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Daniel Radcliffe embraces fact that he looks like 'a lot of old women in the past'

Daniel Radcliffe is perfectly comfortable with the fact that he resembles bespectacled women of the past. 

During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, he joked with Norton about his past-life doppelgängers, and the one trait they all share. 

"These are all my past lives— I was, like, a slightly depressed lady." 

[H/T: Vulture]

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The geekiest signs from the 'Stand up for Science' rally

At a rally full of scientists, things were bound to get a bit geeky.

On Sunday, thousands scientists and supporters gathered in Boston's Copley Square to "stand up for science" under the Trump administration. 

Their signs were, predictably, quite clever. 

My favorite sign so far#standupforscience pic.twitter.com/2pSlU5UPdz

— Tomas Green (@TomasWGreen) February 19, 2017

I can't tell you how many older people have come up to me today to say, "I remember polio. Thank you." #standupforscience #AAASmtg pic.twitter.com/hrkIY3d5wh

— Kathleen Bachynski (@bachyns) February 19, 2017

#standupforscience (and other essentials) pic.twitter.com/Hy1buB2IWY

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J.K. Rowling has the best response to Trump's non-existent Sweden attack

The internet can't get enough of President Donald Trump's "last night in Sweden" remarks, including, of course, J.K. Rowling.

Never one to shy from a little fun at the expense of the U.S. president, the author joined in on Twitter's response to Trump's confusing reference to a terrorist attack that didn't actually happen.

Literally the biggest incident of Sweden last night was a horse called Biscuit being rescued from a wellhttps://t.co/CAYsHhpt6z

— Grapey (@Grapeykins) February 19, 2017

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'Overwatch,' but with cats (and a dog) returns for more

Meet Zarnya, Felinehardt, KI.T, Woofston, and Streetcat, the adorable kitty-cat versions of Overwatch tank heroes Zarya, Reinhardt, D.Va, Winston, and Roadhog. OK fine, Woofston is technically a dog. But Winston is technically a knockoff of Beast from the X-Men movies and comics.

Much like the last "Katsuwatch" video from YouTuber dillongoo, this video runs through each cat-ified hero's various "highlight intros" — the bit that plays when said hero wins Play of the Game. But where the last one focused on offense heroes, this one is all about the tanks.

If you're curious to see how closely these recreations line up with the real thing, check out the comparison video right here. Spoiler alert: It's pretty damn close. Read more...

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'The Great Wall' is a hit, just not in the U.S.

The Lego Batman Movie is #1 in the U.S. for the second straight weekend, but that's not the big story.

Instead, eyes are on The Great Wall — a Zhang Yimou-directed blockbuster starring Matt Damon — which opened at #3 domestically, with an estimated $18.1 million at the box office. It's an underwhelming start for a movie said to be budgeted at $150 million, but U.S. ticket sales present an incomplete picture.

The Great Wall is already an international hit. It's amassed more than $170 million in China since it opened on Dec. 16, and its total non-U.S. gross — which, as of this weekend, includes 21 additional markets — amounts to an estimated $244.6 million. Read more...

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Ex-Uber employee shares harrowing tale of sexism at the company

According to an essay by a former Uber engineer, the company has a big problem with sexism in the workplace.

Susan J. Fowler, now an engineer at Stripe, joined the ride-hailing company in 2015, but her experience quickly became "strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying." In her account, posted Sunday, she alleges a clown car-worth of institutional sexism, HR incompetence and organizational disorder.

In response, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement Sunday evening he had instructed the company's new chief human resources officer to conduct "an urgent investigation" into the allegations. Read more...

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Watch a clever comedy duo imagine what fighting Trump IRL might be like

The Umbilical Brothers are a pair of physical comedians, who've been performing live on television (in their homeland of Australia and beyond) for 20 odd years. 

Well, they just made their debut appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Friday night. And they didn't mess around.

Essentially, they staged an imaginary, cartoonish bunch-up between President Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Complete with jokes about tiny hands, foreign policy and plenty of cheeky innuendo.

