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Motörhead’s Lemmy features in ad for milk filmed shortly before he died

“I don’t drink milk, and I never will. You asshole.” Those are the immortal words Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister utters in a new clip, filmed shortly before his death on Dec. 28 and originally intended as part of an advert for Finnish dairy company Valio, and they were improvised by the late Motörhead frontman. …

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So who wants to get weird with David Bowie? You’re in luck: ‘Blackstar’ is here

The weirdest thing about “Blackstar” (or “★”), the unfathomably weird 26th studio album from 69-year-old birthday boy David Bowie, is how instantly appealing and familiar its dark and aberrant matter can be With seven tracks ranging in length from long to longer, “Blackstar” — which dropped Friday from Sony Music — is among Bowie’s most macabre and ritualistic records, all skittering jazz drums…

Fan-Umfrage:Alaba und Neuer in ‘UEFA Team des Jahres’ gewählt

Schöne Auszeichnung für zwei Profis des FC Bayern…

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Mantises get tiny 3D glasses to test depth perception

The praying mantis is the only known invertebrate with 3D perception, however this fact was originally proven in the 1980s using prisms and occluders, which only support a limited number of images. Scientists want to deepen their understanding of the…

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Your next sports bra could also be a fitness tracker with OMbra

The core of the OMbra is a small black box that tracks running performance indicators like distance, cadence, pace, heart rate and calories

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Swagway’s new Swagtron hoverboard has Bluetooth speakers and apparently won’t explode

I hadn’t ridden a hoverboard — the increasingly popular self-balancing rideable that definitely doesn’t hover — before today.

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First European pricing revealed for Samsung’s new Galaxy TabPro S with Windows 10 [Update]

Samsung unveiled the Windows 10 based Galaxy TabPro S this week, and we got a hands on with the device at CES. Now, leaked costs are suggesting a €999 starting price, in Germany

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Life hacks to help you avoid catching (or spreading) that nasty office cold

It might be you, it might be your co-worker, but at some point this winter, someone’s going to show up at the office when they shouldn’t. Dragging ourselves to work sick — a behavior social scientists call “presenteeism” — costs employers $160 billion a year in lost productivity, according to research published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine…

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You can now join Emma Watson’s new feminist book club

LONDON — Emma Watson announced that she was setting up a feminist book club in a tweet on Wednesday, and people across the world were quick to express their excitement. See also: Emma Watson ‘can’t wait’ to see Noma Dumezweni as Hermione in ‘Potter’ play After encouraging people to send in name suggestions and then eventually settling on Our Shared Shelf, Watson has now made the book club…

United to launch Chinese tv channel

Manchester United will become the first football club to launch a dedicated 24 hour television channel in China next week, as it seeks to keep up with growing Chinese interest in the game. Sina Sports, an online sports platform, will begin broadcasting the club’s MUTV on its website, mobile site and app next Sunday. Recent turbulence on the Chinese stock exchange and a fall in the country’s…

India’s cricket captain MS Dhoni gets an arrest warrant for posing as a god on a magazine cover

In India, cricket is considered to be a religion and cricketers are often compared with gods. But now Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been issued a non-bailable warrant for a magazine cover which shows him posing as the Hindu god Vishnu. See also: US-based Hindu leader objects to the villain of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ calling himself Krishna The cover of the Indian business magazine in…

Samsung profit misses analysts’ expectations

Samsung Electronics said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent over a year earlier, a smaller-than-expected gain as the world’s largest maker of smartphones and memory chips struggles to revive growth

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Great white shark dies after 3 days in Japanese aquarium

TOKYO — A great white shark has died after barely three days in a rare case of captivity in a Japanese aquarium. The 3.5 meter (11.5-foot) shark, which was accidentally caught in a net in southwestern Japan on Tuesday, died early Friday, according to Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. The cause of death was under investigation. Keeping a great white shark in captivity is extremely difficult as it needs…

Facebook, Microsoft, and Google say UK spying laws are ‘a step in the wrong direction’

America’s biggest tech companies have united to criticize new digital surveillance laws proposed in the UK. In evidence submitted to the committee assessing the legislation, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter warned that the UK government’s actions could have “far reaching implications.” The companies anticipate that “other countries will emulate” the proposed Investigatory Powers…

Turns out men shouldn’t drink more than women after all

LONDON — For years, men in the UK have been told they can drink more alcohol than women – the recommended limit for them was three to four units a day, compared to two to three units for women. Now though, the Department of Health has issued new guidelines stating that neither men or women should consume more than 14 units over the course of a week, which is the equivalent of six pints of…

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ on sale in German bookstores for first time in 70 years

A German historical institute is launching an annotated edition of Mein Kampf, the first version of Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II. See also: Hitler wanted these embarrassing pictures destroyed Bavaria’s state finance ministry had previously prevented the book’s publication, but its copyright expired 70 years after the Nazi leader’s…

News: Morning Agenda: Capping Week of Turmoil, Chinese Markets Rise

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