Demi Lovato, Nick and Joe Jonas get together for mini 'Camp Rock' reunion

“Joe, why don’t you come out here,” Nick Jonas said on stage Tuesday night, successfully taking us all back to 2008.

Joe Jonas joined Demi Lovato and Nick at the Washington, D.C., stop of their Future Now tour, and treated the audience to a performance of “I Gotta Find You” and “This is Me” from the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock.

If we’re being honest with ourselves, this was the missing piece we all needed in our lives.

‘Stranger Things’ is full to bursting with references from ’80s films

Guy lip syncs his heart out while his unimpressed mom drives

Party on to Smash Mouth’s sick new EDM banger, ‘Love is a Soldier’

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Massive genome analysis suggests life began in hot springs

Features of how DNA, RNA, and proteins are built and metabolized are common to every living thing we’ve looked at, suggesting they were inherited through common descent. While life may have arisen more than once, it appears that only one lineage has survived down to the present day.

If you could trace living lineages back far enough, you’d arrive at an organism that’s the ancestor to every living thing: the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. This idea has naturally led to a lot of speculation about what LUCA might have looked like. In the latest effort to offer some informed opinion, scientists have performed a clever genomic analysis to identify some of the genes that were probably in LUCA. Those genes, in turn, allow us to infer something about how LUCA lived and what environments it inhabited.

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Various analyses have indicated that organisms with complex cells (eukaryotes) are a relatively recent development on Earth—assuming you’re willing to call something over two billion years old “recent.” Two other lineages, bacteria and archaea, go back much further. LUCA sits at the point where bacteria and archaea started to diverge. So if you can identify genes that have been inherited by both of these lineages, they probably were present in LUCA’s genome as well.

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Prisma to bring video editing in several weeks

Prisma is one of the most popular photo editing apps recently, using smart algorithms and powerful cloud processing to turn your photographs into various styles of art.
The tens of effects included for free with this app and the nice job that it does with images is certainly a factor in Prisma’s success, but the company developing it, will not settle with photography only.
Prisma is currently working on a new tool that would apply similar visual effects to short videos, according to Prisma co-founder Alexey Moiseenkov.
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Prisma to bring video editing in several weeks

T-Mobile added 646,000 net branded postpaid phone subscribers in Q2

T-Mobile reported its second quarter results on Wednesday morning, and the Un-carrier said that during the three month period it added 646,000 branded net postpaid phone customers. That compares to the 86,000 net postpaid phone subscribers that Verizon added to its rolls during the same quarter. For the 10th consecutive quarter, T-Mobile led its rivals in this important category.

Overall, T-Mobile had 890,000 total branded net postpaid additions and 1.9 million total net additions. For the nation’s third largest carrier, it was the 13th consecutive quarter with over 1 million total … – Source

T-Mobile added 646,000 net branded postpaid phone subscribers in Q2

This new Sony Xperia flagship smartphone could be announced on September 1 at IFA 2016

Sony this week confirmed that it will host a press conference on September 1 at IFA 2016 in Berlin. While the company doesn’t say what it’s going to announce then, we think that there’s a high chance for a new flagship to be unveiled on that day. And we may have already seen photos of this next generation flagship.

Currently known as Xperia F8331 (this is just a model number, of course), the upcoming Sony smartphone seems to have a revamped design: it doesn’t quite resemble the current Xperia X phones, and neither the latest Xperia Z models. According to rumors, the device’s front and rear … – Source

This new Sony Xperia flagship smartphone could be announced on September 1 at IFA 2016

YouTube is testing an improved comment UI in the Android app: likes, dislikes, reactions, and sorting

Open your eyes wide because a miracle is about to happen. You know how YouTube has long had some comment tools on its website to change the sorting order and like/dislike comments? Well, the Android app doesn’t have any of that. What you get is just a regular list of comments with the option to add your opinion to the mix and… nothing else really.

However, that might be about to change. Some users are seeing a new comment interface on the YouTube Android app with the cool features from the website.

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What to stream on Amazon in August

There are not too many new additions on Amazon in August but the available options are enough to satisfy the average binge watcher.

