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Stars Most Stylish Selfie of the Week

Stars Most Stylish Selfie of the Week

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5-Minute Outfit Idea

5-Minute Outfit Idea: An Effortless, Polished Look to Try This Weekend.

Facebook suffers outage

Facebook suffers outage affecting users worldwide!! .

Sunday 27 July 2014

UV-Powered Blood Test Could Make Universal Cancer Detection Possible

UV-Powered Blood Test Could Make Universal Cancer Detection Possible


Early detection is the best tool to fight cancer, but biopsies can be painful and inconclusive. New research shows a simple blood test can detect cancers by blasting white blood cells with UV and seeing how they respond. Painless, universal cancer detection could be a drop of blood away.

Researchers at England's University of Bradford tested patients with melanoma, colon cancer, and lung cancer, alongside patients with non-cancer illnesses and healthy control patients. They found that the DNA in cancer patients' white blood cells is easily damaged by long-wave Ultraviolet A waves. White blood cells from cancer-free patients were not nearly as susceptible, while cells from patients with pre-cancerous conditions showed an intermediate response. The team says normal illnesses like cold or flu shouldn't lead to false-positive test results.

Dr. Diana Anderson, who led the research, explained to the BBC why she went down this investigative path:
White blood cells are part of the body's natural defense system. We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measurable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.

Doctors and medical researchers have long sought an easy, non-invasive test that could detect cancer early, no matter where in the body it arises. Currently, a doctor's best way of diagnosing cancer is by biopsy, where a tissue sample is removed from the suspected cancerous area and tested in the lab.
Biopsies take time, and they're not always 100 percent accurate, but more importantly, a doctor will only perform a biopsy if there's reason to suspect cancer is present. Many cancers develop without symptoms over a long period of time, only becoming apparent once they've already taken hold. By the time a doctor has reason to perform a biopsy, cancer may have already spread.

So a simple test that can be performed as part of a routine exam, and can detect a wide variety of cancers, is the answer researchers have been searching for. This could be that test, but determining that will require much further testing: the initial findings, published this week in The FASEB Journal, only observed 208 patients, 94 of whom were healthy controls.

"These are early results completed on three different types of cancer and we accept that more research needs to be done," Dr. Anderson told the BBC. "But these results so far are remarkable.

Saturday 26 July 2014

Verizon to slow down speeds for some unlimited data subscribers

Verizon to slow down speeds for some unlimited data subscribers 

Marina Lopes
Reuters 


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communication Inc's high speed wireless customers who subscribe to the company's legacy unlimited data plans might experience slower speeds starting Oct. 1, the company said on Friday.

The announcement comes as wireless carriers attempt to shift data-hungry subscribers onto tiered plans, which charge customers for individual data packages.

Verizon will slow services for the top 5 percent of data users who are on unlimited plans in places where the network is experiencing high demand, the company announced on its website.
The policy will impact customers who consume more than 4.7 gigabytes in a single billing period who are on unlimited plans and who have fulfilled their minimum contract terms and are subscribing to service on a month-to-month basis.

Users might experience slower speeds when streaming high-definition video or during real-time online gaming, the company said.

Customers on the company's tiered data plans will not be affected.

The policy is currently in effect for unlimited subscribers on the 3G network, but will be expanded to its 4G, higher speed network in October.

Verizon stopped offering unlimited data plans in 2012.

How to Charge Your Phone in 15 Minutes

How to Charge Your Phone in 15 Minutes

FARHAD MANJOO
The New York Times 



Say you’ve got 15 minutes in an airport between flights and your phone is nearly dead. What do you do?
In the past, you had two choices. You could give it the old college try: find an outlet and plug in your phone, watch the battery meter inch up as the minutes run down, and pray that you’ve gained enough power to get you through your day. Or you admit defeat and let your phone die. In 15 minutes of charging, you’re only going to get a few percent more battery power anyway.

What’s the point?

But over the last few weeks I’ve been testing a remarkable third option, a device that lets you fully charge your phone in just 15 minutes. Well, sort of.

