Apple's next? Brains of an iPhone 6S in a 5S body

VENICE BEACH — Have smartphones gotten too big? At a press event Monday, Apple is expected to introduce a new iPhone model, the SE, which will have most of the features of the newer 4.7-inch iPhone 6S and even bigger 5.5-inch iPhone 6S Plus, such as an enhanced camera, faster processor and Apple Pay feature. But it will sport the smaller, 4-inch body of earlier phones such as the 5S or 5C, according to analysts including Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. He sees the new SE appealing to about 20% of Apple's customer base: the folks who never bothered to upgrade to the bigger phones. Apple...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Saturday, 19 March 2016

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Parents giving their kids the sex talk is as awkward as you remember

From the folks who brought you "Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time" comes another, more uncomfortable gem: Parents talking to their kids about sex for the first time. It is, of course, a terrible experience for all involved. Apologies if all this talk of sperm, eggs and "van-ginas" brings back vivid memories of your own first "birds and the bees" talk. ...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Monday, 12 January 2015

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25 of YouTube's Funniest Sports Fails

1. Golf Cart Fail This runaway vehicle wreaked minor on-field havoc following a high school football championship in Texas last December. But a heroic bystander hopped aboard and put on the brakes. No casualties occurred, and the clip immediately became Internet legend. 2. Penalty Kick Fail Watch out for the ricochet, goalie! This kid gets it in the right in the chops. 3. Mascot on Rollerblades Fail What happens when you put an inflatable dinosaur on rollerblades and ask it to skate down a flight of stairs? Amazingness, that's what. 4. Flopping Fail In sports, to "flop" is to exaggerate...

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Ohio State won the title but the Oregon duck mascot won the Internet

Ohio State pounded Oregon behind 246 yards and four touchdowns from running back Ezekiel Elliott to win college football's first playoff national championship 42-20 on Monday night. So yes, the Buckeyes won the title. But a Vine of Puddles, more colloquially known as the Oregon duck mascot, won the Internet. It's beautiful in its simplicity, really — just that goofy Oregon duck mascot taking the field like some sort of feathered speed freak. That was only the beginning, however. The good people of Twitter dot...

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25 films that know exactly how you feel

Watching the right movie at the right moment is kind of like hanging out with a great listener. When you're sad they console you, when you're happy they help celebrate … movies have the power to mirror the way we feel. Wherever and whenever a certain mood strikes, check out these 25 films — our selections are crafted to match the feelings with which you're dealing. Curl up on the couch with your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and enjoy these flicks on your Quad HD Super AMOLED display (and, given the Note 4's 5.7-inch screen, you're...

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150 Street Artists Covered an Old Tunisian Village in Beautiful Murals

For the past two months, 150 artists from 30 nations have been busy in the village of Erriadh, one of the oldest in Tunisia. They have been covering its buildings, gates, windows — almost any flat surface — in murals, in hopes of enticing tourists and infusing the area with new life. Their graffiti is part of a street art project called Djerbahood, an open-air museum curated by the artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh and Galerie Itinerrance. A Tunisian woman walks past a mural by Spanish artist Btoy as part of the street art...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 24 September 2014

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Belgian City to Build Underground Pipeline for Beer

In an effort to eliminate disruptive delivery trucks driving through its picturesque streets, the Belgian city of Bruges approved plans Tuesday to create an underground pipeline for transporting beer. Agence France-Presse reported the pipeline is set to connect the historic De Halve Maan brewery to a bottling factory two miles away, eliminating the 500 trucks that drive down the city's small streets each year. De Halve Maan, a major fixture in Bruges, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that hosts 100,000 tourists each year....

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Slow-Motion Tattooing Might Permanently Scar Your Brain

A video showing tattooing in slow-motion takes the prize for today’s list of things that make you say “Oh, this shouldn’t be that ba...oh god. NO! STOP! CLOSE THE LAPTOP! NONONO!” Skip ahead to 3:00 and watch an up-close look at what actually happens when someone gets a tattoo.  Spoiler: Needles covered in ink pounding into human skin is as brutal as you think....

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NASA’s Space Launch System is officially all systems go for Mars and Moon landings

NASA’s Space Launch System, the USA’s first exploration-class spacecraft since the Space Shuttle, has officially passed the whiteboard formulation stage and moved into full-scale development. The SLS, which will be the most powerful rocket ever built, will allow NASA to land astronauts on Mars and captured asteroids, and perhaps other planets and moons throughout the Solar System as well. The first SLS mission should lift off no later than 2018, sending the Orion capsule around the Moon. Asteroid- and Mars-bound...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Saturday, 30 August 2014

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