Brooklyn Beckham Has a Gorgeous French Girlfriend

It appears Brooklyn Beckham has a new lady in his life:singer and actress Sonia Ben Ammar.
Over the last few months, the 16-year-old eldest son of Victoria and David Beckham has been spending time with the rising French star, whom he reportedly met during a family trip to the Maldives. She must have made quite the impression, because she then visited the Beckhams at their Los Angeles home over the summer.
(Yes, this means she's probably met his parents…possibly twice.)
But there were no parents in sight during Brooklyn and Sonia's recent jaunt through Paris. The aspiring soccer player/model/photographer has been sharing a slew of stunning snaps from his trip to the City of Lights —ranging from art hanging in the Centre Pompidou , to cityscapes with stormy skies, to the Eiffel Tower basked in sunshine — but the pic that has everyone talking is of the back of an unidentified young lady (who is almost certainly Sonia).
Posted on September 7, the black-and-white snap shows a woman looking out over the capital city, her ombre-colored hair whipping in the breeze. Brooklyn opted to let the shot speak for itself and didn't include any clues or captions. That same day, however, the pair was spotted strolling through Paris together, so it's not a big leap to assume it's her in the pic.
This isn't the first time the budding performer has popped up in Brooklyn's Instagram feed, however. Last month, Brooklyn posted a photo of a group of friends and Sonia, 16, was in it. Not only was she in it, though, she was up close and personal to the Brit. In fact, Brooklyn's arm is clearly wrapped around her waist, pulling her in close for the shot — and she looks pretty happy about it.
"Fun night with these people," he wrote alongside the casual snap.
On its own, the group shot is hardly definitive proof of a romance between these two genetically blessed teens, but when added to her visit to California and their time together in Paris, it's looking rather likely that they're more than friends.
Brooklyn was previously linked to actress Chloe Grace Moretz after the two were introduced at a SoulCycle class in Santa Monica last year. Though their romance seemed to fizzle out (if it ever even really existed), Moretz still praised Brooklyn for being "passionate about what he wants," which, she told Teen Vogue, "is to be a pro soccer star."
Being a pro soccer star with a gorgeous singer by his side? Wherever did Brooklyn come up with that idea?

Transformers 5 Storyline Details Revealed

It looks as though ‘Transformers 5’ is going to pull out the big guns… as voice actor Mark Ryan spills the beans on what we can expect.
During an appearance at Wings and Wheels UK (via Christian Post ), the 59-year-old voice actor (who voiced Lockdown in ‘Age of Extinction’), revealed everything he knows about the movie’s plot so far.
“He explained that the film is undergoing dual directions,” they said. “He said that the first will focus on Cade and Co. With that, fans predicted that ‘Transformers 5’ will be centered around having the Autobots on earth.”
“The plan is to have Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and the Dinobots - with a few Autobots thrown in for good measure - assemble to tackle an impending threat on Earth,” expanded the folks at CBM. “[At the same time,]
Optimus Prime will head into outer space to hunt down the creators of his race, the Quintessons, something which will see him reportedly meet up with Unicron.”
If you ask me, that sounds like an awful lot to pack into one movie… but with a huge character such as Unicron just casually dropped in there, this could be the ‘Transformers’ movie we’ve all been waiting for.
Of course, there are also rumours that Paramount Pictures is seeking to expand the Transformers franchise by creating a number of spin-offs… and Mark Ryan even has a hint about which direction they’ll go.
“The franchise plans to reinvent the brand of the movie adaptations to focus more on the transformers, as opposed to the human character present,” he apparently explained.
Now, this is all just rumours and speculation, but it could mean that Paramount is looking to focus each ‘Transformers’ spin-off on a particular robotic character– much like the Avengers solo films follow their respective heroes.
And if you ask me, that makes a lot of sense.
Whether or not it will prove to be a ‘Transformers’ overload for fans of the series remains to be seen… But either way, it sounds as though there are a lot more Autobots and Decepticons heading our way.
‘Transformers 5’ heads to cinemas sometime in 2017.

