Social Media Marketing and Online Shopping: August 2018

Friday, 31 August 2018

Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'

Susan Greene was arrested as she used her phone to record police detaining an African American.

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The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest

JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain.

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Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above

A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

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Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'

A Canadian university has developed a tablet with a flexible screen that can rolled up.

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How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain

Cameroon's Norbert Owona, homeless for two years, thanks Samuel Eto'o for promising him a new house.

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Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question

The rap star also apologises for saying slavery "sounds like a choice".

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Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?

One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed.

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Why Australia is talking about a French au pair

A minister's decision to personally intervene in a visa case is attracting national attention.

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Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full

Chinese government investigators say certain investment companies are faking box office results.

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Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'

Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career.

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Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm

The issue has heated up online and people are staging protest rallies against the arrests.

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Article 35(A) validity in J&K: SC adjourns hearing until January

The Supreme Court on Friday again adjourned its hearing on a plea challenging the constitutional validity of Article 35-A, this time until January. The J&K government and the Centre on Friday sought postponement of the hearing on the ground that the Panchayat polls in the state would go on till December.

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Asian Games Live: Boxer Vikas settles for bronze

Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (75kg) settled for a bronze medal after he was declared medically unfit to fight his semifinal bout due to a cut on his left eyelid sustained earlier in the event

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ITR filing last day today: Guide to avoid penalty

It is very important to pick the correct ITR form while filing the returns. Some of the available forms are ITR 1 (SAHAJ), ITR 2, ITR 3, ITR 4, ITR 4S (SUGAM), ITR 5, ITR 6 and ITR 7. After filing the returns online, taxpayers can quickly e-verify it using 'digital signature certificate' (DSC). For those who don't have a DSC, they can fill the verification form and send it to the tax department's office within 120 days of filing the returns.

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New low: Rupee@71, these people feel the pain

On Friday Rupee breached the 71-mark for the first time against the dollar, hitting a fresh low. The weakening of the rupee over the last few days has been attributed to month-end dollar demand from importers, the pressure being on currencies by Turkish lira and Chinese offshore yuan and rally in crude oil.

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Pak backs down after Imran govt's spat with US

NEW DELHI: Pakistan's new Imran Khan government is bending backwards to put behind it its first spat with the US over whether terrorism was discussed or not in the US administration's first chat with Pakistan's new premier last week. "Politically, we need to move on," said Pakistan yesterday .

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SC notice to BJP, several state govts on public ads

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the BJP and UP, MP, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Telengana governments seeking their response for allegedly violating its public advertisement guidelines. The SC's was hearing a plea of an AAP MLA who alleged that BJP-ruled state governments are violating guidelines.

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India need to build on good start: Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir credited India's bowling unit for once again delivering the goods after England won the toss and opted to bat first in the fourth Test at Southampton. Despite the home team's recovery from 86/6 to 246 all out, Gambhir said India won the honours on day one and should now build on their good start by putting a big first innings total on the board.

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Apple Sept 12 event: 3 iPhones, AirPods 2 & more

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Quick Edit: Has Indian athletics turned the corner?

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Hotel tender scam: Rabri, Tejashwi granted bail

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Friday heaved a sigh of relief after a special Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Rabri Devi, RJD supreme Lalu Prasad's wife and for to his sons Tejashwi Yadav who are co-accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation tender scam.

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Watch: Momo Challenge - New killer game on the net

A new challenge is doing the rounds, and it's as deadly as the Blue Whale game that made headlines last year and resulted in several teenage deaths. It's called the MOMO challenge and It's primary target is the mentally vulnerable. The challenge allegedly throws a series of tasks for its chosen player, with the final task asking them to take their lives. It first started on Facebook where those selected were asked to communicate with an unknown person via an unknown number. The link of the game is now reportedly being circulated via Whatsapp. The first death related to the Momo Challenge took place in Argentina in early August when a 12-year-old girl filmed her tasks on the phone before committing suicide.

