Day: January 14, 2017

Judge In Emoji Suit Skeptical

The judge in what has become known as the emoji lawsuit on Friday repeatedly posed skeptical questions about and challenged the factual basis of allegations by Nexus Services Inc. and its officers. In a five-hour hearing in U.S. District Court, Judge Elizabeth Dillon was almost as pointed as defense attorneys in poking holes in Nexus’ claims that Augusta County elected officials and employees violated the plaintiffs’ civil rights.

Power upgrade spacewalk begins for French, US astronauts

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk on Friday, on a mission to help upgrade the power system outside the International Space Station with new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries. Wearing a white spacesuit with the French flag emblazoned on one shoulder, Pesquet and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough switched on their spacesuits’ internal battery power to mark the official start of the spacewalk at 6.22am, more than a half hour earlier than scheduled.

Inventor shows off his ideas to the ‘Dragons’

TEN years spent dreaming up inventions in his garden shed could win a property renovator the thousands of pounds he needs to turn one of his ideas into money-spinning reality. Simon Moore was having trouble with cable ties under the floorboards in one of his houses when he came up with the solution he took to TV’s Dragons’ Den.

Online chef – doesn’t get sexist comments from trolls’

Day Day Cook founder Norma Chu believes it is partly due to her taking a less traditional path compared with other female chefs who work in professional kitchens A chef from Hong Kong who shot to fame online with her home cooking video tutorials has happily revealed that she has never received sexist comments from trolls. Norma Chu, 36, a former banker who founded online cooking platform Day Day Cook in 2012, said she had so far escaped the sexism encountered by many female chefs in professional kitchens by taking a less traditional career path.

Go on, take that selfie, you may not be a narcissist.

Are you a communicating selfie taker, an autobiographer or just a self-publicist? US research identifies three categories of selfie-takers and finds ego is not our only motivation Friends do it, world leaders and entertainers do it, you probably do it and we – abashedly – admit to doing it occasionally too. Taking a selfie is commonplace in social media culture these days.