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Here's What You Can Do With $999 Instead Of Buying An iPhone X

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iPhone X, or iPhone 10 as it is also being called, will be available in the United States from October 27. It may have a number of new features -- bezel-less, edge-to-edge screen, no home screen button, and so on -- but is it really worth blowing up $999, when the per capita GDP of my home country India itself is only $1820?  Specifications: The iPhone is packed with  Super Retina HD display,  5.8-inch (diagonal) all-screen OLED Multi-Touch display, HDR display, 2436-by-1125-pixel resolution at 458 PPI, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio (typical),True Tone display, Wide color display (P3),3D Touch, 625 cd/m2 max brightness (typical) Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating and support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously                     Full launch video of iPhone X Five things to do instead of spending $999 on an iPhone X : 1)  I’d spend the $999 on annual fees for premium travel cards — essentially investing in a great travel card like Chase Sapp

It's Finally Over, Mastermind Behind The Blue Whale Challenge Arrested

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The  Blue Whale game  or  Blue Whale Challenge  is believed to be a suicide game wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a task to complete daily — for a period of 50 days — the final of which is the participant committing suicide. Participants are expected to share photos of the challenges/tasks completed by them. This suicidal game is reportedly prevalent in 18 countries. These daily tasks start off easy — such as listening to certain genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others, and then slowly escalate to carving out shapes on one’s skin, self-mutilation and eventually suicide.  Blue Whale began in Russia in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network. Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university, claimed that he invented the game, stating his purpose was to 'cleanse' society by pushin