Game of Thrones cut one of its most compelling female characters featured in the book series. The mega-hit HBO epic fantasy from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss was based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and premiered way back in 2011. It instantly became one of the world’s most popular shows, but not everyone who viewed the series was knowledgable of the events from Martin’s books....
Rachel was right, the madcap girl Phoebe Buffay should be on Oprah. She’d lived on the streets, thought Einstein was her grandfather, her mother killed herself, grandma said her father was a famous tree surgeon in Burma, she was friends with muggers in New York. Most notably, Phoebe fell in love with a gay ice dancer and married him because he needed a green card. Before she got married to Mike in a fairytale setting, she had never been in a long term relationship, never celebrated an anniversary....
Here’s a quick recap of what went down in Frontier’s season 1 finale. A co-production between Netflix and Discovery Canada, Frontier is a historical drama set in late eighteenth century Canada at the height of the fur trade, as tensions mount between trappers and the monopolistic Hudson’s Bay Company. The series stars Jason Momoa as Declan Harp – a part-Cree, part-Irish fur trader whose ruthless reputation precedes him. Harp has major beef with the evil Lord Benton (Alun Armstrong, Van Helsing), his former employer and a high-ranking officer with the Hudson’s Bay Company who has traveled to the New World with equally contemptible minion Captain Chesterfield (Evan Jonigkeit, Sweetbitter) to make an example of the trapper gone rogue....
To be headed by Junichi Arahori, the new office will focus on implementing ethical measures related to the research, development, and implementation of AI and other machine learning applications. “This marks the next step in Fujitsu’s ongoing efforts to strengthen and enforce comprehensive, company-wide measures to achieve robust AI ethics governance based on international best-practices, policies, and legal frameworks,” the company stated. But Fujitsu is not the only Japanese tech giant thinking about AI applications....
Warning: SPOILERS for Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5 ahead! - Game of Thrones season 8, episode 5 is the end for Lord Varys. The Spider and Master of Whispers is executed by Daenerys at the start of the episode, but before he dies, he’s seen writing letters. What’s in those letters? And to whom is he sending them? As the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones’ final season, “The Bells” does come with an appropriate amount of shock and spectacle....
Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff & D.B.Weiss joke about Star Wars fan backlash as they prepare to oversee a new film trilogy in the iconic franchise. This December, the Skywalker saga comes to a close with J.J. Abrams’ Episode IX, but Lucasfilm has plenty of other projects coming through the pipeline. In addition to Benioff & Weiss’ series, Last Jedi director Rian Johnson is spearheading a trilogy of his own....
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnO5eZt0EXo] Foxconn seems to be happy about the news late last week that Mike Daisy’s monologue about his Foxconn ‘findings’ was mostly fabricated from news reports. In a statement to Businessweek, Louis Woo, spokesman for Taipei-based Foxconn said: Daisey was exposed via an NPR reporter that contacted his translator Cathey Lee who denied just about every part of Daisey’s story. Daisey, for his part, responded: Daisey has been forced to stop his show but did receive a standing ovation following its last performance this weekend....
Game of Thrones is a show full of shocking plot twists and many, many revelations. Fans are bound to miss some of them. Including revelations to do with the relationship between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. Whether it’s the fact that Jon liked Daenerys from the beginning, or that both of them are candidates for fulfilling the Azor Ahai prophecy, fans missed certain things about these iconic characters. Luckily, we are here to help fans see what they’ve missed....
Within the fantasy world of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen is undeniably one of the most compelling and powerful characters in the entire fictional history of the GoT universe. Daenerys has seemingly made miracles happen, has almost single-handedly brought magic back into a world where mysticism seemed to be on death’s door and has conquered nearly the entire known world with three dragons and a dream of what she could make into reality....
To add to its catalog of refurbished iPods, iPads, and iPhones, major game/entertainment retailer GameStop could be on its way to selling the MacBook too. Gaming website Kotaku posted the screenshot above Friday afternoon, which was taken directly from GameStop’s internal systems by an anonymous employee. Of course, this could just be some sort of placeholder or trial that the company has put in, but GameStop is most likely moving to sell refurbished MacBooks....
