The following is a spoiler-free review of Netflix’s The Perfection.

After months of critic hype and fervent fan speculation, Netflix’s mysterious and controversial The Perfection finally began streaming on Friday — and already, it’s tearing the horror community apart. 

As vast and as varied as the many things that scare us, horror fans are a unique bunch. Whether you’re dealing with a pack of Conjuring stans or an offbeat group of indie pushers, nailing down exactly what will (and what won’t) satisfy any given audience can be tricky. 

So, The Perfection just tried all of it.

Without getting into any spoilers, here’s a simplified premise: Charlotte Willmore (Allison Williams), a classically trained cellist struggling to cope with the passing of her mother, returns to the performance world after an extended hiatus. There she re-encounters her former music instructor Anton (Steven Weber), his wife Paloma (Alaina Huffman), and fellow prodigy Elizabeth (Logan Browning). Then, things get batshit. Read more…

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If you were horrified by how easy it was for someone to create a fake viral video that made Nancy Pelosi look as if she was slurring her words on stage, you weren’t alone. Facebook is now taking action to stop the misleading video, which has over 2.5 million views, from spreading further — though it won’t go as far as deleting it entirely.

On Wednesday, a video that apparently showed the Democratic congresswoman seemingly “drunk” went viral, first on Facebook, and then on other social media platforms. But Pelosi wasn’t actually impaired while speaking at a Center for American Progress event. Instead, the creator (whose identity is not known) simply slowed down the footage of the speaker of the house to 75 percent, and altered the pitch. Read more…

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If you’ve spent any time on planet Earth in the past five years, chances are that someone has recommended that you “Take some time for self-care.” Maybe a friend has encouraged you to enjoy a “Treat yo’ self” kind of day. Maybe they’ve told you to make yourself a bubble bath or get a gel manicure or download a self-care app that can teach you how to breathe better.

At the heart of all this advice is the same operational principle: If you want to feel better, you need to do the labor yourself, for yourself.

That’s why some experts, like Nakita Valerio, a Toronto-based community organizer and researcher who specializes in building cross-cultural bridges, ask that people consider practicing another form of compassion: community care. Read more…

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Listen, we know that Memorial Day Weekend is all about staying off the computer and keeping far away from anything resembling work (MDW is for the beach, isn’t it?). 

But, being on the computer, specifically a laptop, doesn’t have to be all business — they work just as well for leisure times like watching Netflix, playing video games, and a bunch of other stuffAnd they’re portable, AKA perfectly fine to take along on your beach trips (just keep the sand away from them please). 

The same goes for tablets too, and that’s why we picked out the very best deals on laptops and tablets for this weekend (there’s more than a few, with it being MDW and all). We found big savings on MacBooks, iPads, and much more. Read more…

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Hopefully you didn’t cancel your HBO subscription now that Game of Thrones has officially reached its bittersweet ending (well, maybe the “sweet” part is up to your own discretion). There are still plenty of great shows on the channel, including Barry and Chernobyl. If you’re at all interested in checking them out, there’s only one way you should be watching them: On a nice 4K TV. 

Lucky for you, there are a ton of great TVs on sale (4K and otherwise) for Memorial Day weekend. Save your hard-earned cash on Samsung, LG, and other models, including $600 off this Sony 65-inch TV.

Check out our favorite deals for this weekend: Read more…

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While women’s gripes about frigid workspaces have long been dismissed as a sign of oversensitivity, a study published in PLOS ONE argues differently.

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Facebook plans on launching the cryptocurrency, termed “GlobalCoin,” in a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020, BBC reports. Read more…

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Waze will feature the famous DJ as a new navigation voice option on the mobile app. Read more…

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The internet has won. The release date of the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been pushed back to February 2020.

While normally the public doesn’t really know what causes these kinds of delays, this time the public caused this delay thanks to the barrage of complaints levied against the design of the titular hedgehog after the first trailer dropped in April.

Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler announced the delay on Twitter Friday.

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Human or robot driver, left-hand turns in a car are tough. Unprotected turns? Even harder.

Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, put out a video Thursday showing its self-driving electric Bolts making left turns all over San Francisco’s busy streets. The company says it makes 1,400 unprotected left turns every 24 hours.

For an autonomous car company it seems like this shouldn’t be hailed as such an achievement, but it is. Waymo, the Google self-driving car spinoff company, notoriously struggled in Phoenix to turn left during testing on public roads. Its Chrysler Pacifica minivans were just too timid to make it through the oncoming traffic. People have noted that the robo-taxis have improved in those situations. Read more…

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