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I do not like the Netflix rhyme, I do not like it any timeThe good news: Netflix is producing a thirteen-part animated series based on Dr Seuss’ classic kids book “Green Eggs and Ham”. It’ll be produced by Ellen DeGeneres, and air in 2018. The company had the charming idea of announcing this fact to reporters with a Dr Seuss-style poem.The bad news: The poem is terrible. Our best guess is that it was written by one person with a sense of scansion, and then edited by four other people who don’t know what a “syllable” is. Take a look, but any English graduates beware. This thing will haunt you at night.NETFLIX ORDERS GREEN EGGS AND HAM – THIRTEEN EPISODES FOR THE WHOLE FAMIn 2018 This Classic Book – Comes to TV with a Whole New Look Continue reading...

Ursula wants to delete her Facebook profile as she finds the posts boring and doesn’t have time to use her accountCould you please explain how one erases one’s profile from Facebook? I find the posts trivial and boring and don’t have much time to go into it. Ursula

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It has been dubbed the first Twitter election - by absolutely no one! But this hasn't stopped Ollie Peart from delving into David Cameron and Ed Miliband's timelines to find out how their political campaigns are faring on the fast-moving social media platform. And will it make any difference come 7 May anyway? Continue reading...

Todrick Hall sings all five Beyoncé albums in four minutes, Avengers star sings a power ballad and McBusted singer’s son Buzz gets the giggles Continue reading...

One Drop: Diabetes Management, Where to Eat London 2015, Polyvore Remix, Football Manager Classic 2015, Implosion and moreWelcome to this week’s roundup of the latest, greatest apps and games for iPhone and iPad. A summary of the last three weeks, in fact, since the last roundup.As ever, prices are correct at the time of writing, with (Free + IAP) signifying that an app is freemium, using in-app purchases. If Android is more your bag, check the regular Best Android Apps and Games roundup. Continue reading...

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Mastering the rule of thirds, adjusting vertical perspective, removing undesirable people from your photograps; all explained in list of techniques for Instagram, Snapseed, Afterlight and more Continue reading...

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A fanless design, full PC innards and Windows 8.1 make the Surface 3 arguably a better work machine than an iPad, if you buy the optional keyboardThe Surface 3 is Microsoft’s third stab at making a lower-cost tablet-laptop hybrid, but is this vision of the future of computing good enough to tempt laptop users?

Star King and her husband Mark found revelers had left puddles of alcohol and urine, broken glass, toilets plugged with condoms and ‘chicken meat in my shoes’Police found a trail of destruction, liquor and mayonnaise at a Calgary home rented out through Airbnb this weekend – after what the owners heard described as “a drug-induced orgy” at their home.Mark and Star King rented their home through Airbnb to four people who said they were visiting for a wedding that weekend. On Friday, they handed the keys to one of those people; on Sunday their neighbors were texting them about a fight on the lawn and the apparent destruction of their home. Continue reading...

Kickstarter-backed gadget will now stream songs from Napster, TuneIn and other services, with Tidal, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio to come Continue reading...

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Reports that tattoos prevent the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitor from working are far from being unique to Apple, but as wearables go mainstream so will their failingsThe launch of the Apple Watch has brought a whole new level of attention to wearable tech and in the process is exposing an issue with one of the technologies at the, er, heart, of many wearable devices.Tracking your heart rate - be it out of curiosity as you sit at your desk, or as a useful tool in exercises regimes - is one of the key features pushed by the Apple Watch as well as other wearable devices. Continue reading...

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Procrastination nation has hit peak performance as users discover 2,600 MS-DOS games can be embedded and played directly into TwitterFollowing the Internet Archives release of 2,600 MS-DOS games for streaming in the browser, users have discovered that classics such as Castle Wolfenstein, Lemmings, Zool and Commander Keen can be embedded directly into tweets.

Willard Ahdritz thinks the music industry may be about to err by placing more faith in Apple’s upcoming subscription serviceStreaming music service Spotify is under pressure from some major labels to restrict the free version of its service, as Apple prepares to launch a subscription-only competitor. Now the boss of music publisher Kobalt is warning those labels to rethink their strategy.“This attitude that we should kill streaming is a huge mistake. In Scandinavia in 2009 we had an 80% illegal market. Today it has shrunk to 4%. The credit goes to Spotify, who single handedly took the region from a dark, illegal, non-monetised majority to a thriving, paying majority,” Willard Ahdritz told Billboard.“In my opinion, if Spotify fails, we all lose. There is $1 billion in risk capital from outside investors that has come in to build Spotify and help extinguish piracy.The idea of ‘taking down Spotify,’ to trade with another big tech company, will guarantee that there will not be another $1 billion dollars in risk capital that will come in and try to build a music streaming service again. And what happens then? Will kids go back to buying CDs? No.”Related: How much do musicians really make from Spotify, iTunes and YouTube? Continue reading...

Glu Mobile has made nearly $100m from its first celebrity game, with Spears and Katy Perry in its future plans to repeat the successOops, can they do it again? Games firm Glu Mobile has made nearly $100m from its Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game, and now it is hoping to repeat the success with Britney Spears.The publisher has signed an eight-year licensing deal with the musician to make an official mobile game “featuring the voice, likeness, and creative influence of Ms. Spears” that will launch in the first half of 2016.Related: Will the next Angry Birds come out of India? Continue reading...