The device is an Ultrapak battery pack, an external charger made by a firm called Unu Electronics. External battery packs aren’t novel. These little devices are essentially just batteries in a case — you charge it up by plugging it into the wall, then plug your phone in to suck up the power stored in the pack.
But the Ultrapak does something unusual among battery packs. It quickly sucks up power, about eight times faster than other battery packs, the firm says. It’s so fast that, in about 15 minutes of charging, the pack gets enough juice to charge a standard smartphone one time.

In other words, if you’ve got just 15 minutes to charge your device, you should plug the Ultrapak into the wall instead of your phone. The Ultrapak will rapidly ingest power. Then, when you get on the plane, plug your phone into the Ultrapak. Over the next couple hours, your phone will slowly sip the power in the Ultrapak, eventually getting to 100 percent.

It really works. I use my iPhone a lot, and I frequently find myself between meetings — in coffee shops, airports — with just a few minutes to power up. In those instances the Ultrapak, which I keep stuffed in my work bag, has become a lifesaver, the best way to charge up very quickly.

The Ultrapak comes in two sizes. The large one, which sells for $100, is about the size of a men’s wallet and weighs about 10 ounces. When fully charged, which takes about an hour and a half, it has enough power to charge up a phone about four times (or a tablet one time).

The smaller one, which sells for $60, is about half the size and a carries a third of the battery capacity. Both units ingest power at the same rate—in about 15 minutes, they’ll get enough power to charge your phone one time. If there’s a better way to power up quickly, I haven’t seen it.

Apple iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data, researcher finds

Apple iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data, researcher finds

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week.

The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be used by law enforcement or others with access to the "trusted" computers to which the devices have been connected, according to the security expert who prompted Apple's admission.

In a conference presentation this week, researcher Jonathan Zdziarski showed how the services take a surprising amount of data for what Apple now says are diagnostic services meant to help engineers.
Users are not notified that the services are running and cannot disable them, Zdziarski said. There is no way for iPhone users to know what computers have previously been granted trusted status via the backup process or block future connections.

“There’s no way to `unpair' except to wipe your phone,” he said in a video demonstration he posted Friday showing what he could extract from an unlocked phone through a trusted computer.
As word spread about Zdziarski’s initial presentation at the Hackers on Planet Earth conference, some cited it as evidence of Apple collaboration with the National Security Agency.

Apple denied creating any “back doors” for intelligence agencies.

“We have designed iOS so that its diagnostic functions do not compromise user privacy and security, but still provides needed information to enterprise IT departments, developers and Apple for troubleshooting technical issues,” Apple said. “A user must have unlocked their device and agreed to trust another computer before that computer is able to access this limited diagnostic data.”

But Apple also posted its first descriptions of the tools on its own website, and Zdziarski and others who spoke with the company said they expected it to make at least some changes to the programs in the future.
Zdziarski said he did not believe that the services were aimed at spies. But he said that they extracted much more information than was needed, with too little disclosure.

Security industry analyst Rich Mogull said Zdziarski’s work was overhyped but technically accurate.
“They are collecting more than they should be, and the only way to get it is to compromise security,” said Mogull, chief executive officer of Securosis.

Mogull also agreed with Zdziarski that since the tools exist, law enforcement will use them in cases where the desktop computers of targeted individuals can be confiscated, hacked or reached via their employers.
“They’ll take advantage of every legal tool that they have and maybe more,” Mogull said of government investigators.

Asked if Apple had used the tools to fulfill law enforcement requests, Apple did not immediately respond.
For all the attention to the previously unknown tools and other occasional bugs, Apple’s phones are widely considered more secure than those using Google Inc's rival Android operating system, in part because Google does not have the power to send software fixes directly to those devices.

Bose Picks A Patent Fight With Apple’s Beats Over Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Bose Picks A Patent Fight With Apple’s Beats Over Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Darrell Etherington
TechCrunch 


Bose has sued soon-to-be-Apple-owned Beats over patents it holds related to noise-cancelling headphones, according to a new report from CNBC. The new suit means that Apple has a brand new patent battleground, should the Beats acquisition go through as planned, in addition to its ongoing litigation with Samsung and others. The full complaint is listed on Priorsmart, and lists Beat Electronics and Beats Electronics International as defendants.

