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If you thought that leaked — now official — trailer for Game of Thrones Season 5 was exciting, just wait until you see the 18 just-released photos from the new season

In the images, we get to see our first looks at new characters Doran Martell and The High Sparrow, a new angle on Tyrion's beard, and much more.

The new season premieres April 12.

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Thing that is a bad idea: Building a theme park full of genetically-engineered dinosaurs

Thing that is a great idea: Debuting a film trailer right before kickoff at Super Bowl XLIX

Universal Pictures dropped Jurassic World's newest ad Sunday, featuring a full minute of vicious dinosaurs, haunting music and Chris Pratt doing his best "I told you so, but I'll still save all of you."

Jurassic World is slated for release on June 12 — exactly 22 years and one day after Steven Spielberg’s park opened.

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It's officially time to start worrying about artificial intelligence.

The 11th annual Super Bowl Madden simulation has proved eerily accurate this year, with the game correctly predicting the final score, 28-24, as well as the final touchdown, a pass from Tom Brady to wide receiver Julian Edelman.

EA Sports' Madden predictions now have correctly guessed the outcome of nine of the last twelve Super Bowls, in what is clearly a sign that there is a severe glitch in the Matrix.

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It’s funny how many different things the phrase “goodnight” can mean. You can use it to say “goodbye” at the end of the day, or to wish someone a good night’s sleep. It can also be used to simply say “this was a good night.” For our wallpapers this week we’re all about good nights and the beautiful night sky.

This week we have 6 HD wallpapers that feature the night sky. To get one of these wallpapers on your phone, tablet, or even PC, simply tap or click on the image to see it at full resolution. Let us know which one is your favorite, and be sure to share a screenshot if you use one of these wallpapers!

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It's probably a bad idea to hit your coach in the head with a basketball, but somehow that happened tonight as Boris Diaw's poor attempt at a first-half buzzer-beater instead hit coach Gregg Popovich in the head as Pop headed toward the locker room, no doubt disgusted by the Spurs' poor play. Pop didn't seem to even notice.

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Is this the Randy Moss moon? Or are we calling it Doug Baldwin pooping out a football? Who cares, this rules. Blame NBC for cutting away before we could see if Doug did the shimmy, but those are good mooning/pooping fundamentals either way.

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When it works, it feels a little bit like magic and starting today, Android developers can now officially take display their own card inside Google Now, making it your one-stop shop for staying current with all the going-ons in your life. Well, some of them anyway.

Kicking off this new development is a full list of 40 supported applications ranging from Lyft, eBay, Waze, and more. We assume some kind of API will be released at a later time for everyone else, but get ready to start seeing a lot more cards in Google Now from this point forward. Check down below for the full list of currently supported apps (that we conveniently alphabetized for you), or Google’s newly updated Google Now page here.

• Airbnb
• Belly
• BookMyShow
• Busuu
• Coinbase
• Cookpad
• Delivery Hero
• Duolingo
• eBay
• ESPNcricinfo
• Ford
• Hailo
• Hootsuite
• Housing
• Instacart
• Kayak
• Life360
• Lincoln
• Lyft
• Meru Cabs
• Mint
• Mytaxi
• Pandora
• Redfin
• Runtastic
• Runtastic Me
• Shaadi
• Shazam
• SmartNews
• Strava
• Suumo
• The Economic Times
• The Economist
• The Guardian
• TripAdvisor
• Walgreens
• Wattpad
• Waze
• Zillow

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What do we say to the God of Death? Not today, because I've got a Reddit AMA

Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on HBO's Game of Thrones, went on Reddit Friday for an hour-long Q&A about her hobbies, acting and secrets from on set

Here are just some of the gems we gleaned from the resident Westerosi badass

BONUS: 'Game of Thrones' Explained In Less Than 3 Minutes

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Stay calm, Game of Thrones fanatics; the moment has arrived

HBO screened the final two episodes of Season 4 of GoT Thursday night in IMAX theaters, capping off the viewing with a special airing of the first full trailer for Season 5. And, because this is 2015, someone recorded it on a phone and uploaded it to YouTube for the rest of the Seven Kingdoms to behold

The blurry trailer will undoubtedly be pulled before you can say "Winter is coming," so we'll highlight the most notable moments here: Read more...

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If, for some ridiculous reason, you don’t have the easy-to-secure invite to Inbox by Gmail already you’ll be glad to know that another opportunity has opened up… but only if you act fast. Google is giving out invites to anyone who emails them by 9AM Pacific standard time at inbox@google.com (it has to be from a Gmail address).

