You spent well over $1,000 to put your gaming rig together and now that it’s done, it’s time to pick out a monitor that’ll do that beastly machine justice. But there’s just one problem: you’re almost out of cash. Don’t worry, you don’t have to spend $700 or even $500 on a high-quality gaming monitor because we’ve got just the sale for you. For a limited time, the Philips 276E6ADSS 27-Inch Class IPS Quantum Dot Technology Monitor with 300cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response time is on sale right now for just $270 on Amazon.

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This has been a very good week for Elon Musk. In addition to seeing the Tesla Model 3 total more than 325,000 reservations, his other company SpaceX just successfully landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating barge in the middle of the ocean. This is the first time that SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket on an ocean platform, although last December it successfully landed a rocket on solid ground.

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It’s been a pretty slow Friday, which is why BuzzFeed decided to spice things up significantly by finding a very creative way to blow up a watermelon. Even better, they decided to do a live stream of the whole thing in which as many as 500,000 people watched at the same time.

What you are about to see is pointless and stupid… but you will not be able to look away.

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Cliffhanger might not be the right word to describe the final moments of Game of Thrones’ fifth season, but it definitely left us wanting more. There are countless plot threads to wrap up, characters in limbo that need accounting for and, of course, the threat of winter finally hitting Westeros in full force.

We’re still more than two weeks away from the premiere, but HBO has started releasing some details about the season’s first episode.

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Just before 5:00 p.m. EDT today, a SpaceX rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida and it will include a critical payload for the International Space Station. The SpaceX rocket will deliver an expandable habitat that can expand to five times the size of its compressed state after 45 minutes. NASA continues to test ways to expand living quarters in space in preparation for deep space missions.

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Following last week’s unveiling of the Model 3, Tesla is riding pretty high right now. And with good reason: The company managed to convince more than 325,000 buyers to put down $1,000 for a car that they likely won’t receive until 2018 at the earliest. Of course, the big question mark hovering over the company now is whether or not they can actually handle that level of production. While it’s undoubtedly encouraging that hundreds of thousands of consumers are eager to purchase the Model 3, its possible that interest may wane if some deliveries are pushed back until 2020.

Another issue surrounding the Model 3 is that its feature-set isn’t entirely clear at this point. Yeah, we know it’s a sleek car with fast acceleration, but many other important features remain a bit murky to say the least. For instance, when Musk first introduced the Model 3, he insinuated that Supercharging would be free. However, a closer inspection of Musk’s remarks revealed that Supercharging capabilities on the Model 3 would come standard, perhaps implying that Model 3 users might have to pay for Supercharging access.

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It’s apparently very easy to develop iPhone malware, a new report shows. And it’s not Apple’s fault. The security features built into iOS and the App Store are as strong as ever, but there are certain things that make a hacker’s job a lot easier.

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News reporters can be as professional as they come, but sometimes life has a funny way of turning what should otherwise be a serious segment into a comedic blooper. While we’ve covered news bloopers before (this compilation of 2015 missteps is certainly worth taking a look at), News Be Funny recently came out with an entirely fresh batch of bloopers that should be good for more than a few laughs ahead of the weekend.

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A Barbie doll sits innocently atop a workbench, unaware of the 100 tons of terror that are about to close in on it. Off camera, we hear a man with a Finnish accent say ominously that the doll is “beautiful… but [for] how long?” A motor starts whirring up and within seconds a hydraulic press closes in on the iconic toy and then… SQUISH.

This is the kind of wanton destruction that occurs on a regular basis at the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel that popped up last year and has since become a smash hit on social media sites like Reddit. As of this writing, the channel has more than 450,000 subscribers and its videos have been watched collectively more than 36 million times.

This week, BGR talked with the channel’s founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.

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If there’s one thing and one thing alone that you learn from the BGR Deals team, we hope it’s this: your cable company is ripping you off. Seriously, if you don’t purchase your own cable modem then you’re paying up to $120 (more, including taxes) per year in bogus modem rental fees that serve no purpose at all Your ISP doesn’t want you to know that you can save all that cash with one single purchase, but that’s why we’re here.

And right now, the Linksys Advanced DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (DPC3008) is back on sale for just $49.95 with free express shipping.

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