Check out what’s coming to the platform.

SEE ALSO: Amazon brings PBS Kids programming to Prime in push for younger viewers

Top Pick: The Kicks

Amazon is really amping up its kids programming, and this empowering show about a 12-year-old soccer player helps the streaming service bring its A-game.

Season 1 comes out Aug. 26.

Also coming to Amazon Prime in August

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House of Lies, Season 4 and 5 (8/23)

Movies

Inside Llewyn Davis (8/1)

A Clockwork Orange (8/1)

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Twitter reports slowest revenue growth since IPO

Twitter reported its slowest revenue growth since going public in 2013 and set a disappointing forecast, fanning concerns that faster growing social media services will make it a niche product. – Source

Twitter reports slowest revenue growth since IPO

Chinese museum decides not to evict stray cats after the internet complains

A museum in Xi’an, China, feeling the heat from the internet, has reversed its decision to kick out a litter of stray cats.

According to China Daily, the Forest of Stone Steles Museum came to the initial decision to evict the strays after a visitor complaint was filed on Wednesday, which involved a child that was scratched by a protective mother cat after he tried to play with its kittens.

The stray cats are reported to have made the museum their home, and are regularly featured in tourists’ photos.

SEE ALSO: Fluffy little rescue dog posing with food is our ideal Instagram account

Following the scratching incident, the museum quickly put up signs around the site warning visitors from playing with the cats. …

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Google Maps cleans up design and adds areas of interest

Google Maps is getting a new update to simplify and clean up the visual design a bit while also adding subtle clues to help you figure out what’s what when digging into a specific area. If all goes according to plan, points of interest should be easier to find when you’re traveling to a new city for work or vacation.
At the center of the redesign is a more specific color scheme – green and blue are for natural features like water and vegetation, red is a specific search result, grey is general ground area, and shades of orange and tan are various types of areas with heightened … – Source

Google Maps cleans up design and adds areas of interest

What's coming to (and expiring from) Netflix in August

There’s nothing that helps you cool down from a summer heat wave more than staying inside for a good ol’ binge-watching session.

Netflix has a lot of new — and a lot of old — shows and movies coming to its platform in August. Here’s a look at what’s landing (and expiring) on the streaming service this month.

Top Pick: The Get Down

Baz Luhrmann doing a TV show? Yes please. The drama, which centers around the early hip-hop scene in 1970s New York, is basically the musical TV show of our dreams.

Also coming to Netflix in August:

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Masha and the Bear, Season 2, Netflix original (8/1)

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Tinder-owner Match up slightly on earnings

Match Group reported earnings after the bell on Tuesday. The owner of datings sites including Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com reported $301 million in revenue for the second quarter, above analyst expectations of $297 million. Adjusted earnings per share was 17 cents. Shares rose roughly 2% on the news. “Q2 showed solid performance, with 23% Dating revenue growth, operating income of… Read More

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Dealmaster: Get a Dell Optiplex 9020 micro desktop for $632

Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a bunch of great deals to share this week. One of the biggest deals is on a very small item: now you can get a Dell Optiplex 9020 micro desktop with a Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive for just $632. Only slightly bigger than a soda can, this small desktop supports VESA mounting under a table or behind a monitor so you can hide it in your setup for a clean workplace look. The list price for that tiny PC is $799, so you’re saving nearly $200 with this deal.

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Brand new Peanut M&M's flavor is sure to delight caffeine lovers

Great ideas often start with coffee, and this is no exception.

Thanks to a 2015 campaign which allowed fans to choose their dream Peanut M&M flavor, Mars, Inc. is giving the beloved candy classic a twist by introducing a brand new Coffee Nut flavor.

SEE ALSO: More than 680 people are on the waiting list for these rosé gummy bears

Fans purchased and voted on the Peanut M&M varieties from March 1 to June 17, and on July 25 Veep actor, Tony Hale excitedly announced the results to his close personal friend, Yellow M&M.

Hale shared that the brilliant coffee nut flavor will officially be joining the original Peanut M&M’s. …

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