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The officer says the boys had to cross a street and pass several businesses and homes to get to the eatery, putting their safety at risk.

If Quantum Break's PC version thinks you're playing a pirated copy, your character will be wearing an eye-patch in game.

According to Eurogamer, developer Remedy had hinted this might be the case on a FAQ page. The issue "Jack looks like a pirate" is met with the response "DRM might've accidentally triggered. Reboot the game and eat a lot of vitamin C."

Yarr, me hearties.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened up a whole new chapter of everyone’s favorite sci-fi saga last year, but the next new Star Wars movie actually takes us back a few decades. Set shortly before the events of A New Hope, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follows a group of resistance fighters who set out to steal the Death Star plans.

Although Rogue One began shooting last summer (before The Force Awakens even hit theaters), it’s only now that we’re finally getting the very first glimpse of footage from the new movie. Yes, the very first Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer is here, and you can check it out after the jump.

Rogue One A Star Wars Story Trailer

Up until now, the Star Wars films have told a linear story (albeit not always in a linear order), following the Skywalker family from Anakin’s childhood in The Phantom Menace through Luke’s self-imposed exile in The Force Awakens. Rogue One marks the very first standalone feature set within the Star Wars universe. Unlike the Saga films, Rogue One won’t revolve around the Jedi or the Force. It’ll also exist in a “gray” area, in contrast to the more black-and-white (or rather, light-and-dark) morality of the other films.

Rogue One promises to finally reveal the story Star Wars fans have wondered about since they first set eyes on the opening crawl of A New Hope:

Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

Gareth Edwards directed Rogue One, which features an impressive international ensemble cast including Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, and Jonathan Aris.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story lands in theaters December 16.

The post The ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer Is Here appeared first on /Film.

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This story is everywhere today. As CBS News reports:

A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes.

Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on 9th street in Selinsgrove, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

She went to the scene to get the details and posted a story and video clip on her website the “Orange Street News” later that day.

“Hi, Hilde Kate Lysiak here reporting from the Orange Street News on the 600 Block where a man suspectedly (sic) murdered his wife with a hammer,” she begins the video. “I’m working hard on this ongoing investigation.”

Newsworthily enough, some critics quickly told her to stop being such a…grown up. As you’ll see in the video below, they say she should be playing with dolls instead, or having tea parties. Some used outright profanity.

Their angry, patronizing words remind me of the way that, in different eras, African-Americans, women, and others not in power were told to stay in their place and not get uppity.

Clearly, some people are still freaked out (read: threatened) when a type of person they have written off as “less than” them turns out to be outrageously competent and courageous.

Kids are the just latest group we underestimate and “protect” to the point of denying them the respect and freedom they deserve. Remember, Rhode Island just proposed a law that would forbid a child Hilde’s age from staying home alone even for 10 minutes. Another proposed law there would keep her inside at recess if it was ever under 32 degrees. Are these laws protecting kids, or stifling them?

Hats off to this intrepid reporter, who is on the trail of one murder and may solve another: Who’s behind the hit jobs on  childhood gumption? – L

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For-profit college startup Minerva Schools — whose students explore up to seven cities during four years of study — has received 16,000 applications for 306 available places this year, The Financial Times reported.

That acceptance rate for the unconventional college, at 1.9%, is far lower than at any schools in the Ivy League, as well as Stanford.

This year, Harvard University — the most competitive school in the Ivy League — accepted 2,037 students from 39,041 applicants, for an acceptance rate of 5.2%.

Stanford accepted an even lower 2,063 students out of a pool of 43,997 applicants — a 4.69% acceptance rate.

But while Minerva's acceptance rates seem to be an overt challenge to the Ivy League establishment, the startup, created in 2012, doesn't aim to be another elite private school. Instead, its model is vastly different from what four years of school in the prestigious Ivy League resemble.

For one thing, students don't stay in one place during their four-year education. They spend time in up to seven residence houses in San Francisco, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Bangalore, Istanbul, and London.

"As you travel the world with a tight-knit cohort of classmates, you will establish weekly rituals and organize interest- and activity-based groups," the school's website reads. "By exploring each new place together, you form lasting friendships and a collective identity — one defined by shared values and a common sense of purpose." 

Seventy-eight percent of Minerva's students come from outside of the US. The Ivy League's percentages are roughly the inverse of that figure, with roughly 10%-15% international students.

The admissions process at Minerva also appears different from the Ivies. Minerva's website stresses that acceptance is "based purely on merit, so there is no favoritism or majority student group of any kind."

To that end, Minerva does not accept any standardized test scores, calling them an unfair and biased depiction of true potential. Instead, they have their own set of assessments.

"Since Minerva assessments are not something you can study for, you can take them on your own schedule, as you move through the admissions process," the admissions page reads.

One of the biggest draws to Minerva may be its annual tuition and charges, which it highlights is much lower than other elite schools. That's true; for the 2016-2017 school year, Harvard lists its total tuition, room and board, and additional fees at $66,900.

But while lower, attending Minerva still comes with a relatively hefty price tag. Its website lists annual tuition and other fees at $28,450.

Still, founder and former Snapfish President Ben Nelson believes schools like Minerva will start to create competition in the higher education arena. "Students are realizing that institutions can’t just sit on their brands that they’ve built over decades or centuries and deliver the same ineffective experience,” Nelson told the Financial Times.

“Much like in technology, the service industry, travel, entertainment, transportation, or any other field you can think of, when an undeniably better offering comes around, people flock to it.”

SEE ALSO: This essay got a high-school senior into 5 Ivy League schools and Stanford

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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD hasn't forgotten its coolest fight moment of Season 2: when Skye took out a room of Hydra agents in a scene shot in a single take.

When it came time for director Kevin Tancharoen to once again helm an episode of SHIELD in Season 3, he and star Chloe Bennet were tasked with creating yet another epic one-take fight.

Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD

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An obscure law firm in Central America is the source of what's being called the largest information leak in history.

Emails and documents reveal how the world's richest and most powerful, from Vladimir Putin to the prime minister of Iceland, hide their business dealings using offshore tax havens and shell companies.

For the past year, hundreds of journalists from around the world secretly analyzed terabytes of data uncovered from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm with offices around the world. Their findings were collectively published on April 3 as the Panama Papers.  

How did this all start?

About a year ago, an anonymous source contacted German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung with data from Mossack Fonseca, a relatively unknown law firm based in Panama that specializes in creating shell companies. These shell companies are held in countries with strict privacy laws and used to obfuscate business dealings.

Süddeutsche Zeitung partnered with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and over one hundred media partners to parse and report on the leaked data. Those media partners include the likes of the BBC and The Guardian.

What's part of the leak?

The Panama Papers constitute more leaked data than the Wikileaks Cablegate, Offshore Leaks, Lux Leaks, and Swiss Leaks combined, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung. That makes this data leak the largest in recorded history with:

• 2.6 terabytes of data from Mossack Fonseca's founding in 1977 to December 2015
• 11.5 million documents, including email correspondence and legal contracts
• 214,000 shell companies used by 12 country leaders, 128 public officials, and 29 Forbes-listed billionaires 

What are the implications?

The wider implications of the Panama Papers have yet to be felt. What's been initially published focuses heavily on money traced back to Russian president Vladimir Putin and Iceland prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson. 

Media outlets with access to the Panama Papers will likely publish more of their findings in the coming days and weeks.

Where can I find out more?

Süddeutsche Zeitung's web hub for the Panama Papers is a good place to start. It features:

• A walkthrough of how the project was assembled and investigated
• An interactive look at the powerful names associated with the leak
• An investigation into the shady business dealings of Icelandic public officials
• How offshore holdings played into the recent FIFA scandal

Fusion also has a larger look at how offshore companies work that's worth checking out.

There's also this video summary of the Panama Papers:

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Free country? Not if you think your kids are old enough to walk to school AND learn a lesson.

A Tennessee mom, Lisa Marie Palmer, learned this the hard way, after she made her kids walk to school when they missed the bus.

Wait a minute — she made her kids WALK? Outside? To school? How could they possibly do THAT, I’d like to know. It’s unheard of! Of course this is a crime!

As the local Times Free press reports:

It “appeared as if she was driving ahead of the children and allowing them to walk and catch up to her vehicle and to proceed with that action until the children reached the school,” [ Marion County sheriff’s deputy Chris] Ladd states in the report.

Ladd estimated the girls already had walked about a mile and a half and still had about two more miles to go.

Surely no child has ever walked more than a few houses down the street.

And if, as the mom claims, she was “watching” them — ah, that’s hardly an excuse. Because  the very WORST part was that Ladd could imagine something terrible happening to the kids — and the mom being a few crucial yards away!

“Temperatures were cold, and traffic was beginning to become heavy with citizens heading to work,” Ladd states. “Mrs. Palmer was in no position to reach her children safely in the event of an emergency.”

There you have it. The Sheriff’s Deputy has put into words the precise crime of our era: Daring to let a kid out of reach, ever. Officially, children are only safe when their mom (or proxy) is near enough to yank them away from the bad man. Because, what if???

So, dear readers, I hope you weren’t planning to do anything else with your lives besides stand next to your kids anytime they are not in school. Do this, and you will be punished!

At that point, Ladd cited Palmer for child neglect and began trying to arrange for the girls to get the rest of the way to school.