Bose alleges that Beats has infringed on 50 years’ worth of research, development and engineering of noise cancelling tech, and that its current lineup of these devices incorporates “at least 36 U.S. patents and applications,” broken down into 22 granted patents and 14 applications currently undergoing review. Beats products named as having infringed upon Bose’s IP include the Beats Studio line, which include the new Studio Wireless Bluetooth headphones.

In the filing, Bose also includes a brief history of the development of its tech, which began in 1978 when company founder and engineer Dr. Amar Bose was dissatisfied with his airline headphones and decided to develop better ones that would cut out cabin noise. Bose cites the QuietComfort line of consumer headphones, as well as a product history that includes the development of military specific headphones as part of the grounds for its complaint.

The specific patents Bose lists in the complaint include United States Patent No. 6,717,537, called “Method and Apparatus for Minimizing Latency in Digital Signal Processing Systems,” United States Patent No. 6,717,537, or “Method and Apparatus for Minimizing Latency in Digital Signal Processing Systems,” and United States Patent No. 8,073,151: “Dynamically Configurable ANR Filter Block Technology,” to name just a few. In total, there are five counts of infringement against five Bose patents named in the suit, which are supposedly violated by Beats’ Studio line.

Bose is seeking from the court an injunction against continued infringement, a full account of sales of infringing devices, damages including court costs, determination that the infringement is willful and upwards adjustment of damages accordingly, and “other relief” to be determined by the court.
We’ve reached out to both Apple and Bose and will update this story as more information becomes available.

The full complaint from PACER can be found below:

Bose v. Beats Civil Complaint

Update: Here’s the official statement from Bose provided to TechCrunch on the filing –
The filing is comprehensive and explains our position, and as a matter of practice, we don’t comment on on-going litigation. We can share that for over 30 years, Bose has made significant investments in the research, development, engineering and design of the proprietary technologies found in our headphones. Bose’s patented technologies enable the exclusive performance found in our QuietComfort® Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones. We are committed to protecting our investment, protecting our customers, and defending the patents we own.

Syria's children learn to code with Raspberry Pi

Syria's children learn to code with Raspberry Pi

Aleks Krotoski
Guardian News

It will be another unsettled summer in the makeshift tent communities that line the valleys, mountains and border towns of Lebanon for the 300,000 children who have escaped Syria’s civil war.
But these young refugees, baking in the blasting heat of the Levant and under constant threat of violence, polio and other illnesses, are the incongruous beneficiaries of a confluence of two UK technology initiatives. This summer, they’re going to learn to code.

The multi-award-winning Raspberry Pi – a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a TV and has the processing power of a desktop PC – is arriving in the area, a far cry from its origins in 2006 at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory.

The brainchild of Eben Upton and his colleagues, the idea was inspired by what they viewed as a lack of university applicants’ software skills. Keen to get people coding, they prototyped the board and released it in 2011 for an astonishingly low £25, and never expected to ship more than 20,000 units. In June 2014, during a gala reception at Buckingham Palace, they announced that they’d sold 3m units.

The Pi has been widely adopted in the UK and throughout Europe and the US, particularly among educators, who see it as a cheap and open way of getting computers into classrooms with multimedia functionality, internet capability, and two in-built programming languages: Python and Scratch.
It can also play high definition video and, with add-ons like touchscreen LCD monitors and cameras, the device can be a low-cost, highly functional publishing platform.

It’s been a huge hit this year, the Year of Code, the initiative that introduces kids to the power of computer science via community meet-ups, hack days, coding clubs and other events. And although the UK will be the first country in the world to cement programming into the school curriculum for five to 16-year-olds, the Maker movement and other home-brew communities are infecting kids around the globe with the coding bug.

