Two years after first announcing a partnership, Sonos and IKEA are finally ready to show off their first products designed for the home.

The first in the new SYMFONISK product line is a $99.99 WiFi Bookshelf Speaker that can be mounted in a number of ways and serve as a wall shelf for small and lightweight items like books. The other is $179.99 table lamp with built-in speaker.

The two products are the next phase in IKEA’s Home Smart family of products, which already includes furniture with built-in wireless charging mats and smart lighting. 

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The partnership is a natural fit: Sonos is well-known for its high-quality home speakers and IKEA is a household name when it comes to furniture. And both companies pride themselves on creating good-looking products that are sold at reasonable prices.

Though we haven’t seen it in person yet, the WiFi Bookshelf Speaker looks pretty neat. It can be mounted horizontally or vertically and support up 6.6 pounds of weight. 

It even comes with a special bracket system that makes the shelf speaker appear as if it’s floating on a wall without making the brackets themselves visible.

Additionally, the Bookshelf Speaker can be laid flat on a shelf or even hung onto rails using separate hook accessories.

Of course, because it’s a collaboration with IKEA, the shelf speaker was also thoughtfully designed to work well with IKEA furniture. Sonos says the speaker integrates snug into its popular Kallax and Expedit bookshelf systems.

Sonos tells me the speaker contains two “class-D digital amplifiers” and a built-in tweeter and a mid-woofer. Despite its compact size and $100 price, Sonos says it and IKEA made sure not to compromise on sound. Of course, we’ll have to be the judge of that once we’re able to listen to shelf speaker for ourselves.

The generically-named “Table Lamp with WiFi Speaker” is a little more purposeful with its dual functionality as a lamp and a speaker.

Sonos and IKEA designers told me they noticed bedside tables were getting cluttered with both a lamp and speakers like a Google Home or Amazon Echo. So they combined the two into one product.

Like the Bookshelf Speaker, the Table Lamp with WiFi Speaker is a very simple product. There’s a dial on the fabric-covered speaker body that turns it on and off and playback control buttons on the base.

The speaker lamp’s shade and fabric-covered exterior are also “hackable” and were designed to be easily removable. 

Sound is reportedly comparable to a Sonos One and also like the Bookshelf Speaker, it also has two class-D digital amplifiers, a tweeter, and a mid-woofer.

One thing you may have noticed by now is that neither speaker has any smarts. Neither has a built-in microphone and as a result don’t support Amazon’s Alexa or the Google Assistant. And the Table Lamp doesn’t come with a smart light bulb.

When I asked Sonos and IKEA why these aren’t smart speakers, they told me their goal with the two SYMFONISK products was to focus on the fundamentals of form and function. 

If you, however, want to add smarts to the two products, you can. I’m told you can pop in any smart light bulb like one from Philips Hue control it via an app or a digital assistant. Similarly, you can also connect both speakers to a non-IKEA Sonos speaker, like the One, that does have a microphone and use Alexa to control them. 

On paper, both products appear to be solid speakers that serve dual functions. The real test will be how good they sound. We’ll find out in August when both of them go on sale at IKEA.

Prom is a rite of passage for American teens. It’s also a ritual that fills far too many young people with anxiety. 

That’s what DoSomething.org, a nonprofit organization that gets youth involved in social change campaigns, discovered when it started researching how teens felt about prom. The organization found millions of Google search results related to prom anxiety. 

“Prom is supposed to be a celebratory event and a cultural moment for young people.”

Teens were taking their worries about drinking, sex, and rejection to the internet. Students of limited means agonized over the cost. LGBTQ youth were anxious about being forbidden to attend prom, particularly with a same-sex or gender-nonconforming date. Interracial couples feared discrimination, or had already experienced it.

The anecdotes prompted DoSomething.org to solicit prom-related discrimination stories from some of its 5 million members. They received a thousand submissions within a few weeks. That outpouring led the organization to launch “Take Back the Prom,” a multi-faceted campaign to make the annual spring dance as inclusive as possible.  

