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In a blog post today, online web hosting provider DreamHost disclosed that it has been involved in a months-long legal battle with the Justice Department over records on visitors to an anti-Trump website.

Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones.

Game of Thrones’ “Eastwatch” episode came bearing the gift of reunions. It was the latest round of important meet-ups in a season already packed with homecomings, but the power of those encounters is wearing thin.

Anticipation for some of these scenes has been building literally for years. Gendry hasn’t been seen since 2013, when Davos sent him off in a rowboat to escape death by blood sacrifice. And yet, his return to the show is sandwiched in... Читать дальше...

Pandora has announced that Sling TV founding CEO Roger Lynch will join the company as CEO and president, effective September 18th, 2017. Naveen Chopra, who served as Pandora’s interim CEO following co-founder Tim Westergren’s announcement that he was vacating all official positions with the company, will continue as chief financial officer.

Discord, a fast-growing free chat service popular among gamers, said today that it had shut down “a number of accounts” following violence instigated by white supremacists over the weekend. The service, which lets users chat with voice and text, was being used by proponents of Nazi ideology both before and after the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia. “We will continue to take action against Nazi ideology, and all forms of hate,” the company said in a tweet.

You might not have noticed, but over the weekend a little coup took place. On Friday night, in front of a crowd of thousands, an AI bot beat a professional human player at Dota 2 — one of the world’s most popular video games. The human champ, the affable Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, threw in the towel after being killed three times, saying he couldn’t beat the unstoppable bot. “It feels a little bit like human,” said Dendi. “But at the same time, it’s something else.”

The tech industry CEOs who remain on President Donald Trump’s jobs advisory board are planning to stay there. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned from the American Manufacturing Council today after Trump blamed violence incited by white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, this weekend on “many sides.” But the remark was largely met with a shrug by Intel, Dell, and GE, among others.

SpaceX has landed yet another one of its Falcon 9 rockets after launching the vehicle into space this afternoon. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12:31PM ET, bound for the International Space Station. Around eight minutes after takeoff, the majority of the vehicle landed back on solid ground off the Florida coast. It marks the 14th successful rocket landing for SpaceX, and the sixth time a Falcon 9 has successfully touched on solid ground post-launch.

A rising number of sea lions are being poisoned by toxic algae blooms in California, according to The Associated Press. So far, 68 sea lions have been treated by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, compared to 70 in all of 2016. The number "is more pronounced than we've seen in the past few years,” Michael Milstein, a spokesman for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the AP.

On August 21st, a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast for the first time in nearly a century. The event has been a boon to the tourism and hotel industries of towns like Nashville, Tennessee, and Charleston, South Carolina that are in the path of the Moon’s shadow. Whether you’re flying or driving to one of these towns, or just camping out in your backyard, here are the gadgets you will need to get a good look at the Moon and the Sun — while keeping your eyes and devices protected. Читать дальше...

Amazon is shutting down its DVD rental service in the UK and Germany this fall. The service, Lovefilm, was acquired by Amazon in 2011, and does not operate anywhere else in the world, according to Variety.

This week in Game of Game of Thrones, your Thronesmaster had to Google “knuckle massages” and “carpal-tunnel risk factors.” What I’m saying is, too much is happening too quickly on this show, and I can barely write it all down without injuring myself. So let’s get right to it, and yes, I would love it if you would tweet any and all home remedies for joint swelling to @verge.

Canary, the maker of connected home security cameras, issued a firmware update today that it says will give users a more accurate look at what's happening in their home. The update will reportedly provide users with a more up-to-date stream. Until now, users experienced a five-second delay when streaming, now they'll be seeing what's happening exactly when it happens. This stream is still encrypted, Canary says.

If you’re planning on attending a Miami Heat game at the team’s home court American Airlines Arena this coming season, you’ll need to own a smartphone. The basketball team announced last week that it would be switching over to mobile-based tickets for entry at home games, becoming the first in the NBA to enact such a policy, via ESPN.

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At the Pokémon Go Stadium show in Yokohama, attending players were able to capture the newly available pokémon: legendary Mewtwo. Soon, fellow trainers around the world will have a chance as well. Developer Niantic said that Mewtwo will be available to players worldwide “in the coming weeks” as part of a new, invite-only multiplayer feature called “exclusive raid battles.”

