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The Top iPhone 11 Will Cost $1,499 and Even More in Europe
With the upcoming release of the Apple iPhone 11, the tech giant is hoping that this model will find levels of popularity with consumers not seen for quite some time. It’s hardly any secret that while their more recent models have sold, the demand has been massively down from the…
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Storm Area 51 Creator Withdraws From The Event
You may recall a couple of months ago, that a new Facebook group was taking the world of social media (and alien hunters) by storm. Named ‘Storm Area 51 – They Can’t Stop Us All’ the group, as the name might have already suggested, the group intended to organize a…
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Eight People Charged For Running Piracy Streams
For arguably well over 20 years now various law enforcement agencies around the world have been battling the problem of online piracy. Admittedly, we have come a long way from the early days of websites such as Kazaa and Napster (not that I’d know what they were of course) but…
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Gamestop Cuts Another 100 Jobs – Are They Set to Go Under?
It’s been pretty clear over the last 10 years that physical gaming retail stores have been struggling to cope with the market shift to other platforms. With websites such as Amazon able to undercut them on price and digital downloads able to beat them on convenience, they are businesses that…
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Facebook Shuts Down ‘Raid Area 51’ Social Media Group
Unless you’ve had your head in a social media exclusion hole for the last month, you have probably heard about the Facebook group that was attempting to organise a mass raid on Area 51. Specifically, to try and see if they could meet some aliens. With the event growing in…
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John McAfee Is Alive, Well, and Released!
Yesterday, we reported how the official Twitter account for John McAfee had said that the cryptocurrency advocate (and former anti-virus maker) had vanished. Specifically, missing, presumed captured by the CIA. As such, various threats were being made that if he didn’t check-in soon his ‘insurance policy’ of a supposed 31…
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John McAfee is Missing – Presumed Captured by the CIA
I daresay that as I write this, there is someone in Hollywood desperately lobbying to get a film made about the life and times of John McAfee. I mean, to say that he is an ‘interesting’ character would be as much an understatement as to say that the Antartic can…
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Facebook Group has 400k Users Pledging to Raid Area 51
If the truth is indeed ‘out there’ then the probability is that it’s hiding somewhere within the American ‘Area 51’ military base. Since the 1950s, the facility has been one of the most hotly discussed topics when it comes to aliens and, put simply if they do exist and the…
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Hacker Sentenced To Over Two Years in Jail for DDoS Attacks
Hacker Given 27 Months In Prison Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on the prison system, but I imagine that as you enter your cell and your big burly cellmate asks you gruffly ‘what are you in for?’ responding with ‘hacking servers’ isn’t going to win you much…
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New York Looks To Make Elon Musk’s Flamethrowers Illegal
Boring Company Flamethrower You may recall, in one of the many adventures of Elon Musk, that last year he began taking pre-orders for a flamethrower created by his ‘Boring Company’. The product (following the release of a few videos) proved to be hugely popular with all 20,000 units being purchased.…
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GameStop Shares Plunge After Poor Q1 Amid Closure Rumours
GameStop Post Poor Q1 Profits Although it isn’t a brand that is universally known, GameStop is without a doubt one of the biggest video game store companies in America. Over the last few years, however, a clear trend has emerged that has shown that the company is in something of…
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US Senator Tables Bill to Ban Loot Boxes & Microtransactions
Senator Proposes Lootbox & Microtransaction Ban I’m not entirely certain when this actually happened, but today both loot boxes and microtransactions are seemingly part and parcel of any AAA gaming release. The concept behind them is rather straight forward, you can pay real money to potentially access rare in-game items.…
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Student Pleads Guilty to Destroying PCs with ‘USB Killer’
USB Killer When I was at college (many years ago now) I used to remember the look of shock and horror that would come onto the faces of the IT technicians when you’d pull out a floppy disc which didn’t have their seal of approval. Admittedly, times have changed now.…
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The World’s Biggest Plane Takes Successful Flight!
Stratolaunch Takes Flight! There are very few aeroplanes in the world that require six jet engines to get them into the air. Well, with the probable exception of military planes designed to get tanks and troops from A-B. Even taking them into consideration, however, there is no plane quite as…
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Woman Calls 911 Mistaking A Roomba For A Burglar
There’s Someone In The Roomba! It is, of course, one of the horrors of anyone that someone should break into your house. It’s bad enough when you’re not at home, but the thought of it happening while you were in the house is terrifying, to say the least. In a…
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