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You can take Will Smith out of an "Independence Day" sequel, but can you replace with...Liam Hemsworth? Maybe. "The Hunger Games" star has apparently been offered a role in "ID Forever," coming in 2016. No word yet on what his part would be, or even what the story details are, but if Roland Emmerich's big plan for this blockbuster followup is to make it charisma free, he's on the right track. At least Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman are expected to return. Please? [The Wrap] Rosamund Pike and Joel... Читать дальше...

The Fed wants to see inflation tick up, but Ron Insana sees the U.S. and other countries missing inflation targets. Here's why.

A statement read by the mother of heroic Jasmyn Chan, who pushed her friend out of the way of the speeding car, moved the court to tears.

Across a landscape of rolling hills dotted with mooing cows and a gently swaying breeze, far from the strip mall suburbia of a mid-sized Colorado town, a pair of young boys head out in search of adventure, practicing their swear words for later use. “Damn!” one of them announces. “Damn,” the quieter one nervously replies. “Goddamn!” “Goddamn.” They steadily work their way up to “fuck” after an amusing meander into the many permutations of the word “ass,” headed up by the loud-mouthed Travis (James Freedson-Jackson)... Читать дальше...

Expectations are high for Apple as it publishes its first-quarter earnings, with analysts forecasting that it sold more than 65m iPhones in the three months to December. With the impact of China looming large but the iPad still looking weak, Tim Bradshaw and Sarah Mishkin bring the news, live updates and analyst reaction from San Francisco.

The political turmoil in Yemen may seem a peripheral issue, but it has global implications spanning energy and security.

Jim McMahon was forced to fork out £300 in solicitor fees.

We're living in a Chris Pratt world, which for Hollywood means throwing every possible franchise his way after he proved his leading man status last summer with "Guardians Of The Galaxy." In a few months, he'll be welcoming everyone back to "Jurassic World," he'll shoot the "Magnificent Seven" remake this year, and he's also the voice for "The LEGO Movie" franchise. So why not give the charming everyman another bit tentpole to carry? That's the thinking at Disney, according to Deadline. The studio... Читать дальше...

Yargh, treasure be buried near Thailand me hearties.

*never eats fast food again*

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'By the pinnacle of humour endeavour / Leech Living In Her Face / Fish and chips by Whitby Harbour'. Deep stuff.

Christina Booth slit her children's throats with a kitchen knife so 'the house would be quiet for her husband', she said.

You haven’t really experienced the luxurious Tesla Model S sedan until you’ve slept in it. An enterprising Airbnb host in Phoenix is offering his Model S for sleeping accommodations, at $85 per night. That’s right, guests will sleep in the car, in his garage. Or more properly, on an airbed in the back of the

Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube’s early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery. Most critically, HTML5 lacked support for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) that lets us show you more videos with less buffering.

Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome... Читать дальше...

Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube’s early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery. Most critically, HTML5 lacked support for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) that lets us show you more videos with less buffering.

Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome... Читать дальше...

Understanding the landscape for freelance workers in what's known today as a "sharing economy." These are trends you should be aware of.

Sign-ups for Obamacare plans are well on track to beat official estimates for the end of the year, with more than two weeks of enrollment left.

Although it’s not essential for a filmmaker to insert their own experiences and opinions into a documentary feature that chronicles the lives of other people (in fact, most documentarians doing so end up looking foolish and inept), Crystal Moselle’s “The Wolfpack” proves to be a confounding exception. Although Moselle only briefly asks questions off-camera during a handful of interviews —typically the right kind of distance for most films— what she fails to recognize is that she is very much a part of this film’s story... Читать дальше...

Analyst differ on whether Microsoft can climb back out of the hole following its stock's latest plummet.

The euro "has been a concern," but the year is shaping up to be strong for travel, a vacation rental company executive says.

Americans are spending an average of two hours per day playing games on mobile devices, Re/code reports.

You know how Zack Snyder is known for directing hyper-stylized, green-screen and slo-mo heavy action films, most of which are based on comic books? Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but it’s an identifiable aesthetic. Well, YouTube user The Unusual Suspect has just re-cut the 2012 “The Avengers” trailer in the style of Snyder’s “Watchmen,” because the end result is surprisingly awesome. Unusual Suspect captured the look, feel and sound of a Snyder blockbuster perfectly, making “The Avengers” come across as a much darker... Читать дальше...

Beginning to resemble Jabba the Hutt?