As one of the last of its own apps to get an update for iOS 8, Apple has now updated its GarageBand app for iPhone and iPad with support for the new operating system and more. On top of the expected iOS 8 support, the app also gains MIDI over Bluetooth support, which means compatible MIDI keyboards, DJ controllers and other MIDI-based instruments can now connect wirelessly and send MIDI data to the app over Bluetooth LE....
We first learned back in March that Foxconn was planning a bid to acquire Toshiba’s semiconductor business, which mostly makes flash storage chips. The following month, it was said to have increased its bid to $27B in an attempt to defeat rival bids, and it was later suggested that Apple would be seeking its own direct stake in the business … Public broadcaster NHK suggested that Apple was planning its own bid of ‘several billion dollars’ for a stake of more than 20% of the company....
Amid rumors of plans to move to the United States, cut iPhone orders, and expansions to India, Foxconn today announced that it saw its first-ever annual sales decline in 2016 since it went public in 1991. The company’s decline is being blamed on “lukewarm” demand from Apple, its biggest client, according to Nikkei. In 2016, Foxconn recorded revenues of $136.38 billion, down 2.81 percent compared to 2015. Apple accounts for over 50 percent of the company’s revenue....
As the investor community fears devastating repercussions to the production schedules of Chinese industry in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, many doubt whether Apple’s major iPhone 12 release cycle will be able to go ahead as normal. For its part, Foxconn appears unfazed. Via Bloomberg, the key iPhone assembly told investors on a private conference call today that it is still prepared for a fall 5G iPhone debut. Since the iPhone 4s, Apple has launched new flagship iPhones in the fall....
Sometimes, a change in scenery is all it takes to gain a new perspective. Apple fans in Barcelona today are learning this firsthand as Apple celebrates the grand reopening of its Passeig de Gràcia store following four months of renovation. Changes large and small add up to a new focus on creativity that Apple is sharing with the community. On the edge of Plaça Catalunya, Apple’s historic storefront temporarily went dark in February....
In the world of Game of Thrones, there are few creatures more powerful and more mysterious than dragons. After years of absence from the world, Daenerys Targaryen walked into the funeral pyre of Khal Drogo holding three dragon eggs, and she emerged still alive with three hatched baby dragons along with her. And that was the start of Dany’s quest to conquer the world, using the most powerful forces of fire known to existence to do it....
[NOTE: This article contains SPOILERS for Game of Thrones] - The wait is almost over for Season 7 of Game of Thrones, which is looking more and more like a season of shocking reveals, the culmination of book subplots and theories, and more showdowns with the villainous White Walkers. To show that Thrones won’t be keeping the title forces of the novel apart much longer, a teaser image showed Ice and Fire at once - and now, the first Season 7 teaser trailer includes Jon Snow warning of a bigger threat on the way: The Great War....
The Nintendo Switch has recently gotten a new custom build by creator Rated-E Mods in the custom community, which allows players to dock their switch directly into an old GameCube with working controller ports and all. The GameCube was released in 2001 and has, over time, become a cult classic in the gaming world. Harboring games like Super Smash Bros. Melee, which is still incredibly popular in the fighting game scene today, makes the GameCube extremely relevant in the eyes of many in the Nintendo community....
Looking for ways to get fit in the midst of the pandemic? It is true that a lot of people have gotten less healthy thanks to the entire “stay at home” situation that has been going on for over a year now around the world. While hitting your local gym is not the best idea in the middle of a virus, there’s a lot you can get done right at home....
In a post last night the independent developer – a student – wrote: “Well – I’ve received notice from Apple that they’ve been contacted by The Tetris Company about Tris. That, I’m afraid, is essentially game over. Do they have a case? No. Not really. I am convinced that if it went to court, the “copyright” claim would get thrown out completely. The trademark, perhaps not – but if I changed the name, to eg....
