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‘Game of Thrones’ has used 4,000 gallons of fake blood, and other fun facts about the show
Bringing a hit TV series like Game of Thrones to fruition is a massive creative endeavor that requires so much behind the scenes to make it work, everything from the obvious elements like …
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Galaxy Fold units keep mysteriously breaking, while the iPhone XS survives a shark bite
If you’ve paid attention to tech industry news to any degree over the past day or two, you’re no doubt aware that Samsung is dealing with a bit of unpleasant scrutiny at the …
Tech
Avoid these Android apps like the plague
Revelations about apps from the Google Play Store sneaking past available protections and collecting gobs of user data without permission are nothing new, but a new investigation has revealed an especially troubling pattern …
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Hear me out: This ‘random episode’ feature Netflix is testing could be a good idea
You don’t have to be a power user of Netflix to know that as time goes by, there’s a massive and ever-changing inventory of content on the service that it’s near-impossible to keep …
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A backpack with a flexible screen? Sure, Sony, why not
The race among consumer electronics giants to develop all manner of screens that flex and fold — and to attach them to phones, tablets and more — is starting to get a bit …
Tech
Amazon finally accepts that it’s 2019 and allows YouTube back on the Fire TV
If Amazon’s Fire TV platform is your streaming medium of choice, you won’t have to use a web browser to watch YouTube videos for much longer. Amazon and Google have apparently decided to …
Business
Facebook now says ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords were exposed, not ‘tens of thousands’
Well, that’s a heck of a revision. Back in March, as part of a disclosure about Facebook having learned that some user passwords were being stored in plain text and easily searchable by …
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A robot that kind of looks like Wall-E’s big brother helped save Notre Dame
Notre Dame was reportedly only about 15 to 30 minutes away from a fire completely destroying the historic cathedral earlier this week when Paris firefighters decided to play their last hand. Commander Jean-Claude …
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Apple’s got a credit card, and now T-Mobile is launching a checking account
Tech companies and telcos, all of a sudden it seems, have decided to start making money by getting into, well, money. The same way Apple just last month announced it’s teaming up with …
