While many of us are still talking through the traumatic ending of Avengers: Infinity War with our therapists, Chris Hemsworth is now warning that we don’t know the half of it. Literally.

“If you were shocked by [Infinity War], I think the second one is even more shocking, for other reasons entirely,” Hemsworth said in a recent Esquire interview. Avengers 4 — or Infinity War Part II — comes out in May 2019. 

He went on to say, “That’s what kind of blew me away the first time I read both scripts, is how they managed to orchestrate so many different characters but give them each their own separate shot and moments, and have it be elevated and feel fresh and unique—not just like a messy, thrown-together assembly of these guys.” Read more…

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When a drone’s battery dies mid-flight, most models will slowly descend to safety instead of crashing. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really help if the drone is above a body of water when the battery goes. 

YouTuber DaveSvorking experienced this very scenario recently. But instead of witnessing his precious flying machine die a watery death, he jumped right into the lake — shoes and all. In the process he scared a bunch of ducks and geese, but he managed to save his drone just moments before it hit the water. 

Good job, Dave.  Read more…

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Crayola is getting into the makeup game. 

Like Lunchables and Tamagotchis, Crayola’s 64 piece box of crayons was the envy of elementary school. If you walked into class with one of those, you were guaranteed to be one the trendiest kids on the playground. And let’s be honest — in addition to coloring in acrostic poems about spring and secretly illustrating scenes on the walls, who didn’t try to use the brightly hued crayons to draw on themselves?

Good news: you finally can. 

Crayola recently launched a line of beauty products in partnership with ASOS, complete with retro packaging and rainbow shades that will definitely leave you nostalgic for kindergarten. The collection includes 58 colorful products that come in a whopping 95 shades, including shimmering highlighters, neon mascaras, and an array of face crayons — which look super similar to Crayola’s actual crayons, but these are probably better for your skin than pigmented paraffin. Read more…

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Apple’s driving app that connects your iPhone to your car’s infotainment system, CarPlay, has long frustrated users because it forces you to use Apple Maps.

For iPhone users who use Google Maps or Waze to navigate while driving, this was often a deal-breaker. One of Mashable’s own editors switched to Android just so she could use Waze for her Los Angeles commute in her new car. She’s not alone.

But at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose on Monday, the new iOS 12 included a small-but-monumental change for a lot of drivers: support for third-party navigation apps. Read more…

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Some of us already like screaming at our Xbox when things don’t go our way, but you might be able to make those vocalisations useful.

As first reported by Windows Central, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice assistants are on their way to the console, giving users an additional option on top of Microsoft’s Cortana. 

A screenshot from an upcoming version of the Xbox One software shows a digital assistants section in the console’s preferences menu, where it also asks users to add Xbox related skills via the Alexa app. Read more…

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Jimmy Fallon surprised graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday, with a commencement speech to remember.

The Tonight Show host took the stage at the graduation ceremony at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida on Sunday as a guest speaker, delivering a keynote for the class of 2018.

Among Fallon’s characteristic comedic banter were messages of heartfelt admiration for the students, who led the charge on March for Our Lives following February’s tragic school shooting which saw 17 people killed. Graduates at the ceremony wore sashes that read “MSD Strong.” Read more…

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It appears a distinguished World War I soldier,   Richard Bullimore, only ate one of his 10 Cadbury chocolate bars while awaiting battle in the war’s notorious trenches, according to the online auction company Eddisons CJM. The chocolate tins were apparently a wartime Christmas present to troops. 

Eddisons CJM, which also auctions off massive pieces of industrial equipment, will offer Bullimore’s 103-year-old chocolate in a package with his other belongings on Tuesday, June 5. 

Just the chocolate tin itself is rare, noted CJM’s Paul Cooper, “but to find the chocolate still inside is just unreal.” Read more…

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The developer platform GitHub, which is widely used for storing, sharing, and collaborating on code, will apparently soon be a Microsoft company.

Microsoft has reportedly acquired the San Francisco-based hosting service and might announce the deal as soon as Monday, a Bloomberg report said, according to “people familiar with the matter.”

Murmurs about the acquisition bubbled up late last week as the CEO-less GitHub was reportedly in talks with Microsoft about a sale. Its co-founder, Tom Preston-Werner, resigned in 2014 after harassment allegations surfaced. Read more…

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The Game Boy Camera isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think “high end.”

The unusual peripheral, released in 1998, could be inserted into the Nintendo handheld’s cartridge slot to give you a lo-fi digital camera capable of capturing a 128×112 black and white image. Now, a full 20 years later, someone’s managed to make the thing work with a massive Canon zoom lens.

That someone is Bastiaan Ekeler, a product designer and photography enthusiast. The idea came to him recently after he saw how photographer Tim Binnion managed to shoot the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix using a Game Boy Camera and a clip-on telephoto lens for smartphones. Read more…

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A drone that follows you around with a sun-blocking umbrella is only a prototype, but it has a major flaw: it’s annoyingly loud.

Sure it’s a convenient way to stay out of the sun and keep your hands free, but the Japanese company Asahi Power Service’s “Free Parasol” concept still needs reworking.

Demos of the device have been around for the past few years and even in the latest video (at the top of this post) that annoying hum and buzz renders the entire concept useless. 

Listen for just a few seconds and imagine walking around with that incessant buzzing for an hour — that’s how long the company wants to have the head-detecting drone last. The drone is expected to come to market in 2019, according to Tokyo-based SoraNews24. It’s intended for golfers on sunny greenways. Read more…

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