the Moscow Finance and Law University, was taken into custody on April 6 and charged with organizing mass unrest, which was later appended with the more serious charge of incitement to terrorist activity. He remains in custody at this time. Bogatov is accused of writing posts at sysadmins.ru in late March that encouraged protesters to

According to newly unsealed documents, a federal court in California ruled that it is unlawful for Adobe to remain under an indefinite gag order regarding a search warrant for one of its users. In the ruling, the Los Angeles court concluded that the government had not made a sufficient argument to support the ongoing nature of a gag order it issued to Adobe 2016. Effectively, Adobe successfully argued that these gag orders should come with an expiration date, after which the

Apple is finally adding transit options to its Maps app for the city of Paris. Starting today, you can use Apple Maps to calculate itineraries using public transportation. You’ll find subway, RER and bus lines, and even Transilien lines. Just like in Google Maps, you can look around the map with a new subway layer or you can calculate an itinerary from A to B. If you tap on a station, you can see all the lines leaving this station as

Frank Ocean performs during the 2014 Bonnaroo Festival.Image: Josh Brasted/WireImage via getty imagesBy Nicole Gallucci2017-04-23 20:01:26 UTCFrank Ocean is back, baby, and he's not showing signs of slowing down. Since dropping his highly anticipated album Blonde back in 2016 to end a four-year hiatus, Ocean has been unstoppable. On Saturday night the R&B star released yet another new track called "Lens."On an episode of his blonded RADIO show, "Lens" was played for the first time, followed by another version of

Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesBy Chloe Bryan, Tricia Gilbride, and Laura Vitto2017-04-23 13:09:48 UTCAll dogs are good, but some dogs are the best. Using a unique and complex algorithm that we cannot disclose (just kidding, we picked 50 dogs from the American Kennel Club website, gave each a score out of 10, then argued with each other in the case of a tie), we have ranked 50 good dog breeds from fiftieth-best to first-best. You may disagree with these rankings, and that's

It's been a busy week: Samsung and Google partnered on special version of Google Play Music and White House staffers' favorite secure messaging app might not be that secure. Oh, and Facebook wants you to talk and listen your skin. Luckily, we've kept up for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated products, to keep you in the loop with everything coming to your smartphone.Here's what caught our

Apple has developed a testing procedure for drivers who would act as failsafe controls during autonomous vehicle testing, documents discovered by Business Insider via a public records request show. The documents detail the testing procedure that Apple has created in order to comply with the California Department of Motor Vehicle’s rules regarding autonomous testing on state roads. Business Insider’s report on the documents detail the development platform being used by Apple in its testing, which include sensor hardware and software for monitoring surroundings, and

The list of celebrities coming out as cannabis users is growing like a weed. Anne Hathaway appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Thursday, which just so happened to be the unofficial stoner holiday 420. While on the show, Hathaway played a game called "Plead The Fifth." The game is simple, Cohen asks her three questions, she has to answer two of them, and one she can plead the fifth. In the very first question, Cohen brings up a

The news never stops, which begs the question: Do newscasters ever get a moment of peace to rest? Apparently not. KSCH12 News reporter and journalist Deedee Sun was tired while reporting out in the field, and thought the weather report was a safe time to express her exhaustion. Unfortunately, just as Sun was letting out a giant yawn, the weather feed cut to her, broadcasting this sleepy moment for everyone to see. Sun, a great sport, posted a video of the mistake on

Usually the news is a pretty depressing business. Every now and then there'll be something mildly positive squeezed in between articles about death and political turmoil, but for the most part it's a near-constant stream of misery. The local news is different, though.Hidden in the corners of small British news sites and in the back pages of local papers are stories that are, quite simply, glorious. Like this one:That image is one of the many excellent examples of local British news stories shared

French telecom company Orange is launching a bank this Summer in France. Orange CEO Stéphane Richard listed some of the features behind Orange Bank this morning at a press conference. And let’s just say that it doesn’t sound as groundbreaking as the company thinks. Just like N26, Revolut and others, you’ll be able to control your payment card directly from your phone. Transactions will show up instantly in the app and you’ll be able to block and unblock the card

Jeff Bezo's Amazon is coming, take cover Australia!Image: DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGESBy Jerico Mandybur2017-04-20 02:36:33 UTCThe moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. Amazon is expanding Down Under, opening warehouses that’ll enable cheap, fast local shipping, and letting small businesses sell goods through the site—a development an Amazon employee reportedly said would "destroy the retail environment in Australia." Shopping on Amazon.com is already available to Australians, but with international shipping and long delivery times, it isn't a pleasant experience.A spokesperson

Planned Parenthood has been threatened repeatedly with defunding in several states since Trump became our 45th president. But has also, as a consequence, received a serious spike in donations (40 times its normal rate, according to the Guardian). The organization’s leaders are now looking to 500 startups’ seed program to help them capitalize on the recent surge and harness technology to help further the momentum. 500 will donate $100,000 to the growing trove Planned Parenthood has already received since Trump took office

