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Troika talks in Greece overshadowed by IMF bombshell – business live | Business | The Guardian
The envoys from the EU and IMF will meet Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday, following talks this week between officials at a lower level on reforming the tax system and labour market regulations.
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Groom swims to wedding – BBC News
Trygve Bernhardsen, 79, wearing swimming trunks and a bow tie, braved cold and rain to cross a fjorde and reach his bride, Ellen Hertzberg. James Menendez reports.
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US photographer’s quest to solve vintage photo mystery – BBC News
A US photographer has launched an internet hunt to find two mysterious women pictured on an old roll of film she discovered in a second-hand shop.Meagan Abell was sifting through a box of vintage photographs in Richmond, Virginia when she found four…
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New supplies, new clothes, new start. Freshman year is a chance to redefine yourself, to challenge assumptions, to lay the foundation for the rest of your life. Gee whiz, you say, I’m just 18! So we asked for help, from those who have been there, do…
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Wondermark » Archive » #1147; In which a Lock is needed
Hooray! The Roll-a-Sketch coloring book Kickstarter ended today having funded at a staggering 379,900% of our goal amount. Thank you so much to everyone who pledged! Stand by for news & updates coming via Kickstarter on that project, starting next w…
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Why Hillary Is Feuding with the New YorkTimes — NYMag
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the press is notoriously contentious, but on Thursday the situation rose above the usual low-grade sniping and resentment.
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China to Prosecute Former Top Officer for Graft | Al Jazeera America
China has expelled a former top general from the ruling Communist Party over corruption accusations as President Xi Jinping’s campaign to root out graft in the government and military churns onward.
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Legal battle to unearth Commonwealth Bank’s fossil fuel interests fails | Environment | The Guardian
A push to get Commonwealth Bank to reveal details of its fossil fuel interests has failed after the federal court ruled shareholders do not have the right to ask other shareholders to vote on such issues.
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“Girl Jesus” · Rectify · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There’s something of the teen drama in Rectify, a show about two adult children returning to their parents and two others on the rocks because of the new boy in town. Considering Daniel never got to finish out his teen years like most of us, that ma…
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BA owner IAG reports big jump in quarterly profits – BBC News
British Airways (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG) has reported a big jump in quarterly profits. IAG reported a 25% jump in pre-tax profits to €449m (£315m) for the three months to 30 June.
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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian toddler died in an arson attack in the West Bank early Friday morning, according to the Israeli military, with Jewish extremists suspected because of Hebrew graffiti sprayed nearby. “Revenge!” was written on one wall, next …
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Google Glass Isn’t Dead — But It’s All About the Enterprise for Now | Re/code
Re/code has learned that a version of the second edition of Google’s wearable, which was erroneously assumed dead when the search giant obfuscated about its future earlier this year, has already been distributed to the company’s Glass at Work enterp…
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Calais migrant crisis: ‘Too many to count’ – BBC News
The British government’s emergency committee will meet again on Friday to discuss the crisis over migrants trying to enter the country from France through the Channel Tunnel.
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Samsung And MasterCard Will Launch Samsung Pay Together In Europe | TechCrunch
Samsung and MasterCard, which have been working together to bring Samsung Pay to consumers and merchants around the world, announced today that they will extend their partnership to launch the mobile payment system in Europe.
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Sun, sand, slack tide and a hungry beachcomber | Environment | The Guardian
My planned lunch stop looking out over the sea to distant St Kilda had proved just a little too chilly for comfort, but on the other side of the headland, out of the breeze, it’s positively balmy.
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APOD: 2015 July 30 – Milky Way over Uluru
Explanation: The central regions of our Milky Way Galaxy rise above Uluru/Ayers Rock in this striking night skyscape. Recorded on July 13, a faint airglow along the horizon shows off central Australia’s most recognizable landform in silhouette.
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Your pen, Your Majesty! We all need a geeky pen holder just like this one
Isn’t it about time you felt high and mighty when asking for your pen to sign papers or grade assignments? Yes, yes it is. And lucky for you, ThinkGeek has made a pen holder that will give you all those feelings. Introducing the Executive Knight Pen…
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Readers continue to debate Ta-Nehisi Coates’s bestseller. Will the book’s bleak outlook make people less motivated to fight injustice? The Atlantic has published five essays inspired by Between the World and Me, from Michael Eric Dyson, Emily Bernar…
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‘Magnetic’ Discovery May Reveal Why Earth Supports Life and Mars Doesn’t
Earth’s magnetic field, which protects the planet from harmful blasts of solar radiation, is much older than scientists had previously thought, researchers say.
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JERUSALEM — A house fire suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child and injured several people in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said.
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Ejecta · Under The Dome · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Ejecta” may not be the weirdest Under The Dome episode ever, but it’s probably the weirdest episode that didn’t make me want to hunt down the writers and take away their laptops.
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“Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” Review – The New Yorker
How impossible can a mission be, if it is successfully completed five times? The big-screen franchise that began in 1996 has now reached “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation,” directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
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Tables for Two: Shuko – The New Yorker
There’s no menu at Shuko. You can either get a lot of sushi, which is the omakase option, or slightly less sushi along with some “composed” dishes, the kaiseki.
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Jane Lynch at Joe’s Pub – The New Yorker
Fame came relatively late to Jane Lynch, first when she joined the cracked ensemble of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind,” and then when she became Sue Sylvester, the tracksuited villainess on “Glee.” Her career …
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The Music of Carlos Chávez – The New Yorker
If an American festival of Mexican music were organized as a popularity contest, then the winner would certainly be Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), whose orchestral works “Sensemayá” and “La Noche de los Mayas” have been standard repertory for deca…
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Bar Tab: Lazy Point – The New Yorker
The summer Hamptons hordes cling to the comforts of Manhattan, with their East End Ralph Laurens, SoulCycles, and Citarellas.
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Palestinian toddler killed in ‘Jewish settler’ arson attack – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Businessman finds iPhone which fell out of plane during US flight | US news | The Guardian
The Wichita Falls Times Record News reported on Thursday that Ben Wilson said his mobile phone still worked. Related: How well does Find My iPhone track down thieves?
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Manam in Papua New Guinea Unleashes Large Eruption | WIRED
The Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Center has confirmed a new eruption from Manam in Papua New Guinea.
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There’s a Rocky Exoplanet Just 21 Light-Years Away
NASA has proven itself to be quite adept at finding planets lately, and this week is no exception: using the Spitzer Space Telescoe, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab have found HD 219134b, a rocky exoplanet ‘… http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-mo…
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Techmeme: Microsoft joins with Jasper in Internet of Things alliance (Barb Darrow/Fortune)
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MH370 search: Reunion debris ‘very likely’ part of plane – BBC News
It is “very likely” debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is that of the missing flight MH370, a top Australian official has told the BBC. Martin Dolan, who heads Australia’s search efforts, also said the operation was continuing “in th…
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Canada pastor ‘admits to North Korea subversive plot’ – BBC News
North Korea says a detained Canadian pastor has confessed to a “subversive plot” to overthrow the government and set up a “religious state”. Hyeon Soo Lim’s confession was reported by the state news agency KCNA.
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Winter Olympics: Beijing hopes to be chosen as host – BBC News
In a few hours time the world will learn which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games: Almaty in Kazakhstan or the Chinese capital Beijing. The International Olympic Committee says both bids have much to offer.
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TRAVIS THRELKEL was standing on the roof of a building on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street looking uptown at his canvas.
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Australian surfer punches shark in ‘Mick Fanning replay’ – BBC News
An Australian surfer has punched a shark which was attacking him at Evans Head, New South Wales, say police. Craig Ison, 52, suffered serious leg and arm injuries during the fight with a suspected bull shark early on Friday.
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Facebook has announced the completion of its first full-scale drone, which it says has the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and will provide internet access in remote parts of the world. The company said it would test the aircraft in the US later in 2015.
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“The Sandwich” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The themes of Married echo right in its theme. That rolling, plinking musical refrain bookends nearly every scene of the show—puckish and tired at the same time.
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Meek Mill’s Photoshop skills are worse than his diss track | The Verge
Meek Mill just premiered his long-awaited Drake diss track, “Wanna Know,” on Hot 97. This is the cover that came with the track.
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Techmeme: Microsoft: Windows 10 passes 14M installs 24 hours after launch (Yusuf Mehdi/Windows Blog)
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Abbott weighs in on Australia’s expenses scandal – BBC News
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has weighed in on an expenses scandal that has embroiled the government for the past three weeks.
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Open thread for night owls: Let Jon Stewart go
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2005—The “No Race” Superiority:
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President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s fastest computer, a machine capable of speeds far beyond technology’s current reach, in a bid to enlarge the frontiers of fields including medicine, biology and astronomy.
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California Oil Slick Likely Natural Seepage | Al Jazeera America
Coast Guard officials say it will likely be a couple more days before they can definitively say what caused a miles-long oil slick to materialize off the Santa Barbara County coast this week, but an expert said Thursday it was more than likely the r…
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MSNBC Cancels 3 Shows, Preps for Brian Williams — NYMag
When asked about MSNBC’s low ratings two years ago, Phil Griffin, the network’s president, said they weren’t even trying to compete with CNN’s breaking news coverage because “We’re not the place for that.
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“Brawl, Blackmail, Gloryhole” · Review · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Season one of Review, in which everyman Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) reviews life experiences, goes beyond cringe comedy, creating something bleak, hilarious, and weirdly affecting.
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“Lust for Life” · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Everyone’s afraid of something. Even someone as mean, cynical, and leathered as Denis Leary’s Johnny Rock.
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How A Small-Time Drug Dealer Rescued Dozens During Katrina – BuzzFeed News
NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the coast, small-time drug dealer Jabbar Gibson and a friend decided to hunker down in a motel down the street from his home in the dilapidated Fischer public housing complex.
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Meek Mill finally responds to Drake with his own diss track, “Wanna Know” | The Verge
How does Nicki feel about all this? Over a week after Meek Mill first called out Drake for allegedly having a ghostwriter, the Philly rapper has responded with his own diss record, “Wanna Know”.
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Angry Sky · 30 For 30 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
As sports stories go, Nick Piantanida’s is a boring one. He attempted a feat, three times, and failed. Nick Piantanida as a man, however, is more interesting, but not enough to save Angry Sky from a lack of depth.
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The Internet Installed Windows 10 and… Something Happened | | Observer
It’s finally here. After a few years of raging against Windows 8 and begrudgingly accepting 8.1, Microsoft finally released the latest version of their operating system. Yeah, let’s get the fact that they skipped “9” out of the way.
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They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public, often involving minor traffic stops in places like Cincinnati; North Charleston, S.C.; and Waller County, Tex. But they swiftly escalated into violent encounters. And all were ca…
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AUSTIN, Tex.
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Once known for grim letters to fellow wealthy Americans warning of socialist apocalypse, Charles G. Koch now promotes research on the link between freedom and everyday happiness.
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The Clinton Foundation accelerated its fund-raising in the first six months of the year, officials said Thursday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton was gearing up for her presidential run amid a crush of news reports scrutinizing the charity’s solicitation …
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LAHAINA, Hawaii — With 12 nations pressing to conclude the largest regional trade accord ever, United States officials find themselves squeezed
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Windows 10 is on 14 million machines already | The Verge
Microsoft is rolling Windows 10 out in phases, but the company just announced that over 14 million devices are all running its latest operating system.
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Animal psychic says she spoke to Cecil the Lion—and he’s a deep cat
The Internet erupted in every way possible when news that Cecil the Lion had been slain by an American dentist. But while everyone was busy sorting out their feelings and opinions on the situation, one animal psychic was going straight to the source…
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HBO’s most-watched series, the medieval fantasy drama Game of Thrones, is likely to continue through three more seasons, a network executive said on Thursday, as he defended the show’s gritty violence. The sixth season is now being filmed.
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What Disney princes would look like in real life
With a new set of ethereal photos of Disney characters reimagined as, well, real-life Disney characters, Väätäinen has taken beloved figures like Aladdin, Hercules, and even Prince Eric, off the screen and imagineered them IRL.
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Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s rock drama Vinyl hits HBO next year | The Verge
The rock ‘n’ roll drama series exec-produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger finally has a name and a date of sorts — HBO has announced that Vinyl will come in 2016.
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Back in May, we reported on a number of new shows that TBS was picking up as part of its new commitment to being both “awesomely in-your-face” and “effortlessly diverse.
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Obama tells liberals: I can’t carry Iran deal on my own | TheHill
The White House is mounting a vigorous push to convince liberals to back the Iran deal.
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Daniel Radcliffe to go undercover with white supremacists (in a movie) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now that’s he’s pretty far removed from his days at Hogwarts, Daniel Radcliffe is getting ready to shave his head and join up with a gang of white supremacists for his next film. (Don’t worry, he’s actually going to be an undercover FBI agent, but w…
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Last week, a federal court judge ruled that the Obama administration’s detention of Central American children violates a long-standing court agreement known as Flores.
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Courtney Love and Francis Bean fight release of Kurt Cobain’s death photos | Music | The Guardian
Kurt Cobain’s widow and daughter are urging a Seattle judge to not release death-scene photos and records that a lawsuit claims will prove the Nirvana frontman was murdered more than 20 years ago.
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Iowans Join 100,000 at Bernie Sanders House Parties Across the Country Last Night – In These Times
IOWA CITY, IOWA—More than 100,000 supporters of insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders attended 3,500 house parties in all 50 states Wednesday night, according to campaign organizers, to hear the socialist candidate renew his call for a “po…
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As the news spread online that an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man had stabbed six people at Jerusalem’s annual Gay Pride Parade on Thursday, accompanied by terrifying images of the attack, critics of Israel were quick to argue that the ra
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They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public, often involving minor traffic stops in places like Cincinnati, North Charleston, S.C., and Waller County, Tex. But they swiftly escalated into violent encounters. And all were ca…
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German government accuses news website of treason over leaks | World news | The Guardian
Germany has opened a treason investigation into a news website a broadcaster said had reported on plans to increase state surveillance of online communications.
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Beer shortages loom in Venezuela as troops occupy Caracas warehouse | World news | The Guardian
Venezuela’s largest beer manufacturer is shutting some of its breweries, blaming a lack of imported barley, as its parent company remains locked in a wider dispute with the country’s government.
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HOUSTON — Sitting in the dugout at Minute Maid Park in Houston this week, the Astros’ general manager, Jeff Luhnow, reflected on the way his job had changed. The Astros are making a playoff push, a bit ahead of schedule, after six losing seasons in …
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ARLINGTON, Tex. — If there is anybody in the Yankees’ clubhouse who understands how to navigate the emotional roller coaster that kicks into overdrive as the nonwaiver trading deadline approaches, it is Chase Headley.
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Etihad vows to fight case brought by man seated next to obese passenger | World news | The Guardian
Etihad Airways has vowed to keep fighting court action brought by a man who is suing the airline for health problems he says he developed after sitting next to a sick, obese passenger.
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North Korea says a Canadian pastor detained since January had admitted to planning “subversive plots” but his supporters said he was only doing humanitarian work.
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Brisbane restaurant partially destroyed after 24 pest bombs explode | Australia news | The Guardian
The owners of the business on Mains road, Sunnybank, had reportedly planted 24 repellent bombs inside the store, which then caused a vapour explosion. When firefighters arrived about 10pm on Thursday night, the front of the store had partially buckl…
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TCA Roundup: HBO head talks David Chase and True Detective backlash · Newswire · The A.V. Club
HBO’s official slogan is still “It’s HBO,” but it’s unofficial slogan is “HBO: If You’ve Worked Here Before, You Can Work Here Again!” It’s a terrible slogan but an accurate summary of an executive session with HBO president of programming Michael L…
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Bill Moyers Essay: Everyone Should Be Entitled to Medicare | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
BILL MOYERS: I read a news story this week that sent me on a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
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WASHINGTON — In the winter of 2014, an Afghan with links to top Taliban leaders approached Afghanistan’s intelligence service with a startling tip: Mullah Muhammad Omar, the secretive leader of the Taliban, had died in a hospital in Karachi, Pakista…
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WASHINGTON — The United States military may continue to hold a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of being a Taliban fighter even though President Obama has repeatedly said that the United States’ war in Afghanistan has ended, a federal judge ruled Thu…
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Chuck’s Yvonne Strahovski to star in Western pilot Edge for Amazon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Yvonne Strahovski, star of NBC’s Chuck, and one of the few non-lumberjack survivors of Showtime’s Dexter, has signed on for an Amazon pilot from Iron Man 3 director Shane Black. The new series, Edge, is a post-Civil War-set Western, based on a serie…
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Bobby Jindal and the Trouble with Louisiana – The New Yorker
Maybe anywhere, but certainly in slow-moving Louisiana, Bobby Jindal is an unusual politician. He was a Rhodes Scholar, a McKinsey consultant, the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the president of the University of Loui…
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Boris Karloff Suits Up for Horror Duty in This Behind-the-Scenes Photo
Boris Karloff sits for adjustments to his mask while prepping to film 1953 spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Despite this still, Hollywood lore suggests that Karloff only appears in the film as Dr. Jekyll, while the evil Mr. Hy…
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WASHINGTON — In the winter of 2014, an Afghan with links to top Taliban leaders approached Afghanistan’s intelligence service with a startling tip: Mullah Muhammad Omar, the secretive leader of the Taliban, had died in a hospital in Karachi, Pakista…
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In pictures: Ecology photo winners announced – BBC News
In pictures: Ecology photo winners announced 31 July 2015 Last updated at 01:56 The journal BMC Ecology has announced the winners of its 2015 image competition, including photos of an ant being eaten by a carnivorous plant and endangered storks fora…
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WASHINGTON — The United States military may continue to hold a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of being a Taliban fighter even though President Obama has repeatedly said that the United States’ war in Afghanistan has ended, a federal judge ruled Thu…
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Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug.
