Justin Bieber does shirtless backflips to promote his single with Major Lazer

Justin Bieber’s new single with Major Lazer, Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco, “Cold Water,” will be out next Friday and he’s flipping out over it.

Biebs is so amped about the new song that he’s doing shirtless backflips on a trampoline, but Ü have to wait another week and a half until Ü experience that level of joy.

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Beliebers (especially recent converts) will recall that Diplo, for all his faults, did help orchestrate the rebirth of Bieber that kicked off with “Where Are Ü Now,” Biebs’ excellent collaboration with Jack Ü, the duo made of of Diplo and Skrillex. …

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Justin Bieber does shirtless backflips to promote his single with Major Lazer

A Brilliant Leaning Mechanism Lets This Lego Wheel Corner Like a Motorcycle

As part of his research into building a functional Lego version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ BB-8

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A Brilliant Leaning Mechanism Lets This Lego Wheel Corner Like a Motorcycle

Paint it black: Revisiting the Blackphone and its cloudy future

The Blackphone and its parent, Silent Circle, have taken some knocks over the past few months, as the company prepares a new course. Will hardware be part of it? (credit: Sean Gallagher)

When we reviewed the Blackphone 2 last September, the company behind the privacy-focused smartphone was in transition. Silent Circle had moved to bring the Blackphone joint venture with the Madrid-based Geeksphone back under its umbrella, hired a telecom industry veteran as CEO, and was fine-tuning its marketing to go after an enterprise audience. The phone’s Android-based operating system, rebranded as Silent OS, became simultaneously more user-friendly and more hardened, paving the way for features that would be incorporated into Android for Work.

Less than a year later, Silent Circle has substantially changed. For starters, that new CEO is gone. Bill Conner resigned June 27 after, as he put it, Silent Circle “extended its privacy leadership into the enterprise as a secure communications SAAS [Software as a Service] company.” The company’s general counsel is now serving as interim CEO as it seeks new leadership.

Over the course of the last year, many more core security team members—including co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jon Callas, Chief Architect Mike Kershaw (AKA “dragorn,” creator of the Kismet wireless network security tool), and Chief Security Officer Dan Ford—left the company. Callas remains as an investor, but he now works for Apple. There have also been layoffs.

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How 'Harry Potter' helped me understand British politics

LONDON — As a non-British person in my first year of living in London, following UK politics in their current state has been more than a little confusing.

SEE ALSO: If the British royal family members were ‘Game of Thrones’ characters

I’ve found that learning by association can help.

Using a highly scientific algorithm that draws on an admittedly selective combination of factors including personality traits, physical characteristics, political ideology, and my own general sense of the person, the following list attempts to match several prominent names in the UK political sphere with their counterparts in the magical realm of literary fiction provided to us by J.K. Rowling – a realm that increasingly seems no more bizarre than reality. …

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The SwagBot is an all-terrain robot that will soon be running the farm

Sorry, Lassie. Your days as a farmer’s best friend may be numbered.

Salah Sukkarieh, a professor of robotics at Sydney University, is the project lead for agricultural robotics at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR). The ACFR, which hosts around 130 researchers and engineers, builds robots for mining and aviation, but it’s also looking at how automated systems could assist graziers and farmers.

SEE ALSO: What it means when a bomb disposal robot is used as a weapon

On June 30, ACFR did its first test of …

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Samsung's new Galaxy On5 Pro and On7 Pro offer 2GB RAM and 16GB of storage on a budget

Earlier today, the Samsung Galaxy On5 Pro and On7 Pro went official in India. The two new handsets are essentially slightly upgraded variants of the standard On5 and On7 that the manufacturer unveiled last year. The new models retain the same design and internal specs save for the memory, which receives a well-deserved boost.

Starting with the smaller of Samsung’s two new budget phones, the Galaxy On5 features a 5-inch TFC LCD display running at a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels. Under the hood beats the heart of an Exynos 3475, an entry-level chipset that features … – Source

Samsung's new Galaxy On5 Pro and On7 Pro offer 2GB RAM and 16GB of storage on a budget

Samsung Pay launching in Puerto Rico w/ Banco Popular

Puerto Rico’s largest bank, Banco Popular, will now be compatible with Samsung Pay. Customers with Samsung Pay-compatible devices on Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Claro will be able to add eligible cards from Banco Popular to their Samsung Pay accounts.

Samsung Pay is the only mobile service that lets mobile phones pay at NFC terminals as well as MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) which mimics a card swipe and is compatible with virtually any card terminal that uses a magnetic strip reader.

Here is a list of phones compatible with Samsung Pay in Puerto Rico:

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Bvddy, now on Android, matches athletes of like skill to play and get fit together

About 80% of the U.S. adult population, aged 18 and older, fails to exercise enough to meet federal guidelines each week according to the most recent available data from the Centers for Disease Control’s Healthy People 2020 study. That means a majority of us are pretty lazy, ‘Murica. The guidelines only call for moderate to light aerobic physical activity for 150 minutes each week,… Read More

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Bvddy, now on Android, matches athletes of like skill to play and get fit together

Tuesday app and game sales: Another World, Talon for Twitter, Castle of Illusion, And More

There are plenty of deals happening on Amazon today, but what of the Play Store? There’s a ton of great stuff for your phone on sale today too. You want classic RPGs? Widgets? Exercise apps? Puzzles? RAM cleaners? We’ve got you covered on all but the last count.

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Get 100% Free Talk, Text, and Data in 25 countries around the world including the US with FreedomPop’s 3-in-1 global SIM card kit for $5 (a $15 value).

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All the Secrets of the Star Wars Galaxy Revealed in Aftermath: Life Debt

Another major Star Wars novel is out, and that means even more revelations about the nascent Star Wars canon that Disney is building for the galaxy far, far away. We’ve read Life Debt, Chuck Wendig’s sequel to Aftermath, and broken down what it means for the state of the Star Wars galaxy.

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