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The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it is suing Facebook. The lawsuit accuses Facebook of “illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.” A separate lawsuit has also been filed by a coalition of 48 attorneys general led by New York AG Letitia James. The FTC lawsuit focuses on Facebook using its power to eliminate threats to its monopoly and the effect the actions have had on consumers....

From “hold the door” to the Red Wedding, Game of Thrones has delivered some of the most iconic plot twists in entertainment. While the final season has proven divisive for many fans, it certainly hasn’t backed down on its plot twists. The best of season 8’s twists are rooted in the satisfying, yet in some ways unexpected culmination of rich character arcs. The less effective twists–some of which have been received with excessive backlash–were less effective as they leaned too heavily into the surprise factor and not enough on the journey of the actual story or characters....

Game of Thrones is over, and one of the characters who survived the show was Tyrion Lannister, who still never managed to finish his series-long joke. His last scene in the series finale shows Tyrion seated at the head of the Small Council, as Hand to King Bran the Broken, speaking with Master of Coin (Bronn), Master of Ships (Davos), Commander of the Kingsguard (Brienne), and Grand Maester (Sam Tarly). As the Council debates the importance of sewers, ships, and brothels, Tyrion chimes in at the end with, “I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel…” Some fans may have thought that this was nothing other than Tyrion being his usual glib self, but committed fans know that this has been a running joke for the character since season 1, and one has actually figured out the punchline....

Jon Snow may have had an inkling Daenerys Targaryen would destroy King’s Landing according to the Game of Thrones season 8 scripts. Daenerys’ controversial power move occurred during the show’s penultimate episode, “The Bells.” After the difficult defeat during the Battle of Winterfell, Daenerys turned her sights to King’s Landing and the False Queen, Cersei Lannister. With no hope of surrender from Cersei, Daenerys prepared her forces consisting of the Unsullied, Dothraki, and Northmen....

The first of five proposed Game of Thrones spinoffs has a script, but its contents are still a mystery. After seven years of global pop culture dominance, HBO’s biggest series ever will be coming to a close next season. With shooting starting soon, the final season of Game of Thrones is expected to arrive late next year. And though it’s unsurprisingly being billed as both monumental and the most expensive season yet, it will only be comprised of 6 episodes....

Unlike Microsoft’s other discount programs, Microsoft DreamSpark offers students FREE, NO-COST access to all of Microsoft’s development, server and designer tools including the following software titles: (as of the writing of this groovy Article) Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server ExpressVisual Studio 2008 Professional and Visual Studio 2005Visual Web Developer 2008 ExpressVisual C++ 2008 ExpressVisual C# 2008 ExpressVisual Basic 2008 ExpressRobotics Developer Studio 2008 R2CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 R2XNA Game Studio 3....

We’re heading into the month of June, which means that it’s time for the newest roster of PlayStation Plus games to be revealed for subscribers of the service. This month, the PS Plus June selection includes Borderlands and Sonic. If you haven’t checked out last month’s roster then now is the time to do so—you only have a few days left to swoop up the goods. The PS Plus May free game list included the local co-op cooking fest, Overcooked, infamous for ruining relationships with its special blend of multiplayer chaos....

Wireless provider FreedomPop, the company providing access to free monthly data plans through a number of hotspot devices and iOS device accessories, today announced it is expanding its 3G coverage through Sprint’s network to provide nationwide coverage to its customers. In addition to the network expansion, it is also now accepting preorders for its latest hotspot device dubbed “Overdrive Pro” (pictured above): FreedomPop offers users free data (with the option to purchase more) ranging from 500MB to 2GB per month through devices such as its $99 WiMAX sleeve for iPod touch or the recently announced $89 Burst 4G home wireless router....

Ross mistaking Emily for Rachel at the altar is one of Friends most memorable moments, and it was possible thanks to an honest mistake from David Schwimmer in a previous episode. Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, Friends debuted on NBC in 1994 and came to an end in 2004 after ten seasons and a lot of ups and downs in the lives of the main characters. The series followed a group of six friends (Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross) living in New York City and doing their best to balance their personal and professional lives....