But how did this British innovation go from a hobbyist curiosity in middle England to the war-torn middle east? And, more importantly, how will coding help these kids face the harsh realities of displacement, civil war and survival?

Eliane Metni is a second-year doctoral candidate at the University of London’s Institute of Education. Based in her home town of Beirut, she helms the International Education Association, a Lebanese NGO committed to global learning opportunities through ICTs for Lebanon and throughout the Arab world. In 2011, she was contacted by a European educators group looking for a way in to the region, hoping to use the Raspberry Pi to give voices to adult women.

But after using the system herself for a few months, Metni realised that the target demographic identified by the European researchers overlooked the real opportunity: schoolkids.

She dug into the community and discovered a very active, thriving educator scene in the UK, using it to take learning paradigms in a new direction: “The trend [in classrooms] is to give kids a tool, like a tablet. But the Pi, through the programming languages Python and Scratch, gives the opportunity for users to construct the content and to build knowledge, rather than just receive information” she explained. The Pi is intended to be used to create as well as to consume.

Metni developed a curriculum for Dhour el Shweir Public Secondary School, supported by the Lebanese Telecom Ministry and the personal funds of Minister Muna Bustros. After a year of piloting the programme with 55 Pis, the results were unveiled at the school in May as part of Pi4L (Pi for Learning), with a wide range of games, programmes and systems the kids in the Beirut institution had developed during the school year.
Meanwhile, James Cranwell-Ward was settling into his new job as the Innovation Lead in Lebanon for for Unicef. He’d been one of the early hobbyists who’d played with the Pi when it was first released, and on a return trip to the UK in December 2013, he was impressed by how the Pi community had accelerated, particularly amongst educators.

The success of the final Pi4L project, and Metni’s year of pilot work, caught his attention. He had been searching for an out-of-the-box solution for the under-resourced and under-supported educators trying to serve the needs of the children in the overcrowded camps. The pair connected and, six months on, they’re bringing the coding ethos and the Pi to five locations around the country.
“This is somewhat a radical idea, to use coding - or even the concept of cheap computing - in a refugee population,” Cranwell-Ward explained. “But it’s a concept that is well-understood in other countries, so it’s a matter of packaging it for the context we’re in.”

In fact, Cranwell-Ward realised quickly that Lebanon was an one of the better locations in the middle east for this initiative.”In Lebanon we don’t have many of the same problems as other places Unicef is active in,” he said. “Rolling blackouts are well-understood, so we have generators ready. Everything we’ve developed is designed to be offline even though the country has good network connections via 3G.” And the camps provide ample televisions to use as monitors. The greatest challenge has been the up-sell.

In many ways, Metni did most of the hard work in the year preceding their meeting. She faced down opposition from the educator community in particular, who asked why they should bring coding into schools. Metni laughed. “They said, sure, at university level, but younger? What are they going to do with it?”
Her out-of-the-box solutions and ongoing successes helped Cranwell-Ward sell to his team. “I didn’t want to embark on a huge research project that would take years to get something that would ultimately never see the light of day. I wanted to take something relatively off the shelf and adapt it for the context,” he said. The pair identified a core curriculum in Arabic developed by the Khan Academy, that they could store on an offline server, and is distributed for free.

“I set my price point from the beginning at $100. I’m currently about $110 dollars per unit and at volume I’ll hit the mark.” During the initial pilot phase, the 60 Pis they’ve acquired will be used in school lessons by more than 30,000 refugees. Later, they intend to roll it out to the rest of the community.
But in addition to the traditional learning curriculum, Metni and Cranwell-Ward are emphatic that the kids will also use the Pi’s programming language Scratch to build programmes and games. “It attracts kids who might not necessarily be programmers. It also allows other ways of letting kids think in small, visual chunks,” said Metni.

“It’s approachable to non-programmers, and that’s non-threatening.” Building things in Scratch - from concept to delivery - will help make real essential lessons about their human rights and other issues that affect them, from water sanitation to protecting themselves from violence and abuse that can arise in a refugee situation. And, it’s fun.

