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It’s been five years since Grand Theft Auto V came out, so naturally it’s time to start asking when the next game in the series is coming out. We have no official word from developer Rockstar Games about the state of its most popular series (probably because it’s preoccupied adding “extra polish” to upcoming Western Red Dead Redemption 2), it remains up to fans to speculate and plan out what we’d like to see from the next game in the serie

Amazon beat expectations in the fourth quarter of 2017, continued to grow its Amazon Web Services business, and said that it sold “tens of millions” of Echo hardware devices last year, with its cheapest products taking up the bulk of the sales in 2017.Of course, we still don’t know exactly how many Echos that is — the company is famously opaque about its unit sales in certain product categories — but even “tens of millions” proves there’s a market

Olive Garden has released a dish called the "loaded pasta chips."
The Italian-ish restaurant chain debuted the carb-heavy chips last week. The "chips" are made of fried lasagna, and come loaded with various cheeses, and a "hearty meat sauce" that's made up of chicken, meatballs, and sausage. Then it's topped off with alfredo sauce and tomatoes. According to Olive Garden's menu, the dish comes out to a whopping 1,520 calories.
SEE ALSO: Olive Garden Offers 7 Weeks of Endless Pasta for $100 &mdash

Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on January 31st, the aerospace giant announced. At 8:52AM, the full-scale vehicle reached a modest height of five meters (16 feet) before descending safely. The self-piloted flight only lasted 53 seconds, but it is a reminder that “flying taxi” mobility projects we hear a lot about these days, while sounding ludicrous, can’t be easily dismissed as vaporware.A

MGM has released a new trailer for its upcoming prequel show, Stargate: Origins, showing off an Indiana Jones-style adventure that pits its characters against Nazis in Egypt in 1939.
The trailer shows off a bit more of what to expect from the digital show, which will follow Catherine Langford (played by Ellie Gall), the daughter of the explorer who discovered the stargate device in Giza, Egypt in 1928. Langford has apparently been trying to figure out what the device does, but so has Nazi occul

Intel is reportedly looking to sell a majority stake in an augmented reality spinoff company, with plans to potentially launch consumer smart glasses this year, according to Bloomberg Technology. Bloomberg writes that the company will probably be called Vaunt; the smart glasses are reportedly known internally as “Superlite,” and will be made by Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer. They’ll pair with a phone via Bluetooth, and use a laser projector to display information in t

Apple released record first-quarter 2018 financial results today, and in keeping with tradition hosted a live question-and-answer session for financial analysts to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri. We covered the session live, with updates below in chronological order as the call proceeded.
Apple’s Tim Cook opened the session by discussing the company’s record $88.3 billion revenue, which he noted is up 13 percent over the previous record year —

Black Panther isn't opening for another couple of weeks, but one group of self-described "fanboys" is already preparing to be Mad Online.
A campaign is underway to "Give Black Panther a Rotten Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes," with about 5,500 thousand users (as of writing) interested in or planning to participate. 
SEE ALSO: 'Black Panther' is already on track to be the biggest superhero movie ever
The "event," organized by a group calling itself "Down With Disney's Treatment of Franchis

Apple’s first quarterly earnings reports for 2018 are in, and the company has reported that it sold 77.3 million iPhones in Q1 2018 (which includes the holiday season). That number is down 1.24 percent year over year from last year (78.3 million). But despite the slump in sales, iPhone revenue increased overall year over year, up 11.69 percent from $54.38 billion to $61.58 billion.While predictions for the average sale price of iPhone units sold during the quarter ranged from $710 to $755

(Reuters) — Amazon.com on Thursday said its sales surged over the winter holiday season and profit topped expectations, as the online retailer drew millions of new customers to its Prime fast-shipping club and as changes to U.S. tax law added to its bottom line.
Shares rose more than 5.6 percent in extended trading, after previously closing down 4 percent on the Nasdaq.
Seattle-based Amazon is using fast shipping, television shows exclusive to its website and forays into new technology, su

Apple brought in $88.3 billion in revenue this past quarter, on target with the $84 to $87 billion sales figure it projected in its last earnings report. The company sold 77.3 million iPhones, just roughly one million units shy of its last record of 78.2 units in Q1 2017, and below analyst estimates of 80 million.
Though Apple sold fewer iPhones compared to this period last year, it made more money thanks to the higher price of the iPhone X. With the 10th anniversary model, the average selling

