When Amazon started as an online bookstore however many years ago, did anyone ever think it would one day become the biggest online retailer in America? No, of course not. And then once Amazon took the throne, did anyone ever think it would branch out into making its own hardware? That’s another big fat no, but Amazon’s tablets and set-top boxes have become a huge part of the company’s strategy. What’s more, they offer what might very well offer some of the best values in the business — and that’s when they’re not even on sale at a discount.

For a limited time until April 9, you can get the Amazon Fire TV with 4K resolution and support for Amazon’s killer Alexa assistant for just $85 shipped.

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Samsung set the bar very high for rival Android phone makers this year with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. In fact, other than the usual complaints about Samsung’s implementation of Android, it’s been very hard to find any glaring flaws in the new devices.

All the same, this doesn’t mean Samsung has nothing to learn from over smartphone vendors, as you’ll see in a new video produced by Android aficionado Jeff Springer where he lists five things the LG G5 does better than Samsung’s new flagship phones.

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Forget real politics for a second, as we’re about to embark on a far more important mission this month: Season 5 of HBO’s best show ever, Game of Thrones. And the question is, can the Lannisters make Westeros great again?

Think about it! The king is inexperienced, the realm is tormented by uncertainty and war. Dragons are mature enough to vanquish armies. And winter is coming. In other words, the economic state of Westeros is in shambles and things aren’t looking good for the Lannisters.

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Are film critics in this day and age completely useless? We wondered as much in a recent post after nearly every notable movie critic out there slammed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in their reviews. You can read a quick review roundup right here. It even got to the point where Zack Snyder and several members of the film’s cast had to defend the movie in interviews ahead of its opening.

Well, if you’re looking for evidence that the general public completely ignores film critics, you’ve found it: After enjoying one of the biggest openings in box office history, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice just passed $700 million worldwide.

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The annual Microsoft Build Developer Conference has gotten progressive more interesting over the past few years, but there wasn’t quite as much to get excited about in 2016. But that’s not to say there weren’t any announcement, with one of the biggest centering around the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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It used to be that Apple took its sweet time with iOS updates, but the company appears to be embracing a new strategy focused on releasing software enhancements, tweaks and bug fixes faster than ever before.

Just about two weeks after releasing iOS 9.3, MacRumors is reporting that Apple has already seeded developers with a beta version of iOS 9.3.2. What’s that you say? What happened to iOS 9.3.1? Well, you might have missed it because Apple quietly rolled it out less than a week ago.

While iOS 9.3.2 in and of itself doesn’t appear to be a momentous update – just the typical smattering of performance improvements and bug fixes – Apple’s more aggressive iOS release schedule is encouraging.

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A United Airlines flight attendant recently made national news after she decided to exit a landed plane by opening up the aircraft’s emergency slide and subsequently riding it down to the runway. Following that, the flight attendant calmly and smoothly walked away, as if everything was completely normal.

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Google’s latest publicly available version of the Android mobile platform, Android 6.0, was first released on October 5th, 2015. Apple’s iOS 9 was released to the general public 19 days earlier on September 16th. Both operating systems are now more than six months old, and they both offer smartphone and tablet users a wide range of cutting-edge features as well as crucial security enhancements.

Can you guess how end-user adoption of these two leading mobile operating systems compares after six months?

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If you want an Android set-top box that can stream anything and everything as far as on demand TV show and movie services go, but that can pull double duty as a top-notch video game console, you’ve just found the holy grail. And as it happens, you’ve found the holy grail while it’s on sale at a nice discount on Amazon.

For a limited time, the NVIDIA SHIELD and NVIDIA SHIELD Pro are both on sale, so you can pick one up right now for as little as $180 shipped.

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The biggest movie of 2015 is finally available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD, and you can also buy the year’s best movie as a digital HD download. In addition to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the disc and download contains plenty of extra material, including a documentary, the cast’s table read of the script, and some of the deleted scenes that never made it into the final cut of last year’s Star Wars revival.

Some of these deleted scenes contain details that might be useful to the story while others are made of unnecessary fluff — and we’ll tell you everything you need to know right here.

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