It’s that time of year. The time of year when the world falls in love, like the song goes, and when the tech giants start rolling out the year-end lists comprised of all the weird, oddball things we all searched and asked for this year.

This leads to interesting revelations, like the fact that ‘World Cup’ was the most-searched phrase via Google Search worldwide this year, as we told you a few days ago. And now it’s time to take a peek at the extremely weird questions many of you were asking Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa this year.

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Almost 130,000 people asked Alexa to explain what ‘Fortnite’ is in 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 21:03:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Plants are very good at producing oxygen that we all need in order to breath, but what about clearing the air of harmful chemicals? Past research has revealed that plants do a bit of housekeeping when it comes to cleaning the air of certain compounds but researchers wondered if they could help boost that function with a genetic tweak.

In new research published in Environmental Science & Technology, researchers explain how they were able to give a common house plant more power to clean the air around it, and it’s all thanks to DNA from a mammal.

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Scientists added rabbit DNA to a houseplant, and now it’s an air purifier originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 20:39:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whether you’re a full-time editor or a complete amateur, one of the most frustrating, tedious parts of editing photos is removing the background. Even if you have professional software like Photoshop or Corel PaintShop Pro, cutting out a subject can be a painstaking process, which is why you’re going to want to bookmark Remove.bg.

As the name suggests, Remove.bg is a free online service that uses artificial intelligence to detect the foreground of a photo and separate it from the background. All you have to do is upload a photo, wait a few seconds, and the site will produce a new version of the original image without the background. You don’t even have to download the image to your device first — you can just input the URL instead, and the result is the same.

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This site automatically removes the background of any image in 5 seconds flat originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 20:08:57 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars a few weeks ago and the team of engineers and scientists handling the robot are in the midst of preparing for its very first science activity on the planet. In a new blog post, NASA explains exactly how it tests the maneuvers that InSight will perform before actually sending those commands to Mars.

One of the coolest tools NASA has constructed in preparation for the mission is a full scale replica of the InSight’s landing sight, complete with a fully functional model of the robot itself. Before any commands are issued to the InSight lander those same commands are sent to the model in order to see how things will play out.

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NASA is reconstructing the InSight lander site here on Earth originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 19:37:05 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A number of iPad Pro owners have taken to social media as well to MacRumors forums to complain about a physical flaw they’ve seen develop with their iPad Pros. It’s a small bend — not a dramatic one, by any means, but enough to let the average user see it and realize it’s not right.

So MacRumors went ahead and wrote up a post this afternoon with straightforward headline, after getting confirmation from Apple that these bends are indeed a thing but also nothing to worry because Apple doesn’t consider them a defect. “Apple Says Some 2018 iPad Pros Ship Bent,” MacRumors announced, “But It’s Normal and Not a Defect.” Which, of course, did not go over well with commenters. To put it mildly.

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Why is Apple allowing iPad Pros to leave the factory with a slight bend? originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 19:14:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Galaxy S10 won’t launch for another two months if recent reports are to be believed, and Samsung will not reveal any details about the flagship phone until the comapny’s next Unpacked press conference.

But we already know plenty of things about the handset thanks to an increasing number of leaks, as well as Samsung’s various moves. The company already unveiled smartphone features we expect to see on the Galaxy S10 on new mid-range devices. On top of that, Samsung filed new trademarks that tease exciting Galaxy S10 features.

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New leak teases exciting new camera features for the Galaxy S10 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 19:06:25 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apps available for download in Google’s Play Store marketplace frequently expose kids to content that’s inappropriate and even trick some youngsters into unwittingly making in-app purchases. That’s according to a complaint that a collection of consumer and privacy advocates has filed today with the FTC.

The complaint calls for the FTC to “investigate whether Google is misrepresenting to parents that the apps in the Family section of the Play Store are child-appropriate when they are not, in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act.”

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Consumer advocates file FTC complaint over Google Play Store marketing to kids originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 18:35:09 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In addition to Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk founded The Boring Company, which is looking into ways to make public transportation faster than it currently is. Just recently, The Boring Company finished its 1.14-mile test tunnel in Hawthorne, so Musk invited folks from the media to test out the tunnel in a Tesla Model X.

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What it feels like to drive a Tesla Model X inside Elon Musk’s loop tunnels originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 17:52:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a bizarre story that seems to fit the Tesla brand to a tee, a Model S reportedly caught fire after being towed to a parking lot of a tire repair shop. Curiously, the Tesla in question was not involved in a collision before the fact, and was simply being taken in to replace a flat tire. This begs the question: how in the world did it catch on fire in the first place?

While that question remains unanswered for the time being, NBC Bay Area provides us with a few more details surrounding this incredibly peculiar story.

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Video: A Tesla Model S randomly caught fire in a parking lot for no explicable reason originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 17:29:24 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Carell has been making the rounds doing press for his new movie that opens this weekend, Welcome to Marwen, which is about a nice guy who gets savagely attacked so badly that it erases his memories. As part of sitting for interviews about the movie, though, Carell has also had to deal with the modern entertainment version of those reporters who always used to ask The Beatles when they’d be getting back together.

In Carell’s case, it’s whether he’d ever consider returning to Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the office of the beloved paper company depicted in NBC’s hit series The Office. Sorry, though, folks — Carell just gave an interview explaining why that’s absolutely out of the question, as far as he’s concerned.

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Steve Carell just confirmed he’s never returning to ‘The Office’ as Michael Scott originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 17:06:32 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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