The man with the world's most confusing Twitter handle just had another terrible weekend

LONDON — Cases of mistaken identity aren’t exactly uncommon on Twitter — it’s why we have those little blue ticks.

But little blue ticks only go so far.

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John Lewis, a computer science educator from Blacksburg, Virginia, may be the best example of this.

Meet John Lewis, owner of the world’s most confusing Twitter handle.

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Basically, if you search for “John Lewis” on Twitter, you’ll get something like this:

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The man at the top is the Congressman and civil rights hero who has …

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The man with the world's most confusing Twitter handle just had another terrible weekend

Samsung heir could be put behind bars in South Korean bribery scandal

The heir to Samsung’s empire is embroiled in a bribery scandal.

South Korea’s prosecutor is seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Group’s Jay Y. Lee over bribery and embezzlement allegations. The 48-year-old executive is poised to take over control of Samsung’s business empire from his father, Lee Kun-hee. Jay Y. Lee is accused of bribing Choi Soon-sil, an aide to South Korean president Park Geun-hye, in order to secure political backing for the $8 billion merger of Samsung C&T Corp and Cheil Industries Inc.

The exec is said to have paid up to $36.4 million (43 billion won) in bribes, with the prosecutor stating that the profits were split between Choi and president Park. As news of the political involvement broke last year, the South Korean parliament moved to impeach the president. The country’s special prosecutor is now going after Samsung’s heir, and with the company accounting for 17% of Korea’s economy, the move will have far-reaching consequences:

The special prosecutors’ office, in making this decision to seek an arrest warrant, determined that while the country’s economic conditions are important, upholding justice takes precedence.

In a statement to Reuters, Samsung denied any wrongdoing:

It is difficult to understand the special prosecutors’ decision. It is especially hard to accept the special prosecutor’s assertion that there was improper request for a favor related to the merger or succession of control.

Lee is expected to appear for a hearing at the Seoul central district court on Wednesday, which is when the court will decide whether to approve the warrant for his arrest.

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Samsung heir could be put behind bars in South Korean bribery scandal

Samsung's Note 7 investigation to be released on January 23, with battery issues cited as the main reason behind fires

Samsung Electronics has conducted a thorough investigation to determine what caused the Galaxy Note 7 fires. The company is making good on its promise to release the results of the probe before the end of this month, and will officially do so on January 23 (a day before it publishes its earnings for Q4 2016), according to an anonymous source who has contacted Reuters.

The same source also suggests that battery issues caused the Note 7 fiasco, as Samsung was able to replicate the fires under laboratory conditions and could not detect any defects with the device’s … – Source

Samsung's Note 7 investigation to be released on January 23, with battery issues cited as the main reason behind fires

Deal: Free Gear Fit 2 with purchase of Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in UK

Samsung has launched a new promotion in the UK where-in those purchasing a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge will be getting a Gear Fit 2 fitness band. The promotion was launched late last week, and runs through February 28.

Those willing to avail the offer will have to purchase a Galaxy S7 edge from a participating retailer, then click the ‘claim now’ button on the offer page on Samsung’s UK website (link at the bottom), and finally, complete and submit the online claim form.

Once that is done, you’ll receive a confirmation email within 30 days, following which you will receive your Gear Fit…

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Deal: Free Gear Fit 2 with purchase of Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in UK

Yet-to-be-announced vivo V5 Plus already available to pre-order

The vivo V5 Plus, which is set to be made official later this week, is already available to pre-order. Specifically, Malaysian retailer DirectD has the device listed on its website for RM 1,799 (or around $400).

Specs-wise, the listing reveals the phone is powered by Snapdragon 625 chipset with octa-core CPU, and sports a 5.5-inch full HD display. RAM is 4GB, while internal memory is 64GB.

In terms of camera, the handset features a 16MP rear unit and a dual front camera set-up (20MP + 8MP). Measuring 153.8 x 75.5 x 7.6mm, the vivo V5 Plus runs Android Marshmallow and packs in a…

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Yet-to-be-announced vivo V5 Plus already available to pre-order

Google says Pixel audio issue is a hardware problem

You might recall the story we told you last month about Mark Buckman. He went through five different units of the Google Pixel XL, and his wife owns the smaller Google Pixel model. Each phone suffers from static distortion at high volume. As an example, Buckman created a video showing how the affected Pixel models could not clearly play the Perfect Piano keyboard app when the volume was cranked up. To show us what it should sound like, he used the same app on a Nexus 6 at the same volume level. The Motorola built Nexus 6 sounded like Carnegie Hall while the HTC produced Pixel XL sounded like the … – Source

Google says Pixel audio issue is a hardware problem

Drone captures travel blogger's hectic brush with a great white shark

It’s one thing to hope to catch a glimpse of shark while on vacation, but it’s another to be stalked by one. Ask French blogger behind “Travelling with Isa,” Isabelle Fabre.

It seems like she found herself being shadowed by a great white shark while kitesurfing off Fitzgerald River National Park on the Western Australian coast. The footage captured on video by drone and posted on Facebook on Jan. 9.

“As usual, I was first thinking that it was my kite shadow… but no. Then I thought it was a dolphin trick. You know, when they spring out just in front of you! But no,” Fabre explained in French. …

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Joe Biden, surprised with Medal of Freedom, sparks one last meme - CNET

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Clean Burnt Residue Off of Pans With Baking Soda

Burnt, stuck-on food may seem like a dishwasher’s worst nightmare but, with the help of baking soda, it can be removed super easily without any scrubbing at all.

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Clean Burnt Residue Off of Pans With Baking Soda

How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES

If you missed it live, watch TASBot’s AGDQ 2017 run then read about it below.

Can you really, playably emulate games like Super Mario 64 and Portal on a stock standard SNES only by hacking in through the controller ports? The answer is still no, but for a brief moment at this week’s Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) speedrunning marathon, it certainly looked like the impossible finally became possible.

For years now, AGDQ has featured a block where TASBot (the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Robot) performs literally superhuman feats on classic consoles simply by sending data through the controller ports thousands of times per second. This year’s block (viewable above) started off simply enough, with some show-offy perfect play of Galaga and Gradius on the new NES Classic hardware (a system that TASbot organizer Allan Cecil says is “absolutely horrible” when it comes to automation).

After that, TASBot moved on to a few “total control runs,” exploiting known glitches in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man to insert arbitrary code on the NES. This is nothing new for the computer-driven TASBot—the basics of the tricks vary by game, but they generally involve using buffer overflows to get into memory, then bootstrapping a loader that starts reading and executing a stream of controller inputs as raw assembly level opcodes. The method was taken to ridiculous extremes last year, when TASbot managed to “beat” Super Mario Bros. 3 in less than a second with a very specific total control glitch.

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How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES