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.
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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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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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.
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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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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
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.
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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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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
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— 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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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
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
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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