Apple has long boasted that there’s an app for just about everything. The company even trademarked the phrase. But not when it comes to finding an app to locate the shortest line to buy an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. Apple has barred from its App Store the handicraft of a San Francisco startup called …
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If you weren’t lucky enough to be among the hundreds of people who watched crews brave heavy winds at a New Mexico trash dump in April for the successful hunt for a horde of Atari E.T. game cartridges buried in 1983, you can now get your first peek at the action. Today at San Diego Comic-Con, Xbox Entertainment Studios, which …
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Dozens and dozens of gold and platinum records line Graceland’s Hall of Gold. Daniel Terdiman/CNET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Boy, did the King live large. It’s hard to walk away from Graceland, the longtime homestead of Elvis Presley and his family, and not appreciate what fame, stardom, and a huge bank account, can get you — even if you don’t necessarily …
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Lego Fusion lets kids play in both the physical and virtual worlds. Lego Legos have always been firmly in one world or another — physical, as in iconic plastic bricks, or virtual, as in video games or more recently, the ” Lego Movie.” But for the first time, the toy giant is straddling both, giving kids a way to mix …
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LucasFilm and Disney announced today that ‘Godzilla’ director Gareth Edwards will helm the first standalone ‘Star Wars’ film. LucasFilm “Godzilla” director Gareth Edwards will helm the first of a series of annual standalone “Star Wars” movies that will start hitting theaters in late 2016. In an announcement on StarWars.com, LucasFilm and Disney said Edwards will direct the as-yet unnamed film, …
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‘Star Wars Episode VII’ may finally have a name: ‘The Ancient Fear,’ according to Ain’t It Cool News. Lucasfilm If rumors swirling through the massive “Star Wars” fan base are true, we may not have to call the upcoming seventh major film in the series “Episode VII” for much longer. According to Ain’t It Cool News, the official title for …
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The cast of “Star Wars Episode VII” sits with director J.J. Abrams in a photo released Tuesday. Lucasfilm Wonder no more, “Star Wars” fans: The cast of the upcoming “Episode VII” has finally been announced. In a post on StarWars.com Tuesday, Lucasfilm and Disney spelled out who will star in the film, which is planned for a December 18, 2015, …
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Disney’s launching a set of four new children’s books based on the original “Star Wars” trilogy. In a release Friday, the media giant said the series will hit bookstores beginning in October, with the publication of “The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight,” by “The Spiderwick Chronicles” author Tony DiTerlizzi. More importantly to “Star Wars” fans of all ages, the …
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An original E.T. game cartridge, signed by the lead designer. Millions were made, and most of them were buried in a New Mexico landfill after the game was deemed one of the worst ever. Daniel Terdiman/CNET AUSTIN, Tex.–E.T. wants to go home. But first there will have to be a massive excavation of a city’s garbage dump. As is part …
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The third layer of a recursive video mashing up ‘The Simpsons’ and the ‘Lego Movie.’ Screen shot by CNET Love “The Simpsons” and love “The Lego Movie?” Then how can you not love this terrific video, which spoofs both in one simple recursive all-brick mashup? Made by YouTube filmmaker Monsieur Caron, the video depicts the famous opening title sequence of …
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