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Google announces 'verified accounts' for Google+

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Recently Google announced that it will allow users to have custom URL on Google+. "At first we're, introducing custom URL's to Limited number of verified profiles and pages. But whole time it will introduce custom URL's to many more brands and individuals" said Saurabh Sharma, product manager, Google in a blog post. Commentators believe that this option is similar to Twitter and Facebook have verified accounts for celebrities, brands and high profile personalities. The service is not open to everyone yet, however the company plans to make it available on due course.

Brand new iPhone x Costs $999 : Apple CEO Tim Cook

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For the technology that you are getting in iPhone X it costs $999 i.e. 65000 rupees said Apple's CEO Tim Cook during a segment on good morning America. Image source- www.forbes.com He said this is in response to a question on whether the average American can afford iPhone X or not. The phone is priced 89000 rupees for 64 GB variant and 102000 rupees for 256 GB variant, in India.

Farmer gets 77 crore electricity bill

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Ram Prasad, marginal farmer in Chhattisgarh's mahasamund, was left in shock after he gets 77 crore electricity bill from the State Power  Distribution Company. While Ram Prasad was worried about this incorrect and inflated billing. Electricity department blamed some technical error. While electricity department said that error was due to Prasad's electricity metre which was changed on 4th August.

Bill Gates regrets Windows' control + Alt + delete Shortcut

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Microsoft co-founder and the world's richest man Bill Gates admitted that he regrets 'Ctrl + Alt + delete' shortcut on Windows computer. He said, if he could make any small edit on a Windows computer, he would make 'Ctrl + Alt + delete' ''a single key''. The two handed manoeuvre was once required to reboot Windows computers. Actually this three-key combination is used to launch Task Manager on Microsoft computers, allowing users to shutdown programs that have frozen or reboot the system. The shortcut control + alt + delete was originally developed by David Bradley an IBM engineer to enable their employees to restart the Computer and was never intended for public use.