[UPDATED] Facebook Has Apparently Blocked Users From Posting 'Everyone will know'

Facebook has apparently blocked all users from posting or commenting 'Everyone will know'. If you do that, you will get an 'Action Blocked' notification(see picture above) that will prevent you from posting the status or comment that says it's spam.

It is not a user-exclusive problem, everyone is experiencing it and it is unknown whether it is intended or a bug, as it is nearly impossible to know if 'everyone will know' can discriminate someone.

An example of a comment being blocked by Facebook that says 'Everyone will know'.

The word is spreading rapidly and more and more users are eventually finding out, so it is only a matter of time someone approaches someone from the staff of Facebook to comment on it. Stay tuned for updates on the topic, if more on the story is learned, the post will be updated.

UPDATE:

Facebook has fixed the issue by now and everyone can post 'Everyone will know' in both posts and comments now.

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Facebook Apologises To Media After Rejecting A Sick Baby's Ad By Calling It 'Gore' Content

Hudson Azera Bond is a two-month old baby from North Carolina, who needs a new heart. His family cannot afford the heart transplant all by themselves, so they have been asking for donations so they can save the life of their son. Hudson is in Duke Children's Hospital where a device has been fitted in his heart, which assists him to keep him alive until he can get the heart transplant.

As a part of spreading the word, Hudson's father, Kevin Bond, has a Facebook page made for the baby, where he posts progress and asks for donations. Occasionally, he pays for sponsorship of the page so more people can find it and help with the transplant. Recently, Kevin paid for a 20$ Facebook ad for the page, and apparently, Facebook rejected the ad(see picture above) by calling it 'gory', comparing it with "accidents, car crashes, dead and dismembered bodies, ghosts, zombies, ghouls, and vampires".

Kevin Bond then posted about how Facebook called a picture of his son gory and stated that:

What is offensive about this picture of my Son? In Classic Facebook fashion the link they provided to appeal this decision doesn't work, and all efforts to contact them have failed. Facebook you should be ashamed of yourself. Of all the garbage you endlessly pedal over the Internet, a picture of my Son is where you draw the line? Disgusting.

This incident sparked a lot of controversy towards Facebook, and eventually Facebook apologised for the ad rejection to the media. They have stated that "This was a mistake on our part. The ad has been re-approved. We apologise for any nuisance this has caused to the family". It is said that Facebook has offered the family $10,000 in advertisement credit, for sponsoring Hudson's page in ads.

Kevin Bond has acknowledged that he has read the apology and shows dismay with their apology, and the fact they did not contact him directly, and he wouldn't even had known of it had he not seen their "half hearted" apology on the media, stating that:

I read Facebook's response on media outlets last night. They apologized for the inconvenience this caused my family. Inconvenience was never an issue. Having my beautiful Son compared to dismembered bodies, vampires, zombies, etcetera hurt me, and my family. The ad in question was time sensitive. Reversing their decision days later fixes nothing. Further, the company still hasn't contacted me directly. Had I not read their half hearted apology on the media I'd have no idea it existed. 

Kevin Bond has also asked Facebook to give $5,000 of advertisement credit to another ill-child, who suffers from the Sanfilppo Syndrome, called Eliza O'Neill, who also needs donations for her treatment. Kevin has stated that:

I met Eliza O'Neill before Hudson was born. She's a remarkable four-year-old girl racing the clock against Sanfilppo Syndrome. A clinical trial that may very well save her life is nearly funded. We've asked Facebook to give $5,000.00 of those ad dollars to her.

You can donate for Hudson Bond by going over to his official site here →   http://www.hudsonsheart.com

You can donate for Eliza O'Neill by going over here → http://www.gofundme.com/ElizaONeill

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Entertainment Ghost's Friday News Bits! 28-03-2014

It's Friday! And here are the Friday News Bits of this week!

