Are film critics in this day and age completely useless? We wondered as much in a recent post after nearly every notable movie critic out there slammed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in their reviews. You can read a quick review roundup right here. It even got to the point where Zack Snyder and several members of the film’s cast had to defend the movie in interviews ahead of its opening.

Well, if you’re looking for evidence that the general public completely ignores film critics, you’ve found it: After enjoying one of the biggest openings in box office history, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice just passed $700 million worldwide.

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The annual Microsoft Build Developer Conference has gotten progressive more interesting over the past few years, but there wasn’t quite as much to get excited about in 2016. But that’s not to say there weren’t any announcement, with one of the biggest centering around the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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It used to be that Apple took its sweet time with iOS updates, but the company appears to be embracing a new strategy focused on releasing software enhancements, tweaks and bug fixes faster than ever before.

Just about two weeks after releasing iOS 9.3, MacRumors is reporting that Apple has already seeded developers with a beta version of iOS 9.3.2. What’s that you say? What happened to iOS 9.3.1? Well, you might have missed it because Apple quietly rolled it out less than a week ago.

While iOS 9.3.2 in and of itself doesn’t appear to be a momentous update – just the typical smattering of performance improvements and bug fixes – Apple’s more aggressive iOS release schedule is encouraging.

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A United Airlines flight attendant recently made national news after she decided to exit a landed plane by opening up the aircraft’s emergency slide and subsequently riding it down to the runway. Following that, the flight attendant calmly and smoothly walked away, as if everything was completely normal.

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Google’s latest publicly available version of the Android mobile platform, Android 6.0, was first released on October 5th, 2015. Apple’s iOS 9 was released to the general public 19 days earlier on September 16th. Both operating systems are now more than six months old, and they both offer smartphone and tablet users a wide range of cutting-edge features as well as crucial security enhancements.

Can you guess how end-user adoption of these two leading mobile operating systems compares after six months?

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If you want an Android set-top box that can stream anything and everything as far as on demand TV show and movie services go, but that can pull double duty as a top-notch video game console, you’ve just found the holy grail. And as it happens, you’ve found the holy grail while it’s on sale at a nice discount on Amazon.

For a limited time, the NVIDIA SHIELD and NVIDIA SHIELD Pro are both on sale, so you can pick one up right now for as little as $180 shipped.

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The biggest movie of 2015 is finally available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD, and you can also buy the year’s best movie as a digital HD download. In addition to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the disc and download contains plenty of extra material, including a documentary, the cast’s table read of the script, and some of the deleted scenes that never made it into the final cut of last year’s Star Wars revival.

Some of these deleted scenes contain details that might be useful to the story while others are made of unnecessary fluff — and we’ll tell you everything you need to know right here.

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Here at BGR, we love flamethrowers. We’re also big fans of Britons Gav and Dan (a.k.a., The Slow Mo Guys), who have made a name for themselves posting incredible 4K slow-motion videos of all kinds of crazy phenomena. So when I saw that the Slow Mo Guys put out a new video on Wednesday that dealt with flamethrowers, I could not click on it fast enough.

It really doesn’t get much better than this.

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Over the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to play around in virtual reality dozens of times. Whether it was a 360-degree movie on the Oculus Rift or an intense car chase on PlayStation VR, I was always entertained. But until I got my hands on an HTC Vive, I never realized that VR might actually be the next big thing.

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At the beginning of March, Sony announced that it would bring the PS4’s Remote Play feature to PC with the launch of the next system software update. Just over a month later, the release date of the update has arrived, which means that PS4 owners will now be able to play PS4 games on their computers.

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