Amazon crushed 2017, financially. But looking ahead, CEO Jeff Bezos wants us all to focus on one name: Alexa. 
Alexa may not be the main driver of Amazon's revenue — that's Amazon Web Services (AWS) and online commerce — but the voice assistant is getting the spotlight for growing Amazon's brand in 2017 and being a focus in the year ahead. 
“Our 2017 projections for Alexa were very optimistic, and we far exceeded them. We don’t see positive surprises of this mag

Microsoft today announced plans to create the Cortana Intelligence Institute, an initiative to research and experiment with new ways to enhance Microsoft’s AI assistant, particularly as it relates to the workplace and productivity.
The institute brings together faculty and students from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia with Microsoft Research and the recently established Cortana Research.
“The research at RMIT for the institute is focused on work-related tasks, an area with st

It’s business as usual at Google parent company Alphabet, despite a growing number of controversies surrounding the company’s firing of former employee James Damore and a reckoning over content policies at YouTube. Alphabet posted its 2017 fourth quarter earnings today, showing sales of $32.32 billion and profit of $9.70 per share, coming in under Wall Street expectations of $9.96 per share.Wall Street reacted negatively to the profit miss, sending Alphabet stock down as much as 4 p

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Flowers are a perfect gift for any occasion: Valentine's Day, birthdays, anniversaries, or anytime you find yourself in the doghouse. And with so many flower delivery services to choose from, you can get a bouquet to anyone anywhere, anytime. Technology can be so kind.
But there's an important question

iPhone sales aren't as hot as they used to be.
The company announced its Q1 2018 earnings on Thursday and — surprise, surprise! — it set another all-time quarterly revenue record, bolstered by iPhone sales.
Total revenue this past quarter increased to $88.3 billion from $78.4 billion, a 12.63 percent increase year-over-year. But while revenue increased, iPhone sales dropped.
SEE ALSO: Why it makes no sense for Apple to bring iPad apps to Macs
Though the company doesn't break unit out

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that offers cloud computing platforms through paid subscriptions, so you can host your important files and website information. If you've never heard of AWS, you may be shocked to learn it's a $10 billion per year business and continues to grow. In fact, i

Crock-Pot didn't ask for this. 
After last Tuesday's This Is Us episode ended with a Crock-Pot fire that could, in all likelihood, lead to the impending death of a beloved main character, the slow cooker company was forced to do major damage control. 
SEE ALSO: Here's why 'This Is Us' fans are cursing their crockpots
Though Crock-Pots are actually quite safe, the episode had us resenting the perfectly fine appliance for its (potential) role in our favorite character's devastating demis

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Leave it to scientists to find new uses for old products.
Per the Washington Post, Twitter user Robyn Womack discovered a delightful Amazon review for a tea infuser in which a buyer explains its alternative, scientific use. 
"To be honest these were not being used to strain tea but in a zoology experiment involving ants," he w

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Yo, team Xbox: As you probably heard, Microsoft just made their Xbox Game Pass even better, allowing subscribers to play Xbox One-exclusive games on the day they're released with no extra cost. And if that's not enough reason to snag a new Xbox One X, we don't know what is.
Actually, yes we do: With the pur

Apple reported its first quarter 2018 financial results today, posting quarterly revenue of $88.3 billion on sales of 77.3 million iPhones, 13.17 million iPads, 5.1 million Macs, and $8.471 billion in services. As expected, the revenue once again represents a record for Apple, though sales of each of the company’s key products’ was either roughly flat or slightly down from last year’s holiday quarter, when it sold 78.3 million iPhones, 13.08 million iPads, and 5.

In less than 100 days, Cape Town — a South African city of about 4 million people — could run out of water, in what officials call “Day Zero.” A view of the crisis from space shows the city’s massive reservoirs drying up after just three years of drought — a preview of the nightmares climate change could bring, unfolding right now.
Cape Town’s water shortage isn’t just because of climate change — although that certainly could be making the d

Logan Paul has a legion of young fans, but he'd prefer it if they were older.  
The disgraced vlogger has entered the morning show phase of his apology tour, and it's revealing a lot about how he views himself.
SEE ALSO: Logan Paul is getting dragged for his insensitive comment on Cardi B's Instagram
Paul sat down with Michael Strahan on Thursday's Good Morning America. It's a somewhat soft interview, considering the serious backlash he's faced after his suicide forest video. While Paul sta

