Daniel Van Boom

Twitter bans high

Twitter admits it has a hate problem and is working on ways to fix it. The social media platform has suspended accounts of several high-profile users associated with the alt-right movement, CBSNews.com reported Wednesday. These include Richard Spencer, Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers. The alt-right is a loosely organized movement in …

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Forgot your wallet and phone? Pay with a SmartCup

You’re at a cafe. You’ve just scoffed down bacon, eggs and a fine brew. It’s time to pay. What are you going to do, pull out your card like some kind of chump?No, says Australian carrier Optus. Pay with your coffee mug. The company has teamed up with Frank Green, who makes chip-equipped SmartCups, to conveniently let you make payments …

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Apple’s peach emoji looks like a butt again, world rejoices

Fear not, iPhone users, the butt emoji is back. Of course, there is no actual butt emoji — there are standards and practices against that sort of thing. But Apple‘s initial iOS 10.2 update changed the peach emoji, a longtime representative of the behind, into less of a butt and into more of an actual peach. That grave wrong, protested …

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Huawei’s P9 passes 9 million in sales

Despite not being as recognisable as Apple and Samsung, Huawei once agains proves itself to be a big player in the mobile game. On Friday, the Chinese company announced the P9, a premium phone released in April, has sold over 9 million units worldwide. Those sales helped Huawei retain its position in Q3 2016 as the global No. 3 phone …

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Yes we Canada: Immigration site crashes as Trump leads election

Forecasts are showing that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, and that’s got many concerned — concerned enough to leave the country, apparently. Canada’s immigration website crashed on Tuesday night, just as the New York Times’ forecast gave Trump a 95 percent chance of defeating Hillary Clinton to win the election. Social media remains ablaze, …

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LG beats Samsung to Nougat, rolling out OS update to G5 phones

LG is stepping up its Android game, on Tuesday beginning the rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to the G5. That makes the G5 the first non-Google phone to receive the update. Meanwhile, the recent Google Pixel and LG’s V20 were shipped with Nougat. LG said G5’s in South Korea will get the update first, with the Americas and Asia getting …

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A folding iPhone could be in your future

Some have dissed the iPhone 7 for being too similar to the 6S. But a new patent shows that Apple may have an interesting direction for a future iPhone. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple on Tuesday for a bendable or foldable iPhone, according to Patently Apple, which was first to report the news. It …

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Two women just changed pro wrestling forever

Last night, pro wrestling history was made. For the first time, two women, Sasha Banks and Charlotte, main evented a WWE pay-per-view. “So what?” the non-wrestling fans among us may be thinking. If everything is predetermined, why does it matter that women were the main event? The headlining match in a pay-per-view (PPV) is the one the WWE thinks will …

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Barack Obama blasts Donald Trump on ‘Mean Tweets’

As the US presidential election rages on, President Barack Obama took the time to return to Jimmy Kimmel Live’s beloved “Mean Tweets” on Tuesday night. The segment has celebrities read out and respond to insults hurled at them on Twitter. Donald Trump, himself famous for mean tweets, eventually came up at the end of the two-minute clip. “President Obama will …

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DJ Khaled Snapchats son’s birth while blasting his own music

If you follow DJ Khaled on Snapchat, you’ve enjoyed many jewels of knowledge — or keys to success. You may have also seen the DJ’s fiancée give birth to their first child. Khaled last night documented the entire birth of the couple’s son on Snapchat. His fiancée Nicole Tuck was seen in labour as music from his 2016 album “Major …

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