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Family, turkey, animated corpses … the end of the Thanksgiving weekend also marked the midseason finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Viewers, no doubt, turned out in droves to cap off the holiday weekend with zombies and a notable departure.

There was a terrifying scene in San Miguel, Chile last night when a fire truck drove through the twirling blades of a police helicopter. The collision caused the helicopter to spin wildly out of control until it eventually exploded in a ball of flame.

Statistics Canada says the country’s homicide rate fell last year to 1.44 victims for every 100,000 people, its lowest level since 1966. And the number of firearms-related homicides also fell, to the lowest level since statstics have been kept.

I’ve seen countless science fiction movies and documentaries about the future of humanity. Nothing I’ve ever seen is as inspiring and beautiful and realistic as this extraordinary short film by Erik Wernquist, narrated by Carl Sagan. Watch it and get ready for goosebumps.

As you head to your local Walmart today for America’s annual reenactment of The Hunger Games, here’s a reminder that sucker-punching someone to get the last $50 tablet might not be the wisest course of action. For several reasons.

Don’t panic, but there’s a good chance that, at some point during his life, the furry ball of chaos you love deeply is going to get himself hurt. Probably while doing something stupid. Luckily, performing first aid on your dog is as easy as doing it on a human. Here’s how to prepare.

I basically live in Google’s Chrome web browser. It’s a decision I made to save my sanity when it became part of my job to change laptops every few weeks. No need to back up files that way! But it made me wonder how well I could live with only Chrome–if I could replace my laptop with a Chromebook instead.

Recently, Google launched a new music service called YouTube Music Key. But wait, doesn’t Google already have a music service? Well, yes. And Music Key makes it better.

Holy mother of God, this has to be one of the craziest vehicle stunts I’ve ever seen: The Formula 1 team Lotus got one of their giant trailer trucks to jump over one of their race cars running at full speed. It is absolutely insane.

The restaurant chain says it plans to increase prices for both coffee and breakfast sandwiches at its Canadian locations starting next Wednesday.

Google’s new version of Android, Lollipop, is wonderful. And now, one of our very few niggles–that its smart unlocking features didn’t also react to location–is fixed.

Google Keep has become a modest alternative to Evernote for those looking to keep their entire workflow within the confines of Mountain View’s app

After what feels like a long time since we saw the L Preview first appear, Google is now rolling out the final version of Android 5.0 Lollipop to its existing Nexus devices, and it also appears on the brand new Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 gadgets. Get to know the best version of Android yet by working through this selection of tips and tricks, covering all of the new features, major and minor, that are built into the operating system.

The explosions caused by this malfunctioning fireworks launching mechanism were so big and the noise so deafening that they could make Michael Bay proud. Beware of your volume level.

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Much has been made of the arms race between Disney’s Marv…

In the weeks prior to the Philae landing, the Rosetta spacecraft maintained an orbit around Comet 67P/CG at less than six miles from its surface. The ESA has just released a collection of previously unpublished images taken by Rosetta’s navigation camera, revealing the varied and dramatic terrain of a mysterious world.

I never get tired of these videos in which someone is standing on wrong spot at the wrong time, yet survives a major crash against all odds. Like this Russian dude, who was standing on a road when some idiotic car driver decided to turn left while a truck was coming down the opposite lane at full speed.