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The leaves are turning, and you've switched to pumpkin spice lattes. The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians are in the World Series, which surely means humanity's days are numbered. All of which is to say: Winter is coming, but the anticipation of new gear warms the heart. Microsoft deploys its best and brightest to announce new things on Wednesday! If the rumors are correct, we'll see an all-in-one touchscreen machine called the Surface PC, which could be an important tool for creating 3-D HoloLens applications. We also expect an update to Windows 10, and perhaps a Cortana-based competitor to in-home voice assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home.

While plenty of movies and TV shows have made it onto various Internet "Best of" lists, not many can claim to have made a list curated by a president. Now films like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope" can add that honor to their list of commendations. Somehow between his day job as POTUS and campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama found time to guest-edit the November issue of Wired. Among his editing duties was listing off his essential genre films and television shows, and no real surprise here, a lot of sci-fi greatest hits made the list. But that's OK, Obama's still got plenty of nerd cred to go around.