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That Britney Spears biopic is a travesty, and Twitter wants its 2 hours back

Britney Spears deserves better than this.

While no one expected Britney Ever After to be anything other than The Room of biopics, it seems the unauthorised Lifetime movie that aired Saturday night was so bad it shocked even the most unshockable viewers with its hilarious inaccuracies. In short, it was a shit show.

But just as every cloud has a silver lining, the dedicated Britney fans of Twitter made the most of their two-hour torture fest by commentating on the film's worst moments, for us all to enjoy. 

From it's ridiculous casting, LOL dialogue (we're looking at you, Justin Timberlake impersonator, with your "bomb diggity" youth speak), and costume design atrocities — it seems this movie may replace Glitter as the go-to pop star biopic of choice, for hungover/still drunk people everywhere. Read more...

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Horrific harassment story is giving the internet a new reason to #DeleteUber

It's been less than a month since ride-share company Uber faced a heavy wave of backlash that led to the "#DeleteUber" hashtag and now, after the publication of an employee's allegations of sexual harassment and HR bumbling, the hashtag is burbling back up. 

On Sunday, Susan J. Fowler posted about her experiences while at Uber and alleged a long list of institutional sexism, HR incompetence and organizational disorder and the story spread quickly across social media. 

Specifically, it gave users a chance to resurrect "#DeleteUber" to take more shots at the tech company. 

Goodbye forever @Uber. It's not me, it's you and your maligned moral judgment#deleteuber

— Brian Lin 🇨🇦🇨🇳 (@brianisme) February 19, 2017 Read more...

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Yep, the U.S. gave a 'Make Somalia Great Again' hat to the country's president

Somalia is one of the seven countries President Trump placed under a U.S. immigration ban recently.

So just imagine the grimaces when the newly-appointed President of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, received a "Make Somalia Great Again" hat from the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia, Stephen Schwartz. 

The hat gifted to the president had a blue and white colourway (as opposed to the usual red), matching the Somalian flag. 

Seems kind of inappropriate, what with the travel ban and all.

US2SOM Amb Schwartz had a fruitful mtng w Pres Farmaajo 2day + presented the Pres with a cap "MAKE SOM GREAT AGAIN" https://t.co/rXHgpWFp pic.twitter.com/EWFdrRipv3

— U.S. Mission-Somalia (@US2SOMALIA) February 17, 2017 Read more...

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This wearable can turn your dance moves into music

Making music you can dance to is so 2017. 

But dancing to make music is, potentially, the future.

That’s clearly the perspective of Daigo Kusunoki, an engineer who loves to dance. The twin wristbands he’s showing off this week at the New York Toy Fair, called BeatMoovz by Dmet Products, are the product of that dual love affair.

Inside each soft-rubber BeatMoovz wristband is a Bluetooth radio and an accelerometer. Every time Kusunoki moved his wrists, a nearby JBL speaker emitted a beat. Each band is connected to the BeatMoovz app, which has a library of 400 different sounds. Wearers can assign different sounds or instruments to each band.  Read more...

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'Walking Dead' goes beyond Thunderdome in episode 10

This review contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 7, episode 10, titled "New Best Friends." To refresh your memory of where we left off, check out our recap of episode 9.

At last — Daryl and Carol are reunited, and it feels so good. Even if "New Best Friends" had been a terrible episode (which it wasn't — it was arguably one of the season's strongest to date), it still would've scored bonus points for bringing our two favorite lone wolves back together after way too many episodes apart. 

And what made their reunion even better was how Daryl found out about Carol's safehouse in the first place — as part of Richard's plot to incite a war between the Kingdom and the Saviors by framing Carol for killing some of Negan's scouts. It was an ingenious plan to get Ezekiel angry enough to take action, but boy, did Richard choose exactly the wrong accomplice for that particular scheme. Even if Daryl hadn't known that it was Carol that Richard intended to use as a scapegoat, there's no way he would've condemned an innocent person to die as a pawn in the soldier's game. Read more...

