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Haven's fifth season will mark the end of the long-running cable series, Syfy has revealed.

According to TheWrap, the network has decided to cancel the show once its remaining 13 episodes air. The first half of Season 5 premiered last year, with the remaining set to debut this fall.

While this may come as a blow to fans of the show, Haven showrunner Gabrielle Stanton has made it clear the studio has no intention of delivering an unfulfilling ending.

"We left it open, but if it is the series finale, we think the fans will be satisfied," she said.

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The path of Mr. Robot has taken a turn down yet another path. Mr. Robot is Elliot's father. That's actually true. But he's also really dead and now Elliot has become him. Maybe taking on the persona of his father -- even if he didn't realize Mr. Robot was his father -- gave him the confidence and drive he needed to form FSociety. Elliot recognizes his mental issues, and like last week, Darlene's reactions show the snap isn't anything they haven't dealt with before. Angela reacted similarly.

Before we got to the moment where we realized the full extent of Elliot's delusions (again), Rami Malek blew the roof off with his raw, powerful delivery of Elliot's rage. Elliot's usually tempered outwardly and calm. We've seen him grieve, but we haven't seen him so angry. Malek's so present in each of Elliot's scenes and because the character has established a direct connection to the audience, all his experiences are more personal and close. Elliot is different, special, and Malek brings him to life.

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Today Google announced that they are moving into the WiFi router market. The new router is produced through a partnership with TP-Link and it's called OnHub. Google is marketing OnHub as a router that is simple to setup, effortless to maintain, and highly reliable. Much like Apple's AirPort Extreme, the OnHub is a very tall router in order to integrate internal antennas, and it is managed via an app for your iOS or Android device. The mobile app will also allow you to see which devices are using bandwidth, and to apply QoS rules to limit devices from using too much. During setup it will automatically select the best channel for minimal interference, and can adjust on its own as necessary. Software updates are also automatically downloaded and applied, which makes it essentially self maintaining as long as Google's promise of reliable connectivity is met.

As far as specifications go, OnHub is marketed as an AC 1900 router which really says it's a 3x3 802.11ac router that which has a data rate of 1300Mbps on an 802.11ac link and 600Mbps on an 802.11n link. In addition to being a dead simple WiFi router, OnHub also comes with support for the major protocols which will be used by home automation devices, including Bluetooth Smart, Google Brillo/Weave, and IEEE 802.15.4. The OnHub router is available for preorder now from various retailers in the US, and both the blue and black versions cost $199

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It is popular to fear that climate change will turn the Earth into a water world or that genetically-modified food is going to kill all of us. These fears are probably unwarranted. Instead, I view the future as follows:

• You will be hiking in a beautiful mountain with your latest exoskeleton. It is fantastic, you can walk for hours in rough terrain without getting tired… Then, just as you are about to arrive at the top of the mountain, your exoskeleton decides that it is time to update its firmware. Sadly, the update failed and your exoskeleton is locked up “for your safety”. An emergency call has been placed, you just have to wait for someone to pick you up, ETA 2 hours. It is going to rain soon.
• You take a day off to go watch a ball game. Your boss calls to inquire as to your health, as you reported sick. Thankfully, your phone can silence the background noise automagically. As you make up a good story for your boss, you can hear him say: “I just Googled for your location and it says that according to Google’s drones, you have entered the stadium 15 minutes ago”.
• Your son is 32 and he hasn’t left the house in 5 years. He is somewhere in your basement immersed in virtual reality. He prints his own food from cheap material he has delivered every month. Yet he promised to finish his fifth college degree months ago. You are pretty sure to never have grandchildren.
• Using the latest technology, you can monitor your weight and muscle mass at a precision of plus our minus 1% in real time. But to get your drug prescription, you have to show up to a doctor that weights you using a balance first designed two centuries ago.
• You have a smart home run by speech recognition and kept in order by smart robots. However, each time you try to sit down in your sofa, you find some cleaning robot stuck in there.
• Thanks to medical technology you feel and look younger than ever. However, one side-effect of your rejuvenation treatments are that you have acne. Sadly, unlike cancer and Alzheimer’s, acne remains incurable.
• You are able to type and send documents by using thought sensors, without ever touching a keyboard. However, the local government agency will require that you show up in person to fill out forms, on paper.

