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Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm...

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Microsoft and LinkedIn are officially connected.

The software giant and the professional social network closed the $26.2 billion acquisition that was agreed on in June, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Thursday along with a list of immediate changes


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A tiny electronic chip just three atoms thick could yield advanced circuits that are powerful, flexible and transparent, researchers said in a new study. The scientists said the chip demonstrates a new way to mass-produce atomically thin materials and...

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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs.

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Google’s introduced a nifty new feature for Twitter addicts. This feature brings the ability to search for local results without leaving the Twitter app. Users can search for things to do by just tweeting an emoji @Google, and you will get search results on the Twitter app.

According to Mashable, the tech giant has built-in interactions for over 200 different emoji. The emoji search will then deliver search results ranging from...

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Gionee has teased the launch of its upcoming smartphone via Weibo, which is Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The upcoming smartphone believed to be dubbed M2017 is expected to sport a large 7000mAh battery, which will be the biggest USP of the handset.

GizmoChina first reported the teaser image shared by Gionee which showed the new brand ambassador holding the upcoming smartphone in left hand. Based on preliminary leaks, Gionee's M2017 will feature a dual-rear camera setup. It is said to sport 12-megapixel sensor and a 13-megapixel sensors at the back while house an 8-megapixel front camera. The handset is likely to run on Android 6.0...

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The Recording Academy announced the 59th annual Grammy nominees Tuesday, honoring artists like Adele and Beyoncé for their work in the past year.

Meghan Trainor announced the first round of nominees -- in categories for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist -- on CBS This Morning, and the rest of the categories appeared online soon after.

For the 2017 ceremony, eligible albums must have been released between Oct. 1, 2015 and Sept. 30, 2016, which explains why albums like Adele's 25 were eligible for nomination this time around, instead of for the 2016 ceremony.

The 59th annual Grammys will air Sunday, Feb. 12 on CBS.

See all the Grammy nominees below. This post will be updated throughout the announcement.

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BlackBerry has been looking to revive its smartphone portfolio for a while now, but have been largely unsuccessful. BlackBerry CEO John Chen confirmed last month that the company is working on its last in-house smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard. This smartphone is largely expected to be codenamed Mercury, and now fresh live images leak has revealed key details of the device.

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A new automated, flying ambulance completed its first solo flight, offering a potential solution for challenging search and rescue missions.

Completing such missions in rough terrain or combat zones can be tricky, with helicopters currently offering the best transportation option in most cases. But these vehicles need clear areas to land, and in the case of war zones, helicopters tend to attract enemy fire. Earlier this month, Israeli company Urban Aeronautics completed a test flight for a robotic flying vehicle that could one day go where helicopters can’t.

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Lost and stolen iOS devices could be at risk if ne’er-do-wells learn of this blunt-force method of getting past Activation Lock. No special equipment or technical know-how is required, which means any geek off the streets can do it. Fortunately, it’s easily fixed — but until that happens, you might want to be a little extra careful about leaving your phone unattended.

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A Chinese electronics maker that has recalled products sold in the US said Tuesday it did all it could to prevent a massive cyber-attack that briefly blocked access to websites including Twitter and Netflix.

Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology has said some of its web-connected cameras and digital recorders became compromised because customers failed to change their default passwords

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Google announces the list of best performing applications, games, movies, TV shows, and books on Google Play every year, and continuing its tradition, the search giant has now announced its list for 2016.

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As most smartphone manufacturers opt to introduce faster processors and large displays on their flagship devices, it has become difficult for them to provide battery life that can last for even one full day. The YAAO 6000 Plus smartphone with a gigantic battery capacity of 10900mAh is meant to be the solution to this specific problem

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There’s something incredibly powerful about the blue lights that the designers of our smartphone, tablet, and laptop screens have been able to create. The lights in these screens glow so bright that we can see them even during a sunny day. At night, they’re bright enough that they’ve been compared to a “little window” that daylight can peer through.

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Whether you use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, share thoughts about the world, or just read news (real or fake), every interaction you have on the network is recorded somewhere. If you don’t pay attention to your privacy settings, you may letting on more information than you’d like to.

We’ve created a brief, five-step Facebook security checkup that you can use to ensure your basic privacy is protected.

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Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell..

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Games are officially becoming part of Messenger.

Facebook is adding a suite of new “Instant Games” to its messaging app, the company announced Tuesday. The games include well-known titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Words With Friends as well as games from indie developers

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Apple says a small number of iPhone 6S devices may unexpectedly shut down. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple is offering a free battery replacement for iPhone 6S...