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HBO to air two non-compulsory U2 specials later this year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
U2’s plan to dump free copies of its Songs Of Innocence album on everyone’s iTunes accounts last year was an undeniable success that annoyed absolutely nobody (mostly), so now that there are literally millions of new U2 fans in the world, the band i…
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It hasn’t been a good week for social media companies, not even for the usually reliable professional networking service LinkedIn. The company’s second-quarter results beat Wall Street’s expectations on all fronts, just as Facebook’s did on Wednesda…
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The births of more than 70,000 children in Liberia during the Ebola crisis were never recorded, leaving them vulnerable to marginalization as noncitizens, denial of government services, trafficking and illegal adoption, Unicef reported Thursday.
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Top Gear’s Ex-Hosts Don’t Need DIY Limos Anymore | WIRED
Now that they’ve signed a deal with Amazon worth a reported $250 million, it’s safe to say that the next time Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in limos, their rides won’t, say, break in half in the middle of downtown London.
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Nigeria’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday that it had appointed a new general to lead the multinational army against the Boko Haram militant group that has killed 20,000 people and driven nearly two million from their homes. The ministry said th…
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Little Flying Buddy For Off-World Rovers Built by NASA | Video
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On a frigid Wednesday evening in January, 40 residents of One Brooklyn Bridge Park, a condominium complex converted from an old printing factory on
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Around 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson, already suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the N.F.
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Facebook Fuels Ad Tracking By Nagging App Users To Instantly Log In On Safari | TechCrunch
35 million people run into a Facebook email and password login roadblock on iOS each day, and over half of them bounce.
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Now you can wear all the tools of the trade on your wrist
Carrying around a heavy box of tools can get tiring if you do it day in, day out. So the geniuses at Leatherman came up with a wearable toolbox that includes pretty much every tool you’ll need on a day at work. Except maybe an electric drill.
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Find A Photo, Get A Waffle | TechCrunch
About a week ago, the Google Photos team shared this mystical and magical video about a waffle wafel. What could it mean? What is this all about? Why a waffle??!?!?!
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HBO might Showtime Game Of Thrones with a potential eight seasons or more · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unlike most of its characters, Game Of Thrones will live to see at least seven seasons, and potentially more if HBO’s president of programming Michael Lombardo has his druthers.
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DogSync Is An App To Help Your Family Keep Track Of Feeding Fido | TechCrunch
Designed for pet-loving households, DogSync (a recent winner of our patent-pending TC Radio pitch-off) is a task manager that helps families communicate and sync tasks like feeding, walking, or letting out Fido. So how do you sync real-life events l…
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Fox has already pulled Knock Knock Live · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Knock knock! Who’s there?
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Requiem For The App Revolution | TechCrunch
The app revolution is dead. In fact, it died years ago. It had been a good run, but a revolution is no longer a revolution when the model is the status quo. With new apps created every day, the revolution has definitely been televised, commoditized …
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First sighting for 150 years of fly thought to be extinct | UK news | The Guardian
The last known recording of the Rhaphium pectinatum fly was on 19 July 1868 when the renowned Victorian entomologist George Verrall caught a male and female in Richmond, Surrey.
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Morrissey alleges sex assault by security guard at US airport | Music | The Guardian
Morrissey has claimed he was sexually assaulted by a US airport security guard who groped his penis – but officials insisted on Thursday they were following normal procedures.
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Facebook is launching unmanned planes that beam the Internet through lasers
Facebook’s plan to provide Internet from the skies—and fuel our worst conspiratorial fears about its thirst for power—moved one step closer to reality thanks to new breakthroughs announced by the social network’s Connectivity Lab on Thursday.
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Though the piece of airplane debris found on a remote Indian Ocean beach may yield the first tangible proof that a Malaysian jetliner that vanished almost 17 months ago crashed into the sea, experts said it may not be much help in solving the vexing…
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HIV flushed out by cancer drug – BBC News
HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show. The cornerstone of treatment, anti-retroviral therapy, kills the virus in the bloodstream but leaves “HIV reservoirs” untouched.
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“A dream can be so strange that it seems that another subject has come to dream with us,” philosopher Gaston Bachelard observed in his reflection on dreams and reverie.
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Wales surf wave generator starts up – BBC News
The first waves have peeled across an artificial surf lagoon built on the site of an old aluminium works on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. The inland lake covers an area the size of six football pitches, and the site cost £15m to build.
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Here’s 1,000 People Playing The Foo Fighters In Unison – Digg
The good people of Cesena, Italy want the Foo Fighters to play a show in their city — so 1,000 of them got together and performed “Learn To Fly.
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Decades After Europe and the US, Canada Approves the Abortion Pill | VICE News
After a two-and-a-half-year wait, the Canadian health authority has approved an abortion pill that’s used in nearly 60 countries worldwide.
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Did Nepal temple ban animal sacrifices at Gadhimai festival? – BBC News
News was reported around the world on Tuesday that one of the world’s bloodiest religious ceremonies was being ended. The festival at the Hindu temple in Bariyarpur in Nepal sees tens of thousands of animals sacrificed to the goddess Gadhimai, and a…
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Illustrations of real life Disney princes will make your ovaries explode
Melbourne-based artist Jirka Vaatainen has discovered a surefire way to make ovaries explode everywhere: by illustrating Disney Princes as real guys.
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Though the piece of airplane debris found on a remote Indian Ocean beach may yield the first tangible proof that a Malaysian jetliner that vanished almost 17 months ago crashed into the sea, experts said it may not be much help in solving the vexing…
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HBO Exec: ‘Game of Thrones’ Could Run For 8 Seasons, Network Open to Prequels | Observer
Speaking at the TCA press tour in Beverly Hills, President of HBO Programming Michael Lombardo shot down the idea that Game of Thrones has a definite seven season expiration date. “Seven seasons and out was never the case. The question is how much b…
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Star Of Bloomberg’s Trump Supporter Vid: Wait, I’m No Trump Supporter!
Bloomberg Politics’ “With All Due Respect” won the morning Thursday with a boffo focus group of New Hampshire Trump supporters singing The Donald’s praises as a “classy” commander-in-chief in waiting who is definitely “one of us” despite being worth…
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Discovery Family has announced that it’s bringing in the big guns, sweetness-wise, in order to promote its upcoming animal-focused programming block, Pawgust.
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MD Governor to Close Baltimore Detention Center | Al Jazeera America
Maryland’s governor announced plans Thursday to immediately shut down Baltimore’s state-run jail, where inmates and guards ran a criminal conspiracy inside vermin-infested, 19th-century walls and thwarted decades of attempted reforms. Gov.
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From boom to bust in Switzerland’s border towns – BBC News
The Swiss border town of Kreuzlingen is a lovely, peaceful place. It lies between one of Europe’s most beautiful stretches of water, Lake Constance, and the rolling hills of the canton of Thurgau, with the Alps rising majestically in the distance.
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‘Telephone farmers’ reaping the benefits of agri-tech – BBC News
Sometimes called “telephone farmers”, they are making use of a growing number of technologies and platforms to help them choose and manage their crops more efficiently. And mobile devices are giving a growing number of them the ability to do this wh…
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Russian debtors despair as boom turns to bust – BBC News
Millions of Russians took out loans during the economic boom years, but now they face crippling debts and the law is not on their side, the BBC’s Oleg Boldyrev reports.
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NASL football league looks to kick on in North America – BBC News
Forty years ago this summer Brazilian football star Pele made his debut for the North American Soccer League (NASL) team, the New York Cosmos, as the US looked to embrace the global phenomenon of football.
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine’s email newsletter to get articles sent to your …
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The ‘Cajun John Wayne’ calls out criminals on YouTube – BBC News
A Louisiana police officer has found fame for videos in which he identifies the area’s criminals and calls on them to turn themselves in.The videos are shown on local news but draw a wider audience thanks to YouTube.
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We told the king we had HIV – BBC News
For the last few years, Wangda Dorje and Tshering Choden have been the public face of HIV/Aids in Bhutan. They were among a group of five who were the first in the country to come out as HIV-positive – in front of the King, and then on national tele…
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Awesome necklaces are an air pollution visualization | Grist
Statement necklaces are so hot these days, but those giant neck shackles are nothing compared to these bad boys. London-based artists Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick designed three in-your-face necklaces to reflect air pollution levels in Sheffiel…
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AA joins protest at government’s green changes – BBC News
The Automobile Association (AA) has joined green groups in warning that recent changes in energy policy will harm the climate. Environment groups say in a letter to the prime minister this is one of many recent changes to taxes and incentives that w…
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Though the piece of airplane debris found on a remote Indian Ocean beach may yield the first tangible proof that a Malaysian jetliner that vanished almost 17 months ago crashed into the sea, experts said it may not be much help in solving the vexing…
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Telecoms lobbyists have filed a brief in a lawsuit that includes nearly every major industry player demanding that the Washington DC court of appeals vacate net neutrality rules ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February.
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MENLO PARK, Calif.
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These are Chacma baboons. For the most part, they scavenge on land, but once every two weeks in the spring, they head out to the edge of the ocean to eat the babies of the sea’s alpha predator. Papio ursinus, or Chacma baboons, live around the south…
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Canadian Pastor ‘Admits’ to Scheme to Overthrow North Korean Regime | VICE News
A Korean-Canadian pastor detained in North Korea appeared for the first time in months on Thursday, admitting to a bizarre plot to overthrow the government in a country known for eliciting forced confessions from detainees.
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The Knick heads to San Francisco for its second season in a new teaser | The Verge
The Knick is headed back to Cinemax for another season’s worth of gory, gripping surgery drama, and its scalpels, sutures, and smocks might be moving west. Steven Soderbergh’s turn-of-the-century medical series, which follows lead surgeon Dr.
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LONDON — Clare Newman was not taking any chances. If Benedict Cumberbatch was going to play Hamlet, she was going to be there. The theater where he would be performing — the Barbican — was offering tickets first to its supporters, so she and two fri…
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Greenpeace activists blocking Shell icebreaker face fines – BBC News
A federal judge has ordered Greenpeace protesters to pay a $2,500 (£1,600) fine for every hour they block an icebreaker from departing Portland, Oregon. The Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker was heading to the Arctic for drilling and has been in Portland…
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Susan Brown Bloomberg Finds a Buyer for Eclectic Noho Pad | | Observer
It looks like Michael Bloomberg wasn’t the only one making big real estate moves this week. A few days after the former mayor purchased a $26 million London townhouse, his ex-wife Susan Brown Bloomberg found a buyer for her penthouse duplex at DDG P…
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Asa Butterfield is developing a real knack for playing off-kilter young men who solve complex problems by staring them down until—unnerved from exposure to the giant sapphires he uses as eyes—they sheepishly fix themselves.
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More than 50 million game birds a year are being released for shooting, putting increasing strain on native wild birds and the ecology of the UK’s countryside, landowners will be warned on Friday.
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With Edge in Windows 10, Microsoft has finally delivered a capable browser to replace the aging Internet Explorer. Microsoft likes Windows 10 so much, it makes Edge the default browser in Windows 10, even when you’re updating from a system that prev…
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Opening like a really grim version of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, director Lenny Abrahamson’s Room is about a mother (Brie Larson) and her young son (Jacon Tremblay) who are locked in a small shed.
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The director of Disney’s Feast is making a Battling Boy movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by The Tracking Board, Patrick Osborne—the director of Disney’s Academy Award-winning short Feast—has been hired to direct Battling Boy, an adaptation of Paul Pope’s graphic novel of the same name.
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Why Haven’t These Dirty Piles of Snow Melted Already?
Over the winter, the Eastern US was blanketed in blizzard after blizzard. As a stark reminder of Mother Nature’s bitchiness, two snow-plowed piles of that record snowfall in two different cities lingered well into summer. One of them is still frozen…
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Rio Olympics already tainted with poo | Grist
Talk about a shit show. An AP investigation has revealed that athletes in next summer’s Rio Olympics will be swimming and boating in bodies of water so rife with human feces that they’re likely spend more time battling stomach cramps than time trial…
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Officer charged in Sam DuBose shooting used stun gun on motorist in 2012 | US news | The Guardian
A fired University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a motorist during a traffic stop once used a stun gun on another motorist he said resisted arrest and assaulted him.
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More arrests in 1986 Chile teenager burning case – BBC News
A further five former Chilean army soldiers have been charged over the burning of two teenagers during a 1986 protest against the military government of Gen Augusto Pinochet. A total of 12 people have now been charged with setting Rodrigo Rojas and …
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South Niger Outlaws Burqa Amid Fears of Boko Haram Suicide Attacks | VICE News
Authorities in the border region of Diffa, in southeast Niger, banned the full Islamic veil Wednesday, following a string of suicide attacks in the province.
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YouTube stars dominate with 35 Teen Choice Awards nominations
Some YouTube stars will be able to add a surfboard to their trophy collection this August when the Teen Choice Awards celebrate the best of the Web’s creators.
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Here’s how Facebook bullied an independent developer into shutting down his viral app
Who Deleted Me, an app that let you know which users may have removed you from their friends list on Facebook, has been shut down — by Facebook.
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California Has Lost the Equivalent of an Entire Year’s Worth of Rain
We know California is very, very dry, right now, but just how dry? Dry enough that the “rain debt” the state has been steadily stacking up in the past three years is now equal to a full year of average rainfall.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. A judge set bail at $1 million for Ray Tensing, a white former University of Cincinnati police officer indicted on murder charges after he shot and killed a black man, Samuel Dubose, during a traffic stop. Mr.
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Canon’s new full-frame camera will capture footage in near-complete darkness
Imagine being able to shoot video in almost total darkness and not wind up with a noisy, undifferentiated mess? That capability may be closer than you think with the announcement of Canon’s ME20F-SH, a full-frame multi-purpose camera that promises a…
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Zhou Qunfei is the world’s richest self-made woman. Ms. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. She jets off to Silicon Valley and Seoul to court executives at Apple and Samsung, her two biggest customers.
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Imagine it: you’re an astronaut and launch day for your first spaceflight has arrived. Years of intense study and training have culminated in this moment. You’re suited up and ready to go. In mere minutes, you’ll be getting strapped into your spacec…
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Mozilla blasts Microsoft for making it harder to switch to Firefox in Windows 10 | The Verge
Microsoft has altered Windows 10 so that users have to explicitly set a default app for applications like mail, calendar, or web browsers. The change means the setup installers for Chrome and Firefox can no longer set themselves as the default brows…
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Teens should have the chance to erase their online mistakes
While everyone makes questionable choices in their youth, it’s only recent generations that have had social media force their adolescent mistakes into their adult lives. It’s a problem society needs to address before it plagues generations to come, …
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The New Google Glass Is Just for the Workplace | WIRED
The new device, called the Enterprise Edition internally, will look very much like the original but with the a new hinge and will sport a bigger display and faster processor, according to 9to5Google.
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A former commander of the People’s Liberation Army was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and placed under investigation for graft crimes on Thursday, becoming the most senior military figure brought down in President Xi Jinping’s campaign ag…
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Remembering James Salter, and His Commas – The New Yorker
A memorial for James Salter was held late Tuesday afternoon on the Upper East Side, at a Unitarian church with an abstract cross in the stained glass above the pulpit. The place was full—and hot. Folding chairs had been set up along the side aisles …
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Little Women to become little warriors in “gritty” CW reboot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because there’s nothing that says “19th-century Americana” like post-apocalyptic wastelands, Little Women has joined that Willy Wonka WWII movie in the Gritty Reboot Hall Of Infamy.
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US judge rejects Guantánamo detainee’s unlawful imprisonment challenge | US news | The Guardian
A US judge on Thursday rejected a legal challenge from a Guantánamo Bay detainee who said his imprisonment was unlawful now that President Barack Obama has declared an end to hostilities in Afghanistan.
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GAO To Congress: Revisit Privacy Concerns Over Facial Recognition Technology | TechCrunch
Today, Sen. Al Franken announced a new report by the GAO on the use of facial recognition technology.
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Infamous Baltimore prison to be immediately shut down, governor says | US news | The Guardian
Maryland’s governor announced plans Thursday to immediately shut down Baltimore’s state-run jail, where inmates and guards ran a criminal conspiracy inside vermin-infested, 19th-century walls and thwarted decades of attempted reforms.
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Samuel DuBose: body-camera video shows 360-degree view of police killing | US news | The Guardian
It shows that both officers were behind Tensing at the time he shot DuBose, but both backed claims the officer had been ‘dragged’. These claims were used to justify the shooting, but were later dismissed as false by the county prosecutor who charged…
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Exploding Kittens, the most-funded game in Kickstarter history, is now shipping | The Verge
Exploding Kittens holds the record for the most backers in Kickstarter history (219,382 — a record is still reportedly holds, at least according to whatkickstarterprojecthasthemostbackers.com). It’s also the #1 most funded game and #4 most funded pr…
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California offers $75,000 bounty to catch drone pilots who slowed wildfire efforts | The Verge
California is aggressively pursuing the people responsible for three recent incidents in which drones interfered with firefighters as they worked to extinguish devastating forest fires.
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Now’s your chance to sign up for a Fallout 4-themed Loot Crate box
The launch of the Fallout-themed Loot Crate “will coincide” with the release of Fallout 4 on November 10.
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This Week’s Star Wars Comic Gives Us A Badass Old Ben Kenobi
Back in the days of the prequels, Obi-Wan Kenobi could flip around and swing his lightsaber everywhere like any other action hero—while Ben Kenobi was a much subdued Jedi.