“Prom is supposed to be a celebratory event and a cultural moment for young people,” says Carrie Bloxson, chief marketing officer of DoSomething.org. “If we want to do it in the right way, we need to be mindful of the fact that this generation reflects a number of diversities we might not have had [in years past]. We can all agree that prom could use an update for 2019 and beyond.”

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The campaign features a crowdsourced map of prom discrimination incidents to which any student can contribute. It’s designed to preserve anonymity, so the map only documents accounts at the state level rather than providing school- or city-specific information. The point is to show that prom discrimination happens in every state across the nation, says Bloxson.

For students who want to change prom culture for the better, the campaign offers resources on how to talk to school administrators about replacing the outdated tradition of electing a king and queen with new gender-inclusive prom courts. Bloxson says school officials may stick with certain rituals because it’s what they experienced growing up; they don’t realize how those rules and expectations exclude students who’d like to participate. 

Meanwhile, the campaign’s clothing donation drive is collecting gently-used formal wear, including dresses, suits, and shoes, to distribute to teens who might otherwise skip prom given the cost of purchasing an outfit. 

“Prom should be for everybody,” says Bloxson. 

While the campaign’s goal is to make prom inclusive, DoSomething.org also realized that teens get anxious about the event regardless of whether they feel welcome. So the organization opened up an “anxiety textline” that youth can contact for advice and guidance (text PROM to 38383). DoSomething.org staff, college students, and LGBTQ youth operating the line are prepared to talk about subjects like sex, drinking, body image, and not having a date. Messages about sensitive concerns, including urgent mental health issues, will be immediately routed to Crisis Text Line, a sister organization to DoSomething.org. 

The Take Back the Prom campaign runs through June 30. Bloxson says that if it generates enough interest, DoSomething.org may look at expanding its inclusion efforts to homecoming. 

“The good thing,” she says, “is we have a template now for how to make change.”

UPDATE (4/8/19 9:00 a.m. ET): Idris Elba will no longer be playing Deadshot in Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, but will remain onboard with the project, reports Variety.

The British actor has been tapped for an unknown new character in the latest installment of the franchise, though there’s no word on who he might be taking on just yet. It isn’t clear whether Deadshot’s removal means Will Smith could potentially return to the role in the future or not, but he previously exited the project due to scheduling conflicts.

The team reportedly felt this casting decision was “the right move,” and did not want the change to feel as though it was “disrespecting” Smith in any way.

Currently, Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang), and Viola Davis (Amanda Waller) are all reportedly returning to reprise the roles they had in the previous film.

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Variety reports that, following Will Smith’s amicable exit from the role in the new Suicide Squad movie, Idris Elba is now in talks to replace the Aladdin star following a meeting with director James Gunn.

Elba will join castmate Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn — and, honestly, it’s one of the best casting decisions we could possibly think of for the role.

It’s also an informed choice, as Elba is a frontman with the acting chops and personality to bring the sympathetic villain to life. Smith played the doting father and expert marksman with plenty of heart, and as we’ve seen with Elba’s other roles, he can definitely bring that same kind of energy to the screen.

The news comes about a week after Smith was noted to be leaving the role, apparently due to scheduling conflicts. It looks like Gunn and crew are looking to move quickly when it comes to getting the new Squad together and pushing the sequel to the 2016 film out the door.

The Golden Globe-winning actor (and musician) is best known for his roles as The Wire’s Stringer Bell and Luther’s John Luther, but you’ve probably seen him in, well, everything. Joining Suicide Squad would mark his first foray into the DC movie universe, after playing the Asgardian sentry Heimdall in each of the Thor films and two Avengers entries. He also brought us one of the coolest former Jaeger pilots ever in the action-packed kaiju-centric flick Pacific Rim.

