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Jaime Lannister and Euron Greyjoy might hate each others’ guts, but the actors who play said rivals seem to get along swimmingly.

A snapshot of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Pilou Asbæk getting buddy-buddy at a Sevilla versus Barcelona match last year resurfaced on Twitter and fans are loving the irony.

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Forget about the wildly controversial, and hugely disgusting, practice of putting pineapple on pizza. There’s a new pineapple food trend in town. And, you’re going to have some strong feelings about it. 

A swineapple is basically a pineapple wrapped in bacon and stuffed with pork loin. This rather unusual food pairing is the viral barbecue food trend of the summer, and countless food bloggers are posting their own swineapple recipes.  

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A massive fire has engulfed one of the world’s tallest residential buildings, the Torch Tower in the UAE’s Marina in Dubai. 

Authorities tweeted they successfully evacuated the 337-metre skyscraper, which is considered the 32nd tallest building in the world. No injuries have been reported so far. 

People posted footage on social media showing flames spreading up the building and debris falling down:  Read more…

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What do today’s millennials look for in games?

Ones they can play together, says Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot.

“Millennials are asking for games they can play with friends more and more, so that’s why we’re going increasingly into multiplayer games. 

“We see that the industry is changing towards a more community-oriented one,” Guillemot told Mashable at the company’s Singapore studio.

Skull & Bones, Ubisoft’s upcoming game that’s produced almost entirely out of Singapore, is one example of the company’s efforts to increase its range of multiplayer games. Read more…

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If you’re a craft beer connoisseur — or even just an occasional drinker — you’ve likely noticed that names for new brews are getting out of hand. Likely in order to distance themselves from traditional, European beer names such as Franziskaner Royal, the new breed of craft beer makers are going with increasingly odd names such as Stone Ruination IPA. 

My all-time favorite, and I did not make this up, is a beer called “Evil Twin Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight.”

So what happens when you employ a neural network to create new craft beer names? Well, pretty much the same thing. 

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When you’re rich, you can do whatever you want.

While some choose to line up and spend thousands on a collaboration between Supreme and Louis Vuitton, others would rather have the brands on their Ferrari. 

As 15-year-old Dubai Instagrammer Rashed Belhasa, a.k.a. Money Kicks, did when he wrapped his red F12berlinetta with Louis Vuitton and Supreme logos. 

The result, we guess, speaks for itself. 

Belhasa is pretty excited to show off to his followers what presumably is his car, because let’s face it, what else you would you do if you were a kid with a Ferrari. Read more…

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Yes, Australians eat kangaroos — despite it being on their coat of arms and much loved by all. 

That includes 39-year-old Brisbane woman ‎Kath Milroy Pattingale‎, who was about to have dinner with her husband on Thursday when she apparently noticed a bullet lodged in their meal.

The couple had been on a three-and-half month trip in their caravan, and for their last night they barbecued some kangaroo meat, which was purchased from the Woolworths supermarket in Bargara, Queensland.

Pattingale’s husband brought it inside on a chopping board, ready to serve up. Read more…

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NASA is ready to party. 

On Aug. 21, 2017, for the first time since 1918, a total solar eclipse will cross the entire continental United States—and NASA just released a long list of things you can do to prepare for the big day. 

The actual eclipse won’t take that long: At the point of max totality in Carbondale, Illinois, the moon will block the sun for a full 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Elsewhere, it’s about 2 minutes of celestial fun.

To make the most of this day party (the sun has to be out for the eclipse to happen—it starts around 9 a.m. on the Oregon coast and finishes up before 3 p.m. near Charleston, South Carolina), start with picking a location. NASA suggests one of its official viewing sites, or “local community centers, museums, observatories, parks or open fields.” Read more…

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Malala Yousafzai is set to insert some more magic into your lives.

The Pakistani activist and youngest-ever Nobel laureate, now 20, is set to release her first picture book, titled Malala’s Magic Pencil. She was 17 when she received the Nobel Peace Prize. 

She gave the internet a first look on Twitter Thursday, writing that she was “thrilled to find a copy” of her book in the mail.

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You’ve infected hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe with your ransomware, and victims’ cryptocurrency payments are flowing into your Bitcoin wallets.

How long should you wait to try and access that cash?

Well, for the perpetrators behind WannaCry, the answer appears to be about two and a half months. We can say this because the three Bitcoin wallets that held the ransomed loot were all suddenly emptied late Wednesday. 

And while we don’t know for sure that the same people who unleashed the attack are still in control of the wallets, the profound absence of a statement from law enforcement suggests, at the very least, the accounts haven’t been seized.  Read more…

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