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Early Wednesday morning the European Union reached historic deal. Starting June 15 2017, all mobile phone users from the 28 EU members will not pay roaming charges when traveling to fellow EU country. Negotiations ended right after midnight with a pact between the European Parliament, European Council and European Comission representatives. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, a Finnish member of the Socialists & Democrats EU parliament group, said: People all over the EU have waited for us to drop roaming charges in June 2017. Now all the negotiations are ready and we can deliver what was...

Ahead of the film's release next year, Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures have unveiled the first official photo from Ocean's 8.

Check out the image below to see Sandra Bullock's Debbie Ocean and company aboard the New York City subway.

Ocean's 8 photo, courtesy of Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow

In addition to Bullock, Ocean's 8 stars Cate Blanchett as Lou, Rihanna as Nine Ball, Mindy Kaling as Amita, Awkwafina as Constance, Helena Bonham Carter as Rose, Anne Hathaway as Daphne Kluger, and Sarah Paulson as Tammy.

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NBC has officially renewed its hit comedy The Good Place for Season 2.

The second season, similar to the first, will consist of 13 half-hour episodes. NBC believes what series creator Mike Schur "brought us with the first season of ‘The Good Place’ was just extraordinary."

"A big thank you to Mike, the writers and cast for delivering a series in which we all take such enormous pride," NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke said in a statement.

The Good Place follows Kristen Bell's character Eleanor Shellstrop, who wakes up to discover she has entered the afterlife after being struck and killed by a tractor-trailer. She finds out from Michael (Ted Danson), her facilitator, that because of her desire to help others and do humanitarian work while she was alive, Eleanor has been able to enter a utopia called "The Good Place." However, she finds out she has been mistaken with someone with the same name, and must hide her past in order to remain in this utopia.

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The Vespa brand's owner, the Piaggio Group, doesn't have a reputation for cutting edge tech (it only just started making an electric scooter). However, it's making up for that in style. It's establishing a robot-focused company, Piaggio Fast Forwar...

"I almost cried the first time it went 50 kilometers per hour." Marleen van de Kerkhof is part of the Delft Hyperloop team from the Netherlands. It's been an eventful 12 months for the crew. After qualifying as finalists at the Hyperloop Pod Competi...

The X-Men universe is finally getting a real shot at live-action TV with Legion, FX’s new series about David Haller, the very powerful, very strange mutant from Marvel Comics’ X-books. While Haller, a.k.a. Legion, isn’t an A-list player in the X-Men world, the show from series creator Noah Hawley promises to take the character to a new level of audience recognition. With the major success of Hawley’s show Fargo, both FX and comics fans surely have high hopes for Legion.

So let’s break down the comic-book history of Legion, his relationship with Professor Xavier, what his powers and abilities are, and more…

David Haller is an extremely powerful “Omega level” mutant. Of course, power runs in his family, as David is the son of Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men. Created by X-Men savant Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, Legion is not a traditional superhero character in that he suffers from dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder). Each of his “selves” -- and he has many -- also carries with it a specific set of powers. As such, David can be a potent ally to the X-Men… but also a dangerous and unstable liability.

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Obsidian launched its crowdfunding campaign for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire this morning at 10:00 Pacific Time, and as of 1:00 p.m. PT the sequel had generated approximately $360,000, a rate of just over $100,000 per hour.

As of this writing, Pillars of Eternity II has raised over $413,000 toward its $1.1m goal, with nearly a month left to go.

"Pillars of Eternity set the standard for quality among fan-funded games by not only delivering an amazing game, but also making good on everything we promised to our backers," said Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart when the campaign launched earlier today. "Our goal for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is to improve on what fans loved about the original while adding features our fans want to see, truly living cities, more freedom to explore the open world, and pushing what we do best at Obsidian – letting players define and play the role they want to play."

Fans stand to gain more than a sequel to one of 2015's best RPGs. Obsidian is crowdfunding PoE II on Fig, a platform that offers qualified investors equity in a product's revenue. 

Tomatoes don't taste like they used to, because breeders have been prioritizing other traits like pest and disease resistance. To bring that lost flavor back, a team of researchers from the University of Florida went on a quest to find the chemical c...

Researchers have created a viable hybrid part-human, part-pig embryo for the first time in history. According to a study published in the journal Cell Thursday, researchers were able to successfully inject human stem cells into a pig embryo and grow...

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

How different would the world be if George Lucas never made Star Wars? It's a film that has profoundly shaped the lives of several generations of people now, and it's practically impossible to imagine a world without characters like Darth Vader and Han Solo. That was the central idea fueling this latest episode of Legends of Tomorrow. Sure, "Raiders of the Lost Art" furthered the Spear of Destiny conflict that will clearly form the backbone of the remainder of the season, but its real success came in celebrating the legacy and importance of George Lucas.

This episode had plenty of ground to cover as it picked up where "The Chicago Way" left off last December. There was the reveal that Reverse-Flash is seeking the Spear of Destiny and now has the means to track it across time and space. There's the twist that Rip isn't dead, but rather has been hiding out in the '60s making crappy, low-budget movies inspired by his adventures. And there's the issue that Mick has been plagued by hallucinations of his late partner-in-crime. Fortunately, "Raiders of the Lost Art" juggled all that material deftly and without ever losing sight of the fun, adventurous tone that's been Legends' strongest asset this season.

