Whether you enjoyed an awe-inspiring day in the path of totality or bummed out under a cloudy sky, your eclipse viewing is over for now. But don’t chuck your eclipse glasses into a landfill now that Monday has come and gone. The protective eyewear can survive to see solar wonders once again. Astronomers Without Borders …
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It doesn’t take much to become the toast of Twitter. Sometimes, you just have to decide that it’s not worth flying without a can of your favorite beer. That’s one can. One single can, and no other luggage. Who needs underwear and a toothbrush when you’ve got a tasty beverage? When customs asks you what you have to declare, simply …
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Want to prepare for Game 2 of the NBA Finals Sunday night with some corny jokes about the competing Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors? Alexa is ready to help you out. Game 1 goes to GSW.@warriors stay perfect in the #NBAPlayoffs, beat @cavs 113-90 on 38/8/8 from Durant. LeBron: 28/15/8.#NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/CgvdVuvUCd — NBA (@NBA) June 2, 2017 Whether you’re …
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A popular meme proclaims: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.” Well, here’s your chance. If you’ve got an Apple Watch, iPhone, or other device that uses Siri, you can Batman the heck out of yourself. In a promotion for the “Lego Batman Movie,” Siri will now respond to you as if you were the …
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In “Frozen,” Anna famously asked sister Elsa if she wanted to build a snowman. But everyone knows the real fun isn’t in building something, it’s in breaking it. Or so a giant panda named Da Mao seems to think. The Toronto Zoo posted a video Tuesday of Da Mao taking apart a snowman like Clubber Lang knocking out Rocky, only …
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Warning: Minor spoilers for “Westworld” ahead. Can’t wait to take the train back to “Westworld” to learn what’s up with Ed Harris’ creepy man in black and find out just how off-script the town’s robot hosts are starting to veer? You don’t need to wait until the new HBO drama’s normal Sunday night time slot this week. The network decided …
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Winter is coming! Wait, wrong series! The “Planet of the Apes” franchise isn’t “Game of Thrones,” but apparently winter plays a role there as well. Fans got a first look at the third film in the current “Planet of the Apes” series, “War for the Planet of the Apes,” on Thursday morning when a brief teaser (see above) came out. …
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Every so often, another internet photo shows up along the lines of the infamous white-gold — or is it blue-black? — dress that became a meme last year. But being at the heart of such an online fad isn’t always glamorous. Taylor F. Corso, of Jackson, Mississippi, tweeted a photo of her new Kate Spade handbag on Tuesday. Before she …
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Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate took place at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Farmville’s a town of 8,200, but to Facebook users, it’s a different place altogether — an addictive farm-management social-media game. It was too easy for debate watchers to conflate the two. And the debate — which also had the internet talking about Norwood University and mansplaining— may …
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The shark knows our pain. When Robert Petersen, a student in Reno, Nevada, spotted a photo of a shark emerging from the water, its mouth open as if wincing, he made a smart and funny connection with the very human agony of stepping on a Lego brick. Then he tweeted the photo Thursday with the words “Rare image of a …
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