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Frugal person escapes burning bus, then returns to 'tap off' travel card, and fair enough

Public transport systems around the world require people to "tap off" their travel cards when exiting a bus or train, and forgetting to do so is a big (and expensive) headache.

But public transport investigators in Australia's Sydney were stunned to find that one of 22 passengers escaping a bus fire last September, went back to the flaming bus try and "tap off," according to Fairfax Media

Guess the unnamed passenger really didn't want to pay that annoying A$4.50 (US$3.45) day rate, which is arguably the bane of all of Sydney's existence.

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An English version of China's biggest taxi app is coming, but there's a small problem

China's top (and pretty much monopolist) taxi app, Didi Chuxing, is quietly trialing an English version.

The app, which doesn't even have an English listing in the App Store yet, started showing English translations to some users, according to Shanghai resident, Mathieu Bouchara.

Bouchara said that not only was his app's interface in English, Chinese addresses were also getting automatically translated.

However, this might be more trouble than it's worth for English-speaking users, he noted in an email. Read more...

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'Homeland' recap: Quinn has a no good, very bad day

This recap contains spoilers for Homeland Season 6, episode 5, "Casus Belli." Refresh your memory with our recap of episode 604.

After a slow start, the Homeland we know and love is back with Season 6's fifth episode, "Casus Belli," which means "an act or situation provoking or justifying war."

The act in question is the bomb in Sekou's (J. Mallory Cree) van, whose detonation in midtown Manhattan miraculously left only two people dead, Sekou being one of them. It seems the bomb went off so early that not very many people were at work yet — though the episode's assertion that the bomb decimated three blocks really makes it seem like more people should have died, even if it was early in the morning, but that's a small quibble in the world of TV dramas. Read more...

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App warns you when you enter an area where sex crimes have been committed

You're about to take a shortcut through a back alley when suddenly your phone beeps — a notification pops up warning you that a sex crime has been committed there.

That's what one prefecture in Japan is doing with its new "Mimamotchi" app.

The app, which uses GPS to track the user's locations, automatically sends information when users enter areas where sex crimes have been logged.

It is the first app in Japan designed to help protect young women and children from sexual predators, Fukuoka's prefectural police told the Asahi Shimbun. Read more...

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India's only active volcano is back from the dead after 150 years

Barren Islands volcano, India's only active volcano, is reportedly spewing lava and ash after a gap of 150 years. It erupted for about four hours in January, scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) claimed.

The volcano is situated in Barren Islands in the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago. Some unsubstantiated reports even claim that it is South Asia's only active volcano. 

Its first recorded eruption dates back to 1787. Since then, the volcano has erupted more than ten times, including the one this year.  Read more...

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Oppo promises to launch new smartphone camera tech next week

China's Oppo has a teaser ahead of this year's Mobile World Congress: The company plans to wow the world with a new smartphone camera technology called "5X."

There aren't many details in the press release we've gotten, and an actual device isn't even mentioned, but there's a lot of vague superlatives that describe it. 

Apparently, the new tech is "the result of an extensive, year-long R&D process" and it will "give users unprecedented ability to capture highly detailed images." Furthermore, company VP Sky Li said this "breakthrough ... will change how the world perceives smartphone photography." Read more...

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You have to play 'Horizon: Zero Dawn' if you own a PS4

I'm going to die beneath the metal claws of a rampaging Thunderjaw.

The mechanical T-Rex charges across the desert landscape as I pepper it with a hailstorm of seemingly ineffectual fire arrows. Human-sized pieces of machinery litter the dusty plateau where our deadly dance has played out, but even after all the damage I've inflicted... the great beast hasn't slowed.

It's almost finished, though. I can see it. There's only a sliver of health bar left. I just need to steer clear of its massive body — the only weapon it has left, but also the most potent — while burning fires finish the job.  Read more...

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Chinese companies are torching trash off power lines with flame-throwing drones

That's got to be the most metal way to clean a power line.

