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Holidays are the perfect occasion to waste food. Perfectly eatable leftovers fill trash containers every year, as we finish cleaning the mess left behind by our Thanksgiving dinner. This may come as a surprise, but what we could have eaten triggers 1 million tons of CO2 emissions that will reach the atmosphere and al... |
26 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Sony seems decided to push the Kevin Butler advertising campaign for the PlayStation brand to its limits, with a new video arriving in time for Thanksgiving that shows off the best moment of the Long Live Play campaign.The self-described vice president of everything has been honoring those gamers who have contributed... |
25 November 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Thanksgiving is here, well, at least in the US. Everyone else still has to go to work just like any other day. Still, just in case you're feeling a little festive, or maybe you're just curious, here are all of Google's Thanksgiving doodles ever made.There are quite a lot of them, since Google used seve... |
24 November 2011
16:11 GMT |
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As you'd expect, Google is running a doodle for Thanksgiving day in the US. It's a fairly interesting one, it features a turkey and the Google logo, but it's not just any turkey, you can customize it to your heart's content.
You can change the color and the shape of its feathers, its hat or haird... |
24 November 2011
08:26 GMT |
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We want to wish all our U.S. readers a Happy Thanksgiving, but also a great Black Friday tomorrow, as a huge amount of retailers from that country are running a lot of stunning deals on all sorts of things, including games, consoles and peripherals.In order to help everybody sort out the best deals this year, we made... |
24 November 2011
06:06 GMT |
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Researchers noticed that the Thanksgiving celebration not only brings joy and laughter but also a lot of phishing campaigns that rely on the reputations of financial institutions.
GFI Labs came across two samples at the moment, one replicating SunTrust, and the other, Bank of America, but it shouldn't surprise ... |
24 November 2011
03:36 GMT |
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Sony has just kicked off its annual Fall Sale on the PlayStation Store, offering some serious discounts on plenty of high quality downloadable titles for the PlayStation 3.Thanksgiving and, more importantly, Black Friday, are rapidly approaching, so lots of discounts are being made by plenty of retailers and websites... |
22 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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After presenting some very interesting bundles for its Nintendo 3DS handheld platform for all sorts of regions of the world, including Japan or Europe, the company has now presented two special packages that will arrive in the U.S. right in time for Thanksgiving.The bundles, which you can check out above, are themed ... |
22 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The Love Food Hate Waste organization is struggling to change the rules of our wasteful society, by launching an innovative app, available for iPhone and Android that will teach us how to preserve our resources while saving up to £50 ($78.15/€57.95) every month. Changes in our behavior are encouraged and... |
22 November 2011
02:25 GMT |
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Researchers say that most of the canned products we bought for Thanksgiving should end up in trash containers, for our health's sake. Experts are now able to explain how the rather tacky latin phrase “Quod me nutrit, me destruit” translated into “What nourishes me, also destroys me” can b... |
21 November 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Ellen DeGeneres proves that not only children from third world countries should experience the benefits of being adopted. She has recently placed herself among the individuals who fight against animal cruelty.
This year, she is advising us to take the turkey out of our Thanksgiving menu, and bring it in our househo... |
20 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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In yet another email sent to Apple staffers this week, Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook is announcing that Apple will be shutting down for a whole week so that everyone can take a relaxed breath in light of all that’s happened at Apple this year, good and bad.Cook is addressing Apple employees with immense adm... |
14 October 2011
03:07 GMT |
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The very existence of Madden NFL 12 is in danger as the owners and the players of the National Football League are still sparring in statements over the issues that lead to a lockout.
And one analyst says that if the season is delayed long enough and the video game is launched after Thanksgiving, it could be far l... |
18 March 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Kanye West and Jessica Simpson weren’t the only A-listers to put in an appearance during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, now at its 84th edition: Aussie Kylie Minogue was also there.
