Dave Grohl made a majestic return on the 4th of July, performing on top of a custom-designed throne at a Foo Fighters concert in Washington D.C. Last month, Grohl broke his leg after falling off stage, which resulted in several canceled tour dates. But the constant diet of painkillers provided some unexpected inspiration, leading him to dream up a blueprint for his throne while under the influence of morphine and Oxycontin. View photo . Grohl’s drug-induced invention bears a resemblance to another famous throne – the one from HBO’s Game of Thrones   – but swaps out swords for guitar necks and throws in some “lazers [sic] and s***” for good measure. And somehow, despite wearing a purple cast and having to stay seated, Grohl and the Foo Fighters were still able to rock out - delivering a 24-song set. And at one point, he even took a break to bring his mom out onstage, dedicating the song “For All The Cows” to her – maybe not the best song title for a dedication, but a sweet gest...

She been hobbling around on crutches after recently injuring her hip in a slippery shower accident. But it's Emilia Clarke's latest film, Terminator Genisys, that could use the extra support as the star continues to promote the film despite it bombing at the box office. The 28-year-old  Game Of Thrones  star carried on the film's lengthy promotional tour as she was seen wearing a crimson red gown at the Tokyo premiere on Monday. Scroll down for video    Still promoting: Emilia Clarke, 28, was seen on Monday in Tokyo while continuing to promote her latest film Terminator Genysis despite a poor showing at the box office Clarke paired the red number with matching scarlet lips and a short asymmetrical side bob. Forgoing a safe and sturdy footwear option, the actress went fashion forward with a pair of shiny silver heels. Also on the red carpet was Clarke's co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, the face of the franchise, who wore a classic black suit. Lady in red: Clarke donned ...

For a guy who says he's not returning to  Game of Thrones ,  Kit Harington  is sure dropping some hints to the contrary. Over the weekend, Harington, who was  killed off of the Season 5 finale , was at Wimbledon sporting his very Jon Snow-like hair. While this might not normally be cause for concern -- or in our case, hope -- he did recently  tell  Vulture  he was planning to shave the beard now that he's done with the role, but might keep the hair for other roles. But look at the photos and there's still very much a beard paired with his long, luscious locks. To further add to the speculation, just last week, Emilia Clarke , who plays Jon's  rumored aunt Daenerys Targaryen,  told  MTV News  that there's hope that the Lord Command will return in Season 6, which is scheduled to start production later this month. Game of Thrones ' Emilia Clarke shares good news for Jon Snow fans "If I had to bet, I'd say there's a 50-50 chance," Clark...

A bassist calls for equal treatment under metadata.  "We want to know who's playing the music we're hearing, who produced it, who arranged it, where it was recorded and by whom,” reads the MoveOn petition page for ‘Show the Album Credits on Apple Music!’ Bassist Jon Burr launched the campaign yesterday (July 5), following the explosive launch week of Apple Music, which garnered many positive reviews, particularly around the service’s free Beats 1 international radio station. "We chose to target Apple at this time because the rollout of Apple Music is missing this category of information," the petition's creator, Jon Burr, tells Billboard. "Apple has shown a willingness to listen to feedback in the past, and is sensitive to their user base (which contains many of these same creatives). As the leader in technology and music marketing, if they set a trend, others may follow." Metadata is a problem that has plagued the digital music space for years, ...

In the days and weeks after its launch last April, one of the biggest curiosities surrounding the Apple Watch was its tolerance to water. Thanks to a few initial tests -- from  showers  to high dive pools  -- we now know that the Apple Watch is indeed a bit more waterproof than Apple promises, and with that in mind a few London-based iOS developers have created the " World's first swim app on the Apple Watch ," and put it through its paces in a new video.  Having designed a similar app for the Pebble, Ted Bradley and his team decided to take that idea -- a lapping, time, and heart rate monitoring swim app -- and transplant it onto the Apple Watch. The developers put each smartwatch to the same test, swimming four full lengths of the London Aquatic Centre's 50 meter pool. The test proved successful, with the Apple Watch mirroring the Pebble's results of a four lap, 200 meter swim. Apple's smartwatch even continued to measure heart rate successfully, raising fro...

For months, reports have said that Apple is preparing to release a larger iPad this year, perhaps called the iPad Pro. While Apple has yet to confirm any plans regarding its future products, Business Insider has learned that Apple has been testing prototype iPads with bigger screens since as far back as 2012. An iPad prototype from around that time had a screen that was larger than 12 inches, according to a person familiar with the matter. Various reports have indicated that the so-called iPad Pro will have a screen that measures 12.2 or 12.9 inches in size, which would make it significantly larger than Apple's current 9.7-inch iPad Air 2. For context, a 12.9-inch iPad would be about the same size as the screen on a 13-inch MacBook. A 12.2-inch iPad would be about as large as Samsung's Galaxy Note Pro. We're told this prototype from years ago was bare bones, and that Apple was likely running basic tests just to gauge how an iPad of that size would work and what kinds of...