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Keith Urban Looks to ‘Unlikely Places’ for New Album Inspiration | Rolling Stone
“John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” may be Keith Urban’s fastest-selling single in a decade, but the singer’s recording of the hit didn’t come together quite so rapidly.
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What’s the Most Cringe-Inducing Moment in Any Comic Book Movie?
We’ve had scores and scores of comic-book movies in the past few decades—we counted 105 actual superhero films, but there are plenty more films based on comics. And not surprisingly, they’ve had some awful moments, along with great ones.
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Kurt Cobain Demo to Feature in ‘Montage of Heck’ Theatrical Re-Release | Rolling Stone
Nirvana fans will be able to hear a previously unreleased song that Kurt Cobain wrote when the documentary, Montage of Heck, gets a widespread theatrical re-release on August 7th.
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Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also do dishes. But as they enter that more responsibility-filled stage of life, something changes: Their roles often become much more tradi…
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Antikythera Island : Image of the Day
Crete is the largest and most populous Greek island, spanning 8,300 square kilometers (3,200 square miles) and supporting a population of 620,000. A short distance northwest of Crete is a lesser-known Greek island, Antikythera.
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Antikythera Island : Image of the Day
Crete is the largest and most populous Greek island, spanning 8,300 square kilometers (3,200 square miles) and supporting a population of 620,000. A short distance northwest of Crete is a lesser-known Greek island, Antikythera.
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HONG KONG — A top Chinese official said Thursday that American military drills and surveillance flights in the South China Sea were threatening regional stability, a harsh assessment that seemed likely to heighten tensions between the two countries …
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Emergency services were called to Main Beach at Evans Head about 6.15am on Friday, to find the man with wounds to his legs and hands. The man, believed to be in his 40s, was treated on the beach, and was being transported to Lismore Hospital in a se…
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NASA confirms the discovery of a rocky exoplanet just 21 light years away | The Verge
Astronomers have found the closest rocky planet outside our solar system using the Spitzer Space telescope. The planet, known as HD 219134b, orbits a star just 21 light years away, and NASA is calling a “potential gold mine of science data.”
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SoulCycle the US celebrity fitness chain to go public – BBC News
SoulCycle, the US indoor cycling fitness chain which has gained a cult following in the US, plans to float on the stock market. The boutique fitness firm is popular among A-list celebrities with David Beckham, Lady Gaga and Tom Cruise all having att…
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A minor-league baseball team let a machine call balls and strikes last night | The Verge
Baseball is a sport that’s often caught between two worlds.
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Environmentalists claimed a small victory over the oil industry on Thursday, when protesters prevented an icebreaker from leaving an Oregon harbor.
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Cartoon: See no, hear no, speak no
Click image to enlarge. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Man stabs 6 at Jerusalem pride parade
On Thursday in Jerusalem, at least six people were stabbed at the city’s gay pride parade. An ultra-orthodox man attacked the parade participants on Keren Heyesod Street, stabbing them from behind and screaming, until a police officer put him on the…
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BBC Sport – Formula 1: Ferrari rumours are disturbing – Valtteri Bottas
Valtteri Bottas says speculation about a move to Ferrari is “disturbing” as he looks to focus on winning his first grand prix with Williams. The 25-year-old has been linked with replacing Kimi Raikkonen at the Italian team from 2016 onwards.
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Neil Marshall to direct undoubtedly brutal sci-fi revenge thriller · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Neil Marshall, a director whose talent for epic, large-scale action sequences was proven several times over in the Game Of Thrones episodes “Blackwater” and “The Watchers On The Wall,” is planning something similarly ambitious, if slightly more inti…
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BBC Sport – West Ham United 2-2 Astra Giurgiu
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic says his side can have “no excuses” despite the early start to their season. The Hammers face Romanian side Astra Giurgiu in the Europa League third qualifying round on Thursday, in a campaign which began on 2 July.
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UnREAL’s Constance Zimmer joins Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Constance Zimmer is the latest addition to the cast for Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s upcoming third season, E! News reports.
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Don’t look now, but there’s an orgy in your garden | Grist
Which of the following doesn’t belong: nuclear destruction, pollution, severe changes to Earth’s topography, or rampant plant sex?
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To Grexit or Not to Grexit | The Nation
Athens, Greece—For weeks now, a high stakes drama with global implications has been playing out before our eyes, calling forth emotional highs and lows that might qualify those of us following along for a collective diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
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LePage’s Best Argument In Veto Fight Could Also Unleash The Most Chaos
With the Maine Supreme Court set to hold oral arguments Friday on whether Gov. Paul LePage (R) botched some 65 vetoes, the governor is making a new legal argument that — if adopted by the court — could send Maine into chaos.
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Washington, D.C. Sinking Into Sea – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
According to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Vermont, the nation’s capital could sink as much as 6 inches over the next century, increasing risk of flooding, and leading researchers to admonish Congress’ inaction o…
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Tiny Galaxy Bursting with Star Creation Is Spied by Hubble
A wisp of a galaxy is rich with new, blue-white young stars and primordial gas in this new cosmic photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The irregular dwarf galaxy is creating stars the size of our sun at a prodigious rate of about once a year.
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Officers at Sam DuBose scene involved in death of another unarmed black man | US news | The Guardian
Two police officers who corroborated a seemingly false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati were previously implicated in the death of an unarmed, hospitalised and mentally ill black man who died after he was “rushed” by a gr…
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Philae comet lander may have found ‘ingredients for life’ – BBC News
The Philae lander, after successfully landing on a comet in late 2014, may have made a significant discovery about the ingredients which create life. This supports the theory that comets may have provided the ingredients that led to the development …
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RNC Agrees To Give Trump Access To Voter Files After Koch Bros. Deny Him
The Republican National Committee has agreed to give Donald Trump access to its records on 250 million voting Americans even as the billionaire Koch brothers have reportedly refused to do the same with their files, according to a Yahoo report on Thu…
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BBC Sport – Southampton 3-0 Vitesse Arnhem
Southampton captain Jose Fonte says leading the team in Europe can be classed as one of the “proudest moments” in his career. Fonte, 31, was playing for the Saints in League One four years ago and now faces Vitesse in the Europa League third qualify…
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RAMESWARAM, India — At the break of dawn, Nimmi Jaan sat down on a patch of red sand near a large tent that had been set up the night before. She was one of the first people there.
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D.A.R.E. Calls for Marijuana Legalization — NYMag
The war on drugs is over, and weed won. D.A.R.E., the organization designed to plant a deep-seated fear of drugs in the minds of every late-20th-century middle schooler, published an op-ed calling for marijuana legalization.
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JUICE-y Mission to Jupiter One Step Closer to Reality
This month the European Space Agency (ESA) took a major step closer to an ambitious exploration of Jupiter and its icy moons. On July 16, the agency awarded a 350.
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Hillary Clinton foists private email release delays on Obama administration | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton has directed fresh criticism over the release of her emails toward the Obama administration as a federal judge fumed over delays in turning over records that she kept on a private server while serving as secretary of state.
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Thundercat on How ‘Them Changes’ Became a Funk Song | WIRED
On the Song Exploder podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway talks to musicians who take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the stories of how they were made. Listen below. Thundercat is the alter-ego of bassist and singer-songwriter Stephen Bruner.
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Olympic athletes spurn virus exposure warnings in Rio’s contaminated waters | Sport | The Guardian
Sailors and other athletes preparing for the Olympics have been training for months in contaminated waters where the Rio Games will be held.
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Virginia man killed by police was shot in back of head, family lawyer says | US news | The Guardian
The attorney for the family of a 23-year-old man who was killed by police in Virginia says the medical examiner’s report indicates he was shot in the back of the head. Kawanza J Beaty was shot and killed about 2am on 4 July.
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North America’s salamanders threatened by bloody skin disease | The Verge
A gruesome and deadly skin disease threatens to wreak havoc among North America’s salamanders, researchers warn in a study published in Science today.
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YouTube has exploded in the decade since it first launched in 2005, to the point where the top five most influential figures among American teens are all YouTube stars.
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Photographing a Family Racing to Cure Their Son’s Epilepsy | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. WIRED has wanted to commission photographer Elinor Carucci for a long time, but there had to be the perfect story for her signature style. Carucci’s body of work is documentary images of family, mother…
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Jeremy Clarkson Fled the South Long Before He Fled the BBC | WIRED
Years before the BBC gave Jeremy Clarkson the boot, denizens of the great state of Alabama kicked the Top Gear co-hosts out of the Heart of Dixie.
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NASA: “The Rosetta Stone for Super-Earths?”
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a potential gold mine of science data.
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Bernie Sanders Tackles Immigration and Race
After more than 100,000 people on Wednesday evening participated in over 3,500 organizational meetings to rally support and hear the message of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator today appeared before a Hispanic business asso…
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Medicare at 50: Successful, Popular, and Threatened By Conservatives
Today is Medicare’s 50th birthday. It’s improved the lives of millions of Americans, and it can as much for even more people. That’s why Republicans have never stopped trying to end it. Fifty years ago today, Lyndon B.
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Facebook builds drone for internet access – BBC News
Facebook has built its own drone that will bring internet connectivity to remote parts of the world, the social network has announced. The drone – which has a wingspan of a Boeing 737 – will operate as high as 90,000 feet in the air, and can stay ai…
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Why it’s nearly impossible to become Snapchat famous
Snapchat has quickly become the hippest, coolest contestant in the social media platform pageant. The app’s soaring popularity among millennials makes it an attractive destination for both 20-something users, and investors alike.
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Security forces guard El Salvador buses after murders – BBC News
The government in El Salvador has provided military and police escorts for bus drivers forced to go on strike by powerful criminal gangs.
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The director of Hitman: Agent 47 signs on for “grounded sci-fi epic” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Aleksander Bach’s Hitman: Agent 47 will put on an usher disguise and sneaking into theaters on August 21, and now The Hollywood Reporter says the first-time director has already found his second project.
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Deadspin Why Your Team Sucks 2015: New York Giants | Gawker Brazil Is Full of Shit | Gizmodo Is Earth’s Closest Cousin a Dying Planet? | Kotaku Ask Dr. Nerdlove: Help, I’m Hopeless With Women And I Hate Myself | Kinja Popular Posts
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Rick Perry challenges Donald Trump to a pull-up contest
The 2016 Republican primary just got a lot tougher. Responding to a barrage of insults from Donald Trump, who is currently ahead in the polls, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) challenged the real estate mogul to a pull-up contest.
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The New York Giants have no first-hand knowledge about the extent of the hand injuries Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul sustained in a July 4 fireworks accident in Florida. “I am disappointed he is not here,” Mara said Thursday, when the Gia…
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Listening to the star of the moment croon an original, sometimes relevant song while weirdly sexualized weapons float across the screen is one of the most important parts of experiencing James Bond movies.
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Education writing is famous for its alphabet soup of acronyms and obscure terms, but it could just as well be faulted for trafficking buzzwords in search of clear definitions.
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Exorcism: Live! attempts to track down the creator of reality TV · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Live from St. Louis, it’s Pazuzu Tonight! According to Deadline, Destination America will be hosting the first live televised exorcism in U.S. history.
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Trump Wants To Let Kids Ride In His Helicopter At The Iowa State Fair
Donald Trump has asked for permission to bring his helicopter to the Iowa State Fair and give children rides in it, he reportedly told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
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La Monte Young: ‘I’m only interested in putting out masterpieces’ | Music | The Guardian
Like many fans of minimalist-music godfather La Monte Young, I have often wished he’d put out more recordings. Long out-of-print CD copies of his multi-hour masterwork The Well-Tuned Piano occasionally fetch over $1,000 on the secondhand marketplace.
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Maine Speaker Sues Guv For Allegedly Blackmailing School Into Firing Him
Maine’s Democratic speaker of the House sued Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Thursday for allegedly blackmailing a private school into firing him as its top administrator. Speaker Mark Eves (D) filed a civil lawsuit in U.S.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Nickname Caused Her To Brush Up On Biggie Smalls
Professed opera lover and Supreme Court associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a newfound love of hiphop, she said in remarks on Wednesday at Duke University. Her nickname, the Notorious R.B.G., caused her to broaden her musical horizons, accordi…
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US district court judge Sharon Gleason ruled Thursday in Anchorage that Greenpeace is in civil contempt because of protesters dangling off a bridge in Portland, whom she said impeded the Shell vessel.
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Revised AP history standards will push ‘American exceptionalism’ | Education | The Guardian
The board that oversees advanced placement courses for US high school students has revised its US history standards to include a section on “American exceptionalism” after significant backlash from culture conservatives who said the exam wasn’t patr…
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Google to defy French ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling – BBC News
Google is to defy France’s ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied globally and not just in Europe. Last month, the French privacy watchdog, CNIL, ordered the firm to extend people’s right to have posts removed from its websites wo…
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Sony might let PlayStation Plus users vote on their free monthly games
At least some PlayStation 4 owners are getting the chance to choose which games they want to see available as a free download on PlayStation Plus.
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A ‘gritty’ Little Women reboot is a terrible idea—but not for the reason you think
The Internet’s rage du jour is the CW’s attempt to massacre our collective childhoods by developing a “hyper-stylized, gritty” dystopic version of Little Women. Yes, that Little Women, 19th-century classic of Young Adult literature.
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Is Pierce Brosnan anyone’s favorite James Bond? When fans of the series rank actors who’ve play the British spy, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Daniel Craig typically claim the podium, leaving Brosnan’s Bond to be best known for a video game. Brosna…
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Wasting Time With The Joneses | TechCrunch
Starting a company is like attempting to bend the world to your will. There are obstacles at every turn, and it’s never easy. Fundraising is one of those huge obstructions.
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Apple TV with Siri and App Store could finally arrive in September | The Verge
A new Apple TV may finally be on the way. According to BuzzFeed News, Apple plans to announce an overhauled Apple TV in September, likely during the same event that it’ll unveil new iPhones.
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BMW i3 owners in the Bay Area are getting $1,000 not to charge at peak hours | The Verge
Up to 100 BMW i3 owners in the San Francisco area are being offered $1,000 to hold off on charging during hours when the electricity grid is stressed the most. The 18-month trial, which is being run by BMW and Pacific Gas & Electric Company, started…
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California senators introduce new drought relief bill | The Verge
As California faces unprecedented water shortages, the state’s legislators are introducing a new bill to mitigate the damage.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday identified 26 additional people and institutions that will be subject to economic sanctions as part of an effort to maintain pressure on the Russian government over its support of insurgents fighting…
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Toyota moves further away from Android Auto and CarPlay with Telenav announcement | The Verge
Toyota and Telenav are announcing today that certain 2016 vehicles will be the first to support Scout GPS Link, a feature that ferries route and destination information between the dashboard and a version of Telenav’s Scout app for iPhone and Androi…
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LONDON — The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been denied a normal six-month business visa by the British government, which said on Thursday that Mr. Ai had lied on his application by neglecting to declare that he had been convicted of a crime. Instead,…
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Pocket starts recommending articles and videos in a new public beta | The Verge
Save-for-later service Pocket is testing out recommendations for the first time, introducing personalized picks for articles and videos into a public beta channel it is opening today. Pocket’s 17 million registered users can sign up to join the beta…
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Terrifying map shows depths of hell that is western U.S. | Grist
Even if you live in the dampest corner of the United States, you may have noticed that wildfires are becoming both more numerous and intense (thanks, climate change!). An interactive map from Climate Central shows you just how many wildfires are cur…
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Poll: Californians are more worried about climate change because drought | Grist
A new poll shows Californians are increasingly freaked out about climate change. The poll also showed that Californians think the state’s historic drought is related to climate change.
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Why Cecil the Lion Was So Popular With People
For more than a decade, visitors to Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park would notice that one lion stood out from the rest—an enormous male with a long, shaggy black mane. The lion so endeared himself to tourists that he was given a name: Cecil.
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Spacecraft Sees What a Comet Is Made Of
Despite being in forced hibernation since its historic landing on a comet last November, the Philae space probe has given scientists their first closeup look at what these ancient and mysterious objects are made of, and how they were born during the…
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Meet the First New Canine Found in 150 Years
Jackals, the tricksters of traditional folklore, have fooled us yet again. The golden jackal, which lives in East Africa and Eurasia, is actually two distantly related species—and one of them is a new species of wolf, a new study says.
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A Blue Moon and Meteors Compete for Attention This Week
The annual Delta Aquarids meteor shower is at its peak. The night of July 30 into the pre-dawn hours on July 31 will be a great time to watch for shooting stars, and the Aquarids are something of a pre-game show to the iconic and much bigger Perseid…
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Listen to Survivors Recount Warship Sinking Among Sharks
Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis—the maritime disaster made famous by Captain Quint’s monologue in the movie Jaws. The heavy cruiser sank in just 12 minutes after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine s…
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced Thursday he has ordered the immediate closure of the Baltimore City Men’s Detention Center, saying the “disaster of a facility” has seen rampant corruption and is an “embarrassment to our state.”
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Let’s call it the $7.5 billion lesson. That’s the amount Microsoft wrote off on Nokia’s phone unit, which it bought a little over a year ago for what it said was $9.5 billion. Considering that the deal included $1.
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Bill de Blasio: ‘No Reason for Alarm’ Over Legionnaires’ Outbreak | Observer
Despite a surge in cases and a couple of deaths, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this afternoon that New Yorkers have “no reason for alarm” over an outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease in the South Bronx. Mr.
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How to build the perfect pricing page on your website
There are many elements to take into account when creating a pricing page. From strategy to messaging and finally the design, each element has an active and important role in converting visitors into paying customers.