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Note: This review avoids major spoilers for the first episode of Legion.

The X-Men universe is back on TV! Sort of! The new series Legion -- which debuts on FX in the U.S. on Wednesday, February 8, at 10 PM ET/PT -- pulls its main character, David Haller, from the pages of Marvel Comics. But of course, the X-Men’s live-action adventures on the big screen are not part of the MCU, and so it also goes with Legion. That means no connections to the Avengers, etc., but also it seems as though Legion will be keeping its distance from Fox’s X-Men movies as well. And judging by this first episode, that is a very, very good thing. For Legion isn’t a superhero show anyway, but it does have the potential to be the most unique and perhaps even the best comic-book based TV series to come around in quite some time.

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Starbucks has long had a fondness for technology in its coffee shops, and it's now reflecting that philosophy in its directors. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has just joined the Starbucks board, giving the restaurant chain a major voice from the techno...

Donald Trump's senior White House staff including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon all use a private RNC email server, according to a Newsweek report published Wednesday. This is the same RNC email server that mysteriousl...

Security researcher Ruslan Stoyanov from Russia's Kaspersky Labs was arrested for treason last December. According to Russian newspaper Kommersant (translated), Stoyanov was taken in for breach of Article 275 of the Crimes Against the Fundamentals of...

Mark Zuckerberg just revealed the next landing spot for former Google and Xiaomi executive Hugo Barra: Facebook. As Barra revealed a couple of days ago, he's coming back to Silicon Valley and will "lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including o...

TNT has dished out a fourth season renewal for their hit fantasy adventure series THE LIBRARIANS. The show’s third season recently aired its finale on January 22. THE LIBRARIANS launched in late 2014 and joined TNT’s THE LAST SHIP as cable’s Top 2 new series of the year. In 2015 and 2016, it ranked among […]

Legends of Tomorrow returns this Tuesday – now airing on a new night – to kick off the second half of Season 2 with an episode that focuses on what exactly Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) has been up to since he vanished, and how it involves none other than George Lucas.

Set in 1967, “Raiders of the Lost Art” involves the team finding Rip living the life of a young film student/filmmaker, with Lucas as his classmate and colleague. And Lucas (played by Matt Angel) isn’t there just for a cameo but plays a key role in the story, which involves the timeline changing so that he never made his movies – and the team quickly realizing how much has changed for them as a result, especially for Ray (Brandon Routh) and Nate (Nick Zano).

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Darren Criss will star as the Music Meister in The CW's upcoming The Flash / Supergirl musical crossover.

According to TVLine, Criss will guest star in the two-part event, reuniting with Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist after starring alongside the two in Glee.

Grant Gustin (left) and Darren Criss (right) in Glee

"With our Flash and our Supergirl being Glee alums, how could we not have them go up against another Glee favorite like Darren Criss?" executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said to TVLine. "We have been blown away by his talent over the years and we can’t wait to see what he brings to the Music Meister."

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The rock of Gibraltar is shared between two primate species: people and monkeys. The Barbary Macaques (the only wild monkey population in Europe) came to live on the upper rock long before the latest human inhabitants, the British, arrived, and now, 300 years on, there are tensions between the two. Attempts to expel the monkeys from the town with peashooters are in vain, as the animals rise to the challenges of the new game. This leads the government to resort to more drastic tactics.

Apple sued Qualcomm in a San Diego federal court for $1 billion for allegedly charging unfair royalties for technologies used in the iPhone.

Raspberry Pi clones have cropped up from various sources but few come from established PC makers - that makes the Asus Tinker Board special. The board has essentially the same layout as the Pi, but uses the Rockchip 3288 chipset - the same as the one found in certain Asus Chromebooks and the Asus Chromebit. This chip is powerful enough to decode H.264 and HEVC videos all the way to 2160p @ 60fps with 10-bit support to boot. That's well beyond the capabilities of the Raspberry, making the Asus board more suitable for a media center. Having HDMI 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet certainly help (vs....

A limited series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's apocalyptic novel Good Omens is headed to Amazon.

The six-part hour-long comedy series, which will debut on Amazon Prime Video in 2018, is being written by Gaiman, who is also on board as showrunner. BBC Studios is co-producing with Narrativia and The Blank Corporation. Following its release on Prime Video, this series will air on the BBC in the UK.

Good Omens novel, written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Good Omens tells an apocalyptic story set in 2018 when the "Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity," and the prophetic book titled "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch" has foretold that the world will end next Saturday.

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Vin Diesel brings the xXx series back from the dead. But does he look good while doing it?

I had just finished hacking the Gibson when I heard the news: Rudy Giuliani, the guy who said he was gonna solve cybersecurity, had just been named Trump's cyber advisor. I hopped onto our hacker mafia's government-proof encrypted chat app to make su...

President Trump was clear about the goals of his first 100 days in office before the election was even over, eventually laying out those goals in a PDF titled "Donald Trump's Contract with the American Voter." While Trump's policies can often be obsc...