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    As season 4 of the hit series is confirmed to air on 7 April, in tandem with the US' East Coast debut, we hear the cast of the show speak at a 
    London Q&A.

    "Game of Thrones" will make its UK debut at 2 a.m. on 7 April, in a special showing set to coincide with the US' East Coast airing of the same episode.
    Season 4 of the hit HBO show is set to make its grand, sword-slinging entrance in a few weeks' time. Sky will also be showing episode one at the more reasonable time of 9 p.m. on the same day, but the early screening will give die-hard fans a chance to get involved ahead of time.

    The cast speak

    Sky confirmed the news at an event in London, which featured a cast Q&A with Liam Cunningham, Sophie Turner and John Bradley-West, who play Davos Seaworth, Sansa Stark and Samwell Tarly respectively.

    Speaking of Sansa's role in the upcoming episodes, "She's going to start to manipulate some people", Turner said of her character's coming machinations.
    Of the upcoming season: "There are some large WTF moments coming up", Cunningham said, describing his character on the show as "a simple man in a nest of vipers."
    "I have this image in my head of a White Walker sitting on the Iron Throne", Cunningham teased, when asked who of the show's many central characters could eventually end up victorious.
    When quizzed on whether they knew the show would be a success, Cunningham said, "The quality of the writing has brought it up that extra step."
    The show apparently got off to a rocky start, with a first pilot that didn't work. "We had to reshoot basically the whole thing because it was really bad", Turner noted. Clearly, however, that didn't put off HBO, as the show has proved a global hit.
    When asked how -- should their characters die -- would the actors like that to happen, Cunningham offered, "of old age."
    "I want a whole episode dedicated to my death", Turner joked. "Something that would really drag out."
    Are you looking forward to "Game of Thrones" season 4? If you live in the UK, will you be watching at 2 a.m. on 7 April? Let me know in the comments.

    'Game of Thrones' season 4 gets 2 a.m. UK premiere

    The social network is looking toward the future by buying the maker of the virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift.



      The Oculus Rift headsetJames Martin/CNET
      Facebook announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the virtual reality technology company Oculus VR, which makes the Oculus Rift headset, for about $2 billion in cash and stock.
      The 18-month-old Oculus is at the forefront of the emerging VR industry, getting its start on Kickstarter, and has made an open-source sweetheart out of the Oculus Rift. The company just announced its final development kit for the Rift last week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, ahead of its official release, the date of which is unknown.
      Facebook said that with the acquisition, it plans to extend Oculus' virtual reality capabilities beyond gaming into areas such as communications, media, entertainment, and education. Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, views virtual reality as the next big thing in social.
      "Mobile is the platform of today, and now we're also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow," Zuckerberg said in a statement. "Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play, and communicate."
      The deal, valued at about $2 billion based on a Facebook stock price of $69.35, includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock, and allows for an additional $300 million earn-out in cash and stock based on milestones. The purchase also marks Facebook's first major consumer-facing hardware play for the usually software-oriented company.
      Oculus is based in Irvine, Calif., and was founded by 21-year-old Palmer Luckey in 2012. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund development and raised more than $2.4 million from online backers. Oculus will remain in its current location and continue to work on the Oculus Rift.
      Facebook's latest billion-dollar buy closely follows its deal to purchase messaging application WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock. The social network also made headlines two years ago when it picked up Instagram for about $1 billion. The photo and video app has ballooned to 200 million monthly active users under Facebook's care.
      The $2-billion deal for Oculus is expected to close in the second quarter of this year.

      Facebook to buy Oculus for $2 billion

      Google turns down military
      money for robot competition


      Schaft, a Japanese company focusing on a humanoid robot, is one of several small robotics firms that Google has acquired.


      The bipedal Schaft robot, the top scorer in a DARPA competition last year for disaster-response scenarios, will compete in the finals, but now with funding just from Google.


      Google will pay its own way through a robotics competition, deciding against accepting money from the US military for a humanoid robot that topped the charts in a contest for disaster-relief scenarios.
      Last year, Google acquired the Japanese robotics firm Schaft that built the bipedal robot that earned the highest score at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) for a machine that can handle disaster zone tasks including climbing ladders, navigating debris, opening a door, and shutting off a valve.
      The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Department of Defense unit that seeks to advance technology, had funded the work before Google's acquisition, but Google told DARPA it's moved the project to the self-funded category.
      "Team Schaft...has elected to switch to the self-funded Track D of the program,"DARPA said in a statement Friday.
      Schaft and another robotics company that Google acquired, Boston Dynamics, both had accepted DARPA funds. Stepping away from the military funding avoids some politically touchy entanglements for a company that's far more interested in bringing automation to consumers' lives than to the battlefield.
      DARPA is funding eight teams to move from last year's trials competition to the finals. That stage had been scheduled 2014, but DARPA is now setting the competition for some time between December 2014 and June 2015.
      Boston Dynamics had been working on a bipedal humanoid robot project called Petman, a sequel to earlier projects inspired by quadrupedal animals.
      Via The Verge

      Google turns down military money for robot competition

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