Chinese companies have engineered an alarming-looking way of eliminating trash hanging on power lines — by torching them with flame-throwing drones:

That's right.

People are reporting seeing these drones burning off items such as kites or balloons tangled in the wires, that are too far for staff to reach.

According to QQ, the flames can reach 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees F).

Burning off debris caught on wires.

Image: tencent sina

The process of setting up, lighting up the flamethrower, and burning the trash takes only 15 minutes, according to the Voice of Xiangyang, a local radio station.  Read more...

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The US wants to check Chinese visitors' social media profiles

The U.S. border control is seeking to check Chinese visitors' social media profiles.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to publish a proposal asking travellers from China to disclose what social media platforms they use, and what their handles are, according to Politico.

Holders of business and visitor visas will be affected by the move — amounting to almost 3.6 million applicants per year, the proposal estimates.

However, travellers can choose not to disclose the information, and will still have their requests processed "without a negative interpretation or inference." Read more...

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LG G6 will have dual 13-megapixel cameras on the back

LG is feeding us a steady diet of leaks and specs for its upcoming G6 flagship, scheduled to launch Feb. 26, a day ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. 

The company already told us about the phone's elongated screen and UI, and now, in a blog post on the company's Korean site, we've learned that the G6 will have dual, 13-megapixel rear cameras. 

It appears that the phone will have a similar setup as last year's G5 — a regular camera sensor on the back will be coupled with a wide-angle sensor. But there's a big difference — while the G5's wide-angle sensor only had an 8-megapixel resolution (in contrast to the main, 16-megapixel sensor), now both sensors will have the same resolution, meaning you won't have to sacrifice photo quality to go wide-angle.  Read more...

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Sweden's embassy in the U.S. is looking forward to schooling Trump

So as President Donald Trump has already figured out, there were a few things that happened in Sweden on Friday. 

There was the car chase of a drunk driver, a major road closure, and a technical problem in the rehearsal of the country's annual singing competition "Melodifestivalen." But terror related? Certainly not.

Speaking at a rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday, Trump alluded to a terrorism incident in Sweden as part of his argument for implementing his immigration ban. He ticked off a list of places affected by terrorism, taking aim at Europe's immigration policies.  Read more...

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We asked complete strangers to design their own unique emoji

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When words fail us, emoji are always there to fill in the blanks

But there are times when finding that perfect emoji for a situation or story is almost impossible.  

To scope out people's emoji requirements, Mashable took to the streets of London during fashion week to ask strangers to design their very own unique emoji

And, their designs were very revealing...

Whiskey-drinking girl emoji 

Image: Marco Kesseler

"A try-hard French girl with a glass of whiskey in her hand." — Bianca De Zilva, designer at TJC.


Two-faced emoji

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Guy sets new world record for most finger snaps in a minute

We can't even begin to imagine how much practice this guy had to do.

A Japanese student has just broken the Guinness World Record for the most finger snaps in a minute. 

Satoyuki Fujimara snapped his fingers 296 times in one minute, on Tantei! Knightscoop, a Japanese TV show, in the presence of a Guinness judge.

Judge Kaoru Ishikawa, along with two professional sound engineers, later reviewed the footage and made sure that only audible clicks made using Fujimura's thumb and middle finger would be included. 

The snaps are pretty darn impressive, but his expressions are even more priceless.  Read more...

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Here's a bunch of politicians 'dancing' to Daft Punk, and you're welcome

When Daft Punk shook up the music world with their brand of French house music in the '90s, they were a revelation. 

Two decades on, they're one of the most popular electronic dance music acts on the globe. That means their music is prone to being danced to by people who shouldn't dance. In public at least.

Like a group of politicians from the Liberal party in Western Australia, who boogied down and clapped along to Daft Punk's 2001 hit "One More Time" during a campaign launch Sunday. 

The results are chilling, to say the least. Read more...

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Apple has reportedly bought the Israeli tech firm RealFace

On the heels of recent rumors that the upcoming iPhone will have a means of biometric authentication (other than fingerprint scanning) comes the news that Apple has acquired RealFace, an Israeli tech firm specializing in facial recognition. 

