Nokia's "return to smartphones" confirmed for 2017

In case you didn’t believe that Nokia would re-enter the smartphone business next year, we now have an official confirmation that should end any doubts about this. In a slide from Nokia’s Capital Markets Day 2016 – an event held on November 15 for investors – the company states that 2017 will represent “Nokia brand’s return to smartphones.”

Mind you, Nokia won’t make smartphones itself, since it no longer has the required manufacturing facilities. Thus, the handsets will be made in collaboration with Finnish company HMD Global, and Taiwanese giant Foxconn. Led by former Nokia execs, HDM … – Source

Nokia's "return to smartphones" confirmed for 2017

A dance army of Pikachus show off their synchronized moves in Singapore

Bet you didn’t know Pikachu had moves like these.

On Friday morning, 10 yellow dancers performed in the first Pikachu parade brought here by the Japanese Pokémon company.

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Synchronised Pikachu dancers perform regularly at various locations in Japan, but this outing in Singapore is rare, and debuted to a large crowd of screaming kids and adults.

Friday morning’s turnout

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People showed up in their Pikachu best.

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Image: VICTORIA HO/MASHABLE

The bouncy dancers were performing at Changi Airport in Singapore, which has for the next two months built dedicated Pokémon exhibition areas at its Terminal 2 and Terminal 3’s departure halls. …

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A dance army of Pikachus show off their synchronized moves in Singapore

Researchers offer new evidence of a liquid ocean on Pluto

Pluto may have lost its official planet status, but the frozen world at the edge of our solar system still deserves a closer look. That’s the end goal of two new studies of Pluto published in the journal Nature this month, both of which focus on Sput… – Source

Researchers offer new evidence of a liquid ocean on Pluto

Crows are now acting like magpies and attacking people in Australia

Australians spend a large part of their spring trying to avoid being mercilessly swooped by magpies, and now crows are getting in on the act.

Crows are notoriously intelligent and largely avoid humans out of fear, but if behavioural changes over the last 10 years are anything to go by, the super-brained devils of the sky are abandoning their fear. And they never forget a face.

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It was when ecologist Darryl Jones of Australia’s Griffith University saw a crow make a nest outside his office — the first known instance of one made on a human structure — that realised he might be witnessing symptoms of a mini-evolution. …

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Musician blasts racism in speech, after receiving 'brown people' award

New Zealand RnB artist Aaradhna doesn’t want your ignorantly-labelled award.

Aaradhna Jayantilal Patel was awarded the Best Album in the Urban and Hip Hop category at Grammy Awards equivalent Thursday, for her album Brown Girl. Problem is, she’s not a hip hop artist; she’s a soul singer.

But upon taking the podium, the artist drew attention to the fact that she was being put in a box based on race — declining the award and giving it to her well-deserving nominees, Swidt.

“So this song is ‘…

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'Brown Sugar is just like Netflix, only blacker'

LOS ANGELES — African-American broadcast network Bounce TV is jumping into the subscription streaming service world.

The network on Thursday launched Brown Sugar, a streaming app available on mobile phones, tablets and online for $4 per month.

The service is home to iconic black movies, including: The Mack, Foxy Brown, Shaft, Super Fly, Dolemite, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Uptown Saturday Night, Cooley High, Three The Hard Way, Coffy, Black Caesar, Five on the Black Hand Side, Cleopatra Jones, Mandingo, Willie Dynamite, Which Way is Up?, Car Wash, and The Original Gangstas.

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Cancer survivor proposed to on live TV will make you cry a thousand tears

Public and nail-biting declarations of love are the best kinds of declarations of love.

And that’s what Australian viewers got Thursday night on live TV show The Project.

Audience member Tara — in the final stages of chemotherapy for breast cancer — got a special shout-out from host Carrie Bickmore for her bravery in the face of adversity. But that’s not all she got.

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The camera lingered on Tara and her boyfriend Jared, who started speaking.

“Tara is probably the strongest, most toughest [sic] person I’ve ever met. She’s the best mum, she’s the best partner, she’s my best friend. We make the best team.” …

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Elderly man gets a kick out of pretending to have a flu shot phobia

When you’re old, you can get a pass to pull pranks on pretty much anyone. So this guy decided to pull a prank on his nurse while getting a flu shot.

As the owner of this video explains: “My 93-year-old dad is a practical joker and loves to harass [sic] the nurses whenever possible. He was being his usual funny self on this day receiving his flu shot.”

We hope that poor nurse can forgive him.

News anchor attempts to draw a cannon, draws something NSFW instead

Shirtless hero risks life to save a dog that fell through a pond’s thin ice

Holderness Family parodies ‘My House’ to save you from post-election Thanksgiving hell

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Brendan Dassey from 'Making a Murderer' won't go free Friday

Earlier this week it looked like Brendan Dassey would be back with his family in time for Thanksgiving, but the nephew of Steven Avery from the Netflix series Making a Murderer will remain in prison after a last-minute appeal.

A three-judge panel from a federal appeals court on Thursday blocked Dassey’s scheduled early release at the request of the state of Wisconsin, which filed an emergency appeal. Dassey was set to be released by Friday after a lower-court judge ruled he had been coerced into confessing his involvement in the murder when he was 16.

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Niantic’s new invite-only “Portal Recon” tool lets players vote real-world locations into Ingress

While most people might know Niantic for building the hype-monster that is Pokemon GO, GO wasn’t the company’s first big release. That title goes to Ingress, an equally (if not more) location-centric game. Just days after Ingress’ fourth birthday, Niantic is shaking things up with the introduction of a feature they’ve been working on for months: the ability for players… Read More

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Niantic’s new invite-only “Portal Recon” tool lets players vote real-world locations into Ingress