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Red Dead Redemption 2 has biggest opening weekend in entertainment history

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by on October 30, 2018 at 4:21 pm
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Rockstar’s Wild West adventure game, Red Dead Redemption 2 has achieved the biggest opening weekend in entertainment history. Yes, in entertainment history. Movies, music, books – everything. To be perfectly honest, this shouldn’t comes as much as a surprise – Rockstar games are incredibly popular. While Red Dead Redemption 2 had the biggest opening weekend in entertainment history, the studio’s previous game – Grand Theft Auto V – still holds the record for three-day retail sell-through. In other words, Red Dead Redemption 2 grossed $725 million over three days, while Grand Theft Auto V managed over $1 billion. Respectively making them the second and first highest grossing entertainment launches…

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Apple unveils new iPad Pro with tiny bezels, Face ID, and USB-C

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by on October 30, 2018 at 3:24 pm
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Since the iPad’s inception, two things have been true: the device has used a proprietary charging port and featured a prominent home button with the same basic design. That changes today. The new iPad Pro features a completely new design to what we’ve seen before, looking a bit more like the MacBook Pro family with a flatter design and thinner bezels. The company has abandoned the Lightning port on an iOS device for the first time since 2012, opting for the universal USB-C standard. Apple also took a new approach to sizing the iPads. The smaller model gets an upgrade…

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Surprise – Apple’s Mac Mini has a new color and higher specs

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by on October 30, 2018 at 2:45 pm
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At today’s New York event, Apple has announced a new version of its Mac Mini. The desktop computer will now come in a Space Grey finish and comes with either four- or six-core processors. According to Apple, this will make the Mac Mini five times faster than previously – which shouldn’t be much of a surprise as the last version of the hardware was released four years ago. This is how Apple presented the speed upgrade at the keynote: Memory and storage The previous Mac Mini had 16GB of RAM. Now, it can be upgraded to 64GB of 2666 MHz memory.…

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Surprise – Apple’s Mac Mini has a new color and higher specs

Oct30
by on October 30, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


At today’s New York event, Apple has announced a new version of its Mac Mini. The desktop computer will now come in a Space Grey finish and comes with either four- or six-core processors. According to Apple, this will make the Mac Mini five times faster than previously – which shouldn’t be much of a surprise as the last version of the hardware was released four years ago. This is how Apple presented the speed upgrade at the keynote: Memory and storage The previous Mac Mini had 16GB of RAM. Now, it can be upgraded to 64GB of 2666 MHz memory.…

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Spooky data visualization reveals most haunted cities in the US

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by on October 30, 2018 at 2:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


It’s that time of year when humans as well as their pets dress up in Halloween costumes and discussions around trick-or-treating, candy, and of course, paranormal entities take the limelight. I wanted to get into the proper holiday mood, and we all know nothing does the trick like a good ol’ data analysis and visualization. The US spends $9 billion each year on this second highest commercial holiday, so I thought it’d be interesting to find out how topics such as haunted places, spirits, and mysterious creatures have been ingrained in various cities — and to find the ‘spookiest city’…

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