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News: Blue ticks on WhatsApp (what they really mean)
It is a situation many of us have been in.
You send an important message on WhatsApp and then eagerly wait for a reply.
One little tick appears to your message. Then two. Then nothing. Your heart sinks. The important message has been ignored - or has it?
Up until now many users incorrectly thought the double check indicated a message had been seen.
Actually it meant that a message had been received by the handset, not its human owner.
However, WhatsApp's official website has confirmed the messaging service has a new feature, so you'll know when someone has definitely read your message.
We introduce to you, the double blue tick!
Read more here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29933261
News: Versace helps a restauration
Versace is supporting a renovation of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.
This Friday, Versace is opening a new boutique in Milan’s more-than-a-century-old landmark, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the latest example of luxury houses helping to refurbish historic sites throughout Italy.
Versace is calling it a major event, and not just because the store opens the same day that its spring 2015 collection hits the runway. The boutique’s opening is part of a renovation project of the entire Galleria that Versace is helping to underwrite.
The fashion house will spend 1.5 million euros, or $1.94 million, to refurbish the Galleria, a four-story double arcade that was constructed in the mid-19th century near the famous Duomo. Prada has contributed €1.5 million as well.
News/Video: Fake ad goes viral!
Sex sells. Period.
Probably that's why an Aston Martin ad has gone viral on social networking sites Twitter and Facebook as well as other forums. The only hitch is that it's not an officially released ad from Aston Martin, it's a fake. But it's doing far better than the ad the car firm released.
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First person to buy an iPhone6 in Perth immediately drops it during a T.V. interview!
Lower House passes smoking ban law
The Lower House passed a law that bans smoking in public spaces and forbids advertising, promoting and sponsoring tobacco companies and forces manufacturers to include warnings on the back of all cigarette packs detailing the harmful effects of smoking on health.
Grondona blasts Batista: 'We can't raffle off our prestige like this'
The head of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Julio Humberto Grondona, came up to stage and threw some stinger darts to coach Sergio Batista claiming that Wednesday's 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Nigeria had threatened the country's reputation.
Playing a team composed of mainly Under-25 players, the Argentine side were taken to pieces in Abuja on the way to a comprehensive defeat.
"These games are not just to make money, Batista asks for them. You cannot raffle off the prestige of our national team".
Likewise AFA’s strongman remarked that “It is not possible to play Nigeria’s best team by putting out an inexperienced side that was not up to their level.”
The Argentina 'B' team next face Poland, this Sunday.
A homeless voice has the sound of a fairy tale
By Kevin Joy - The Columbus Dispatch
That voice.
The smooth baritone of Ted Williams became an Internet sensation yesterday when a Dispatch.com video compelled millions of viewers to take a closer look (and listen) at a homeless panhandler who sometimes works the Hudson Street ramp off northbound I-71.
That voice.
The smooth baritone of Ted Williams became an Internet sensation yesterday when a Dispatch.com video compelled millions of viewers to take a closer look (and listen) at a homeless panhandler who sometimes works the Hudson Street ramp off northbound I-71.
'Hacktivist for good' claims WikiLeaks takedown
A computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.
The Jester, who describes himself as a "hacktivist for good," said he took the controversial site down "for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations."
Foreign tourism increases 30% in June
The number of tourists that arrived in Argentina during June reached 199,993 and increased 30 percent compared to the volume reported during the same month last year, according to an official report.The Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer announced that the "figures are a result of the strategy applied after the European economic crisis began and due to the intense promotion, between the public and private sector, focused in the regional markets."
We won't silence vuvuzelas
Vuvuzelas will not be banned from the World Cup despite the fearsome din the plastic trumpets make, organisers said.
"Vuvuzelas are here to stay and will never be banned," said Rich Mkhondo, a spokesman for the local World Cup organising committee.
"People love the vuvuzelas around the world. Only a minority are against vuvuzelas. There has never been a consideration to ban vuvuzelas."
Mkhondo was reacting to a BBC report that the chief organiser Danny Jordaan had not ruled out banning the most talked about instrument in this World Cup.
"Vuvuzelas are here to stay and will never be banned," said Rich Mkhondo, a spokesman for the local World Cup organising committee."People love the vuvuzelas around the world. Only a minority are against vuvuzelas. There has never been a consideration to ban vuvuzelas."
Mkhondo was reacting to a BBC report that the chief organiser Danny Jordaan had not ruled out banning the most talked about instrument in this World Cup.
Switzerland whips up giant tiramisu
Swiss volunteers have whipped up the world's biggest tiramisu weighing 2.31 tonnes, regaining the record they lost to a group of French bakers last year.
Around 155 volunteers from the Italian community of Porrentruy in western Switzerland spent 14 hours making the enormous dessert at the town's ice-skating rink, restaurateur Nicola Maurizio said.
Measuring eight centimetres high and 50 square metres in area, the giant dessert was made with 799 kilograms of mascarpone cheese, 6,400 eggs, 350 litres of cream, 189 kilos of sugar, 300 litres of coffee, 35 kilos of cocoa, 66 kilos of liqueur and 64,000 biscuits.
"The tiramisu weighs exactly 2.31 tonnes and 80 grams," Mr Maurizio said.
The record was registered on Saturday by the Guinness Book of Records after hygiene checks, according to Switzerland's ATS news wire.
The previous record was set by bakers from the French city of Lyon last October with a tiramisu weighing 1,075.9 kilos, beating Porrentruy's own record of 782 kilos set in 2007.
Around 155 volunteers from the Italian community of Porrentruy in western Switzerland spent 14 hours making the enormous dessert at the town's ice-skating rink, restaurateur Nicola Maurizio said.Measuring eight centimetres high and 50 square metres in area, the giant dessert was made with 799 kilograms of mascarpone cheese, 6,400 eggs, 350 litres of cream, 189 kilos of sugar, 300 litres of coffee, 35 kilos of cocoa, 66 kilos of liqueur and 64,000 biscuits.
"The tiramisu weighs exactly 2.31 tonnes and 80 grams," Mr Maurizio said.
The record was registered on Saturday by the Guinness Book of Records after hygiene checks, according to Switzerland's ATS news wire.
The previous record was set by bakers from the French city of Lyon last October with a tiramisu weighing 1,075.9 kilos, beating Porrentruy's own record of 782 kilos set in 2007.
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