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Following a report last weekend that Germany was planning to punish Facebook, a report from The Washington Post now says the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. is planning “record-setting” fines against the social media giant. The report cites three people familiar with the matter and says regulators plan to punish the company for failing to protect user data. According to the report, U.S. regulators have met to discuss the “record-setting fine....

Following reports last week that the release of the upcoming Ashton Kutcher “Jobs” biopic has been delayed, The New York Times reported Funny or Die is set to release its own Steve Jobs biopic featuring Justin Long of Mac vs. PC fame. The film titled “iSteve” is scheduled to be unveiled online on April 15 and will be a 60- to 75-minute film starring Long in the lead role as Jobs:...

Philip J. Fry, better known as just Fry, is the main character of Futurama, and as such, he gets some of the best lines in the entire series. After being frozen in the year 2000, Fry wakes up one thousand years in the future, where he has to build a new life for himself. Unfortunately, Fry was never all that intelligent, and his twentieth-century slacker ways find him adapting to the future in ways that most people would not choose, such as finding new ways to be lazy....

Briefly touched upon in the Game of Thrones series and described further in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, Valyria has both a rich and tragic history. The Valyrian Peninsula, the southern coast of central Essos, was the heartland of the now extinct Valyrian Freehold. Mostly destroyed by “The Doom of Valyria,” what was once a booming empire is now a wasteland, with the largest surviving fragment, Valyria, left partially intact - ironically preserved by the very ash that destroyed it....

The Game of Thrones season 8 premiere updated fans on where all their favorite characters are - and also revealed the horrible fate of Ed Sheeran’s character, who was caught up in Daenerys’ attack on the Lannister and Tarly armies. In a scene where Bronn tries to enjoy some relaxing downtime with some of the ladies of King’s Landing, dialogue reveals that poor “Eddie” survived, but returned from the battle with his face burned so badly that his eyelids are gone....

Game of Thrones prequel The Long Night can answer some burning questions that have never been answered on the show or in A Song of Ice & Fire books. A spinoff to Game of Thrones has long been planned at HBO, and now it’s beginning to move forward. Producers and writers George R.R. Martin and Jane Goldman have confirmed the series will take place during the Age of Heroes, roughly 8000 years before the events of Game of Thrones and ASOIAF....

. Stack Social’s got a solid gamer bundle headed by two great Apps: Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare and Civ V. The 6 Mac Games Include: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ($40) Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before. With amazing special effects, including rim-lighting, depth of field, texture streaming and character self-shadowing, players are enlisted into one of the most photo-realistic shooter experiences imaginable....

Friends is one of those shows that you just can’t get enough of, and many fans would happily argue that its 10-season run was too short. During that time, not only did this lovable New York bunch provide us with countless fun and memorable moments but they also enriched our vocabulary with dozens of quirky phrases. Today, we can count the amount of catchphrases used by Friends in dozens, as each character had at least a few....

Friends - the smash hit sitcom aired on NBC from 1994-2004. It started with the four of the main characters, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe seated in a coffee house, debating over what a real date was. A heartbroken Ross Geller was soon to join them. Ross’s “I just want to be married again” was met with the entry of Rachel Green. The character progression in Friends in the case of some went from good to bad, and in others from bad to worse....

Following its introduction earlier this month, Apple’s newest operating system has fallen under criticism and scrutiny from both designers and casual users alike. Due to both the tight development timetable and the new design direction under Jony Ive, following the removal of former iOS SVP Scott Forstall last fall, iOS 7 is, understandably, the most controversial and intriguing iOS version yet. In response to much of the negative criticism directed towards iOS 7, some have suggested that iOS 7 will change substantially before it is released to the general public....

Game of Thrones might have had a controversial final season, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the best television shows of all time. The show was very consistent for the majority of its run, having some tremendous episodes that created unforgettable television. Many of those greatest episodes took place in the season premieres which always did a great job at setting the tone for the shows. Each season-opening had the pressure of needing to bring in the audiences for the whole season, and they always managed to do just that....

LITTLEFINGER’S CRIMES AGAINST THE STARKS When Game of Thrones began, the first major event was King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) and the royal family, including Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), traveling north to Winterfell to recruit Ned Stark to be Robert’s new Hand of the King. The previous hand, Lord Jon Arryn of the Vale, had died under mysterious circumstances. We now know it was Littlefinger who had Jon’s wife Lysa Arryn - who’d known him since their childhood at Riverrun and was in love with Littlefinger - to poison Jon with Tears of Lys....

Jason Momoa was the face of Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones but several other surprising actors were considered for the role. One of the actors went on to play another character on the HBO epic fantasy series based on the series by author George R.R. Martin. Here’s which notable names auditioned for the brutal warlord and why Momoa acquired the gig. Drogo was a Khal of the Dothraki, giving him the nickname, “The Great Khal....

HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series is set to begin filming in June, and we now know it will be shooting under the working title Bloodmoon. The show doesn’t have an official title yet, though it’s often unofficially referred to as The Long Night since it’s set during that period of Game of Thrones history - about 8,000 years before the War of the Five Kings. The Long Night’s cast is a mix of established actors and newer faces, with the more well-known names including Naomi Watts (King Kong), Miranda Richardson (Churchill), John Simm (Doctor Who), and Jamie Campbell Bower (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)....

To be clear, not everything is shown. Many old exhibits are too frail to see the light of day, and there may be other reasons that an exhibit cannot be photographed and shown online. But with the advent of highly advanced scanners and 3D printers, digitized collections are becoming easier and more cost-effective to do. 8 Libraries & Museums That Now Have Digitized Collections Online There are countless examples of digitized collections online, but here are eight which I personally love the most....

Fans first meet Arya in Season 1 of Game Of Thrones as the youngest daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark. Arya grew up in Winterfell with her family in a loving and supportive environment. She travels to King’s Landing with Ned and Sansa in the show’s first season and her life changes dramatically after Joffrey Baratheon executes her father. House Lannister declares war on House Stark and Arya has to adapt to a harsh and unforgiving life as she travels across a wartorn country....

[WARNING – This article contains SPOILERS for Game of Thrones season 6, episode 3, as well as open discussion of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels.] - With each passing episode of Game of Thrones season 6, the series ties together threads left dangling for readers since finishing A Dance With Dragons; the fifth and most recently published novel. Some threads are proving more significant than others, to be sure, but last night’s episode, ‘Oathbreaker’ set characters on the paths we have long suspected them to take - if not in quite the way readers had always imagined....

If you’re like me and love technology but hate the rats nest of cables it requires, we could be in for some good news. Intel has demonstrated a system that could be incorporated into future computers that allows wireless connectivity for power, displays, and connection to accessories like external drives. Wireless charging is nothing new, of course, but existing systems are something of a mess. They rely on inductive charging, which is ultra-short range and only suited to low-power devices like smartphones, and there are several competing and incompatible systems in use....

More Walking Dead spinoffs are coming, and they’ll be more connected to the other shows, according to Scott Gimple. Along with Fear the Walking Dead, AMC already has two zombie-slaying shows on the air. Both shows originate from the world created in graphic novel form by Robert Kirkman. Until recently, each show followed different groups of survivors and occupied a different time period within the apocalypse, before recently crossing over for the first time....

Game of Thrones wrapped up last Monday night, delivering a polarizing finale to HBO’s phenomenally successful adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Now that the dust has settled on the show’s final season, it’s fair to say that we have a general idea how The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring – the unpublishing remaining volumes which Martin is still yet to complete – will unfold....