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Avengers: Endgame Was Subject To Some Heavy Reshoots

As the biggest blockbuster event of 2019, you can bet that Disney is sparing no expense in fine-tuning Avengers: Endgame for public consumption. And so long as there’s still time for directors Anthony and Joe Russo to make adjustments, it sounds like the pair have been taking advantage of the stars and the resources and their disposal.

Principal photography on the Avengers: Infinity War sequel began back in August of 2017, and in a new interview with Empire, actress Karen Gillan revealed that she’d shot some scenes as recently as two weeks prior:

“My last day was two weeks ago. They keep doing reshoots. We call it ‘The Infinity Movie.’ It just never ends. I think we’re going to be at the premiere and they’re going to be playing it and we’ll act the last scene live, because they won’t have finished it.”

While fans have a tendency to hear the word “reshoots” and get worried, we’re not really seeing anything to panic about here. After all, reshoots are a normal part of any production, and for a project as huge as Endgame, Disney can afford to be fussy with their final cut.

Regardless, it looks like the period for shooting footage has more or less come to a close, with the Russo Brothers announcing earlier this month that the film is now locked. While an official runtime has yet to be revealed, the directors have hinted in the past that the movie could end up being as long as 3 hours, in which case, you couldn’t really blame them for doing a lot of reshoots.

As for Gillan, the actress mentioned in her interview with Empire that she thinks Nebula will be “a character we’re all rooting for,” and to get a little more specific, Gillan also told People last year that Thanos’ adopted daughter will “confront some serious daddy issues” in next month’s release. Beyond that, details on Nebula’s arc are in short supply, but we’ll find out what’s in store for the Guardians of the Galaxy regular when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters on April 26th.



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Google will give Android users a choice of browser and search engine in Europe

Google has announced that it will start asking European Android users which browser and search engine they would prefer to use on their devices, following regulatory action against the company for the way it bundles software in its mobile operating system. Last year Google was fined a record $5 billion by EU regulators for violating antitrust laws and was ordered to stop “illegally tying” Chrome and its search app to Android.

Google’s initial response was to start charging manufacturers licensing fees for the Play Store and other apps while offering the option to include Chrome and the Google search app in the overall package for free. Now, SVP of global affairs Kent Walker says in a blog post, Google will go one step further by offering...

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Disney now owns 21st Century Fox, X-Men, and most of Hulu

After more than a year of working to get final approval, Disney’s lengthy process of acquiring 21st Century Fox is finally done.

The merger went through at 12:02 am ET, giving Disney full control over a number of 21st Century Fox entities including the company’s entire movie studio division, its 30 percent stake in streaming service Hulu, and the Fox Television Group. The acquisition received final approval from antitrust regulators around the world in recent months. Despite the acquisition, Fox Corp. will retain its independence, and entities like Fox News and Fox Sports in the United States.

“This is an extraordinary and historic moment for us — one that will create significant long-term value for our company and our shareholders,”...

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The Google Stadia game controller feels surprisingly great

Google today took the wraps off its Stadia cloud gaming platform, showing off a bold but largely untested vision of the future of gaming that involves distributing and playing software in real-time over the internet. We still don’t know a lot about how Stadia will work, how much it might cost, whether it will operate as a Netflix-style subscription service for consumers or use a different business model, or when exactly it will come out later this year. But we did get our hands on the custom controller Google built, the only physical piece of the Stadia package.

Surprisingly, the Stadia controller feels and looks great. Granted, we didn’t get to try it on a live Stadia demo, but we did get to go hands-on with the same white and orange...

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Kickstarter’s CEO, Perry Chen, is resigning

Kickstarter CEO and co-founder Perry Chen has resigned from his role as chief executive of the company. Chen wrote in a blog post today that he will remain chairman of Kickstarter’s board, and that he intends to focus on “high-level and long-term company needs” from that position.