Because both those moves were so extremely necessary. The kids need help walking, the mom needs help learning how to parent. And the state rushed in to provide both! It cares so much about making this family do things the right way. And of course here is only ONE right way. (Hint: It’s not yours.) – L

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Can you see yourself in this car? If the answer is yes – and you're not just referring to its mirror-like livery – then good news, it's up for sale and can be yours...

An American traveller has pulled off a clever trick by changing his last name to 'Null' – causing him to get free car rentals and holidays. Raven Felix Null, from the United...

Warner Bros. has unveiled a new photo from the solo Wonder Woman movie, which also features a first official look at the characters Hippolyta, Antiope and Menalippe.

Entertainment Weekly debuted the image, which you can check out below. It shows off Diana / Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), her mother Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), Antiope (Robin Wright), and Menalippe (Lisa Loven Kongsli) standing together.

Wonder Woman teaser image. Image credit: Warner Bros., Entertainment Weekly.

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Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson tweeted a photo today of his leading men Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor on the New York City set of the Marvel movie.

The photo in the tweet embedded below gives us a great look at the costumes worn by Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and Ejiofor as Baron Mordo.

While Cumberbatch's costume, hairstyle and facial hair combine to make him a dead ringer for his comic book counterpart, Ejiofor's Mordo wears a far more somber and simple garb than his character dons in the books.

The movie version of Mordo wears a green and grey ensemble without the high collar and more gaudy finishings of the comic book Mordo.

These dudes pic.twitter.com/5hNPhmpXCh

— Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) April 3, 2016

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Back in February, Microsoft announced it was acquiring Xamarin, the cross-platform toolkit which allows developers to write native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, using Visual Studio and C# code. Today during the Build day 2 keynote, Scott Guthrie announced Xamarin will now be included for free with all editions of Visual Studio, and Xamarin will join the rest of .NET in being made open source.

Previously Xamarin was an expensive set of tools, and while powerful, the cost was prohibitive to a lot of developers. By moving the Xamarin tools right into Visual Studio at no cost, Microsoft is making a play to have Visual Studio be a much better platform for coding on all platforms.

Xamarin outputs native apps for the supported platrforms, and as part of the demo, Microsoft showed off a new feature of Visual Studio which is a remote simulator for iOS. Since they can’t emulate iOS directly on Windows like they can with Android, this at least allows you to debug and run apps in real-time without having to switch computers.

CBS and executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg invited IGN and a small group of reporters to an early screening of the highly anticipated Supergirl/Flash crossover. Now, we can share all the juicy details from the Q&A that followed and tease what's coming next for both DC superheroes...

Full spoilers for "Worlds Finest" continue below.

The new dynamic duo.

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A photo of Wentworth Miller, who plays Captain Cold on DC Comics' Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash, went viral recently for all the wrong reasons -- and Miller had a touching response to it.

The meme compares two photos of Miller—one shirtless from the actor's run on Prison Break, and another, from years later. It's captioned with "When you break out of prison and find out about McDonald's monopoly." In a heartfelt post on Miller's Facebook page, the actor explained the photo.

Wentworth Miller

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The Secret Life of Mountain Lions provides a rare glimpse into the family and social bonds of mountain lions. It affirms their rightful place in nature and the importance of protecting them for generations to come. Narrated by Chris Morgan (PBS, BBC, National Geographic), this video contains extraordinary footage captured with motion-triggered cameras from Panthera's Teton Cougar Project.

Curious about grizzly bears? A 7 minute film about the elusive North Cascades grizzly bear narrated by ecologist and film maker Chris Morgan, and including appearances by many Washington State residents who share their opinions of bears, and help bust some myths. The film includes beautiful footage of the North Cascades, and bears in Alaska where Morgan has hosted several films for PBS Nature, the BBC, and others.

Fox has handed out renewals today to two comedy series: BROOKLYN NINE-NINE and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. “We’re so proud of these comedies. Each has its own unique voice, but they both boast terrific ensembles with stand-out characters and, of course, phenomenal writing, which are the hallmarks of all great comedies,” said David Madden, […]

CBS has renewed 11 of its series for the 2016-2017 season, including: BLUE BLOODS ELEMENTARY HAWAII FIVE-0 MADAM SECRETARY MOM NCIS: LOS ANGELES NCIS: NEW ORLEANS SCORPION 2 BROKE GIRLS SURVIVOR THE AMAZING RACE Renewals for THE BIG BANG THEORY and NCIS were previously announced. There’s still no word on a renewal for SUPERGIRL, CODE […]

Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it would be integrating chat bots into Skype, thus allowing you to have quick conversations with a variety of businesses and services. At the Build 2016 keynote, we saw examples of how you could book a hotel th...

Facebook Messenger has a new bot, and this one can deliver all your flight info to one thread. The Messenger team has announced that its first airline partner's, the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines', bot is up and running in some locations and will be more...

