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What a year it's been for the royal family! 

While 2018 has been a mean old year for us mere mortals, those whose blood runs blue have had a festive year with not one but two weddings and some pretty major announcements. 

Now that the year is coming to an end, it's time to look back at the most memorable royal family moments from 2018. 

1. *The* wedding 

Two different royals may have tied the knot in 2018, but the first wedding of the year was also the most spectacular. 

The whole world (or at least 29 million people, per Nielsen figures) watched Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle tie the knot in St George’s Chapel on May 19th. Not only was the ceremony quite the showstopper, the guest list was out. of. this. world. In attendance was the Queen of England *AND* the Queen of the Universe, Oprah.  Read more...

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Getting in shape? Eating healthier? Psh. As 2019 rounds the bend, make a New Year's resolution you can actually stick to — like giving your home a much-needed makeover. 

We weren't able to track down Ty Pennington on your behalf, unfortunately, but we've done the next best thing: rounded up a list of 11 awesome, on-sale products that make it easy to revitalize one's space. Plus, you can combine them with another popular New Year's resolution — saving money — by entering the code NEWYEAR2019 at checkout and score an additional 19% off.

1. 6-Piece Bibb Home Cotton Towel Set 

Bring the luxury of a spa to your bathroom with these ultra-soft, ultra-absorbable, and ultra-durable two-ply cotton towels. Each set comes with two bath towels, two hand towels, and two washcloths, and comes in your choice of three shades: silver, coral, and white. Read more...

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Britain may have been a wildly chaotic place in 2018 (you know, that whole Brexit thing) but that hasn't stopped us tweeting.

Quite the opposite. British Twitter is generally a glorious place filled with puns, sarcasm, and the kind of amusing day-to-day observations capable of bringing surprising levels of joy — and 2018 was no exception.

From kebab shop photoshoots to creative delivery methods, here are some of the most amusing British tweets of the year...

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With its myriad of decisions and endings, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch certainly looked like a hell of a film (or game?) to put together.

So much so that in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, producer Annabel Jones confirmed that Season 5 of the Netflix series would be delayed, with an arrival set for sometime in 2019.

It's due in part to the "enormous" creative time that the film took, and Jones herself had "forgotten" how many endings there are in Bandersnatch, although the widely distributed number is five. 

The show's creator Charlie Brooker said there are definitely more endings though, where the unwieldy, wild nature of the choose-your-own-adventure story apparently has parts that are very difficult to reach, and may never be accessed. Read more...

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A suspected malware attack affected major U.S. newspapers over the weekend.

In what was initially thought to be a server outage, the attack delayed distribution of Saturday's Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, according to the Times. 

On Saturday afternoon, the company suspected that the attack had originated from outside of the U.S., but didn't reveal any further detail about its origins or what evidence led to the belief it came from overseas.

"We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information," a source told the Times. Read more...

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Predictions of the future are rarely accurate, but Microsoft's vision of what its technology would look it 2019 would be like is pretty off the mark.

The promotional video originally launched in 2009 was unearthed on reddit recently, where translucent, ultra-thin screens and interactive newspapers, slick (albeit dated looking) graphics are part of everyday life.

There are handful of things in the video that have become reality, not necessarily all by Microsoft though, like the foldable phone, augmented reality, gesture controls, but these technologies aren't as slick as the tech giant envisaged them to be by now. Read more...

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Imagine waking up fresh after this medium-level bin fire of a year, with no knowledge whatsoever of everything that went down.

That's the privilege of this offensively cute baby penguin, a newborn addition to the Cincinnati Zoo.

First reported by NBC affiliate WLWT, the zoo posted a delightful photo to Facebook of the adorable one-day-old chick, and we're pretty jealous of its fresh perspective on things.

"1 day old little penguin. Welcome to the world little one," read the caption on Saturday.

The zoo has not yet announced what type of penguin the chick is, its gender or name. By Sunday, it was making infuriatingly cute chirps, at two days old.  Read more...

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