It’s also part of gaining skills to be part of the future global community. “The rate at which tech is being rolled out into our lives is phenomenal and coding - or the understanding of technology and how to manipulate it - is going to be a core component of our lives and our children’s lives moving forward,” Cranwell-Ward said, echoing the Year of Code manifesto. “There needs to be some basic understanding of what technology is, how it can be manipulated, how we can use it to help ourselves, and not just be a consumer or slave.” This is the most important part of this initiative for Cranwell-Ward.

“The Raspberry Pi allows us to standardise across the globe,” he explained. “Imagine in a few years’ time that we could have a child who’s come from a setting like this who’ll go on to build the next Facebook or Twitter. That’s the potential,” he says. “Its not out of the realms of possibility.”

This Totally Explains Why Perrie Edwards Always Has Fabulous Hair

This Totally Explains Why Perrie Edwards Always Has Fabulous Hair


It's no wonder that Perrie Edwards has always had such incredible hairstyles! The Little Mix singer revealed that her very first job actually had nothing to do with her music career: she worked at a beauty parlor as a teen!

"I had a job in a salon," Perrie explains in a fun new video. "I used to sweep and wash old ladies' hair and everything!"

Even though she was around hairstylists all the time (her mother is one!), she didn't get too crazy with her own look until she joined Little Mix. Perrie's mom wouldn't let the star dye her hair back in those days because she was worried about what kind of damage it would cause.

Friday 25 July 2014

Mike Mignola Created A Poster for Pixar’s ‘Toy Story That Time Forgot’ Special

Mike Mignola Created A Poster for Pixar’s ‘Toy Story That Time Forgot’ Special

Comic artist Mike Mignola (Hellboy) created this poster for the upcoming Pixar TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, which will air on ABC this winter.The special is directed by Steve Purcell (co-director of Braveand creator of Sam & Max)

Demi Lovato Hair Transformations:

Demi Lovato Hair Transformations:

Hair is always a project for people to deal with, especially if you always cut, dye, or style it in different ways every few weeks. For Demi Lovato, it's more like a hobby.
The 21-year-old actress and singer has changed her hair to every color in the visible spectrum. She currently has a lavender/silver ombré going on. An ombré is a hair trend which features darker and natural hues at the roots with dyed lightening toward the ends.
According to E! News, the “Heart Attack” singer decides her hair color by doing something we all do every day: browsing the Internet.
"I love going on Pinterest and looking at different hair colors," Lovato told E! News. "Whenever I see like a cool color I sit with it for a little bit, and if it's really, really good then I'll get it."

Stars : Favorite Look of the Week:

Favorite Look of the Week:

Friday, August 1:

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Zayn Malik looked so cool rocking a graphic black and white floral shirt at Chiltern Firehouse in London.


Friday, July 25:


The actress was jetting out of Los Angeles and dressed down for her flight in an all-black outfit which consisted of her trademark T-shirt and skinny jeans.
The only pop of colour in Kristen’s outfit came in the form of blue trainers, and she wore sunglasses over her make-up free face.

Monday, July 21:

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Saturday, July 13:


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Emma Watson looked really cool At a Dior dinner in Paris, France wearing black top with black jeans.



Saturday, July 12:




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Taylor Swift looked SO  sporting an edgy and modern suit walking around in New York City. The dramatic all-black style is definitely a different look that we're used to seeing on Taylor, but her fashion risk definitely paid off!


Friday, July 11:



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Austin Mahone looked so cool  on the red carpet meet and greet for the Simon Swipe Presents Austin Mahone Live event at the iHeartRadio Theater in NYC. We love his totally stylish black and white striped hoodie and colorful sneakers!



Wednesday, June 9



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Harry Styles looked incredible rocking a turban-like headband and cool white shirt with black stripes in Barcelona, Spain. He made his look even more casual by unbuttoning a bit of his linen shirt (swoon) and rocking aviator sunglasses.

