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ESPN today announced the inaugural X Games Austin event dates will shift to June 5-8, 2014. Additional details and the full X Games Austin 2014 schedule of events will be announced at a later date. Previously, the event dates were slated for May 15-18.

Television (and Netflix, by extension) is the greatest invention of our time. What would we do with our lives if we couldn't spend it watching other people's more interesting and scripted lives?

The great thing about television is there's a little something for everyone. Whether you're into flesh-eating zombie chases, government officials having scandalous affairs or reality shows about Jersey-residing twenty-somethings, you have an abundance of options to keep you thoroughly entertained

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This skateboarder shows some serious skills as he bombs a steep hill into oncoming traffic. Enjoy from the safety of your own home.

Jeff Kish lives in a van. He spent the summer shuttling Pacific Crest Trail through-hikers to and from towns along the route. He climbs and bikes and lives a minimalist, free life. This is his weekly story.

Tomorrow will be your very last chance to rent a movie from a Blockbuster store. After confirming the closure of its remaining stores and disc-by-mail service, Blockbuster has tweeted that Saturday, November 9th will mark the end of in-store rentals at all locations. Even after its physical presence disappears, parent company Dish will hold on to licensing rights for the Blockbuster brand and retain the company’s "significant" video library. Dish has said Blockbuster's disc-by-mail service will be shut down in December.

The last day to rent a movie from a Blockbuster store is this Saturday, Nov 9. What will your last rental be? #BlockbusterMemories

— Blockbuster (@blockbuster) November 7, 2013

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If you aren't familiar with great rye whiskey, it might be time to get acquainted with one of the best, E.H. Taylor Straight Rye Whiskey ($70). Rye Whiskey has seen...

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Dine Alone Records are preparing an Alexisonfire box set for a release in the coming months. Former guitarist/vocalist Wade MacNeil (now of Gallows) recently confirmed the news, with details to come.

There's an intense burrito-folding, salsa-serving war being waged out there between Chipotle, Moe's, Qdoba, and other purveyors of delicious tacos. Passions burn hotter than fresh chilies, and I'm not bold enough to throw my weight behind any of the involved establishments. But I will stick my neck out just enough to share that Chipotle's Mobile Ordering app is now open to all locations, and it's awesome.

  

No, Chipotle doesn't deliver, but the company's app still saves you the effort of standing in line, shouting your order over the sound of hungry children, and asking the server what that goopy red stuff is next to other, slightly darker, goopy red stuff.

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So Dwight Howard was backstage at a fight card in Houston recently and he talked boisterously, before Chandler Parsons and the world, about how he'd love to fight one day and would do it for $10 million and—and, who cares, right? It's Dwight Howard. We know he'll never fight. (Even if he did, it wouldn't be the sort of bout you'd want to see, which would involve Howard going round after punishing round with someone good enough to give him a vigorous beating but not quite good enough to finish him off.)

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The NBA uniforms for Christmas have leaked. The sleeves! Anything but the sleeves!

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Several Red Sox players showed up before the Steelers-Patriots game on Sunday to show off the World Series trophy to New England fans. Tom Brady and Josh McDaniels were amazed at how tiny Shane Victorino and Dustin Pedroia were. Look at those wee baseball players!

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The untitled sequel to this year's Man of Steel will feature Wonder Woman alongside Batman and Superman, according to a new report. Variety says producers are considering actresses Gal Gadot of Fast and Furious, Elodie Yung of G.I Joe Retaliation, and Olga Kurylenko of Quantum of Solace. The actress ultimately may instead be cast as a love interest for Bruce Wayne, Variety reports, but the casting description calls for an "athletic and exotic" actress that matches the description of Diana Prince's alter ego.

Due in July 2015, the sequel will star Man of Steel's Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman. According to Variety, additional members of the Justice League might appear in the film, including the Flash. Man of Steel's...

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Microsoft is gradually revealing a lot more about its Xbox One console today. While video calling is free on Skype, Microsoft typically charges $4.99 per month for group video calling with multiple people. if you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber then the company is supplying six months of free Skype group video calling with an Xbox One console. Microsoft is also providing 100 worldwide minutes free each month for six months, allowing Xbox One users to call mobiles and landlines in over 50 countries. Microsoft offers a similar deal for Surface 2 owners, and both are a clear effort to harmonize its products with the services it operates.