Here’s your ultimate guide to all the Easter eggs and callbacks in Frozen 2. Audiences have been waiting a long time for a sequel to the 2013 animated classic Frozen, and it’s finally here. Set three years after the events of the first movie, Frozen 2 sees Anna and Elsa uncover the tragic secrets that lie in their family history. It’s a darker sequel, and the ending forces both of the sisters to figure out their place in the world....

An unknown Marvel Studios production is reportedly scouting locations in Italy for a World War I-set production. The European country has been the backdrop of an MCU project before in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where the small town of Bard and its Fort Bard doubled as Sokovia. Earlier this year, Spider-Man: Far From Home also shot sequences in Venice. Not long after that, it seems like the studio is looking to come back for a brand new movie....

The Faceless Men are one of the most mysterious organizations in the world of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. The Faceless Men worship the Many-Faced God of death, work as assassins, are said to abhor slavery, and hold the words valar morghulis (all men must die) and valar dohaeris (all men must serve) close to heart. Despite the fact that Arya’s time with the Faceless Men reached its conclusion, we still learned very little about the organization as a whole, leading many fans to be disappointed with their treatment on the show....

Game of Thrones may be over, but the end of the series certainly hasn’t stopped fans speculating. While some have gone back to talking about what will change in the book series, and how things will be different for the Westeros on the page, others are still speculating about the future of Westeros on the screen - including who some of the new characters are from the final season. Unsurprisingly, HBO chose not to add too many new faces for the final episodes, but there were a few in the finale itself, at the council of lords and ladies gathered to decide Tyrion and Jon Snow’s fates....

Cersei Lannister was an evil queen even before she reigned over Westeros from the Iron Throne. We first meet Cersei in season one of Game Of Thrones when the Lannister queen travels to Winterfell with her husband Robert Baratheon following the death of Jon Arryn. Sansa Stark initially admires Cersei and celebrates when the King betroths her to Joffrey. However, she soon realizes that Cersei isn’t what she seems after she becomes the queen’s hostage in King’s Landing....

Game of Thrones’ Battle of Winterfell - in season 8, episode 3 - ended the Long Night barely after it had begun when Arya Stark killed the Night King and his army in a huge twist. But as satisfying as that moment was on TV, it’s highly unlikely the A Song of Ice & Fire books will wrap up the White Walker storyline in the same way - near impossible, in fact....

Game of Thrones’ latest episode, “The Bells”, destroyed the Red Keep - but what about the Iron Throne? After the Golden Company, the Iron Fleet, and the entire Lannister army was defeated in Game of Thrones season 8, episode 5, which happens to be the penultimate episode of the season, Daenerys fulfills her destiny and becomes the Mad Queen, thus following in her father’s footsteps. Even though the Lannisters and the people of King’s Landing surrendered, Dany took it upon herself to kill everyone....

Game of Thrones, HBO’s biggest hit of the last decade, recently launched production on its final season, which is expected to air on the premium network in 2019, with a series of episodes that are longer in length but fewer in number. However, that doesn’t mean we’ll have seen the last of the Kingdom of Westeros. That’s because HBO is working on developing multiple spinoffs of the series, based on various aspects of George R....

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Funny WiFi addresses [sic] are the new funny answering machine messages. You all remember when answering machines came out, right? Or at least you’ve seen this episode of Seinfeld? In an era when no one uses the phone anymore (except telemarketers and Robo callers), the wireless network SSID is where you can share your punnery with random neighbors and passers-by. The Reddit thread led to some absolute gems which I’m pretty sure you can steal for your own amusement....

It’s probably safe to say that out of all the relationships on Friends, Monica and Phoebe’s is the least favorite pairing. This may be because the two women are total opposites. Where Phoebe is free-spirited and outgoing, Monica is organized and uptight. Their different styles of life is the main reason why Phoebe ends up moving in with her grandmother. However, that is not to say their friendship is all chalk and cheese....