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Xiaomi’s business model isn’t about selling handsets, except insofar as those handset sales lead to recurring service revenue later on. So said Xiaomi global VP and former Android VP Hugo Barra in an interview with Reuters. The executive for the device maker was commenting on...

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We’ve all played a game of kiss, marry, kill – or some form of it, anyway. But its enjoyment relies on the fact that we wouldn’t actually do any of those things.

Except that the game, in some weird, Black Mirror-esque twist, is now a reality.

A new dating app, called FMK (f**k, marry, kill), has launched, calling itself a ‘social experiment game’ which celebrities are giving a #thumbsup 4#

It allows users to ‘see your rankings and how f**kable, marriable and killable you are’.

The app’s website says

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Twenty-three years ago John Bobbitt made headlines when his wife Lorena cut off his pen*is and subsequently threw it from the window of a moving car.

Fans of the film Fight Club will remember Tyler Durden make reference to the incident, such was the potency of the story in the consciousness of...

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According to Bellanaija;

She says “it is not a tell-all but a must tell”, and the book did speak of many things. She spoke of her childhood days, and the sad loss of her parents as a result of a fire incident in their home when she was 8 years old and its impact on her life...

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Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Now they outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning.

Cheng runs a thriving electronics store in the rural town of Miaoxia, tapping into her WeChat social media account to promote the brands that pay the biggest commission, and in her case that’s Oppo and Vivo...

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It’s the dream isn’t it, really. To click a single button and have yourself wiped from the internet for good.

Just imagine how many things you would stop worrying about.

No more infinite scrolling, no more constantly worrying about what everyone else is up to. Lots more free time as opposed to sitting on the sofa flicking through Twitter for hours.

Well one website is offering this nirvana.

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According to multiple social media sources,an Abuja pastor who paid a man N500k to use him as a miracle scam has been nabbed after the man died.

Below is what Chinasa wrote.….

‘Meet The Abuja Pastor That Offered A Trader 500,000 For Miracle Scam That Went Bad...

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Hackers gained access to sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, for 134,386 current and former US sailors, the US Navy said on Wednesday.

It said a laptop used by a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services employee working on a US Navy contract...

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Black Friday is just around the corner, and as the tradition goes, the best tech deals will be up for grabs. BlackBerry has already gone live with its Black Friday sale and it gives customers the chance to save up to 53 percent on select smartphones like the BlackBerry Priv, DTEK50, BlackBerry Passport, and BlackBerry Leap

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When using a search engine as popular and trusted as Google, you probably don't think twice about the safety of the domain.

The Next Web noticed something weird about one of the domains in the Google Analytics for its site a few weeks ago: a piece of spam that was telling them to vote for Donald Trump. That in and of itself wasn't weird, but the domain was: ɢoogle.com (warning: Don't go there)...

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Every generation of the Nissan Sentra since the early 1990s has sprouted a sporty variant. Most of these hotted-up small cars have worn the SE-R badge, a name that earned a fair share of credibility after the B13-generation Sentra SE-R captured enthusiasts’ hearts (and appeared more than once on C/D’s 10Best Cars list) thanks to its high fun-per-dollar ratio.

Now in the midst of pumping up its NISMO performance arm, Nissan has put that name on the latest Sentra performance variant. It helps make a connection among all of Nissan’s performance-oriented offerings, comprising the Juke NISMO and NISMO RS, the 370Z NISMO, and the top-dog, 600-hp GT-R NISMO...

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Anumudu Uche, an official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), lost his life during an operation to rescue 10 persons kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums in the Kuje area of the federal capital territory (FCT).

Anjugurin Manzah, spokesman of the FCT police command, disclosed this in a statement, saying the deceased took ill before his death.

He listed the freed captives as Fanus Emmanuel, Babangida Emmanuel, Akimmi Dauda, Japheth Kwasu, Dorcas Shuaibu, Kemuche IK,...

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has re-arraigned a businessman and associate of former minister of petroleum, Mrs Allison Madueke, Mr. Jide Omokore, before a Federal High Court, Abuja.

Omokore and others were arraigned on a nine-count charge of criminal diversion of about $1.6 billion...

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Boko Haram fighters have placing massive orders for sex enhancing drug to boost their performance and anti-STDs, Premium Times is reporting. This report, according to the online news medium, was revealed after a recent interception of two men by officers attached to 112 Task Force battalion on their way to Minari from Anadawa village on a motorcycle

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