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If you thought that old-school Microsoft games like Solitaire and Minesweeper were just added because they were easy to program — or some engineer was obsessed with them — you’re dead wrong, according to Mental Floss.

It turns out that both games were reportedly designed to teach people the skills they would need to use these newfangled personal computers.

Take Solitaire for instance, which was rolled out in 1990. Sure, it was convenient that it was a game that could be played with one person, but the real purpose was to teach people how to use a mouse. Mental Floss says Microsoft needed to convert people who were used to command lines into “drag and drop” aficionados. What better way to do it than to get them to drag and drop cards for hours on end?

And it worked, destroying countless hours of worker productivity in the process.

Minesweeper, released in 1992, was also designed to help users acclimate to a mouse — but this time to the concept of “right clicking” and “left clicking.” Microsoft needed these actions to be instinctive, and, again, what better way to do so than to make users do it over and over again while they thought they were just having a good time.

In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, which didn’t have the classic games. People could download them, but Solitaire and Minesweeper didn't come bundled.

But perhaps Microsoft has realized its mistake because it is bringing back Solitaire for Windows 10. Mental Floss writer James Hunt’s theory is that Microsoft is bringing back Solitaire for another instructional reason: How to use the Windows Store.

Although it could also be that a generation used to having the comfort of a familiar lo-fi game on every PC they’ve ever owned missed it and complained. But, unfortunately for Solitaire fans, Microsoft is continuing its Windows 8 tradition of having the game be ad-supported. So if you want to play ad free in Windows 10, you'll have to pay $1.49 a month.

If you want to learn what Hearts and FreeCell were designed to do, read about them over at Mental Floss.

SEE ALSO: Microsoft wants $1.49 a month to remove the ads it shows inside Solitaire on Windows 10

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Peer-to-peer lending — where savers cut out banks and lend directly to people and businesses at better rates — is growing explosively in the UK and the latest company to underline this is Zopa.

The London-based company just announced that it hit a big lending milestone after 10 years — £1 billion ($1.5 billion).

The peer-to-peer (P2P) lender was the first of its kind in the UK when it opened its doors way back in 2005. Its platform lets savers lend their money directly to individuals (as opposed to businesses like, say, Funding Circle does.)

Lenders typically get an annual interest rate of 5%, better than banks' offers to savers.

While £1 billion is a big milestone to hit, what's perhaps more interesting is how quickly Zopa expects to hit its next billion.

Co-founder and CEO Giles Andrews told Business Insider: "We hope to do £1 billion of lending in the next calendar year from January. I would estimate we get to our second billion towards the end of next year."

10 years to do the first £1 billion — less than 2 to do the next. That's a crazy growth curve.

Zopa is on track to lend over £550 million ($859 million) this year, more double 2014’s total of £265 million ($414 million). Revenues are also forecast to double this year.

Andrews says: "We should slightly more than double this year and I hope we double again next year — that's dramatic." 

Zopa is hardly an outlier either. The chart below from industry website AltFi and investment bank Liberum shows UK peer-to-peer lending has exploded in recent years. The pair estimate £4.2 billion ($6.57 billion) has been lent through peer-to-peer in the UK to date (meaning Zopa has done around a quarter of the overall total.)

"It feels like we're becoming more mainstream," Andrews says. "We've met the financial needs of over 200,000 people and been able to give them a better deal, either on their borrowing or their lending/investing."

Zopa has doubled its headcount to 110 over the past year and signed deals with big names like Metro Bank and Uber, which took it into car financing for the first time. Andrews says Zopa is exploring other partnerships, with more announcements expected this year.

The company is also looking at launching other products. Andrews signalled Zopa was thinking about a property lending operation, saying Zopa would look at "adjacent lending products, which we would consider with the right funding. We wouldn't start up a small mortgage business, we either do it properly or not at all."