The Deadly Ebola Virus Outbreaks in Africa

Photo courtesy of: Adrian Pingstone

The deadly Ebola virus has spread out in Guinea, Africa, causing 62 reported deaths.

Bats are believed to be the hosts of this virus, and it has spread out due to eating their meat. World Health Organization has banned the sale and consumption of bats in attempt to prevent the spreading of the Ebola virus. Bats are a local delicacy in the area and have appeared to be "main agents" for the outbreak in the south. From the 62 reported deaths caused by the outbreak, some of the cases have been reported in the neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone as well.

According to the World Health Organization, the virus is spread by close contact and has no known cure or vaccine. It kills between 25% and 90% of the victims, which depends on the strain of the virus. The symptoms of infection include internal and external bleeding, diarrhoea and vomiting.

The charity organization has set-up two quarantine sites in the southern Guinea to try to contain the outbreak. Health authorities are receiving help from the World Health Organization(WHO) and messages are being broadcast on the national television to help the people.

Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Launch The WebScaleSQL

The engineering teams at Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter are working together and have launched the WebScaleSQL. WebScaleSQL has been described as "a collaboration among engineers from several companies that face several challenges in running MySQL at scale and seek greater performance from a database technology tailored for their needs", according to the official WebScaleSQL website.

The goal in launching the WebScaleSQL is to "enable scale-oriented members of the MySQL community" to work "more closely together" for prioritizing the aspects that are "most important" to them. 

The aim is to create a more integrated system of knowledge-sharing to help companies "leverage the great features already found in MySQL 5.6" while the engineering teams will contribute and keep building/adding more features that are specific to deployments in large scale environments. The engineers from all the four companies have contributed code and provided feedback to the engineers working on WebScaleSQL in order to develop a "new, more unified, and more collaborative" version of MySQL.

WebScaleSQL has been kept open source, so more contributors can who "have the scale and resources to customize MySQL" to join the development and they have stated that they will "welcome input from anyone who wants to contribute, regardless of what they are currently working on".

Microsoft Launches Office for iPad and Office Mobile Apps on iOS and Android

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Office for the Apple iPad and Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android phones, as well as the Enterprise Mobility Suite, which is a "comprehensive set of cloud services to help businesses manage corporate data and services on the devices people use at work and home".

In addition to that, the company has also announced the upcoming availability of 'Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium' and enhancements to 'Windows Intune'. 

About this move, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella has stated:

Microsoft is focused on delivering the cloud for everyone, on every device. It’s a unique approach that centers on people enabling the devices you love, work with the services you love, and in a way that works for IT and developers.

The Office 365 subscribers can now add an iPad as one of their chosen devices included in their subscription benefits and can then create and edit documents with Word for iPad, Powerpoint for iPad and Excel for iPad. The apps are available for free downloads from the App Store.

Microsoft Office for iPad is available in 29 languages and requires an iPad running iOS 7.0 or later to work.

The apps are launched as free applications, but in order to edit them an Office 365 subscription is still required. The price for the Office for iPad is £80 a year, however, small businesses are offered a discounted annual rate of £39.60 per user for up to 25 workers.

Facebook Is Buying Oculus VR for 2 Billion Dollars

Facebook has revealed that they are buying Oculus VR, which is the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Oculus VR is being purchased for $2 Billion dollars, which is $400 Million dollars in cash and 23.1 million shares of the Facebook stock. Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the purpose of purchasing Oculus VR in a blog post, stating:

Oculus' mission is to enable you to experience the impossible. Their technology opens up the possibility of completely new kinds of experiences. Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate.

The deal has caused great outrage from the supporters of the project. Oculus Rift was previously being funded as a Kickstarter project, and the supporters are unhappy with the move. Not only the Kickstarter supporters, but gamers and fans alike have shown disapproval over the deal, fearing that Facebook will ruin the Oculus Rift now. However, both Facebook and Oculus VR have stated that the project will not be affected, but will only become better with Facebook's support.

