Dec 21, 2015

Darth Santa rides a sleigh of TIE fighters to wreck the holidays - CNET


He has a candy cane lightsaber, and he knows how to use it. In this comedy clip, Darth Vader plays evil Santa, bringing the destruction of the dark side of the Force to the holiday season.


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Darth Santa rides a sleigh of TIE fighters to wreck the holidays - CNET

More Fodder For Dell-EMC Deal As Pivotal Buys UK-Based CloudCredo


The Dell-EMC deal has had so many moving pieces since it was announced in October, it’s hard to tell the players without a score card. This morning, Pivotal, which is jointly owned by EMC and VMware (and General Electric) announced it was buying CloudCredo, a Cloud Foundry service provider based in the UK. The deal also includes stayUp, a log analysis company partly owned by… Read More


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More Fodder For Dell-EMC Deal As Pivotal Buys UK-Based CloudCredo

Kittens recreate classic Christmas movies for the paw-lidays


Video: Emily Rhyne, Alisa Stern, Armand Valdes


Kitties tackled the roles of Jimmy Stewart and Macaulay Culkin to teach you the most important Christmas lesson of all: the holidays are better with kittens.


Watch It’s A Wonderurrrrrl Life and A Catmas Story for your fix of feline festivities. And definitely don’t ever trust a cat with a Red Ryder BB Gun — it’ll shoot its eye out


Adopt a kitten from the ASPCA this Christmas and you’ll never be home alone again



Jets QB Ryan Fitzpatrick squeals with delight when surprised during interview


Real housewife Lisa Rinna graces us with her most profound shower thoughts


Festive goat wears Santa sweater, plays holiday songs on guitar



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Kittens recreate classic Christmas movies for the paw-lidays

'I'm still a punching ball': Sepp Blatter's most bizarre quotes after FIFA ban


LONDON — Following news that Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned from football for eight years by the FIFA Ethics Committee, Blatter conducted one of his trademark press conferences.


See also: Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini banned from football for 8 years


Facing media in Zurich, Blatter – who arrived unshaven and sporting a plaster on his cheek – spoke for almost an hour. His latest rant didn’t disappoint, with the embattled FIFA President launching off into all manner of tangents.


ICYMI a rattled Blatter’s chaotic arrival here in Zurich after being banned VIDEO pic.twitter.com/iMvW4yFuna


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'I'm still a punching ball': Sepp Blatter's most bizarre quotes after FIFA ban

Qihoo Goes Private For $9.3B, Joining Other Chinese Firms That Have Delisted From The U.S. Stock Market


Qihoo, a Beijing-based developer of security software and Internet browsers, announced on Friday that it will go private in a deal worth $9.3 billion. As Reuters notes, this makes Qihoo the latest in a growing list of U.S.-listed Chinese tech firms that have decided to go private. Read More


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Qihoo Goes Private For $9.3B, Joining Other Chinese Firms That Have Delisted From The U.S. Stock Market

There's a controversial selfie with cow contest in India


An organisation in the city of Kolkata has just concluded a selfie contest with cows to raise awareness about the politically controversial topic of cow protection and slaughter in India. The campaign comes at the end of a year when the consumption and sale of beef has become a polarising issue in the country.


See also: A plastic flying cow sculpture raises a storm of censorship in Jaipur


The Go Seva Parivar started the month-long campaign in November, inviting people to post selfies with cows and the hashtag #selfiewithgomata on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp. Cows are considered sacred in Hinduism, and referred to as gau mata (“mother cow”). …


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VIDEO: The store testing shopping technology


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VIDEO: The store testing shopping technology

How to wrap an ugly Christmas sweater for your bae and stay v chill



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How to wrap an ugly Christmas sweater for your bae and stay v chill

At least 59 missing from landslide that buried 33 buildings in China


At least 59 people were missing on Monday, a day after a massive landslide buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.


The official Xinhua news agency said the landslide buried 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in Guangdong province across the border from Hong Kong.


Terrifying footage of building collapsing during the landslide in Shenzhen uploaded by netizens #shenzhenlandslide
https://t.co/3Brj5Hdzah


— CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) December 20, 2015


Shenzhen’s public security bureau posted a notice online Monday revealing the number of people missing. No deaths were reported. …


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At least 59 missing from landslide that buried 33 buildings in China

Nightly CM13 builds now available for some older, low-end LG phones


Nightly builds of CyanogenMod 13, based on Android 6.0, are now available for a few older and low-end LG handsets. The LG G3 Beat/LG G3 s has a smaller 5-inch 720p display, powered by the Snapdragon 400 chipset, containing a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU. The LG G2 mini features a 4.7-inch qHD display (540 x 960), and also is packing the Snapdragon 400 SoC. Lastly, the LG L70 has a 4.5-inch WVGA resolution (480 x 800) screen, and is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz CPU.


The nightly updates include new code added that day. It often is buggy, laggy and fraught with issues. You should make sure that you … – Source



Nightly CM13 builds now available for some older, low-end LG phones

Gold color Special Edition of the Nexus 6P is launched in India


When the Nexus 6P was launched last month, the handset was offered in Aluminum, Graphite, and Frost. A fourth color, Gold, was made available in Japan only. That is, until now. Google has released the Gold colored Special Edition of the stock Android handset in India, priced at the equivalent of $664 USD. The handset has 64GB of internal storage, and is priced about $15 higher than the non-Gold 64GB version of the Nexus 6P.


The Gold version of the Nexus 6P will be exclusive to online retailer Flipkart in the country. Sales of the device will begin tomorrow. While the Gold color option is … – Source



Gold color Special Edition of the Nexus 6P is launched in India

Tonight's SpaceX Launch Has Been Scrubbed


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Tina Fey comes clean about her mean girl past, admits it wasn't fetch


When Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls, she drew more inspiration from her own past to craft Queen Bee Regina George than you might have guessed. But now Fey realizes that it’s never grool to be cruel


Fey told Net-a-Porter’s magazine The Edit that she was mean in high school as the way of dealing with her own insecurity


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“I was [the Mean Girl], I admit it openly. That was a disease that had to be conquered,” Fey said. “It’s another coping mechanism – it’s a bad coping mechanism – but when you feel less than (in high school, everyone feels less than everyone else for different reasons), in your mind it’s a way of leveling the playing field. Though of course it’s not.” …


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Tina Fey comes clean about her mean girl past, admits it wasn't fetch