Netflix is great, but after a massive binge it can sometimes feel like there’s nothing left to watch. It’s at this point that a VPN comes in handy. A VPN can be used to watch content that is not available in your location, like all the extra shows on US Netflix, in the UK. 

Those of us in the UK can use a VPN to unlock a treasure chest of content that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to get. You can make the most of your Netflix subscription and get access to even more great movies and TV shows by tapping into another region’s service via any of the carefully curated VPN services listed down below. Read more…

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BEST ALL-ROUND NETFLIX VPN FOR SECURITY, SPEED, AND UNBLOCKING

PureVPN

PureVPN is the best all-round Netflix VPN for security, speed, and unblocking, and is Mashable’s number one VPN pick.

• PureVPN 2 Year Plan (Mashable Exclusive): £2.24 per month

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BEST NETFLIX VPN FOR NEW USERS

CyberGhost VPN

CyberGhost VPN is an awesome user-friendly VPN packed with great features, and is most suitable for those of you that are new to VPNs.

• CyberGhost VPN 3 Year Plan: £2.10 per month

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MOST SECURE AND TRUSTED NETFLIX VPN OF 2020

NordVPN

NordVPN is the most secure and trusted VPN on the market, boasting compatibility with every streaming service.

• NordVPN 3 Year Plan: £2.68 per month

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BEST FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE

ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN has excellent customer service and compatibility with unblocking streaming services, but is ultimately too expensive

• ExpressVPN 15 Month Plan: £5.07 per month

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A NETFLIX VPN WITH FAST SPEEDS THAT DOESN’T AFFECT PING

VyprVPN

VyprVPN provides excellent speeds, which means less buffer time

• VyprVPN 2 Year Plan: £2.50 per month

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They were once abundant, in our hairsprays, bug sprays, and refrigerators. And then scientists figured out these substances ripped a hole in the ozone layer, leading to a 1987 plan to phase them out that over time would be agreed to by every country in the world.

More than three decades later, researchers have made a new discovery. 

Ozone-depleting substances do more than just gnaw at Earth’s protective layer. They’re also greenhouse gases, so they contribute to the planet’s overall warming by trapping heat, too. And now we may know just how much these substances have contributed to Arctic warming, thanks to a study published in the science journal Nature on Monday.  Read more…

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The trailer for HBO’s documentary about a speech competition honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. dropped on MondayWe Are The Dream: The Kids Of The Martin Luther King Oratorical Festival dives into how the young competitors prepare for their performances. 

The annual Martin Luther King Oratorical Festival brings hundreds of pre-K through 12th grade students together to perform published and original poetry and speeches. The documentary follows the young students as they prepare for the competition and show their passion for social justice issues like immigration reform and racial equality. 

“They’re profound, and they have a vision,” one of the teachers featured in the documentary tells the camera.  Read more…

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Bong Joon-ho is the dad you’ve always wanted to make proud. 

His black comedy Parasite made history on Sunday night when it won the Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It’s the first non-English film to win the award. Director Bong Joon-ho couldn’t be more proud — like a parent recording his kids’ first steps, he whipped out his phone and took pictures of his cast throughout the ceremony. 

The cast and director celebrated backstage with cheering.  Read more…

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On the holiday honoring her father’s legacy, Bernice King reminded Twitter users that the fight for equality doesn’t just happen once a year. 

“Honoring you today and every day,” she captioned a photo of her family, more than 50 years after the civil rights leader’s death. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated four years after segregation was banned under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

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SpaceX and NASA exploded a Falcon 9 rocket to test a very important safety feature, Crew Dragon’s in-flight escape system. It was the final milestone before SpaceX gets NASA’s approval to take astronauts to the International Space Station. 

This test was part of NASA’s plan to launch “American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. Read more…

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It’s Monday, which means it’s the perfect time for you to watch David Lynch asking a suited monkey if he’s ever been a card-carrying member of the communist party.

It’s a genuine thing that happens in David Lynch’s new Netflix short, What Did Jack Do?, a 17-minute film which sees the legendary director interrogating a monkey called Jack in a train carriage.

Co-presented by Lynch’s company Absurda and Parisian contemporary art museum Fondation Cartier, the film was written, directed, and edited by Lynch himself. Along with a small crew, he also did the sound editing, set design, and assisted with set construction. Read more…

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TL;DR: The Samsung 55-inch 4K UHD HDR QLED TV is on sale for £899 on Currys PC World, saving you £400 on list price.

The gaming market is huge, and it therefore comes as no surprise that brands are designing products to tap into this.

Samsung knows the score, and has made its 55-inch 4K UHD HDR QLED TV with lightning-fast reactions thanks to game enhancer technology. This mode minimises the time between pressing a button on your controller and the resulting action on screen. That means you’re able to shoot, dodge, accelerate, or brake exactly when you want to. 

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Artificial intelligence should be regulated. 

This is the stance of Alphabet (parent company of Google) CEO Sundar Pichai, expressed in the form of an op-ed article in the Financial Times Monday. 

Pichai calls AI “one of the most promising new technologies,” but also highlights possible risks stemming from careless use of AI, naming a few historical examples in which breakthrough new tech brought with it new issues. 

“History is full of examples of how technology’s virtues aren’t guaranteed,” he wrote. “The internet made it possible to connect with anyone and get information from anywhere, but also easier for misinformation to spread.” Read more…

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You may not have realised it, but for a brief time a few days ago, you were no longer inhabiting the Earth. You were actually inhabiting a giant, rapidly spinning sandwich.

It all started when 19-year-old Etienne Naude, who’s currently studying at New Zealand’s University of Auckland, took to Reddit to make a rather unusual request in the r/Spain sub.

“I am wanting to make a thing called an earth sandwich,” Naude wrote, before describing exactly what this would entail: “2 people at opposite parts of the world place pieces of bread at the exact opposite ends of the globe.”

It may have seemed like a slightly odd request to some, but Reddit was more than happy to answer the call. Read more…

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