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Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter originally released in 2010 for the Xbox 360. As with any good multiplayer shooter, Halo: Reach had a large array of powerful weapons and maps for players to interact with. Each of these powerful weapons spawns in a specific location on each map, and being the first one there can turn the tides of battle in their favor. Despite the game being launched about 10 years ago, it has become important to know the locations of powerful weapons in Halo: Reach again thanks to Halo: The Master Chief Collection....

If you’re a massive Potter fan like us, chances are you’re already well aware of Harry Potter fanfiction. This widespread platform offers the opportunity for us mere muggles to use our wild imaginations in order to invent scenarios at Hogwarts that fulfill our heart’s desires. There are hundreds of unique “ships” that can be found in HP fanfiction, yet here are the ten that have grabbed our attention the most....

For readers with travel plans coming up, Pocketalk – the handheld 74 language translation device – has a limited offer with $80 off including built in data. Head below for more details on this great little travel companion. Get $80 off Pocketalk Voice Translator for a limited time Pocketalk can be used worldwide to freely communicate in over 120 countries and has sold around 600,000 units so far. Pocketalk’s easy to use interface and compact design will help to make your travel experience seamless....

Defense is back to offer 9to5 readers another great deal on its new Vertical Duo Qi charger. For a limited time readers can take advantage of an exclusive discount on this great Qi charger for iPhone and AirPods. Get $10 off Defense DUO Vertical Qi power station $49 (Reg $59) w/ code 10DUO9TO5 Head below for a closer look at the Vertical Duo from Defense. Available in both black and white with silver accents, Defense’s new DUO 10W Qi power station is a great charging pad option for not only your iPhone, but also your AirPods and other devices....

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint pushes the series further than it’s ever gone before. From a gameplay standpoint, that means the inclusion of several features that have never existed within Ghost Recon before, each meant to test player’s ability to think and assess situations with as little information as possible. When the game was unveiled during a hands-on preview event in New York last week, it was clear that Breakpoint intends to take everything that made Ghost Recon: Wildlands palatable while infusing it with all the lessons learned by Ubisoft during that game’s lengthy life cycle....

The Apple device ecosystem has heralded new ways for creative game makers to realise their vision, often by combining physical elements with apps, to form engaging and addictive experiences. Most of this guide leans on casual gaming where a whole family can join in together, but there’s also a consideration for the serious side of games too. We feature the endearing Beasts of Balance, the Osmo game system, MFI game controllers and more....

According to Global Equities Research (via AllThingsD), the new inexpensive digital textbooks Apple launched last Thursday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City was downloaded over 350,000 times in just three days. iBooks Author, a new free of charge Mac tool to author iBooks Textbooks, saw 90,000 downloads in the same period. This data is not official and is derived from the investment firm’s proprietary tracking system that monitors Apple’s iBook sales....

Michael Dougherty, director of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, has explained the core differences between Godzilla and King Kong’s connections to humanity. Godzilla’s latest blockbuster is releasing at the end of the month. Godzilla vs. Kong is releasing in early 2020, and promises an epic brawl between the gargantuan beasts. Godzilla and Kong are arguably the two most well known giant monsters in pop culture. Kong first appeared in the 1933 classic, King Kong....

Make Google Chrome Read Text Aloud to You Go to the Read Aloud extension page on the Chrome Web Store and click the Add to Chrome button. Next, verify you want to install the extension by clicking the Add Extension button. Now, open any website and highlight the text you want Google Chrome to read. Right-click on the highlighted text and click on the “Read aloud selected text” option from the menu that comes up....

Google Cloud Connect is a cloud sync add-on that automatically updates an online copy of your Microsoft Office documents to the Google Docs cloud whenever you save. As mentioned, this is pretty similar to what you could do by saving your documents in your Dropbox folder. The difference is, Google Cloud Connect will automatically refresh updates, stores author+revision information, and it has built-in fail-safes to prevent changes from being lost....

Google has just announced some new price plans for its Google Drive service. The new plans start at $1.99 for 100 GB (down from $4.99), $10 for 1 TB (down from $50) and 10 TB for $99.99. This storage is shared across Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. It should be noted that Google bills customers monthly. Even so, these new price points make Apple’s iCloud storage offerings look awful in terms of value for money....

If the feature has been rolled out to your account, and you’re already logged in, start a new email and click the “Try Out the New Compose Experience” link. You’re presented with a “how it works” diagram and to start a message, click the Got It button or Learn More for in depth detail. But it’s straight forward enough. Once you click that, things change completely. You’ll click compose and get a window on top of the inbox, allowing you to compose your new email....

Google’s new Motorola Division has filed a patent lawsuit against Apple with the United States International Trade Commission, according to the Wall Street Journal. In this lawsuit, Motorola claims that Apple violated seven patents with its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch iOS products and even Macs. As detailed by Bloomberg, the specific patents in question involve Apple’s Siri voice-control system, location-based reminders, push email notifications, media playback on phones. Earlier this year, Apple’s case against Motorola over four patents was dismissed....

According to the announcement, Google Chrome, Search and Ads have all been updated to either block or warn users before taking them to a site which Google has flagged for either installing software without the users permission or tricking them into installing malware. As in the past, webmasters who are encouraged to register their sites with Google’s Webmaster tools so Google can notify them when their sites have been flagged under this new update....

Higher Quality Search Results Google’s bee farms aren’t the only ones that have been busy these past few months. in February Google introduced an extension for the Chrome web browser that allows users to block low-quality websites from their search results. Then a few weeks later they followed that up with an algorithm change that “improved” 11.8% of all results. Google has also added the ability to create a block list of websites from your Google Account, so as long as you are logged in you won’t see them in the search results anymore....

Fans of Grey’s Anatomy were sad to hear that Sarah Drew and Jessica Capshaw would depart the show. Drew played two characters in total; she was cast as a patient on Private Practice but was known more for her role as Dr. April Kepner. April made her first appearance on Grey’s Anatomy in Season 6, coming in during the hospital’s merger. She would then be involved in some of the show’s biggest storylines, including a crisis of faith and discovering her child had osteogenesis imperfecta....

Guardians of the Galaxy was initially deemed a risk for Marvel Studios, but the property is now one of their most popular. The characters were a big reason why the film caught on with so many viewers, as the likes of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot were able to ground the otherworldly concept into a heartwarming story about friends and family. Moviegoers have waited three long years to see the team reassemble, making Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Marvel Studios found great success with the Guardians of the Galaxy comedic tone, and that will not be lost without James Gunn’s direction in Avengers: Infinity War. Almost nobody knew who these characters were before Guardians of the Galaxy hit theaters in 2014, but with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 around the corner, it is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Much of this excitement can be attributed to the way Gunn built up these characters, and they’re poised to do even more in the future....

Halloween 9 was planned, but eventually canceled. A direct follow-up to Halloween: Resurrection didn’t happen, but not because of box office or lack of fan interest. The success of Halloween: H20 (1998) created talk of a sequel – even though the film was supposed to have wrapped up the saga. However, fans were unaware of the last-minute problems that almost cancelled the anniversary follow-up altogether. Returning actress Jamie Lee Curtis agreed to do the film, with the understanding that her character would ultimately kill series boogeyman Michael Myers....

Hamachi is a virtual private network (VPN) application written by Alex Pankratov in 2004. This service is in use to establish direct links between computers behind network address translation firewalls. It doesn’t require configuring the system. It works on the internet that emulates the connection which exists if the computers connected over a local area network. The main error that occurs nowadays is that the Hamachi service gets stop automatically on Windows 10....