The report comes from Israeli site Calcalist (via MacRumors) which claims Apple bought the Tel Aviv-based company for "several million dollars."

Some users may know RealFace from its app Pickeez, which automated the process of choosing the best photos from a bunch. At the time of writing, however, the app appears to be defunct, and RealFace's own website is offline as well.  Read more...

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Ofo, one of China's most aggressive bike-sharing firms, expands globally

The island of Singapore is getting a whole lot more pedal power.

One of China's most aggressive bike-sharing companies, ofo, has launched 1,000 bikes in Singapore over the weekend, the Straits Times reported.

With this, it's joined another recent entrant into Singapore, fellow Chinese bike startup, oBike, which plans to bring in "tens of thousands" of bikes by the middle of the year.

Ofo's bike

Image: Sean lim/Facebook

Ofo and oBike's near tandem launch comes ahead of a large government bike-sharing project, which is calling for thousands of bikes to be laid out across the city. Read more...

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Sir David Attenborough is back and 2017 is finally starting to look up

If Planet Earth II was the best thing that happened to you in 2016 and you even purchased a 4K Ultra HD TV on Black Friday to fully appreciate the texture of a lion's mane (true story, as the writer of this article can confirm), we have good news for you. 

Sir David Attenborough, who does the glorious voiceover behind the celebrated programme, is back for another documentary series, this time a sequel to 2001's The Blue Planet on the BBC. 

The seven-part series, filmed over four years in every continent and every ocean with the support of marine scientists, will focus on recent scientific discoveries using state-of-the-art filming innovations.  Read more...

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India wants to make credit and debit cards obsolete for payments

Ever since India invalidated much of its cash, it has been encouraging its citizens to switch to mobile wallets and other epayment solutions. Today, it took another step in pushing its citizens to embark on the cashless payment solutions — but early boomers aren't going to like it. 

The Indian government has launched BharatQR Code to enable people to pay for things they purchase without swiping their plastic cards. Instead, merchants can ask shoppers to scan a QR code and make payments directly from their bank account.

One of the biggest problem merchants and citizens faced in the aftermath of demonetization last November was the absence of non-cash payment systems.  Read more...

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Duvet ponchos are the cosy fashion trend for people who really, really love their bed

Getting out of your warm, cosy bed on those freezing, frosty mornings is truly agonising.

And once you're out of bed, it's nigh-on impossible to recreate that toasty feeling — save wearing every item of clothing you own.

British fashion house Mulberry has created a solution that could actually mimic the effect of staying in bed all day: a duvet poncho. And they're pretty chic — for a duvet, at least. 

The ponchos were spotted on the runway at Mulberry's London Fashion Week show in a variety of different styles.

Some of the ponchos were floral and quilted like a chintz bedspread. Cute.  Read more...

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China's latest robot police officer can recognise faces

It's no RoboCop, but it'll come when it senses trouble.

China's new robot police officers have started patrolling streets.

The E-Patrol Robot Sheriff (E巡机器警长) is able to track and follow potential criminals or suspicious people via facial recognition, according to the Economic Daily.

Besides fighting crime, the robot officer is also capable of monitoring air quality and temperature, and is pipped to be able to track potential criminal activity, safety hazards and potential fires.

Image: weibo

The 1.6 meter-tall robot moves autonomously using a system of cameras, and is currently at the Zhengzhou East Railway Station in Henan, where it is able to identify staff at the station by their work passes. Read more...

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Swedish newspaper trolls Trump in the most epic way

So many people are trolling President Trump after he alluded to a terrorism attack in Sweden that never happened. 

"You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this," Trump said. 

He later clarified that his statement was in reference to a story, later debunked, that was broadcast on Fox News. 

Fox News report on Swedish immigration, referred to by Trump, is full of errors and exaggerations https://t.co/PmfqBdj7OX

— Aftonbladet (@Aftonbladet) February 20, 2017 Read more...

