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Foxconn’s main iPhone assembly plant has cut around 50,000 contract jobs since October, says a new report. As iPhone demand is seasonal, ramping up when new models are released and through the holiday season, and then reducing later, the company relies on a large influx of temporary workers to meet the changing production requirements. But this time it is said to have cut many of those contract jobs months earlier than usual …...

Apple’s new Retina 5K iMacs headline today’s top deals, plus a new 3-day sale at Best Buy, and rare Apple Watch Series 3 discounts. Hit the jump for all that and more in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple’s new Retina 5K iMac delivers a 27-inch display and comes powered by 10th Gen. Intel CPUs with an AMD Radeon Pro 5300 graphics card. This model is outfitted with 8GB of RAM and boasts a 256GB solid-state drive....

As video game retailer GameStop continues to diversify its retail portfolio, the company says it will dramatically expand its Apple product-focused Simply Mac retail locations throughout 2015, the Star-Telegram reports. Simply Mac is an authorized Apple Specialist retail chain founded in 2006 and bought by GameStop in 2012. News of its expansion is good news for Apple consumers as Simply Mac typically looks for markets where Apple lacks a retail presence like Shreveport, Louisiana; Springfield, Missouri, and a couple dozen midwestern locations across Utah, Colorado, and more....

Apple is facing an investigation from the data protection watchdog CINL in France, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The investigation centers on whether Apple’s “personalized advertising” features violate the European Union’s privacy rules. The complaint was first filed last week, as we reported at the time, and the news today is that CNIL, the regulator overseeing privacy and data in France, has started examining these allegations as part of an “initial investigation....

It’s been almost 3 decades since the sitcom Friends first premiered, and over a decade since the show bid us goodbye with its final episode in 2004. However, even after all these years, Friends remains one of the most adored and talked about TV shows in the history of television. The sitcom’s humor is still relevant in today’s time, making it the second most-streamed show on Netflix last year. What really makes Friends a hit are the 6 lead characters in the show....

It looks like after years of limited sequels from Disney Animation, they are finally falling into the business of sequels with their releases of Ralph Breaks The Internet and Frozen 2. Before now, the studio often shied away from sequels to popular films, choosing instead to go after original concepts only. But, that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. In fact, many animated sequels are even better than their originals — though not most....

Saturday Night Live took on yet another Disney classic, parodying Frozen 2 in a sketch showing “deleted scenes.” Saturday Night Live has been airing on NBC since 1975 and, along with political satire, SNL also parodies movies - and Disney is far from excluded from those sketches. One of SNL’s most renowned Disney parodies is its “Real Housewives of Disney Sketch” starring guest host Lindsay Lohan as Rapunzel with the rest of the SNL leading ladies playing the other princesses....

Update: Qualcomm unsurprisingly disagrees with the judgement and will be appealing the ruling to the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit. Original story below. Judge Koh has filed her ruling on the FTC antitrust suit against Qualcomm, and it comprehensively concludes that Qualcomm business practices were anticompetitive as reported by FOSSPatents. Qualcomm has been ordered to renegotiate existing licensing terms such that its supply of modem chips is wholly separate to any patent licensing agreement....

SSDs are fast, but still expensive compared to spinning metal drives, giving us less storage capacity in today’s Macs than we got in older models. Pick up a classic 13-inch MacBook Pro with a hard drive, for example, and you’ll get 500GB of storage for $1100, compared to just 128GB of SSD storage in the $1300 entry-level Retina model. That may be set to change thanks to new 3D NAND technology announced by Intel and Micron, allowing them to fit far greater storage capacity into the same space as today’s drives....

Game of Thrones is one of the most popular TV shows of all time. Since the fantasy series was released on HBO in 2011, the show continued to grow in popularity as it encapsulated its viewers with intense action, delicate political scheming, and shocking events such as the Red Wedding. However, one area that Game of Thrones doesn’t often get credit for is horror. The world of Game of Thrones is vast and full of terrors, some of which did not make it into the TV show (or even the books as of yet)....

