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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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Family Recovers the $20k Their Kid Donated on Twitch
Around three weeks ago, a story came to our attention that would be enough to send a shiver down the spine of any parent whose kids are allowed to access the internet. What was it? Well, to their horror, one family found that their son had just blown just under…
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Reddit User Says Their Child Blew $20K on Twitch Donations
It’s something of the stuff of nightmares that with the relative ease of making financial transactions via an online platform, one day your kid/s might rack up a ridiculously huge bill. We saw only last week how a parent was hit with a near £5,000 Roblox bill! Well, it seems…
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Humble Freedom Bundle Might Be the Largest Bundle Yet
We have seen some great Humble Bundle’s in the past, but the current one might set more than one record. It might very well the be largest one to date and it is also a little different than the usual bundles. Normally, the Humble Bundle is pay as much as…
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EA Hosts Challenges and Pledges $1 Million Charity Donation
EA has often been perceived in a negative manner due to their questionable business decisions and involvement in the demise of iconic developers like Maxis Software, the developer of Sim City. Even though EA is incredibly successful, they’ve received the honour of being deemed the worst company in America twice! This…
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Musk Donates $7 Million to Future of Life Institute for AI Risk Research
It is no secret that Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, PayPal and SpaceX, as well as other people, is concerned where the current unsupervised and at times reckless efforts in AI will lead us. Maybe we won’t see an evil Google robot army, by choice or accident, but there is a…
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Apple Raised $20 Million For (Product) RED
In an e-mail to employees, (seen by Re/code) Tim Cook said that the company had raised a total of $20 million for AIDS charity (Product) RED. Apple had a massive campaign for the charity centred around World AIDS Day in November. The App Store was taken over by (RED) (literally) with a…
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Apple Lights up Stores in Red
Apple has begun lighting up its logo in red at stores across the world, in anticipation of World AIDS Day tomorrow (Monday). The first store to get the red treatment is in Sydney, Australia, with more to follow in key locations across Europe, Asia and the United States. Apple has…
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Apple and Developers Release Special (RED) Apps
Apple and a number of its high profile App Store developers have released special apps in support of AIDS charity (RED). Apple itself has released an updated (RED) version of GarageBand on iOS, informing users that by buying the app’s musical loops pack, 100% of the proceeds will go towards (RED)’s efforts…
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Google Donating $10 Million to Fight Ebola
Larry Page, CEO of Google, announced today that the company has donated $10 million to a variety of charities in the fight against the Ebola outbreak. Google says they have shared the money between “InSTEDD, International Rescue Committee, Medecins Sans Frontieres, NetHope, Partners in Health, Save the Children and U.S.…
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Charlie Sheen does the Ice Bucket Challenge and Its Brilliant
So another day and another “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”, this time its Charlie sheen doing what he does best, Winning. We all know he doesn’t play by the rules and this is no exception. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qat9gR5nrpM[/youtube] It seems Charlie has decided to do something that the other celebs haven’t and put…
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Wikipedia Scores $140.000 in Bitcoin Donations
Just over a week ago, Wikipedia announced that it would now be accepting donations in form of bitcoins. The first week of of the new donation system is over and according to Coinbase, Wikipedia made a solid $140.000 worth of donations in bitcoin during that time. “The news as suggest the…
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George R.R. Martin wants to kill YOU in the Game of Thrones
From what I hear, Game of Thrones is meant to be quite an invigorating series that is the brainchild of George R.R. Martin; personally though I couldn’t tell you a single thing about it at all as I’m not into these sort of programmes. Our resident gaming and TV series…
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3D Printed Toys Made Their Way To 4,000 Disadvantaged Children This Christmas
3D printing has been one of the biggest trends of last year. Just about anything could be printed out, from guns to smartphone motherboards. It has been one of the most favourable tech discoveries form all times, and very useful indeed. Although the full extent of its usefulness cannot be…
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Bill Gates Was My Secret Santa
A reddit user by the name of “Rachel” got a pleasant surprise when she opened up her secret santa present. Reddit last year had over 44,000 people across 130 different countries take part in a record attempt to set the “largest secret santa” gift exchange, and they were at it…
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