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If you just can't wait until November 22nd to get your hands on an Xbox One, there's good news — Microsoft is bringing the console to its retail stores for some early play time. A playable Xbox One will be featured in more than 75 stores across Canada and the US, though unfortunately you'll only be able to check out one game: Forza Motorsport 5. The promotion starts now and will be going on each day leading up until the console's launch, giving you plenty of time to go hands-on with the new controller and its vibrating triggers. If you want to compare the two upcoming next generation game consoles, Sony also has PlayStation 4 demo kiosks available at select Sony Stores in the US.

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It was the blast felt around the world: when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia in February, its shock wave was powerful enough to emit subsonic waves to far-flung regions across the planet.

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If you unbox and turn on an Xbox One on November 22nd, make sure you have an internet connection nearby. Microsoft has revealed that a day one patch for its upcoming next-gen console will be a requirement to play games and access basic apps on the console. "Functionally, you will be able to do very little without taking the day one update," says Microsoft’s senior director of Xbox product management Albert Penello told Engadget recently. Out of the box you can do “nothing” according to Penello. “You need the Day One update.”

The day one patch, expected to take around 15 or 20 minutes to download, will update the Xbox One to the latest dashboard operating system. Microsoft previously revealed details of the day one patch in...

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Those living in the Washington, D.C., metro area may want to rethink their decision to drive to work. The average commuter in D.C. spent 67 hours stuck in traffic in 2012.

It's not just Washingtonians who have it bad when it comes to traffic, though. Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York commuters each wasted roughly 60 hours in traffic last year.

Statista's chart, which uses data from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, shows the 10 cities in the United States where commuters sat in traffic for longest in 2012.

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Netflix and Disney-owned Marvel announced a deal on Thursday that will bring four original series featuring iconic superheroes to the online streaming service.

The programming won't start until 2015, but the first of the four 13-episode series will feature Marvel's Daredevil. Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage will all have their own live-action series following Daredevil's lead.

The story lines will unfold over multiple years of original programming, Marvel explained in a statement

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Today's Google Doodle honors the birthday of Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychoanalyst famous for developing the Rorschach inkblot test

The test is simple: individuals are shown ten inkblots, and are asked to described what they see in them. Used to detect a person's personality characteristics and emotional stability, it was very widely used in the 1960s. It is still used by psychologists today, but to a lesser extent

The Doodle on Google's homepage today offers a combination of randomly generated inkblots and ones that obviously represent an object or a figure, such as lizards, cats or garden gnomes. You can scroll through as many inkblots as you like and share what you see on Google+, Facebook and Twitter Read more...

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Ron Burgundy, the classy and fictional news anchor played by Will Ferrell, is seriously helping the sales of Dodge Durangos.

Since the ads first began playing, Durango sales have increased by 59%, and web traffic has jumped 80%. Dodge has made 70 ads featuring the heavily mustached local-news anchor. The ad campaign coincides with the release of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which will hit theaters on Dec. 20.

Don't act like you're not impressed.

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The latest version of the Google Keyboard — as introduced on the Nexus 5, and leaked here — has finally hit the Play Store for all Android users. The new Google Keyboard 2.0 brings lots of new enhancements, like space aware Gesture Typing, eliminating the need to lift the finger when swiping out completely sentences. Yes, this is similar to the Flow feature on SwiftKey, and from what we’ve seen, works pretty well.

The updated keyboard also does away with Android’s now old blue accents and gives users the ability to add emojis to any text, regardless of the app. Unfortunately, the expanded emojis are reserved for Android 4.4 and above, so it’s a Nexus exclusive for now. Download the new Google Keyboard 2.0 for free via the link below.

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Two Google engineers recently took to Google+ to give blistering public critiques of the ongoing NSA surveillance scandal.