Andrews says: "The plan for the next year is to do more of the same. The vision for five years is a broader offering either geographically or on product, or both."

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Earlier this year, worldwide media profiled Gabi Mann, 8, of Seattle, who has fed and made friends with a large number of crows who bring her trinkets in return. [BBC, Audubon] Now some neighbors are suing parents Lisa and Gary Mann, saying their “mass wildlife feeding operation” has created a local nuisance [KIRO, Daily Mail]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Mary Poppins were ultimately to blame. “Feed the Birds” was said to be Walt Disney’s favorite song.

The suit demands $200,000, which would pay for a lot of crumbs at tuppence a bag.

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A woman in Petrer, Spain posted a photo on Facebook of a police car illegally parked in a handicap spot. She was subsequently fined almost €800 (~US$886) under the Citizens Security Law, aka the "gagging law," that prohibits "the unauthorised use of images of police officers that might jeopardise their or their family’s safety or that of protected facilities or police operations." Read the rest

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"QUANTUM SHOT" #898 Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Wacky Wonders of Public Transportation The first horse-drawn buses were introduced in numerous parts of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with London finally ending horse-powered bus transportation in 1914. Buses using internal combustion engines were developed alongside the earliest automobiles. In the first half of the twentieth century, buses had a number of different designs, but these became more standardized by the 1950s. (streamlined "Golden Dolphin Bus" concept from 1956, Turin, Italy; image via) Those who travel internationally, even to places with unfamiliar languages and road signs, will always be able to recognize a bus. However, here are a few of the more unusual, notable and interesting buses from around the world, as well as some which can perhaps be described as very strange indeed. The World’s Longest Bus This is the AutoTram Extra Grand, officially launched in Dresden, Germany, and the world’s longest bus. This public transit leviathan is more than over 30 meters (100 feet) long, with three sections and can carry 256 passengers: Also from Germany is this hotel on wheels, operated by Rotel Tours. If you’ve ever been on a lengthy bus tour, you’d probably appreciate some extra comforts on the road. This bus works on a similar principle to long-distance trains that have sleeping compartments. The vehicle has a bed for every passenger, as well as bathroom facilities, but no showers. Fortunately for all concerned, the bus pulls into campgrounds and RV parks every now and again for bathing purposes: Speaking of "triple-deckers", there has been quite a tradition of vintage three-level buses in Europe from the 1920s and 1930s. Here are examples from London and Berlin (some were built only as concepts, or even as April Fool hoaxes, but some however went into further production): (images via 1, 2) This marriage of convenience between a bus and a train is used in Turin, Italy. The city is renowned for Giandujotto chocolate and this fun vehicle carries children around during the annual celebration of the local tasty treat: (image credit: Carnico) This pink single decker, open-top, self-proclaimed Barbie Bus takes tourists to see the sights around Budapest in Hungary: (image credit: Stuart Spicer) London Duck Tours might seem like rather an odd name for a company operating vehicles on land, for the purpose of showing visitors the sights of the capital in jolly old England. However, the name is derived from the DUKW, an amphibious truck used by the military in World War II. I wouldn’t imagine this one ever takes to the water these days, but at least it’s equipped with life preservers, just in case: (image credit: fab1an) This space age double-decker bus is the Citroen U55 Cityrama Currus. It was developed in Paris in the 1950s on a Citroen U55 truck chassis and used as a tour bus in the French capital. Ideal for viewing the sights of the city, the bus featured curved glass at important vantage points and had a glass roof. This could also be converted to an open-air deck in warmer weather. Quite a few of these steel and glass motoring marvels were made back then, so they would have been a familiar sight on the streets of Paris at the height of the tourist season: (image via) (image via) These kinds of customized and vividly decorated buses are characteristic of Pakistan. This one, however, can be seen on the streets of El Gouna on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. I guess if you were a tourist who didn’t understand the