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Light the candles, word nerds: It's lexicographer Samuel Johnson's 308th birthday. In celebration, Monday's Google Doodle honors Johnson, known best as writer of A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755. Image: google According to Humanities, Johnson was not the first lexicographer, nor the first to record definitions, but he was the first to craft a dictionary that sought to standardize the English language— to create a set of rules to which writers and speakers could adhere. SEE ALSO: Google honors 'Mr. Trololo' Eduard Khil with his own lovely doodle video And, as the Encyclopædia Brittanica notes, his dictionary is remembered for the detail and clarity of its definitions in comparison to previous attempts from other writers. Read more... More about Watercooler, Culture, Culture, and Web CultureView the full article

PARTYNEXTDOOR is back again, with a free offering for "Own Up to Your Shit." https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/partynextdoor-wants-you-to-own-up-to-your-shit-on-free-song-new-song.1975713.htmlView the full article

Check out footage from Kyrie's appearance on First Take. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kyrie-irving-doesnt-care-if-lebron-took-trade-request-personally-news.37387.htmlView the full article

Islands known for their idyllic beach resorts have been reduced to rubble so far this hurricane season, after Hurricane Irma tore across the northern Leeward Islands and into the Caribbean earlier this month. Now a new storm is menacing the same region: Hurricane Maria. This new storm rapidly intensified on Monday morning, and and was upgraded to a Category 3 storm at 11 a.m. ET. The storm will impact some of the same islands hit hard by Irma, including Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, Martinique, and Montserrat, for example. SEE ALSO: What it's like to live through a Category 5 hurricane, as told by residents of a tiny island Read more... More about Climate, Science, Extreme Weather, Virgin Islands, and Puerto RicoView the full article

The night after Aaron and Bryce Dessner joined Justin Vernon during his own concert View the full article

Post Malone and 21 Savage's new collab "Rockstar" rakes in by far the most views of the week. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/top-tracks-post-malone-and-21-savage-score-big-with-new-single-news.37383.htmlView the full article

Kevin Hart said he was staying out of trouble. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kevin-hart-swore-off-atlanta-strip-clubs-because-hes-a-married-man-news.37386.htmlView the full article

Netflix’s The Punisher is coming to the streaming service later this year, starring Jon Bernthal in the title role reprising his role from Daredevil. The latest Marvel/Netflix team-up focuses not on the traditional hero, but on an anti-hero with a serious axe to grind. In a new teaser, we see via simulated found footage that this brooding justice-seeker isn’t afraid to shed some… Read More View the full article

The former Girls frontman’s new group is also touring California View the full article

Check out Travis Scott's new Nike collab. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/travis-scott-debuts-cactus-jack-nike-air-force-1-collab-news.37385.htmlView the full article

Each year, TechCrunch selects early-stage startups from a pool of thousands across the globe, and selects the top innovators to compete in Startup Battlefield. Over the next three days at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, a select few will vie for $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Our founders are using VR for precision spinal surgery and emotional recognition. They are using biotech for… Read More View the full article

Waymo has made a point of going in-house for the core technology of its self-driving system, which is something it has talked about specifically around its sensor suite in the past. The company revealed today that it also built its own compute hardware for sensor fusion and autonomous decision-making, pathfinding and more – and it’s working with Intel for the chips that power… Read More View the full article

Google launched “Startup with Google” today, a new site that brings together all the company’s resources for founders and their startups. As the name implies, the focus here is on Google’s own tools, services and initiatives (think everything from Firebase and Android Studio to Analytics and Google’s various cloud security tools), but the site also highlights… Read More View the full article

As computer vision and object recognition technology continue to mature, we’re edging closer to automating away the exceedingly boring task of monitoring closed circuit TV cameras. Matroid is one of the startups leading the democratization of this variety of machine intelligence. The company is announcing a $10 million Series A this morning from NEA and Intel Capital that brings… Read More View the full article

After the death of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington in July, the band will come together for a one-night tribute performance on Oct. 27. Proceeds from the concert will go to the One More Light Fund in Bennington's honor. SEE ALSO: Two new tributes to Chester Bennington show how much he meant to the world In addition to the concert announcement, Linkin Park released a video for "One More Light," off their most recent album of the same name. The video was directed by band member Joe Hahn and put together by videographer Mark Fiore. It's an emotional compilation, with clips of Bennington performing to adoring fans around the world and behind the scenes with his band mates over the years. Read more... More about Entertainment, Music, Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, and Entertainment View the full article

Why is it that the moment you need a pen, it's nigh-on impossible to find one. Behold, an ingenious solution to your pen-hunting woes: pen nails. Or, in layman's terms, false nails with tiny pens attached to them. SEE ALSO: 'Hair nails' are the latest trend we hope won't grow on you Instagram nail artist @TonysNail is the genius behind the nail-art-meets-stationery-supplies. And, what a practical person you are, Tony. Pen nails are basically falsies adorned with lots of tiny gems with the added bonus of a pen nib and a spring mechanism. You will never lose your pen again ?✒ A post shared by Tony's Nails (@tonysnail) on Sep 7, 2017 at 6:24pm PDTRead more... More about Watercooler, Instagram, Beauty, Nail Art, and Beauty TrendView the full article

