Jennifer Aniston may have not been able to keep hold of Ross in the end, from her time on Friends, but in real life it was as if the acting had never stopped.

In September 2011 Brad Pitt said that he was finally “satisfied” with life, after spending his years with Angelina Jolie. They first met around 2003, but it was their time filming the hit film Mr and Mrs Smith (which always seems to be on TV) that they got a lot closer and eventually became a couple in real life. Recent news about Angelina Jolie has not been particularly positive considering she just had a double mastectomy to save her life, but Brad is still making the praises from the celebrity world in various interviews, and they appear to be a lot more common these days. I wonder when we will hear what Jennifer has to say about it all. So far we have heard she was “very sad” to hear about Angelina Jolie requiring her operation, but about her marriage to Pitt, nothing much yet.

Source: [Yahoo]

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This issue was not answered at the press conference but has since been cleared up by a Microsoft employee. Unfortunately the news is not what current Xbox owners were hoping for as Microsoft’s marketing director for Xbox UK, Harvey Eagle, has confirmed that Xbox One will not be compatible with any previous Xbox games either in physical or digital form.

The reason for this? Apparently the incompatibility is due to the “revolutionary” architecture of the Xbox One, which seems ironic in some ways.

“Because of the Xbox One hardware and the new architecture, games from the Xbox 360 will not be compatible with the Xbox One,” Eagle said.

“With digital content like movies or entertainment on Xbox live you will be able to download to the One,” he continued. “With gaming content, again because of the different architecture it won’t be possible to play them on the Xbox One.”

There is the outside chance that the way Xbox One games may be streamed over the cloud, the backward compatibility problem could be solved. Players could be able to play older games that are processed by data centers around the world and streamed to the new system. Then again the new games may be so awesome and revolutionary that you may not be too concerned about playing the older games.

Are you disappointed by this announcement from Microsoft?

Source: [Techradr]

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While there seems to have been a turnaround in America, and a modest recovery is taking place, there are still many unemployed and poor people. Unlike after other crises job-creation following the 2007 global financial has been slower than usual, and many of those that have got work are often only working part-time.  America once again seems to be becoming more and more divided between the haves and have nots. The middle class is being squeezed and many even predict its disappearance.

Where are poor Americans moving to?

It may seem surprising but poor Americans are now moving to the suburbs, as opposed to urban cities. This according to a study released on Monday, is due to a combination of factors including affordable housing, service-sector jobs and the increased use of housing vouchers.

Between 2000 and 2011 the number of those in poverty living in suburbs increased by huge 67 percent which is a much larger increase than in cities according to researchers at the Brookings Institution. On the other hand suburbs still have a smaller percentage of the poor than cities.

The report highlights the pull factors of the suburbs for poorer people, including more affordable housing and following often low paying jobs. Following the economic recession though, the poor who moved to the suburbs witnessed house prices tumbling and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs.

“The myth of suburban prosperity has been a stubborn one,” Christopher Niedt, academic director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/12FKPNm ). Even as suburban poverty emerged, “many poorer communities were so segregated from the wealthy in suburbs that many people were able to ignore it.”

Due to the fact that poor people living in suburbs was previously less prevalent, the suburbs have been ill-equipped to deal with this issue. Charities such as Families Forward that hand out groceries to charities have seen a massive surge in those needing help.

“Everything is nicely maintained. Things look good on the surface,” said Margie Wakeham, executive director of Families Forward. “But the need has just skyrocketed.”

Do you think America can become a more equal society?

Source: [Yahoo!]

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According to Casual Cynic’s blog post her mother has a pretty “sad and disappointing” life as she has eight years of art education but is stuck working a waitress job in a small town that she’s not from and is divorced from the blogger’s father. The blogger herself is also a waitress and has been doing the same job as her mother for five to six years. So far so sad, but wait there is a happy ending.

After a fifteen minute chat in the restaurant that she works in, to a random stranger, Casual Cynic’s mother received an amazing $1000 tip! Her mother had talked to the man about her family being from Florence in Italy, but also the fact that she had never been able to afford to go there. In a random act of kindness the man left her this huge tip to go towards a dream trip to Italy to visit her relations.

In the words of the blogger “YOU KNOW. JUST WHEN I START TO LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY….HM”

Has this restored your faith in humanity, or perhaps you always see the glass half full?

Please Share!