Frogr Frogr is a full-featured app for syncing your Flickr account with your Linux system. There are features such as uploading photos, editing the title, description, tags, visibility, content type, safety level, and License type. You can also configure ‘Show up in Global search results,’ ‘Geolocation information,’ and ‘Replace Date Posted with Date Taken.’ How To Install Frogr In Debian & Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions Frogr can be easily installed in Ubuntu from PPA....

Although winter has already come to many, it won’t be quite as dreary this year now that a few new Game of Thrones collectibles have arrived, courtesy of toy maker McFarlane Toys. McFarlane is responsible for some of movie and TV fans’ favorite memorabilia, including a plentiful amount of Harry Potter figurines as well as some Mortal Kombat action figures. Though the series has ended, it’s never a bad time to be a Game of Thrones fan, especially since the release of this collection coincides with the DVD release of the Game of Throne’s final season....

WARNING: Spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4. The last war has begun in Game of Thrones, and it certainly looks like King’s Landing will be destroyed before the season is over. But who will light the match or utter the fateful words - and who will be really to blame when the dust settles? Now that the White Walker threat is dealt with, Daenerys and Jon’s focus shifts south to Queen Cersei....

To close out the work week, Friday’s best deals are headlined by Apple’s latest iPad Air at $549, as well as an offers on the LG UltraFine 5K Thunderbolt 3 Monitor and Beats Pill+ Bluetooth Speaker. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple’s latest iPad Air falls to $549 With a redesigned casing, Apple’s latest iPad Air packs a 10.9-inch edge-to-edge screen equipped with True Tone support....

When it comes to Android Smartphone, We all love customization. There are many ways that you can make it your own, from transferring contacts and apps to installing widgets to downloading fun wallpaper. Once you get used to, you will learn many ways that you can customize your Android device, even without rooting it. Today we will share the Apps which are ported from the latest launched Galaxy Note 8. A member of XDA Developers has ported Galaxy Note 8 apps for all Samsung devices running on Android Nougat....

One of the most climactic battles in the entire Game of Thrones series, the Battle of Winterfell, came to its inevitable conclusion in Episode 3, Season 8. Pitting the forces of the Living against the forces of the Night King and his White Walkers, it was not only a clash of ideals but also in battle tactics. The White Walkers boasted superior numbers and a hive-mind mentality, while the Living boasted smaller numbers, but some of the most elite fighting forces in Westeros, as well as being backed by two dragons....

HBO is set to order a pilot for a House Targaryen spin-off series, making yet another Game of Thrones project that author George R.R. Martin is involved with - all while there’s still no sign of The Winds of Winter’s release date. The prequel is reportedly going to chronicle the Targaryens’ history, using Martin’s Fire & Blood book as a basis, with the A Song of Ice and Fire scribe developing it alongside Ryan Condal (Colony)....

Caution: Spoilers ahead for the Game of Thrones season finale - A poll of Game of Thrones fans suggests that almost half of viewers were left disappointed by last night’s season 8 finale and the show’s highly anticipated ending. After eight years dominating the television landscape, HBO’s Game of Thrones, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R. R. Martin, finally came to its shocking conclusion last night....

One of the most popular theories in Game of Thrones suggests that Jon Snow is the reincarnation of a legendary hero, Azor Ahai. However, another theory posits that Jon isn’t Azor Ahai reborn, the Prince That Was Promised, but is instead the embodiment of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes. As Game of Thrones season 8 quickly approaches, fans are anxiously awaiting anything which might provide some insight in what happens in these final episodes....

Over the years, Sharp has served as one of the key suppliers to Apple for several parts. Sharp’s president even said late last week that the company will begin shipping displays for the sixth-generation iPhone next month. The device is expected to be announced and to ship around the same time. You would think that Sharp would be well off with a contract from Apple, but that does not look to be the case....