Month: January 2018

Trebek brain surgery

Taping of the game show “Jeopardy!” has been suspended while host Alex Trebek recovers from surgery to remove blood clots from his brain, Trebek and the show’s producer said Thursday!


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Trebek, 77, who has hosted the quintessential American quiz for more than 33 years, said Thursday that he was diagnosed with the blood clots, a condition called subdural hematoma, in December after he suffered a bad fall in October.
Developing..
Prayers for Trebek..

Chip blip: Apple iPhone freak out

Apple has confirmed all its Mac systems and iOS devices are affected by two recently disclosed processor flaws called Spectre and Meltdown. 

In an announcement on Thursday, Apple(AAPL) said it has released mitigations to defend against Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2. It will release mitigations in Safari to defend against the Spectre bug “in the coming days,” the release said.

THURSDAY JANUARY 4 2018

The East Coast is really lucky this superstorm was not closer to the coast.. Really lucky that the 100 MPH winds stayed mostly out to sea.. this could have been a disater of epic proportions. Instead it was a murderous event for the fish at sea..
New Scientist magazine has called 2018 “The Year of the Flu” because this year’s influenza outbreak is showing signs of being the most lethal and severe since the 1918 “Great Influenza” pandemic that infected a third of the world’s population and killed between 20 and 50 million people. MORE: New Scientist‘s Deborah MacKenzie wrote, “A record number of flu strains are currently circulating, two in the influenza B group and two influenza A strains, H1N1 and H3N2. H3N2 is the real problem. Our strongest immunity is to the first kind of flu we caught. Between 1918 and 1968, no H3N2 viruses circulated as winter flu, so people born before 1968 have weaker immunity to it.”..
Tech giant is rolling out new robots to replace workers in hotels, airports and supermarkets! MORE: South Korean tech giant LG Electronics said Thursday it will showcase three new “concept robots” at next week’s consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.. A McKinsey report released in November said that up to 800 million workers could be affected globally by automation and the rise of artificial intelligence.. Tech companies are testing robots to carry out various tasks that could affect the services industry, which employs nearly 50 percent of the global workforce, according to the International Labor Organization..

The world tension over Tweets: TRUMP’S BUTTON IS BIGGER THAN LITTLE KIM’S

World War I arguably was ignited with an assassination.. World War II was ongoing and the United States was thrown into the nightmare when Japan bombed our fleet at Pearl Harbor..

So what will future generations ponder if history ends up creating a war between rival nations–over Tweets!!?

President Trump warned the Kim Jong UN From North Korea: “North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un just stated that the ”Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!’

The threat came after an annual speech given by Kim, in which he cautioned: ‘The U.S. should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table.’  

Kim warned America that it can ‘never start a war against me and our country’ and insisted his nukes are now a reality, not a threat. 

The media is in a feeding frenzy over the ‘my button is bigger than your button’ Tweet.. other nations are closely monitoring the ongoing tension and warning of a nightmare scenario should war break out on the peninsula.. 

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Who could have ever predicted a time where a president named Trump issued something called a ‘tweet’ that could ignite a flare up of tensions in a land that has been technically still at ‘war’ for decades..? Not the best psychic in the world could have..



TUESDAY JANUARY 2 2018 NEWS ROUNDUP

Web star peak on YouTube? AND As YouTubers have decried, it may be the page’s fault! YouTube personalities like PewDiePie and Zoella are seeing a massive slowdown in subscriber growth and views, according to social stats analysed by Business Insider. YouTube stars have seen years of growth as vlogging has exploded, but it looks as though the golden days are over and the most business-savvy creators will need to diversify. Popular creators like H3H3Productions have blamed YouTube’s algorithms for an apparent slowdown in subscribers or viewers..
Horror movies will be boosted by the IT effect in 2018.. MORE.. “Horror was having a rough ride, but It put a definitive stamp on a year where horror kicked box- office butt,” says Brad Miska, editor and co-founder of the horror movie website BloodyDisgusting.com. “2017’s success will be felt with the confidence studios have in 2018.”..
How Scary Is ‘Insidious: The Last Key’? The Movie Won’t Terrify You In The Way You’d Expect MORE: The Last Key is the franchise’s fourth film, but the second chronologically. This lets the series’ unlikely hero Dr. Elise Rainier, killed at the end of the first film, continue participating without the limitations of the spirit realm (when dealing with ghosts, characters are never really gone)…
The NUN gets a release date.. July 13 2018..A summer horror
SLENDERMAN movie gets a poster and a trailer.. Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) directed the horror film from a script by David Birke and Victor Surge. Javier Botet (IT) plays the supernatural, child-snatching title character. The movie also stars Jaz Sinclair (Paper Towns), Joey King (The Conjuring), Julia Goldani Telles (The Affair), Annalise Basso (Ouija 2), and Kevin Chapman (Mystic River)..

How LOGAN can you GO?

PAUL LOGAN RECEIVES WIDESPREAD CONDEMNATION AFTER SHOWING SUICIDE IN JAPAN’S FAMOUS SUICIDE FOREST!!




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Internet-celebrity Logan Paul drew widespread condemnation from the Internet Monday night after the popular YouTube star posted a video showing an apparent suicide victim in Japan’s “suicide forest.” 


The video, which has since been pulled from Paul’s official YouTube channel though has been re-uploaded by other users on the service, featured Paul and several friends “vlogging” a recent trip to Japan. In an intro to the video — titled “We saw a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest” — Paul says: “this is not clickbait. This is the most real vlog I have ever posted on this channel.”

He then warns viewers that the video is graphic and remarks that he thinks it is “a moment in YouTube history because I’m pretty sure this has never hopefully happened to anyone on YouTube ever.”


This was the statement from LOGAN post incident..




DEVELOPING..

MONDAY JANUARY 1 2018 NEWS ROUNDUP

MONDAY JANUARY 1 2018
What horror movies really do to your body.. MORE: In the study, published in British journal The BMJ, researchers recruited 24 healthy volunteers aged 30 or younger. Fourteen of the volunteers watched a scary movie (Insidious), and then a week later a light, educational movie (A Year in Champagne). The remaining volunteers did the reverse, watching the tame movie first, and then the suspenseful one. Researchers found that while watching Insidious, the volunteers’ levels of factor VIII—a protein that plays a role in blood clotting—jumped by enough to raise their risk of blood clots; 57 percent of the volunteers experienced the jump, while just 14 percent experienced an increase during the educational movie. (If you’re not a fan of scary movies, there’s an explanation why.)..