Oculus' inventor, Palmer Luckey has stated in a Reddit post that:

In the end I kept coming back to a question we always ask ourselves every day at Oculus: what's best for the future of virtual reality? Partnering with Mark and the vision, allows us to execute on some of our most creative ideas and take risks that were otherwise impossible. Most importantly, it means a better Oculus Rift with fewer compromises even faster than we anticipated.

John Carmack, who left Id Software and joined Oculus VR as it's CTO, stated that:

For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week. I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR.

On a negative note, the founder of the Mojang studio and the creator of the ground-breaking hit Minecraft, Markus Persson, who had received the development kit, has cancelled his plans for making a version of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift, after the Facebook deal, stating that Facebook creeps him out. He tweeted shortly afterwards the news of the deal broke out that:

We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is expected to launch to the public either around late 2014 or early 2015, with Sony's Project Morpheus being seen as possible competition.

The First Gay Man To Sue The Government

A Chinese gay rights activist from the Hunan Province, the 19 year old Xiang Xiaohan, has sued the Chinese government for not registering his gay rights organization. His campaign is to challenge the decision made by the civil affairs department of the Hunan government has marked a rare open protest by China's gay and lesbian community and he instantly came into the media's spotlight.

Xiang Xiaohan filed the lawsuit in the provincial capital Changsha after the Hunan government turned down his application to register his organization, sending him a reply which stated that "homosexuality has no place in traditional Chinese culture".

Xiang Xiaohan has said, in an interview with BBC News that:

I believe what the government said [in the reply] defames the reputation of the gay and lesbian community in China, and I want them to issue a written apology. The apology is not only for me, but for hundreds of thousands of gay men and women in China.

He also wants his group to be registered as an NGO, which would enable it to legally receive donations and enjoy tax exemptions. If successful, this would be the first NGO-registered organization of it's kind in China.

The lawsuit was filed on 19th, February. Xiang Xiaohan received a written reply from the court on 14th, March and the case was thrown out by the court because it did not believe that the government defamed homosexuals, and that the court believed the government only offered what it called "administrative guidance on the issue of homosexuality". Xiang Xiaohan will appeal against the ruling.

Xiang Xiaohan stated that:

If we can't force the civil affairs department of the Hunan government to withdraw what it said on homosexuality, then other government bodies would likely follow its example, and this would cause irreparable psychological damage to gay and lesbian people. If gay and lesbian people have no place in China's traditional culture, how can you encourage them to pursue the China Dream(referred to President Xi Jinping's publicly stated vision for the country's future).

He also stated that:

This is a fight for the long term. We will continue to try to encourage the government to safeguard gay and lesbian rights through laws and agree to register our organisation. I'm confident that gays and lesbians will be fully accepted in China even though it may take 20, 30 or even 50 years for it to happen."

Homosexuality was illegal until 1997 and was labelled as a mental disorder until 2001 in China. Although Xiang Xiaohan has received support, he has also been criticized and bashed by some.

Chris Evans Is Quitting Acting

Hollywood star, best known for his role as Captain America in Marvel's movies Captain America and The Avengers, Chris Evans, has announced that he will be quitting acting.

He says he has a six-movie contract with Marvel, which was originally a nine-movie contract but was reduced to six movies because of his decision. Three movies have already been made, Captain America, The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Now, three more remain, of which one is The Avengers 2. The cameo in Thor: The Dark World does not count.

Chris Evans has stated that he wants to focus on directing movies instead of acting in them. He has already directed one drama movie called "1:30 Train" which he filmed this year.

Chris Evans has not completely abandon acting, however. He says that "For all I know in five years, I might say 'Shit, I miss acting'. Right now, I just want to get behind the camera and make movies". He also said that he might be done with the Marvel movies by 2017.

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Entertainment Ghost's Friday News Bits! 14-03-2014

It's Friday! And here are the Friday News Bits of this week!