Apple just admitted Microsoft is right

On Wednesday, Apple announced the iPad Pro, Apple's biggest, most powerful iPad that has an optional attachable keyboard and the new "Pencil" stylus.
Sound familiar?
It's Apple's version of the Microsoft Surface. Apple even used the same name, "Pro," to describe it.
And with this new product, Apple has admitted that Microsoft was right. What people really want, especially office workers, is a hybrid computer — a touch-screen tablet with the power of a PC ... and a keyboard. What people really want is Microsoft's vision.
If you remember, such a do-it-all PC was once called the "Toaster-Fridge," by some in the industry.
That was a term from a statement by Apple CEO Tim Cook back in 2012, when a Wall Street analyst asked him if Apple would ever do a hybrid.
He famously replied, “You can merge a toaster and a refrigerator, but that’s probably not going to be pleasing to anyone.”
Apparently Cook was wrong.

Justin Bieber Becomes a Blonde Bombshell

Justin Bieber has always been a trendsetter for his hairstyles — starting from the iconic “swoop” of his adolescence that made tweenage girls swoon. This morning, he debuted platinum blonde hair, swept to the side, on set at the Today Show. Originally, the 21-year-old hid his hair under a black baseball cap before taking it off during the show. “I’ve got to see this hair up close,” Today Show co-host Tamron Hall said, speaking on behalf of adolescents everywhere.
The international star and god of the Beliebers, who was discovered on YouTube in 2007, has been making resurgence in his career recently, performing “What Do You Mean?” at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and breaking down on stage while the audience was applauding. On The Tonight Show, he explained to Jimmy Fallon: “I just wasn’t expecting them to support me in the way that they did. Last time I was at an award show, I was booed…That’s what’s so special about the emotional moment at the end. It was authentic, it was real. I was really just wanting it so bad.” As any female performer (Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, or even Miley Cyrus, for example) can tell Bieber, nothing tells the public that you want a fresh start more than switching up your beauty look.

Apple Watch owners surprised at how much they use the device’s most obvious feature

The Apple Watch does a lot of different things but one of its most basic functions is its ability to tell you the time. Even though this is an extremely obvious feature, it seems that many Apple Watch owners are nonetheless surprised by how often they use the device to check the time.
Per The Independent , research firm Wristly conducted a survey of Apple Watch users where it asked them to list the device features that they were surprised to be using and the features they were surprised they weren’t using more. 48% of Apple Watch users said they were using the device to check the time more than they thought they would, while 51% said they were using it to tell time about as much as expected.
Other unexpectedly popular uses for the Apple Watch included activity tracking, which 70% of users said they were surprised they used, and measuring heart rates, which 42% said they were surprised they used. Users also reported being surprised at how little they were using the device to listen to music and podcasts and how little they were using it for messaging options.

One Look at the ‘World’s Sexiest Nurse’ and You Will Flatline

Beautiful women with normal day jobs seems to be the internet’s favorite topic these days. This summer alone the internet’s fallen for a hot Mexican weather woman , a gorgeous Brazilian street sweeper, and McDonald’s “ goddess” cashier. Nurse is the newest occupation to join the list thanks to the jaw-droppingly sexy Kaicyre Palmers. A nurse hasn’t looked this good since Blink-182’s iconic Enema of the State album cover.
Palmers, a New York City nurse who studies at NYU, has amassed 124,000 thirsty followers on Instagram who comment saying they’d contract Ebola just so she would take care of them and other thirst-ridden things. The world class traveler has posted hot photos in Turks and Caicos, Bali, and Puerto Rico. And although she may be making bank at both of her jobs, affording her a jetsetter lifestyle, Palmer’s aspirational Instagram bio reads:
“Don't chase the paper..chase the Dream.”

