doggo Gus the Weimaraner is a precious piccolo playing pooch Jennifer Sandlin

books The fan fiction that rewrote Harry Potter as an evangelical tract Ellsworth Toohey

music Anthony Hopkins releases first album at 88 Rob Beschizza

gadgets Sony updates its decade-old RX10 superzoom Rob Beschizza

movies The first trailer for Buddy isn't, you know, for kids Séamus Bellamy

History A plane vanished in 1947 after sending "stendec" in Morse Code Ellsworth Toohey

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

Games XBox announces layoffs Rob Beschizza

Games The age of physical games begins to come to a close as PlayStation discontinues discs Grant St. Clair

gadgets Mass layoffs expected at Xbox, as prices go up Rob Beschizza

Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land Jason Weisberger

Sea Squirts Man accused of stealing Sea Scouts' boat probably doesn't get his old boat back Jason Weisberger

AI Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August Grant St. Clair

Technology The $999.99 iPhone app that did absolutely nothing sold 8 copies before Apple killed it Ellsworth Toohey

Science A cat-borne fungus infected 11,000 people; the US is next, CDC says Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It's still empty. Ellsworth Toohey

politics "Donald Dump" depicts Trump with sludge oozing out of his mouth Jennifer Sandlin

Science In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight Ellsworth Toohey

Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling