Hey kiddies, it's Thursday morning and it's time for your daily serving of news, tidbits, and info to keep you hip to what's going on in the world.

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Apple unveiled its newest iterations of the iPhone yesterday, along with a bunch of other upgraded products. The new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will feature faster processors, better cameras, an improved operating system and new touchscreen sensor technology. The tech giant also showed off new upgrades to its iWatch, Apple TV and iPad (which include a keyboard and stylus).

Spotify has just rolled out a new feature to award users bragging rights of being into an artist before everyone else. The Found Them First microsite analyzes your data (after agree to allow it, of course) and then find the artists and/or bands that you were listening to on the music streaming service before they blew up.

Listen to This: SNL veteran and Portlandia star/co-creator Fred Armisen talks to Marc Maron over at WTF and gets pretty revealing.

Some scientists in France have announced their plans to thaw and reanimate a prehistoric virus discovered in Siberia...which we're pretty sure is how the zombie apocalypse is supposed to start.

Quote of the Day: "We will have so much winning when I get elected that you may get bored with winning." - Donald Trump at Tea Party rally against the Iran nuclear deal in Washington yesterday.

James Blake, once the top tennis player in the United States before he retired in 2013, was in New York City for the U.S. Open and had what sounds like a rough run-in with the NYPD. Blake, who's black, was forcibly detained and handcuffed by plain-clothed officers (including being thrown to the ground) when he was mistaken for a suspect in a credit card fraud case.

Hilary Clinton better be getting worried. A new poll shows Senator Bernie Sanders inching ahead of the former Secretary of State in Iowa with the state's caucus, the traditional kickoff event for presidential primary season, just four months away.

The prehistoric human family just got a little bigger. Scientists have discovered the skeletal remains of a previously unknown small human-like species in South Africa.

Watch This: Nerdwriter put together an impressively thorough video analysis on the importance of the background in the critically-acclaimed 2006 film Children of Men.

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Bernie Sanders, Fred Armisen, Spotify