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Cord-nevers, you’re in luck. No more need to beg, borrow or steal your parents’ cable password to keep up with each episode of “Mad Men” or “Game of Thrones.” When the hit shows return in the next few days, they will be available for streaming online with no cable or satellite subscription. Here’s where you can watch. “MAD MEN” The show is returning to AMC on Sunday to start its final seven-episode run. The channel is available through Dish’s $20-a-month Sling TV streaming service and Sony’s $50-a-month PlayStation Vue. You can sign up for Sling TV at sling.com and watch through a number of apps. Sony’s service requires a PlayStation 3 or 4 and limits viewing to your home. (Plus, you need to live in New York, Chicago or Philadelphia…

In its five short years of life, Pinterest has become the’ place where brides-to-be create wish boards of wedding china photos and do-it-yourself home renovators bookmark shiny turquoise tiles for bathrooms. It’s where people share ideas and ingenuity and get creatively inspired. And it’s fueled a new way of searching for items that’s even stolen traffic from tech giant Google. The San Francisco-based venture capital darling was recently valued at $11 billion. While its core audience has always been female, Pinterest says its popularity is growing faster than ever among men. It is winning in the all-important social-mobile space - the vast majority of “pinners” connect from mobile devices - and is enjoying a healthy expansion overseas. As Pinterest celebrates its fifth birthday this week - hopefully with perfect bacon…

Cinema has always been fascinated by androids. From “Metropolis” to “Blade Runner,” the juxtaposition of humans next to their artificial form has provided endless hours of stories that can be as exhilarating as they are poignant. Tough moral questions about consciousness and humanity go down easier when hidden under the glossy sheen of genre, after all. With so many now-classics preceding it, “Ex Machina” might seem like just the latest flavor in the android movie shop. And yet, without necessarily expanding on this well-trod territory or innovating contemporary science-fiction, by going deep on a simple construct, “Ex Machina” establishes itself as a unique and deeply unsettling psychological thriller that’s both necessary and unforgettable. The construct in question: How good is this android? Writer-director Alex Garland in his feature debut tells…

California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the first mandatory, statewide water cutbacks by cities and towns as the state’s nearly 40 million people head into a fourth summer of severe drought. Here’s a look at Brown’s plan for achieving an overall 25 percent cut in water use: CRACKING DOWN The state can fine water agencies $10,000 a day if they fail to meet state targets for water conservation. State Water Resources Control Board head Felicia Marcus said the state will be will be working up other measures to go after water guzzlers. “There will be enforcement,” Marcus promised. REBATES The California Energy Commission will help oversee financial rewards for Californians who buy water-saving toilets and other appliances. HIGHER WATER BILLS Brown’s order mandates that water agencies look at changing rates to…

An unorthodox stock split designed to ensure Google CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder Sergey Brin retain control of the Internet’s most profitable company could cost Google more than half a billion dollars. Page, 42, and Brin, 41, have maintained control over Google since they started the company in a rented Silicon Valley garage in 1998. Their ideas and leadership have spawned one of the world’s best known and most powerful companies with a market value of $368 billion and a payroll of about 54,000 employees. Yet many investors have become frustrated with Page’s unwavering belief that Google should be spending billions on far-flung projects ranging from driverless cars to diabetes-controlling contact lenses that may take years to pay off and have little to do with the company’s main business…

Facebook and its founder must release documents and electronic correspondence to a defense lawyer whose client has fled from criminal charges that he falsely claimed a majority ownership in the social media giant, a federal judge said Friday. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick ordered Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to relinquish documents by Monday that were requested by Paul Ceglia’s lawyer, Robert Ross Fogg. The judge said he received a letter Thursday from lawyers for Facebook Inc. and Zuckerberg asking that an order he issued earlier in the week to promptly turn over requested documents be suspended until Ceglia is caught. Documents requested include all electronic communications Zuckerberg had about a Ceglia contract during an 18-month stretch beginning in 2003. With a May 4 trial approaching, Ceglia cut off his electronic…

Jeri Vargas put her elderly mother on the "Do Not Call" list years ago. So why is the 88-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease still getting several recorded phone calls a day pitching her everything from vacation cruises to medical alert devices and fire extinguishers? The Federal Communications Commission has been asked to consider the question of whether phone companies could do more to stop the onslaught of "robocalls," the automated phone calls favored by scammers. Since the convergence of Internet and phone lines, it's become easy to blast out hundreds of thousands of calls in a matter of minutes to see who takes the bait. The question of whether these calls can be blocked has never been more pressing than around tax season, when many pretend to come from the…

Taken 3 (Unrated) Liam Neeson reprises his role as Bryan Mills for this third installment of the Taken trilogy, for which the former government operative is forced to depend on his skills one last time when he is framed for a murder. He is soon pursued by a savvy police inspector, Frank Dotzler - played by Forest Whitaker. Can Mills both evade the authorities and hunt down the real killers? FIVE FACTS: 1.  Taken 3 follows 2008’s Taken and 2012’s Taken 2.2.  Other cast members include Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Sam Spruell and Leland Orser.3.  Neeson had once suggested that the chances of a third Taken were minimal.4.  Principal photography took place in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Covington, Georgia.5.  The film was scored by French composer Nathaniel Méchaly. Big…

New York City jail health workers say their medical ethics are often compromised by the demands of treating patients who are also prisoners, such as when they witness guards’ use of force or are asked to approve stints in solitary confinement, according to a first-of-its-kind city study. The two-year study at New York’s sprawling Rikers Island jail complex concluded with a bold recommendation to remove health workers entirely from the most contentious issue they face - whether to put an inmate in solitary. That’s because many doctors believe the confinement, which involves 23-hour stretches of isolation, could harm inmates. “Whatever the security reasoning for placement in such units, the participation of health staff in this process is cumbersome, time intensive, of questionable value and does not reflect a patient-health provider…

The last word in shopping luxury BUYERS OF $17,000 TIMEPIECE TO BE TREATED LIKE ROYALTY You might imagine that spending a bit more of your hard-earned money on a new watch would entitle you to a few perks above those who go for the budget option. What about when you spend as much as $17,000 on that timepiece, and you're purchasing from nothing less than the world's most valuable company? That's the question that prospective Apple Watch Edition buyers are asking themselves - and they're in for a real treat. Of course, it could be argued that those opting for the range-topping version of the Cupertino giant's hugely eagerly-awaited watch have more than enough fabulous features to get excited about. This is the variant, after all, with cases crafted from custom…

Media giant Viacom Inc. on Monday announced a round of layoffs and restructuring that will result in it booking $785 million in special expenses in its recently ended quarter. A Viacom spokesman declined to say how many people would be laid off. The New York company said it will write-down underperforming TV shows and abandon some shows that it bought, as well as make severance payments. Among shows creating the need for the accounting charge are reality programs such as “The Real World” that have lost value as reruns. The restructuring comes amid the departure this month of longtime executive Van Toffler, president of Viacom’s Music & Logo Group, who is launching a content-creation business. Channels under his purview, such as MTV, Logo, VH1 and CMT, are being reorganized under…

At a sprawling Bronze Age cemetery in southern Jordan, archaeologists have developed a unique way of peering into the murky world of antiquities looting: With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are mapping exactly where - and roughly when - these ancient tombs were robbed. Based on such images and conversations with some looters whose confidence they gained, archaeologists try to follow the trail of stolen pots and other artifacts to traders and buyers. They hope to get a better understanding of the black market and perhaps stop future plunder. It’s sophisticated detective work that stretches from the site, not far from the famed Dead Sea in Jordan, to collectors and buyers the world over. The aerial photography detects spots where new looting has taken place at the…