Verizon’s 5G service is faster than Google Fiber, will begin to roll out in 2017

The future of wireless networks is coming even sooner than we expected. In a recent interview with CNET, Roger Gurnani, chief information and technology architect for Verizon, said that the wireless company plans to begin field tests for its 5G technology within the next 12 months, and “some level of commercial deployment” will begin by 2017.
This is especially shocking news when taking into consideration earlier reports, which have suggested 5G technology wouldn’t be ready to roll out to consumers until 2020. It would also place Verizon at the top of the pack when attempting to convert new users with the promise of blazing fast Internet and split-second download speeds.
“The future is going to bring more stuff that I can’t really describe,” Gurnani said. “We can’t possibly envision the full range of disruptive products and services. But we have some possibilities.”
The unprecedented speed has been hinted at in the past, but Verizon has some hard data that makes 5G sound even more appealing than it already was.
According to the Verizon’s tests, 5G is 30 to 50 times faster than 4G, which is even higher than what the elusive Google Fiber offers its customers.
With testing underway and a limited commercial roll out scheduled for 2017, you might be tempted to start looking for preorders for the first 5G phones, but those are likely still years away.
“At this time, our focus is on the technology field trials and accelerating the technology,” Gurnani pointed out.
“For technical trials themselves, we have what we need.
Beyond that, 5G will require big bands of spectrum.”

Will Ice Cube Vote Kanye West for President in 2020? Watch His Response

During a recent interview to promote the new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, rap legend Ice Cube was asked a very important question regarding America's future: Would he vote Kanye West for president in 2020?
Taylor Swift Gets Flowers From Kanye West -- And Offers to Be His Running Mate in 2020
"I'm voting for Kanye. Why not?" Cube told Britain's Daily Mail. "Who's better than Kanye to run?"
As the whole world knows by now, West announced that he'd be running for president in 2020 during his passionate 13-minute speech at the MTV VMAs on Aug. 30. The rapper was awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the ceremony.
Ice Cube was also asked whether he'd be interested in the VP spot, which could cause some problems with Taylor Swift, who's already got dibs on being West's running mate. Luckily, Cube isn't interested.
"No, I'm not into politics like that," the rapper responded, as his son O'Shea Jackson Jr. (who portrays his father in Compton), agreed with a laugh.

Here's what it's REALLY like to work at Google, the 'world's most attractive' employer

Google is quite possibly the best place to work in the world.
The tech giant headquartered in Mountain View, California, frequently ranks top tier on Business Insider's Best Companies To Work For In America list, landing in the No. 2 spot this year. Google was also judged to be the World's Most Attractive Employer this year by global research and advisory firm Universum, and employee ratings on Glassdoor earned the company the No. 1 spot on Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards, Best Places to Work 2015 .
Google's more than 57,000 employees love everything the "Googleplex" has to offer, including free Wi-Fi-enabled shuttles to and from work, free healthy meals, laundry and fitness facilities, 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave for birth moms and on-site childcare, and competitive pay — they report 84% high job satisfaction and earn a median salary of $133,000 after five years, according to survey data from PayScale .
Laszlo Bock, Google's HR boss, explains in his book, "Work Rules!," that the key to a successful workplace is constantly innovating, experimenting, and keeping things fun.
Mayra Felix.
"What's beautiful about this approach is that a great environment is a self-reinforcing one: All of these efforts support one another, and together create an organization that is creative, fun, hardworking, and highly productive," he writes.
Google has over 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the world. Mayra Felix, a strategic program manager for the Americas with Google's Global Account Management team, works in the company's California headquarters.
She started her career at Google in 2013 as a regional account manager, and prior to that moved to the US from Ecuador to attend Georgetown University.
We spoke to Felix to find out what it's really like to work for one of the world's top employers.

The Sneaker "Pawn" Store Owned by a Teenager Is Reportedly a Sham

Last year, then-16-year-old Chase Reed took his love for sneakers to the next level by selling his personal 200-pair collection to open a sneaker pawn shop. What was thought to be an astounding accomplishment for a teenager was allegedly a marketing scheme to create buzz around the business.
According to the New York Post, several of Sneaker Pawn's employees insist that it was all a front. Troy Reed, the teen's father, claimed the shop was completely his son's vision and was seeded by the sale of his collection, but ex-business partner Damon Taylor claims the sneakers were not Chase's and that he was just used to give the shop a younger presence.
“We took his son and put his son as the face,” Taylor told the Post.
The article also reported that Reed did not collect sales taxes or adequately compensate employees. Former employee Damaries Negron said that they failed to pay her, but offered her a share in the company instead.
In a industry as big as sneakers, the idea of a sneaker pawn shop should've been successful without shady business practices and a front.

