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Every year on March 8th, the women’s rights movement is celebrated all over the world. The very first Women’s Day was actually celebrated in 1909! From women’s suffrage movements to equal pay strikes to the rights to our own bodies, Women’s Day was made to commemorate it all. This day is dedicated to appreciating women in all […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Snapchat plans to release a wearable gadget called Spectacles, which resembles a pair of sunglasses with a built-in camera for shooting video. The product will be sold in “limited distribution” this fall for US$129.99 (S$176.67), the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (Sept 23). Spectacles will come in one size and three […]
Apple said to have a patent for tech that prevents texting while driving, but has not used it NEW YORK — The court filings paint a grisly picture: As Ashley Kubiak sped down a Texas highway in her Dodge Ram truck, she checked her iPhone for messages. Distracted, she crashed into a sport utility vehicle, […]
BEIJING — A Chinese man reported that a Note7 smartphone from Samsung Electronics exploded after he bought it this week, raising questions about whether the South Korean company’s problems with battery fires are spreading to new devices. The 25-year-old customer, Mr Hui Renjie, said his Note7 exploded on Monday morning (Sept 26), less than 24 […]
‘There’s a randomness to the Internet that you can never really predict.’ SINGAPORE — Less than 10 years ago, it would have been unthinkable to make a living from YouTube. These days, YouTube is big business, with the number of channels earning six figures increasing by 50 per cent year on year. According to a […]
It was a classic love story… Girl comes across guy’s photos on her Instagram Search & Explore feed. Girl follows guy. Guy follows girl back. After a handful of mutual likes, comments, DMs and a number swap, somewhere further down the line, a random text out of the blue leads to the guy sending a […]
Yes a dog can be a pilot. They can be anything they want to be. Don’t crush their dreams. Cap’n Callie is a five-year-old chocolate Labrador from Leighton Buzzard. Two years ago, she became the first dog in the UK to get her own crew card. She has around 100,000 air miles and 500 flying hours […]
It’s easy to be more ethical when you’re cooking for yourself, as you can trot around the supermarket gaily picking up free range eggs and grass-fed beef from local farms. But how do you know if the buyers at your favourite coffee house are doing the same? Well now you can – at least when […]
Charlotte protests remain in the national spotlight Charlotte will remain on alert Friday after Mayor Jennifer Roberts imposed a city-wide midnight curfew in response to the violent protests over the fatal police-involved shooting of an African-American man earlier this week. Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency after Wednesday’s protests killed one protester and injured two officers and nine civilians. The demonstrations — sparked by the death of Keith Lamont Scott — were much […]
WASHINGTON — Yahoo’s data theft — involving about half the company’s one billion users — is no joke. At a time of increasing breach fatigue, when big data exposures sometimes elicit little more than a yawn, this incident sets a new bar for massive leaks of account information. The break-in, which Yahoo attributed to a […]
These images taken during the autopsy of an obese person show the strain put on the body by carrying excess weight. The woman, who was in her 60s from Long Beach Island in California, was around 5 foot 5 inches tall and weighed 17 stone. She fell into the morbidly obese weight category. She donated […]