Will.i.am’s $100k donation surprise

Grammy-award winning hip hop artist Will.i.am jetted into Auckland for a company party last night, but he’s not going home without leaving something behind. The Black Eyed Peas frontman has donated $100,000 to a network of low decile schools in the city’s low-income areas toward providing children with new computers and iPads

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Facebook Helps FBI

Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than $850 million in total losses in one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history. The FBI, working in concert with the world’s largest social network […]

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Twitter to Announce Photo Filters

Twitter on Monday added Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing features after the Facebook-owned service made it impossible for Internet users to integrate its images into tweets. “Starting today, you’ll be able to edit and refine photos, right from Twitter,” the globally popular one-to-many messaging service said in a blog post. “Every day, millions of people come […]

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Is Facebook Copyright Statement a Myth?

For the last  couple of weeks people have been posting a statement to protect their copyrights of their comments and other materials on their Facebook pages. People may believe that it is Facebook that asks their users to post this statement but in reality Facebook has nothing to do with it. Because the social network […]

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An Unidentified Object Is Found On The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea

A Swedish expedition team found an unidentified object  at the bottom of the Baltic sea. Scientists went off on a deep-water dive to debunk some theories about the underwater object, but were left with more questions than they had answers. The divers found that the object was raised about 10 to 13 feet above the […]

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The Mystery of 50.000 Dead Starfish

More than 50,000 starfish have been found dead after being washed ashore at a beautiful beach on the western coast of Ireland. The thousands of starfish formed a bizarre carpet at Lissadell beach in County Sligo on the Western Irish coast. So far, no one has been able to determine why the starfish died. Bill Crowe, […]

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Brasil’s Solution to Animal Extinction : “Cloning”

Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species. The scientists at Brazil’s Embrapa agriculture research agency said this week they have spent two years building a gene library with hundreds of samples from eight native species, including the collared anteater, the bush dog, the black lion tamarin, […]

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