Get Eid Hairstyle , Mehndi Design and best nail art :

Get Eid Hairstyle , Mehndi Design and 

best nail art :



Hairstyle:

Hair are very important aspect is enhancing the beauty of a person especially for girls and women. The hairstyles for girls and women are changing very gradually according to the need of time and we are witnessing new versatility in them . Girls having short, medium or long hair must try out some unique hairstyles. The hairstyles are changing with the time and fashion like bows, tail, cutting, coloring, braids, layer, curls and much more. Now a days mostly hairstyles are copied from magazine, Television shows, red carpet, celebrities and famous actresses As we know girls have straight, curly, short, long and wavy hair,



Mehndi Design

Latest Mehndi Designs 2014: Mehndi is very popular fashion trend of the day in our customs. In Arabic it is called �Henna�.   It is very popular in Arabic nation. To trace the practice of the Mehndi is very difficult where from it is originally practiced but  in the history this trend is found in Egypt. The Henna plant is very small woody with white flowers. Henna designs are very popular in between girls. Mehndi designs are practiced especially on the events likewise weddings, Eid festivals. Now in girls school it is practiced as competition between girls especially on the event of meena bazar.

Nail Art

This is awesome nail art will remind you of the night and the sunset. This has been done using Zoya Pixie dust nails Lacquer and sand nail polishes. Sand finish nail polishes gives you a sand life effect, which seems as if you have really applied some sand on to your nails. These have been recently launched in India and are quite costly. However you may try out this unique nail art using 2 colours of sand nail polishes viz. Black and Glitter sand nail polish from Zoya in orange or yellow. Additionally sponge up a red colour or a pinkish tone on to the top portion. Use the black at the middle. Do not use a top coat for this one.

Most Stylish Selfie of the Week

Most Stylish Selfie of the Week
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Birthday girl Cher Lloyd shared the prettiest close-up selfie on her Instagram page! We were blown away by the singer's gorgeous sparkly eyes, glowing natural makeup, and cute gold hoop earrings.
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Demi Lovato's hair is shorter than ever! After playing around with her hair length a bit, Demi decided to style her summer chop even shorter, and showed off an amazing pic of her choppy bob! We love that she still left some of her cool purple ombre in her new look.

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Peyton List looked so cool in a pretty selfie she shared on her Instagram page. We love her shiny hair, oversized sunglasses, and crisp white mani in the stylish pic!


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"Hi cutie"  Bella Thorne showed off an adorable new selfie on her Instagram page where she showcases her wispy hair and glowing makeup! Fans also love her layered dainty necklaces and her floral top.
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Demi Lovato looked so stunning rocking a stylish hat, cool shades, and a floral top in a new Twitpic she posted. In her photo, she was enjoying a yummy green smoothie as a delicious way to eat her vegetables!
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Demi Lovato shared a selfie on Twitter showcasing her new haircut, and fans are totally obsessed with her layered, shoulder-length 'do. Her purple ombre is still going strong, but she added some major texture and volume to her bangs and shorter strands.
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Fifth Harmony's Camila Cabello looked so funny showing off a silly face selfie on Instagram! fans love her gorgeous powder blue shirt with its crochet detailed sleeves, and her hair and makeup are perfect too!









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Little Mix's Perrie Edwards showcased her glossy makeup perfectly in a cool black and white selfie. Even without color in the photo, Perrie's  lipstick and eye makeup are highlighted in the shot, which also features pretty rays of sunlight.


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Can a baby be the most stylish star of the day? He can if he's Niall Horan's nephew Theo Horan! We decided to dedicate the day's stylish selfie title to Theo in honor of his first birthday today.


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Bella Thorne looked absolutely cool in new selfie she shared while at an oceanside photo shoot.

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Harry Styles looked cool rocking a printed shirt and wearing a turban-style headband to keep back his messy hair in a new photo posted on One Direction's Instagram page!


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Ariana Grande's latest Instagram pic has us seeing double!

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Did Taylor Swift get a whole new hairstyle? She showed off a cool new Instagram pic where her hair looks green on top and fiery red ombre at the ends! Tay explained in the photo's caption that it was actually the beautiful sunset making her hair look so colorful