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Sorry Shawn Mendes & Diddy! | Perez Hilton – Perez Hilton

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We hope Shawn Mendes doesn’t get mad at us! Diddy too! Our latest podcast is out now and it’s as raw and unfiltered as ever! Plus, lots more on Demi Lovato, Cardi B, Ariana Grande and all your faves! Listen to The Perez Hilton Podcast with Chris Booker on iTunes or directly at PerezPodcast.com Read more: https://perezhilton.com/2018-11-28-sorry-shawn-mendes-diddy-perez-hilton/

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Samsung fakes test photo by using a stock DSLR image

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Samsung’s Malaysian arm has some explaining to do. The company, in an effort to show off the Galaxy A8 Star’s amazing photo retouching abilities, used a cleverly shot portrait, modified it and then ostensibly passed it off as one taken by the A8. The trouble began when Serbian photographer Dunja Djudjic noticed someone had bought one of her photos from a service called EyeEm that supplies pictures to Getty Images, a renowned photo reseller. Djudjic, curious as to the buyer, did a quick reverse search and found her image —…

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Audis e-tron GT concept is an all-electric sedan with some Porsche DNA

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Audi is making room in its electric future for more than SUVs or crossovers. After a string of teasers, the German automaker finally unveiled the Audi e-tron GT concept, a four-door all-electric coupe that has some Porsche DNA sprinkled in and that looks a lot like the A7. Audi introduced the concept Wednesday during the press days of the L.A. Auto Show. The GT concept follows the September reveal of the automaker’s first all-electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron SUV that is expected to go into volume production next year. The…

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Wellness giant Life Time targets co-working, shopping malls for next act

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Founded in 1990 by CEO Bahram Akradi, Minnesota-based Life Time used to be known as a premier health club that operated large gyms mainly in affluent suburbs in Midwestern and Southern states. Its success was memorialized in 2015 when two leading private equity firms, Leonard Green & Partners and TPG Capital, led a $4-billion deal to take the company private. But rather than retire or move on to new challenges, Akradi chose to remain in his leadership post and continue to build the Life Time brand. Just a few years…

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UFC’s Rachael Ostovich Allegedly Savagely Attacked By MMA Fighter Husband Arnold Berdon – Perez Hilton

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Sad, scary news to report about UFC fighter Rachael Ostovich. Per reports from the The reported attack happened at 2 a.m. Sunday morning at a residence in the Waianae section of Honolulu County. Honolulu PD promptly took a 27-year-old suspect into custody after the fight, but initially refused to release the names of any involved parties. But the latest update confirms that Berdon has been officially charged with attempted murder in connection to the incident. TMZ confirms that Rachael has been granted an official restraining order against her husband set to…

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Wandelbots raises $6.8M to make programming a robot as easy as putting on a jacket

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Industrial robotics is on track to be worth around $20 billion by 2020, but while it may have something in common with other categories of cutting-edge tech — innovative use of artificial intelligence, pushing the boundaries of autonomous machines that are disrupting pre-existing technology — there is one key area where it differs: each robotics firm uses its own proprietary software and operating systems to run its machines, making programming the robots complicated, time-consuming and expensive. A startup out of Germany called Wandelbots (a portmanteau of “change” and “robots” in…

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