Inbox, if you don’t know, is Google’s new take on email, a simplified inbox that’ll group like-items and allow you to take action on multiple emails at the same time. It’ll group travel email into the same bundle and automatically add itineraries and such to your calendar, or you can get a look at all of the email you don’t want to see (such as bill alerts) in one fell swoop.

Inbox has features for “snoozing” emails to make them reappear at a later time in case you can’t get to it right away. It’s a pretty big change at first, but many who have gotten used to it exclaim they wouldn’t dare go back to the old way

You can try Inbox without having to give up your traditional Gmail experience so if you don’t end up liking it it’s rather easy to switch back. There are apps for iOS and Android, and you should note that the web version only works in Google Chrome (though Google swears that will change eventually). In the meantime, check out the cool infographic straight ahead to see exactly how people are using Inbox to help regain control of their email.

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Misfit, known for its budget fitness and sleep tracking gadgets, is again expanding beyond counting steps and monitoring your movement

Like most companies, it has its sights set on joining the smart home revolution — and now, you'll be able to use your Misfit products to control your home's temperature, lock your doors and play music

Misfit announced this week that its ultra-affordable $49 Flash and its $99 Shine trackers will work with platforms such as Spotify, Nest, Logitech Harmony, Yo, automation service IFTTT and the August smart lock. That means you'll be able to press Flash's big button several times to work with one of those products, serving as a remote control to power them up. Read more...

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Well, how’s this for an early Thursday afternoon headline? According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is planning to invest a nice grip of money into Cyanogen Inc, makers of the most popular custom ROM around.

Microsoft will apparently be a minority investor in a $70 million round of equity investing that would end up placing a valuation on Cyanogen worth hundreds of millions of dollars. As a minority investor Microsoft won’t be the only ones at the table, nor would they be dishing out the most money to infuse this startup with cash.

But what it does bring is a strong message by Microsoft that they’re willing to do whatever they need to help balance out a lopsided race for smartphone software dominance. Why do we say that? Because Cyanogen — just earlier this week — started flexing their own muscle by declaring that they wanted to somehow take Android back from Google.

“I’m the CEO of Cyanogen. We’re attempting to take Android away from Google,” exclaimed Kirk McMaster in front of a crowd of press at a San Francisco event earlier this week. You might be wondering how it’d be possible for Cyanogen to do that considering Google owns Android, but it’s important to understand what he means.

As it stands, Android is open source, and its source code can be freely downloaded by anyone who so chooses. That likely won’t change anytime soon as Google has kept its long-standing promise to keep Android open and free.

But it’s long been accepted that the “sweetest” Android you can get is one with access to the Google Play Store, YouTube, Google Search and all of the other key Google services at the ready. The problem is Google limits (legal) access to these services to those willing to put up with restrictive licensing agreements, and CyanogenMod doesn’t like that.

While they’ve admitted their bread and butter has been and most likely always will be Android, their hope is to be able to build an ecosystem for it that’s more open-ended and free than the one Google maintains. The difficulty of such a task is sure to be high and they won’t be able to do it alone, which certainly explains the need to get the likes of Microsoft and supposedly Amazon on board.

Cyanogen — whose custom ROM McMaster says has been installed on over 50 million devices to date — does have enough clout to make such a bold move, but questions have to transform after today’s report: what’s Microsoft’s end-game in this? Are they genuinely interested in creating a better ecosystem for Android or do they simply want to help fatten up a talented development house to potentially swallow up later on?

It would be surprising to see the latter situation take place considering Cyanogen is said to have turned down an offer from Google that would have valuated themselves at $1 billion, though the company’s newly-revealed motive might explain why they made that tough decision. One thing’s for sure, though: if Cyanogen made a big enough case to get a major player like Microsoft interested then they certainly must have a strong plan in place to make this happen.

GoPro is about to upgrade its slow-mo capabilities

Gizmodo's Brent Rose posted this first look, above, at an upcoming firmware update for the GoPro Hero4 that will allow for 240 frames-per-second slow motion in high definition.

According to the tech news site, the video was shot at 240 fps, then slowed down to one-tenth of that speed. While the camera currently allows for slow-motion footage, it's not possible to shoot smooth slow-mo video that's also high definition.

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More and more Microsoft apps just keep making their way to Google Play. Today sees the migration of Outlook, Microsoft’s email platform for those who aren’t fans of the likes of Gmail and Yahoo. The app — which is in open preview status for Android phones and tablets — will give you easy access to your Microsoft-handled mail, calendars and contacts.

