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YouTube is most popular for being the world's biggest video streaming site but, ironically, many use it for listening to music more than watching videos. That is what prompted the service to launch YouTube Music, its "made-for-music" app dedicated to, well, music. Unlike with videos, though, rolling out a music streaming service in other countries can be a tricky thing. Fortunately, the wait finally ends for India, South Africa, and a handful of Latin American countries as both YouTube Music and YouTube Premium make their way to those markets.

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A ten dollar price increase was tipped this afternoon for all DIRECTV NOW users. That'll apparently make the standard package DIRECTV NOW cost around $50 a month - and it'll be re-named DIRECTV NOW Plus. This smaller of two packages will have "40+ channels" and will replace the standard DIRECTV NOW package that currently costs $40 USD.

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Today we're looking at The LEGO MOVIE 2: The Second Part LEGO set 70840 "Welcome to Apocalypseburg!" This is easily one of the most massive LEGO sets we've put together and certainly the most extravagant in the minifigure universe. This set is a whopping 3,178 pieces large, and it's not for the feeble of heart. It's a doozy and a half, of that you can be sure.

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Hit British drama series Killing Eve finally has a season 2 trailer. The video gives fans their first glimpse of the popular show's upcoming second season, teasing viewers with the growing tension between Killing Eve's two main characters. The trailer is short at only one minute in length, but it manages to pack a lot of details into many tiny clips.

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Since the moment Disney announced its acquisition of LucasFilm, we all knew that it was going to build new Star Wars attractions at its parks in California and Florida. It wasted little time in getting to work on these Star Wars parks, named Galaxy's Edge at both Disneyland and Disney World, and after years of teases, we finally know when they'll be opening.

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It's the end of an era we thought was already over. The final Blockbuster down under - in Australia - will close at the end of this month. But fear not! This is not the last Blockbuster in the world. The last Blockbuster in the world is inside the United States. That last Blockbuster movie rental store in the entire world is located in Bend, Oregon.

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Right now we're watching the Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer, over and over again. Once you've seen it a time or two yourself, scroll down and have a peek at our analyzation of what this video suggests this season will bring. Or if you'd rather do that yourself, just remember: The first episode comes on April 14th, 2019, and we'll be there with bells on. Know that the following post is full of SPOILERS - though you knew that, right? Nobody's going to get this far and expect an article about a trailer to be spoiler free.

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Keith Flint died over the weekend of an apparent suicide after delivering decades of high-powered music all around the world. This fellow and two bandmates formed The Prodigy, a dance-born music group that became prominent with the album Music For The Jilted Generation, which featured Flint on vocals for the Firestarter. "I can't believe I'm saying this but our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend," said bandmate Liam Howlett. "I'm shell-shocked... angry, confused and heartbroken."

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The writing has been on the wall for months but the ax has finally fallen. PS Vita mortuus est! Sony has officially ceased the production of its remaining gaming handheld console after months of winding down everything connected to it. And with no plans for a successor of any kind, Sony has practically surrendered that market to Nintendo as the Switch continues to outsell, or at least out-hype, both Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.

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When The Pokemon Company released Pokemon: The Power of Us last year, it was accompanied by the announcement of a new movie called Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution. Details were fairly light at the time, but now a new trailer is shedding more light on the nature of this upcoming Pokemon film. It seems that Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution will be a CGI remake of Pokemon: The First Movie, which premiered more than 20 years ago.

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YouTube is once again on the hot seat after no small amount of advertisers pulling out over problems related to minors. Given the PR and monetary consequences of such lapses, the video hosting giant has had no choice but to take drastic action, some of which will probably inconvenience some YouTube creators. Of course, many will argue that such "fixes" wouldn't have been necessary had YouTube been doing its job properly in the first place.

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Hit sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been renewed for Season 7, the team has announced, guaranteeing episodes leading into 2020. The comedy series originally premiered on FOX in late 2013, earning multiple awards during its multi-year run on the network. Unfortunately, FOX decided to cancel the show last year, but NBC picked it up soon after.

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