Source: [Casual Cynic - Tumblr]

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If you are in any way interested in social media you will probably find the data found in this study by Pew Research Center and Docstoc worth checking out; at least some of it is sure to surprise you.

What demographics use Social Media? See the Infographic below:

Do the results of this study into social media surprise you at the demographic split shown?

Please share.

Source: [Mashable]

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There has been much publicity recently in both the U.S. and the UK regarding the tax practices of large multi-national corporations such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks. These companies have been accused of using various loopholes within the tax rules of the various countries in which they operate to avoid paying millions of dollars of tax even though they make billions of dollars of profit. This is all linked with the globalized nature of business and finance that companies now operate within, and has been considerably aided by the internet. Has Apple been evading taxes? The global tech giant has now been dragged into the messy row over taxes, and a Senate report in the U.S. has revealed that the Apple Inc has managed to keep billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries in order to pay little or no tax to the U.S. government. The report was released on Monday with the aim of  unmasking the company’s global tax structure and the supposed tax avoidance that it is able to achieve.

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Is Microsoft intruding on your Skype privacy?

It has been revealed that Microsoft has been intercepting, decrypting and reading your Skype messages. This is a big departure from what Skype used to be before the well-publicized Microsoft take-over. It was once a program that people used to send secure, encrypted and most importantly untraceable messages to friends, family and work contacts across the globe for free. The end of this privacy will likely disappoint many Skype users.

A company called Ars Technica has run tests and discovered that Microsoft has been intercepting, decrypting, and reading at least some Skype messages. This has happened to such an extent that the URLs of the messages have been visited by Microsoft IP addresses, mostly by bots but possibly even by human employees.

According to a disclaimer on Skype:

“Skype may use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to (a) identify suspected spam and/or (b) identify URLs that have been previously flagged as spam, fraud, or phishing links. In limited instances, Skype may capture and manually review instant messages or SMS in connection with Spam prevention efforts. Skype may, in its sole discretion, block or prevent delivery of suspected Spam, and remove suspicious links from messages.”

This means that Microsoft may potentially access anything people are sending via Skype. This is bad news for anyone hoping to have any privacy using the program. It also leads to the question of who else could potentially access your conversations? There is definitely a desire by law enforcement agencies including the FBI for more access to private conversations over the internet via social networks and services like Skype.

Does this revelation surprise and/or disappoint you?

Source: [Venture Beat]

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A man in Florida has managed to kill a 19 foot python which was on the side of a road. Jason Leon was travelling home when he spotted around 3 foot of the python sticking out of nearby bushes. It is not clear how Jason ended up in a battle with the snake, but it managed to wrap itself round Jason’s leg, and he was forced to pull his knife. He managed to kill the snake and this has set a new record for length.

This was a Burmese Python and are known for being very long and around the Florida area. The second biggest snake found was 17 foot long, and this has beat that record by 2 feet.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has thanked Jason Leon for getting such a large and dangerous snake away from potentially taking someones life. They have also warned others to not try and kill or capture snakes themselves, noting that Jason Leon was experienced with these types of exotic creatures.

This particular snake was found on the side of the road in Miami Dade County.

Source: [UPI]

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This fisheye style image shows the huge power of the dark clouds.

UPDATE: Other UK news agencies including The Sun have stated the same 91 death toll, however they are stating it is “up to 91″. They may also be influenced by the BBC as they are the major source of UK news.

This article will continue to be updated throughout the day to indicate the death toll which is released by official news agencies around the world.

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Why will Flickr users love the latest site revamp?

There has been a huge revamp announcement by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, at a private event in New York. The most important feature of this is probably that every user will receive 1 terabyte of free space. Other new features  include iPhone-style slide shows and more sharing options. Unused white space on the website has been replaced with larger high-resolution images on a wider layout.

This should once again make Flickr the premium photo storage and sharing website as this upgrade makes it a far better service than that offered by its rivals. Google in comparison offers 15GB of storage space.

According to the Flickr website the significant extra storage space will allow users to upload approximately 537,731 photos, if they are sized at 6.5 megapixels, all free of charge!

For a price of $49.99 (£32.74) adverts can be removed, and for $499.99 (£327.45) the storage space can be doubled to 2TB.

Do you use Flickr and if so do you love this new announcement?

Please Share!

Source: [Digital Spy]

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