local language, you’d at least see the bus coming: (image via) Here are a few fascinating bus designs from Japan. I think these are all school buses, built no doubt to encourage kids to go to school and learn, stressing the value of a good education: (images credit: Floyd Chen, 2, 3) From the same part of the world, the Catbus (see below) is a character in the Japanese animated fantasy movie, My Neigbour Totoro. The large creature is a smiling male cat, with a hollow body that’s actually a bus, with doors, seats and windows. This picture appears to have been taken in the desert (probably at the Burning Man festival), but I would imagine the Catbus would be pretty nice and cozy in the winter: (image via) Tour buses often frequently idle at the side of the road in major cities all over the world, spewing unwelcome exhaust fumes into the air. Not so in Seoul, South Korea, with this unusual looking bus, which is powered by electricity. While you’re busy seeing the sights of the capital, you can feel comfortable knowing that you’re doing your bit to try and save the Earth as well: (image credit: Michael Geller) This picture of a lavishly decorated bus, with an incredible overabundance of headlights, was taken in Pattaya, Thailand. I guess you’re in danger of getting lost in the dark? - (image via) This completely bizarre upside down school bus was custom-made, in protest at what the creator considered the topsy-turvy education spending policies of the American government: (image via) Here’s another strange looking bus from the United States. This colourful example was spotted on the streets of New York, sporting really imaginative livery: (image credit: via) This rather strange contraption is a commuter bus attached to a truck in Havana, Cuba: (image credit: richjp) Also in Cuba, old buses get converted to a narrow gauge rail road vehicles (also called Ferro-Buses, Carahatas, etc): (images credit: Wilder Llanes, 2) A chicken bus is an old North American school bus, that has been granted a new lease of life in some parts of Central America. Rather than retaining their traditional yellow hue, these buses receive very colourful makeovers, being repainted in multiple colours: (images via 1, 2) Chivas are buses driven in rural Colombia and are also vividly decorated. Most of these buses have a ladder to reach the roof rack. This makes the roof easily accessible, since it can carry not only luggage, but also various types of merchandise, people and even livestock: (image via) As you can see, the Chiva above has some excellent ventilation. Just don’t lean or rest your head on the window while the bus is moving, or when it’s standing still, for that matter. Magical Mystery Buses There have been a few famous buses in movies, TV shows and in pop culture over the years. Here’s one of the best known ones, used by The Beatles in the Magical Mystery Tour movie in 1967. (image via) We’ve all seen ads, some of them spectacularly eye-catching, on the sides of buses, but how about this one? The zoo in Copenhagen, Denmark, thought they might boost attendance with this depiction of a boa constrictor crushing the bus. I’ll bet people were really gripped by this image as the bus passed by: (image via) Speaking of buses used for advertising, there exist a wonderful tradition of so-called promotional vehicles, some of which were truly outlandish in shape, sported colorful logos, participated in parades and tradeshows - and has since become a treasured possession for automobile museums and collectors today. Here is a "Le Nain Gourmand" example, found in Musee Automobile Reims-Champagne: (image credit: Jan Sluijter) A Pigeon Bus! This bizarre structure on top of an old London bus was built by the British Army to house the homing pigeons used to carry messages during World War I: (image via) And finally, here’s the London Booster, located near the Olympic HQ in the British capital during the sporting event held in the city in 2012. This vintage 1957 double-decker bus was fitted with huge, muscular, mechanical arms. This thing can actually do push-ups, the most common exercise for most athletes. Maybe the Booster could give those Transformers a good run for their money? (image via) Warning: this image may cause vertigo and uneasiness for some - here you see the Setra touring bus put through the test on a vertical curve at the Daimler facility in Unterturkheim, Germany: (image via) Article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams, Dark Roasted Blend. CONTINUE TO "MOST EXTRAVAGANT BUS EVER BUILT"! -> Check out the rest of our "Amazing Automobiles" category ->

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A solid, if not somewhat easy, season ender for Humans, as the eighth and final episode of the year repaired the Hawkins family, revealed Hobb's ultimate sinister plan, and set the table for next year's run.

