As soon as Netflix hit it big with House of Cards, and Amazon followed suit with a breakout hit, Transparent, one tech giant after another started seeing dollar signs. Yahoo tried, and other legacy platforms like Facebook and YouTube likewise wanted a bite at the apple — the apple being the engagement and user stickiness that comes when you have a slate of original shows and programming that people want to watch.

When you do have that, users stick around on your platform longer, or at least that’s the idea. So executives started handing out checks, and the great content race began, until, one by one, companies started finding out that you can spend the money, but the hits don’t automatically follow.

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YouTube and Facebook are learning it’s not so easy to make shows people want to watch originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 20:01:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If there’s one archaeological find that would turn the world on its head it would be the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis. Many have looked for the remains of the mythical locale, but nobody has come close to actually finding it, and researchers claiming to have found it in the past have all ultimately been proven wrong.

Now, with a suite of high-tech hardware at its disposal, a company called Merlin Burrows believes it might have finally pinpointed the location where the city once stood. Needless to say, you should take everything you read from this point on with a huge grain of salt.

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High-tech search company claims to have discovered Atlantis originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 19:22:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google has just made a small but significant change to one of its best mobile apps, Google Maps. The company has been tweaking the design of Google Maps for a few months now, making various changes that would bring the popular navigation app in line with its newest Material Design guidelines. What Google didn’t change until now, however, was the side menu in the app. But you’ll soon see an updated menu inside the Google Maps app, because Google has now updated it to fit with the rest of the app’s design.

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The new Google Maps design just got one final tweak originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 18:41:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When you think how far the world has come technologically-speaking since 1993 — well, it’s breathtaking, to say the least. Think about everything from how powerful smartphones are now to what today’s Internet connectivity enables, as well as streaming content and other digital conveniences obliterating the need for physical media, bricks-and-mortar and so much more. Back in ’93, AT&T ran an ad campaign called “You Will” that, oddly enough, laid out a series of forecasts about technology advances the world could expect to see — and the company actually got many things right! From being able to make video calls to using GPS navigation in your car, they were forecasts that include many things we don’t even think about as amazing or big discoveries, really, anymore.

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AT&T envisions a future of caretaker robots, smarter homes and interactive movies originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 18:12:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In late 2016, a Georgia woman named Dasha Fincher was arrested during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop in Monroe County. Upon searching the vehicle, police officers noticed a fluffy and blue “crystal like” substance that aroused their suspicion. Though Fincher claimed that it was just a bag of cotton candy, a field drug test at the time revealed that it was actually meth and MDMA. Consequently, Dasha Fincher was arrested for possession of an illegal substance and also charged with intent to distribute.

What initially seemed like a standard traffic stop and drug bust was anything but. Fincher — who couldn’t afford the $1 million bail — went on to serve three months in jail before more rigorous testing could be done. As it turns out, proper testing revealed that the substance was in fact cotton candy. Now, Fincher is suing both Monroe County and the arresting officers. Even more jarring is that Fincher remained in prison for 2 weeks after it was confirmed the substance in the car was not any type of illicit drug.

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A woman spent three months in jail after police confused her bag of cotton candy with meth originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 17:43:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Now that the launch timing of Game of Thrones season 8 has been set, we know that we’re only six or seven months away from the end of the long-running TV series. We’re finally going to see the story all the way to its conclusion, but believe it or not, it won’t be the last time we’ll see the entire cast together on screen.

HBO on Wednesday confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that a rumored reunion special was indeed shot in Belfast, Ireland with the cast of the show before production wrapped. Conan O’Brien served as the host of the special, which features Sean Bean and other actors who have long since left the series.

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‘Game of Thrones’ reunion special confirmed for complete series box set originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 17:14:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s a good reason why Apple executives over the past few years have warned us not to pay attention to mysterious supply chain rumors regarding iPhone production cuts: they’re often dead-wrong. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number of reports claiming that iPhone XR sales have been underwhelming. In fact, many of these reports have relayed that iPhone XR demand is so low that Apple was recently forced to scale back production.

In the process, investors have become quite bearish on Apple shares, not to mention the future prospects of the company. In just a matter of a few weeks, Apple’s stock price went from trading at around $231 a share all the way down to about $172 a share. But as it turns out, it appears that all of the doom and gloom stories surrounding Apple’s fall from grace have been way off the mark. Of course, for anyone who has followed Apple over the years can attest, this scenario seems to play out consistently each and every single year.

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Sorry, haters: Apple says the iPhone XR is the company’s top-selling iPhone model originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 16:51:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A few days ago, we told you that Samsung’s Galaxy S10 phones would hardly be the first handsets in the world to feature a new kind of all-screen design — a display with a hole at the top for the selfie camera that replaces unsightly notches. Samsung already introduced the Infinity-O display a few weeks ago, and the Galaxy A8s should be the first phone to pack the new screen, well before the Galaxy S10 launches.

But it’s not just Samsung that’s making such phones, and Samsung’s most significant Android rival may release an Infinity-O phone before the Galaxy A8s. And we just got an even better look at the upcoming Huawei handset.

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Leak shows the Infinity-O phone that will beat the Galaxy S10 to market originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 16:28:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple charges as much as $1,500 for its 2018 iPhone models and it also enjoys the highest profit margin in the smartphone industry… by a lot. Needless to say, that means it can no longer afford to include a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter with each iPhone. After all, that little adapter probably costs Apple all of $0.25 per unit. If you have a new iPhone XS or XR and you want to use wired headphones, pick up a Chooby Headphone Adapter. It’s just like the one Apple used to include with its iPhones, but it also has a separate Lightning port so you can charge your phone while you listen to music.

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Apple ditched the headphone adapter from its iPhone XS and XR boxes, so grab this one instead originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 16:05:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Many of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday video game deals already ended, but one of the biggest games of the fall is even cheaper now than it was over the weekend. Despite launching just over a week ago, EA’s Battlefield V is currently on sale for just $29.99 at Target — half of what it cost when it arrived on November 20th. You can pick up either the PS4 version or the Xbox One version for this low price right now.

If you want to take advantage of this deal, you’ll need to act fast. Target’s website indicates that this sale will end on Thursday, November 29th, but doesn’t specify exactly when on Thursday. If you were going to pick up Battlefield V at some point over the holidays anyway, you may want to jump on this before tomorrow.

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‘Battlefield V’ is already on sale for $29.99 just a week after launch originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:42:53 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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