Game of Thrones Season 6 Blu-Ray out today with deleted scenes and extra features

The Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season is now available and features what many believe to be the best battle episode ever shot on TV (Battle of the Bastards) plus various deleted scenes and special features in glorious Blu-Ray resolution.

Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season continues the show's use of Dolby Atmos (with a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core) but the default to the also included Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Below is a complete list of the special features on the Blu-Ray.

 
·   In-Episode Guide –
·   Histories and Lore –
·   The Old Way: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   The Kingsmoot: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   The Sunset Sea: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   War of the Ninepenny Kings: narrated by Brother Ray (Ian McShane)
·   The Great Tourney at Harrenhal: narrated by Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick)
·   Robert’s Rebellion: narrated by Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
·   Vaes Dothrak: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
·   The Dothraki: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
·   Northern Allegiances to House Stark: narrated by Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner)
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·   Brotherhood Without Banners: narrated by Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye)
·   Oldtown: narrated by Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover) and Qyburn (Anton Lesser)
·   House Dayne: narrated by Young Ned Stark (Robert Aramayo)
·   The Little Birds: narrated by Lord Varys (Conleth Hill)
·   Knights of the Vale: narrated by Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish (Aidan Gillen)
·   House Tarly: narrated by Randyll Tarly (James Faulkner)
·   Riverrun: narrated by Brynden ‘the Blackfish’ Tully (Clive Russell)
·   Great Sept of Baelor: narrated by the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce)

Microsoft announces partnership with OpenAI as part of commitment to democratizing AI

Microsoft just announced a new partnership with OpenAI as part of their commitment to democratizing AI and making it accessible to everyone. The partnership is focused on making significant contributions to advance the field of AI, while also furthering a mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems.

In order to help advance their research and create new tools and technologies that are only possible with the cloud, OpenAI chose Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud platform, tapping into Microsoft’s deep learning research and ongoing commitment to AI, along with Azure’s support for open source technologies.

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The Apple Beat: Apple Pay now an option for donating to causes and non-profits, MacBook Pros in the wild

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple Pay has been touted as the next generation mobile payments platform and Apple’s done a great job of securing global banks and partners, making ApplePay an option in major retailers and restaurants and even tuning their hardware so Apple Pay is one fingerprint or password away from enabling a quick and secure sale, even the new MacBook Pros feature a Touch ID button to make this easy.

According to their newsroom, Apple Pay now ‘makes it easier and more security to donate to nonprofit organizations.’ This is a great and safe option not just for responding to emergencies such as earthquakes, floods and other catastrophes but also for sending funds to causes, nonprofits and other charities. The list of nonprofits and charities is up on Apple’s website, it’s mostly from International and American organizations, I hope Canadian nonprofits can be included soon, specially as we’re headed into the season of giving.

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Facebook brings back chatroom feature in Messenger

Sometimes you need someone to talk to about your still growing stamp collection, your young niece or even your closest cousin might not be the proper audience for that. You might soon find people from your “tribe” with the revival of a Facebook featured called Rooms. It lets you enter a group chat with people who share a specific interest, and they don’t necessarily have to be your friend or acquaintance on Facebook. It was a standalone app back in 2014 but Facebook had to pull the plug when social-networking app Room claimed the social media giant stole the idea.

Facebook resurrects the idea for Canadian and Australian users but now has it within Facebook Messenger. It’ll allow you to create public rooms to chat about anything you fancy. You can opt to start a private room as well.

Source: PCMag