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Microsoft CEO says artificial intelligence is the 'ultimate breakthrough'

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke at a public event in India on Monday, stressing upon the immense potential of artificial intelligence (AI), calling it the "ultimate breakthrough" in technology.

"Because for all the advances in computer interface, there is nothing to beat language [the ability to do human-level speech recognition]," he said during a fireside chat with Nandan Nilekani — India's premier technocrat and the brain behind the Aadhaar identification system.

The chat was streamed live on the Microsoft Developer page on Facebook.  Read more...

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This is possibly the most hilariously brilliant sports interview of all time

Japanese pool player Naoyuki Oi doesn't speak English fluently but that didn't stop him from giving an impressive performance in a post-match interview: 

Oi beat Cheng Yu Hsuan 8-6 at the World Pool Master tournament in Gibraltar on Saturday and was being interviewed by Sky Sports presenter Tony Wrighton. 

"My name is Naoyuki Oi and I am very, very lucky," he said. "Congratulations me! Yay!"

Then he replied to the questions with quotes from the "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" song that went viral last year and by saying "no problem." That's quite something.  Read more...

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Xiaomi finally enters Pakistan

Pakistan has become the newest oversea market for Xiaomi as Chinese smartphone manufacturer aggressively moves beyond its home boundaries and hopes to replicate its success in foreign markets. 

For its launch in Pakistan, Xiaomi has partnered with local Smart Link Technologies for distribution and after-sales service. According to Tech In Asia, Rocket Internet's Daraz is also a distributor for Xiaomi products in the country.

The company is beginning its operations in the country with the launch of runaway hit budget smartphones Redmi Note 4 and the Redmi Note 4A, and bezel-less large Mi Max in the country, according to the report. Some of these smartphones, as well as other accessories, are already listed on Daraz website.  Read more...

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Elderly woman finds £5 note worth £50,000, donates the money to young people

Finding out that the fiver in your wallet is worth thousands of pounds is a dream-come-true for some — but not everyone.

A Northern Irish woman who discovered a rare £5 note worth £50,000 ($62,317) has given the note to charity because she says she has no use for the money. 

The note is one of just four ultra-rare notes worth £50,000 in circulation in the UK. The note — which is engraved with a special Jane Austen inscription — is the third one to be snapped up, leaving just one left.

The woman who discovered the note contacted the gallery founded by Graham Short — the artist who engraved the notes — stating her wish to donate the note to charity. Read more...

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Snap is now selling Snapchat Spectacles online — but there's a catch

Finally, Spectacles are going online. Snap's video-camera sunglasses can now be purchased on Spectacles.com

The e-commerce launch comes after 102 days of watching the same website for a countdown clock that revealed secret locations to access the Spectacles. The one semi-permanent location, which opened Nov. 21 in New York City, closed Sunday. 

While you can order them online starting Monday, the glasses are only available to ship in the U.S., and each household (a.k.a. address selected for shipping) is limited to six pairs. The glasses still cost $129.99 and will ship in two to four weeks.  Read more...

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Twitter can't get over this English cricketer who was sold for $2 million at the IPL auctions

The Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions were held in Bangalore on Monday. For the uninitiated, IPL is a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in India in April-May and draws players from across the globe in a month-long extravaganza. 

This is its tenth year and the English Premier League replica is now one of the richest and buzziest sporting events of the world. 

Unsurprisingly, Twitter couldn't hold its own while the auctions happened. 

Besides ensuring that #IPLAuction topped worldwide trends for the better part of the day, Indian cricket fans couldn't stop talking about English cricketer Ben Stokes, who fetched an astronomical sum of Rs. 1.45 billion ($2 million) at the auction, making him the highest overseas purchase in IPL's decade-long history. Read more...

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This machine knows how to sort your Skittles by color

This machine, made by Willem Pennings, can sort two pieces of candy every second, thanks to its color sensor.  Read more...

