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Qualcomm Inc. said it reached a new patent-licensing deal with Lenovo Group Ltd., the last remaining holdout among China’s five largest smartphone makers.

Doug Heye: Nikki Haley waited until three days before the GOP primary, leveraging her endorsement for maximum effect and helping to set up Marco Rubio for a last-minute surge.

The Naij.com team has gathered the most important news for February 19, Thursday. Find all the important things you might have missed below. 1. Senator Chris Ngige denies collapse reports (updated) Emerging reports suggests that Nigeria’s minister of labour and employment, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige collapsed today at the National Assembly. 2. My husband slept with our […]

Winning entries from artists and designers in an international design contest opened this week on the wintry and windswept Beach waterfront of east Toronto.

The Eagles filled in a name on their quarterback depth chart earlier in the day with McLeod Bethel-Thompson, and they brought a few more guys in this afternoon. Per the league’s daily transaction wire, the Eagles have also signed wide receivers Seantavius Jones and Xavier Rush, and cornerback Aaron Grymes. Jones was a project in New…

British Lionhearts claim their third consecutive World Series Boxing win, thrashing Mexico Guerreros 5-0 in London.

To hear Apple tell it, the creation of a “backdoor” to the iPhone owned by San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, propped open however briefly, would imperil the very concept of privacy, not to mention millions iPhones around the globe.  As a principle and moral argument, this view has been embraced by Silicon Valley and much of the privacy community. And yet on the separate technical question of whether Apple could safely break this one phone without unleashing havoc on the privacy world, there is consensus... Читать дальше...

Firefighters were on the scene of a house fire near Eureka Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters say there was an explosion at the home on Grandview Trail around 12:30. The explosion could be seen and heard for miles, authorities told News 4. No one was home at the time of the explosion and there were no injuries reported. Fire crews say there is no access to water, so they had to call ...

It appears that One Direction needs ghost protection. On the March 2016 cover of Tiger Beat, the boy band that makes hearts flutter is pictured proudly in bold black and white. See also: You need to see this music video made by young Kendall and Kylie Jenner The only weird thing about the image is that Zayn, former member of the group and current solo artist, stands behind the boys in a muted, blurry gray. This image clearly begs the question: Is Zayn Malik a ghost? Image: Tiger Beat “We call him Ghost Zayn. Читать дальше...

New York Fashion Week just closed out with its best poker face yet.

Marc Jacobs' show, which closes the weeklong event every season and is known for its larger than life production, took it one step further Thursday when the designer picked none other than Lady Gaga to walk in his Fall/Winter 2016 show.

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Anyone who has ever tried to cut back on sweets has probably heard that all it takes is “mind over matter.”

Anyone who has ever tried to cut back on sweets has probably heard that all it takes is “mind over matter.”

Machinisten en conducteurs zijn moedeloos van het vele spoorgeweld. Negen van de tien trein­medewerkers kregen afgelopen jaar te maken met agressie. Zelfs bedreigingen met wapens, seksuele intimidatie en berovingen komen vrijwel dagelijks voor.

The “Deadpool” phenomenon is more fun to observe than “Deadpool” itself is to watch—although the movie’s not a terrible experience, either. It’s the one superhero movie I’ve seen that feels like a classic-era comic book. It’s insolent yet earnest, flashily inventive and brazenly aggressive, joining seemingly boundless male-adolescent bravado with primal fears and a nearly pious dream of higher purpose. The flagrantly filthy (though actually grounded and principled) dialogue as well as the gory... Читать дальше...

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Oenophiles rejoiced the day doctors officially advocated for the daily glass of red wine. And for good reason — studies seemed to suggest that regular wine drinking was healthy for the heart.

But the question of why it's beneficial has puzzled scientists for decades; and the hypotheses are contentious at best.

Turns out, the advantages we thought were specific to red wine may actually go much deeper than the wine itself.

French epidemiologists popularized... Читать дальше...

Flickr/Donato Pirolo

Oenophiles rejoiced the day doctors officially advocated for the daily glass of red wine. And for good reason — studies seemed to suggest that regular wine drinking was healthy for the heart.

But the question of why it's beneficial has puzzled scientists for decades; and the hypotheses are contentious at best.

Turns out, the advantages we thought were specific to red wine may actually go much deeper than the wine itself.

French epidemiologists popularized... Читать дальше...