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Skull Island: Meet 'Biggest' King Kong Ever in Photo

July 22, 2016 4:32 PM EDT The first official poster for Kong: Skull Island was released Friday, giving fans a glimpse at the ape that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has called the “biggest” King Kong ever. The image was revealed as a lead-up to Saturday’s Warner Bros. panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which will feature discussion about the upcoming film. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Vogt-Roberts spoke about the scale of Skull Island, referencing a promotional image showing stars Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson standing in a gigantic boneyard.

Sujimoto@40: The true test of friendship

Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. One of the questions the king of Dubai - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum asked me in 2015 was ‘What’s the quality of your network?’ I didn’t know how to answer that question then, because I haven’t really given it a thought but I told him about my vision and dream to redefine luxury living in Nigeria and I remember he said to me: “If you want to grow faster, build a quality network.

Taking Just 4,000 Steps a Day Improves Your Health

Walking just 4,000 steps per day—less than half of the 10,000 steps often recommended for maintaining an active lifestyle—may be enough to help extend your life, according to a new research review published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. That takeaway shouldn’t dissuade anyone from taking a longer stroll; the researchers found that more movement is better, with each additional 1,000 steps per day associated with a roughly 15% lower risk of premature death.

The John Oliver Effect: The HBO Host's Real-World Impact

Comedians mock our cultural and political institutions on TV all the time. But it’s not every day that a comic’s jokes crash a government website or directly inspire legislators to push for new laws. John Oliver, host of HBO comedy news program Last Week Tonight, is quickly building up that level of cultural cachet. While his forebears and former colleagues Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart spend as much time lampooning the news media covering world events as they do analyzing events themselves, Oliver’s show stands out for its investigations into topics as varied as the militarization of the police state, Net neutrality and Argentina’s debt crisis.

The Smallest Chip Ever | TIME

IBM’s 2-nanometer (nm) chip technology puts 50 billion transistors, each the size of roughly five atoms, on a space no bigger than your fingernail. The landmark technology—the smallest, most powerful microchip ever developed—could quadruple the life of cell-phone batteries and slash the carbon footprint of data centers, among other things. Now the manufacturing competition is on. Samsung and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have announced plans to produce the chip by 2025, and in August, the U.