Both posts come in the wake of last week’s Washington Post story that outlined the NSA’s clandestine interception of Google and Yahoo user information in a project codenamed MUSCULAR, in alleged conjunction with the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The report, based on documents released by Edward Snowden, detailed how data is collected by the agencies, coupled with a diagram showing that now-notorious smiley face.

Brandon Downey, a security engineer with Google, was livid, going so far to say, "Fuck these guys."

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Ross Ulbricht, the man charged with running Silk Road, an underground website where people bought and sold illegal drugs, appeared in a New York court today after being arrested in San Francisco more than a month ago.

The lanky 29 year old was wearing a brown-and-blue prison uniform and was clean-shaven and lucid when he spoke to the magistrate. He was transferred to New York City last night around 6PM and met his attorney, national security specialist Joshua Dratel, for the first time today.

Ulbricht has not seen his parents yet, Dratel says, but is "in good enough spirits for someone who has been in custody for a month."

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Jony Ive has a love for fast cars, but in the early 2000s, that hobby almost killed him.

After a string of early successes as Apple's design chief, Ive bought an Aston Martin D89, only to get into a car accident one month later with a member of his design team, which nearly killed them both. Apple's reaction to the event was to give Ive a "big pay raise." Apparently, the car crash served as a wake-up call about just how valuable Ive was to the company

That is one of several new details about the secretive Apple designer found in Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products, a forthcoming book from Leander Kahney, based on research and interviews with former Apple designers and execs. The unofficial biography sheds some light on Ive's upbringing, design inspirations and occasional clashes with execs at Apple. Read more...

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Don't let anyone ever tell you that your opinion isn't worth anything. In fact, your thoughts are so valuable that Google is willing to pay you for them. Well, there are two caveats - you must live in the US, and you have to be fine with being paid in Google Play credit. But hey, when it comes to Android, that stuff is as good as cash.

 

Users can spend Google Play credit on digital content in the Play Store, including apps, games, music, books, magazines, and videos.

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The Nexus 5 is not just a Nexus device. According to the Search Giant, this is a Google device. It is tailored to work with Google Now and other services perfectly. It also takes advantage of the whole screen by making the notification and button bars translucent. It’s not “pure Android” and this is the first Nexus device with this characteristics.

If you like the new features and aesthetics, you may be hoping your Nexus device will get these features when KitKat arrives. Well, that is simply not the case. Google has stated that this is a Nexus 5-exclusive launcher!

Google wants to see how the public reacts to the new features and design. And of course, they want you to pick up a Nexus 5 while you are at it. Meanwhile, there are no plans to bring this specific launcher to the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 or any previous Nexus device.

Other Nexus users will still get the KitKAt update very soon, it just won’t be the translucent, Google Now-optimized one. You will get the regular one, which you can actually download now!

Now this does not mean Google has this written in stone. Google may very well change its mind at some point. We sure hope so! I enjoyed the translucent bars the LG G2 had with some apps (I wonder if LG influenced the decision to do this to the Nexus 5 bars). It really made the screen much more efficient, but it is also something you need to get used to.

I do like having the separation between the on-screen buttons and the rest of the content. It makes it clearer. I can certainly imagine a lot of non-techies trying really hard to find the buttons in the screen. What do you guys think? Are you liking the new Nexus 5 launcher? Would you like to have it?

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newegg offers the Eagle Tech 10,000mAh External Battery Pack for Tablets and Smartphones, model no. ET-NP100K-WH, for $24.99 with free shipping. That's a $10 drop since our September mention and the lowest total price we could find by $21. (It's also a very low price for a 10,000mAh battery in general.) It features two USB ports (2.1A and 0.5A) and automatically turns off when your device is fully charged.

Director Peter Jackson used Facebook on Tuesday to release singer Ed Sheeran's new song that will play during the closing credits of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — the upcoming sequel in the three-part film adaptation of the The Hobbit novel.

Sheeran teased the song, "I See Fire," to his 8 million Twitter followers on Monday before Jackson unveiled the making-of video on Facebook a day later (watch it, below)

"It's always tricky to think of the right person to create and [perform] these songs," Jackson wrote, giving his daughter credit for roping in Sheeran. "Someone who shares our passion for Tolkien, and somebody who is prepared to respect the film." Read more...

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