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‘Game of Thrones’ season premiere illegally downloaded over one million times

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch HBO’s Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show of 2012, and early download stats following last night’s season three opener have it on track to receive that “honor” yet again this year. According to TorrentFreak, there’s been a flurry of illegal downloading activity in the hours since the hit series returned last night. At one point, a single torrent reportedly had over 160,000 simultaneous connections. But adding all the various releases together…

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Dark Horse to adapt original ‘The Star Wars’ script into comic series

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Disney’s Star Wars films won’t begin hitting theaters until 2015, but we’ll get to see a new, George Lucas-written Star Wars saga even earlier than that. Dark Horse Comics is releasing an eight-issue series based on the original 1974 screenplay for Star Wars. The comic should be a much different adventure than the beloved A New Hopehowever, as the original The Star Wars treatment that Lucas wrote had quite a few differences: Han Solo was an alien, lightsabers…

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YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1 To Determine The Winner

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK Bad news, guys. YouTube is shutting down. The platform launched eight years ago, and some of us have gotten so distracted by YouTube videos that we’ve forgotten that the whole thing is actually a competition. Or, YouTube never actually mentioned that it was a competition. Either way, that competition, called YouTube, is coming to a close. To decide who has made the best YouTube video of all time, the…

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Application Entertainment

Tunable app shows musicians what pitch-perfect means as they play (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Musicians who’ve had some degree of practice will know the lack of sophistication involved in getting an instrument in tune and on time: a light-up tuning box and a swinging metronome may be their only real resources. Affinity Blue knows that mobile apps allow better, and recently unveiled Tunable as a one-stop shop for more exacting performers. The Android and iOS release provides a live graph that shows where the sweet…

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Engineering Entertainment

Guitar maker Gibson buys majority stake in TEAC, develops taste for electronica HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr That gruff American rocker, Gibson Guitar Corp., has gotten tired of its old life. Instead of just suing copycats and putting out the occasional robot axe, it’s now looking to diversify, having spent $52 million on a 54 percent stake in Japanese firmTEAC. The last we heard from TEAC, it was making things like headphones andretro-styled radios, which maybe gives us a hint as to where this new partnership is headed. After all, it’s not like…

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Netflix signs up The Matrix, Babylon 5 creators to develop a new sci-fi series: Sense8 HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Continuing its quest to sate subscribers’ appetites with a flow of original content,Netflix has announced a new original series, Sense8. Due in late 2014, it’s being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas andSpeed Racer fame, as well as J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. Details are thin, but the press release promises a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted with a ten episode run for its first season. As…

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Six-second teaser trailer for ‘The Wolverine’ released on Vine

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio Is six seconds enough time for a movie trailer? Perhaps not, but it is enough for a teaser of a trailer. The official Twitter account for the upcoming X-Men film The Wolverinetweeted a Vine mashup of its upcoming movie trailer today to stir up some hype for the film, making it the first Vine movie trailer we’ve seen. The looping clip works surprisingly well, though the action-heavy film is particularly well-suited for…

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Cloud Entertainment

YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Today, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of. The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad spend will go up since the eyeballs appear to be ready, willing and able. It’s not…

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ABC reportedly prepping live-streaming mobile apps for later this year

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As reported The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Television network ABC is reportedly working on tablet and smartphone apps that will let viewers watch its programming live while on the go — assuming they already have a cable or satellite subscription. The New York Times reports that the apps are similar to the WatchESPN and Watch Disney apps launched last year by ABC’s parent company Disney. Like apps, the ABC project would be part of the TV Everywhere initiative — only allowing the live…

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How A YouTube Sensation Beat Justin Timberlake And The Music Industry

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JAMES ALTUCHER Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He has started and sold several companies, run a VC fund, and is an active investor in many private companies. His upcoming book is called “Choose Yourself!” For more Choose Yourself stories and updates from the book, you can sign up for his list here. I wish I had been smarter when I was 23 years old. I did everything wrong:…

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