Elba is consistently a most-wanted actor when it comes to taking over the role of James Bond, too — but he’s apparently uninterested in bringing us his version of the legendary agent as he doesn’t like to take on roles that “define” him in a new interview with the Daily Mail.

We don’t know a ton about the Suicide Squad sequel just yet, as there have been scant details released about it so far. What we do know, however, is that Elba could be joining a cast that still includes Robbie as Harley Quinn, but we haven’t had confirmation that Quinn or the rest of the villains from the first movie will be coming back for a second round. Robbie, in the meantime, is starring in a spinoff flick featuring Quinn, called Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), where Harley splits from the Joker and becomes essentially a “free woman.”

While Smith exhibited some serious charisma and chemistry as Deadshot, we know Elba is more than capable of bringing the villain with an apparent heart of gold to life.

Here’s to hoping we get additional details about the film soon, too. It’s high time the Squad got back together.

It would be the clash of a generation: the Mountain and the Hound, two brothers who’ve been enemies since they were children, meeting in battle one last time.

Cleganebowl is the name of the fight that Game of Thrones fans have dreamed up, pitting Sandor “The Hound” Clegane vs. Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in a duel that would likely end in death. The two Cleganes, although similarly fierce warriors, are diametrically opposed and have made it abundantly clear that they would kill each other given the chance.

Let’s dig into what exactly makes Cleganbowl such a juicy fight.

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Family troubles

You know how Sandor has a pretty nasty scar on his face and scalp and he’s afraid of fire? Well, that’s because of his brother Gregor.

When Sandor was young, he found a toy that his brother wasn’t using and decided to play with it. In what can only be described as a morbid overreaction, Gregor silently grabbed his younger brother and shoved his face into a burning brazier.

Since their childhoods, the two brothers have never had a good relationship. This comes up in the first season of Game of Thrones when Gregor loses in a joust and his brother steps in to stop him from killing his opponent, Ser Loras Tyrell. The two parry swords for a moment before King Robert Baratheon calls on them to stop, when Sandor immediately kneels and Gregor’s sword comes within inches of delivering a fatal blow.

It was years before they saw each other again in Season 7, and although the Mountain is now basically a monstrous zombie, the Hound doesn’t hold back from reminding him who will end his life — the biggest sign that Celganebowl will go down in Season 8.

Gregor’s crimes

Time and time again, Gregor has shown just how relentlessly sadistic he is, stopping at almost nothing to terrorize, torture, and kill people. 

He’s done some truly heinous things, having possibly killed his own sister and father, numerous servants at Clegane Keep, which was before he was knighted at Tywin Lannister’s request. During Robert’s Rebellion against the Targaryens, Gregor committed more horrible acts, killing the two children of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, and then raped Elia before murdering her — an act he boasted about when he dueled her brother Oberyn Martell.

In the middle seasons of Game of Thrones after the Lannisters take control of King’s Landing, Gregor pillages the Riverlands ferociously, striking fear into people everywhere stemming from his vicious acts of torture and terror, seen by Arya Stark at Harrenhal.

Sandor, seeing all the horrible things one can commit as a knight, decides that he will not take a knighthood, not wanting to be associated with his brother.

Sandor has clearly harbored an intense hatred for his horrible brother since a young age, so the two coming to blows doesn’t seem like a stretch at all.

Cleganebowl clues

Aside from the fact that there’s all this history and the Celgane brothers truly hate each other, there are numerous clues that these two will clash.

Although one of them is called the Hound, both come from house Clegane, whose banner depicts three dogs on a field of yellow. There are numerous references in the show and books to fights between hounds, including visions from Bran Stark. 

Some of them are historical, but as we know, history often repeats itself, and YouTuber bridge4 goes deep into how old tales could become new again.

Things may not necessarily go as fans hope, but signs seem to point to the coming Cleganebowl, especially considering the actor behind the Mountain teased that one of his favorite scenes is yet to come.