First Gift of the holiday season: white lion cubs

The Toronto Zoo's eight-week-old lion cubs made their first public appearance on Thursday, displaying their cuteness in a video on the zoo's YouTube channel.Baby animals are almost always cute — but extremely rare baby animals? Who are only eight weeks old? And exploring their environment? They're so adorable they would make Ebeneezer Scrooge himself squeal like a teenager at a Justin Bieber concert.

The four male cubs were born Sep. 26 and 27, to white lion mother Makali. Doctors said their first 30 days of life would be crucial, and they are now reportedly all in good health.It is not yet possible to see the cubs at the zoo (they are still in the lion habitat's maternity ward) but this video of them exploring the environment has already made them Internet darlings.They are old pros at the fame game, having hit over 50,000 views in their premier YouTube video, which shows them snuggling and nursing with their mother.White lions, which have a mutated color and are not a separate species from African lions, are, "listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature list of threatened species," reports CTV News Toronto. The Global White Lion Protection Trust estimates there are fewer than 300 white lions alive worldwide.

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LG’s first flexible OLED phone due before the year is out

LG plans to launch a flexible OLED smartphone before the end of the year, the company’s VP of mobile has confirmed, though it’s unclear to what extent the work-in-progress handset will actually flex. The OLED panel in question is the handiwork of LG Display according to VP of LG mobile Yoon Bu-hyun, the WSJ reports, with the proposed device set to launch sometime in Q4. LG Display’s work on flexible OLEDs has been underway for some time, though the company’s efforts have perhaps been overshadowed somewhat by rival Samsung’s YOUM development. Last year, according to a Korea Times report, LG Display was preparing for

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Bing Apps for Windows 8 get major updates

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Syrian Electronic Army claims credit for CBS Twitter accounts hack

Yesterday, several of CBS ’s Twitter accounts were hacked, including its main account, and its accounts for 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and CBS Denver. The hackers got into the account and tweeted a series of things relating to President Obama and the United States being in cahoots with Al-Qaeda . The tweets also had links that led users to malware-infested sites. While CBS was able to regain access to its accounts, it was unable to figure out who was behind the attacks, until now. The Syrian Electronic Army , the same group that hacked 3 of the BBC’s Twitter accounts, claimed

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