There’s no getting around it: losing weight requires a lot of hard work — just ask our editor, who lost 50 lbs in 3 months — and maintaining one’s weight after shedding a few pounds can sometimes be an even harder endeavor.

Underscoring the challenges that often come along with keeping weight off, a look at the contestants who appeared on Season 8 of NBC’s hit show ‘The Biggest Loser’ reveals that nearly all of the show’s 16 contestants have since regained all of the weight they lost during the course of the show. And we’re not talking about 10-15 pounds either, we’re talking about contestants losing upwards of 240 pounds and gaining it all back a few years later.

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Last-gen gamers won’t be able to play the recently announed Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare this year, but it appears that Activision has something else waiting in the wings for fans who haven’t upgraded to a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One yet.

On Friday, listings on Best Buy’s website revealed the existence of an unannounced Modern Warfare Trilogy, scheduled for release on May 17th.

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Diehard superhero movie fans have likely already seen Captain America: Civil War, and they’re looking forward to the next big thing. Thankfully, X-Men: Apocalypse is just a few weeks away, which means it’s time to get excited about this new mutant adventure, event though not all critics are thrilled with this new X-Men movie. The new flick brings us one of the most powerful villains the X-Men have ever had to face — but don’t worry, X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t the last movie in the saga.

That’s right, the new X-Men movie has teasers for the next chapter in the post-credits scenes.

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It seems like airlines like to nickel-and-dime you for everything these days, which is why you shouldn’t feel guilty about milking your flight for all it’s worth. Business Insider has done a terrific job of putting together a list of free things that you can get on many airlines and some of these freebies are things that I never expected. Basically, if you think that you always have to pay for beer and wine on your flight, you’re about to be pleasantly surprised.

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It’s the end of yet another long week, and there’s no better way to celebrate the upcoming weekend than by grabbing a bunch of paid iPhone and iPad apps that are currently on sale for free. You’ll find 11 fresh iOS apps below, and there are even more freebies to be found in yesterday’s post if you hurry up and grab them before the remaining sales end.

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There is a whooooole lot of junk that passes through popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter, but every once in a while a product pops up that you can immediately tell is going to be something special. Such is the case with The Prynt Case for Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6, a product that was born on Kickstarter, raised more than $1.5 million, and is now widely available.

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Anyone who’s used a Windows PC for more than 20 minutes has probably run into the scheduled updater. This evil snippet of code will, on occasion, forcibly restart your PC, no matter how urgent a piece of work might be.

In the latest beta version of Windows 10, Microsoft has revealed how it will fix the auto-install with a new feature called “Active Hours.” It still doesn’t allow you to turn off auto-install — Microsoft is determined that you stay up to date — but it does the next best thing.

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In a world where most everything that comes out of the mouths of politicians, celebrities and athletes is either rehearsed or generic boilerplate, it’s always refreshing and downright entertaining when a hot mic catches someone famous joking around or talking off the cuff, completely oblivious to the fact that they’re still being recorded. In a world of prepared soundbites, it’s always preferable to learn what people really think about a given person or issue.

Just this week, for instance, we’ve seen an unusual number of hot mic stories make the news. Specifically, we heard Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera call Bernie Sanders “so annoying” and British Prime Minister David Cameron tell the Queen of England (on video!) that Nigeria and Afghanistan are “fantastically corrupt” and “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.”

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It’s time to make Apple great again!

We have arrived at an interesting chapter in the story that is Apple. Sure the company is still pulling in far more money than any of its rivals, but the period of rapid growth that we all knew was unsustainable has finally come to an end and Wall Street is flipping. Of course when Wall Street flips, the media follows closely behind. One quick glance at Apple headlines right now and you’d think the company was on the verge of bankruptcy once again.

So where do we go from here?

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An image emerged online earlier this week showing a parked SUV that looked nothing like a Google Streetview car, even though it had a Google Maps sticker on it. Discovered hiding in “the shadows” of the Philadelphia Convention Center, the car had two license plate readers on the front. Unsuspecting people who have never seen a Google Streetview car might confuse the spy SUV for an actual Google Maps car. But savvy internet users who can tell the difference knew better than that, realizing this was likely a law enforcement car disguised in a most unexpected way.

Soon enough, police confirmed the SUV belonged to its fleet. But authorities also denied any involvement in adorning the car with a Google Maps decal. That’s hilarious, stupid and scary, all at the same time.

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