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The third season of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones is coming to a dramatic end on Sunday, June 9, at 9 p.m., but just because Winter is over doesn't mean the battle over the Iron Throne has to be.

Since Summer is coming, HBO and location-based app Foursquare are teaming up to bring you Game of Cones, an intense challenge between ice cream parlors (or should we say . . . houses) for the Iron Throne, er, Cone.

The most popular destinations for sweet creamy treats in San Francisco and New York are participating, including Bi-Rite Creamery and Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream. Support your favorite local jaunt by checking into your ice cream shop of choice between June 7 and the first day of Summer, June 21, and include the hashtag #GameofCones. The shop with the most check-ins will win the Iron Cone.

Find leaderboards, house sigils for your favorite parlors, and more at gameofcones.foursquare.com. But before you join in on Foursquare's fun summertime festivities, answer this: if each house in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series could only be represented by one flavor of ice cream, what flavor would it be? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.

One recipe for viral success is the video mashup: two parts addictive video and one part expertly chosen soundtrack make for a perfect meme. The Berlin-based startup Weavly is bringing mashup creation to the people with its web-based editor that pulls video from YouTube, Loopcam, Vine, and/or GIFs from Tumblr, then pairs them with music from SoundCloud.

You can easily create multimedia right in the browser with Weavly's online tools. Enter a search term or paste the URL of a video/GIF you like, then drag and drop the media into the timeline editor. Preview each video, cut where the clip should start and end, and make more precise edits in the timeline. Select some audio, drag and drop that file into the editor, and — voilà — video is made. The video mashup can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, or via embed code. So, mix it up and send us your viral video sensations in the comments below.

It's simple, really: plug in a movie you like, and Popcorn.fm will recommend titles for you in the same genre or time period or by the same director. You'll never go movie-hungry again.

The idea isn't a new one — there are other movie recommendation sites on the web. But none are as easy to use, or as beautifully designed, as Popcorn.fm. Clicking on a recommendation prompts a window with the trailer, release year, director, synopsis, and other essential information, provided by Rotten Tomatoes and Trakt. Try it out and let us know if the recommendations are spot on or just downright wrong.

Very few are fluent in the the guttural language of the Klingon warrior race — but now Trekkies around the World Wide Web can try their hand at the ancient alien dialect with the new Klingon Translator by Bing for web and Windows Phone.

Head over to bing.com/translator to see what your favorite Star Trek-isms look like in Latin-based Klingon or the traditional piqaD Klingon script. In the words of Captain Picard, "make it so," and master the old alien tongue one word at a time!

The Klingon Language Institute, along with professor Marc Orkrand, who is credited with inventing the language, built the Star Trek-approved translation algorithms from the ground up. This, of course, means that there is still a lot of work to do on the translator, and master Klingon speakers can contribute to its progress by emailing translator@microsoft.org.

Before you hit the theater on May 17 to see Star Trek Into Darkness (which stars the one, the only Benedict Cumberbatch), learn the language of Worf to impress all your Trekkie friends.

The Landsat satellite program has been snapping images from space since 1972, giving our earthbound eyes a macro perspective of what's happening all around the globe. The Google Earth Engine is now compiling 30 years of incredible satellite imagery into one interactive time-lapse that reveals dramatic urbanization, deforestation, and global change.

And, well, since this is the Internet, those time-lapses are also available as Google-powered GIFs.

Each view is built from millions of 1.7-Terapixel images (that's a trillion pixels and over 909 terabytes of data, guys) at 30-meter resolution. One frame reflects an entire year's worth of Landsat data from the archives, and choosing which images to use in the time-lapses was no easy task. The project — which was a collaboration between the US Geological Survey, NASA, and TIME — required sifting through more than two million images to find pictures without clouds.

Once the images were compiled, the CREATE lab at Carnegie Mellon University turned the views of the retreat of Alaska's Columbia Glacier, the urbanization of Las Vegas, the deforestation of the Amazon, and more into zoomable, browsable animations built for the web. You, of course, get to enjoy the fruits of their labor and watch the planet change right before your eyes. Compare and contrast these phenomenal pictures of Earth through time, then find out more about NASA's ongoing Landsat mission to send more Earth-observing satellites into space.