Chen has been with Kickstarter since its beginning, serving as CEO for its first five years. He stepped down for the first time in 2014, leaving the role to co-founder Yancey Strickler, and returned in 2017 after Strickler decided to leave the company. At the time, Kickstarter had planned to look at outside candidates, according to Buzzfeed News, but Chen quietly stepped in and assumed the role once again.

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Facebook, YouTube, and others asked to brief Congress on New Zealand shooting response

Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), penned letters today to tech executives from companies like Facebook and YouTube requesting a briefing on March 27th regarding their response to the New Zealand shooter’s live stream and the subsequent reuploads across multiple platforms.

Thompson’s letter was sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, urging them to prioritize the removal of the terrorist content and to brief the committee on their response and plans to prevent something similar from happening in the future.

The letter was sent in response to the mass shooting that left 50 people dead after a white...

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Peloton is being sued for using music without permission in its video fitness classes

Several members of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) have collectively filed a lawsuit against fitness startup Peloton today, seeking over $150 million in damages. The complaint, filed by Downtown Music Publishing, Ultra Music, and eight other publishing groups, says that Peloton has been using their musical works for years in its workout videos without proper licensing, resulting in income lost for songwriters.

The complaint says that Peloton does have some licenses in place with other labels and publishers, but not with the plaintiffs named in this suit. It alleges that Peloton has “used more than 1,000 musical works owned or administered by Plaintiffs over a period of years in the videos that it makes available to its...

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Uber Eats rolls out confusing new fees — here’s what they mean

Uber Eats rolled out its new fees structure this week, and most people are confused about what the new fees mean. Instead of a booking fee for each order, Uber is now splitting up its fee into a delivery and service fee, and adding a small order fee of $2 when your order total is less than $10. Here’s what it actually means.

From the homepage of the app, you can see the delivery fees. Ranging from 49 cents to $3.99 in New York, at a glance it looks more appealing and affordable than the previous fees of $2.49 to $6.49. But once you start adding items to your cart and reach the order page, you can scroll to see an additional service fee that’s 15 percent of your order total. The new delivery fee plus service fee add up to roughly what the...

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Facebook’s former chief security officer on how to protect content moderators

Facebook’s former chief security officer Alex Stamos joined The Verge’s Casey Newton onstage at SXSW to discuss the difficult issues that plague Facebook and democracy.

You can listen to their discussion in its entirety on The Vergecast right now. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from this interview between Stamos and Newton about how to better serve the mental health of content moderators.

Casey Newton: Let me ask about content moderation. I recently wrote a story about content moderators, and some of the working conditions they encounter is really rough. How should Facebook and other platforms think about moderation going forward? Should these employees be paid more? Should this be a full-time job?

Alex Stamos: Yeah. So you can...

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Pandora now lets you change its algorithm for selecting music

Pandora is giving listeners more control over what songs their customized radio stations play with a new feature called Pandora Modes.

Pandora’s classic algorithm has long chosen what plays when you start up a new artist station, but these alternative modes let you switch to other types of curation for different experiences. Modes work better the more you interact with the service while listening. Every thumbs-up or down on a song further informs what tracks Pandora will send your way.

There are now six listening modes: My Station, which is Pandora’s original algorithm; Crowd Faves, which will favor the songs that get the most thumbs-ups by other users in that station; Deep Cuts, which will serve up lesser-known songs by an artist or in...

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Google Stadia cloud gaming platform announced, should you be excited?

The gaming community witnessed the unveiling of Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service at Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco. You could leverage Google data centers and hardware infrastructure to Stream games to your PC, tablet, TV, or phone. For instance, you’re watching a game’s official trailer online and at the end, a Play Now option hovers on […]

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Xiaomi Redmi Go Quick Review – A Smart Alternative To Feature Phones?

Redmi Go is Xiaomi’s most affordable phone launched in India till date. As the ‘Go’ moniker suggests, the phone has been build in partnership with Google and runs the lighter version of Android (Go Edition) with a lighter set of Go Apps that are supposed to run better on the low-end hardware. At a price […]

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