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TL;DR: Through July 21, jump on limited-time summer savings and get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Pro 2021 including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more tools for £31.47. 


It's not just that PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and all their friends are popular. They're also incredibly useful. The downside is that normally Microsoft 365 isn't something you just buy once. Paying for a subscription just



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Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon II Targaryen in "House of the Dragon" season two.
  • "House of the Dragon" teased a major character in its season two premiere.
  • Hugh is a blacksmith, and one of the common folk in King's Landing. 
  • But in "Fire and Blood" he plays a major role — read ahead if you want to be spoiled! 

Warning: Spoilers ahead through season two, episode five of "House of the Dragon"



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Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen in season two, episode four of "House of the Dragon."
  • Aegon suffers a pretty bad fall in season two, episode four of "House of the Dragon."
  • We got an update on his condition in the latest episode, and it's not pretty.
  • Here's where Aegon stands in the show and what happens to him in "Fire in Blood" — spoilers ahead, obviously.

Warning: Spoilers ahead



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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., Saturday.
  • Donald Trump said he was shot in the ear, and a bystander was killed during a rally in Pennsylvania.
  • An eyewitness described to the BBC seeing a man with a rifle crawling on a nearby rooftop.
  • The US Secret Service quickly came under scrutiny for

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Residents select products at a supermarket in Shanghai, China.
  • China's economy grew 4.7% in Q2, missing the 5.1% growth forecast by analysts.
  • June data showed exports were strong, but domestic consumption was weak with retail sales growth of just 2%.
  • China's disposable income grew in the second quarter of this year, but consumers are reluctant to spend.

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Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At close to twice what it spent for Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company.

The New York City-based Wiz offers “siloed security tools and



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House of the Dragon Season 2, episode 5 ends with the promise of a possibly game-changing gambit from Team Black.

Following the loss of Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and her dragon Meleys, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and her son Jacaerys Velaryon (Harry Collett) realize that their only hope of winning this war is to bring more dragons to their side. As of now, Dragonstone's riderless dragons



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Harry Collett stars as Jacaerys Targaryen in "House of the Dragon" season two.
  • Jacaerys "Jace" Targaryen is Rhaenyra Targaryen's eldest child and heir in "House of the Dragon."
  • In season two, Jace is keen to fight in the civil war despite his mother's protests.
  • Here's how Jace dies in George R. R. Martin's "Fire and Blood" and might die in the series.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead



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Google HQ in Mountain View, California.
  • Alphabet is nearing a deal to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion, per WSJ.
  • Sources told The Wall Street Journal that the tech giant is in advanced talks to buy the startup.
  • Wiz was founded in 2020 and became one of the fastest growing startups a year later.

Google's Alphabet is closing in on a deal to purchase Wiz



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This probably isn’t Paramount’s new logo. | Image: Paramount

If you didn’t know Paramount Global is set to merge with Skydance, then the logo included in their recent investor presentation would like to share an important update. Under its traditional mountain and stars, it shouts PARAMOUNT, using the all-caps styling and arched text of the Skydance logo instead of a more



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Former President Donald Trump was escorted offstage with blood on his face after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
  • Donald Trump was wounded, a bystander killed, and two were injured during a campaign rally shooting.
  • The would-be assassin fired up to eight shots before being killed by the Secret Service.
  • Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how the incident unfolded.

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