Who knew when a former top cable industry lobbyist took the helm at the Federal Communications Commission that it would lead to this much positive change for consumers? The FCC’s much-lauded new net neutrality rules took effect this past Friday, and we’re already seeing the effects they’re having on the Internet. The new rules aim to prevent ISPs from implementing anti-consumer schemes like paid traffic prioritization, data blocking and bandwidth throttling, and there is already a major shift taking place in the industry.

On Wednesday, the FCC levied a massive $100 million fine against AT&T for throttling users’ unlimited wireless data. Now, news that Sprint has shelved its data-throttling policy marks yet another win for wireless customers in the United States.

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What do pets do when they’re left alone in the house all day long, after their owners go to work? That’s one question animation studio Illumination Entertainment is trying to answer in a hilarious new movie, and its first trailer has been released.

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You don’t have to see Jurassic World, a movie that just set the record for opening weekend revenue, to be familiar with a specific scene from the new dinosaur flick: Chris Pratt’s character Owen Grady is sort of a velociraptor whisperer in the latest installment of the Jurassic Park universe and he’s able to sort of control raptors, as seen in the image above. That move has become the latest Internet meme, with zookeepers and pet owners everywhere showing their similar skills on Twitter and Instagram.

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Every smartphone user wants a device that offers terrific battery life, but which ones actually deliver? PhoneArena has taken a comprehensive look at battery performance rankings from several key benchmarks and has used them to create what might be the definitive list of flagship smartphones with the best battery lives.

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We’ve all seen Orlando Bloom star in both the Lord of the Rings saga and in The Hobbit trilogy, but have we really paid attention every one of his scenes, even the ones where he’s just in the background? Because as some movie fans pointed out with help of a few GIFs from the movie, Legolas may have been secretly trolling us with his facial expressions.

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Avalanche Studios is launching two games this fall. They’re both set in vast, open worlds. They both thrive on destruction. They both star gruff dudes in a foreign landscape, intent on toppling the evil forces that rule the land.

One is Mad Max and the other is Just Cause 3, but from what I saw at E3 2015, Mad Max is an entirely new experience – one that Just Cause fans will appreciate and one that everyone else might just become throughly engrossed in.

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Forgive me if I get emotional. I’m not sure how the season finale of Game of Thrones could have been any more intense than it was. The tension leading into the final episode of season 10 had reached fever pitch, and there wasn’t a moment’s rest in the entire episode. I might have actually been sweating by the time the episode was over. And the death toll, while not unexpected, left viewers reeling.

Now, it’s time to take a closer look at all the main characters who lived and died in season 5 of the hit HBO show. Warning: Spoilers follow below.

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The Raspberry Pi continues to be a game-charger. The tiny device burst onto the scene in 2012 as an ultra-affordable PC-on-a-card that could be used by anyone to serve as the brains of all sorts of gadgets. No longer was the task of sourcing computer components and piecing them together a barrier to entry for entrepreneurs and engineers, freeing them to focus on building out the rest of their product ideas.

But the Raspberry Pi isn’t just for founders, of course. Anyone can buy one starting at $20, and now you can spend another $9 to turn your Pi into a full-fledged mini PC.

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I’m not what you’d call a hardcore gamer, but I definitely play lots of mobile games of all types and I’m already very excited to try out some of the titles that various studios announced at E3 2015. Of those, six stand out and are likely to become quite popular with smartphone and tablet owners. Sadly for Android fans, many of them might hit iPhone before they’re launched in the Google Play Store, but Android support is surely down the road.

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It’s not happening today or tomorrow, but we’re slowly running out of water, new NASA data shows. Looking down at the planet using its GRACE satellites over a period of ten years, the researchers at NASA discovered that more than half of Earth’s 37 largest aquifers are being depleted at an alarming rate, far faster than they can be replenished.

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