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After the success (or whatever you want to call it) of Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Saved By The Bell Story, the network quickly started moving forward with three follow-ups: The Unauthorized Full House Story, The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90120 St…
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Has Jena Malone’s Real Role in Batman v Superman Finally Been Revealed?
We supposedly know who Jena Malone will play in Batman v Superman: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, and it’s a rather well-known DC hero. But it’s either a rumor or a major spoiler, so you should either take a grain of salt or stop reading. Mayb…
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ESA Presents Gorgeous New York City Satellite Tour (Video)
NEW YORK – This gorgeous satellite view of the busy Big Apple as seen from orbit offers a glimpse into the new “My Planet from Space” exhibit currently on view at the United Nations.
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The discovery of a plane’s fragment—which could be part of the aircraft that disappeared in March 2014—may not bring closure to the victims’ families.
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50 Years Later, Medicare And Medicaid Are A Smashing Success | ThinkProgress
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicaid and Medicare into law 50 years ago today. Simply, Medicaid provides health insurance for poor Americans, and Medicare provides insurance for Americans over 65 years old. In 1966 a large portion of seniors …
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Netflix is Looking For Oscars With This Beasts Of No Nation Trailer | WIRED
This movie is going to be harrowing. Cary Fukunaga, who directed the first season of True Detective, wrote and helmed this adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s novel of the same name about a young boy forced into the life of a child soldier in West Afric…
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Watch the Edge, Adam Clayton’s Shock Performance With U2 Cover Band | Rolling Stone
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Supergirl powers up an actor to play the villainous Reactron · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Supergirl, CBS’s upcoming foray into the DC superhero world, continues to accrue bad guys for its hero to beat up, and not just on rival networks.
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Jeb Bush Parrots Frank Luntz Climate Script, Just As His Brother Did A Decade Ago | ThinkProgress
The White House is gearing up to announce the final carbon pollution standards that power plants will have to meet in EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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Sylvester Stallone is auctioning off memorabilia from the Rocky and Rambo franchises., according to ABC News. Hosted by Heritage Auctions on October 14 and 15, the auction will include lots of iconic props, including Rocky’s motorcycle, gloves, and …
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Report: Google is distributing a business version of Glass that attaches to different glasses
It seems that Google hasn’t given up on Google Glass — it’s just taken it to a practical direction. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Google is distributing a new version of Glass for business use, in industries such as healthcare an…
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Joy Behar probably won’t return to The View · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We recently learned that Sherri Shepherd would return to The View (as a contributor), which probably got diehard fans hoping that the whole gang might get back together. Well, Joy Behar is here to crush those dreams.
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Bacteria Artist Targets the Nose, Not the Eyes | | Observer
How do you feel when you discover an egg has rotted in your fridge? Or when someone eats smelly food at their desk in your office? Korean-born artist Anicka Yi, 44, seeks to conjure this sort of visceral experience with her artworks.
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Tokyo’s Uninspired Olympics Logo Might Be a Design Ripoff | WIRED
We didn’t care for Tokyo’s Olympics logo when it was unveiled earlier this week. Now, it appears that the design has a bigger problem than than just uninspired design; it bears a striking similarity to another logo.
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Chrome might soon save memory by auto-discarding your ‘least interesting’ tabs
Let’s face it: Chrome can be a bit of a memory hog, and if you’re the type to have 27 tabs open at a time, it’s probably even worse for you. Google’s considering remedying this by discarding your ‘least interesting’ tabs when your system memory is r…
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As profits continue to slip for Samsung Electronics, the South Korean manufacturer is resorting to reducing the price of its most popular phone, the Galaxy S6. But all would-be buyers eyeing the price cut should take heed and proceed with caution.
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Whoa, This Full-Frame Camera Shoots At ISO 4,000,000 | WIRED
Would you pay $30 grand for a two-megapixel camera? Not in 1972; like right now. Before you strain your superior rectus rolling your eyeballs, consider this: We’re talking about a full-frame camera with a special sensor that has an ISO equivalency o…
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Lagoon Nebula Seething With ‘Violent Phenomena’ | Video
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The Hidden Silver Lining In The EPA’s Most Recent Court Loss | ThinkProgress
If you just read the headlines, it looks clear that the Environmental Protection Agency suffered a loss in court this week. On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals told the agency that it must loosen some of its restrictions on air pollution t…
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Unsolicited Notes For The CW’s ‘Gritty, Dystopic’ Remake Of ‘Little Women’ | ThinkProgress
Deadline reports that The CW has put in development a reboot of Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age novel, Little Women. This drama is described as “a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation” of the novel, which was published in 1868.
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A New Documentary Shows How Gene Roddenberry Almost Killed Star Trek TNG
Former Star Trek star William Shatner has made a slew of Trek documentaries in recent years, so when I saw he had a new one about the first few years of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I wasn’t sure if it was worth watching. But it totally was.
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Archie Panjabi to suit up for Brooklyn Nine-Nine · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After parting ways with The Good Wife at the end of the show’s sixth season, Archie Panjabi is set to return to television as Lieutenant Knox on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, where she will reportedly have her eye on Joe Lo Truglio’s accident-prone and food-l…
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This website will give you every excuse under the sun not to go into work
While some of us are blessed to have a flexible telecommuting policy at work, we still have to inform the boss when we’ll be working from home and have to come up with a pretty good excuse as to why we can’t make it to the office.
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Ted Cruz doesn’t appear to be backing down from comments calling President Obama “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism” for striking up a deal over Iranian’s nuclear program.
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Olympians Are Getting Ill Training in Rio’s Feces-Contaminated Water | VICE News
Competitors gearing up for next year’s summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro have fallen sick while training and competing in the city’s water venues, which reportedly contain levels of bacteria and viruses equivalent to raw sewage.
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Andy Daly on Forrest MacNeil, ‘Review’ Season 2, and the Influence of the UK ‘Office’ – The Atlantic
In its second season on Comedy Central, Andy Daly’s mockumentary series still finds new ways to skewer the self-importance of its endlessly chipper protagonist.
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MobileIron Drops 6% After Beating On Revenue And Profit In Q2 | TechCrunch
After reporting an earnings beat earlier today, shares of mobile device management firm MobileIron fell roughly six percent during regular trading. The firm reported $34.8 million in revenue, resulting in an adjusted loss of $0.25 per share. Investo…
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LinkedIn Beats Analyst Estimates With $712M In Q2 Revenue | TechCrunch
LinkedIn’s earnings today beat analyst expectations in dramatic fashion, sending the stock up as much as 14% in extended trading after it released its second-quarter results. The company reported earnings of 55 cents per share and revenue of $712 mi…
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The former officer, Ray Tensing, appeared briefly in a Hamilton County court in Cincinnati, in gray-and-black striped jail garb, handcuffed behind his back, as his lawyer, William S. Mathews II, entered a plea of not guilty for him.
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Jeremy Clarkson’s new show on Amazon includes “Top Gear” team – Jul. 30, 2015
Former Top Gear hosts — Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May — have signed a deal with Amazon. “The boys” are going to Amazon.
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Live Exorcism to Air on ‘Destination America’ Because Why Not? | | Observer
If you didn’t read the headline, allow me to repeat myself: Destination America is going to air an exorcism live on television. No, not a show called “An Exorcism.” An exorcism. A real one. With a priest and some holy water and demons and everything.
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CALAIS, France — The sun had barely set when a 23-year-old Eritrean woman who gave her name as Akbrat fell into step with dozens of other men and women and started scaling the fence surrounding the entrance to the French side of the Channel Tunnel.
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James Woods is suing a Twitter troll for $10 million · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite building a career out playing criminals, lowlifes, unpleasant people, and unpleasant criminal lowlifes, make no mistake: James Woods will sue you for damaging his reputation.
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British cable firm snapped up in drive for intelligent cars | Technology | The Guardian
A US-listed car parts maker is paying £1.1bn for HellermannTyton, a British manufacturer of cable equipment, as it seeks to capitalise on the growing trend in intelligent vehicles.
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Everyone expects Cary Fukunaga’s child-soldier drama Beasts Of No Nation to be disturbing, but viewers may still be surprised by the power of its teaser trailer, which manages to drum up palpable waves of fear, sadness, and rage in less than two min…
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The producer of Power/Rangers is making a very silly-sounding movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You may remember, way back in the paleolithic dawn of February 2015, there was a minor fracas over Power/Rangers, a fun send-up of “dark and gritty” reboots of children’s entertainment that was better at the whole “dark and gritty” thing than most o…
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Hillary Clinton’s overlap of private and political activities was once again in the spotlight on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report that since Clinton helped broker a settlement in a legal tax case against UBS while she was secretary of sta…
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Tired of struggling to read those ugly and confusing captchas on web forms? So was the HeavyGifts group, the masterminds behind the new service MetalCaptcha. The free service replaces the traditional captcha mess with the name and artwork of differe…
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Incredible Robotic Water Strider Jumps Like the Real Thing
Researchers from South Korea have created a robotic insect that’s capable of jumping and landing on an aquatic surface, a unique mode of transportation found only in specialized animals.
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Six-month-old baby gets lifetime hunting license in US – BBC News
Daylen Brickley, a baby from the US state of New Hampshire, is the proud owner of a lifetime permit to hunt and fish – the first license holder under a new program. His fishing license is valid, but he will need to complete a hunter safety course be…
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Sanders: We Need a ‘Political Revolution’ | Al Jazeera America
Bernie Sanders has often said that it will require a “political revolution” to make a success out of his presidential campaign. On Wednesday, the Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont senator took steps that he hopes will turn that revolutio…
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BAY LAKE, FL—Citing the 75 percent increase in ticket prices over the past decade, a report published Thursday by consumer research firm McGann & Associates found that the rising cost of admission to Walt Disney World is prompting more parents to le…
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Synthetic fertilizers are used throughout agriculture — and especially in the United States’ Corn Belt — to help plants grow. But the fertilizers also emit a greenhouse gas known as nitrous oxide (N2O) that is almost 300 times more potent, pound for…
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What Global Warming Means for Four of Summer’s Worst Pests – Scientific American
Is there any pest more synonymous with summer than the mosquito? There are many species of the annoyingly buzzing biters found in different areas around the country.
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Why Rand Paul Types Never Make It — NYMag
So: It looks like the Rand Paul operation has popped a cotter pin (or several, really), and, as is generally the case when these things happen, the nuts spilled out. The man who was once hailed as a maverick party unifier is now regarded as a disapp…
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NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that has backed more than 400 charter schools and educational technology for more than 15 years, has just opened a new startup accelerator with an initial focus on science. They’re offerin…
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César Pelli Drops $17.9 M. on San Remo Pad that Set of a Family Feud | Observer
The San Remo, designed by Emery Roth, is inherently dramatic, its green-tipped double towers looming over Central Park West; it’s no surprise that so much of the Hollywood set has found it appealing, among them Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, and Bono…
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Don’t Freak, But a Computer Ump Just Called a Baseball Game | WIRED
During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against…
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The Top Gear Crew Has Some Great Ideas for the Next Cop Car | WIRED
Should the British police force replace their cars with turbocharged Fiat Coupés or Suzuki Vitaras with pink decals? In the first episode of Top Gear’s eleventh season, hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May each built a cop car desig…
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McConnell disturbed by fetal tissue research he voted to legalize in ’93
No one ever said it would be used for science. Turtlesque Mitch McConnell is suddenly racing to defund Planned Parenthood following that misleading video that purported to catch Planned Parenthood employees trafficking fetal tissue donations for med…
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Adorable Baby Elephant Caught Chasing Birds – Digg
The only instinct that matters to this little guy is the one that activates the fun response.
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KPCB’s John Doerr is Coming to Disrupt | TechCrunch
John Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 25 years ago, but it didn’t take him nearly so long to cement his status as a legend in the industry.
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Chris Christie, Newfound Drug Warrior, Is Too Late To Stop Pot | FiveThirtyEight
No presidential election truly feels real until there’s a solid incident of hippie-punching, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was happy to throw the inaugural punch this week by telling pot smokers that as soon as he’s in the White House, the part…
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Drought May Stunt Forests’ Ability to Grow for Years – Scientific American
The megadrought in the Amazon rainforest during the summer of 2005 caused widespread damage and die-offs to trees, as depicted in this photo taken in Western Amazonia in Brazil.
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Fashion Startup Everlane Arrives On Mobile With An App Catering To Its Biggest Fans | TechCrunch
Everlane, the fashion shopping site focused on selling high-quality apparel at lower prices than traditional designer retail, has today made the move to mobile.
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I Love This Study On Activated Charcoal’s Effect on Farts
Every day you learn something new, and that’s great. But some days are extra special. Some days, you learn things about the “fecal liberation of intestinal gases.” Those days are the best. I knew that activated charcoal water filters existed.
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Kentucky man shoots down drone spying on 16-year-old daughter
Where should we draw the line between the advancement of technology and the protection of personal privacy? For one Kentucky man, his property line is where he gets to make the call, and he made that point of view perfectly clear when he pointed his…
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In an interview on Desert Island Discs in 2006, David Cameron told an amusing anecdote about a jaunt to Yalta when he was 19: over lunch in the resort city on the Black Sea, the KGB had “interviewed” the young prime minister-in-waiting with view to …
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Bikini Kill to Reissue ‘Revolution Girl Style Now’ Demo | Rolling Stone
Vaunted riot grrrl band Bikini Kill are preparing the reissue of their 1991 demo tape Revolution Girl Style Now. On September 22nd, the band’s inaugural collection of work will be available on vinyl, CD and digital formats for the first time.
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Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg Talk Life, Death & Summer Camp | Rolling Stone
In their new movie The End of the Tour, Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg play two writers— acclaimed author David Foster Wallace and Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky — who in 1996 conducted a marathon five-day interview while Wallace finished prom…
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That Time Jeremy Test Drove a Toilet at the North Pole | WIRED
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have left the BBC for Amazon Prime, but they certainly made their mark on the legacy of Top Gear. Sometimes, that mark was a little too literal.
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Doing Terrible Things To Your Code
In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmer…
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Facebook now used by half of world’s online users – BBC News
Half of the world’s estimated online population now check in to the social networking giant Facebook at least once a month. Facebook said the number of people who use it at least monthly grew 13% to 1.49 billion in the three months to the end of Jun…
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1,000 Musicians Perform the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” in Unision in Italy | Open Culture
Despite breaking his leg during a gig earlier this summer, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have blitzed their way through Europe and America, playing sometimes 5-6 shows per week, in cities often large, but sometimes small.
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Photographer Clayton Cubitt started a project in 2012 called Hysterical Literature. In each of the project’s resulting videos, a female participant is filmed from the waist up reading a story of her choosing while she is stimulated to orgasm with a …
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Facebook’s solar-powered internet plane looks like a stealth bomber | The Verge
Facebook’s plans to become a flying internet service provider for the developing world are coming to fruition. The company today introduced Aquila, a high-flying, long-endurance plane that will bring basic internet access to the developing world.
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See the Philae lander descend onto a comet | The Verge
Now you can get a glimpse of what it looks like to land on a comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) just released this amazing GIF of the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander descending upon comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Chirlane McCray Says Her Parents Were ‘Sad A lot’ | Observer
Announcing a $30 million mental health initiative this afternoon, Chirlane McCray opened up about her parents’ struggles with depression, telling reporters that they were “sad a lot.
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Midday open thread: A humorous hack, polluted water and a violated bush
Tensing pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. This year’s convention, however, occurs under the specter of potential legal issues over the fairness and transparency of the election.
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Prince releases new song on Spotify weeks after removing all his music | The Verge
(Ethan Miller/Getty Images) A few weeks ago, the notoriously fickle but undeniably brilliant Prince decided to pull all of his music from most of the major streaming music services, including the industry leader Spotify (something t
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Gawker Announces New Leadership — NYMag
Following a chaotic couple of weeks that saw the poorly-received outing of a Condé Nast executive, the resignation of two top editors, the announcement of a new(ish) editorial mission, and a number of buyouts, things might be starting to settle down…
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Calais migrant crisis: UK police and social services plead for help – BBC News
Police and social services in the UK are seeking urgent support as the Calais migrant crisis continues. The leader of Kent County Council has met Home Office officials to request help to deal with the arrival of hundreds of young migrants in Dover.
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The former “face” of Reddit’s popular Ask Me Anything section — whose sudden dismissal caused a massive upheaval in the Reddit community and eventually led to CEO Ellen Pao’s departure — has found a new home at WeWork.
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Robot mimics human emotions through the power of ‘90s jams · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
“What do machines sing of?” It’s a semi-reasonable question asked by a recent installation by Berlin-based hacker/composer Martin Backes. The answer, obviously, is that they sing about whatever they are damn well programmed to sing about.
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Cecil The Lion’s Killing Is Rooted Deep In American History
Few recent news stories have united Americans in outrage and anger as fully as the revelations about Minnesota dentist Walt Palmer’s illegal poaching and killing of famed African lion Cecil.
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Apparently some people in Cesena, Italy, really, really want the Foo Fighters to come play their town.
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The most pressing question that Donald J.
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Mike Huckabee says President Obama is using his nuclear deal to “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.” Mitt Romney describes it as a “generational calamity.
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Readers recommend: songs about farming | Peter Kimpton | Music | The Guardian
Why Brownlee left, and where he went,Is a mystery even now.For if a man should have been contentIt was him; two acres of barley,One of potatoes, four bullocks,A milker, a slated farmhouse.He was last seen going out to ploughOn a March morning, brigh…
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Camille Paglia: Columbia Anti-Rape Mattress Project is ‘Backwards Feminism’ | | Observer
In an interview with Salon, renowned and self-proclaimed “dissident feminist,” Camille Paglia, lambasted Columbia graduate Emma Sulkowicz’s mattress performance, calling it “a parody of the worst aspects of that kind of grievance-oriented feminism.