The Angry Birds RPG: Angry Birds EPIC

Rovio has revealed a new Angry Birds game. But this is not just another one of those tower breaking Angry Birds games. The new game is called Angry Birds EPIC. The Angry Birds EPIC is a medieval-themed RPG game.

The game has shown to have weapons and magic, working in a turn-based battle system against the Bad Piggies gang. There is a little talk of the weapons "Epic Weapons!", "Epic Upgrades!" and "Epic Battles!". This is the info:

• EPIC Battles! - Craft amazing battle-winning weapons like a wooden sword, frying pan or stick thingy with a sponge on top!
• EPIC Upgrades! - Level up your characters, armor, weapons and potions to become a legendary hero ready to take on the mightiest pig warrior!
• EPIC Battles! - Turn-based battles between our heroic flock of warriors and those green snout-nosed scoundrels! It's easy to play, but difficult to master!

Angry Bird EPIC's game world, the Piggy Island.

There have also been two classes of the player characters revealed, Knight and Mage:

The game is reported to be free(probably with in-game purchases) and will have a soft-launch in Australia and Canada, and will go world-wide sometime later.

Images Source: AngryBirdsNest 

Google Buys Most of Green Throttle Games

Google has purchased most of the Green Throttle Games for an unknown sum of money. Google confirmed to BBC News that Google, while not having purchased the whole company, has bought "elements" of Green Throttle Games.

As per part of the deal, two of Green Throttle Games' co-founders, Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, will be joining Google, while Charles Huang, also a co-founder, wont be moving to Google and will keep the rights to the Green Throttle Games brand.

Figures in the industry have theorized that this move could be for Google to create it's own TV box that could be used to play games of Google's Android operating system on a large screen.

Green Throttle Games is perhaps best known for making a game controller for mobile devices which connected to the devices wirelessly through Bluetooth.

FDA Approves The Cefaly, A Battery Powered Head-Band That Prevents Migraine

The FDA(Food and Drug Administration) has recently approved the Cefaly for prescription in the United States. The Cefaly is a head-band which uses a low dose of nerve-stimulating electricity that prevents migraine.

The Cefaly is to be worn for 20 or less minutes per day. It sends a low electrical current which stimulates the 'cranial nerves' which are associated with migraine pain. The users who have tested this device have stated that they feel a "tingling or messaging sensation".

The Cefaly is only available for patients of age 18 and above, and is only available per prescription. It is also available in Europe, Canada and Australia.

According to a study, 53% of the participants were satisfied and planned to purchase the product for future use, while the others complained that they do not like the feeling while wearing it, experienced headache after using it or felt sleepy. However, no serious effects have been reported.

The Amazon Controller Is Revealed

Image Source: ZatsNotFunny

ZatsNotFunny has revealed pictures of the new Amazon controller(picture above). The controller is rather similar to the Xbox 360 controller, having two analog-sticks styled just like the Xbox 360 controller, a D-Pad, and the A,B,X,Y buttons. It also appears to have buttons for 'Home, 'Menu' and 'Back' as well as Rewind, Pause/Play and Forward buttons.

The controller will not be shipped with Amazon's upcoming set-top Box but it is an optional extra and also works with the Kindle Fire tablets. 

Complete details are yet to be revealed by Amazon.

Bill Gates Says He Wouldn't Characterize Edward Snowden As a Hero

In an interview with The Rolling Stone, Bill Gates was asked if he considers Edward Snowden as a hero or a traitor. Bill Gates replied:

I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero. If he wanted to raise the issues and stay in the country and engage in civil disobedience or something of that kind, or if he had been careful in terms of what he had released, then it would fit more of the model of "OK, I'm really trying to improve things." You won't find much admiration from me.

He was then asked if he thinks "it's better now that we know what we know about government surveillance", to which Bill Gates replied:

The government has such ability to do these things. There has to be a debate. But the specific techniques they use become unavailable if they're discussed in detail. So the debate needs to be about the general notion of under what circumstances should they be allowed to do things.

