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By now you have probably heard about the massive Target hack. Personal as well as credit and debit card information of more than 70 million users was stolen as a result of this hack, which took place during the holiday season, a time when customer activity is usually high. Customers who were affected have already been advised to keep an eye on their bank activity and report any anomalies, but as a precautionary measure, Citigroup has announced that it is going to replace all customer debit cards that were affected by the hack.

While the financial juggernaut declined to reveal how many debit cards are being reissued, it did say that they weren’t replaced sooner because Citi wanted to minimize disruptions during the holiday shopping season. JPMorgan has already said that it will reissue new debit cards at many of its branches. It has been reported that Citi does not plan on reissuing credit cards that might have been affected by said hack. On the other hand, Target has announced that it is now offering a year’s worth of credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all affected customers, there’s a three month window to sign up for the free service, which normally costs $191.

Citi To Replace All Debit Cards Affected By Target Hack original content from Ubergizmo.

Last summer Facebook showed off Trending, a list of popular stories and topics that will be shown to users in the News Feed. The world’s largest social network has gone in a different direction to list topics gathering steam, Twitter, known for pioneering trending topics, uses hashtags. Facebook today announced that this feature will now be rolled out to everyone. Users will see a module in the top right of the News Feed where all Trending stories and topics will be displayed.

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Facebook Launches Trending List To Suggest Popular Stories And Topics original content from Ubergizmo.

I am a sucker for cool LEGO projects. If I see one, you bet I will share. I will share even if I don’t know the show or what it is about. Case in point is this LEGO Downton Abbey build that has recently turned up. All I know about that show I learned while watching Iron Man 3.

I watched the movie Emma in the theater with my wife years and years ago. I still haven’t recovered and shun anything that looks remotely English and romantic. The closest I want to come to an English period costume drama is Game of Thrones.

Regardless, this LEGO Downton Abbey build by Eric Stevens looks pretty neat. The builder of the LEGO Abbey even made the characters from the show in minifig form.

This doesn’t look to be one of the more complex LEGO projects we have seen, though the minifigs look like they required a lot of work. I wonder how long it took him to build the Abbey and the minifigs.

[via Mashable via Nerd Approved]

Google Now is great, but it’s only on your mobile devices. We’ve been waiting on a desktop version for what feels like forever. Now, finally, it’s just starting to poke its head out in the beta-est of Chrome’s beta builds.

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If you’re driving along the New Jersey turnpike just outside of Moorsetown and think you see the top of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer peeking above endless rows of corn, miles from the nearest ocean, don’t worry—it’s supposed to be there. It’s just a full-size mock up that Lockheed uses to develop its AEGIS Combat System.

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