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Senate to vote on bill to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding next week
Reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood is taking a major beating.
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Father and son take same photo for 27 years – Boing Boing
Quite moving, really.
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Disabled Advocates Rip Uber Over Lack of Accessibility | Observer
More than a dozen wheelchair and seeing-eye-dog users rallied in the steamy weather today outside e-hail app Uber‘s Manhattan offices, complaining that the company’s drivers do not have cars that can accommodate disabled passengers—and accusing the …
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YC-Backed Ironclad Is An Automated Legal Assistant For Companies | TechCrunch
Launching out of the latest YC class, Ironclad is an automated service to help companies draft, organize, and execute common legal paperwork. Expensive legal bills are often an unwelcome reality for young startups.
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YouTube’s Rock Stars of Science Make a Splash at VidCon [Video] – Scientific American
Last week, 20,000 screaming fans swamped YouTube celebrities at the world’s largest online video conference in Anaheim, California.
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RAF Typhoons ‘intercepts Russian aircraft’ – BBC News
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released footage which it says shows RAF Typhoons intercepting 10 Russian aircraft. The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia do not have enough aircraft to police their own skies so Nato members take turns.
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Financial Times Readers Bemoan Downmarket Lunch With ‘The Fat Jew’ | | Observer
The Financial Times shocked people inside and outside the newsroom last week when the Japanese media company Nikkei announced it had bought the 127-year-old distinguished salmon-colored broadsheet for a whopping $1.3 billion.
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The death of so handsome a creature as Cecil the lion has rightly ignited global outrage. But why do we seem to care so much more about how an animal dies than how it lives? After all, Cecil had 13 free and happy years roaming Zimbabwe’s Hwange nati…
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You can’t get a coffee IV, so get a caffeine vaporizer instead
A true coffee addict would snort coffee beans if it meant getting their fix faster. Now they have the next best thing: Eagle Energy wants to be the vaporizer for coffee lovers.
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There Are Phantom Med Schools Lurking In Medicare Data | VICE News
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Dr. Thomas “Randy” Lombardo has been a well-regarded cardiologist in the Beaumont, Texas, area for decades, but a look at his entry in the Medicare provider database would make…
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Who said it: Charles Manson or Kanye West? – Boing Boing
Kanye West is a phenomenally talented entertainer and loved by millions. Charles Manson is a failed wanna-be pop star and infamous murderer who we hope will remain locked up for the rest of his life.
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The most powerful African American politicians in the US will next week demand that Silicon Valley companies hire more black people after official figures revealed that many of the world’s most prominent tech companies’ workforces are just 2% black.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli legislators voted Thursday to allow the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners in extreme cases, a move that appeared to be aimed at preventing Palestinian inmates from using fasts to win their release, particularly from inde…
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Russia’s latest Internet censorship decision sets a dangerous precedent
Sturges commonly photographs adolescents in a nude modeling context on specified nudist beaches in California, France, and Ireland. A Google Image search of his name will provide you with a strong sense of his generally NSFW artwork.
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Nous sommes Cecil | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Can all those who are justifiably outraged at the killing of Cecil the lion (Report, 29 July) now join the protests against the “canned hunting” of lions in South Africa.
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Pinterest’s Bold Plan to Fix Its Diversity Problem | WIRED
Diversity in tech remains a problem, but Pinterest is among those working to solve it. Today, the company unveiled new programs designed to improve diversity in its ranks, and the plan looks rather promising.
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Spain cracks down on brothel’s donations to police force | World news | The Guardian
Spain’s Guardia Civil police force will no longer accept donations from a brothel in Navarra, even if the money is put towards a good cause, the country’s minister of the interior has said.
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Great white shark thwarts marathon swimmer’s Golden Gate bridge quest | US news | The Guardian
Corte Madera marathon swimmer Simon Dominguez was trying to swim about 28 miles when his teen daughter, in a support boat, spotted the great white just three miles from his goal, KPIX-TV reported on Thursday.
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Environmental Group Sues California Over ‘Fundamentally Flawed’ Fracking Report | ThinkProgress
An environmental group is suing the state of California’s oil agency for not incorporating certain information into its fracking rules — information that included warnings of the risks fracking poses to drinking water and the environment.
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JERUSALEM — An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who had recently been released from prison after serving 10 years for stabbing participants in the annual Gay Pride Parade here in 2005 struck again on Thursday, stabbing and wounding six marchers in this yea…
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Why Immigration Is The Hole In Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Agenda | ThinkProgress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders outlined his immigration reform plan Thursday, saying he would support comprehensive immigration reform and go further than President Barack Obama to protect undocumented immigrants…
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Handy UV-Busting Visor Snaps Onto Any Bike Helmet | WIRED
Caption: An ex-software engineer and a crack team of design alumni from IDEO and frog have designed a new cycling accessory. The Bouclier visor attaches to any helmet and protects riders from dangerous UV rays. Bouclier
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Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars Is Still The Best, Silliest Marvel Tribute
Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars might just be the best thing to come from Marvel’s ongoing Secret Wars event.
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Donald Trump: ‘I think I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin’ – video | US news | The Guardian
At his Turnberry golf resort in western Scotland for the first day of the Women’s Open, Donald Trump delivered comments on the United States’ relations around the world.
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California regulators said on Thursday that water use fell by 27% in June, passing the governor’s conservation target in the first month of mandatory cutbacks during the drought.
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Blur: ‘We used to take it in turns to punch each other’ | Music | The Guardian
Hong Kong in July can be a disorientating place for outsiders: the suffocating humidity, the density of human bodies, the mind-jarring collision of east and west.
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‘SHAM’ highlights all that’s wrong with marriage
SHAM—Upright Citizens Brigade member Lizzy Bryce’s webseries about two 30-year-olds who marry out of desperation despite not liking each other—is neither funny nor interesting. But show it to someone who still disagrees with marriage equality, and y…
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Canadian company allows students to use frequent flyer miles to pay tuition | Money | The Guardian
If you are a college student or graduate in Canada, your frequent flyer miles can help you cut down on your student debt.
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Facebook Is About to Test Its Enormous Solar-Powered Drone | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. At an airfield somewhere in the UK, there’s a drone with the wingspan of a Boeing 737. And it belongs to Facebook.
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With Bernie’s People in Vermont | The Nation
Brattleboro—There were three separate Bernie Sanders events here last night—one downtown, with neat rows of folding chairs where you could watch his online speech on a big screen in the company of local worthies, and where they had bumper stickers, …
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Facebook Won’t Be An ISP, But Is Building Internet-Shooting Drones For Carriers | TechCrunch
Facebook today detailed its plans for its solar-powered, laser-connected, Internet-beaming drones, but confirmed its not going to compete with Internet Service Providers. “Our intention is not to be an operator” Facebook’s VP of engineering Jay Pari…
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Greek debt crisis: IMF wary of third bailout – BBC News
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is very wary of any financial contribution to a third Greek bailout. The implication of remarks by an IMF official is that it is very unlikely to provide funds at the first stage.
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“UAVbnb” DroneBase Is DJI And Accel’s First SkyFund Investment | TechCrunch
Drone manufacturing king DJI has a plot to expand its unmanned aerial empire. It’s teamed up with prestigious VC Accel to launch the $10 million SkyFund, which invests in companies expanding the drone market — and DJI’s sizable slice of it.
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Conservatives: Planned Parenthood ‘Hack’ Is A Money-Grubbing PR Stunt
Conservative websites Breitbart and The Federalist are claiming that a reported cyber-attack of the Planned Parenthood website is in fact a “PR stunt” staged by the organization and the communications firm it has hired. The Federalist has the more s…
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Adorable cats kiss, then immediately try to kill each other
Cats have that special ability to simultaneously adore and detest their owners. They’re an opportunistic frenemy you keep around because when they’re good, they’re great—until they draw your blood immediately after licking your hand.
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Amy Schumer doesn’t owe you a feminist movie
Amy Schumer is so hot right now. Sketches from her TV show Inside Amy Schumer, including “Last Fuckable Day” and “Girl, You Don’t Need Make-Up,” have gone viral, and she consistently pushes the envelope with raunchy language and explicit talk about …
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To push tech diversity forward, Pinterest takes its hiring goals public
Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou is largely responsible for elevating the conversation about industry transparency in hiring. Her blog post “Where are the numbers?” went viral in 2013, prompting people to demand tech giants show the racial and gender m…
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Kim Hyo-joo leads Women’s British Open but Donald Trump steals limelight | US news | The Guardian
It might have been hard to believe during the 25 minutes Donald Trump spent talking to the media in a ballroom within the majestic Turnberry hotel, but the Women’s British Open was going on just outside.
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Get the backstory on ‘Game of Thrones’ without reading all 5,000 pages
The Internet is a minefield for Game of Thrones fans who want to learn more about A Song of Ice and Fire without getting spoiled about future plotlines. But now George R.R. Martin has teamed up with his U.K. publisher to make that search safer for f…
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Let’s Talk About NASA’s Mission to Europa
The search for life in the Solar System is about the hunt for water. Wherever we find liquid water on Earth, we find life. I’m talking everywhere. In the most briny, salty pools in Antarctica, in the hottest hot springs in Yellowstone, under glacier…
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Reagan No Longer ‘Bellicose’ In Revised AP US History Standards
After about a year of criticism from conservatives targeting the College Board’s “revisionist” course framework for the advanced placement U.S. history exam, the company on Thursday released new revisions to the course standards to address certain c…
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Tears of renown: Wilmer Flores offers rare proof that stars are just like us | Sport | The Guardian
The image was stark. Wilmer Flores, the 23-year-old Mets shortstop, pacing around his mark in the outfield. Eyes red, bottom lip quivering. He spits, exhales, chews his gum, shakes his head.
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Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian musician singer Alysha Brilla and her two sisters, Tameera and Nadia, said that a police officer pulled them over because they were riding bikes at night without wearing shirts. The officer told them to put their tops on and …
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Every great line from Seinfeld compiled into one video · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The following video is definitely sponge-worthy. The brains over at WorldWideInterweb have gone through the entire Seinfeld series, pulled out the show’s very best catchphrases, and slapped them together into one continuous video for a trip down sit…
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Inside the New Classes Aimed at Reducing Violence at Rikers Island | Observer
Inside a small classroom, Frank Horton stands in front of a chalkboard and asks one of his students what he’s contributed to society. Other than his child, the student can’t think of much of anything he’s contributed.
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IBM partners with CVS to predict who’s at risk for diabetes | The Verge
CVS is turning to IBM’s thirstiest supercomputer, Watson, to see if it can predict which customers are at risk chronic illnesses, such as diabetes.
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Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s sci-fi cartoon Rick and Morty looked like a consolation prize at first: Harmon had lost his spot at the head of his groundbreaking (but low-rated) NBC sitcom Community, which he’d created, and had gone from the bigges…
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One major flaw could let any hacker bring down huge portions of the Internet
Within an hour, Graham says he could have crashed a huge portion of the Internet. The vulnerability was very recently fixed but highlights a pattern of problems with the popular software, according to Graham.
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Brie Larson Breaks Out In The Heart-Crushing Trailer for Room | WIRED
Let this be the one. Let this finally be the movie that puts Brie Larson on the map as an actress who gets to demand big salary numbers for the consistent, fantastic work she does. You’ve loved her in United States of Tara and Scott Pilgrim vs.
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How to migrate from Beats Music to Apple Music
Beats Music might be dead, but it’s not gone. Apple wasted little time in remixing its multibillion dollar acquisition into a streaming music service of its very own, but Apple Music’s progenitor is not only still available in the App Store—it’s sti…
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Weekend Edition: 7 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before August 3 | | Observer
Opening: “Lola Montes: Akashic records” at Tripoli Gallery Lola Montes’ five new works, including Resting With Demons and Pray for the Way, capture people in transformative states.
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Surprising Comet Discoveries by Rosetta’s Philae Lander Unveiled
The structure, composition and evolutionary history of comets are starting to come into focus, thanks to observations beamed home by the first probe ever to land on one of these icy objects. On Nov.
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The Mindy Project is taking a kitchen-sink approach to casting its new-to-Hulu fourth season: Garret Dillahunt recently came on board as a doctor who disapproves of Mindy’s lifestyle (kind of like Danny), Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Mindy’s lover…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: Steven Finn puts England on brink of victory
Steven Finn claimed his fifth Test five-wicket haul to put England on the brink of victory in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. The Middlesex seamer, playing his first Test in two years, took 5-45 as Australia crumbled to 168-7 in their second inni…
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Best of #MarriedPeopleIssues—The Hashtag Bringing Old People, Odd Humor to Twittter | | Observer
You may think Twitter is just for lazy millennials, but think again. If you don’t see older folks tweeting on the regular, you will today. The hashtag #MarriedPeopleIssues is trending, bringing some old people and their oddball humor to the site.
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MH370: aircraft debris flown to France for analysis | World news | The Guardian
Aircraft debris found on a French Indian Ocean island has been flown to France for analysis, with a 6ft section of wing appearing to match the model of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Will the Philae Comet Lander Make Another Comeback?
This two-image mosaic from the Philae comet lander shows the probe on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. Image released Nov. 13, 2014.
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3 women stole $3,000 from ISIS militants in elaborate catfishing scheme
According to an RT report, three young women had participated in a scheme to create fake profiles and convince ISIS recruiters that they wanted to travel to Syria and join the fight. Once recruiters were hooked, reported RT and local Chechen news ou…
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The DEA’s new boss says heroin is probably more dangerous than marijuana | The Verge
Acting DEA administrator Chuck Rosenberg has acknowledged that marijuana is “probably not” as dangerous as heroin, a concession that’s almost revelatory given the hardline stance of his predecessors.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the killing of Cecil, a lion that is thought to have been lured out of its protected habitat in Zimbabwe this month and killed by Walter J. P…
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Lindsey Graham Brings Up Hitler While Criticizing The Iran Deal (VIDEO)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday invoked Hitler’s slow takeover of Europe through appeasement to explain why the historic Iran nuclear deal shouldn’t be approved by Congress. Earlier in the week, Graham critic…
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Philae Comet Landing: Big Discoveries About Comet 67P (Infographic)
On Nov. 12, 2014, 317 million miles (510 million kilometers) from Earth and 14 miles (22.5 km) from comet 67p, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe releases the Philae lander. Video: Philae Lander Seen Post-Touchown By Rosetta? + New Descent Pi…
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What It’s Like to Watch a Species Go Extinct | WIRED
Karen Lips was a grad student when she came face to face with a mass extinction for the first time. It was the early 1990s, and she was doing research on frogs in the mountains of Costa Rica. At the beginning, they were everywhere.
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Portland activists force Shell to turn around | Grist
Score one for Portland in the great Pacific Northwest rivalry that no one in the rest of the world cares about. Thirteen activists hanging from Portland’s St.
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Robot can leap from water’s surface – BBC News
Scientists have developed a tiny robot – based on the water strider insect – that can jump on water. The robotic version uses the same forces to jump as the water strider – pushing off without breaking the surface.
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The Guide to Chinese Sandwiches | Lucky Peach
Earlier this year, based on evidence of a two-thousand-year-old sandwich (rou jia mo) from Shaanxi Province, Chinese media outlets began asserting that the burger, that most iconic of American foods, had in fact been invented in their country.
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Comet yields ‘rich array’ of organics – BBC News
The spacecraft which made a spectacular landing on a comet last year has discovered a rich array of carbon compounds. One leading scientist has even described the chemicals as “a frozen primordial soup”.
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What is beauty? Rick Guidotti, a fashion photographer from New York City, once defined beauty by supermodels, hairstylists, makeup artists and magazine covers, but a chance encounter at a Manhattan bus stop changed his perspective.
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Recent positive drug tests by two cyclists suggest there is a new, cutting-edge substance making its way to athletes looking for performance-enhancement: FG-4592, an experimental drug that increases production of red blood cells but has not yet been…
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CINCINNATI—Following a traffic stop earlier this month by a University of Cincinnati police officer that ended in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist, authorities confirmed Thursday that the disturbing video recorded by the officer’s bod…
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ANN ARBOR, MI—Noting that the 51-year-old coach was slowly making his way across the vacant stands section by section, sources at the University of Michigan confirmed Thursday that Jim Harbaugh spent the entire day testing the view from every seat i…
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NEW YORK—After reviewing the job candidate’s impressive educational background, research experience, and work history, hiring managers at Geneventis Pharmaceuticals reportedly flat-out asked female applicant Caitlyn Heard today about how much mileag…
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MILWAUKEE—Frequently choking back tears, African-American computer technician Michael Shaw bid an emotional goodbye to his wife and 6-year-old son before making his morning commute Thursday, sources confirmed.
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Woman suing Starbucks for allegedly serving drink with cleaning solution – Boing Boing
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Is Your City Lazy? Human Knows | TechCrunch
Activity apps are all the rage right now thanks in part to any number of smartwatches and bands you can wear, as well as Apple’s HealthKit initiative. There’s a lot of activity going on out there, and we’re finally tracking the data that goes along …
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EU extends farm aid amid Russian food import ban – BBC News
The EU says it will continue aid for exporters of dairy produce, fruit and vegetables into next year to ease the impact of a Russian ban on those goods.
