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The Sunlight Foundation and The University of Chicago’s Center for Data Science and Public Policy showcased three tools that can be used to sift through open government data at a SXSW panel: Open States, which tracks bills and voting records for legislators in all 50 states; the Legislative Influence Detector (LID), which checks how much of a bill has been plagiarized from another source; and DSSG’s Earmarks Tracker, which is a series of scripts that searches through congressional texts.

New leaked photos from the set of 'Star Wars: Episode 8' is giving us nightmare flashbacks from the 'Attack of the Clones' days.

The SXSW premiere of a new documentary about the making of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' shares some emotional moments from the first table read and new details about the Resistance base planet.

While Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, the founders of Yik Yak, didn’t reveal the inspiration behind their yak-based marketing scheme, they did touch on a couple issues the anonymity-driven, localized social media network is facing during a SXSW panel.

'In A Valley of Violence' is the new western by Ti West, who doesn't understand how to subvert the genre as he does horror. Check out our review from the SXSW 2016 premiere.

The director of Disney's upcoming remake of 'Pete's Dragon' started in the indie world. At SxSW 2016 fellow indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski tried to get him to say something bad about working for Disney.

The new horror movie 'Don't Breathe' screened at SXSW 2016. It reminded us of one of the best monsters from 'Resident Evil 4.'

'Another Evil' screened at SXSW 2016. It's likely to be the most unique and fascinating horror-comedy of 2016. Check out our review.

'The Greasy Strangler' is disgusting, but so are you, you filth. Check out our review from SXSW 2016.

Jeff Cuellar, the vice president of strategic partnerships at AC Entertainment, works for the organizer behind Bonnaroo. Cuellar spoke about how music festivals can use data at a SXSW panel alongside Drew Burchfield, the founder of Aloompa, a company that creates apps for festivals, and Creighton Burke, the vice president of insights and planning at AEG Live, the organizer for festivals such as Coachella and Panorama.

We visited the American Genre Film Archive to see the trashiest movies get star treatment from film archivists.

Movie poster collecting is bigger than ever. We spoke with the two main poles of the modern collector's market, eMoviePoster and Mondo, who represent both the vintage and the new original art movement.

At SXSW 2016 President Obama defended the role of government to the tech sector.

Representing the publishing industry at SXSW Friday, Forbes Chief Production Officer Lewis Dvorkin said the advertising industry needs to create better ads to stop the ad blocking user revolt. Forbes recently instituted a splash page on its website that stops users with ad blockers installed from accessing its content.

A new Mondo gallery show in Austin, Texas highlights the movies of Richard Linklater with brand new posters.

Chewbacca will return in 'Star Wars: Episode 8' and the upcoming, untitled Han Solo movie.

The 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 trailer has finally arrived and it's loaded with spoilers for upcoming GRRM book 'The Winds of Winter.'

Snapchat's March 2016 update arrived today and besides bringing a terrible font, no one is quite sure what it's supposed to do. Was anything new added to the latest update?

Bran and the Night's King will meet in 'Game of Thrones' Season 6, forever changing the nature of the conflict between the living and the dead.

The 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 trailer is finally here and amazing.

'Rick and Morty' co-creator Justin Roiland is teaming up with VR developers for a secret project.

Lady Gaga's acting bug will see her continue to star on "American Horror Story."