Yearly Archives: 2013

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What you may need to know:

1. Terrible title.

2.
Justin Timberlake is really determined to be a movie star.

3. We love bad slo-mo Ben Affleck. The tan makes his teeth extra white.

4. It’s written by the guys who wrote Rounders (1998). Now that’s a gambling flick.

5. Affleck appears to be auditioning for the role of Lex Luthor in the Man Of Steel sequel. Sold.

6. Poor Gemma Arterton.

7. Wait… Did we just watch the whole movie?

Release date: September

Kate-FitzgeraldThe Kate FitzgeraldĀ  inquest jury returned a verdict of death by suicide yesterday evening.

Kate’s parents Tom and Sally Fitzgerald declined to comment.

PR executive Kate took her own life, inquest jury finds (Gareth Naughton, Irish Independent)

Jury Finds PR Consultant Died By Suicide (Carl O’Brien, Irish Times)

Previously: Kate Fitzgerald on Broadsheet

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My God. It’s full of Apps…

Stupid Calculations has worked out that – tiled and stacked together – the 352,292,000-odd iPhones sold since the launch in 2007 would form a one-iPhone thick monolith screen (based on the average screen area of all iPhone models) 868m wide and 1,542m tall – wider than Central Park and taller than any skyscraper in Manhattan.

More stats on the 2001: A Space Odyssey style monophone here.

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Brandon Bryant, a former drone operator tells NBC’s Richard Engel that on his retirement from the US military he was given a certificate showing his involvement in the deaths of 1,626 people.

Former drone operator says he’s haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths (NBC News)