Buying a smartphone used to be a relatively straightforward experience. You’d simply walk into your local carrier and fork over some cash for a new device and, more often than not, a new 2-year contract.

But over time, carriers got tired of subsidizing pricey smartphones, a sentiment which quickly ushered in the era of installment pricing. Today, buying a new smartphone or upgrading to a new device can be an exercise in frustration thanks to a dizzying matrix of installment plan pricing options.

To help alleviate the frustration, AT&T today announced a welcome change to its smartphone purchasing plan that promises to make the overall upgrade experience much simpler.

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There are few movies releasing in 2016 that we’re as cautiously excited about as Independence Day: Resurgence. A sequel 20 years in the making, Resurgence brings back many of our favorite characters, including David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and Vivica A. Fox (Jasmine Dubrow).

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It’s pretty great that most pay TV companies now offer apps that let you stream live TV. From Comcast and Time Warner Cable to Dish, these companies all offer apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices that give you access to on demand content as well as live channels. Some apps have restrictions though, so you can only watch live TV on your phone or tablet while you’re in your house. And the ones that don’t have restrictions still have other issues like bad interfaces, stability problems or even locked content that can only be accessed on your home TV.

But what if your home TV was everywhere? Instead of using an app, what if your smartphone, tablet or laptop was actually a portal into the full experience that your home TV and set-top box provides? And what if you could stream as much as you want for free after buying the hardware and app you need? It’s time to stop saying “what if,” because the Slingbox 500 does all that and more.

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HBO’s John Oliver takes issue with the way the United States chooses its president every four years. Specifically, Oliver focused on the way primaries and caucuses work, and how the system isn’t as democratic as regular voters might think. Oliver argues that either party can circumvent the will of the people by taking advantage of certain loopholes in the rulebooks, and they essentially bypass the primary vote if they want to.

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With just four months to go until Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are released, leaks are definitely starting to pick up pace. It makes sense in light of the recent news that iPhone 7 production is now underway — Apple has never been able to keep a lid on things once workers at its manufacturing partners’ plants get their hands on new iPhone parts.

If you haven’t already seen them, be sure to check out all of the big iPhone 7 leaks you missed from this past weekend. Once you’re done there, we have an even bigger treat for all the eager Apple fans out there: In all likelihood, the leaked photo below is our first look at a genuine iPhone 7 in the flesh.

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Many people saw the fifth episode of Game of Thrones hours before it even hit HBO or HBO Now, because HBO Nordic managed to leak it online. But no matter how you watched last night’s episode, one thing is clear: we’re looking at one of the pivotal episodes of the season, and it answered more questions than any other episode so far this season. In addition, we get the heartbreaking explanation of Hodor’s name. But before we can delve into all that, we’ll remind you that major spoilers follow below, so proceed with caution if you haven’t watched the episode yet.

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The battle for music streaming supremacy hasn’t been decided just yet, but it’s increasingly starting to look like Spotify and Apple Music will be the two services angling for the top spot. While Spotify still has many more paid subscribers relative to Apple Music, Apple’s streaming service is growing at an impressive clip. The most recent data we have indicates that Apple Music already boasts more than 13 million paid subscribers, a pretty impressive feat for a service that was initially plagued with usability problems at launch. Spotify meanwhile has 30 million paid subscribers.

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Amazon is starting the new week off with a bang, offering a whole truckload of new daily deals for shoppers to take advantage of. Instead of making you sift through them all, we’ve done the heavy lifting for you. Today’s collection includes 12 of the best daily deals we could find, such as a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 with a 128GB memory card for $346, several mophie battery cases for the iPhone, a brand new flash drive that works with iPhones and iPads, and plenty more.

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Hopefully you’re finally coming to terms with what happened in the recently-aired episode 5 of Game of Thrones season 6, but it’s already time to look ahead at what’s coming next week. Some spoilers follow below, so in case you’re not up to date with all of the action in this season of Game of Thrones, best avoid the trailer for episode 6 (Blood of My Blood) the time being.

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The iPhone 7 is months away from being announced, yet more and more reports offer new details about the unreleased smartphone. Some of the most recent leaks suggest that Apple might be bringing 256GB of storage to the iPhone 7 line, as previously rumored, and that the 4.7-inch iPhone 7 will have a camera featuring optical image stabilization (OIS).

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