The star, now trying to break on the US market with her more recent album, got on top of a floating duck to ... |
26 November 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Macy’s brought out all the big stars for this year’s, the 84th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, including rapper Kanye West, together with Kylie Minogue and Jessica Simpson. Kanye performed “Lost in the World.”As AceShowbiz and the video below can confirm, Kanye lip-synched through one of his t... |
26 November 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is offerings customers a plethora of reasons to visit its retail stores this Thanksgiving, including steep discounts on a range of products. For example, the Redmond company announced that customers will be able to get free Windows Phone 7 devices when visiting a Microsoft Store, provided that they prolong... |
26 November 2010
07:30 GMT |
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Jessica Simpson took some time from giving thanks with her family to plug her new Christmas album and take part in the yearly Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to perform the first single off it, “My Only Wish.”She wasn’t the only A-lister there, as AceShowbiz informs, since the event drew countl... |
26 November 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Security researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure warn that survey scammers have targeted Facebook users during Thanksgiving using a variety of successful lures.The security company has detected several type of spam messages that used the OMG theme to trick users into visiting rogue application pages and pa... |
26 November 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Though her judge initially said she would have to remain in rehab until January 3, 2011, without the possibility of spending any time over the holidays with her family, Lindsay Lohan has caught another lucky break. For about 15 hours, the star has been offered clearance from the Betty Ford Clinic to spend Thanksgivin... |
26 November 2010
02:49 GMT |
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Say what you will about her movies or her personal life, but Jennifer Aniston has a body many women would kill for: somehow, she manages to stay in top shape throughout the year, regardless of whether she’s on holiday or working. Thanksgiving is here, so, for countless women, this instantly translates in at lea... |
25 November 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is so sensitive to other people’s suffering that she won’t even consider celebrating Thanksgiving. In fact, she’s gone out of her way to make sure her family was not in America for the Holiday.Sources are telling PopEater that America’s most famous family won&r... |
25 November 2010
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced massive discounts for Xbox downloads, with the special deals scheduled to go live November 26th, 2010, otherwise known as Black Friday. Make sure to keep your eyes on Softpedia and I’ll provide an update when the special offers become available. “We've saved the best for the ... |
25 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Apple has announced the yearly, special one-day shopping event also known as Black Friday, which falls on November 26 this year (just after Thanksgiving). Customers can expect cheaper iPads and iPods, well as Macintosh computers sold at a discount.“The special one-day Apple shopping event. November 26,” A... |
23 November 2010
09:04 GMT |
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The holiday season is nearing and, as many women must know, this could mean that all the work they put in so far to get in shape will go down the drain. Not necessarily so, InStyle says, offering tips to cut calories over Thanksgiving.Holiday season doesn’t mean that we disconnect our brain from our stomach, ex... |
22 November 2010
15:31 GMT |
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Latino stunner Eva Longoria of “Desperate Housewives” is in the November 2010 issue of Latina Magazine, talking about her home, holidays and, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. Celebrities rarely talk about their life at home, when the cameras are not rolling and there’s no red carpet to pose for pictu... |
14 October 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Sony is claiming that the week which ended on November 29 has seen the PlayStation 3 home gaming consoles sell more than 440,000 units in the United States. The Thanksgiving holiday is traditionally regarded as the start of the holiday season and a lot of people flock to stores in order to take advantage of a variety... |
2 December 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has been in a tough position lately, with the Xbox 360 home gaming console lagging behind both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii in sales in the second half of 2009. So, the company was quick to point out the good sales numbers posted for the week that ended on November 29, which contained Th... |
2 December 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Nintendo is saying that it has sold more than 1 million of the various versions of the Nintendo DS and the DSi handhelds in the run up to Thanksgiving, marking one of the best sales period of 2009 so far.The company is also saying that about half a million units of the Wii home gaming console were sold during the sam... |
2 December 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Today, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and the space shuttle Atlantis, both currently in space, will pause for a moment from their daily activities, to celebrate Thanksgiving in microgravity. Twelve crew members are in space at this time, seven on the shuttle, and five on the orbital laboratory, S... |
26 November 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Since the specialists have not perfected the ways of packing, transporting, cooking and using foods and drinks in space, the dinner for the combined crews of the International Space Station and the spacecraft Endeavour was the next best thing. Although the farthest thing from the traditional meals common back on Eart... |
28 November 2008
03:01 GMT |
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Thanksgiving will take place tomorrow and people in North America can hardly wait to celebrate one of their country's most important holidays. Turkeys are now becoming more and more scarce as families gather to honor this very special day.Sony hasn't neglected this holiday and is really pulling out all the ... |
26 November 2008
07:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS is, without a doubt, one of the most popular handheld consoles out there, having won over a huge amount of fans all over the world. Its slick two screens, which are touch sensitive, and modern design made it very popular with all age groups and the vast number of games developed for it have transforme... |
26 November 2008
02:18 GMT |
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Market researcher Hitwise Today released a report concerning the most popular websites on Thanksgiving Day and on Black Friday, revealing that this year's traffic was well increased since 2006. According to Hitwise, the Thanksgiving traffic grew up with 20 percent in comparison with the same period of the last y... |
27 November 2007
01:38 GMT |
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I could begin with a proud 'I told you so!' since I predicted this but I believe everybody knew that Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday will represent the perfect moment for hackers to launch their attacks. Barracuda Networks, a company focused on email and web security, reported an impressive rise... |
23 November 2007
09:49 GMT |
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Although we're a tad late, we give our US pals the best wishes as we have a look at what's new on those leaked games list. Let me start by saying "buy, buy, buy" while referring to those titles, since we don't encourage piracy, which is harming game developers to the point... |
23 November 2007
05:39 GMT |
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If you happened to forget what day is today, Google is willing to remind you: It's Thanksgiving Thursday! Check out the logo and there's no mistake about it, you have a day off…if you're from the United States (insert sad emoticon here).As they do every year, they've made a special doodle to celeb... |
22 November 2007
05:55 GMT |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly taking their four kids to visit Brad's mother for Thanksgiving. And my oh my, this move literally speaks volumes, since we all know that Angie and Brad's mum have not been the best of friends in the past. It hasn't helped either that Brad's mother Jane i... |
21 November 2007
10:06 GMT |
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