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'Kerala will slowly but surely go back to how it was'

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Indians now smart investors, not just good savers

Indian families held a record share of their income in the form of cash in 2017-18. Preference for cash is usually a sign of risk aversion.

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Kashmir gets its first Muslim woman pilot

Thirty-year-old Iram Habib has become the first Kashmiri Muslim woman to become a pilot. Habib will join a private airline next month. Iram succeeds Tanvi Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit, who joined Air India as the Valley’s first woman pilot in 2016. In her pursuit, Iram even gave up her dream of achieving a doctorate in forestry to give wings to her childhood ambition.

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Kerala floods: CM’s relief fund crosses Rs 1k cr

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'43k dead people were getting Samajwadi Pension'

UP's social welfare minister Ramapati Shastri informed the state assembly that the pension scheme introduced by Samajwadi Party was withheld after the ministry found that out of the 50 lakh beneficiaries more than 4 lakh were ineligible and 43,000 were actually dead. The scheme was a key poll promise of the SP in 2012 assembly elections.

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Turning A Fitness Tracker Into An EEG

GSM Phone Network At EMF Camp Built on Raspberry Pi and LimeSDR

Competitive Soldering is Now a Thing

Google's revamped Android One program picks up where the Nexus left off

As great as Google's Pixel phones are — the Pixel 2's have arguably the best smartphone cameras and the Google Assistant has grown to be indispensable — they lack one thing that made their predecessors, the Nexus phones, so irresistible: affordable pricing.

The Nexus brand and hardware are long dead, but the key fundamentals that made the phones such game-changers lives on in Android One.

Google launched Android One in 2014 as program geared towards pushing its apps and services onto budget phones designed for emerging markets such as India. Read more...

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Yes, Michael Jackson really was on 'The Simpsons'

For quite some time, fans of The Simpsons were unsure: Was that really Michael Jackson's voice on the show?

In the 1991 episode "Stark Raving Dad," Jackson voiced the character of Leon Kompowsky, a patient in a mental health facility who thought he was the pop icon.

Jackson was credited as John Jay Smith, and although producers have spoken about his appearance, the show's creator Matt Groening put the rumors to bed once and for all in an interview on Australian TV show The Weekly.

"We really did have him," Groening said.. Read more...

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San Francisco and Santa Monica finally decide which e-scooter companies can roll through

Bring on the scooters.

After months of scooter-less streets in San Francisco, city transportation officials finally broke their silence Thursday to announce which electric scooter companies would be allowed to rent out the battery-powered vehicles.

Of the 12 companies that applied for a year-long pilot program in San Francisco, only two were selected: Skip and Scoot. The two companies are allotted 625 scooters each available to riders starting Oct. 15.

The final decision came as a bit of a surprise to some companies, seeing as the city originally said it could award up to five companies permits back in June. It comes off as a retaliatory move for Bird and Lime, scooter companies that came into the city early without collaborating with officials. Uber and Lyft were also vying for a spot in their hometown's scooter program, but may have paid the price for its past transgressions when ride-hailing apps arrived in the city unannounced years ago. Read more...

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Disneyland's 'Star Wars' cantina will serve booze to all us lowlife smugglers

Like Han Solo in the iconic cantina scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, we're sorry about the mess. And we're taking the shot first.

That's right, folks, the upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge park expansion to Disneyland is serving alcohol. We couldn't imagine recreating the sleazy intergalactic dive bar filled with smugglers and bounty hunters any other way.

Disney made the welcome announcement on the park's blog on Thursday, Aug. 30. The company also offered up some new concept art for the highly anticipated Black Spire Outpost expansion, which opens in 2019. Read more...

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How an anti-Semitic slur made its way onto maps across the internet

Snapchat users were greeted with an alarming change to Snap Maps this morning: New York City had been renamed “Jewtropolis.”

Even worse, social media was filled reports of maps on other websites and services with the same change, including Zillow, The Weather Channel, Citibike, and Streeteasy.

Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as "Jewtropolis" this morningpic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo

— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 30, 2018

Couldn't find a way to report directly to @streeteasy or @zillow or @openstreetmap so here's a screen shot of a condo located in "Jewtropolis". Assuming they've been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it#Antisemitic @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9

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Details of Saturn's northern lights revealed in new Hubble telescope photos

Singer K'naan needs you to vote on his behalf in the U.S. midterm elections

You likely know K'naan Warsame for his FIFA World Cup anthem "Waving Flag" and his role on The Hamilton Mixtape track, "Immigrants (We Get The Job Done.)" Now, he's asking American citizens to vote on his behalf in the upcoming elections.

Though the Canadian-Somali singer and poet lives and works in New York, he's a Canadian citizen and his family still resides in Toronto, which means he's facing challenges as a result of the Trump administration's travel ban.

So he released a powerful video plea in partnership with The Love Vote, a nonprofit organization that aims to give the 50 million people like K'naan — who are unable to vote in the U.S. due to circumstances like age, citizenship status, or disenfranchisement — a space for their voices to be heard. Read more...

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The FDA is coming for Juul

The e-cigarette company Juul is believed to have used marketing strategies to target teens. Read more...

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If you've been waiting for a gold iPhone, you'll probably love the next Apple event

Only a few hours after Apple sent out this year's iPhone event invitations, purportedly leaked images of the new devices have surfaced online.

This afternoon, Apple news site 9to5Mac posted a photo of what is allegedly one of the new flagship iPhone models laying on top of one another.

If the leaked photos are to be believed, Apple fans can rejoice, because it appears that a bigger iPhone X is on its way — oh, and there could be a gold color option coming as well.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company just sent out invites for a September 12 event with the tagline "Gather Around." The invite didn't offer much information about what to expect, but an outline of Apple Park appeared in what was a gold-copper color — which could be perceived as a hint about the upcoming gold iPhone color option. Read more...

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People are threatening to boycott In-N-Out after large donation to Republican party

Despite its California roots, In-N-Out is far from liberal.

On Wednesday, journalist Gabe Schneider uncovered a contribution of $25,000 that the famous California-based fast food chain made to the California Republican Party just this week — and it's safe to say that some folks were not happy to learn about the political leanings of their family owned go-to burger joint.

In-N-Out added a new item to their secret menuhttps://t.co/VtaCOuiNRp pic.twitter.com/tCRYqFGDEB

— Gabe Schneider 🗞 (@gabemschneider) August 29, 2018

Schneider shared a document on Twitter that details the company's contributions, which were filed on August 28. While many on Twitter stood in support of the burger chain because of their political beliefs, In-N-Out was called out by some customers. Read more...

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Bye, Fiona: Emmy Rossum announces unexpected exit from 'Shameless'

After nine seasons on Showtime's acclaimed Shameless, star Emmy Rossum is walking away.

In a Facebook post made earlier this afternoon, Rossum announced her exit, bid adieu to her South Side Chicago family, reflected on her upbringing, talked about Malcolm Gladwell, and even alluded to a possible return...

However, she did not give a reason for the departure.

Rossum signs off her note, saying, "I know you will continue on without me, for now. There is much more Gallagher story to be told. I will always be rooting for my family. Try not to think of me as gone, just think of me as moving down the block." Read more...

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Glide effortlessly through the ocean with these underwater wings

Subwing can be attached to a small boat, allowing you to maneuver the waters. All you have to do is hang on to the wings and steer by pointing the wings in the direction you want to go. Read more...

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Someone is trying to stop Johny Johny Yes Papa memes

Cherish your Johny and Papa content while it's still up, because memes are rapidly getting removed from Twitter for copyright violations.

You've probably stumbled across at least one Johny Johny Yes Papa meme while scrolling through your feed in the past week — the macrocephalic child who hungers for sugar and his tyrannical Papa who often catches him telling lies danced their way right into our creeped out hearts.

But Twitter has recently removed a vast swath of the most viral memes about Johny and his family.

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