Apple’s next big thing is expected to launch on July 14 when the company will introduce Apple Pay support in the UK, reports claim. Think different I understand US readers may instantly lose interest in something taking place outside of their continent, but Apple Pay will be supported at 250,000 locations across the UK and there are several reasons why the launch matters. Mobile payments Apple has seized a strong position in mobile payments in the US – quite an achievement when consumer sentiment concerning contactless payments in that country was reluctant in comparison to consumer perception elsewhere. Partly as a result of years of industry agitation, European consumers are far happier to embrace contactless payments, with UK consumers particularly ready to embrace these. With Apple’s iPhone 6 series devices leading the pack in terms of smartphone sales in Europe, there’s little doubt that you can predict many thousands of customers will test Apple Pay. The existing £20 payment li...

A lot of activity has taken place in the wearable devices (wearables) world in the last few weeks. Fitbit went public. Jawbone is suing Fitbit. Apple Watch went on sale ( for real, this time ). If you read the tech news, it might feel like the technology industry is working relentlessly to make you healthy. However, what we are seeing is a small step in a long journey toward changing people’s habits and adapting the healthcare system to new technologies before this technology can enable us to live healthier lives. Broadly, wearables fall into two categories – medical and consumer. Medical devices  require  FDA  (a US government agency) approval to be used and consumer devices do not.  Non-medical devices companies and startups tend to focus on consumer wearables because it is an easier thing to do. Who wants to wait two or more years to see if what you are building will get approved by a government agency? Apple Watch and Fitbit both fall into the consumer wearables ...

Here are 5 reasons why the Blackberry 10 smartphone is seen as a better option over the android smartphone. 1. Multitasking:  On Blackberry 10, any app can be instantly minimized with the swipe up gesture and is then accessible as a small file on a separate screen. 2. BlackBerry Hub:  The Blackberry 10 has a dedicated hub that unites all your text messages, IMs, emails, social network feeds, call records, etc., in one centralized place, thereby making it easy to get all your notifications in order, read, and respond how you want. 3. Search:  In BB 10 OS, you don’t have to open up a dedicated search apps, just start typing your desired term from the home screen and the search window opens up automatically. 4. Notifications:  On BB OS 10, all new incoming messages and notifications are shown momentarily. This works with all apps including games. Android provides the same functionality, but they don’t work well with all apps. The blackberry 10 has a better notification ...

Installing apps is easy on Android. So easy that you can end up with a ton that you don’t need over time. Rather than tediously paging through every app to uninstall them one by one, we recommend Easy Uninstaller. This app allows you to uninstall several apps at once, sort them by size, and even clean up any junk files left behind. Easy Uninstaller Platform:   Android Price:  Free Download Page Features Batch uninstall several apps at once Sort apps by storage space Clean up leftover junk files Track app usage to identify most and least-used apps Track battery usage to identify biggest battery drains Set reminders to clear out storage on regular basis or when storage gets too full Where It Excels Even without all the bells and whistles, Easy Uninstaller does its fundamental job well. You’re presented with a list of apps, as well as how much storage space they’re taking up on your phone. Simply check the boxes next to the apps that you want to uninstall and Easy Uninstaller wil...

Prolific mobile custom ROM developer community AICP (Android Ice Cold Project) has released a new firmware to the Google's 2012 flagship smartphone Nexus 4. According to Team Android, this new AICP custom ROM is based on the latest AOSP (Android Open Source Project) v5.1.1 Lollipop OS. It is said to be stable and bring performance enhancing tweaks to the phone. Prerequisites (things to remember before installing Custom ROM): This new AICP Android 5.1.1 Lollipop custom ROM has to be installed on the LG-Google Nexus 4 (aka Mako) only; if tried on other devices, it might get bricked [To check your device model: Go to Settings >> About phone >> model number] Make sure the device is rooted before going forward for custom ROM installation Installation of custom ROM requires clearing of memory on the smartphone, so make sure to back up all the data by installing Clockwork Mod (CWM) Recovery/ TWRP in the smartphone. Make sure to install USB drivers on the PC, or else your ...