This clears up that Bill Gates definitely does not like what Edward Snowden did, and considers him a law breaker. But personally, I see Edward Snowden as a hero.

Ubuntu Smartphones Estimated Price Revealed

Canonical's Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed at the CeBIT that the smartphones running on the Ubuntu operating system will be costing between $200 and $400 Dollars. Mark Shuttleworth has stated:

Ours will come out in the mid-higher edge, so $200 to $400. We’re going with the higher end because we want people who are looking for a very sharp, beautiful experience and because our ambition is to be selling the future PC, the future personal computing engine.

Canonical aims to create hardware that would work as a smartphone and also work as a PC when plugged into a monitor. They have teamed up with phone makers Meizu and BQ earlier this year to produce the devices but their attempts to raise $32 Million Dollars to create the 'Ubuntu Edge' smartphone were unsuccessful. However, while calling it a "spectacular failure", Mark Shuttleworth also called it a "spectacular success" because of the attention it received.

The Ubuntu smartphones will be launched sometime this year, while more will follow in 2015.

Facebook To Add Premium Auto-Play Video Ads

Facebook Inc. will allow marketers to add video advertisements on the social network. The video ads are "premium" and currently only available to 'select' advertisers in the next months.

The ads will auto-play when they are displaying on your feed, scrolling away from them will automatically stop them. The video ads will be of 15-second per ad.

The price for running a video ad will be determined by the size of the audience as measured by the measurement firm Nielsen. The marketers will have the choice to choose specific times of a day for their spots and the ads will be able to be targeted to specific ages and genders.

Sony and Panasonic Develop The Next Generation of Optical Discs: The Archival Disc

Sony and Panasonic have developed the next-generation optical disc, having the capacity of 300GB to 1TB. The new disc is called the "Archival Disc", and will be readable for at least 50 years. 

The disc will have three layers per side and have the same dimensions as the Blu-ray discs.

The Archival Disc is expected to be launched in 2015, starting from 300GB of storage and expanding to 1TB.

A Panasonic spokesperson has stated:

As a type of archival media, optical discs have numerous advantages over current mainstream HDD and tape media, such as their ability to be stored for a long time while still maintaining readability. We hope to develop demand for archives that use optical discs.”

The spokesperson also added that:

The development is specifically for professional archiving. We are not currently considering optical discs for household consumer use.

Houston Father Fatally Shoots Daughter's Boyfriend After Finding Him In Her Bedroom

A 55 year old father in Houston, fatally shot his 16 year old daughter's boyfriend after finding him in her bedroom.

According to Fox News, the father was awaken by one of his other children and was told that there was someone in his daughter's bedroom at about 2:20AM. He took his gun and confronted the 17 year old teen in his daughter's bedroom. The daughter declined that she knew the teen and the father told the boyfriend not to move. The teen reached for something and the father then fatally shot the teen, killing him. The teen did not have a gun.

Later, the daughter confessed that she knew the teen, who was her boyfriend, and she snuck him in her bedroom herself.

There is an on-going investigation on the incident and the father will be unlikely to get any charges because he reacted to what he knew at the time, what he knew after was not what his state of mind was at the time of the shooting, he was only trying to protect his daughter. A grand jury will decide whether the father should be charged with anything or not.

Mark Zuckerberg Says The US Government Is A Threat To The Internet And Called President Obama To Express His Frustration

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has stated that the US government is a threat to the internet. He says he called the United States' President Obama to "express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future". 

Mark Zuckerberg added that when "our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our government". "The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat.", Mark Zuckerberg continued.

He then, ended his statement saying that it's up to "all of us" to build the internet "we want" and that we can "count on Facebook" to do their part.

This is the original statement posted by Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook profile:

As the world becomes more complex and governments everywhere struggle, trust in the internet is more important today than ever.

