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As dark and sexy cable dramas like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones complete their cultural takeover and begin to draw network-like numbers, TV addicts are doing whatever it takes to get instant access to the shows they want.
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Posted: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:48 AM The new sports-enhancing drug? Twitter. It wasn’t long ago that the average sports fan would either attend a live sporting event, watch it on TV, or pore over the morning newspaper for statistics and game details.
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By now you are probably aware that on March 19, 2013, the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,401,009 to Twitter, and more specifically to Jack Dorsey and Christopher Isaac Stone. The Twitter patent is titled: Device Independent Message Distribution Platform. In other words, Twitter was awarded a patent on “Tweeting”!
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Every March, brackets are filled out, trash talking ensues between friends and co-workers and before the first round even ends, a school like Florida Gulf Coast University shocks the nation and ruins countless brackets. While it seems borderline impossible to account for all of the unpredictability in March Madness, Facebook and Yahoo!
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Film critics Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert pose in this undated photograph. Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, according to his employer, the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert had taken a leave of absence on April 2 after a hip fracture was revealed to be cancer.
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When hearing that a Rutgers University student flung himself off a bridge 2 1/2 years ago after he was outed on the Internet as gay, Ellen DeGeneres felt a familiar pain.
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With the new Timeline, Facebook users can share richer stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in their lives. The social network is beginning to get to the vision it set out at the expansion of Open Graph in 2011. Users don’t have to Like a book, they can read it.
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A new study confirms that connected-TV users are connected in more ways than one. Four out of five connected-TV owners use apps on a regular basis, according to a report by Parks Associates. But don’t worry if you’re not among the connected, they aren’t using it for educational or business purposes.
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Cable continues to outshine the broadcast networks in ratings headlines. The big story last week is that ‘The Walking Dead ‘ had its biggest broadcast yet on AMC with more than 12 million viewers, and History Channel’s ‘The Bible’ ended with enough viewers (11.75 million) to place in the overall Top 10 as well.
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There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention all that Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go have to offer. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you sort through all that television has to offer, we’re compiling the five best moments on TV each week.
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In a fraught scene in “Disconnect,” a lawyer played by Jason Bateman discovers that his son’s girlfriend doesn’t actually exist. The conversation between Mr. Bateman’s character and the fabricated online persona “Jessica” plays out entirely via text. An interface designed to resemble Facebook’s chat function appears next to an extreme close-up on Mr. Bateman’s increasingly teary eyes.
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