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Kit Harington spoiled the ending of Game of Thrones to his wife and former co-star Rose Leslie. Leslie played the wildling known as Ygritte over the course of three seasons on the show, and she is perhaps best known for her line, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.” When Jon Snow and Ygritte first meet in Game of Thrones, they’re loyal to two opposing sides - Jon with the Wall and Ygritte with the “free folk” (or wildlings) who live beyond the Wall....

[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Game of Thrones ahead.] - New images have arrived for next week’s episode of Game of Thrones, teasing conflicts to come and preparations for war. This past Sunday, Game of Thrones finally returned to television with the start of its penultimate season. Kicking off with a bang, the Game of Thrones season 7 premiere’s ratings were up substantially from even season premieres past. While much of the premiere episode was concerned with table setting, the remaining six episodes of season 7 should be anything but....

It may be a far cry from a comedy, but Game of Thrones balances its beheadings with a barrel of laughs. There’s a reason characters like Tyrion Lannister became the fan favorites: they’re funny, and in a world created by the merciless George R. R. Martin, we need some funny. Amid all the violence and despair, the showrunners at HBO managed to pack in a handful of comedic bits that deserve remembering....

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones Season 7 finale.] - Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke have shared their thoughts on the long-awaited Jon Snow (Harington) reveal from the Game of Thrones season 7 finale and speculated about how the news will impact the two characters’ relationship in season 8. Ever since the Game of Thrones season 6 finale last year, book readers and viewers have been waiting anxiously for showrunners David Benioff and D....

http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1328638028/code/cnbcplayershare QUESTION: If you could just comment and tell us what your thoughts are on the job Steve Jobs has done as the CEO of Apple? (Audience laughs as Gates smiles.) GATES: Well, he’s done a fantastic job. Apple is in a bit of a different business where they make hardware and software together. But when Steve was coming back to Apple, which was actually through an acquisition of NeXT that he ran, Apple was in very tough shape....

Apple’s 11-inch iPad Pro highlights today’s best deals, plus you can save on Eve HomeKit accessories and various Twelve South products. You’ll find all that and more below in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple’s 11-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi 1TB is $910 Monitor air quality, humidity, more in HomeKit Nomad stylish Apple Watch bands from $35 Nomad is discounting a selection of its popular Apple Watch bands today from $35. Headlining this promotion is the Nomad Active Strap for $49....

Throughout ten epic seasons of NBC’s Friends, Ross Geller dated plenty of women. Some were his colleagues, students, or just random women he picked from the coffee shop. Ross was also lucky enough to find love in beautiful, intelligent women such as Julie, and his ex-wife Emily. But none of these worked. You know why? He was always Rachel’s lobster. Today we bring you every worst date Ross Geller has had....

You’ve heard the argument a million times - DC’s movies aren’t fun like Marvel’s. They lack the ability to step back and let the source material speak for itself, try too hard to be “edgy,” and heaven forbid they crack a joke every once and a while. Though the films have been trying to right the ship for a while now (with moderate success), Wonder Woman is still the only DC movie since Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy to hold a candle to the best of the superhero genre....

Game of Thrones is known for its penchant for violence, political scheming, and sex. Due to the inherent nature of the political scheming in the show, many characters aren’t exactly trustworthy or even good people. That being said, even though many characters are morally grey, we still have a vast amount of characters that we could consider to be BF worthy. This list will base the BF worthiness of the character based on their personality, as well as their past actions....

Though it was a hugely popular series when it was on the air, the final season of Game of Thrones was divisive, to say the least. The main complaint with fans was that, after eight long seasons, the characters they loved didn’t get satisfying endings. While fans have to accept the ending of the show, the books could give more of what fans was hoped for. George R.R. Martin has two more books left in his Song of Ice and Fire series, and he has confirmed that the ending will share similarities with the show while also having notable differences....

