We’re 11 days away from the premiere of season 6 of Game of Thrones and four new clips from the show have popped up on the web. While there’s nothing too revealing in any of them, they do show some of our favorite characters picking up right where they left off at the end of season 5. Let’s check them out!
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Well, we’ve officially come full circle. The future of technology is being driven by next-generation AOL chat rooms powered by Slack, and next-generation chat bots championed by Facebook. They say “everything old is new again,” and it appears as though that’s indeed the case.
All (half-)joking aside, Facebook on Tuesday made a series of big announcements at its F8 developer conference, and one of the biggest was the hotly anticipated launch of a new bot platform for Facebook Messenger. These machine-powered chat accounts allow companies to interact with Facebook Messenger users without, you know, actually having to interact with Facebook Messenger users. There’s definitely a great deal of potential there, and the first wave of chat bots has already begun to roll out.
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If you’re in need of a flash drive you’ve waited long enough… Amazon is currently offering deep discounts on eight different Samsung flash drives that come in all different shapes and sizes. And we mean it — some of these drives are barely bigger than your thumbnail! The sale is going on right now and the prices you see below are only good until the end of the day on Saturday, April 16, or while supplies last.
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A new Marvel superhero is getting his own movie this year, Doctor Strange. Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, neurosurgeon Stephen Vincent Strange becomes a person with special powers after he embarks on a multi-dimensional quest to fix his injured hands from a previous accident. That’s how he becomes Doctor Strange and ends up serving a Sorcerer Supreme, Earth’s protector against magical and mystical things. A first teaser trailer for the upcoming blockbuster is already available.
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A zero-day software flaw is the kind of security issue tech companies fear most. These are unknown bugs that hackers can use to enter devices, websites, computer networks, and other internet services and products, for malicious purposes. It appears that one such attack was used recently to hack the San Bernardino iPhone, a new report shows. In fact, it looks like everything we thought we knew about the way the FBI breached the iPhone, without requiring Apple’s assistance, may be inaccurate.
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How many different shots are you willing to take until you capture that perfect photo? One professional photographer spent some five months shooting over 200,000 photographs to get the image he wanted. Sure, he used an automated camera setup for his scene, but this doesn’t make it any less impressive.
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You might be using emoji on your iPhone or Android device a lot these days, but it turns out you probably don’t really understand what you’re sending to someone else. A new study shows that certain emoji images will be misunderstood by both senders receivers, as there’s no unified set of images across operating systems. Because images look different depending on what mobile device you’re using, they may trigger a positive or negative response, which can lead to unintended interpretations, conclusions, and results.
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In a scenario that has undoubtedly played out countless times in offices, at parties, in dorms, houses, or basically anywhere there’s a mass of people, individuals will hear the iPhone’s default ringtone blaring and will instinctively reach for their pockets to see if their phone is the culprit. In fact, the iPhone’s default ringtone – named Marimba, if you’re curious – is so ingrained in our collective minds that people will routinely check their pockets even if they have a completely different ringtone enabled.
For a little refresher, you can check out the ringtone in question here.
Sound familiar?
Of course it does.
Now imagine what that ringtone might sound like if it got a bit of a heavy metal makeover.
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Just over a year ago, the first season of Daredevil was released on Netflix to widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike. It was the first show in a partnership between Marvel and Netflix that would see four lesser-known heroes star in their own series, culminating in an event miniseries called The Defenders.
We’re still awaiting the first seasons of two of those shows, but on Monday, Daredevil’s own Charlie Cox confirmed that The Defenders would shoot in 2016.
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HTC has made a lot of promises with the HTC 10 but the one that will make Android fans most skeptical is the promise that it’s finally improved the camera on its flagship device. However, there’s some good news here: DxOMark has released its review of the HTC 10’s camera on Tuesday and it ranked it right up there with the Galaxy S7 as the best smartphone camera in the world right now. That’s high praise and it’s indicative that HTC took complaints about past phones’ cameras to heart over the last year.
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