Fallout Shelter  is finally coming to Android after a long wait, Bethesda Softworks vice president of PR and marketing confirms. When  Fallout 4  was announced by Bethesda, not only did the gaming community rejoice for the  Fallout 4  console game, but they also celebrated the surprise release of  Fallout Shelter,  a  Fallout- spinoff game for mobile users. While  Fallout Shelter  was released early for iOS users, Android users were left in the dark for quite a time, since  Fallout Shelter  was  not available for Android  from the beginning. However,  Destructoid  reports that finally, the  wait has almost come to an end , and Android users will be able to download  Fallout Shelter  to their smartphones by August. The confirmation that  Fallout Shelter  will already be available in Android in August came from Pete Hines himself, Bethesda vice president for PR and marketing. Although ...

There are certain tech rumors that make the rounds so regularly, you could almost write the stories in advance. Every year, someone is going to buy AMD, graphene is just around the corner thanks to one major breakthrough or another, OLED televisions are finally going to hit the mass market at near-LCD prices (I cry inside every time this one turns out to be untrue) and, inevitably, Microsoft is going to give up on Windows  Phone 10 Mobile and make Android devices. This time, the rumor comes courtesy of Twitter user and known leaker MSNerd, who writes that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is discussing the option of dropping Windows Mobile altogether and instead licensing Android for use in smartphones and handsets. To be fair, this is not an entirely crazy idea. If the  original  Windows Mobile had a much higher market share than it deserved, Windows Phone has had the opposite problem —  it deserves more users than it actually has , based on the overall quality of the OS....

Strong sales for the Samsung Galaxy S6 resulted in a stellar three-month period ending in May for both Android and the top smartphone manufacturer. LG also performed well, while Motorola and HTC lagged. A new report analyzing smartphone sales for a three-month period ending in May shows good news for Samsung, LG and the Android operating system in general, while the latest numbers for HTC and Motorola show both smartphone makers falling behind. The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Phones indicates that phones running the Android operating system accounted for 64.9 percent of all smartphone sales during the period, a jump of nearly three percent. Samsung's U.S. market share rose by three percent to 55 percent for the three months ending in May as opposed to the 52 percent share for the company in the three months ending in April. May was the first full month that the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge were available for purchase in the U.S. LG also had a stellar three-mo...

Android ROM developer CyanogenMod  (“CM”) has announced that it is working on Gello, an open-source browser based on Google's Chromium browser, offering several customization options for Android. Chromium is an open-source version of Google’s Chrome browser. CM plans to bring loads of customization to Chromium by introducing innovative features to the upcoming Gello browser. Some of these features allow users to rename and relocate downloads, to swipe through open tabs, as well as offer privacy setting site wise. Added features that CM plans to include are a power saver mode, a night mode, an immersive mode that removes advertisements and pictures that surround an article, and a feature like save for offline reading mode use. Gello won’t be released on Cyanogen OS, which runs on OnePlus One phone. It will, however, be available in a future version of CyanogenMod’s Android ROM. The Gello browser targets those who prefer Android Open Source Project (AOSP) instead of Android. Since de...

Google's Android One initiative has been launched in Pakistan on Monday. With the launch in a new Asian country, Pakistan has become the ninth country after India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Turkey (first country outside Asia) where Google's low-cost Android One smartphones will be sold. Google has announced QMobile as its OEM partner for the Pakistan market. The new Android One  phone - the  QMobile A1  - will be available starting Monday via retail stores across Pakistan and is priced at PKR 11,500 (approximately Rs. 7,000). Google has confirmed that the QMobile A1 smartphone will run Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. As for specifications, the smartphone will come with identical specifications as the Karbonn Sparkle V, Micromax Canvas A1, and Spice Dream Uno. It will feature a 4.5-inch FWVGA (480x854 pixels) display; 1.3GHz quad-core processor; 1GB of RAM; 8GB of built-in storage; expandable storage via microSD ca...

Motorola has just announced that the Android 5.1 Lollipop update for the Moto X (2014) is currently rolling out on several U.S. carriers. Customers of Verizon, AT&T and U.S. Cellular can now access the update on their smartphones. Last week, Motorola  announced  that the Moto X (2014) would be receiving an update to Android 5.1 Lollipop: "We are excited to announce a new software update for Moto X (2nd gen) by Motorola. This update brings Android 5.1 Lollipop to your phone along with other improvements. Android 5.1 Lollipop improves stability and provides better control over notifications." Now, the company has confirmed that the Android 5.1 Lollipop update is currently rolling out in various stages on several top U.S. carriers. David Schuster, vice president of Product Sales and Operations at Motorola Mobile Devices Unit, has announced that the update is ready for customers of Verizon, AT&T and U.S. Cellular. Schuster, who has acted as the defacto spokesperson for re...