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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Google Translate’s next update will let you translate spoken words into another language in real-time, similar to Skype.
Hackers who support Islamic State broke into a Pentagon Twitter account and YouTube channel. Officials played down the incident, however, saying no sensitive networks were penetrated.
The social networking giant this week announced a partnership with the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in the US. This move will see the organisation sending Amber Alerts to the Facebook community to help find missing children. The alerts will appear on users’ feeds but law enforcement will determine the rage of the target area for each alert.
Does anyone remember Nintendo’s Power Glove? It was basically a complete failure. But animator Dillon Markey has brought one back to life, modifying it into a real impressive animation tool:
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This new app has been dubbed ‘The anti-Tindr’. Talk or Not aims to bring conversation back to the forefront of modern dating and reveals user’s photos piece by piece once a conversation is mutually exchanged, GeekWire reports.
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I think it’s mad that the English are so into Mrs Browne’s Boys. Is it as popular in Ireland or is it a Dublin thing mainly? Genuine question…
It’s the type of humour. If you look back at English comedies 60′s to 80′s they were largely over the top lampoon type charachter driven like mrs brown.
If the bbc or whoever tried to make something similar today theyd be feicked from a height for making such a throwback, gap in the market fully exploited by what’s his name, I take my hat off.
But to answer your question it’s a generational thing I’d wager.
Yeah It seems that it’s very popular in the UK! I was in Scotland for the summer and had numerous people ask me If I had ever seen Mrs Brown’s Boys. Its filmed in Glasgow too.
The viewers should have been thanking the BBC for any interruption to Mrs Brown’s boys
It’s sh*te everywhere you go
Even after passing away Mandela was briefly able to make the world a better place. Wonder did any of Mrs Browns UK viewers actually know who Mandela was before the interruption.
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