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Morning Tech Crawl: Hodor, 'Minecraft' to China and Apple in BlackBerry danger?

Stop making us cry, 'Game of Thrones'
ORG XMIT: PCH101 A Blackberry user reads a story about a Blackberry outage that is affecting millions of users of the smartphone that has now spread to North America Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, in Montreal. Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson) THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Credit: Omar L. Gallaga

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ORG XMIT: PCH101 A Blackberry user reads a story about a Blackberry outage that is affecting millions of users of the smartphone that has now spread to North America Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, in Montreal. Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson) THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
By Omar L. Gallaga, Associated Press and Associated Press
May 23, 2016

Marco Arment made waves over the weekend with this blog post suggesting Apple might go the way of BlackBerry if it doesn't get serious about big data / artificial intelligence services as some of its rivals including Amazon, Google and Facebook.

Google's Project Ara, the modular phone idea with removable, swappable modules, is still in development. CNet has some of the details.

Will "Minecraft" take off in China? Microsoft is hoping so.

And for "Game of Thrones" fans, a republished salute to Hodor on Slate and a photo I took of actor Kristian Nairn at South by Southwest 2014:

Actors Maisie Williams (left), Kristian Nairn (center) and Gwendoline Christie (right) from HBO's "Game of Thrones" participated in a 2014 SXSW Interactive exhibit based on the show. The exhibit will be back for 2015 in anticipation of the fifth season of the series. Credit: Omar L. Gallaga / AMERICAN-STATESMAN

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