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Ever since Arya Stark made her kill list and topped it off with Cersei Lannister’s name, theirs is the face-off I’ve been waiting for. The two haven’t shared a scene since early Season 1 but their stories have intertwined in grievous ways.

Arya has managed to knock off a few names off her list, including Walder Frey and Meryn Trant, but Cersei remains the one big profile name on it. 

Game of Thrones Season 8 will bring about lots of reunions, some emotional and some awkward. The one we deserve the most is Arya vs. Cersei, especially if it means the former will kill the latter. Read more…

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This ain’t your average sports game.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced Friday that the international tournament for people with disabilities would be getting its first video game, The Pegasus Dream Tour. The new game has some serious weight behind it; it’s being created by JP Games, the new independent studio founded by Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata. The Paralympics game will be his new team’s first since Tabata went indie.

“This is not just an ordinary video game about sports,” Tabata said. “JP Games is going to represent fully the wonders that are unique to Paralympic sports in this brand-new role-playing game.” Read more…

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Dramatic comebacks are usually the stuff of sports movies, complete with sweeping music and tearful embraces. But Sunday, America witnessed one, IRL.

That’s when Tiger Woods won the Masters, the most important of all annual golf tournaments, at the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia. It was the embattled sports legend’s first major victory since 2008, and first Master’s win since 2005. Fans across the internet, and Tiger Woods himself, appear to be joyously bowled over by what’s being hailed as one of the greatest sports comebacks of all time.

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Lyft’s bikeshare business is having a rough Sunday.

Almost identical blog posts from Citi Bike, Ford GoBike, and Capital Bikeshare — all of which are Lyft-owned businesses — confirm that their “pedal-assist” electric bikes have been temporarily taken out of service. That means customers in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. will have to make do with pedal bikes for now.

The issue stems from some kind of issue with the brakes on those pedal-assist bikes. “We recently received a small number of reports from riders who experienced stronger than expected braking force on the front wheel,” each of the posts notes.  Read more…

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Juul doesn’t want teens hitting its vapes. The company promises. 

Facing a rising tide of criticism for underage use of its e-cigarettes, vape manufacturer Juul is taking a new approach aimed at cracking down on teen use. Specifically, the company launched an online tool designed to track how specific vapes find their way into the hands of minors. 

The idea, as explained by Juul, seems pretty straightforward. If a parent or teacher confiscates one of the company’s e-cigarettes from a minor, the authority figure should head on over to a new web portal and enter the device’s serial number along with a few additional details. This will, at least in theory, allow the company to figure out how the youths are getting their tiny hands on its nicotine delivery devices.  Read more…

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That’s one big plane. 

The Stratolaunch, the world’s largest aircraft that just so happens to be designed to “enable airline-style access to space,” successfully took flight for the first time in the Mojave Desert on April 13. The plane is the brainchild of Paul G. Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, and sports an impressive 385-foot wingspan. 

That’s not all that makes this plane remarkableAccording to the company, the Stratolaunch has a max takeoff weight of 589,670 kilograms and will one day assist in the launching of rockets — and satellites — into space.  Read more…

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Remember to really savor Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when it hits theaters in December.

Yes, it’s the final chapter in the narrative that George Lucas kicked off with the first Star Wars back in 1977. But it’s also notably going to be the last big screen Star Wars movie for some time. How long? At least a couple of years, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.

“We’re going to take a hiatus for a couple of years … And we’re taking the time to really look at where this is going from the standpoint of a saga,” Kennedy said in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. Read more…

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The call to oust Mark Zuckerberg is coming from inside the house. 

A group of investors have teamed up in an effort to replace the Facebook CEO and board chairman with an independent voice. The plan, put forth in an April 12 SEC filing, doesn’t mince words in its critique of the 34-year-old fan of smoked meats. 

“[Zuckerberg’s] dual-class shareholdings give him approximately 60% of Facebook’s voting shares, leaving the board, even with a lead independent director, with only a limited ability to check Mr. Zuckerberg’s power,” reads the statement supporting the proposal. “We believe this weakens Facebook’s governance and oversight of management.” Read more…

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K-pop has officially rocked Coachella, and the music festival will never be the same.

On Friday, Blackpink, a K-pop girl group comprised of four singers — Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — made history by becoming the first such group ever to perform at Coachella. The festival has been home to other South Korean acts before, but as the Los Angeles Times pointed out, it’s the first time “a K-pop idol group at the height of its powers” took the Coachella stage.

Think of it as a milestone moment for the genre cementing its place in the minds of a U.S. audience.

Fans of the South Korean pop group, called “Blinks,” loved every second of the set, and the performance was even live-streamed on a large screen in New York’s Times Square at night. Read more…

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Respawn Entertainment’s long-awaited Star Wars game is about a Jedi on the run. More importantly: it’s leaving all the recent Star Wars game baggage behind.

That’s a big deal, and the news Respawn’s Star Wars Celebration actually led with. Before they even got to detailing anything about the game’s story and setting, they confirmed that Fallen Order is a story-driven single-player game with no loot boxes, no multiplayer, and no microtransactions.

The game is described as a third-person “melee game,” with you playing as a Force-wielding, lightsaber-swinging Jedi named Cal Kestis. Respawn’s first trailer skips gameplay in favor of story-focused cutscenes, featuring the young, on-the-run Jedi running through his three rules for survival in a post-Order 66 galaxy. Read more…

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