I’ve written about inMarket’s iBeacon marketing platform called Mobile to Mortar before. Condé Nast recently announced its integrated the platform into its Epicurious app, and now the Gannett Company’s popular Key Ring shopping and reward cards app is doing the same. inMarket’s Mobile to Mortar™ (M2M) — the world’s largest beacon platform — enables phones to recognize immediate surroundings in “smart locations” and awaken content when shoppers need it, adding concierge value to the retail experience....

Game developers aren’t sure about whether or not subscription-based gaming services like Google Stadia, Ubisoft’s UPLAY+ or Apple Arcade will lead to individual games being devalued, according to GDC’s State of the Industry survey. The annual questionnaire was just conducted earlier this week, revealing that developers are divided on how these services will impact the gaming market going forward. Now in its eighth year, the State of the Industry survey asked game makers several questions regarding the gaming industry ahead of the 34th annual Game Developers Conference in March....

Here’s a rundown of the short-lived spinoff Gears Of War: Exile. Third-person action games went through something of a transformation in the mid-2000s, following the success of Resident Evil 4. This title reinvented the franchise from survival horror to out and out action, and it’s over the shoulder perspective soon became standard. Another groundbreaking title from this era was Gears Of War, a sci-fi shooter that made cover shooting a widespread mechanic....

Before the release of the iPhone SE 3 next week, an early Geekbench score shows that this new phone has a similar performance to the iPhone 13. Not only that but both smartphones share 4GB of RAM. The Geekbench test is a benchmark tool for comparing the performance of smartphones and other devices. The “iPhone14,6” (which is the iPhone SE 3 internal identifier) scored 1695 in a single-core while it scored 4021 in a multi-core test....

There hasn’t been a Friday the 13th film since 2009, and one big reason for Jason’s continued absence is a lawsuit concerning rights to the franchise. The 1980s were a golden age for slasher movies, and one of the poster boys of this movement was Jason Voorhees, who took over the family business of killing teens at Camp Crystal Lake from his mother Pamela after she lost her head. There was a new Friday the 13th film in all but two years of the decade, with only 1983 and 1987 going without a Voorhees murder spree to call their own....

Jason Voorhees, of Friday the 13th franchise fame, shares a surprising connection to Alfred Hitchcock even though their movies are quite different on the whole. Hitchcock, who is known by many to be the Master of Suspense, played his part in the creation of the slasher sub-genre with his 1960 psychological horror film, Psycho. Starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the soft-spoken motel proprietor with a strange fondness for his mother, Psycho created a murder mystery with a twist ending that became the basis for many others to follow in its footsteps....

Over 14 years after it went off the air, Friends remains one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time. The show centering on the daily lives and zany antics of Phoebe, Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, and Joey earned legions of fans who still quote the show liberally, catch episodes on streaming video and seemingly endless broadcast re-runs, and campaign for a revival. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers got to know and love the six Friends for their individual quirks, foibles, and points of view....

Golden Globe-nominated actor R. Lee Ermey has died at age 74. Although he is probably best known for his role as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Ermey made a career of bringing no-nonsense military personnel to life on the big screen. One of Ermey’s first roles was as a chopper pilot in Apocalypse Now, during which time he also acted as a technical advisor to Francis Ford Coppola. After some minor film parts, the actor was meant to advise on another movie as well: Full Metal Jacket....

While Macs are popular for many high-end applications, including music creation and video editing, there’s one demanding field where they have mostly been dismissed: gaming. ArsTechnica declared Mac gaming dead as long ago as 2007, and ten years later Oculus declared that Macs still aren’t good enough for VR – despite workarounds. But Ars says that there is now some optimism among game developers … In a piece entitled The state of Mac gaming, Ars says that Apple’s OpenGL graphics API just couldn’t compete with Direct3D on Windows when it came to modern machines....

Despite the controversial final season, Game of Thrones will go down as one of the greatest television series of all time. With some of the most stunning sets and visual effects ever created on television being backed up by amazing action and emotional drama, the show had it all. With twists and turns that you never saw coming and an unpredictable finish, the show will go down in history. And, one of the reasons it was so successful was down to the superb season finales that the show always produced....