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It may be a week late in getting here, but the new BlackBerry DTEK50 should hit the Canadian smartphone scene on August 15, according to the BlackBerry online store. The DTEK50 is quite plain looking, and bears a close resemblance to Alcatel’s Idol 4. This shows the design sacrifices BlackBerry has had to make, to the point of sharing designs …

If you have ever played your favorite video game and wondered what it might be like to meet your favorite characters in the real world, Legendary and Microsoft HoloLens have teamed up to give you that ability. According to Emily Castel, Chief Marketing Officer at Legendary, “Microsoft HoloLens lets us bring characters from the worlds we create into the real …

Samsung’s Exynos 8895 Reported To Achieve Frequencies Of Up To 4Ghz; Could Open Next Era Of Mobile Processing. Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 8895 processor is said to hit 4GHz, as long as the company can control power consumption and thermals, but the new 10nm process should help with that. If the company can hit 4GHz, it will certainly be on the …

Today’s connected world horror story from the Def Con 24 event concerns the security of sex toys, with a team of researchers suggesting that the internet-enabled We-Vibe 4 Plus sends data home when it’s being used — and could even potentially be turned on remotely by someone not connected to the sexy Skype chat. Talking at the Def Con hacking …

BlackBerry has released what it claims to be the world’s “most secure Android phone”. The DTEK50 is aimed squarely at business users, providing both protection and software designed to aid productivity. With the Android marketplace being so saturated nowadays it can be hard for companies to put their own unique spin on devices. With BlackBerry, the most obvious way to …

AT LEAST TEN people have been injured following an explosion at a house in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. A family of three were at home when the blast struck the terraced house in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, at around 5.10am this morning. A number of people were taken to hospital.

Eight concentration camp suspects have been identified by “Nazi hunter” Jens Rommel and are now under investigation for their involvement as accessories to murder. The head of Germany’s main agency for investigating Nazi crimes, Jens Rommel, told dpa on Tuesday the suspects included four men and four women who worked in the German concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig in Poland. …

A fire at a maternity ward killed 11 prematurely born babies when it ripped through a hospital in Baghdad overnight. At least seven other children – including three suffering from smoke inhalation – and 29 women were also rescued from the Yarmouk Hospital and transferred to another site. “I only found charred pieces of flesh,” father-of-two Hussein Omar cried after …

After about a year of dating, Sag Harbor supermodel Christie Brinkley and singer-songwriter John Mellencamp have broken up. “Both the mileage between their homes and their heavy career demands interfered with their ability to maintain the relationship,” they announce their breakup in a joint statement to PEOPLE. “They vowed to remain best of friends.”

A recent research conducted by Florida State University (FSU) Psychology Professor Jim McNulty and graduate student Heather Maranges found that when a married or cohabitating couple regularly get enough sleep, partners tend to view the relationship more positively. The study, published in the Journal of Family Psychology, surveyed 68 married couples over a seven-day period, asking them to record the …

Revelstoke Mountain Resort joined the Mountain Collective, a group of 14 ski resorts that combined to offer a joint pass. The additions now make the Mountain Collective pass valid at 14 different resorts, including Aspen Snowmass, resorts in Wyoming, California, Utah and formerly, Whistler Blackcomb. The Canadian resort was purchased earlier this week by Vail Resorts for over a billion …