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The Weekly Forekast is a digest of the best things happening each week. You can sign up here to get these summaries straight to your inbox!       

                                                September 19 - 25

140 Meaningful Characters - Like Tweeting? Starting today, none of your 140 characters will go towards inane stuff like @mentions, links, and pictures. Now you can finally say what you mean. (-4)

R! - While you’re writing that tweet, consider giving it a bit of flair. Specifically of the swashbuckling variety. That’s right, today is ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ you scurvy dogs! Set Reminder

D’OH! - While you’re talking like a pirate, might as well use it to your advantage. Get this: A DOZEN FREE KRISPY KREME donuts can be yours if you use the pirate filter on Snapchat and show the staff there. Today only. Don’t say we never kind of got you something. Set Reminder

Highway Robot Takeover - Tesla ‘Autopilot’ will be updated to 8.0 this week barring any setbacks. The claim is that it is 3X safer than other cars on the road. Save us from traffic, Elon. Set Reminder

MacOS - Sierra is releasing. It’s main new feature is the inclusion of Siri. She’s learned some new tricks! Set Reminder

Fall TV - Some cool TV is back including Brooklyn Nine Nine and Agents of Shield.

US National Parks - For a good number of us the weather is just starting to become bearable, so why not take advantage of it by visiting your favorite National Park since entrance to all of them is free this Saturday! Set Reminder

The Weekly Forekast is a digest of the best things happening each week. You can sign up here to get these summaries straight to your inbox!

                                                September 12 - 18

This week will see the release of the iPhone 7, Apple Watch series 2, iOS 10, and WatchOS 3. They introduce quite a few new features and refinements.

Tomorrow is Positive Thinking Day. Which should be pretty easy considering it’ll just be a few days until Guacamole Day.

Amazon’s Echo will finally make it’s way to the United Kingdom this week. Let’s hope it sounds like Alfred. Set Reminder

There will be a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse this Friday.  Get your eyeballs ready. Set Reminder

Wanna see Edward Snowden, the Blair Witch, and Bridget Jone’s Baby duke it out in a battle royale? Well, they’ll be doing just that in the box-office this week.

In a bid to increase it’s user base numbers, Twitter secured the rights to a number of Thursday Night games, and the first one will be broadcast on the service this week! Set Reminder

It’s your last chance to back the ‘Slow Dance’ picture frame on kickstarter! It uses an optical illusion to make it look as though the object you place in it is moving in slow motion (or even in two places at the same time)! Set Reminder

Saturday is the official DC Comics Batman Day! They even suggest a number of Batman-y things you can do on their website. Set Reminder

The Emmys are on Sunday, and it’s gonna be a tough one with the number of amazing TV series these days. Set Reminder

The Weekly Forekast is a digest of the best things happening each week. You can sign up here to get these summaries straight to your inbox!

                                                 September 5 - 11

OSIRIS-REx Atlas V Rocket Launch - This is the first U.S. spacecraft that will travel to a near-Earth asteroid and bring back a small sample to Earth for study.  Be sure to check out our newsletter in 2023 when the spacecraft returns! Set Reminder

Apple Keynote Live - This Wednesday, Apple will be livestreaming their annual fall event and is expected to announce new versions of the iPhone, Apple Watch, Beats products, and maybe some surprises.  Set Reminder

Sony PlayStation Event - Sony is expected to finally provide some details about their slimmed down version of the PS4, a next-gen console called “Neo”, as well as some VR news. Set Reminder

NFL Regular Season Begins - We did it everyone!  We made it through another NFL off-season.  No more small talk with your friends, we can now discuss important issues like, “Is Joe Flacco an Elite Quarterback?” Set Reminder  

Lots of Product Releases - Find all of the products getting released this week here.  For all you photography fans, the Canon 5D Mark IV and the Fujifilm X-T2 will be released this Thursday.

Free Frappe at Dairy Queen - Say so long sweet summer this Tuesday while drinking a free Ultimate OREO Frappe.  This cool drink is an delicious blend of everything that you love and hold dear. Set Reminder

The Weekly Forekast is a digest of the best things happening each week. You can sign up here to get these summaries straight to your inbox!

                                               Aug 29 - Sep 4

Space - We made a pretty cool graphic summarizing some of the most interesting space events happening in September. Check it out!

Sports Ball! - In sports news, this week will see the start of the US Open and College Football (American). Time to shine that TV screen, and that couch.

Wrist Gear - Samsung is expected to launch its newest smart watch, the Gear S3. Will it be great? Time … will tell. Set Reminder

Giant Ear - The world’s largest telescope will go live sometime this month in China.  What you need to know: 1. It’s massive. 2. Really massive. 3. It could potentially discover some pretty cool stuff. Set Reminder

Vice - Already love HBO? Well now there’s even more to love. They’re getting their own nightly news show courtesy of Vice News. Set Reminder

Netflix - Here’s a list of everything coming to Netflix in September! Thanks to our Narcos for getting us this information. (See what we did there?) Set Reminder

WANT - It’s your last chance this week to back the ‘Nomatic’ Travel bag on Kickstarter, an incredibly well thought out bag for, you guessed it, traveling. Set Reminder

You can get more info for each event, set reminders, or add them to your calendar here: https://forekast.com/science