Entertainers we lost in 2015

Click on the image to read on all the celebrities that have passed away in 2015

Let us all observe a moment of silence for our dearly departed celebrities. Every single one of these people have left a lasting impression in our live. 

 Kristine Brown

"Let's start this career up&&moving OUT to TO YOU ALLLL quick shall we !?!???!" she said in an enthusiastic tweet.

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A Little Girl Wrote Google A Letter Asking To Give Her Dad A Day Off, And Google Responded

Here’s some advice on how to get some time off from work: Have your daughter send a really cute letter to your employer, asking them to give you a day off.

Bonus points if the letter is written in crayon.

One little girl decided to give her dad a hand. She wrote his employer, which happens to be Google, a letter, asking that they cut him some slack with the work schedule.

The letter reads:

Dear Google Worker,

Can you please make sure when daddy goes to work, he gets one day off. Like he can get a day off on Wednesday. Because daddy only gets a day off on Saturday.

From, Katie

P.S. It is Daddy’s BIRTHDAY

P.P.S. It is summer, you know

 This was the reply from her dad's boss:

I think its totally adorable.

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Story by: 

Karyne Levy, Business Insider

Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday: Google doodles a portrait

"As always, Google loves to celebrate the birthdays of special people and today, an amazing man was selected." 

New Delhi: To commemorate the 407th birth anniversary of one of the greatest painters of all time, Google has posted a portrait of the celebrated Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn on its home page. The Google logo appears as an etching on the background.

Rembrandt van Rijn is regarded as one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art. At the beginning of his artistic career Rembrandt mainly painted portraits and a tenth of them were self portraits, but biblical themes formed the core of Rembrandt's oeuvre.

Born on 15 July 1606, Rembrandt van Rijn (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn in full) was the fourth of six surviving children out. Four of his siblings died. Rembrandt didn't come from a family of artists or craftsman, as many of his contemporaries. His father was a miller and his mother came from a family of bakers.

The Google logo appears as an etching in the background of the Rembrandt van Rijn portrait.

His most famous works include: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635), Night Watch (1642), Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654) and Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1662).

Rembrandt died at the age of 63 on October 4, 1669 in Amsterdam.

Read more about Rembrandt and see his works HERE.

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IBN Live

Zeitgeist 2012 | Google's Review of 2012

This year, Google is doing a review of the searches made globally via their search engine. They chose to call it Zeitgeist 2012. With this, people go  watch the review video and if they have the time, they can share their New Year's resolution with the rest of the world. 

" Zeitgeist 

~ The defining spirit or mood 

of a particular period of history

 as shown by the ideas and beliefs 

of the time. "

As the year draws to a slow close, Google reminds the world by saying "What did the World Search for in 2012?

2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we've analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for.

"2012 has been an awesome year for me... how was your 2012?!?"

Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter threaten to block controversial snoopers' charter

Google, Facebook and Twitter are set to torpedo Home Office plans to spy on every citizen's emails and website visits.

The internet giants have threatened to block the so-called 'snoopers' charter', which requires them to store all data for a year so that security agencies, police and councils can request its disclosure.

Civil liberty groups claim the powers would create a surveillance state, but Britain's security and intelligence agencies insist they are vital to investigate crime and protect the national interest.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are set to torpedo Home Office plans to spy on every citizen's emails and website visits.

Now the frank testimonies of internet bosses have been released by a cross-party committee of MPs and peers that is scrutinising the draft Communications Data Bill.

They reveal directors from Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Twitter believe the Bill would breach users' privacy and allow repressive regimes to spy on Britons. Facebook said it might go to court to resist the new law, while Google and Twitter executives said they could refuse to unlock encrypted data if the Government were to seek the information via third-party providers such as BT.

Facebook said it might go to court to resist the new law, while Google and Twitter said they could refuse to unlock encrypted data

Facebook director Simon Milner accused the Government of using a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut', and claimed the potential for nations with poor human-rights records to obtain data 'should be a real concern'. Nick Pickles, director of  civil-liberty group Big Brother Watch, said: 'How the Home Office thinks these plans are workable in light of such clear criticism is a mystery.' The Home Office said: 'We hope all major communications companies take their responsibilities to assist law-enforcement seriously.'

Story by  Robert Verkaik, Daily Mail 

Gustav Klimt honoured with Google Doodle

Join Google, Gustav Klimt  and myself as we celebrate the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt with the rest of the world.

Australian artist, Gustav Klimt's Google Doodle.

The Austrian artist, born in 1862, displayed a fascination with eroticism and led the Secession movement. As a symbolist painter, his work caused a lot of controversy for its celebration of sexuality. Today, Gustav's pieces are counted among the most expensive artworks worldwide.

Klimt was the son of a gold engraver. In his later years, he became known for his gold leaf on his works, which he produced after he was trained at Vienna's School of Applied Art. 

The Secession movement was a group of Viennese artists who challenged the rigidity of traditional Austrian paintings, and he emerged as a master musketeer for this group. His leadership made him the only artist to do an extensive, authorized productions of his own work.

In 1903, he was forced to remove Hope 1, a painting of a naked pregnant woman from the retrospective exhibition of the Secession movement. So far, his most famous painting is The Kiss (1907-08), which reflected his fascination with eroticism.

This father of 14 illegitimate children, died from a stroke after contracting the Spanish flu during the 1918 pandemic.

In 2010, a Vienna art museum invited a sex club to hold orgies and display related paraphernalia in the Secession Building, home to Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, his most ambitious surviving work.

"As for me, I can't wait to get honored with a Google Doodle but I wonder what to do to qualify?"

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Gustav Klimt