Microsoft makes a pretty good case for using their official app over a built-in email client. For one, they’ve stuffed a lot of companion services into one app so you won’t have to deal with clunky app interactions or deal with having to leave the email app to transfer an appointment over to your calendar.

Another benefit to using the Outlook app is if you use Microsoft’s OneDrive for all your cloud storage needs. Attachments can easily be backed up and saved to your OneDrive account, and on the flipside it’ll be rather easy to attach something that’s sitting in your OneDrive account.

Thankfully Microsoft is opting to embrace the design nuances of each platform they put their app on instead of going with their own user interface, so you’re in for a real Material Design-infused treat. Not too shabby on that one, Microsoft.

On a slightly related note, Microsoft also announced that their Office for Android Tablets apps are officially out of preview status. The apps don’t get any new features as part of that milestone, but hey — it’s stable, it’s free (for basic editing) and it’s just as good as the versions you’ll download on any platform. Can’t ask for much more than that.

Office for Tablets can be downloaded here (Excel), here (PowerPoint) and here (Word), while Outlook users interested in the preview app for Android can head right here.

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When students at Kent State University realized their professor wears a hat strikingly similar to the one Indiana Jones is known for, they couldn't pass up the opportunity to make the obvious joke, with a little help from the movie's soundtrack. Despite their efforts, the Indy doppelganger refused to react to the prank. Perhaps he spent too long in the Temple of Doom, though those students seem like more annoying sidekicks than Short Round.

Considering Jones is a college professor himself, the prank is more fitting than just the hat. No word yet on whether this professor also happens to be scared of snakes and carry a bullwhip. Read more...

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Making GIFs just got a whole lot easier.

Imgur, the free image- and GIF-hosting website released its new GIF creation tool on Thursday called "Video to GIF" which allows users to create high-quality looping GIFs from videos hosted on the Internet, including ones from YouTube or Vimeo

As a GIF lover and creator, I was excited to hear the news, especially considering there really isn't a great place on the web to make quality GIFs in a timely fashion. Imgur's new tool also uploads the files to its website, which takes an additional step out of the process and makes it even easier and faster for people to make GIFs. Read more...

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The Internet is about to get slimed.

Nickelodeon will soon be offered online without the need for a cable subscription, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman announced during a call with analysts on Thursday

The move makes Nickelodeon among the first pure cable channels to move into the "over-the-top" (OTT) space, in which content is streamed online for a subscription fee. Premium channels like HBO and Showtime are already working on a similar offering, and CBS also offers a streaming service. Companies like ESPN, TNT and TBS are available through Dish Network's Sling service, but not as standalone options Read more...

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The Boxscore is back with a new batch of show reports. Read on for earnings and attendance numbers from concerts recently played by:

Linkin Park
Of Mice & Men
Limp Bizkit
Extreme
Saosin (feat. Anthony Green)
HIM
Motionless In White
Skinny Puppy
Yellowcard
Memphis May Fire
Circa Survive
Attila
Like Moths To Flames
Sworn In
Crown The Empire
Monster Magnet
Escape The Fate
Glamour Of The Kill
New Years Day
As Blood Runs Black

Artist: Linkin Park & Of Mice & Men
Venue: London, UK – O2 Arena
Date: Nov. 23rd-24th, 2014
Gross Sales: $2,057,830
Attendance/Capacity: 26,922 / 31,580
Ticket Prices: $82.16, $72.77, $39.12

Artist: Linkin Park & Of Mice & Men
Venue: Manchester, UK – Phones 4u Arena
Date: Nov. 22nd, 2014
Gross Sales: $1,096,450
Attendance/Capacity: 15,192 / 15,444
Ticket Prices: $77.59, $68.19

Artist: Limp Bizkit
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Oct. 10th, 2014
Gross Sales: $96,632
Attendance/Capacity: 2,364 / 2,364
Ticket Prices: $40

Artist: Extreme
Venue: Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
Date: Jan. 16th, 2015
Gross Sales: $65,075
Attendance/Capacity: 2,603 / 3,679
Ticket Prices: $25

Artist: Saosin (with Anthony Green)
Venue: Austin, TX – Emo’s
Date: Jan. 24th, 2015
Gross Sales: $40,809
Attendance/Capacity: 1,500 / 1,500
Ticket Prices: $30, $27

Artist: HIM & Motionless In White
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Dec. 10th, 2014
Gross Sales: $36,017
Attendance/Capacity: 984 / 984
Ticket Prices: $36

