People Are Nerding Out Over 'Suicide Squad' Cast, 2014 Book List

Will Smith will star in a new super hero movie; a 2014 book list is released.

ByABC News
December 3, 2014, 9:57 AM

— -- quicklist: title: #SuicideSquadtext: A top trending term on Google and Twitter is "Suicide Squad," referring to the newly announced cast of the DC Entertainment character film. The villains turned heroes include Will Smith, "The Dark Knight Rises" villain Tom Hardy, "The Wolf of Wall Street" star Margot Robbie, and Academy Award winner Jared Leto as "Joker." Warner Bros is planning for a release in August 2016.

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quicklist: title: The New York Times Book Review: 2014 Books to Read text: The editors of The New York Times Book Review released a list of 100 "notable" non-fiction, poetry and fiction works of 2014. These include the non-fiction book "Gandhi Before India" by Ramachandra Guha, which focuses on the life of Mohandas Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa, and "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez, a story of Latino immigrants.

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quicklist: title: Edit Microsoft Office Attachments From Gmailtext: The free Google Drive cloud service now allows users to edit or convert Microsoft Office files in Gmail.

“With just one click on the new edit icon in Gmail attachments, you can automatically convert Office documents -- giving you the additional benefits of a single document to keep track of, access from anywhere (even offline!), and revision history,” according to Google’s announcement.

Users can install an extension to the Chrome browser to edit a file without switching between a .doc or .docx file and a Google doc.

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quicklist: title: No More UAB Football text: The University of Alabama at Birmingham shut down its football program, the school announced on Tuesday, due to its "financial burden." It's the first major college football program since Pacific in 1995 to shut down, ESPN reported.

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quicklist: title: Funeral for Australian Cricket Player Who Died in Match text: Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes was laid to rest today in his hometown of Macksville, Australia. He died when he was struck in the head with a cricket ball during a match last week. He was 25 years old

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