Ford and Indian automaker and mobility company Mahindra Group have entered into a new agreement to explore a potential strategic partnership focused on a number of different areas, including mobility, electrifications, connected vehicles and transportation infrastructure and more. Ford and Mahindra’s initial cooperation period extends for three years, during which time the general idea is… Read More View the full article

Sex may sell, but it hasn't tended to win Oscars in recent years. There are exceptions, course – your Carols, your Anomalisas. More often, though, sex in awards pictures tends to be small and subtle, if it exists at all. SEE ALSO: Fall movie preview: What to watch if the Oscars are your Super Bowl Think, for instance, of that tentative beachside encounter in this year's Best Picture winner, Moonlight. Or the lack of any sex at all in this year's other frontrunner, La La Land – despite the fact that La La Land was all about the love between two extremely attractive adults. But this year could be different, or at least it looks that way from Toronto. If the fall festivals mark the start of awards campaigning, the reviews out of this year's circuit suggest that we could be in for an unusually steamy race. Read more... More about Movies, Tiff, Call Me By Your Name, The Shape Of Water, and Professor Marston And The Wonder Women View the full article

Buckle up, folks! It’s going to be one helluva week. Disrupt SF is about to kick off at 9 a.m., and for those of you who didn’t make it out to Pier 48, we’re bringing the show to you. Today, we’ll be sitting down with some of the greatest minds in tech, including Google’s Heather Adkins, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin in conversation with Naval Ravikant,… Read More View the full article

Frank Castle is coming for you – yes, you! Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on whether you're a fictional baddie existing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or a real-life Marvel fan who lives in our universe. SEE ALSO: 'The Punisher' drops first look teaser trailer during 'The Defenders' credits In a new teaser for The Punisher, Frank (Jon Bernthal) makes his way through a forest, creeping up on soldiers and taking them down with ease. The Punisher is the sixth of Netflix's Marvel dramas (after Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders). This incarnation of the character first appeared in Daredevil season 2, but – unlike most of the important characters in the Netflix Marvel shows – sat out The Defenders. Read more... More about Tv, Jon Bernthal, The Punisher, Entertainment, and Movies Tv ShowsView the full article

Facial recognition was perhaps the most talked-about feature of the new iPhone, but the folks at Huawei aren't impressed. The company laughed at Apple in a Facebook video that served as a reminder that Huawei, too, has a new phone coming. SEE ALSO: Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 might copy a feature the iPhone's had since 2015 In the video, Huawei dubs their new device #TheRealAIPhone. "Let's face it, facial recognition isn't for everyone," the company's Facebook message says. Huawei launches the Mate 10 in October, so I suppose we'll then see how much it lives up to the video's promise. WATCH: The internet thinks Arya Stark could bust iPhone's Face ID wide open Read more... More about Tech, Tech, and Big Tech Companies View the full article

We already knew that Americans weren't the only ones to be rightly concerned about the Equifax hack, but the latest statement from the company's UK branch is quite something. SEE ALSO: This chatbot could help you sue Equifax Equifax Ltd has confirmed to Mashable that a file containing personal data of "fewer than 400,000 UK consumers" was stolen in the 7 September breach. That happened because of a "process failure" — or an epic fail as we normal humans say — which saw UK data being stored in the U.S. for a good 5 years, between 2011 and 2016. It was only corrected last year. The information included the customers' name, date of birth, email address, and a telephone number, according to Equifax, which added that the data "does not include any residential address information, password information or financial data." Read more... More about Uk, Equifax, Business, and Big Tech CompaniesView the full article

Facebook founder and all-around bossman Mark Zuckerberg was apparently so eager to get Facebook accessible in China, where it has been blocked since 2009, that he tried to chat up Chinese president Xi Jinping on baby names. SEE ALSO: Facebook let advertisers buy ads targeting 'Jew haters' The little tidbit on Zuck's thirst for global domination comes from a thorough look in the New York Times at how the social media platform is trying to maneuver a world filled with a variety of government regulations and crackdowns. According to the Times: Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have two daughters, Maxima and Augusta. And in 2016, Zuck and Chan (who is the daughter of ethnic Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam) posted a video on Zuck's Facebook page for the Lunar New Year in which the couple spoke in Mandarin and discussed Max's Chinese name, Chen Mingyu. Read more... More about Facebook, China, Mark Zuckerberg, Xi Jinping, and Business View the full article

Snoop Dogg stands with Jemele Hill. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/jemele-hill-supported-by-snoop-dogg-in-anti-trump-video-message-news.37384.htmlView the full article

They pay tribute to their late frontman in new “One More Light” video View the full article