Artist: Skinny Puppy
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Nov. 30th, 2014
Gross Sales: $27,755
Attendance/Capacity: 854 / 854
Ticket Prices: $32

Artist: Yellowcard & Memphis May Fire
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Nov. 04th, 2014
Gross Sales: $26,599
Attendance/Capacity: 1,045 / 1,045
Ticket Prices: $25

Artist: Circa Survive
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Nov. 05th, 2014
Gross Sales: $25,770
Attendance/Capacity: 1,225 / 1,225
Ticket Prices: $21

Artist: Attila, Like Moths To Flames, Sworn In & Crown The Empire
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Dec. 14th, 2014
Gross Sales: $23,178
Attendance/Capacity: 1,051 / 1,051
Ticket Prices: $22

Artist: Monster Magnet
Venue: Munich, GER – Backstage Werk
Date: Jun. 14th, 2014
Gross Sales: $19,575
Attendance/Capacity: 511 / 1,100
Ticket Prices: $47.46, $36.61

Artist: Escape The Fate, Glamour Of The Kill & New Years Day
Venue: Koln, GER – Underground
Date: Oct. 22nd, 2014
Gross Sales: $10,347
Attendance/Capacity: 450 / 450
Ticket Prices: $22.99

Artist: Escape The Fate, Glamour Of The Kill & New Years Day
Venue: Hamburg, GER – Logo
Date: Oct. 21st, 2014
Gross Sales: $6,835
Attendance/Capacity: 290 / 450
Ticket Prices: $31.92, $22.98

Artist: Escape The Fate, Glamour Of The Kill & New Years Day
Venue: Berlin, GER – Lido
Date: Oct. 19th, 2014
Gross Sales: $6,725
Attendance/Capacity: 286 / 500
Ticket Prices: $28.06, $22.96

Artist: Monster Magnet
Venue: Erfurt, GER – Stadtgarten
Date: Jun. 18th, 2014
Gross Sales: $6,576
Attendance/Capacity: 189 / 800
Ticket Prices: $40.68, $33.90

Artist: Escape The Fate, Glamour Of The Kill & New Years Day
Venue: Stuttgart, GER – Kellerklub
Date: Oct. 15th, 2014
Gross Sales: $6,441
Attendance/Capacity: 280 / 350
Ticket Prices: $27.91, $22.84

Artist: As Blood Runs Black
Venue: Mexico City, MEX – El Plaza Condesa
Date: Jan. 17th, 2015
Gross Sales: $6,198
Attendance/Capacity: 473 / 2,400
Ticket Prices: $13.10

Artist: Escape The Fate, Glamour Of The Kill & New Years Day
Venue: Munich, GER – Strom
Date: Oct. 13th, 2014
Gross Sales: $4,980
Attendance/Capacity: 214 / 400
Ticket Prices: $27.78, $22.73

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The headline isn't an attempt at hyperbole but a legitimate question. I've watched this on replay four or five times now and I still can't figure out how Steph Curry smoothly pulled this off. I'm sitting on my couch trying to swing an imaginary ball from my left hand to my right and then over my shoulder to the dog passed out next to me. At least I'm not the only one.

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It seems incredible that for all their ducking and dodging and posturing and close calls, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao had never met face-to-face before last night. But with both sitting courtside at the Miami Heat game—directly opposite each other, as it worked out—the two wandered over at halftime for a brief and friendly-looking chat.

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On Tuesday's episode of The Flash, Broadway favorite and former Smash actor Andrew Mientus brings iconic nemesis Pied Piper to life.

But Mientus' version of the character (whose day name is Hartley Rathaway) isnt' quite the same one that fans of the series got to know in the pages of the comic books

Gone are the Pied Piper's flamboyant clothes, his mind-warping flute skills and most of his cartoonish-qualities

"We wanted to do something a little more grounded," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said. "And we were all fans of Andy's from his work on Broadway and when he came in, we said he was like evil Harry Potter." Read more...

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The future of Neil deGrasse Tyson's television science series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey may be up in the air, but in the meantime, Google is providing its own special effects-laden documentary to tide you over

Titled ‪Back To The Moon For Good – The New Space Race, the mini-documentary is meant to give additional background on the company's Lunar XPrize contest, which is designed to inspire competing teams to land a spacecraft on the moon.

Narrated by film and television star Tim Allen, the 24-minute film was adapted for YouTube from the immersive planetarium show that toured the U.S. last year. The film takes viewers through the entire history of lunar exploration, using 3D imagery, colorful infographics and well-designed animations that put you right in the middle of the action Read more...

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