Jude Rogers, with 11-month-old Evan in tow, tests the latest technologyMan has been tested through history. Abraham underwent trials, Hercules suffered labours. Women have been tested too, and I am among them, having been asked to assemble and review baby technology while in charge of 11-month-old Evan.Driven by a birth boom, this market is rotund. A staggering £900m a year is spent on baby products, with new gizmos issued at the rate of stinky nappies. Innovation is key. Why have a simple buggy when yours could have headlamps and an odometer? Educational toys are old news: here’s Baby’s Own Tablet! The marketing literature says this stuff is for people who “enjoy staying on top of the hottest trends ...[and] we know your children feel the same way”. “Gimmicky tat for credulous ******”, my husband sighs, wrestling with an allen key. Electronic kiddie entertainment or assistance is useful, but there is a darkness behind the trend too.

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Technological advances have put the world at our fingertips, but is being connected all of the time really good for us?At a conference in Cannes eight years ago, I sat next to a producer who was working on an ambitious TV project about anthropology. We were both listening to a speech by a TV executive and I was in full conference flow, frenetically typing (badly) and flicking between emails. I must have been exhausting to sit next to, because at the end he turned to me with a mixture of weary astonishment and concern. “It’s not good for you to work like that,” he said. “Why don’t you just listen, and think about what he is saying?”I very much felt that I had been listening – look at my reams of digital notes, my laptop hunch, my aching fingers. I couldn’t be working any harder! And there certainly weren’t any other journalists in the room kicking back and absorbing the atmosphere. “Have you ever tried meditation?” he asked me. I didn’t exactly dismiss what he said, but felt like meditation was something other people did, and I thought I was happy and fulfilling my obligations with my furious, restless output. Continue reading...

Millions are watching videos of cyst extractions, botfly removals and blackhead treatments. But what’s fuelling the explosive growth of the online community?• Warning: graphic content

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Founder David Byttow says Secret does not represent his original vision amid criticism that it had become a forum for online abuseThe anonymous networking app Secret is shutting down. Founder David Byttow took to Twitter and Medium to spread the news, saying: “Secret does not represent the vision I had when starting the company.”With a heavy heart, I've decided to shut down Secret, wind-down the company, and return the remaining money. https://t.co/HZUCMe3xFu Continue reading...

Bungie has announced fresh details of its latest downloadable content, and we’ve played the new multiplayer maps and Trials of Osiris eventThe Reef is open. That’s the high concept behind House of Wolves, Destiny’s second downloadable content package. The strange floating junkyard that players glimpsed all too briefly during the game’s story missions will provide the core of the expansion, and the focus of its new competitive (PvP) and co-operative (PvE) content.Here lurk the Awoken, a human race that once fled to the outer reaches of the galaxy when the period of glorious galactic expansion was brought to a cataclysmic end by The Darkness. Now the tribe lives among the abandoned remains of a thousand derelict starships, ruled over by a Game of Thrones-like royal family. The Fallen, one of the alien races seeking to invade Earth, has rebelled against the Awoken, and now their queen has enlisted the help of the Guardian to seek revenge: her key target, the Fallen sect known as the House of Wolves. Continue reading...

The photo-sharing app has blocked searches for the eggplant or aubergine emoji after users employed it to denote a penis. Other sexualized produce remains unaffectedIs that an emoji in your Instagram feed, or are you just happy to see me?Instagram has launched a surprise crackdown on the symbol for an eggplant, or aubergine, which the Guardian can reveal is employed by some users to represent a penis when posting a message with their pictures. Continue reading...

Google’s online video service will make a series of films with AwesomenessTV, as well as bagging exclusive rights for new shows by The Fine Brothers and SmoshYouTube is getting into the movie business, although its films will be getting their premieres online rather than in cinemas.Google’s online video service has announced a partnership with multi-channel network (MCN) and DreamWorks Animation subsidiary AwesomenessTV to make a series of films featuring YouTube stars.Related: ‘Traditional TV viewing for teens and tweens is dead. Not dying. Dead.’Related: YouTube backs digital star Stampy's new Minecraft show Wonder Quest Continue reading...

From exploding kittens to electric bikes to space telescopes, crowdfunding has revolutionised the way we create. So how do you do it? Continue reading...

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Online administrator blocks user account of ‘David Coburn MEP’ over attempts to alter article about the Ukip politician 69 times in six days Continue reading...

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Sales put Samsung back in front in terms of volume, but war with Apple over larger-screened phones takes its toll on profitsSamsung has reclaimed the top spot in global smartphone sales, beating Apple and Lenovo, despite its profits slipping 39%.

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Those who decry violent video games don’t understand that simulating an activity can act as a replacement, not just an encouragement

After trial with PC manufacturer Dell, the biggest cryptocurrency company in the world heads to Britain, buoyed by ‘forward-looking’ regulators

Users should not panic about a Facebook-style filtered timeline just yet, but Dick Costolo says curation will happen for ‘logged in users’ as well as passing visitorsTwitter will expand its efforts to “curate” tweets and media for its users, according to chief executive Dick Costolo, although his latest comments to analysts stopped short of signalling a Facebook-style filter for people’s main timelines.In the social network’s latest earnings call, Costolo was asked whether Twitter plans to expand to all users the curated feed of noteworthy tweets that logged-out users see when visiting its site.Related: Twitter misses forecasts after results are published early – on TwitterRelated: Twitter's 'Instant Timeline' is actually a really good idea Continue reading...

Tech firm pulls in first-quarter revenues of $436m as Dick Costolo blames ‘lower-than-expected contributions from some of our newer products’ Continue reading...

Flagship smartphone has a slightly curved quad HD screen, laser auto-focus camera and removable battery and storage making it a direct challenge to Galaxy S6LG has launched it latest G4 flagship Android smartphone, which boasts a slightly curved quad HD screen, a low-light camera and a leather back.The G4 is LG’s attempt to maintain the momentum gained by the company’s G3 last year, which introduced a quad HD screen to the smartphone market and garnered favourable reviews for being one of the most usable phablets – smartphones with screens 5.5in or bigger. Continue reading...