With the goal of making more developers use Windows, and to help them move their workflows over to Windows, Microsoft has taken the step to enable Bash scripting natively in Windows 10. This will be a new subsystem, and not an emulation layer, with full access to native Windows functions such as the file system and APIs.

Microsoft partnered with Canonical to provide an Ubuntu based subsystem into Windows. In the keynote, Microsoft spoke about how they have had lots of feedback regarding their Hosted Web App bridge which lets developers take web apps and provide them through the Windows Store as pseudo-native apps. The Web Apps can have access to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs for things like Live Tiles and Cortana integration, but without a lot of the overhead of re-writing into a native app. But the feedback was that a lot of the development tools they use require Bash scripting making it difficult to do the development on Windows, hindering Web App adoption.

Adding the Ubuntu subsystem into Windows is an interesting solution to this problem. Linux does a lot of things much differently than Windows, including having a case sensitive file system, among other things, so certainly some work would have been done on the back end to enable this in Windows.

This, like many of Microsoft’s announcements over the last year or more, have been about making it easier for devs to work on Windows, and expanding the install base of targeted applications with bridges and Xamarin.

I hope to have some more info on the Bash announcement in the next couple of days.

Windows 10 is unlike previous versions of Windows in that the original intent was to have it constantly updated over its lifetime. We’ve already had one big update with the November update, back in, you guessed it, November. The second update is code named Redstone, and all of the latest insider builds have features the RS in the naming scheme. Today at Build, Microsoft announced they will be calling this update the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, and it will be available this summer.

Someone much more philosophical than myself once said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and I’m sure that applies here as well. With this choice in naming schemes I don’t really know where they go on the next update, but regardless the product is going to be known as Windows 10 anyway, so maybe this doesn’t matter.

We’ve known about a few of the big updates coming to Windows 10, with things like Extension support in Microsoft Edge, but today Microsoft announced a few other important pieces as well coming later in the summer.

The first was better inking support. Microsoft has worked hard to ensure that inking and pen usage in Windows is as first-class as keyboard and mouse, and with this update inking will get even more powerful. There will now be an inking hub which can be opened by clicking the pen, and this hub will surface apps that support inking, as well as frequently used apps that you use with the pen.

They also showed off how writing in a sticky note can be used by Cortana to add appointments to your calendar, among other things. For instance, if you write in a note that you are meeting with Fred at 3pm tomorrow, Cortana will be able to action that information to set up the appointment for you.

One other inking improvement, which is a big one, is the introduction of a software ruler. Now, this may not sound that important, but if you’ve ever tried to draw with a ruler on a Surface, you would know it’s not as natural as doing the same thing on paper. With the new software ruler, you will be able to move it around using touch, and then you can draw and the pen line will stick to the ruler. A more impressive version of this was demoed using Adobe Illustrator, where an artist can use a French Curve which is software based to accurately use it just like as if it was a physical version of the same thing. This should help inking quite a bit.

Another new feature coming with the update is Biometric support for Microsoft Edge. Using extensions added to the W3C, Edge will be able to log you into websites with any of the Windows Hello supported biometric logon methods. The demo on screen was using a fingerprint to log in. I need to ask them a few questions about this and see if it’s just a rebrand of the Passport idea already, or if this is a new thing, but since it’s based on standards in the W3C in theory other browsers could add this as well. The big downside is that sites would have to offer this support, and there’s no way to know whether may will.

The last big announcement for this next Windows update is new experiences with Cortana. Cortana will now be available right on the lock screen, so you won’t need to login in order to set up new appointments or launch tasks. Cortana is also getting a lot more capabilities through extensibility, meaning Cortana will be able to take care of complete tasks for you. Demonstrated on stage was the ability for Cortana to book a hotel room for you based on an upcoming calendar appointment in another city.

Cortana is also getting its own bot. Bots are small programs that can do tasks for you. In the case of Cortana, it will be able to talk to other bots to complete tasks. In the previous example, Cortana can talk to the hotel’s bot in order to set up the room booking without needing much, if any, information from you. Bots were a bit part of the keynote, and Microsoft is announcing the Microsoft Bot Framework in order to let devs quickly and easily build powerful bots which leverage big data services in Azure, and ones that are able to do natural language interaction with people.

Compared to last year, the news was a lot more tame on the Windows side, and that’s not surprising really since last year was the lead up to Windows 10’s launch, but at the same time there is plenty of things they are adding to make the experience better. There are still two more days left in Build, and I hope to get some Windows questions answered over the next couple of days.

“A British man who took a selfie with the EygptAir hijacker while being held hostage sent messages to his friend in which he bragged: ‘You know your boy doesn’t f**k about. Turn on the news lad!!!'” - Daily Mail (full story)