I could never play my brother, says Djokovic

Novak Djokovic tipped his hat to
Serena and Venus Williams ahead of their 27th career meeting but admitted he would find it impossible to play his own brother.
The world number one has two tennis-playing younger brothers -- 24-year-old Marko and Djorde, who's 20.
Both play on the sport's lower-level tours, which suits Djokovic just fine.
That's a luxury which neither Serena nor Venus can afford and they clash again on Tuesday for a place in the US Open semi-finals with Serena chasing a calendar Grand Slam.
"The first thing that comes to my mind is how would I feel to play my brother, and I don't think that would be possible, honestly," said Djokovic after reaching his 26th Grand Slam quarter-final Sunday in New York.
"In a way I admire what they're doing for so many years to play against each other on such a big stage. It's strange. They are sisters. They live together. They grew up together playing tennis.
"But I don't know if I'll be able to play my brother. It's not possible. I would not be able to handle it on the court."

Meet Ben Carson, the Crazy Republican Who Might Beat Trump

As we get closer and closer to the 2016 Presidential election, it's important to keep yourself informed about all of the candidates who are vying for your vote. So, meet Ben Carson.
Ben Carson has the quintessential American Dream story. He brought himself up by his bootstraps, from a childhood plagued by dire poverty in Detroit, to become one of the world's most renowned surgeons. He's a Yale graduate and an accomplished author and public speaker.
Sounds great, but hold the phone. While Carson's inspiring personal story may win the hearts of the American people, he's been finding himself in hot water for blunt, over-the-top remarks on social issues like homosexuality and healthcare. His calm speaking demeanor and intelligence make him easy to listen to, but his lack of political experience and inaccurate knowledge concerning foreign policy are troubling to many.

Bow Wow Selling BMW i8 for $147K Cuz of a Broken Heart

Sometimes you hear a story and think, “That’s just crazy.” Such is the case with the 28-year-old rapper Bow Wow. He’s selling his 2014 BMW i8 for $147,999 to make room in his garage for his new Range Rover Autobiography . (And that’s marked down from $169,999.)
At least that’s the story he’s peddling to TMZ in an exclusive entitled, “I’m Selling My Spaceship on Wheels.” But it turns out a broken heart may be behind the sale of the BMW.
According to Edmunds , a 2014 BMW i8 in excellent condition with leather seats and cornering lights should sell for about $114,000. That’s assuming it’s in excellent condition and has about 15,000 miles on it.
OK, so maybe Bow Wow has been busy touring. It only has 1,516 miles on it. That only bumps the price up to $116,688.
Maybe there’s some Bow Wow bonus to buying his used BMW that’s not talked about? Heck, a 2015 BMW i8 new starts at $136,500. Looking at the photo gallery of his car, it’s hard to see where the extra $35,000 comes in.
Maybe it’s been tricked out in subtle ways with diamond encrusted glove boxes and brake pedals.
It appears this all has something to do with the fact his engagement to reality star Erica Mena has been broken.
According to Music Times , she gave him the car. That’s probably the real reason he’s dumping the car — and not to make room in his garage for his Range Rover Autobiography. No word yet on if he bought that car or it was a gift from another mistress.

Apple Watch Burns Woman, Apple Tells Her She's 'Wearing it Wrong'

The Apple watch might be this season's hottest iced-out, gold-plated luxury accessory, but it still has a serious flaw. A Canadian woman found out the hard way that if the watch overheats, it leaves painful burns on your wrist, the Daily Mail reports . Annie Hoang was on a road trip with her family and had been wearing her Apple watch for about seven hours. When she took it off, she noticed watch-sized burn marks on her wrist. When she took the watch back to an Apple store, the staff ignored her complaints.
On her third visit she spoke to a manager, who offered her a new watch, but she asked for a refund instead. The defective watch was sent to a lab for testing, and a few days later Hoang received an email from Apple technicians.
They said I was wearing it wrong, too tightly, or that maybe I had a skin irritation. I'd had it for three months.
If I wore it too tightly then it would have happened beforehand. I think it's because it was the first time it had been exposed to the sun.
Hoang isn't the only one who's complained of burns and skin irritation from wearing the Apple watch. When the device first came out, a few users posted pictures of burns and rashes allegedly caused by the watch.