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Surprise: John Oliver is pretty suspicious about Trump and Putin's relationship

Rumors and accusations have swirled for months around Donald Trump's curious relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And though John Oliver has mentioned it throughout the campaign and the beginning of Trump's presidency, he has yet to really dive into it on Last Week Tonight

Until last night.

For the show's main topic, Oliver explains who Putin is, why Russia loves him and why Trump probably shouldn't. It's a rousing segment full of rock 'n roll acrobats, presidential techno songs and people sh*tting on the hoods of cars.

Oh, and if you needed more reason to be suspicious of our president's relationship with Russia, Oliver gladly points out that Trump has been far nicer to the murderous autocrat than he has been to Meryl StreepRead more...

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Please enjoy the many faces of Beyoncé, Jay Z and Blue Ivy at the NBA All-Star Game

Sunday night was the NBA All-Star Game. It was also the night that Beyoncé, Jay Z, Blue Ivy and Beyoncé's Gucci fan attended the NBA All-Star Game.

The jury's still out on whether Blue Ivy enjoys watching organized sports, but she does appear to enjoy cotton candy. This is great news, as cotton candy is delicious.

Please enjoy these photos, wish you had been there, Google "Gucci fan," etc.

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Google and Microsoft's Bing have joined forces to fight piracy

Google and Microsoft's Bing have teamed up to make it harder for people in the UK to find pirated films and music and illegally stream sport events. 

The tech giants have signed up to a voluntary code of practice with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Motion Picture Association aimed at ensuring offending websites are demoted in their search results. 

The code, described as a world's first, means that UK netizens looking for music, film or live football content online will be guided toward legit providers instead of pirate sites.  Read more...

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Josh Gad brings some serious star power for his latest grilling of Daisy Ridley

Poor Daisy Ridley. 

While filming a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, she's been subjected to constant grilling from co-star Josh Gad about what secrets she knows about the new Star Wars films. 

After she refused to tell Gad if her character from the current Star Wars saga films, Rey, is a Jedi, Gad then enlisted screen legend Judi Dench to pester Ridley into dropping some hints. 

Which also failed.

So, Gad has gone back to the well one more time, and now he's unloading the big guns.

This time, he's enlisted a murderer's row of stars including Express co-stars Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr from Hamilton's original cast), Lucy Boynton (Sing Street), and Penelope Cruz. Oh, and there's also Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and two guys working on Star Wars Episode IX, Colin Trevorrow (the director) and Derek Connolly (the screenwriter). Read more...

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This egg inside another egg is a perfect YouTube specimen

Which came first: the chicken, the egg or the second egg?

Okay, we don't know, but we do know this: amid all the late-night clips and VEVO spam, there occasionally emerges a popular YouTube video that is just weird and cool.

Behold: the stunning 2017 film "Egg Inside an Egg."

The clip goes pretty much how you'd expect. A mysteriously large egg is opened to find — surprise! — another, smaller egg inside. When they crack open the second egg, there's just a yolk, although it is slightly paler than most yolks.

This egg-inside-egg phenomenon is called a counter-peristalsis contraction. Basically, it's when an egg that has already passed through the hen's oviduct gets sucked back up before it can finish developing, allowing another egg to develop around it.  Read more...

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Talking Trump mask appears at New York Toy Fair even without winning the popular vote

No one can predict what President Donald Trump will say (or tweet) on any given day, but there is a mask that will help you make a best guess.

Unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, Trumpism is a randomizer President Donald Trump mask that can generate a Trump-like phrase based on any one of 12 key words.

Inside the yellow-haired, rubber Trump visage is a microphone and tiny speakers. Say a phrase like "bigly," "loser" or "wall" and the Trump mask will say a related sentence based, at least in part, on things the 45th President of the United States has actually said during the presidential campaign and the first month of presidency. Read more...

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Of course Facebook is putting a Snapchat clone inside WhatsApp

Facebook is about to start pushing its next Snapchat clone on a new set of 1 billion+ users.

WhatsApp is now starting to roll out its own version of Stories with an update to its Status feature. Launching now in the Netherlands and France, the feature will eventually be live in all the countries where the messaging app is available.