Not a very exciting episode though, was it? A.I. can be a very provocative topic. And while it's been tackled in movies and on TV many times over, there's still a lot to mine. Humans, however, plays things rather conventionally. It's a good show, but not one out to break the mold in any way. It's something that's been on my mind most of the season, but demonstrated more fully here in this very "suitable" finale.

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A new gaming center has opened its doors in Melbourne, Australia, and it's not quite your typical after-school haunt. This place, called Zero Latency, offers true immersive virtual reality experience: if you want to kill zombies, you'll literally h...

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There are two books left in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, and probably three more seasons left of HBO's "Game of Thrones," which is based on the books. But the question everyone is asking (besides whether or not Jon Snow is dead for good) is how the series will end.

In a recent interview with the New York Observer, Martin said that he has yet to write the ending of the books (he still has to finish The Winds of Winter, after all). Since Martin is known to be quite the killing machine with his characters, fans are concerned that things will only get more grim as the book series nears its end. But don't worry: He doesn't plan to finish his series with total annihilation and destruction. "I've said before that the tone of the ending that I’m going for is bittersweet," Martin told the Observer. The author is also looking to The Lord of the Rings for inspiration. "I mean, it’s no secret that Tolkien has been a huge influence on me, and I love the way he ended Lord of the Rings. It ends with victory, but it’s a bittersweet victory," he said.

Whether or not this bittersweetness will influence the HBO series finale is unknown. Showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff will likely conclude the series before Martin publishes his final book. While speaking at the Oxford Union earlier this year, Benioff said, "We’ll eventually, basically, meet up at pretty much the same place where George is going." Sadly, that means HBO will spoil the books for fans. 

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Consumer robot manufacturer iRobot has moved one step closer to freeing humanity from the shackles of walking behind, or riding on, lawnmowers. Its automated lawn-mowing robot has moved forward in the FCC approval process.

In order to navigate the iRobot lawn-mowing system uses a series of wireless signal beacons staked into the ground around a lawn. According to a Reuters report, the design required a waiver from the FCC.

Normally, the regulating body prohibits operation of a "'fixed outdoor infrastructure' transmitting low-power radio signal without a license."

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Even though Person of Interest writer/producer Denise Thé told fans back at Comic-Con that fans "hadn't seen the last of Shaw," we now have more solid confirmation that Sarah Shahi will return for Person of Interest's Season 5 in a highly involved capacity.

POI Showrunner Greg Plageman recently told TVGuide.com that not only is Shahi returning to the series, but that it would be for more than just quick check-ins with Shaw, who'd only been seen for a couple of brief moments ever since her character was written off the series mid-Season 4 (Shahi, pregnant at the time, has since given birth to twins).

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Today at the D23 Expo, Disney unveiled two new posters for Alice Through the Looking Glass, the studio's upcoming sequel to the wildly popular live action version of Alice in Wonderland, starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp.

The first poster features Wasikowska's Alice and the second Depp's Mad Hatter. Both depict characters traversing a expansive blue water via stepping stones made out of destroyed clocks. See them for yourself below!

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With experience such as <a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=60&bandname=Iron+Maiden>Iron Maiden</a>'s, it isn't suprising to see them releasing new music; and today, we get the first song -the official video for the song <i>Speed Of Light</i> - from the upcoming double album <i>The Book Of Souls</i>. This music is the first in 5 years from the old-time British legends, after 2010' <i>The Final Frontier</i> album. The video clip was produced and directed by Llexi Leon. So, don't hesitate and check out this new track! <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=27246>Read more...</a>

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Much of Mr. Robot is about reality. There are the obvious questions about what Elliot's showing us -- is any of it actually happening, are the people we meet more than figments of his delusions? But the series addresses the topic in more subtle ways as well by looking at the way so much of modern day humanity plays out on wifi connections and circuit boards. Elliot's internal monologues and the way he puts on certain behaviors for certain situations highlights whether we truly ever know how genuine people are being. The head-on way Mr. Robot explores reality is part of its success, and though they dropped some big reveals tonight, they've left plenty of wiggle room on the table.

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