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Have you ever watched The Muppets and thought “This, but more murder?” 

If you have – and even if you haven’t – The Happytime Murders is here to scratch a very bizarre itch. Muppets are getting murdered, and those that are living have answers, and plenty of demons.

Melissa McCarthy plays Connie Edwards, a law enforcement officer asked to investigate the mysterious deaths of Hollywood puppet personalities, but she soon realizes that these are no coincidence – someone is targeting them. 

The trailer also features Joel McHale, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, and yeah, at the end there, muppet sex. Read more…

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The Arevo bicycle looks and feels like a high-end commuter bike, but it was made using 3D-printing technology and software. It’s being hailed as the first truly 3D-printed bicycle.

The Bay Area-based “additive manufacturing” company (that’s what engineering-level 3D printing is called these days) made the fully functional bicycle as a proof-of-concept to show that the thermoplastic material, laser-heating, and robotic 3D-printing process can be used to replace metal parts for defense companies, airplanes, fighter jets, electronics, and more. Basically 3D printing doesn’t mean chintzy plastic figurines anymore. Read more…

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Elon Musk and Grimes are being the world’s nerdiest couple, again.

Originally born Claire Boucher, Grimes announced on Thursday that she’s legally changing her name to just c, which is the measurement for the speed of light in a vacuum. She tweeted a screenshot of the Wikipedia article about it, adding “this will be much better.” Grimes also specified the name c will be lowercase and italicized. 

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Ahh, tech industry hubris. It never ceases to inspire.

On Thursday, Elon Musk held an information session to discuss the progress of his Boring Company, and share his vision for the future of transportation in Los Angeles. What that amounts to is … wait for it …. a series of tunnels! That pedestrians can access through a magnitude of street-level stations, no larger than — hang on — a parking spot!

Sound familiar? The good citizens of Twitter thought so.

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Afraid your life is going to fall apart after the Royal Wedding tomorrow with nothing sweet and cheesy left to look forward to as our world continues its descent into a hellscape?

WORRY NO MORE. Netflix announced Friday that its 2017 surprise feel-good hit, A Christmas Prince, is getting a sequel.

Yes, it’s called A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, duh. It’s going to be trope city and I personally can’t wait for our klutzy heroine and her dullsville groom to walk down the aisle. 

In a video teaser tied to Saturday’s Meghan Markle-related festivities, we see our intrepid hero doing what she does best: Making lists of basic facts on her computer and calling it journalism! Read more…

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This post contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of Gotham, “No Man’s Land.”

Gotham arrived in 2014 with a ballsy premise: tell the story of how DC Comics’ most famous city became a place that needed, and perhaps deserved, the Batman. 

In the course of setting up the presumably series-ending bat-reveal, the show has tossed in almost too many proto-versions of famous villains, future allies, and other comic book personalities. But smack in the middle of its ever-spooling web of Mad Hatters, Riddlers, Lucius Foxes, and Ivys was Butch Gilzean, an original creation of showrunners Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon.  Read more…

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Spend hours battling the Covenant with your buddies, not on your PC or console, but in your local arcade.

Microsoft and 343 Industries announced Halo‘s first ever arcade game on Thursday, a collaboration with arcade specialists Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix. 

Halo: Fireteam Raven is a four-player cooperative arcade shooting game which lets you fight alongside Master Chief to stop the dreaded Covenant and save the galaxy.

The physical structure looks seriously impressive, a coin-operated machine with a colossal 130-inch, 4K screen and four turret-mounted, multipurpose machine guns. Read more…

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Why won’t government institutions leave memes alone?

The Yanny vs. Laurel debate took a dark turn when the U.S. Air Force thought it would be a good idea to use it in a now-deleted tweet that bragged about repressing a Taliban offensive. 

But the White House killed the meme for good when it released a video of staffers dividing into Team Yanny and Team Laurel.

Think this is fake news? We can assure you that unfortunately, this is very real. Here’s the video:

Ivanka Trump is definitely on Team Laurel, but Kellyanne “alternative facts” Conway isn’t too loyal to her side. She proudly says, “It’s Laurel,” before adding, “But I could deflect and defer to Yanny if you need me to.”  Read more…

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Catfish, a reality TV show about the uncertainties of online dating, has been suspended by MTV for an investigation into claims of sexual misconductAccording to The Daily Beast, the show’s host and executive producer, Nev Schulman, is a central figure in the sexual harassment investigation.

The allegations against Schulman stem from Ayissha Morgan, who was the subject of a Catfish episode back in 2015. She went public with the assault claims in two YouTube videos posted on Saturday, May 12 and Monday, May 14. 

In them, Morgan accuses Schulman of making continued sexual advances during production despite her many refusals. She also claims a producer assaulted her. Read more…

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If your brain already hurts from the Yanny/Laurel drama, get ready for the next way to butcher the English language: changing “no” to “yesn’t.” 

A Change.org petition to change the word “no” to “yesn’t” was posted on Tuesday. Since then, it’s gained over 26,000 signatures, gaining hundreds of more supporters every hour. The petition’s description only says “My Jeff,” because internet humor can’t get more bizarre than that. 

There’s yesn’t shortage of memes about it.