If you want to get some top-level acting tips, you might as well go straight to the original source.On Tuesday, actor M. Browne sent a tweet to Game of Thrones star Lena Headey. He was set to play Cersei Lannister in his next class, apparently, and he was looking for some advice.Luckily, being the all-round nice person that she is (and actually nothing at all like Cersei IRL), Headey responded.You have to have an exterior which hides a dark powerful

Magic coach Frank Vogel was left with some explaining to do.Image: AP/REX/ShutterstockBy Sam Laird2017-04-04 21:47:19 UTCThe tweet has been deleted, but this is the internet, where nothing really disappears. One NBA franchise is still picking up the pieces.Patricio Garino is an Argentine basketball pro who signed a contract with the Orlando Magic on Monday. His agent was stoked — and so tweeted out a photo of Garino signing his paperwork. That's normal enough, but the tweet accidentally revealed what appears to

How do you pull off a convincing tiger attack on television? Not with a real tiger, that's for sure. In The Walking Dead's Season 7 finale, Ezekiel's pet tiger Shiva went into full attack mode. The show created the effect by having a stunt man leap onto the actor playing Shiva's unfortunate victim.After the finale, actor Chandler Riggs tweeted a photo from filming the episode, and it looks

KINSHASA, Congo — On Oct. 4, 2016, Etienne Tshisekedi made his final address to a crowd gathered in the courtyard of his party’s headquarters. The longtime leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s opposition was visibly frail, and the speech, slow and hesitant, lasted only three minutes. But the old man still managed to rev up his followers, many of whom strained to hear from the road outside. Not long after Tshisekedi’s farewell speech, his son Felix led the opposition

When we first wrote about Chowbotics, their salad-making robot, which was then just a prototype, stirred a bit of controversy. The company promises to bring nutritious dining options to offices that don’t have a big cafeteria and budget to employ full-time chefs. But, like other food automation technologies, their robot, Sally, threatens to put a number of people out of work if it replaces prep cooks in restaurants. This week, we interviewed Chowbotics Executive Chairman Rich Page, who worked alongside Steve Jobs

"I’m sorry viewer, the TV show you’re searching for cannot be streamed in your reality. Please stand by for reconnection." Those are the opening lines of Hulu's new show Dimension 404, a show that explores "the wonders and horrors of our digital age" in six one-hour episodes. If that makes you think of Black Mirror, you're not alone. But Dimension 404, which debuts on April 4, is not as similar to the BBC series (which Netflix distributes in the U.S.) as you

There was plenty of bewilderment online when a video of a kangaroo on a leash was shared last week. Now, animal lovers are angry after it appears to be the same kangaroo was used for an on-stage musical performance. American stand up comedian Mike Epps, who appeared in The Hangover, was captured performing with the marsupial during the Festival of Laughs comedy tour in Detroit on Friday night.Video of the performance was shared on social media and on TMZ. It shows the

"What if you're wrong?"Image: Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesBy Maria Gallucci2017-04-02 23:13:36 UTCAmerica's top environmental official was in the hot seat on Sunday over his dubious views on climate change. But Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt wasn't a guest on CNN or MSNBC, stations that President Donald Trump might accuse of being "fake news." Instead, Pruitt was treading on what should've been more favorable turf: Fox News.The EPA administrator was on Fox News Sunday to discuss the Trump administration's executive order to

Guy Ritchie is no one-trick-pony director, but he brings a uniquely identifiable vibe to every movie he makes. Quick cuts, artful fast/slow-motion, pop-heavy soundtracks — these are just some of the markers of a Ritchie movie. The auteur filmmaker's sense of style is on full display in the latest and final trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The movie — which charts the titular king of legend's ascent to the throne — seems to mix the swords and sorcery

Image: Vicky Leta/MashableBy Damon Beres2017-04-02 05:26:43 UTCFacebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught. When you watch a friend's Story — which exists for 24 hours and is comprised of one or more photos or short videos — that friend will know you're creeping. This is how Stories work on basically every platform that supports them (Snapchat, Instagram), but in the

April Fools' Day: the best day of the year. Everyone is pranking one another, having a good time, laughing, and nobody is ever annoyed or angry in the slightest. It's the perfect day!I love pranks and I am always down for a good one. But sometimes the pranks, unfortunately, do not go as planned. Here are four April Fools' Day pranks I pulled that went very wrong and I am very sorry for them. 1. The Old “Immovable Quarter” Prank. April 1,

April Fools' Day is the only "fake news" day that's almost welcome. Almost. And one of the longstanding masters of the tech prank, Google, is at it again with a fresh batch of trickery. This year, the jokes are more obviously fake this time around in what appears to be an effort to avoid anyone actually thinking these products actually exist.Nevertheless, some of these products would be kind of cool, despite how wildly impractical they are. Here's the running list of

I remember the halcyon days when April Fools' Day was a bit of harmless fun. We'd read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone. We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake news is no longer a once-yearly event, it's a 365-day-a-year news cycle. And,

With Adam Rawnsley Looking for a deal. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by the FBI and House and Senate investigators examining the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, “but has so far found no takers,” according to the Wall Street Journal. In a statement on Thursday evening, Flynn’s lawyer Robert Kelner, said his client was willing to speak, and “General Flynn certainly has a story to tell,