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Game of Thrones Monopoly, Breath of the Wild’s collector’s edition game guide, and smart thermostats lead off Thursday’s best deals.

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You might see science as splashy headlines and a barrage of new results—but in the background are people with emotions and ambitions, politics, and a system that promotes publishing novel findings above all. A new paper on eel navigation highlights some of these systemic troubles.

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Mickey Mouse has his own club, lots of movies, and a slew of cartoons to his name. He also has a hater in the form of a cat named Pete. If ol’ MIC-KEY MO-US-E ever gets tired of Pete’s shit and builds a mech to take him down, this is just the ticket.

Baron Julius von Brunk’s awesome Mecha Mouse has a flip-open compartment that is designed as a cockpit for the official Mickey minifig to fit inside of. Those big mouse ears are radar dishes, and his white-gloved fingers can even hold weapons.

If you want to see it turned into a set you can actually buy, the design is on the LEGO Ideas site right now and needs your vote. The cool part is that there is a licensing deal between LEGO and Disney already, so if this thing racks up 10,000 votes it might actually get made.

[via Geek.com]

Huawei recently shares some numbers which revealed that the P9 and P9 Plus have performed very well in the market. It said last month that it had sold a combined 12 million units of the two smartphones in less than a year since they were launched. Huawei has now revealed that sales of the Huawei Mate 9 have now crossed 5 million units in merely four months since its release.

Huawei shared today that it has sold 5 million units of the Huawei Mate 9 in just four months after its launch. This is a 36 percent increase when compared to the number of units that its predecessor the Huawei Mate 8 sold in the same period of time after its launch.

These numbers were revealed by the company during an event for its Consumer Business Group and were later posted on the company’s Weibo account. For those who are unaware, Weibo is basically China’s version of Twitter.

Huawei has a new flagship smartphone on the market – it’s called the P10 – and officials expect that it’s going to sell more than 10 million units this year.

If that ends up happening, perhaps Huawei will be able to cross the target of 140 million units that it had actually set for last year.

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Instagram has been copying some of Snapchat’s core features and the strategy appears to be paying off. The impact was immediate. Snapchat’s growth slowed down 82 percent after Instagram Stories was launched, which as the name suggests, is a clone of Snapchat Stories. Facebook-owned Instagram today revealed that its stories feature has more than 200 million daily users which is more than what Snapchat as if you compare the figure with the one Snapchat last provided.

Snapchat revealed these numbers a couple of months back in filings related to its IPO. In the last quarter of 2014, it averaged a daily user count of 158 million, which only accounted for a 3.2 percent growth rate.

On the other hand, Instagram’s stories feature alone now has more daily active users than all of Snapchat. The latest figure stands at 200 million people across the globe, which is quite an achievement.

Instagram has also launched new sticker tools which will enable users to turn their selfies into stickers so that they can quickly share their reaction or trade faces with someone or something in their story. If this sounds familiar, it’s basically a clone of Snapchat’s 3D stickers that the service launched about a year back.

Geostickers in four new cities have been added as well. Those who live in or are traveling to London, Madrid, Tokyo or Chicago will now start seeing geostickers for those cities over the coming days. All of them have been designed by local community members.

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