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Pinterest sets goals for hiring more women and minorities | The Verge
Silicon Valley companies have been releasing data on their diversity for a couple of years, but those reports have largely served to identify a problem — not to improve it. That’s why Pinterest has decided to publicly outline a series of goals it’s …
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White House assails move to defund Planned Parenthood | TheHill
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U.S. Government Hunting Lion-Killing Dentist — NYMag
It’s been two days since Dr. Walter Palmer was identified as the killer of a protected Zimbabwean lion named Cecil, and things are only getting worse for the Minnesota dentist.
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Cecil the lion death: US agency ‘unable to find Walter Palmer’ – BBC News
Investigators in the US say they have been unable to contact the American dentist who has sparked outrage over the killing of a lion in Zimbabwe. The US Fish and Wildlife Service said it was “deeply concerned” about the “tragic” death of Cecil the l…
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Garissa attack: Kenyans call for university to reopen – BBC News
Peace activists in Kenya are calling for the reopening of the college where 148 people were killed by gunmen from the Somalia-based al-Shabab group. The April attack led to the closure of Garissa University College, which has had an impact on the lo…
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Man Stabs Six at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade | Al Jazeera America
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lunged into a group of revelers at Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade and stabbed six people Thursday evening as they marched in the holy city, Israeli police and witnesses said.
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So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night! (self.announcements)
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Mission impenetrable: are Hollywood blockbusters losing the plot? | Film | The Guardian
Forty-five minutes into the seventh Fast & Furious movie, Vin Diesel drives towards a huge precipice. The audience have only the faintest idea why he’s there. Ditto why they have paraglided their cars into Azerbaijan.
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We Won’t Get Great Teachers By Treating Them Badly
An article by Alia Wong for The Atlantic this week caused quite a stir by pointing to a recent survey of teachers that found one of the main stresses they have during their busy days is getting a potty break.
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I Can’t Stop Watching This Automated Ping-Pong Death Machine
This ping pong bot is so good it doesn’t even need to watch the ball, it just—OH MY GOD IT’S EYEING THE CHILD. This advertisement for Omron Automation & Safety spends the majority of its one-minute duration teasing the viewer with glimpses of an aut…
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Those soulless US motels are good for the soul | Emma Brockes | Comment is free | The Guardian
I was in California last week, in Los Angeles for a night, where I stayed in a chain hotel in Beverly Hills, and then in San Jose, where I checked into an airport motel.
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Video Shows Mob of Cabbies Attacking Uber Vehicles in Mexico City | VICE News
A mob of irate cab drivers calling for a total halt to app-based car services throughout Mexico City assaulted several Uber cars with metal bars and rocks earlier this week to protest the company’s presence.
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Google’s Project Loon will start powering Internet access in Sri Lanka
Project Loon, Google’s ambitious plan to bring the Internet everywhere using networked high-altitude balloons, is launching in Sri Lanka.
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Bono and Yoko Ono dedicate Ellis Island tapestry to honor John Lennon – video | Music | The Guardian
U2’s Bono and The Edge along with Yoko Ono unveiled the tapestry inside the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Thursday.
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The Witch director to remake Nosferatu · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The whereabouts of its director’s head are currently unknown, which is a pretty solid concept for a horror movie in itself. But until F.W. Murnau’s decapitated cranium returns from its adventures, we’ll have to content ourselves with a Nosferatu rem…
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The Resurrectionist: Your favorite mythic creatures laid out on a mortician’s table – Boing Boing
Imagine all your favourite mythic creatures: pegasus, mermaid, centaur, sphinx, minotaur. Now imagine them laid out on a mortician’s table: dissected, given Latin medical labels, and analyzed in terms of their unique muscular and skeletal makeup.
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10 Books You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Really Read Them)
Science fiction and fantasy offer a rich legacy of great books—but that abundant pile of reading material can also be daunting. So sometimes, it’s easier to fake it. We asked some of our favorite writers, and they told us the 10 books that everyone …
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Graham: Sorry, Donald! America Will Never Elect A Birther President (VIDEO)
Graham was adamant that Trump will not win the Republican nomination. Trump isn’t “marketable” and would be the end of the GOP’s chances in 2016, according to Graham.
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Uber denies it shows fake cars in app to trick customers
Uber is denying research which asserts the number of available drivers you see on the in-app map view is padded. According to the company, it always reports the accurate number of cars available in an area, but there are instances where it may be a …
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Handpick’s Smart Groceries marries meal and grocery delivery
If you’re living in San Francisco, every startup is looking to get to your heart by way of your stomach.
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Influential Twitter users are encouraging hookah use | The Verge
High-profile Twitter users who tweet about hookah are often writing about how people should smoke it, according to a new study out of Washington University.
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PSG close to sealing £40m deal for Manchester United’s Ángel Di María | Football | The Guardian
Paris Saint-Germain are hopeful of finalising a deal this weekend to buy Ángel Di María from Manchester United for a fee of around £40m. This would be a significant loss on the £59.
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A new direction: Is Zayn Malik the next Justin Timberlake? | Music | The Guardian
Is it possible to sustain a relationship based on deception? Zayn Malik, enigmatic ex-One Direction member, thinks so.
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Snap Judgment: the podcast that dives deep for instant gratification | Culture | The Guardian
Have you ever found yourself sitting in the driveway, too rapt by a story on the radio to get out of the car? Have you slowed your pace to a crawl in order to delay arriving at your destination so you can find out how a story ends? If so, there’s a …
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How To Form Your Own Country – Digg
In 1933, the United States met with a handful of other sovereign nations in Uruguay to hammer out what makes a country, well, a country.
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SMB Lending Platform Iwoca Raises $20M To Expand In Europe | TechCrunch
Iwoca, one of the booming cluster of FinTech startups coming out of London, has raised a $20m series B round from the VC arm of Germany’s CommerzVentures, Acton Capital Partners, the Munich-based private equity and VC firm Redline Capital and other …
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Hillary Clinton takes my advice on dealing with climate science deniers | Grist
Hillary Clinton is taking the fight to climate science deniers. And she’s doing it with an appealingly edgy sense of humor. Clinton first previewed the theme in her campaign kick-off speech in New York City last month.
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Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs documentary – Boing Boing
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Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner are our role models in the new ‘Difficult People’ trailer
Hulu’s new Amy Poehler-produced original series, Difficult People, debuts on Aug. 5, and the first trailer is here for all us mopes and misanthropes.
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Who is making the most noise about smartphone overuse? It seems that it might be smartphone companies themselves. Even the company that popularized the smartphone is expressing concern for its customers.
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He said he would only discuss golf, but in the end Donald Trump couldn’t help himself.
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Rome ‘hood gets a brilliant technicolour makeover by street artist Blu
If only every neighbourhood had the Blu treatment! Blu, an Italian street artist, has really made his mark on his new home in Rebibbia, Rome.
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Will Dana will step down as the managing editor of Rolling Stone, the magazine announced on Wednesday.
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Sanders vows no third-party run in 2016 | TheHill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he will not run for president as an Independent if he falls short in his bid to secure the Democratic 2016 nomination.
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Picture books where the girls kick butt – Boing Boing
The Guardian rounds up half a dozen brilliant picture books where girl characters defy stereotypes: Princess Daisy and the Dragon by Steven Lenton; The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp; The Princess and the Pony by Kate “Hark! A Vagrant!” Beaton; The Fai…
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Crowd Equity Platform Crowdcube Raises $9.3M From Numis, Draper And Balderton | TechCrunch
UK-based crowd equity platform Crowdcube has raised £6m ($9.3m)from stockbroker Numis, Tim Draper, his London-based VC firm Draper Esprit and existing backer Balderton capital. As a result Crowdcube is now valued at £51m.
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Trump Campaign Hires Former Palin Aide
Former reality star Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced the hiring Thursday of Michael Glassner, who is a former aide to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
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The tricky way hackers are stealing from major corporations
Email scammers have moved into the big leagues. Everyone gets phishing emails—messages purportedly from a friend or relative but actually from a scammer—but rarely do they cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Create a whole landscape from your own webcam – Offworld
This is pretty nifty: You can generate, explore and edit mysterious and beautiful landscapes using the webcam on your computer.
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Claims that intelligent animals should have limited legal rights may someday succeed, a Manhattan judge said on Thursday, but she denied an animal rights group’s bid to get two chimpanzees used in research at a state university released to a sanctua…
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Iowa expected to announce outdoor wrestling meet at football stadium | Sport | The Guardian
The University of Iowa is expected to announce a wrestling dual meet to be held at the school’s outdoor football stadium that will almost certainly shatter the NCAA attendance mark.
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The Witcher 3 vs. Dragon Age: Inquisition: The Comparison We Had To Make
In the last half a year or so, we’ve gotten not one but two epic western fantasy RPGs in the form of Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It’s only natural that we’d want to compare them. Last fall, I reviewed Inquisition. I liked i…
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How Pinterest plans to build a more diverse workforce
Like Facebook, Pinterest is implementing the “Rooney Rule,” which mandates it interview at least one minority candidate for each job opening. Additionally, Pinterest is announcing some diversity goals, essentially putting its new hiring practice on …
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Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ | Film | The Guardian
It’s about 9am in Los Angeles when I speak to Crispin Glover, but it quickly becomes apparent that time doesn’t mean that much to the man, nor place neither.
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With their assurance and physicality, van Gogh’s paintings are like promontories that offer especially clear views of the medium’s past and future.
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Wonkblog has a post inspired by the dentist who paid a lot of money to shoot Cecil the lion, asking why he — and dentists in general — make so much money. Interesting stuff; I’ve never really thought about the economics of dental care.
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The Nostalgic Allure of ‘Synthwave’ | | Observer
What is it about the ’80s we find so appealing? Despite its retro fetishism and insular network of artists, the so-called synthwave genre, a future-focused sound undeniably indebted to the pop culture of the Reagan era, is pulsing forward with a Daf…
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At Least Six Stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade | VICE News
An ultra-Orthodox man was wrestled to the ground and arrested after at least six attendees were wounded in a stabbing at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday. Two of those injured are in serious condition, a spokesperson for the city’s ambula…
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An inventive reinvention of an otherwise forgettable Dreamworks animated feature, Turbo FAST returns to Netflix on Friday, July 31. (The same day as another big-screen-to-Netflix adaptation.
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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:30PM ET! | The Verge
Windows 10. New Moto Xs. OnePlus 2. Various car hacks. This last week was very much filled with tech news, and that’s exactly what Dieter, Dan, Chris, and Sam (that’s me!) will be discussing on today’s show. We’ll be live at our regular time today —…
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Watch Travis Meadows Exorcise Demons in ‘Old Ghosts’ Video | Rolling Stone
Travis Meadows knows a thing or two about being haunted by the spirits of our past — he’s battled addiction, cancer, the loss of his leg and numerous trips to rehab.
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Mr. Robot Recap: A Prison Hack, and a Grisly Surprise
Last night’s Mr. Robot was intense—and arguably the most dystopian episode so far. After breaking into a world-class data center last week, Elliot’s next hacking assignment is a prison. But this time, there’s way more on the line. COMMENCE SPOILERS.…
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Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson maintain nearly two hours of tension · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Arriving in select theaters Friday, The End Of The Tour belongs to a fine tradition of movies that feature little more than two actors gabbin…
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Rick Perry: Carly Fiorina ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ As VP Pick (VIDEO)
Presidential candidate and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on Thursday he thinks fellow Republican 2016 hopeful Carly Fiorina would make a good running mate. Perry and Fiorina were both at the bottom of a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday.
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Cat Stevens takes less than 2 minutes to captivate · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our favorite songs under two minutes long. Earlier this year, I rolled around on the office floor, and while it’s not entirely odd for me to show excitement through…
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The Nintendo 3DS may be a niche, but it’s my niche | The Verge
I can’t read on my phone. I’ve downloaded Pocket and the Kindle app, but anything longer than a quick news article just doesn’t work for me on mobile.
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BAGHDAD — The commander of a group of Syrian fighters trained by the United States has been kidnapped by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, his group said in a statement Thursday.
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Though some adults still feel awkward about having conversations with their smartphone’s mobile assistant, like Siri, kids today seem to have no qualms about chattering with our virtual helpers. My daughter, for example, thinks of Siri as just anoth…
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Donald Trump and other people who want to be king of America, ranked | The Verge
Which candidate would you eat a corndog with? By one conservative estimate, there are 21 people in the running for president of the United States. Of those, 16 are Republicans.
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Donald Trump Can’t Stop Calling Things ‘Disgusting’ | Rolling Stone
Donald Trump is nothing if not consistent, especially in his repudiation of all he believes is beneath him. It’s a habit Jimmy Kimmel hilariously exploited on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night with a montage of the Republican presidential hopeful c…
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Google, the search giant, is gearing up for a fight in France. The company said Thursday that it would not comply with demands from the country’s privacy regulator, who has said Google must apply a European data protection ruling to all of its globa…
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Russia Is Trolling The British Prime Minister Over KGB Recruitment Claims | VICE News
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is fond of telling a story that he was apparently once approached to become a Cold War Russian spy during his gap-year travels in the Soviet Union.
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Obama Administration ‘Senselessly’ Fights Guantanamo Prisoner Release | Rolling Stone
In an editorial published Wednesday, the New York Times editorial board criticized the Obama administration for saying it will oppose the release of Tariq Ba Odah, a long-term hunger striker who’s been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than 13 years, …
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Shell Icebreaker Retreats After Protest | Al Jazeera America
Environmental activists on St. Johns Bridge and kayakers on the water below had been blocking the icebreaker from heading to the Arctic for a drill operation. The icebreaker Fennica arrived in Portland for repairs last week.
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An appreciation of the ShackBurger
From The Message is Medium Rare, an appreciation of the ShackBurger, “a straightforward, honest-to-goodness burger”. It includes a review of the typography used by the restaurant: These three typefaces artfully express the ethos of both the burger a…
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The Emily Dickinson Museum will tell you that “The kitchen appears to be one of the rooms where [Emily] Dickinson felt most comfortable, perhaps most at home.
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Aquariums ‘deliver significant health benefits’ – BBC News
People who spend time in aquariums could improve their physical and mental wellbeing, a study has suggested. As well as improving people’s mood, the experiment showed “significant” reductions in participants’ heart rates and blood pressure, the auth…
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Oprah Poses As Glinda the Good Witch in Harper’s Bazaar Spread | Observer
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, Oprah is looking fabulous dressed as Glinda the Good Witch—puffy pink dress, sparkling wand and all. This is not a tornado-induced dream.
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Russia Is Trolling British Prime Minister Over KGB Recruitment Claims | VICE News
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is fond of telling a story that he was apparently once approached to become a Cold War Russian spy during his gap-year travels in the Soviet Union.
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Rocket League flies past 5 million downloads, spectator mode on the way
Rocket League is absolutely taking over Twitch, and people are already starting to ask: “could this be the next big esport?” Now, after five million downloads in three weeks, the soccer and racing hybrid might be one step closer to that esports futu…
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Google Gives Android Developers New Beta-Testing Options | TechCrunch
Google has long given Android developers the option to manage closed beta tests from the Google Play Developer Console. To join these betas, users had to become part of a Google+ group, however.
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Audio Visuals: Macy Gray Sings an Ode to Her Vibrator | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. If you’ve been wondering what Macy Gray has been up to lately, at least part of the answer is: Writing an ode to her favorite vibrator. Yup, you read that right! And it’s actually quite charming.
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Calais migrants: Inside ‘The Jungle’ migrant camp ‘village’ – BBC News
Many people who are hoping to cross the Channel to start a new life in the UK are living in a makeshift camp in Calais known as “The Jungle”. They have tried to make the camp as liveable as possible – constructing shelters, a school and a communal c…
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The Obama Administration’s Ambitious New Plan To Tackle HIV Rates | ThinkProgress
The Obama administration revealed an update to the nation’s 10-year National HIV/AIDS strategy at an event in Atlanta this Thursday that aims to decrease new HIV diagnoses by at least 25 percent.
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How can we trace the changes we’ve bred into fruits and vegetables over the centuries? One way is to look to the art of the past. Vox examined how the watermelon has changed, both in color and texture, from when it was featured in 17th century Renai…
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Jenny’s Wedding review – good intentions can’t save this lesbian drama | Film | The Guardian
It’s time to face the music. As we fought for marriage equality, one line of rhetoric was “who does it hurt?” Now we have the answer.
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The invisible: how China deals with mental illness – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Nine-year-old Tong Xiao and his younger sister Ling Xiao are protecting their food box from a pig. Their mother, Tongyimg Liu, is having her dinner in the corner. Maoming, China• All photographs by Yuyang Liu Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share t…
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Up to six stabbed at gay pride march in Jerusalem | World news | The Guardian
As many as six participants in the Jerusalem Gay Pride march have been stabbed by an assailant described by police as a suspected ultra-Orthodox Jewish man. The Magen David Adom, the local equivalent of the Red Cross, said two of the casualties were…
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Does It Make Sense To Split The Check At A Restaurant? | FiveThirtyEight
Do people order more-expensive food when they know they’re going to be splitting the check equally (e.g. three friends all give their credit cards for the waiter to split the tab)?
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If the Taliban Reconquer Afghanistan, Does It Matter If Mullah Omar Died? | The Nation
The numerous past reports of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have, in the words of Mark Twain, been greatly exaggerated. This week, another round of such allegations surfaced on Afghan television and then in the Pakistani press.
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Hollywood and ‘Preppers’ Are Preparing for Doomsday in This Kansas Salt Mine | Motherboard
If we’re ever forced underground thanks to a nuclear winter, you could do worse than the salt mines of central Kansas.
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Earthquake early warning system gets a $4 million boost from USGS – Boing Boing
The U.S.
