Day: January 25, 2013

Music
Video

Avicii and Nicky Romero, I Could Be the One

Avicii released a new music single this week with Nicky Romero, I Could Be the One. A different pace than his other songs we have featured on here, I Could Be the One is more mellow but still features Avicii’s signature electronic hooks. Above is the official music video for Avicii’s newest single. Hope you enjoy […]

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Kolkata’s Howrah Bridge Collapsing Under Weight of Gutkha Spit

The Indian metropolis of Kolkata is grappling with a unique problem with its landmark Howrah bridge – the structure is about to collapse because of the highly corrosive gutkha spit people who use the bridge spit onto it.   Citizens of the city of Kolkata have united in an anti-spitting campaign to stop gutkha users […]

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Chinese Tech Giant Lenovo May Purchase Blackberry Maker Research in Motion (RIM)

Chinese computing giant Lenovo is considering purchasing Canadian smartphone handset maker RIM in a bid to join the burgeoning smartphone market.   The world’s second largest computer manufacturer by volume, Lenovo’s purchase of Research in Motion would give it an entrance into the lucrative smartphone segment in an effort to diversify its non-pc assets.   […]

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Protests Continue Against Mohammed Morsi in Egypt

Protests still rage in Egypt during the second anniversary of similar actions that swept former longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power.   The rallies in the famed Tahrir Square have called for President Mohammed Morsi to step down from his post, with charges that he and the Muslim Brotherhood have betrayed the revolution and […]

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Saudi Arabia’s Hayaa are Mocked on Twitter After the Mysterious Closure of a Dinosaur Exhibit in Dammam

Saudi Arabia’s powerful and omniprevalent Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice recently closed an educational exhibit featuring dinosaurs at a shopping mall in the oil capital of Dammam, prompting a backlash on Twitter that both mocked the ‘Hayaa’ as well as Saudi clerics.   Some have pointed to the ‘dinosaurs […]

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State Media in the People’s Republic of China Warns DPRK Over Planned Nuclear Test

In a change of tone, official state media outlets in the PRC are criticizing North Korea’s latest round of bellicose posturing, threatening aid cuts if the DPRK proceeds with yet another nuclear test.   The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s main ally, China, has criticized the regime through official media outlets after North Korea threatened the United […]

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Taiwanese Protestors Fight to Secure Freedom of the Press in Ma Ying-jeou’s Pro-PRC Taiwan

Nearly one hundred thousand protesters gathered in front of Taiwan’s Presidential Building in the Zhongzheng district of Taipei to rally against what they see as an attempt by the People’s Republic of China to control the media of Taiwan with aid from President Ma Ying–jeou.   The rally was organized and led by the pro–independent […]

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