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Jim Broadbent has signed on to star in Season 7 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. There is no word yet on who Broadbent will play on Game of Thrones, but HBO confirmed to EW that his role is “significant.” Broadbent is a veteran British actor who played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series and won a Best Supporting …

Samsung has announced an unprecedented recall of the Galaxy Note 7 just weeks after launching the well-received smartphone. MacRumors learned that Samsung is already in talks with Verizon and its other U.S. business partners to come up with a solution to the exploding devices. The tech site also cited South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency in stating that the famous Apple …

Pamela Anderson wants people to stop watching porn. In an op-ed titled “Take the Pledge: No More Indulging Porn”, penned alongside Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for Wall Street Journal, the “Baywatch” actress warns against the “addictive dangers of pornography.” “This is a public hazard of unprecedented seriousness given how freely available, anonymously accessible and easily disseminated pornography is nowadays,” the column …

Pricing for the 2017 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Cabriolet range has been announced before it hits showrooms in October. Starting at $85,900 for the base C200 and topping out at $179,900 for the twin-turbo V8 Mercedes-AMG C63 variant plus on-road costs, commanding a premium of between $14,000 and $20,000 over the equivalent C-Class Coupe, depending on the model.

Nissan has finally introduced a second generation to its full-sized Titan pickup truck. New for 2016, the Titan XD bridges the gap between the half-ton Titan (a 2017 model) and the traditional heavy-duty contenders from Ford, GM, and Ram. The Titan XD does initially feel like a big truck when you drive it, but that goes away after a few …

A powerful earthquake on the North Island of New Zealand triggered a low level tsunami warning on Friday morning. Estimated to be 7.1 in magnitude, the quake triggered a low-level tsunami and prompted authorities to ask residents to seek higher ground. No individual suffered any injury and they have now been allowed to return home. The earthquake hit 169 kilometers …

Canada plans to restrict six chemicals used to make the drug fentanyl in a bid to stem what it called a national opioid crisis, the Canadian health minister said Wednesday. The regulator says police have reported an increase in domestic production of illicit fentanyl. It’s a shift from pharmaceutical forms of the drug, like the patch. But critics say the …

A remarkable video of a hawk flying around, picking up a snake, then dropping onto a family barbeque has gone viral since it was released Tuesday morning. Melbourne radio station 3AW published the video on YouTube Wednesday morning, although did apply some caution by asking readers to “be the judge” of whether or not the video was a spoof. The …

Hundreds of kilos of cocaine have been discovered in a shipment by Coca-Cola employees in France. “The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved,” said regional Coca-Cola president Jean-Denis Malgras.

Samsung launched the Gear S3 smartwatch as it looked to steal a march on Apple and its heavily-anticipated update of its wearable. According to Reuters, Samsung unveiled the new wearable on Wednesday, ahead of 2016 IFA, which will be held in Berlin. During the release, the company boasted of the Gear S3, which reportedly can run for four days on …

Google has announced that Cast functionality has been integrated directly into the Chrome browser. Casting between the browser and a Chromecast connected device works by allowing users to stream any page to the Chromecast connected device (ie HDMI TV). To Cast a page that isn’t natively supported for streaming, users need to head over to the Chrome Settings menu and …