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The mysterious Face on Mars was first spotted in 1959 – Boing Boing
Comic master Jack Kirby showed us the mysterious “Face on Mars” decades before it was imaged by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976 and ultimately became an iconic example of pareidolia or proof of an ancient civilization on the red planet.
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Amazon announces premiere dates for Casanova and Sneaky Pete · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Amazon Studios is letting you choose between a ladies man and a con man this summer.
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In Landfill Atop Medellin, Colombia Begins Work on Exhuming Bodies in Mass Grave | VICE News
Authorities began excavating what could be the world’s largest urban mass grave in Colombia this week, with the buried bodies of unknown numbers of victims thought to date back to 2002.
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A Look Inside The Mario Maker Level Hackathon At Facebook HQ | TechCrunch
The latest perk of working at Facebook: getting to play the new Nintendo game Super Mario Maker a month before it comes out. Yesterday, Facebook hosted a Mario Maker hackathon where 100 employees built their own levels, and competed for whose was be…
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CABARETE, Dominican Republic — Just a few kilometers down the road, in the center of Cabarete, the tourism industry pulses with life: Beachfront
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Avoid These Subway Stations in a Heat Wave — NYMag
Standing on a subway platform without air-conditioning on a 95-degree day is miserable no matter where you do it. But reporters at WNYC decided to quantify that discomfort by recording the temperatures of 103 subway stations during rush hour on Wedn…
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Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier is one of the strangest books Marvel is publishing right now, following Captain America’s former sidekick on an intergalactic journey of self-discovery involving mind-altering drugs, alternate universes, and a dreamy…
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Jon Stewart and Louis C.K. did surprise standup sets at New York’s Comedy Cellar
When a Daily Show audience member asked Jon Stewart before a taping how he would spend his time after he leaves the show next week, Stewart said he wouldn’t rule out returning to standup comedy. He recently returned to that art form much sooner than…
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Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the fundamentalist Afghan Taliban movement, proved to be as enigmatic in death as he had been in life.
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The congressman, Dan Kildee, a Michigan Democrat who has become an outspoken advocate for the prisoner, Amir Hekmati, and other Americans held or missing in Iran, said in a telephone interview that he had informed President Obama of his decision on …
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William Shatner: ‘I discovered how to act not too long ago’ | Culture | The Guardian
Hi Bill, how are you? So good, man. You’re an American working in England?
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“Mark Mahoney’s LA Stories” by Ivan Olita – NOWNESS on Vimeo
Tattooist to Brad Pitt and muse to Lana Del Rey, Mark Mahoney waxes lyrical about regret and absolution at his legendary Shamrock Social Club Read the full feature on NOWNESS: http://bit.ly/1SbpFDz
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Building Bloodhound: The Fastest Car in the World – IEEE Spectrum
Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,600 km/h In a suburb of Bristol, in western England, not far from the Welsh border, a band of engineers are building a machine that they hope will make the biggest ju
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The Wettest Rainforest in the United States Has Gone Up in Flames | The Nation
The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in flames and the smoke was so thick, so blanketing, that you could see it miles away.
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Book By NYU Dropouts Aims to Prove Why Millennials Aren’t ‘The Lazy Generation’ | Observer
If you type “millennials are” into Google, “lazy,” “stupid,” and “doomed” are among the top autocomplete search suggestions. Debunking these stereotypes is the mission of Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert, two millennials who dropped out of NYU.
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Interview with Trump supporters: his presidency would be “classy” – Boing Boing
Bloomberg Politics’ John Heilemann met with 12 Trump supporters in New Hampshire to find out why the candidate appeals to him. Here’s what the all-white group said:
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Farmers Stumbled on Genetics That Stop Chickens Loving Their Offspring
Birds have a quality known as broodiness. It means that, after they lay their eggs, they stick around and take care of those eggs. Most commercial chickens don’t have that quality. And it looks like their complete disregard for their offspring resul…
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German spy leaks journalists charged with treason – BBC News
Two journalists have been charged with treason after publishing information about Germany’s intelligence agency. Earlier in 2015, Markus Beckedahl and Andre Meister are alleged to have leaked details about surveillance technology used by one of Germ…
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Twitter Is Sucking All The Fun Out Of Food Holidays | Observer
Today is National Cheesecake Day. Oh, you didn’t know? Well, so far today there have been over 13,000 tweets about it—those will surely refresh your memory.
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The best person who ever lived is an unknown Ukrainian man – Boing Boing
In researching for an answer, I came across a list that Esquire had published called “The 75 Best People in the World.” The writers suggested that the number one spot should go to… Matt Damon. This seems unlikely.
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Another Planned Parenthood ‘Sting’ Video Comes Just Before Senate Defund Vote
Anti-abortion activists have amped up their campaign attacking Planned Parenthood ahead of a planned Senate vote to end federal funding to the reproductive health organization.
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Groupon launched its own food delivery service to shield you from being coupon-shamed
The daily deals industry have long suffered a bad reputation – from customers leaving discounted tips to vendors treating voucher users ‘differently,’ online coupons for IRL services aren’t as appealing as they once were.
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Hackers Find Way To Make Self-Aiming Sniper Rifle Change Its Target (VIDEO)
A pair of hackers have found a way to intercept a computer-assisted sniper rifle’s wireless connection and change the weapon’s target, disable the scope’s computer, and stop the gun from firing, according to Wired.
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Activists Hanging From A Bridge Force Arctic Drilling Ship To Turn Around | ThinkProgress
“Not today, Shell!” an anchor support yelled from a Portland bridge as 13 climbers hung below for the 29th consecutive hour. Cheers and chants were heard from land and water around 7:30 a.m.
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Woman gets hysterectomy and discovers her teeth are missing – Boing Boing
Clare Jones, a 47-year-old woman from Newcastle-under-Lyme, England went to the hospital for a hysterectomy. The surgery was successful, but Jones still doesn’t understand why two of her teeth were removed.
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Russia censors two-year-old blog post over Bitcoin instruction
Just how thorough is Russia’s censorship machine? Well, it just forced a blog to delete a single sentence from a two-year-old post about Bitcoin. Now, visitors to the website Zuckerberg Pozvonit will have no idea if you can do anything illegal with …
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Google rejects French request for broader ‘right to be forgotten’ rules | The Verge
Google is pushing back against a request to expand the scope of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law. Last year, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that citizens of its member states could ask Google to delist search results that were irrelev…
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With an NSFW Name, This Tech Makes Coding Pure Torture | WIRED
To write a computer program, you’d normally sit at a traditional workstation and type. Or at least click. An innovative computer scientist has created a gesture-controlled interface for building simple programs.
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Six stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride – BBC News
Debris found on an Indian Ocean island is being taken to France to determine if it is from the missing airliner MH370, Malaysia’s PM says.
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Groupon takes on Seamless and GrubHub with online food ordering service | The Verge
Groupon is getting into online food ordering. It’s launching a new service today called Groupon To Go, which allows people to order food online for pickup or delivery. The service is only available in Chicago for now, with over 500 restaurants suppo…
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Google’s Android for Work adds Blackphone, all four major US carriers | The Verge
Google’s mission to make Android the preferred choice for companies everywhere is picking up some fresh momentum today. Today the company announced that its Android for Work program is expanding to include a total of 40 partners.
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How Autistic Surfer Curt Harper Became a Southern California Legend – The Atlantic
Curt Harper began surfing at the age of 10, despite doctors telling his parents that their autistic son may have to be institutionalized. Now, at 50 years old, Harper is a fixture in the Southern California surf scene and regularly attends competiti…
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Former Apple, Google, and Xbox leads move into mobile game streaming with Mobcrush | The Verge
The curiously named Mobcrush is making moves as it attempts to turn into the Twitch of mobile gaming.
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U2 to Air ‘Innocence’ Show, Behind-the-Scenes Doc on HBO | Rolling Stone
Two new U2 films, a behind-the-scenes documentary and a live concert, will air on HBO this fall.
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Samuel Dubose Sandra Bland A Teenager and a Pool Party Freddie Gray Walter L.
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Samuel Dubose was a 43-year-old unarmed black man who was shot in the head and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer, Ray Tensing, during a traffic stop a few blocks from campus. Tensing stopped Dubose on July 19 because his car didn’t…
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The First Humans to Live to the Age of 150 Are Already Alive | GOOD
Human lifespans are now longer than ever. Currently, the average 65-year-old can expect to live an additional 19.3 years compared to just 1950, when their same-age counterpart would only live approximately 13 more years, according to the National In…
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Avian flu is hammering hens — should poultry farmers get a bailout? | Grist
You may have noticed that the price of eggs has gone up. That’s partially due to the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza epidemic that decimated poultry farms across 15 U.S. states this spring. The death toll from the flu and culling has surged to ove…
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Google Adds 8 Carriers To Its Android For Work Partner Ecosystem | TechCrunch
Google’s Android for Work program makes it easier for businesses to allow their employees to safely use their Android phones for both work and personal use.
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Your bank account will weep over this stunning fantasy jewelry
Sevan Bıçakçı is a jeweler to the stars, creating opulent accessories for high-end fashion shows and celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and the Olsen Twins. But we’re far more interested in the fact that many of his designs look like something out of …
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Germans greet influx of refugees with free food and fire bombings | World news | The Guardian
Madina Tsyuchuev had dozed off in the early hours of the evening, only to be woken a short while later by the smell of smoke, thick acrid clouds of which were seeping under the front door of her flat. “My two girls were playing. The smoke was coming…
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Activists Demand DoJ Investigation into Sandra Bland’s Death | VICE News
Suspicion continues to loom heavily over Sandra Bland’s death — and many are not satisfied by the video footage that Waller County Jail officials released this week to mitigate conspiracy theories that she was dead before her mugshot was even taken.
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Israel Passes Prisoner Force-Feeding Law to Widespread Condemnation | VICE News
Following months of furious debate Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law permitting the force-feeding of prisoners by a slim majority of 46-40 votes in favor.
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Coincidence or corruption? The case of Serbia’s bouncing lottery ball 21 | World news | The Guardian
The head of Serbia’s national lottery has resigned after a television graphic during this week’s draw appeared to predict a winning number.
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Kaboom lets you send self-destructing messages to social networks
If you’re concerned about the content you put online, you might consider using an app that destroys content after a certain amount of time. But destructive apps rely on a careful ecosystem in order to really be, well, destructive.
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The white former University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and involuntary manslaughter, as questions swirl from protesters over the involvement of his colleagues who ar…
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Republicans hellbent on defunding Planned Parenthood, pushing their war on women into 2016
Asked whether he would support such a maneuver again, Cruz replied: “I would support any and all legislative efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. We do not need a legislative show-vote.” Naturally, the House crazy caucus is also itching for the fig…
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Google now lets devs create beta test groups using email invitations or links
Google is making it easier for users to beta test Android apps. After launching its testing program two years ago, Google now allows developers to create open and closed beta programs via email or links. To populate a closed beta program, developers…
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The Argument For Investing In True Fan Engagement | TechCrunch
Following the launches of brand-centric services on sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+, social media was the place for businesses to acquire new users and engage their fans.
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Atlas Genius makes friends with its enemies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Anchored by brothers Keith and Michael Jeffery, Atlas Genius’ signature electronica-focused rock has a way of feeling familial.
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ICYMI: July’s #maketechhuman Debate Featured Tech Solutions for Global Inequality | WIRED
So there’s bad news and good news, judging from our mix of #maketechhuman stories in July. The bad news is that tech-fueled inequality is on the rise, a fact we highlighted in our interviews this month.
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Hands on with Livetext, Yahoo’s silent new video chat app | The Verge
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote that Yahoo had quietly released Livetext, its new messenger app, and was testing it in Hong Kong. The company must have been satisfied, because as of today Livetext will be available in five new countries — the United…
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Istanbul’s Breaking Bad-themed coffee shop can help with your addiction · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s no denying it: Caffeine is a drug.
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I’m not sure you can really understand American politics until you watch this short video of a focus group of Trump supporters from New Hampshire. Just watch.
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How did you get that job: designing a parachute for NASA’s Mars rover | The Verge
You might not be familiar with Anita Sengupta, but you’re definitely familiar with her work: she helped design the 70-foot parachute for NASA’s Mars Rover, Curiosity. Without the chute, the rover never would have landed gently on the planet’s surfac…
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Rolling Stone Editor Resigns As Legal Pressure On Botched Rape Story Mounts
The managing editor of Rolling Stone announced his resignation late Wednesday as a second lawsuit was filed against the magazine in connection with its botched story on an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.
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Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to share updates
Windows 10 launched on July 29 to much fanfare — it’s a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users — but along with the privacy issues, there’s another problem: by default, Windows 10 uses your internet connection to share updates with others acros…
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Is Raping Your Wife Really Rape? Ask These 20 States
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You’ve heard this advice before and you’ll hear it again: tell stories with your images. Your photography should have a message, a story—a purpose that transforms that single frame into something more.
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How Iceland is trying to make “actual journalism” legal — Hopes&Fears — flow “Media”
Iceland is a cold, small, and isolated island in the northern Atlantic. It is a place of sublime landscapes and awe-inspiring volcanic activity. There are more sheep (500,000) than people (323,002) living in Iceland.
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Bernie Sanders’ massive online house party hosts an estimated 100,000 | US news | The Guardian
From Montpellier to Honolulu, Bernie Sanders supporters gathered at bars and bookstores, coffee shops and even a yoga studio, on Wednesday evening to hear the upstart Democratic presidential candidate call for a political revolution.
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The Secret Life of Rag & Bone’s New Star Model | | Observer
With their seemingly fast expansion from small wholesale business to internationally-recognized label, Rag & Bone is a name that most Americans—fashion and non-fashion folk alike—likely recognize.
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YC-Backed Captain401 Wants To Make Creating A 401k Easier For Businesses | TechCrunch
Captain401, a service that helps small businesses set up a 401k, is launching out of Y Combinator today.
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Samuel Dubose shooting: police officer pleads not guilty to murder – video | US news | The Guardian
A former University of Cincinnati police officer pleads not guilty to the murder of an unarmed black man. Ray Tensing, 25, appears before a judge at Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas on Thursday where a bond is set for $1 million.
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It’s good to be a dentist, or so it would seem: US News ranks it the best job to have in America. It’s also horrible to be a dentist, if you look at Business Insider’s ranking of the top 10 professions with the highest suicide rates. We’re in second…
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$75,000 in rewards to catch drone operators who interfered with firefighters – Boing Boing
Drone operators are causing problems for firefighters in California’s San Bernardino County. On multiple occasions pilots of planes and helicopters loaded with flame retardant have had to abandon their missions because they’ve spotted drones flying …
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Welcome to the Culture War in Roswell, NM
You may think Roswell is just about UFO culture tied to the alleged incident in 1947.
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For the last few months, I’ve been seeing a guy who I met on Tinder – and it’s going really well. I’m surprised but happy. The thing is, we haven’t really discussed the status of our relationship yet. I would like it be exclusive. I want to tell him…
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Several California wildfires rage on as evacuations ordered | US news | The Guardian
A fast-spreading wildfire in northern California’s Lake County has destroyed two buildings and more than doubled in size overnight.
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Manatees show up in North Carolina again as more ‘sea cows’ leave Florida | US news | The Guardian
Researchers say manatees have again been spotted in the marinas and waters in south-eastern North Carolina – far from their natural Florida habitat.
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The hottest chess highlights on YouTube
I love the Internet. It can get frustrating sometimes, but mostly the Web is a place where millions of weird, fascinating people are sharpening their talents and passions, happily stowed away in their independent scenes. This is the dream.
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Protesters Want Other Cop Who Lied About Sam Dubose Shooting Charged | VICE News
Protesters are demanding Cincinnati authorities move to indict a second officer who corroborated the false story of former University of Cincinnati (UC) police officer Ray Tensing after prosecutors released video showing the cop shooting unarmed bla…
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Former ‘Top Gear’ hosts sign 3-season deal with Amazon
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are gearing up for a new show with Amazon.
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Hey, Internet—stop trying to inspire me
I think when people are ultra-positive and have this incomparably sunny disposition toward the world, I get turned off. There’s a lot of stuff out there which attempts to make you feel inspired but ends up leaving you feeling ashamed for being human…
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Before-and-After Pics Show the Extent of Mount Baker’s Dwindling Snow
Located in the North Cascades of Washington State in the U.S., Mount Baker is one of the most heavily glaciated and snow-covered mountains in the region. But as these satellite images show, its perma-snow doesn’t look so permanent anymore.
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The Cash Country King: Garth Brooks capitalizes on pent-up demand | Music | The Guardian
Garth Brooks’s comeback to music after a 13-year break from the industry hasn’t gone off without a hitch.
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MIT: “An Interior Ocean May be Driving Geologic Activity on Pluto”
Recent data from NASA’s New Horizons probe — which passed within 7,800 miles of the surface on July 14 — have revealed striking features on Pluto’s heart-shaped region that indicate the icy dwarf planet may harbor an ocean deep in its interior, acco…
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Digg Blog, The Life Of A Link On Digg
For those of you just tuning in to our on-going blog series, check out our two previous posts about how the new incarnation of Digg came to be, and user feedback on what Digg should become.
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For the woman afraid of technology’s progress, a set of horse blinders – Boing Boing
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An Introvert’s Guide to Eating and Drinking Out | Observer
Many introverts love to cook, but no one wants to cook everyday. Same for doing dishes. Once in a while, it’s nice to have somebody else do these things for you, and as a result, a drink or a meal out can be a special pleasure. But dinner comes at b…
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GM says its cars are already protected against the OnStar hack | The Verge
As security researchers get better at finding vulnerabilities in connected cars, some automakers are getting better at patching them too.
