Thousands of taxpayers don't want to pay for Buckingham Palace renovation

LONDON — Home improvements come with a price tag. If that house happens to be Buckingham Palace, then the price tag is £369m.

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Last week the UK Treasury announced that taxpayers will be footing the bill for the 10-year refurbishment.

Naturally, not everyone is happy about it. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition to urge the royal family to pay for the palace’s refurbishments themselves.

The Royal Trustees — including the prime minister and chancellor — said that the works would be funded by a temporary increase in the Sovereign Grant — a publicly funded grant which pays for the expenses of running the Queen’s household. …

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Monsanto-owned The Climate Corporation acquires Estonia’s VitalFields

The Climate Corporation (owned by Monsanto) has acquired Estonia-based farm management startup VitalFields. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although we’re told the VitalFields team will be joining The Climate Corporation. Read More

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Monsanto-owned The Climate Corporation acquires Estonia’s VitalFields

Watch the Tesla Autopilot drive the car around the neighborhood on its own

Tesla has released a new video demonstrating its impressive Autopilot self-driving system, found on its Model S and Model X vehicles.

In the latest video, you see the Model S being driven around the neighborhood entirely by the Autopilot system. Although a person is present in the car, it is only for legal reasons as cars aren’t yet allowed to drive around on their own without a person present.

In the video you also see what the car sees through the output of its various cameras. We can see how it identifies various objects around the environment and marks them with different colors. It…

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Watch the Tesla Autopilot drive the car around the neighborhood on its own

'Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen' guy teams up with Elmo and Cookie Monster

You’d likely be familiar with the exploits of Japanese comedian and viral sensation Piko-Taro. He’s famous for his wildly confusing yet addictive song “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen” that blew up on the internet in September.

After months of chart success, you’d bet there are stars queuing up to work with him. None could be more well-suited than Elmo and the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street Japan, who teamed up with Piko-Taro for “CBCC” — a.k.a. Cookie-Butter-Choco-Cookie.

We still have no idea what is going on.

Crocodile casually makes off with another dead croc for dinner

Disney’s ‘Avatar’ theme park robots are as amazing as the film characters

Behold the most Australian reaction to a car crash ever

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100 Million Goddamn Trees Are Dead

California drought update: It’s still bad. How bad? According to the U.S. Forest Service, 102 million goddamn trees have now died in the state since 2010, including 62 million trees in this year alone.

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100 Million Goddamn Trees Are Dead

Disney's 'Avatar' theme park robots are as amazing as the film characters

Disney’s live-action amusement park experience called “Pandora: The World of Avatar,” which promises to deliver some of the magic of the Avatar film, was previewed on Sunday, and the sample is stunning.

The installation, which will be housed at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, includes characters from …

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Disney's 'Avatar' theme park robots are as amazing as the film characters

Sound guy leveled by Minnesota Vikings is a metaphor for 2016

2016 has been terrible, horrible, no-good and awful, but one poor Fox Sports audio guy gave his body so that we might have the ultimate metaphor for this horrendous year.

SEE ALSO: Cam Newton wants to make the NFL fun again, and it should let him

It all happened when Bernie Beaudry, a Fox Sports sound guy, tried to race past the Minnesota Vikings’ tunnel during the pre-game introductions but mistimed his route, colliding with getting destroyed by player Linval Joseph (who weighs in at around 330 lbs)

That is 2016 coming at you fast, world.

2016 in a nutshell https://t.co/bsMLrk4STg

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Best Apps and Games of the Week

Google PhotoScan

PhotoScan is a new application from Google that lets you scan your old photographs using the camera on your phone. The app automatically aligns the image and crops it neatly so you just get the photo and nothing else in the frame. You can further edit it in the application by applying filters or using the editing tools. Then you can choose to back them up to Google Photos for free.

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Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World

The new Fantastic Beasts game at its heart is a hidden-object cases. Regardless of the promises of mystery and…

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Americans are now fighting over where Melania and Barron Trump will live

Americans are now arguing about where incoming First Lady Melania Trump and First Kid Barron Trump will live, pushing stories of President-elect Donald Trump’s $25 million Trump University settlement and his controversial cabinet appointments further into the background.

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Americans are now fighting over where Melania and Barron Trump will live

Mike Pence tries to end the 'Hamilton' drama while Trump stokes the flames

The feud between the Broadway musical Hamilton and Vice President-elect Mike Pence is hopefully coming to a close.

According to Fox News Sunday, Pence claims that he was not offended when the cast of Hamilton delivered a statement to him after curtain call at a show he attended on Friday evening. The statement came after Pence was booed by the audience when he went to take his seat.

.@mike_pence: I really enjoyed watching Hamilton. It was a real joy to be there. I heard a few boos. I wasn’t offended by what was said.

— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) November 20, 2016

Tonight, VP-Elect Mike Pence attended #HamiltonBway. After the show, @BrandonVDixon delivered the following statement on behalf of the showpic.twitter.com/Jsg9Q1pMZs

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Mike Pence tries to end the 'Hamilton' drama while Trump stokes the flames