Kanye West Sent Taylor Swift Flowers After The VMAs

It's been a big week for Kanye West and Taylor Swift's relationship. On Sunday Swift presented Kanye with the MTV VMA Video Vanguard Award and then he spoke at length onstage about his infamously crashing her own acceptance speech at the same award show six years earlier. If Sunday's display was any indication, the two have apparently long-patched up their rift and Swift took to Twitter earlier tonight to share a flick of some flowers that Ye sent her, presumably as a thank you for presenting the award. While the photo is the real news here—that looks like an expensive bouquet of flowers after all—Taylor also hashtagged her Tweet with #KanTay2020, a hint that Ye's potential presidential campaign run is growing in size.

Apple asked to not call its new phone the ‘iPhone 6s’ for the silliest possible reason

Apple’s next iPhone will likely be named iPhone 6s. The company is expected to launch an “S” generation of iPhones every two years, following a major redesign, and that seems to be the case for 2015. The upcoming iPhone 6s might offer a bigger “S” upgrade than any previous such model, but that might not be enough for Apple to call it the iPhone 7 all of a sudden.
However, one company is deeply affected by the iPhone 6s name choice and is urging Apple to go with iPhone 7 on September 9th as the official name of the 2015 iPhone – just check the image below, taken in New York’s Times Square.
“Dear Universe,” the ad reads. “Please call in the iPhone 7,” says the billboard. If that’s not enough, a similar sign was placed on a truck parked outside Apple’s glass retail store in Manhattan. “Dear Apple,” the sign says, “please call it the iPhone 7.”
This is a genius marketing move that seems to come from an advertising company. And, indeed, “6S” is the name of a small advertising firm behind the campaign.
“We called the company 6S because it sounds like ‘success,’” 6S Marketing President Chris Breikss said in a press release. “The name came from a custom license plate on a Mercedes that my father and I spotted when I was 11 years old — it read SSS SSS. After much deliberation, we realized that translated to ‘six-esses,’ or ‘successes.’ Years later, that eventually became the name of our company.”
“Our name is very important to us,” Breikss added. “After the iPhone 4S and 5S launched, we realized that our once-unique name could be in jeopardy, linked to the most popular mobile device in the world. We love Apple’s products; most of us use iPhones on a daily basis, and we’re flattered to potentially share the same name. However, we would prefer that Apple change the naming convention and consider calling their next phone the iPhone 7.”
While this marketing stunt is absolutely incredible, it’s not likely it’ll have any effect on Apple’s marketing plans. After all, just remember that HealthKit incident from a while ago, which similarly affected one particular company.
Unlike that instance, the iPhone 6s is probably not going to negatively affect the success of 6S – it might make it cooler by association.

Google just added a fun new feature to Search… but we’re not sure why

Google unveiled its brand new logo earlier this week, and it hasn’t stopped rolling out new features ever since. We’ve seen new additions come to Google Now and Google’s Android search app, and Google Maps for iOS was updated with five nifty new features. Now, the fresh-faced Internet giant has rolled out yet another fun new feature to its flagship desktop search product… but we’re really not sure why.
It’s like Christmas in the summer each time Google adds unexpected new features to its Search product. Well, almost every time. Sometimes the company rolls out new features that aren’t exactly useful, though the hope is that they’ll eventually lead to something that is worthwhile.
Such is the case with Google’s new “I’m feeling curious” feature.
The feature can be accessed by typing “I’m feeling curious” or “fun facts” into the search box, and all it does is display a random fact in a search card on the results page. Click the “ask another question” button, and another random fact will pop up. In an annoying turn of events, you can’t actually ask a question, despite the presence of an “ask another question” button.
Google mines the web for all kinds of information, and we suppose this is just another way to present some of it, useless though it may be. Will this new “I’m feeling curious” feature eventually lead to something bigger and better? We can only hope.