Essential, the new phone startup from Android founder Andy Rubin, is now a unicorn, according to reports from Bloomberg columnist Tim Culpan over the weekend. If you’re not up to date on the parlance of Silicon Valley, a unicorn is a company that’s valued at over $1 billion dollars, which is no small feat in today’s market. This title is even more impressive, given that Essential has yet to ship a single device to consumers.

Microsoft’s former AI expert, Qi Lu, moved to Chinese search giant Baidu earlier this year. Lu spent time working on Cortana and Microsoft’s bot platform whilst he was at the software giant, along with heading up the company’s Bing search and Office teams. In an interview with Wired, Lu has provided some rare insight into Microsoft’s struggles to compete with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.

Neo-nazi news site the Daily Stormer has been given 24 hours to move its domain to a new host after its current provider, GoDaddy, said it would cut off support. The decision was made in response to a Daily Stormer article about Heather Heyer, who was killed during the Charlottesville protests this weekend. In a statement sent to TechCrunch, GoDaddy said the article “could incite additional violence” and thus violated the company’s terms of service.

Microsoft dismissed Consumer Reports’ Surface reliability ratings last week, but a new internal memo sheds some light on the issues that the software maker has faced. Consumer Reports surveyed 90,000 tablet and laptop owners and found roughly 25 percent of Surface users have encountered issues by the end of the second year of ownership. Paul Thurrott has obtained an internal memo about Microsoft’s response to Consumer Reports, and it appears to suggest that high Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book... Читать дальше...

When Pokémon Go was first announced nearly two years ago, Niantic and Nintendo sold players on the concept with a trailer depicting trainers taking on Mewtwo in Times Square. Tonight in Yokohama, Japan, Pokémon Go more or less delivered on that promise as thousands of players worked together to catch the notorious legendary pokémon in a baseball stadium.

Elon Musk is a hype merchant, and this weekend his Twitter account served up a generous serving of hoopla for the OpenAI bots that were destroying the best Dota 2 players in the world. As a veteran Dota player and inveterate contrarian, I couldn’t let Musk’s exaggeration go by unchallenged. What we saw the OpenAI bots achieve was awe-inspiring for anyone who’s ever dabbled in Dota, but it’s still only scratching the surface of the competitive complexity of this game.

Acclaimed television writer and producer Shonda Rhimes has signed a multi-year deal with Netflix, where she’ll produce new series and work on other projects for the streaming company. The deal means Rhimes, known for her work as the creator and show runner of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, will depart ABC after 15 years with the broadcaster. She will be reportedly paid around $10 million a year at Netflix, and will be accompanied in the move by longtime collaborator Betsy Beers.

LG’s trickle of pre-launch news about the upcoming V30 flagship-tier Android smartphone today turns to the new software that will be on board. Chief among the novelties is Graphy, a component of the manual mode in LG’s camera app that will allow users to apply the same “style and mood” of a chosen professional photo to their own. It sounds almost like Prisma, last summer’s popular style transfer app, but LG is doing it in a different manner, applying the photographic settings of the selected image (white balance... Читать дальше...

Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 7, episode 5, “Eastwatch”

As if we needed further proof that season 7 of Game of Thrones is all about callbacks to the show’s earliest season, the latest episode, “Eastwatch,” ended with Arya getting her hands on yet another blast from the past. While spying on Littlefinger, she saw him talking to various people at Winterfell before receiving a note pulled out of from Maester Luwin’s obsessively-kept archives. He confirms the note is the only copy in Winterfell, then hides it in his room. Читать дальше...

Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 7 episode 5, “Eastwatch”

Game of Thrones season 7, episode 5, had a massive reveal for fans, but it wasn’t brought to you by dragons, or by Cersei’s insane battle tactics. Instead, it comes when Samwell Tarly is sitting frustrated in his library, and his partner Gilly starts practicing her reading on a book of records by the High Septon Maynard. “What’s an annulment?” she asks Sam. Her line of questioning starts out innocently enough, and then she... Читать дальше...