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Microsoft introduced Windows 10, the followup to the unsuccessful Windows 8, at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. There was no live stream of the presentation at the time, but now you can watch the entire demo in the … Continue reading →

Hundreds of students and teachers at Denver-area public schools are skipping classes to protest a school board proposal that could change the way AP U.S. History is taught in the district as well as board-mandated tweaks to teachers’ pay Two … Continue reading →

The Weather Channel is continuing its practice of unilaterally naming winter storms, which it began doing two winters ago. The list of storm names for the upcoming winter came out on Wednesday, and they’re awful Naming any type of storm … Continue reading →

Derek Jeter, the former shortstop and surefire Hall of Fame inductee, spent years as the face of not only the New York Yankees, but also much of baseball. Despite one of the highest profiles in baseball, Jeter admits that he … Continue reading →

Agencies and advertisers have descended upon New York for Advertising Week to discuss new trends, platforms and tactics in the marketplace. We wanted to celebrate the industry’s young talent, so we asked senior agency staff to highlight the up-and-coming creatives … Continue reading →

It seems that vampires really are immortal. Lionsgate is planning to revive Twilight as a series of short films on Facebook, according to a new report in the New York Times. See also: 11 Movies That Change When You’re an … Continue reading →

An incendiary political cartoon in Wednesday’s Boston Herald depicting a White House intruder asking President Obama if he has tried the new watermelon toothpaste is drawing fire for employing an offensive racial stereotype. The cartoon below appears to reference an … Continue reading →

Add drone racing to the list of several things (acting, directing, screenwriting) Tyler Perry can do Using iPad-controlled drones, Perry raced Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s Tonight Show. And as it turns out, the one thing Fallon is not good at … Continue reading →

The protests in Hong Kong calling for more local control of its political future have largely played out on television news broadcasts and live blogs, constantly updated with the latest developments But for one group of self-described media artists in … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentleman of the Internet, animated GIF keyboards for iOS have arrived. PopKey, the emoji-style keyboard for animated GIFs, rolled out to Apple’s App Store Wednesday, and it’s pretty much everything you hoped for. See also: 21 Weird GIFs … Continue reading →