The answer to the first question of a Q&A during Mr. Robot's highly anticipated Comic-Con panel Thursday evening summed up the entire event. Asking the pressing question of Summer 2016, a fan wondered who among the cast plays Pokémon Go.
After audience laughter and cheers, Carly Chaikin replied, "From a Mr. Robot perspective, do you guys know what kind of access you're handing over when you play that game?"
It was a lighthearted remark with a serious undertone, and that set the tone for the whole panel.
While there were unfortunately precious few details given out about the rest of the forthcoming season (although Rami Malek did note that there is a "mesmerizing" hack coming that was filmed as one long take), cast members Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Chaikin and new Season 2 addition Grace Gummer all shared their opinions on why Mr. Robot has become a breakout — and Emmy-nominated — hit for USA Network. Read more...
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Search efforts for the three men killed in the Didcot power station collapse resumed today when the remainder of the building was demolished.
Demolition workers Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham, South Yorkshire and Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, were trapped under 20,000 tonnes of rubble when the structure unexpectedly crumbled on February 23.
Four people died in the disaster, but only one body, that of Mick Collings, 53, has been recovered so far. It is still unknown what the causes of the tragedy were.
A remote demolition brought down the remainder of the decommissioned site shortly before 6am, in a unique operation that will make use of 10 remote-controlled robots.
The building - which was due for demolition when it partially collapsed - was too unstable to be approached and a 50-metre exclusion zone was set up around what is left of the building.
The 11 plastic explosives attached to the structure were detonated and, once, the site is considered safe, teams will be deployed to resume searching the remnants of the plant for the first time since May.
Roland Alford, who is the explosives contractor at the power station, said the four-month delay in completing the demolition was necessary on safety grounds.
He told the Press Association on Saturday: “There has been quite a lot of criticism about delays, questioning why it has taken so long to get to this point, but the fact is nothing like this has ever been attempted before and this is not a simple demolition.
“We have been working on it night and day since March and built up quite a sizeable team of very expert people to work on this, to come up with the charges, the methods of doing it and training.”
He added: “It was almost unthinkable to send people to work underneath there and place charges, given the fact the building could come down at any moment - you legally can't justify that.”
Robots of a variety of sizes will carry out some of the work deemed to be too unsafe for humans, a number of which can be controlled remotely using a sophisticated camera set up.
Roads and trains will be halted in the surrounding area while the demolition takes place.
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Thousands of people have been filmed descending on New York's Central Park to catch a rare Pokemon on Pokemon Go.
Crowds involved in the mobile gaming craze rushed into the park on Thursday night, after a rare ‘Vaporeon' character appeared in the area.
An onlooker filmed the mass movement in amazement and laughed as people walked past holding their phones in the air searching for the digital creature.
“Look at this! There's a Vaporean that's fallen right there so everyone's running... Oh my God,” the filmer said.
The craze, an augmented reality game which has exploded in popularity, uses the phone's GPS location data to allow players to roam the real world and catch virtual monsters.
A video from showed players swarming another park recently after a wild ‘Charizard' appeared there.
Two Pokemon Go players were apparently so engrossed in the game on Wednesday that they walked off a cliff in San Diego.
Elsewhere, four teenagers had to be rescued after getting lost in a mine complex for about six hours while hunting for creatures.
The boys, thought to be aged around 14 or 15, were only saved when they eventually managed to contact Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue from the bottom of a 100ft ventilation shaft at Box Mine, in Wiltshire.
Meanwhile fans of the gaming phenomenon were in despair on Saturday when its servers appeared to have crashed.
On Saturday afternoon, fans posted on social media about how the server was down, the Press Association reported.
Twitter user @Drxpdead_curtis wrote: “The Pokemon go servers are down again what is this hell.”
@TomBMax19 wrote: “when the british summer weather is actually perfect for once and its the weekend and you're ready to catch pokemon and the servers are down.”
@gonzorobotics wrote: “i just went on a pokemon hunt but the login servers were down the whole time so i just got a bunch of fresh air and exercise for NOTHING god”.
@vivthediv tweeted: “Headed into central London to catch some cool Pokemon. App doesn't work. Sat in borough market wondering what to do now.”
Pokemon Go has sparked controversy since its launch in the UK on Thursday.
Three students were robbed at knifepoint of their mobile phones while playing the game in Hulme, Manchester, on Friday night just hours after Greater Manchester Police (GMP) warned of the dangers of using the app.
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There's also an entirely engaging story happening here: a group of four friends, all nerdy boys of the Dungeons & Dragons varietal, is hurled into a supernatural mystery when one of them, kind and thoughtful Will (Noah Schnapp), goes missing. This frightening event coincides with some sort of incident at a nearby military-research facility, a looming, ominous presence that the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana, doesn't seem all that aware of. Will's mother, played with convincing fire by none other than Winona Ryder, begins a mad hunt for her son, while his friends, led by Finn Wolfhard's (what a name!) Mike, embark on their own quest. Mike's sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), also gets involved, teen romance swirling around winningly with teen terror, as does the local sheriff, a shambly guy with a tragic backstory played with perfect underdog heroism by the great David Harbour.- Stranger Things: The Excellent Netflix Show That's Going to Take Over Your Weekend [GQ]
Stranger Things is a show so '80s, it's almost tempting to make fun of it. Created with nostalgic affection by Matt and Ross Duffer, it looks like Spielberg, sounds like John Carpenter, and smells a bit like Stephen King. It feels like a scary story told over a campfire, about a thing that happened to a friend of a friend a long time ago, about what really goes on in that mysterious building at the edge of town no one knows anything about, and what might happen there late at night. Altogether, it's pretty wonderful.- Winona Ryder's Guide To New Netflix Show 'Stranger Things' [NME]
1. I play Joyce Buyers.
2. I'm not a parent.
3. I was trying to look as unglamorous as possible.
4. Stranger Things is set in a small town.