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Mariah Carey's Twitter account, on New Year's Eve, suddenly started posting tweets that contained provocative, racist and salacious content, and also included sexual remarks concerning Eminem, as well as use of the N-word. The hack appears to have come from the 'Chuckling Squad', the same source that attacked the accounts of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and several YouTube celebrities,

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US speaker manufacturer Sonos is under fire for its recently launched recycling program, which allows customers to permanently deactivate their Sonos speakers, after which they can choose to recycle it locally or ship it back to Sonos, and receive a 30 percent discount on new speakers. Critics say the program is encouraging users to dispose of operational, resalable speakers and is contributing to wastefulness rather than reducing it.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced that the country has a new strategic weapon and that they should no longer abide by the moratorium that stops them from testing nuclear weapons. He did also say that he is still open to talks with the US despite their 'hostile' policy towards North Korea.

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The United States government has announced that they will be deploying 750 more troops to the Middle East. This decision came in response to the recent protests outside the US embassy in Iraq. The US is ready to deploy even more troops over the next several days if it is necessary.

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Twelve people have now died due to the current bushfire crisis in Australia as navy ships struggle to evacuate the area and provide essential supplies. Police have found a number of bodies in burnt down cars and houses all over the affected area. Around 200 homes have been destroyed so far.

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Travis Knight will no longer be directing the new Uncharted movie due to some scheduling conflicts. The movie's lead actor Tom Holland will not be available at the same time as the director so the studio has chosen to pick someone else to direct the film. The movie will be based on the hit video game franchise of the same name.

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Indie game developer Meditations has announced that it will be giving users a free game everyday. These games can be accessed from the Meditations launcher and will only take around five minutes to finish. The games will be from no-name indie developers as well as some relatively famous titles.

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Pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer Inc and GlaxoSmithKline PLC are about to raise the prices of around 200 drugs in the US. The average increase seems to be around 5% as most companies have pledged to keep the increases below 10% due to a large amount of pressure from politicians.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany will do everything to fight climate change and that the threat of global warming was 'real and dangerous'. She encouraged Germans to make changes tot heir lifestyles in order to live in a more environmentally friendly manner. She made all these statements during her hopeful new years speech.

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Apple is currently suing Corellium for copyright infringement in an attempt to end jailbreaking. Corellium is a company that specializes in replicating the IOS software for jailbroken devices in order to help security officials find bugs in the program. The company has said that Apple's move is disappointing since Apple has benefitted from the jailbreaking community in the past.

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According to some unofficial reports, Marvel's new Moon Knight show will feature both Werewolf and Dracula, two major Marvel horror characters. The information has not been officially confirmed as of yet and rumors circulating around the show say that it will tie into the upcoming 'Blade' movie. Daniel Radcliffe is currently being considered to play the lead role.

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Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said that he is completely satisfied with the team's current attacking lineup. He went on to say that Mason Greenwood's improvements have compensated for the various player losses the team has suffered, including the loss of Romelu Lukaku. Gunnar said that they will only sign new players who can fit into the chemistry of the current group.

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Carlos Ghosn, Japanese car manufacturer Nissan's executive and former chairman of Renault, Nissan's largest shareholder, has been under investigation since last year for allegations of financial misconduct, and recently fled to Lebanon from Japan while on bail, citing gross miscarriages of justice in Japan's systems. The revelation appears to be sudden and surprising to everyone involved with Ghosn.

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Fallon Sherrock, the first female darts player to win a match against a male player at the PDC World Championship, was knocked out of the competition by Chris Dobey, but has since been informed that she is invited to participate in all the major events of the World Series of Darts in 2020.

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After US airstrikes earlier in the week resulted in the deaths of 25 fighters of an Irani Shia group in Iraq, hundreds of angry protesters rushed the gates of the US embassy in Baghdad, including supporters of the paramilitary cell Hashd Shaabi. The protesters marched on the embassy immediately after holding the funerals of the killed fighters.

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The catchy song 'Toss a Coin to Your Witcher' was featured in Netflix's The Witcher TV adaptation and has become highly popular since, but has been unavailable for streaming on most major services except the music creators' Soundcloud. Best-selling VR rhythm game Beat Saber recently announced that fans can now download the Toss a Coin to Your Witcher map from the Beat Saver service.

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The GOG website is offering users a free download of 2018 indie game Tower of Time, which is set in the same vein as the massively popular Divinity games, with players placed in a fantasy world of futuristic magic-infused technology where they can customize many different kinds of characters and classes. The game features real-time combat, and is available for free only until Wednesday.

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He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who shocked the world by presenting an allegedly successful case of gene-editing babies using CRISPR at an international conference in 2018, has been charged with illegal medical practice and sentenced to 3 years in jail by Chinese courts, along with being fined around 430,000 USD.

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Sharon Stone, 62-year-old star of several 1980s and 90s hit movies like Basic Instinct, Total Recall and The Mighty, recently discovered she had been banned from popular dating app Bumble, over concerns that her account was not genuine. However, since then, Bumble staff have apologized for the misunderstanding and restored Stone's account.

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Chinese telecom and smartphone-manufacturing giant Huawei faced a blacklist in the US this year due to rising concerns over its connections with the Chinese government. The sanctions have forced Huawei to revise down its growth projections for the year to 18 percent, due to decreasing sales and difficulty in sourcing parts from the US.

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Sources close to the Indonesian government have revealed that the country's e-wallet payment startups, some of which are backed by Chinese retail giant Alibaba, might soon be forced to charge a fixed fee on e-wallet transactions, with the revenue earned being divided between the company itself, any middle man transaction processing business, and the National Electronic Transaction settlement.

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Scotland cabinet secretary Michael Matheson revealed the country's ambitions for leading the rest of the world in the development of self-driving vehicles, with Scotland's transport authority successfully piloting several new programs designed to facilitate autonomous travel, such as the placement of roadside beacons that can be used by self-driving apps to transmit traffic information and plan journeys.

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The US Congress has announced that it will be launching an investigation into the nuclear waste dump site at the Marshal Islands. The structure has been steadily deteriorating and may soon be vulnerable to rising sea levels. Congress is also deciding on a plan to properly repair the dome.

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According to the latest US census, the population growth rate in the country has reached its lowest point in a century. The birth rate has declined and the death rate has gone up due to the large aging population. Some of this slowdown can also be attributed to the decrease in immigration to the US.

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US federal prosecutors have charged a Chinese national with stealing cancer research from a lab where he was working. The national is currently behind bars as he has been declared a serious flight risk. Investigators are saying that this was not an isolated incident and that China is systematically stealing intellectual property from the US.

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