Despite the impossibly high expectations from fans who had been waiting years for it, Star Wars: The Force Awakens managed to capture the imagination of the filmgoing public, quickly becoming one of the highest grossing movies ever.

That said, it wasn’t quite as straightforward or cohesive as A New Hope, it’s primary inspiration. So until we see more from the new slate of Star Wars filmmakers, we’re stuck poring over several unsolved mysteries.

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If Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have their way, we might only have 23 more episodes to look forward to before the show goes off the air for good. In an interview with Variety, Benioff and Weiss said that they are currently trying to decide if they should shorten the seventh season of Game of Thrones to seven episodes and the eighth season to just six.

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The HTC 10 is now official, which means the last piece of the Android flagship puzzle has fallen into place. If you haven’t already read our in-depth HTC 10 review, you should definitely make it a point to catch up. HTC has done phenomenal work with its latest high-end handset, addressing nearly every pain point users had and putting together a smartphone that checks almost every important box.

Now that the Android landscape for the first half of the year has been laid out, we’ll be spending plenty of time comparing all the new Android flagships in an effort to help readers find the right phone. To start things off, we’re going to look at the brand new HTC 10 as it compares to the most popular flagship Android phone in the world right now, Samsung’s Galaxy S7.

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If you’re on a two-year upgrade cycle, you might want to consider skipping the iPhone 7 and waiting for next year’s model. Apple will reportedly rely on its old friend Samsung to supply it with OLED panels for upcoming iPhone models, according to a report from The Korea Herald. In a deal said to be worth north of $2.5 billion, Samsung in 2017 will begin supplying Apple with 100 million 5.5-inch OLED panels every year for a period of three years.

The 2017 start date is significant because it suggests that the iPhone will incorporate an OLED display on the iPhone 7s. Previously, it was believed that OLED panels wouldn’t make their way into Apple’s smartphone lineup until 2018 with the release of the iPhone 8.

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We’ve reached the end of another long week but today is special for another reason: it’s tax day. For some, that means writing some pretty painful checks. But for others, it means that you’ve got a nice refund coming your way. Well, it’s time to stretch that refund as far as it will go with some great Amazon deals including a top-rated iPhone 6/6s screen protector for just $0.99, an unlocked Galaxy S5 for $160, a great wireless keyboard for $12, and much more.

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If you’re a Verizon Wireless subscriber, there is a new promotion available until the middle of next month that you’ll definitely want to take advantage of. There’s a whole bunch of great new content hitting Netflix over the next 30 days, and it began this morning when season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was made available in its entirety. Binge watching eats up a whole lot of data though, so you’ll want to do everything you can to stretch your data plan as far as it will go.

As it turns out, there’s a simple way to earn an extra 2GB of data that will only take you a few seconds all together.

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Apple is really, really good at some things and really, really bad at others. Every company obviously has strengths and weaknesses, but Apple’s seem to be further apart on the spectrum than most companies. And somewhere on the opposite side of that spectrum from “building gorgeous smartphones” lies “App Store search,” a crucial app discovery feature that, quite frankly, couldn’t be any worse than it is right now. You can literally search for some apps by name and not find them anywhere in your results.

Well, Apple is finally starting to take its App Store search problem more seriously according to a new report, and it may have found a way to boost its services revenue in the process.

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The latest movie from the DC Comics universe was panned by critics almost universally. Meanwhile, fans completely ignored them and went out to theaters in droves to watch. The company continues to set box office records as it passed $700 million long go, and audience response has been overwhelmingly positive. Apparently, critics still can’t wrap their heads around exactly what superhero movie fans are looking for.

Well, you’ve already seen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in the theater, so now it’s time to get ready for the film’s release on disc and digital download by preordering it now. You want to be among the first to see all those great extras, right?

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Have you ever taken your car in for servicing and found something amiss with it afterward? Even if you have, you’ve hopefully experienced nothing like what one Audi owner went through when he found traces of a mysterious white powder found in the seams of his car’s seats after picking it up from the Audi Palo Alto servicing center. But the true horror came when he checked his dashboard camera’s video and learned that the service technician seems to have snorted cocaine in his car before taking it on a joyride.

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Deadpool wasn’t even out in early February, and word broke out that a sequel is already in the works. A couple of months and $757 million later, Fox announced at CinemaCon that Deadpool 2 is indeed real, featuring Ryan Reynolds and the same team that worked on the first movie, including director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

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