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As if there wasn’t already enough to be excited about in 2019, Hulu’s January selection is delivering even more New Year’s hype. Here’s what’s streaming. 

From Stephen King’s greatest hits, including Cujo and Pet Sematary, to the kid-friendliest of flicks, like Inside Out and Chicken Run, Hulu’s January movie picks are all over the place—in a good way. You’ve got Annihilation next to the Twilight series next to the Lethal Weapon franchise next to A Charlie Brown Valentine. With so much to choose from, what’s not to love?

On the TV side of things, you’ve got Season 2 of FX’s Atlanta (more on that later) alongside tons of mid-season premieres and loads of back-logged reality TV, like Season 6 of Project Runway All Stars and Season 7 of Dance Moms. Read more…

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We usually think of plants as vegetables or home decoration, but Harpreet Sareen, an MIT Media Lab researcher,  developed a plant-robot hybrid that moves on its own in response to the changes happening in its environmentElowan is a houseplant, but it is much more than that. Sareen has attached electrodes to its stems, leaves, and ground. The plant’s bioelectrochemical signals are sent to the robot by those electrodes, and this way the plant can drive itself in the direction of the light. Elowan is opening up a new world of possibilities, where non-human living organisms could be augmented to create new interactive devices that are organic instead of entirely artificial.  Read more…

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A KiwiBot, an automated food delivery robot which is present on UC Berkeley’s campus, caught fire on Friday afternoon.

In a post, the company explained the incident was due to a faulty battery which had been mistakenly installed instead of a functioning one. 

The errant battery started smoldering while the robot was idling, leading to smoke, then fire outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.

“A member of the community acted swiftly to extinguish the flames using a nearby fire extinguisher. Within moments of the incident occurring, it had already been contained,” the post read. Read more…

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Hillary Clinton knows a thing or two about tough election losses.

That’s apparently what compelled the former 2016 candidate for president to write a letter to 8-year-old Martha Kennedy Morales. The school-aged girl recently faced off against a boy from her class in an election for class president, and she lost by one vote.

The story of what happened to Morales, who attends school in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., made its way to Clinton via a grapevine of D.C. insiders, The Washington Post reports. Frequent Facebook posts from Albert Morales, Martha’s father, about the class election caught the eye of an unnamed Clinton associate, who mentioned it to the former candidate. Read more…

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The Boring Company pushed back the opening of its Hawthorne underground tunnel in Los Angeles, but recent signs point to the Tuesday event happening.

On Saturday, the tunnel-digging company CEO Elon Musk pumped up fans with a tweet featuring a movie poster-like look at the tunnel and the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Earlier in December, Musk teased “more than a tunnel opening” for the high-speed transit project when the event was pushed back from Dec. 10 to Dec. 18. He alluded to autonomous transport cars and car elevators on display at the opening. Read more…

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White House Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller appeared on CBS news show Face the Nation Sunday afternoon sporting a… new hairdo. 

It’s certainly new hair, anyway.

Well, paint. It looks like paint. And Twitter is having an absolute field day with his new look. 

First they were all like “wait, what?”

Some people couldn’t believe their eyes, but HD doesn’t lie. 

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Here’s your chance to go deep in the bowels of a man’s soul — his bathroom.

A Twitter thread posted Friday asked women what’s the weirdest thing they’ve seen in a dude’s bathroom. It starts off with a plunger-hairbrush hybrid contraption that must be used for plunging and then scrubbing the bowl. Whatever it is, it’s weird.

What follows is a lengthy collection of truly LOL-inducing photos showing some creative engineering, especially when it comes to toilet paper holders. Read more…

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Square Enix’s hotly anticipated Kingdom Hearts III isn’t supposed to be on the market until Jan. 25, 2019, but some copies have already made it to market, leading fans to brace themselves for a deluge of early spoilers. 

On Sunday, the director of Kingdom Hearts III, Tetsuya Nomura, issued a statement via Twitter confirming the leaks as legitimate but also assured fans that the game’s most surprising twists were spoiler safe — the game’s epilogue and “secret movie” are not included in the disc release and will be patched into the game at a later date.  Read more…

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Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. 

From Twitter to Reddit to Instagram, tons of internet folks are raving about a glorified tarp. 

Weighted blankets, also known as gravity or anxiety blankets, gained the attention of the self-care community late last year and have been picking up widespread (and emphatic) support ever since.

Purported to assist with stress and sleep, weighted blankets are exactly what they sound like — blankets with added weight, typically around 10% of the user’s body weight. As you slide under the heavy, comforter-like fabric, you will likely experience a therapeutic sensation, one that I would compare to that extra sip of wine taking you from conversationally relaxed to full-blown tipsy.  Read more…

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In a stunning if ultimately unsurprising display of ashiness, Cardi B’s recently estranged husband Offset showed up onstage at the Rolling Loud festival to beg Cardi to take him back after he cheated on her.

Offset’s “apology” included flowers and a series of cakes that spelled out “TAKE ME BACK;” he was escorted off the stage after Cardi B expressed discomfort that he interrupted her show. 

As and after the drama unfolded onstage, people on Twitter took Offset to task for his stunt, rightfully claiming that his grand gesture was more “manipulative performance of headassery” than “super effective way to apologize for sleeping around on your wife.”  Read more…

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