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Week in Web

Weird Wide Web: Selfie proposals, a drone circus and the best looking console game EVER

All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.

WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.

Drone circus  of the week

Amsterdam is set to host the world’s first drone circus, according to The Guardian. According to the event’s website, drones “will take centre stage to bring a collaboration and fusion of music, video, projections and special effects”.

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Stress buster of the week

A new and very helpful wearable device could let you know that you’re stressed before you even realise it yourself, Business Insider reports. It gives you an opportunity to count to ten and try to calm yourself down before your stress levels go nuclear. The accompanying app will even show you stress points along your commute to work.

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 Uber food service

The company’s super-fast food delivery service has landed in Europe and aims to deliver food from selected restaurants in ten minutes. It hasn’t arrived in Ireland yet – we’ll let the Spanish try it out first…

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Good looking game of the week

Though Huffington Post have deemed The Order 1886 ‘the best-looking console game ever’, their review this week they weren’t altogether thrilled with how it all plays out.

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Selfie proposal of the week

This couple’s proposal went viral this week – not because the future groom used selfie mode, but because of his fiancés genuinely surprised and lovely reaction.

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