The internet is our shared space. It helps us connect. It spreads opportunity. It enables us to learn. It gives us a voice. It makes us stronger and safer together.

To keep the internet strong, we need to keep it secure. That's why at Facebook we spend a lot of our energy making our services and the whole internet safer and more secure. We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authentication and we go out of our way to help fix issues we find in other people's services.

The internet works because most people and companies do the same. We work together to create this secure environment and make our shared space even better for the world.

This is why I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.

So it's up to us -- all of us -- to build the internet we want. Together, we can build a space that is greater and a more important part of the world than anything we have today, but is also safe and secure. I'm committed to seeing this happen, and you can count on Facebook to do our part.

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Entertainment Ghost's Friday News Bits! 7-03-2014

It was Friday! But due to some technical issues, the News Bits were delayed. Here are the Friday News Bits of this week!

Ubisoft Officially Announces Watch Dog's Release Date

Earlier, a video on Xbox.com was added, which was removed sometime later. The video was a new story trailer for Watch Dogs that revealed the release date for the game.

Then recently, Ubisoft has officially announced the release date and have released the new trailer as well. 

The game will be released world-wide on May 27, 2014. This is actually 6 months after the original release date, which was in November, 2013. 

Kashmiri Students in India Face Sedition Charges For Cheering on Pakistan's Victory Against India In The Asia Cup Match

A group of Kashmiri students in India is facing charges of sedition for cheering for Pakistan in a cricket match between Pakistan and India in a cricket match. 

The students were studying in a university in the Uttar Pradesh state were suspended from the college after cheering for Pakistan in the Asia Cup match where India was defeated by Pakistan.

The incident happened on the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in the Meerut City on Sunday when the group of Kashmiri students celebrated Pakistan's victory, which lead to arguments with the other students and the university's administration ordered an inquiry and suspended the students. Some of the Kashmiri students deny any wrong-doing in their statements when talking to the media.

The sedition charges carry a three-year prison term. Jammu Kashmir's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has stated that the charges against the students are "unacceptably harsh" and he believes that "what the students did was wrong and misguided but they certainly didn't deserve to have charges of sedition slapped against them". He also added that the punishment would "ruin their futures and will further alienate them".

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has stated that he would talk to the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and "intervene on behalf of the misguided students".

Pakistan is India's arch-rival and the matches between India and Pakistan are dramatic and intense, followed with a craze by both Pakistan and India. Kashmir has been an unsolved issue for over 60 years, with both Pakistan and India claiming it as their own, while many of the Kashmiri individuals want to be a part of Pakistan, while the rest want to be a part of neither and want to be a country of it's own.

The DirectX 12 To Be Revealed On March 20

According to DirectX's developer site, the next major version of Microsoft's DirectX API will be revealed at the GDC 2014, on March 20. The DirectX 12 will be revealed in details by the development manager for graphics at Microsoft, Anuj Gosalia in a sponsored session called "DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform". 

GDC's official website features the descriptiom of the talk:

For nearly 20 years, DirectX has been the platform used by game developers to create the fastest, most visually impressive games on the planet. However, you asked us to do more. You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware. You also asked us for better tools so that you can squeeze every last drop of performance out of your PC, tablet, phone and console. Come learn our plans to deliver.

There are also eight talks dedicated to DirectX being planned.

Facebook's News Feed To Be Updated

Facebook has just announced that the News Feed will be getting a new update, with a comparison picture between the current News Feed and the updated one(picture above).

Facebook has stated that:

You may recall that last year we experimented with a complete redesign of News Feed for desktop and mobile. People who tested it told us that they liked the bigger photos and images, but found it more difficult to navigate Facebook overall. The updated design has the best of both worlds: it keeps the layout and navigation people liked, but offers bigger images and photos, as well as a new font. The current design on mobile remains the same. 

They've also stated that the changes are simply visual and wont affect stories and the interface except for the stories and ads being the same, and larger than now in size.

The updated News Feed will be available in the "coming weeks".

