It was an astonishing interview for recruiter Elliott Garlock. While screening candidate engineers for a crypto firm in February, Garlock encountered one applicant who raised almost every conceivable red flag. The interviewee joined the Zoom inter…
Episode 6 of House of the Dragon is likely to be among the most controversial in the series. Time jumps are risky, so HBO is playing with fire here. There’s a gap of over 10 years between episode 5 and Sunday’s show. That means a bunch of new f…
House of the Dragon moves fast. In the premiere episode of the Game of Thrones prequel, we saw the traumatic death of Queen Aemma and the naming of Rhaenyra Targaryen as the heir to the throne. The second episode, The Rogue Prince, was about King Vi…
House Targaryen is in tumult. In the closing moments of House of the Dragon’s premiere episode, King Viserys declared his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, the heir to the throne. That flies in the face of tradition, which would have Viserys’ younger bro…
Andrew Tate is all over social media — or at least, news reports about him are. The past few days have seen Tate banned from the full gamut of social networks — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Twitter — dealing a painful blow to …
Facebook is broken, and in a most unusual way. As of around 11:30 p.m. PT Tuesday, Facebook users began complaining of a strange bug: Their feeds consist only of random people posting on celebrities’ walls. Scrolling down my own feed, all I can see …
House of the Dragon is only one episode old, yet the Game of Thrones prequel has already stirred some controversy. It revolves around a confronting scene depicting Aemma Targaryen, wife of King Viserys Targaryen, giving birth. If you haven’t watched…
After two years away, HBO on Sunday allowed the world to punch their ticket to Westeros. The first episode of House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones, set the stage for Targaryen clash. It introduced us to a cast of new characters that wil…
Heavy is the head that wears the crown. The opening moments of HBO’s House of the Dragon see Viserys Targeryen inherit enormous responsibility when he’s crowned Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. It’s fitting that much of the show’s first season…
Smartwatches can be stylish accessories, and new features are slowly transforming them into smartphones we carry on our wrists. But what they’re really good at is cold, hard data. The millions of people who use them for everyday fitness tracking kno…
Say what you want about how the show ended, but Game of Thrones’s eight seasons provided some of the best TV of the past decade. There are many questions swirling around House of the Dragon, the Thrones prequel that debuts this Sunday. Perhaps the most…
It’s been three long years since Jon Snow broke the wheel in the final episode of Game of Thrones. In HBO’s “House of the Dragon”, which debuts on Aug. 21, we return to Westeros. There’s no doubt “Game of Thrones” lost some of its lustre during its …
Crypto is in a bad way. Bitcoin and ether, the two biggest cryptocurrencies, are down over 50% since the year began. It’s not only crypto traders who are feeling the pain, however, but crypto exchanges too. On Tuesday Coinbase, the biggest exchange …
People around the world were reminded how central Google is to life in 2022 when, for a brief time, Google Search went down in several countries. Other services, like Google Maps and Gmail, were affected too. Reports of an outage started flowin…
When George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice begins, there are only two known Targaryens left. House of the Dragon, HBO’s upcoming prequel to Game of Thrones, takes us back 200 years to when there are Targaryens (and dragons) aplenty. Chroniclin…