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Project Launched To Put Donald Trumps Face On An Iceberg
Climate Change Group Launch Project Trumpmore to put the US Presidents face on an iceberg I think it’s fairly safe to say that in political terms, Donald Trump is one of the most dividing figures out there. People either seem to love him for his brash no-nonsense manner or hate him…
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Nokia May Cut up to 14% of Workforce
After a slew of bad years, Nokia still hasn’t found their footing yet. Once one of the dominant handset and wireless hardware firms, the Finnish firm has struggled in the changing landscape. 2 years after dumping their Lumia and handset business on Microsoft, the company looks to be cutting more…
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Meet KILLERDRONE! The Chainsaw Drone
Drones are an interesting piece of technology. They’ve only recently taken off (pun intended) and are now swarming over the world with adaptions for every type of activity. You can race your drone in the Drone world GP, they’ll deliver you your food or Amazon orders and are even used to used…
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Lizard Squad Hacker Convicted of 50,000 Counts of Computer Crime
A Finnish hacker, and member of the notorious Lizard Squad, has been found guilty of 50,700 charges of hacking, according to the nation’s newspaper, Kaleva. The hacker, 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki, was given a 2-year suspended sentence, meaning he will avoid prison on the proviso that help “to fight against…
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Apple Increases Prices of Its Products in Non-US Countries
While Apple has discounted the price of its Apple TV in North America to $69, the company seems to be doing the exact opposite to a lot of its products around the world. This comes as a result of the US Dollar gaining some ground and becoming stronger in the…
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Angry Birds Developer Rovio Lays off 110 Employees
It’s no surprise that the company that found luck with the insane success of Angry Birds has started to lay off employees. Despite being the most downloaded mobile game of all time, Angry Birds is a simple game, with a simple concept, a game that arguably got in early and captured the…
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Exploration and Stunning Visuals Ahead in Oculus Ready ‘Pollen’
DK1 was impressive, but its technical limitations have been a tough challenge for games developers, who will have needed to see the potential for the technology beyond the hardware they were developing for. Now DK2 is here and while many developers are still awaiting their new hardware, some have been…
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Finnish Smartphone Maker Jolla Expands to Two New Markets
Back in February, Jolla brought out release version 1.0 of their Sailfish OS and announced they were ready for global distribution. Since then it had been a bit quiet on that front and we hadn’t heard much. This changed during the past week when Jolla announced not one but two new…
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Lumia Cyan Update Has Been Released in Select Markets
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update has been long teased and awaited by users of the latter operating system. The majority of users however are stated to be on Lumia handsets, having the Nokia devices engulfing the majority of WP market. Lumia users also have some additional and exclusive features…
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Xbox One Delayed To 2014 For Eight European Countries
Microsoft has officially confirmed that eight European countries will get the console late, in 2014. The eight countries who will experience a delay in the product’s arrival are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. That said in November the Xbox One is still expected to arrive on…
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New Brand “ID-Cooling” Entering European PC Cooling Market
ID-Cooling are a new brand in Europe founded by “Shenzhen Wan Jing Hua Technology co., Ltd.” of China. They are looking to make an entrance into the European PC hardware market manufacturing cooling products. They apparently have a long history of making business and OEM cooling products, for 10 years.…
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Snowden’s Asylum Options: 1 Withdrawn 10 Rejected 10 Pending
According to reports by RT.com Snowden’s options for political asylum are rapidly evaporating. The NSA whistleblower has withdrawn his application for Asylum to Russia after they told him he could only have asylum if he stopped “damaging” the USA, a condition he was not prepared to agree to. Furthermore Finland,…
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Snowden Releases List Of Countries Contacted For Political Asylum Requests
While it is now relatively common knowledge that the famous internet surveillance NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is stuck in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, it hasn’t been well documented where he was seeking political asylum up until now. We’ve known he has been in talks with Ecuador, but with that starting to unfold…
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