‘Bizarre’ Six Foot Sea Scorpion Stuns Scientists

Here’s a creature you wouldn’t want to encounter during your morning swim - luckily, you’d have to be taking a dip in the ocean 467 million years ago to meet the pentecopterus decorahensis sea scorpion.
Named after the penteconter, an ancient greek ship that did service during the Trojan war, over 150 fossils from this powerful predator were recently excavated in Iowa.
They show a powerful predator around 1.7m long with a uniquely shaped exoskeleton ‘helmet’ to protect its head.
Lead researcher Dr James Lamsdell, from Yale University in the US, said: “The new species is incredibly bizarre.
“The shape of the paddle - the leg which it would use to swim - is unique, as is the shape of the head. It’s also big - over a meter-and-a-half long!”
He added: “Perhaps most surprising is the fantastic way it is preserved. The exoskeleton is compressed on the rock but can be peeled off and studied under a microscope. This shows an amazing amount of detail, such as the patterns of small hairs on the legs. At times it seems like you are studying the shed skin of a modern animal - an incredibly exciting opportunity for any palaeontologist.”
But modern this guy ain’t - in fact, the fossils are 10 million years older than any other sea scorpion discovered to date. It might seem like the great great (great great great) grandfather of the crab or lobster, but in fact these eurypterids are the ancestors of modern spiders.
The excellent preservation has let researchers in on a lot of the sea scorpion’s secrets - its back legs were covered in dense setae, or bristles, which may have helped it to swim or had a sensory function. Spines on some of its limbs are similar to the ones found on horseshoe crabs, which use them to process food.
When Pentecopterus was alive, it would have been a fearsome ocean predator at a time when the first animals were only just starting to colonise the land.
During this time, fish to only about a foot long and were jawless - no match for a six foot sea scorpion.
But then again, 467 million years later, who had the last laugh?

Google Exec Buys Wife A Ferrari FXX K

We first heard about Google executive Benjamin Sloss and his admiration for the Ferrari brand in 2012 when he paid close to $1.8 million for a Ferrari 599XX Evo in a charity auction. Now he’s back in the headlines and proving his generosity once more, this time by presenting his wife Christine with a LaFerrari -based FXXK for her birthday.
The FXX K is sold out but for those lucky few invited to purchase one it came with a price tag of 2.5 million euros (approximately $2.8 million). The couple recently headed to Maranello to take delivery of their example at the factory and spend some time testing it out on Ferrari’s Fiorano test track.
It was a huge surprise as the birthday girl thought she was only flying to Maranello to drive the 599XX Evo, but when she arrived she was greeted with this yellow FXXK—the same shade of yellow the couple orders all their Ferraris in.
And before you start thinking Benjamin was really treating himself with the purchase, note that Christine is an accomplished GT driver and takes part in a number of track events each year. In fact, after a few laps of Fiorano in the FXX K, she was running 1:20 with a passenger on board. That comes close to matching the 1:19.70 that the LaFerrari set with official tester Raffaele De Simone at the wheel.
Of course, the FXX K is a much more extreme car than the LaFerrari on which it’s based. The track-only model, part of Ferrari’s XX rolling laboratory fleet, delivers as much as 1,035 horsepower from its hybrid powertrain.
There’s also loads more downforce compared to the road car, plus slick tires and recalibration of the electronic systems such as the differential, traction control and SSC Side Slip Angle Control feature.

The Real Reason Justin Bieber Cried After His VMAs Performance

After performing at the VMAs for the first time since he was " that sweet kid with the haircut ," Justin Bieber broke down in tears.
When the crying started, the Internet was ablaze with questions. As Buzzfeed asked , was his harness too tight? Was he not allowed into Taylor Swift's clique? Did Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus' spat upset him?
The answer, as it turns out, is that the Biebs was just plain overwhelmed. According to a source close to Bieber, who spoke to Gossip Cop, "He worked so hard not just on the performance but himself. He didn’t know how people would accept him. When he saw them on their feet cheering, he was overwhelmed."
The source also noted, "Last time he was on an award show he was booed. This time he was cheered for. It meant a lot to him.”
Bieber's reps did not respond to our request for comment.
The Canadian pop star began his performance with "Where Are U Now," the upbeat dance track produced by Diplo and Skrillex, and then moved on to his new single, "What Do You Mean?" The singer also released the video for his new track over the weekend, and thanked his fans for all the love on Twitter .
"Thanks for always making me smile," he wrote.
Bieber will continue his streak with upcoming appearances on both "The Tonight Show " and "Today, " and his new album is set to be released in November.
The Biebs is officially back.