The feature, which the company has been experimenting with for months, is officially billed as a long overdue update to WhatsApp Status (that's the feature that previously allowed you to set a quick "text only" status visible to your contacts within the app). But the feature is far closer to Snapchat (or Instagram) Stories than a status update. Read more...

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Lana Del Rey goes intergalactic in new video for 'Love'

If you attend a Lana Del Rey concert, you get to go on a date to space.

At least, that's the case in the singer's interplanetary new video for "Love," the single she released last week. And even if you're a Lana Del Rey skeptic, you have to admit: floating across the cosmos with a stylish lover sounds pretty great.

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We can't forget about 'Donnie Brasco' on its 20th anniversary

Donnie Brasco celebrates its 20th anniversary next week, so let's celebrate this underappreciated movie classic with some things you probably didn't know.

Visit CineFix for more episodes and movie-related content. 

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Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti explain why ‘Billions’ Season 2 is more relevant than ever

When Billions first aired on TV in January 2016, the main takeaway was that in the hunt for power and money, you sometimes have to break a few rules. It was a Machiavellian world set on the stage of a more familiar Wall Street.

But that was way back when that world was just good TV. But fast forward to January 2017, when Donald Trump's presidency is surrounded with accusations of conflicts of interest at every turn.

Billions plays a zero-sum game between a power-hungry billionaire (Homeland star Damian Lewis) and an ethically questionable U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti). Read more...

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Frances Bean Cobain shares note to commemorate Kurt Cobain's 50th birthday

Artist and model Frances Bean Cobain shared a note on Instagram Monday, honoring her father, Kurt Cobain, on what would have been his 50th birthday.

"You are loved and you are missed," she wrote. "Thank you for giving me the gift of life."

Frances Bean Cobain is the daughter of the late Nirvana frontman and Hole singer Courtney Love. She appears alongside her father in the 2015 HBO documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Read more...

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Making friendship bracelets will suck way less with this new gadget

Aren't friendship bracelet's awesome? Handcrafted by your bestie to prove that you'll be BFFs forever.

Of course laced in among the multi-colored threads are all the tears shed while trying to make the thing. Consider it binding material.

Being friends and making these bracelets should be easierWowWee, a company best know for creating balancing and farting robots, agrees and has unveiled on Saturday at New York Toy Fair what may be the first app-connected friendship bracelet machine: The Digiloom.

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Amazon takes aim at Walmart with an even lower minimum for free shipping

If you're excited about easier-to-get free shipping on Amazon, you have Walmart to thank. 

Amazon just lowered its free shipping minimum back to $35 from $49. The lowered minimum, spotted by The Verge, came about three weeks after Walmart introduced free two-day shipping for $35 online orders. 

Walmart's move signaled an aggressive play against Amazon in e-commerce — especially since Walmart customers wouldn't have to pay a yearly membership fee, unlike Amazon Prime members. Walmart bought Jet.com, an Amazon e-commerce competitor, for $3 billion in August, starting its push against Amazon in earnest.  Read more...

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Wearing socks to bed is fine, you monsters

There are certain things that humans — or enough loud people, anyway — respect as universal truths. Pizza is good. Nickelback? Bad. Wearing socks to bed is terrible and should be a crime.

The first two are absolutely inarguable, but, friends ... sometimes wearing socks to bed is nice. If you suffer from dry skin or are constantly cold, it can be even nicer.

Please, hear me out.

First, sock haters, I ask you to think of your sleep cycle. If you struggle to fall asleep at night, socks in bed might be a godsend. According to the National Sleep Foundation, warming the feet before sleep causes blood vessels to dilate, signaling to the brain that it's time to snooze for a while. Read more...

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This smart bike helmet has built-in indicator lights

Cars have indicator lights for better safety so why shouldn't bicycles have them too?

The Lumos helmet is a smart helmet for cyclists with a prominent red brake light, as well as yellow left and right turn signals just like motorized vehicles. Read more...

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