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What else could you buy for the price of an iPhone X?

Coming in at a devastating $999, this is Apple’s priciest phone by a long shot. While some people will happily hand over the money for a chance to be an early adapter to the tech, I was left wondering how that money could be used in a better way. 



Fall Out Boy releases new song and announces the Fall Out Boy Fund

This morning, Chicago based rock group, Fall Out Boy, released the newest single off their upcoming album MANIA. The song, “The Last of the Real Ones” is the third single to be released in promotion of their seventh studio album, which was originally going to be released this month but has been pushed back until January 19th. 



PewDiePie used a racial slur on livestream. Is he a liability for YouTube?

Now YouTube’s biggest star has made headlines again for using a racial epithet. Not only have YouTubers such as Matt Collins of Nerd3, “Angry” Joe Vargus, Danny O’Dwyer, and more condemned Felix for his words and actions as of late; some like Jim Sterling have even started claiming that PewDiePie is a liability for everyone else who uses YouTube to obtain their income because of his new racist image. 


iPhone X: Specs and details

After a litany of iPhones all bearing incremental numbers, Apple has decided to skip the iPhone 9 and reveal the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone ten”) at the same time. 



'The Witches' Tea Party' casts a spell that captures attention

The game was published by Rabbiton and developed with RPG Maker and is a casual indie game that is story driven, and sets out on a short but absorbing plot filled with the drama of each witch’s past. There is no combat; the game is mainly based around puzzles, small detective segments, and storytelling. It’s cute, and sometimes very creepy. 


The Co-creator of Wolverine has died at 69

Len Wein, the Co-creator of Wolverine and renowned comic book writer, died Sunday of an unknown cause according to Marvel. Hailing from New York, Wein’s dream was to be a comic book illustrator, but he settled on becoming a writer.



Worldwide drone database could be coming

In the US alone, drone enthusiasts put up such a fight against the Federal Aviation Admission that the FAA eventually repealed it's law requiring drones to be entered in a national registry, after only a year and a half.