PRESS RELEASE:The awards recognize brands that are driving measurable, meaningful, and positive business impact through best-in-class content marketingNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 1, 2018– NewsCred, the global leader in enterprise content marketing, today announced the winners of its 2018 Top 50 Awards. In the awards’ second year, NewsCred identified companies that pushed boundaries and inspired others through content marketing in 2017. More than one thousand compani

Citing a substantial increase in the number of passengers bringing emotional support animals on its flights, as well as an increase in incidents, United Airlines announced Thursday it’s tightening the rules on bringing such animals on planes.Starting March 1st, United will require passengers with emotional support animals to provide evidence the animal has “been trained to behave properly in a public setting and acknowledge responsibility for the animal’s behavior,” as w

 Amazon reported quarterly financials after the bell Thursday for its fourth quarter, the all-important holiday season for the e-commerce giant. And its numbers had some people doing a double take, after earnings per share came in at $3.75, more than double the $1.85 that analysts surveyed by Yahoo Finance were estimating.  Net income was $1.9 billion for the quarter. For the full 2017 year,… Read More

Annie (Rachel McAdams) and Max (Jason Bateman) might be in over their heads this Game Night. A new trailer introduces us to the film's central couple, who met at bar trivia and love regular game nights – until Brooks (Kyle Chandler) hosts one that goes too far.
SEE ALSO: Um, did Barack Obama win HQ Trivia last night?
The new trailer also gives us a little more of Jesse Plemons' ambiguously antagonistic presence (Landry and Coach reunion!). It looks like he was part of the group until his w

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, closed out its last quarter of 2017 with revenue of $32.3 billion, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $9.70, according to figures the company released today (PDF). Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected revenue of $31.87 billion and non-GAAP earnings of $9.98 per share.
Those numbers are up from the last three months of 2016, when Google reported total revenue of nearly $26.1 billion, with non-GAAP earnings of $9.36 per share.
It was a fairly

"Yo," I said to my colleague Kim Bhasin shortly after I joined The Huffington Post in 2014.
His eyes widened along with his smile as he asked me, "Do you have the Yo app?" 
I didn't. Despite joining HuffPost as a tech reporter, I hadn't heard of Yo, an app that only let users say "yo" to each another and had climbed toward the top of Apple's App Store, obviously. Kim was quick to point out the hypocrisy, but to be fair (to myself), I had fallen into the job, and Yo might have been my common

In 1968, scientists discovered a new strain of flu circulating around Hong Kong. The virus, though, didn't stay put. It soon left Asia and turned into a proper pandemic, traveling around the globe and killing one million people worldwide, including 100,000 in the United States that season.
The deadly virus struck in the U.S. when it usually does, during winter. That year, "kids didn’t care about when Santa came," remembers Susan Donelan, who is now a medical director and assistant professo

Snapchat has dabbled in merchandise before, with branded towels, backpacks, and the infamous dancing hot dog costume. But now the company is taking things a step further with a full-fledged merch store that launched today in the app, which was first spotted by Taylor Lorenz on Twitter.
Accessible on the Discover tab of the app, the Snapchat store features Snap-themed items like a plush version of the dancing hot dog ($19.99, with posable arms and a removable bun), a fire emoji Snap streak hat (

Microsoft announced its smaller Xbox Wireless Adapter back in August, but mysteriously delayed its summer launch to 2018. The adapter is now finally in the Microsoft Store in the US, priced at $24.99. It’s 66 percent smaller than the older version, and looks like a small USB data stick. Like the original, the new adapter supports up to eight controllers at the same time, as well as four regular chat headsets or two stereo ones.
While the latest Xbox One controllers include Bluetooth suppo

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Generally, flamethrowers are legal. 
Just as Elon Musk has incited enthusiasm, discourse, and frustration about the realities of colonizing Mars, he has successfully done something similar for flamethrowers. His tunneling company, The Boring Company, sold 20,000 flamethrowers this week and is now sold out of the $500 flame ign

One thing that sticks out about Mazda is their frugality. Their cars are about less being more — less weight, fewer cylinders, more space efficiency inside. Some of this is actually a necessity because, in the great scheme of the global auto industry, Mazda is a small company. They still have the occasional tie-up with Ford or Toyota, but Mazda mostly develops cars by itself. While it sounds like the company is making life difficult for itself, it can at least stick to its core belief tha