Karbonn Mobile To Launch A Dual-OS Phone Smartphone

Karbonn Mobile, an Indian phone maker, has announced plans to launch a dual-OS smartphone by this summer. The smartphone will contain the Android OS and the Windows Phone OS at the same time, giving you both Operating Systems in the same device, dual-booting both operating systems for the first time in the world.

Karbonn has already been making and releasing several Android smartphones, and according to Times of India, Karbonn has also signed a licensing deal with Microsoft for the use of Windows Phone OS.

The exact date has not yet been revealed for the release, nor many details. But it is expected to be out sometime in summer this year.

Killer Posts RIP Message On Facebook Pretending to Be Mourning The Victim

22 year old Georgina Smith and her gang tortured and killed the 30 year old Scott Blackwood. Just four days after the murder, Georgina Smith posted a RIP status on Facebook(picture of the status above), pretending to be mourning Scott Blackwood, writing that he has "always been a good mate", and even saying that she'll "make sure they get the jail fur this bud", when she and her gang of two others, 26 years old Thomas Moore and 36 year old Allan Nicol were the ones who killed Scott Blackwood themselves.

Scott Blackwood had 72 seperate injuries, which included 13 stab wounds, three broken ribs, smashed eye socket and cheekbones, chemical burns, scalds, bites and he was strangled. Pathologist Dr. Julie McAdam stated that the injuries found on Scott Blackwood's head were like those which are suffered by car-crash victims.

Murderers Allan Nicol and Thomas Moore were found guilty for murder of Scott Blackwood in Saltcoats, Ayrshire on either July 3 or July 4 on 2013. Both of them are sentenced to life imprisonment and are ordered to serve at least 20 years in jail, each. Georgina Smith is convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide, which will follow a five-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow and will be sentenced next month.

Screen Gems To Make A The Last of US Movie

The Screen Gems studio, most commonly known for the Resident Evil movie franchise, will be creating a movie based on The Last of US. 

Screen Gems has officially announced that they have sealed a deal to make a feature film version of the Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3-exclusive video game, The Last of Us. 

The screenplay of the movie will be written by Neil Druckmann who is the Creative Director for the video game, and he will also be producing the game along with Sam Raimi and his Ghost House Pictures company, the man behind the original Spiderman trilogy and the Evil Dead series. Naughty Dog's Co-Presidents Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra and the Game Director Bruce Straley will also be producing the movie.

Evan Wells has stated that: 

Our partnership with Sam Raimi, Ghost House Pictures, and Screen Gems to develop a film based on The Last of Us universe is a perfect fit. Since our game released last June, we've talked with many companies about making a film, but we couldn't have found better partners who share our creative vision and high standards. We look forward to collaborating with Sam, his team, and Screen Gems, to make a movie that will thrill fans of The Last of Us and general audiences worldwide.

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Facebook Is Buying The WhatsApp Messenger

Facebook is purchasing the popular messaging mobile app WhatsApp for $16 billion dollars, which includes an extra $3 billion for the owners of WhatsApp in restricted stock for the next four years.

WhatsApp messenger has over 450 million users and the number increases in thousands everyday. It competes with Snapchat, however, Whatsapp is much more established. WhatsApp is mainly used by people who love texting but choose not to use the regular texting methods because of the charges, and sending messages through the internet has always been cheaper.

Facebook also tried to purchase Snapchat last year with a $3 billion offer, however, Snapchat owners refused. So Facebook went for the better choice.

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Entertainment Ghost's Friday News Bits! 31-01-2014

It's Friday! And here are the Friday News Bits of this week!

Microsoft Offers 100$ Discount For Xbox One If You Give Them Your PS3, Xbox 360 S and Xbox 360 E

Microsoft has sent emails to users which tells you to "ditch your PS3" and save 100$ for buying an Xbox One. Although the offer sounds to be an anti-Sony move, it's not exactly just that. The Microsoft Store is giving you a 100$ discount on the Xbox One if you trade in your PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 S or Xbox 360 E for it. The offer is valid only until March 2, 2014.