College basketball craziness concludes this evening with a final game between the Louisville Cardinals and Michigan Wolverines — but that's not the only matchup yielding a champion tonight. This Is Madness, a fan-driven competition to determine the true leader of the Star Wars universe has boiled down to two: Master Yoda and Darth Vader.

Cast your vote online, and see who the fan favorite will be tonight at 12:01 a.m. ET on ESPNU. Just like the real deal, This Is Madness started off with 32 competitive players on each side and will end with only one winner. Star Wars wonks filled out the geekiest bracket in the galaxy to determine which character reigns supreme.

Let's find out which character is the official fan favorite once and for all! This universe only has room for one victor.

Will it be the wise Jedi master or the vengeful Sith lord? Make your predictions in the comments below, and find out who the most popular Star Wars character is tonight!

Turn your favorite geekspirational quotes into beautiful digital posters with Recite This, a website that creates design-forward shareable graphics — for free! Type in the wise words of your choice, and preview how the quote looks in over 30 different typographic styles with fun design elements like graphics, ribbons, photography, and quote bubbles.

When your inspirational creation is done, Recite This can share it straight to Tumblr, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Facebook, or Twitter. You can also download the image to your desktop. When you're in need of some spoken truths, Recite This has a Find a Quote feature that will provide you with tons of verbal inspiration about age, success, intelligence, and everything in between.

Moxy Creative, the team behind Recite This, is no stranger to bold poster-making. They've created series about famous eyewear, iconic movie cocktails, and cities around the world. Check out Moxy Creative's brilliant body of work and see what other DIY typographic digital posters others are making on Tumblr.

Follow POPSUGAR Tech on Tumblr for more inspirational bits, and be sure to look through our collection of famous quotes from geek heroes such as Yoda, Jean-Luc Picard, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams.

How many different places do you store your data on the web? Think: you've got email, social networks, photos, video sites, and cloud storage, plus random accounts with online services here and there. Jolidrive is a website that reins in all that digital information by linking the most popular services on the web in one place.

Users can access all their online files at once, which means they can take advantage of free space on multiple cloud storage sites. Jolidrive enables users to combine the free 2GB they receive from Dropbox with the 5GB they receive from Google Drive, and so on.

But the browser-based service isn't just useful for storage. It will pull entire feeds — plus everything you've shared — from Facebook, Google Plus, Tumblr, Flickr, and Instagram. Jolidrive can find every multimedia file you've uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud and sync reading lists from Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability too.

It's a simple solution for consolidating your digital life, but beware: if Jolidrive's servers were hacked, then all of your online data would be vulnerable. Create a hacker-proof password, and make sure important files are encrypted. Jolidrive is free and open to everyone, so give it a try and tell us what you think of the all-in-one cloud service.

When the going gets tough, even the tough could use a hug. Having a bad day? Restore your faith in humanity and head over to TheNicestPlaceOnTheInter.net for an endless stream of friendly, comforting virtual embraces from complete strangers.

Art directors Jeff Lam and Lauren Perlow created the website after a particularly awful series of events and set out to develop something "honest and good, unhappiness-offsetting, fail-proof, and grin inducing."

But the Nicest Place on the Internet isn't just a place to receive hugs — generous patrons can give warm embraces, too. Record a hug video, upload it to YouTube, and email the link to hello@thenicestplaceontheinter.net for inclusion.

If someone in your life needs a little e-squeeze, you can create a personalized playlist of hugs by clicking on "Create your own nicest place" in the bottom left corner.

Enjoy this online pick-me-up, and if there's any place on the Internet nicer than this one, then be sure to let us know.

Though history books may focus on the notable men of the world, Makers, an online video platform, is on a mission to change all that by profiling the work of women who have "made" America over the last 50 years. What began as an initiative by filmmaker Dyllan McGee to make a documentary about social activist Gloria Steinem, evolved into hundreds of online video accounts, and a full-length documentary airing tonight on PBS, about the trailblazing women of the US.

Included on the Makers site and iPad app are hundreds of stories of women making an impact in the world, everyone from business executives to tech pioneers to a teenage editor in chief.

Think of Makers like a very specific TED Talks site, but instead of watching speeches on big ideas, you'll see brief, inspiring videos on any one of hundreds of female trailblazers in six fields including arts, science and tech, sports, and education, among others. Discover France Córdova, the first female chief scientist at NASA or Maria Pepe, who, as a child, persuaded Little League to allow girls to play.