Season 5 of HBO’s  Game of Thrones  thus far has averaged 19.8 million weekly viewers with DVR, On Demand  and  HBO Go/Now playback folded in, and thus is poised to cross the 20 milliothreshold once all the heads are lopped  counted. Thrones ‘ latest run thus stands as its most watched to date, besting the 19.1 million who consumed Season 4 episodes. Also on the upside at HBO are  Silicon Valley  (up 3 percent to 6 million weekly viewers),  Last Week Tonight With John Oliver  (up 14 percent to 4.6 million viewers), Real Time With Bill Maher  (up a tick to 4 million viewers) and  Vice  (which just wrapped its most watched season, averaging 3 million viewers). Veep , however, dipped 9 percent in Season 4, averaging 4.1 million weekly viewers. Among HBO’s summer fare,  True Detective ‘s Season 2 opener thus far has drawn 11.8 million viewers, up almost 1.5 mil versus its series launch after the same span of time.  Baller...

Project Westminster is a way of converting web-based apps into Windows 10 apps. That and three other bridges -- to convert Android, iOS, and Win32 programs -- are part of Microsoft's attempt to create the world's best app store. Microsoft programmer Kiril Seksenov has published  Project Westminster in a nutshell , a short and readable guide to converting web-based apps into Universal Windows Apps that can run on a wide range of Windows 10 devices. This is just one of the four bridges announced at the Build2015 conference, the others being bridges for Android and Apple iOS apps, and for traditional Windows programs. What Microsoft calls "Hosted Web Apps" are apps that run mainly on the web, but are packaged and distributed via the Windows Store. This allows for apps that can be updated on the fly (web app publishers just update their servers) but can also exploit local features (such as Live Tiles and Cortana voice commands) and local content. The main drawback with ho...

Microsoft's new browser may have dropped the 'Spartan' nickname, but if you open it up you'll find that, feature-wise, it's still pretty...spartan. At the moment ( Windows 10  Pro Insider Preview Build 10158), there's not a ton you can do to customize the new Edge browser to make it look and act the way you want. But you can change the browser's theme and customize your start page and your new tab page, so that's something. Here's how to make Edge bend to your will (sort of): Change the theme At the moment, Edge doesn't support third-party themes the way Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome do (though this might change in the future). But you can change the look of Edge by switching up Microsoft's built-in theme -- you have a whopping two choices: Light (default) or Dark. Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET To switch themes, click the  ...  button in the upper right corner of the window, go to  Settings  and under Choose a theme  click the drop-down me...