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Brazil vs Germany Game Breaks Twitter Records

Yesterday’s 7-1 World Cup Semi-Final rout of Brazil by Germany will go down in the record books for many decades to come for a multitude of reasons. Sure, Brazil is the host nation and they’ve been picked by many, including Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog to win it all. But yesterday, the German national team proved all of them wrong with an impressive 7-0 display up until the 90th minute when Oscar scored the face-saving only goal for Brazil. Now that we know that World Cup Semi-Finals can have as many points scored as an American Football game, it comes as no surprise that such a

Google's Big Data Cloud is Predicting World Cup Winners

Google’s Cloud Platform has been predicting the winners of the World Cup since the round of 16 and so far has been 11/12 after getting 8/8 correct in the round of 8. Google’s Cloud Platform combines Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery and Compute Engine in order to arrive at their final results. According to their predictions, which have been almost perfect with the exception of the France v Germany game (I predicted Germany) with Germany beating France, defeating Google’s perfect record. In fact, Google gave France a 69% chance of winning that game, but the result was 1-0 with Germany defeating France. So, then, why did Google

Luis Suarez Pacman Remake – Biteman Game

Well, it appears as though Luis Suarez’s infamous bite seen around the world has already been made into a game called Biteman with a few modifications to the popular Pacman game. The game is called Biteman and is designed to mock the fact that Luis Suarez bit Giorgio Chiellini during a completely unprovoked attack. If you didn’t see the bite, we’ve got a nice GIF image for you to see where he clearly bites his opponent. And this isn’t the first time Suarez has bitten an opponent while playing, in fact, this is the third time he’s done such a thing. Previously he’s bitten opponents

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