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It looks like HBO has caught wind of those "most pirated show in the world" stats Game of Thrones keeps racking up, and it's making a change. Besides launching HBO Now streaming that anyone in the US with internet (and an Apple device) can sign up fo...

 While the technology sector continues to flourish, and its luminaries are seen as role models, the industry as a whole is suffering from a lack of diversity that has undermined its ability to fully realize its transformative potential. Read More

Game controllers, streaming boxes, 3D glasses, and more—why keep these accessories cluttering your tables when the back of your TV can hold them all?

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There's no reason you would ever need to rig up an NES to run Netflix. Which is why it's so great that these two delightfully insane Netflix engineers did it for us. Because at long last, we can finally see the House of Cards intro in all the horrific, 8-bit glory absolutely no one ever intended.

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Wondering how long it would take for Google's search engine to find your website if you didn't promote it? About 22 days, according to Matthew Rothenberg. He recently launched Unindexed, a purposefully short-lived web community that was set to self-d...

Sam Simon, co-creator of long-running animated program The Simpsons and well-known philanthropist has died. He was 59

Simon, who had been battling colon cancer, has a long history in Hollywood that spans several decades

Though he first got his feet wet writing for series like Barney Miller and others, his first major gig was on the TV series Taxi, for which he served as showrunner. It was there that he met James L. Brooks, with whom he'd go on to create The Simpsons

On that show, which debuted in 1989, Simon had a hand in assembling the team that would get the series up and running and, eventually, establish the voice that made The Simpsons what it is today Read more...

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The first scripts for The Walking Dead companion series must have been really, really good, because AMC just picked up two seasons of the still unnamed series, the network said Monday

The first six-episode season will debut late this summer and the second season will air next summer, according to AMC

This new series will be set in Los Angeles and focus on a new set of characters and storylines

Cliff Curtis (Missing), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm) will star Read more...

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LOS ANGELES — Graphic security-camera footage, which TMZ says it posted at the request of the deceased victim's family, shows a fatal hit-and-run incident allegedly involving Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight as the vehicle's driver.

The altercation happened outside a Compton fast food restaurant on Jan. 29. Knight, who is now facing a murder trial, claims that the men he was arguing with were armed with guns and that he drove off to escape any harm, resulting in the two men being struck by his red truck.

(Editors' note: The video below shows a graphic hit-and-run incident.) Read more...

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When Nintendo first unveiled the Wii U, my mind raced with ideas for games that could be created with the two-screen interface. A lot of the cool stuff that the DS did could be transferred to the big screen. Better yet, titles like those that made use of Game Boy Advance-to-GameCube connectivity could surface in a more accessible format.

In practice, it has taken a while for developers to do really interesting things with the GamePad. A lot of the most lauded titles would work fine without the second screen. Affordable Space Adventures is one of the few Wii U titles that feels like it could not be done on another platform. It plays to the console's strengths, finally producing the type of experience the Wii U was made for.

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Apple just announced the details of the new open source software framework that will make it easier for medical researchers to access data about millions of potential subjects. ResearchKit sounds amazing—and potentially riddled with security concerns. Will Apple make it easier for adversaries to access your health data, too?

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We all buy things from time to time that we don't really need. It's okay to appeal to your wants every once in a while, as long as you're in control. If you struggle with clutter, impulse buys, and buyer's remorse, here's how to put your mind in the right place before you even set foot in a store.

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The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were only officially announced last week, but preorders for the new smartphones are reportedly breaking company records already.

While Samsung was recently dethroned as the leader of smartphone sales, preorders from mobile carriers for the latest Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are sky-high.

“Samsung received some 20 million preorders for the S6 and S6 Edge — 15 million of S6 and five million of the S6 Edge from mobile carriers, worldwide. This is the record,” an unidentified "top executive" told The Korea Times.

This refers to preorders from mobile carriers, not consumers, so it's tough to tell how this will stack up against the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models' sales. (The new iPhones sold more than 4 million units in pre-orders in their first 24 hours.) Read more...

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Meyer Lemon-Vanilla Bean Bourbon Smash

saw this on food52 and thought i’d give it a whirl. it’s not as sweet as i’d thought it would be, and goes down a bit too easy.

the vanilla bean simple syrup is easy peasy to make, and the combination of meyer lemon and orange bitters is lovely with the bourbon.

the full recipe here

ingredients & basic overview:

• old fashioned glass
  
• 1/4 inch muddled meyer lemon
• add ice
  
• 2 oz bourbon
• 4 dashes orange bitters
  
• 2T vanilla bean simple syrup
• stir, taste, add more simple syrup if desired
• top with club soda
  

The European Space agency has just announced that doctors will be adapting its Proba-V vegetation-scanning satellite camera for a decidedly non-vegetative purpose: Monitoring human skin cells. The hardware within this satellite may, in a few years, form the core of a new medical device that doctors can use to scan human skin for disease.

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Amazon is willing to do a lot to gain a competitive edge... including setting up shop on a big rival's home turf, apparently. The online shopping giant has launched a store on Tmall, Alibaba's China-focused marketplace. The move requires that Amazon ...