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The entertainment industry pressured the domain registry of Sint Maarten to seize The Pirate Bay’s .SX domain. The popular file sharing site has not been taken down but it has quickly moved to a new address on .AC ccTLD on Ascension Island. The Pirate Bay sources told Torrent Freak that this new domain is not the final destination as it is a UK-controlled domain. TPB will soon move to a safer place in the future.

Ninja Blocks, a Sydney start-up company that was founded by Marcus Schappi with co-founders wife Madeleine and Mark Wotton in January 2012, has amazing gadgets called the Ninja Block and the Ninja Sphere, which are essentially "remote controls" for the home. The company has attracted funding of up to $1 million from companies such as Atlassian Software founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Despite the extreme popularity of King's Candy Crush Sage, the game was crushed on Monday by Pretty Simple's Criminal Case which was picked by Facebook as the game of 2013.

With 2013 soon to come to an end, it is normal to expect the best of 2013 articles to go viral online. And in terms of Facebook trends 2013, Australia had its own share of most popular topics that were consistent news breaking hits for the year.

Microsoft Non-Security Updates will be released on Patch Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 at 1PM Eastern Time. A brief description of the 16 main updates can be found on Microsoft's Support Page, including updates on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows Servers.

Facebook has plans to introduce a ‘Sympathize’ button

Many jealous wives or girlfriends often make their partners choose between them and the object of their jealousy, whether it's another person or a thing.

U2opia Mobile, a Singapore-based startup, is set to bring a text-only Twitter experience to its users, Reuters reported.

Trustwave, a U.S.-based security firm, has tracked the massive breach of about 2 million usernames and passwords in a server in the Netherlands. The breach affected accounts from Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo.

There are a lot of choices for Christmas gifts meant for women. It can range from jewelry to makeup, clothes, shoes, bags, watches or even gadgets. However, due to the number of choices out there, it's difficult to choose which one to actually buy for women. The risk is that they may already have the gift you will be giving them. To help you with your shopping dilemma, here is a helpful Holiday 2013 Gift Guide featuring the Top 5 Gifts for Women.

More than 1 million Facebook users have participated in testing the social network's Android App. This was according to Christian Legnitto, Facebook's manager of mobile release engineering.

Google Flu Trends had increased accuracy for estimating 2012-13 flu outbreaks after modifications made by scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

The Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses, which is Google Glass' main competitor, is now available for preorder for $1,000. Compared to the price of a Google Glass developer or Explorer edition which is reportedly $1,500 or around £985 or $1,449 AUD, the Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses is relatively cheaper.

It’s December 2013 and each day passes quickly until one day you realize, it’s Christmas Day already! Naturally, there’s a mad rush for buying gifts at this time of the year. So many choices, so little time! To help you narrow down the list of what to buy, especially for finicky children who happen to be girls, here is the Holiday 2013 Gift Guide featuring the Top 5 Toys for Girls in 2013.

Christmas is fast approaching, with only a few days left before Dec 25, 2013. While a lot of people argue that Christmas is not just a time for giving gifts, it can't be denied that a huge part of it is still about shopping, wrapping presents and exchanging gifts. Since it's almost Christmastime, the mad rush of looking for gifts has already started. With there is a whole gamut of options for consumers out there, it can be quite confusing and a little hard to decide on what to give people,...

Now, you have got a chance to know if they really are your friends or they hate you despite being in your friend list.

On Tuesday, Australians researchers launched CrocBiTE, world’s first crocodile bites database

Christmas season is a time of giving, sharing and being kind to one another, but unfortunately, some scammers want fast cash and often prey on unsuspecting people during this time of the year. And scams have become digital nowadays as more and more people engage in e-commerce and buy most of their stuff online. That is why it is imperative that netizens be aware of the cyber scams proliferating in the Internet. Here are the 12 cyber scams to avoid this Christmas season.

Bing, the other search engine, recently unveiled its Top 10 Most Searched People of 2013 across 12 countries around the world including Miley Cyrus, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian. The 12 countries included in the list are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and the U.S. According to Mashable, they gathered global search data and found some interesting findings and trends. Who topped the lists?

About five online holiday shopping safety tips for consumers have been previously discussed, but because of the numerous scams and tricks cyber criminals use, it's best to be always prepared.

With the start of the Holidays comes the onslaught of holiday shopping for the season of gift-giving is just around the corner, not to mention the various sales and deals offered by almost every store this time of the year. However, there are a lot of scammers out there during holiday shopping too. They are taking advantage of shoppers who are rushing to buy items during a sale like, Black Friday or Cyber Monday. If you want to avoid getting scammed, check out the online holiday shopping safety ...

Miranda Kerr, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard topped Most Binged Australian Celebrities of 2013-12-03

Snapchat CEO and Co-founder Evan Spiegel, 23, has refused Mark Zuckerberg's offer of $3 billion to buy Snapchat.

The entertainment industry seemed to be at the winning end on its fight against piracy when a French Court ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to take out from their search results 16 Web sites hosting pirated media Nov. 28.

Kik free texting app is ''the No.1 social media problem involving teenagers'' police say

Des Hommes et Des Chatons (Men and Cats) is a French tumblr blog featuring various pictures of cats that seem to be doppelgangers or mirror images of cute men because these cats are posing like the men included there. The guys in the tumblr blog are mostly professional models and actors including Jamie Dornan ("Fifty Shades of Grey"), Robert Pattinson ("Twilight") and Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean").

Pokemon X and Y, the popular role-playing video games that have been developed by Japanese video game developer Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS, have other online features for Pokemon players such as the Player Search System (PSS), Play! Pokemon, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection® (WFC) and the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) Online. Now, Pokemon fans can choose from cool Pokemon games in the Internet.

Here comes Cyber Monday 2013! Watch out for various online sales after Black Friday 2013 which officially start on Monday (hence, the name), Dec. 2, 2013. Black Friday 2013 has just ushered the 2013 Holiday shopping season and it has reached the weekend up to Cyber Monday 2013 where most people who weren't able to shop during the Black Friday weekend go online to look for sweet deals for the items that they are eyeing.

The Walmart Black Friday 2013 has started with a bang at 6pm on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 2013. I hope you guys didn't miss the Walmart 1 hour sale (In-Stock Guarantee)! Don't forget about the second Walmart sale event at 8pm on the same day (Thursday, Nov. 28)! And, of course don't miss the actual Walmart Black Friday 2013 Sale on Friday, Nov. 29. It will extend over the weekend on Saturday, Nov. 30, starting at 8 am up to Sunday, Dec.1.