Ironically, the price difference between the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One also happens to be only 100$, which fans already spoofed by saying "Keep your PS3 and save 100$, buy a PS4". What Microsoft will do with the PS3 consoles is unknown, either they'd put them in a garage or sell them on eBay. However, according to GamingBlend, a spokesperson for Microsoft has stated that the consoles will be recycled.

For trade, the consoles have to be properly functioning and must have original accessories. 

Google Sells Motorola to Lenovo For $2.91 Billion

Google has announced that it has sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 Billion dollars, which Motorola had purchased back in 2012 to help "supercharge the Android ecosystem". Although Google have sold the mobility to Lenovo, it will "retain the vast majority of Motorola's patents", which they will use to "defend the entire Android ecosystem". 

UK Scientists Develop The Purple Tomato

"Indigo Rose" is the name of a newly developed "purple tomato". UK scientists have genetically modified tomatoes and have developed the new purple tomatoes with a high level of antioxidants, which they call the "Indigo Rose".

A professor in the OSU horticulture department has stated that:

The purple tomatoes are intended for home gardens and fresh markets and is available in seeds. It is the first improved tomato variety in the world that has anthocyanins in its fruit.

 According to BBC News, a large-scale production is now under way in Canada with the "first 1,200 litres of purple tomato juice ready for shipping". The purple tomato is intended to give the consumers the nutritions of fruits such as blueberries, in tomatoes, which will increase the nutritional value of everything tomatoes are used in, such as ketchup. The purple pigment is caused as a result of the transfer of a gene from a 'snapdragon plant' which allows the anthocynin within the tomato plant.

The purple pigment is the result of the transfer of a gene from a snapdragon plant - the modification triggers a process within the tomato plant allowing the anthocyanin to develop.

Facebook's New Paper App

Facebook has announced a new app for the iOS called Paper, which is believed to be a rival for Flipboard. The first product to come out of Facebook's Creative Labs, the Paper app displays stories from specific interests and will be customizable for a variety of topics.

As you must have guessed from the title, the Paper app is basically a newspaper, split into multiple sections where the first section will feature content from your News Feed, including photos, videos and posts. The users of the app will have up to 12 sections of topics to choose such as science, photography, sports, food and even design, along with the special section which is called the "Ideas section", which will provide ideas and/or in-depth look at an idea, personality or event and the ideas will change daily.

The app will be out for the US on February 3rd for the iOS. Information for the rest of the world is unknown at the moment.

Saudi Woman Gets Surgery To Look Like Kim Kardashian, Gets Divorced For It

A Saudi woman has told the Arabic newspaper "Sada" that she wanted to please her husband and wanted him to be more attracted to her, and noticing that he admires Kim Kardashian, she made a plan to be like Kim Kardashian and "even more beautiful" than Kim.

However, things completely did not go as the woman planned. The husband, instead, decided to divorce her and married another woman saying he did not "like what she did". The woman has told Sada that:

I changed my hairstyle and visited a plastic surgery clinic. I even tried to walk like Kim Kardashian in the hope my husband would be more attracted to me, but the results were not as I had wished. He said he did not like what I have done and started to argue about what I have done before he decided to divorce me and marry another woman.

Rambo: The Video Game

Rambo: The Video Game's release date has been confirmed. The game will be released on February 21st, 2014 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Rambo: The Video Game is based on the First Blood trilogy, allowing you to relive First Blood, First Blood Part II and Rambo III. The game will feature the voices extracted from the movies, of both Rambo(Sylvester Stallone) and Richard Crenna. The game will feature mechanics of stealth, demolition, fighting with knives and using a cover system with guns. The game will feature destructible terrain and rag-doll physics for the characters.

The game will be played like the movies, like a version of the movies YOU play.

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