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Chloé’s Latest Ad Campaign Has a Strong Literary Influence | Observer
The classic French label Chloé is focusing on BFFs for its Fall/Winter ad images, but these are much more than just pretty pictures. They feature a touch of history as well.
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Amazing Africa: Continent Spied from Space in Gorgeous NASA Pic
A NASA satellite that stares nonstop at the sunlit side of Earth has captured this captivating, crystal-clear view of Africa as the continent appears from space.
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Find out what’s in Alex Turner and Josh Homme’s iPhone notes
Josh Homme has an excellent show on Beats 1 called ‘The Alligator Hour’ and this week’s edition featured part one of his interview with Arctic Monkey’s frontman, Alex Turner.
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Indictment of Second Cincinnati Cop Demanded In Sam Dubose Shooting | VICE News
Protesters are demanding Cincinnati authorities move to indict a second officer who corroborated the false story of former University of Cincinnati (UC) police officer Ray Tensing after prosecutors released video showing the cop shooting unarmed bla…
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Lions, tigers, and … just lions and tigers. It’s been a big week for both. While lions captivated the public eye with the unsavory killing of Zimbabwe’s beloved Cecil the lion, this week was actually supposed to be about tigers. In fact, Wednesday w…
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Authorites investigate Confederate flags on historic Atlanta church grounds | US news | The Guardian
Four Confederate battle flags were found on the grounds of the Ebenezer Baptist church near the Martin Luther King Jr Center in Atlanta on Thursday, and police and federal authorities were investigating.
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Here, will.i.am uses lasers to rave in a Lexus | The Verge
My name is will.i.am. This is the story of my harrowing escape from Lexus Island. I had just finished making the dope Puls smartwatch and I was looking for my next challenge.
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Inside ConnectHome, the federal government’s new rural broadband plan
President Obama’s new plan to bring broadband Internet to low-income Americans is starting to take shape.
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Same-Sex Couples Are Securing Retroactive Recognition Of Their Marriages | ThinkProgress
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which brought marriage equality to all 50 states, is still having ripple effects in the legal system, bringing closure to many same-sex families.
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Cincinnati Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Murder | Al Jazeera America
Twenty-five-year-old Ray Tensing appeared at his arraignment wearing a striped jail suit, with his hands cuffed behind him. He was indicted Wednesday in the July 19 shooting of 43-year-old Samuel DuBose, of Cincinnati, during a traffic stop.
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Sex Worker Advocates Say Sheriff’s Backpage.com Fight Is ‘Wrong Approach’ | VICE News
Kristen D’Angelo is worried about Chicago’s prostitutes. As it currently stands, sex workers in the Windy City are able to advertise their services online and screen clients in advance, an arrangement that she says boosts their business and helps ke…
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Morrissey Alleges Sexual Assault at San Francisco Airport | Rolling Stone
Morrissey claims he was sexually assaulted by a security officer who grabbed his genitals after a routine security check at the San Francisco Airport on July 27th, according to a post from the musician on True to You. The incident reportedly took pl…
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Facebook will now prompt you to go through a security checkup on your account
Facebook wants to make it easier to keep tabs on who has access to your account. Today it’s announcing a new tool called Security Checkup, which acts like a set-up wizard for the platform’s security options.
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Hear Leigh Nash Go South With ‘Somebody’s Yesterday’ | Rolling Stone
“It’s about a compilation of exes, to be honest,” Leigh Nash laughs to Rolling Stone Country about her new single, “Somebody’s Yesterday,” from her upcoming solo album The State I’m In. As the lead singer of Sixpence None the Richer, Nash is no stra…
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‘God Hates Sam Bradford’: Carl From ‘Aqua Teen’ Tackles NFL 2015 | Rolling Stone
Carl Brutananadilewski is an authority on many things – pornography, driving while intoxicated, groping women at Foreigner concerts – though it’s his extensive knowledge of pro football that has brought him fame and fortune. Or at least fame.
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Watch the Throne: Dave Grohl on How the Foos Saved Their Summer | Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl sounds hoarse. On a day off from the Foo Fighters’ current North American tour, the frontman comes off as typically amiable, but he blew out his vocal cords during a marathon, career-spanning gig the previous night. “My voice is the least…
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How Rand Paul Could Have Profited From a Debt Ceiling Crisis He Helped Create | The Nation
Senator Rand Paul is invested in a fund that would skyrocket in value if the United States economy were to default. He’d also like your vote for president.
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Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution – Bloomberg Business
Katherine O’Reilly, a certified nurse midwife in her 30s, works full time at the Mesa County Health Department’s clinic in Grand Junction, Colo., and she’s eager to show off the clinic’s stash of one of the most effective forms of birth control.
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The Wandering Years : Longreads Blog
Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a series of travel journal entries adapted from poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s forthcoming book, Writing Across the Landscape. It first appeared in The American Scholar’s Summer 2015 issue (subscribe here!…
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Onion Explains: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
How did this brutal, ideological conflict begin and will there ever be peace in the region? The Onion explains the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The strange stories behind country-code top-level domains – Boing Boing
James Bridle writes, “A couple of months ago I released a browser extension – Citizen Ex – which tracks your browsing (entirely privately) in order to show you your “Algorithmic Citizenship” – where your browsing actually goes, and what this means f…
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12 Classic Literary Road Trips in One Handy Interactive Map | Open Culture
Fantasy fiction invariably includes a map for readers to understand the hero’s journey, literally. We know that Hobbits had to walk a long way into Mordor, but seeing it cartographically really hits home.
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Olio Raises $10 Million To Build More Fancy Smartwatches | TechCrunch
Smartwatch underdog Olio has raised a $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates. The cash will go to expand Olio’s manufacturing prowess and bring on new hires for the budding company.
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Tom Brady’s lawsuit against NFL over Deflategate ban to be heard in New York | Sport | The Guardian
Tom Brady’s lawsuit against the NFL in which he wants his four-game suspension overturned will be heard in New York instead of Minnesota. Brady and the players’ union filed their suit Wednesday in Minnesota.
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RBG Has Been Reading Up on the Notorious B.I.G. — NYMag
At an event hosted by Duke University School of Law on Wednesday night, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mentioned that her meme-spawning Internet persona — Notorious R.B.G. — had inspired her to brush up on her hip-hop history.
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Investigation Finds Brazil’s Olympic Swimming, Sailing Venues Are Full Of Human Poop | ThinkProgress
An unprecedented amount of human poop is festering in Rodrigo de Freitas Lake and Copacabana Beach, where hundreds of swimmers and boaters are scheduled to compete in next year’s summer Olympics and Paralympics, an Associated Press investigation has…
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Golf club hunts mystery man who keeps shitting in the holes – Boing Boing
After a decade of finding holes brimming with human excrement, Stavanger Golf Club in Norway has gone public with its quest to unmask the culprit. The course enacted new security measures and installed flood lighting to no avail, according to ground…
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This Is How Many Workers In Your State Will Soon Be Getting Overtime Pay | ThinkProgress
The share of workers who receive overtime pay has seen big drops over the years. Currently, only workers making below $23,660 per year are eligible for overtime pay. According to the Economic Policy Institute, that is below the poverty threshold for…
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Wild pony fantasy: bliss out at the Chincoteague Island horse swim – video | US news | The Guardian
Wednesday marked the 90th annual Chincoteague Island Pony Swim. Hundreds of spectators braved muck and mosquitos to see approximately 150 wild ponies swim across the channel from Assateague Island over to Chincoteague.
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SimpleCitizen Makes Obtaining A Green Card More Manageable | TechCrunch
SimpleCitizen, an online tool that guides immigrants through the complex process of applying for citizenship, is launching today to make applying for a green card as simple as doing your taxes. Every year, 1.4 million people who have entered the U.S.
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Amazon today announced it’s expanding its travel site Amazon Destinations to reach several new markets across the U.S, representing a doubling of its footprint since its launch in April this year.
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Gaza’s Instability Has Created a Fertile Breeding Ground for the Islamic State | VICE News
The blasts, six in quick succession, came a little after 6am. In Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan district windows shattered, books tumbled from shelves, and picture frames juddered askew. Across the city, residents ran to their windows. Rising high in the…
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The Top Gear Crew Is Headed to Amazon Prime | WIRED
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, the former hosts of the BBC’s immensely popular car show Top Gear, are headed to Amazon. After Clarkson attacked a producer over a lack of hot food in March, the BBC declined to renew his contract. Ha…
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The Taliban confirmed on Thursday that their supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, had died. But the struggle to succeed him as head of the Afghan insurgency already seemed well underway.
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‘Abortion pill’ legalised in Canada – BBC News
Canadian health authorities have approved the drug RU-486, commonly known as the abortion pill. The pill, a combination of misoprostol and mifepristone, had been pending approval by Health Canada since 2012.
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The Taliban confirmed on Thursday that their supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, had died. But the struggle to succeed him as head of the Afghan insurgency already seemed well underway.
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WATCH: Mika Brzezinski Learns How To Shotgun A Beer On ‘Morning Joe’
Better late than never. A “Morning Joe” producer taught co-host Mika Brzezinski the proper technique to shotgun a beer on Thursday morning. After reading an excerpt on-air from Sen.
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The former officer, Ray Tensing, appeared briefly in court in Cincinnati, in gray-and-black striped jail garb, handcuffed behind his back, as his lawyer, William S. Mathews II, entered a plea of not guilty for him. On Wednesday, county prosecutors a…
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Conservatives Get Major Win In Fight Over AP History Classes | ThinkProgress
After backlash from conservatives that AP guidelines released last year by the College Board were unpatriotic, the new AP standards, which are effective immediately, will use the phrase “American exceptionalism,” and includes the founding fathers, a…
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Every pub plotted on map of Britain and Ireland – Boing Boing
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The Taliban Names New Leader as It Distances Itself From Peace Talks | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. The Taliban distanced itself from ongoing peace talks with the Afghan government Thursday, amid reports that it has named a su…
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Jason Segel talks about taking on the daunting role of David Foster Wallace | The Verge
David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page novel Infinite Jest is one of those books.
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In the dark of night, Confederate flags placed around Atlanta’s Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
This is not a joke. It isn’t funny.
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Why is there a crisis in Calais? – BBC News
Security has been tightened at the French port of Calais in an effort to stop a burgeoning migrant population from making attempts to illegally enter the UK. The issue of migrants wanting to enter the UK from Calais has been ongoing for more than a …
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Unexplained Red Arcs Observed on Saturn’s Moon Tethys
The red arcs are narrow, curved lines on the moon’s surface, and are among the most unusual color features on Saturn’s moons to be revealed by Cassini’s cameras.
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He Said, She Said: The Mythical History of the False Rape Allegation
An odd place where men’s rights activists and feminists meet is at the idea that false rape allegations ruin lives. The first side is infuriated that with a single accusation, someone (usually female) can destroy the reputation and future of someone…
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Breaking Ground — The California Sunday Magazine
You’ve read the 3 free articles available to you. You’ve exhausted the 3 articles available. If you’d like to keep reading, click below. You’ve read of 3 articles available for free. Breaking Ground China may soon be the world’s biggest producer of …
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Twitter’s Biggest Problem? Its Flawed Design | WIRED
Enjoy Twitter? Good news! That makes you part of a surprisingly exclusive club. The bad news? Twitter as you know it might not be around much longer. At least, not if Twitter wants to survive.
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11 mind-blowing nature documentaries you can watch on Netflix
Thankfully, Netflix has an extensive collection of documentaries to sharpen your mind. For those that love science and nature—or just want to learn a little more about the lovely planet we happen to walk upon—there are no shortage of documentaries t…
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Pennsylvania’s low-wage workers lose between $19 million and $32 million to wage theft in any given week, potentially costing the state’s economy as much as a billion dollars in lost potential consumer spending each year, according to a new analysis…
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What Strategies Will You Use To Defeat Our Alien Overlords in XCOM 2?
When XCOM 2 comes out this fall, you won’t be defending the Earth from aliens—you’ll be fighting to take it back. The developers gave us a deep look at how two of the new classes will help you overturn the alien new world order.
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A Really Long Straw – Scientific American
Why aren’t there more super-long straws? Learn how your mouth “vacuums” up beverages when you sip through a straw–and build your own mega straw to learn about the physics behind this impressive everyday feat! How long can you go?
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Donald Trump and Deflategate Were Made for Each Other – The New Yorker
On Wednesday, this time because someone asked him to, Donald Trump weighed in once more on the Deflategate scandal, calling the N.F.L.
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First look at Idris Elba as an African warlord in Beasts of No Nation trailer | Film | The Guardian
Netflix’s purchase of the distribution rights for Beasts of No Nation was a definite gamechanger: although it wasn’t the first feature film acquired by a streaming site, it was the first really high-profile, awards-bait film that had been sold in th…
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Techmeme: Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads (Andy Chalk/PC Gamer)
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 30th – The New Yorker
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California is offering $75,000 for names of disruptive drone pilots
California is offering a total of $75,000 ($25,000 per incident) for the names of the pilots who flew the quadcopters over the forest fires, which have wreaked havoc in Southern California in recent weeks.
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Macy Gray’s new love song to her vibrator will have you humming along
Everywhere I looked yesterday there were videos about sex toys. First, I watched a news anchor boldly claim that Amazon has exceeded Walmart’s market value because the online vendor sells all manner of sex toys.
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Christ Vs. Aliens: The Culture War Raging in the UFO Capital of the World
Shortly after, the military announced that the craft was in fact a weather balloon, the paper redacted the story, and the case lay dormant for more than 30 years. But in 1978, physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman tracked down Marcel, who ne…
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Can Planting Trees Make Up for Warming River Water? – Scientific American
Five years ago Medford, Oregon, had a problem common for most cities—treating sewage without hurting fish. The city’s wastewater treatment plant was discharging warm water into the Rogue River. Fish weren’t dying, but salmon in the Rogue rely on col…
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The US war against Isis is being fought on autopilot, with little thought given to whether our actions will hurt or help American interests in the long-run.
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Black Hole Collisions –“Astronomers ‘Hear’ Them Via Gravity Signals”
The coalescence of two black holes — a very violent and exotic event — is one of the most sought-after observations of modern astronomy. But, as these mergers emit no light of any kind, finding such elusive events has been impossible so far.
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How to Figure Out Where That Plane Wreckage Really Comes From | WIRED
The chunk of plane wing that washed ashore on the island of Réunion and could be the first sign of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared last year, is now on its way to France for testing, the BBC reports.
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The next Mission: Impossible is coming way ahead of schedule | The Verge
There’s an inelegant recipe to Mission: Impossible films. First, you get a big-name director (Brian De Palma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Brad Bird, and now Christopher McQuarrie have all filled this role). Then you have them find new stylish ways to end…
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Here’s what’s next for Windows 10 | The Verge
Windows 10 is now available as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. While millions are performing the upgrade this week, Microsoft is working hard on updates and fixes behind the scenes. Some of those patches have already started roll…
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There is nothing good, but there is much bad and ugly, about the fact that Samuel DuBose’s killing at the hands of University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing was caught on video by a body camera. He is still needlessly dead.
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Several social media stocks took a pummeling on Wednesday, with Yelp plunging 25 percent and Twitter dropping 15 percent after both companies issued quarterly earnings that disappointed investors in one way or another.
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Confederate flags found at US black church in Atlanta – BBC News
US police are investigating after four Confederate flags were found on the grounds of a church near the Martin Luther King Jr Center in Atlanta. The flags, which were placed neatly on the ground, were discovered at about 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT)…
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Trump! leads in yet another poll, but gets trounced by Hillary Clinton
At 20 percent, Trump has “the largest tally for a Republican contender in any national poll by the independent Quinnipiac University.” So there you go. He’s trailed by Gov. Scott Walker at by 13 percent and Bush at 10 percent. All the others trail b…
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sandlings dig bait, tailgate the first ripple of a returning tide a mercury whisper of tipped-in light rushed in, in front of itself; swirls of wrung-out rags, scrow clouds scuffed a-height, wind-driven wind-riven waves, belly flop on rock what the …
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Giant Planet-Like Brown Dwarfs –“Harbor Powerful, Pulsing Auroras”
By observing a brown dwarf 20 light-years away using both radio and optical telescopes, a team led by Gregg Hallinan, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, has found another feature that makes these so-called failed st…
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Downtown L.A. is Home to the City’s Most Delicious Restaurants | | Observer
Downtown Los Angeles is a sprawling collection of disparate neighborhoods but the restaurant scene is among the most compelling in the United States right now. Venice and Silver Lake might be cooler but they’re not this delicious.
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The Roger Ailes Primary — NYMag
At the start of his career, not long after he helped Richard Nixon win the 1968 election, Roger Ailes boasted to a reporter that television would one day replace the political party as the most powerful force in American politics.
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Burundi’s opposition leader Rwasa becomes deputy speaker – BBC News
Burundi’s opposition leader Agathon Rwasa has been elected as a deputy speaker of parliament, despite strident criticism of recent legislative and presidential polls. There has been a political crisis since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he w…
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NYPD IG Calls for Recording All Street Encounters With Body Cams | Observer
After a review of the NYPD’s pilot program for the use of body-worn cameras, the city’s Department of Investigation is recommending that officers are mandated to turn on the cameras during all street encounters—and keep the footage for at least 18 m…
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Groupon Launches Its Own Food Delivery Business, Groupon To Go | TechCrunch
Following its acquisition of food delivery service OrderUp earlier this month, Groupon is today announcing its own nationwide delivery and takeout service, Groupon To Go.
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Ohio police officer pleads not guilty to driver’s murder – BBC News
Ray Tensing, a white University of Cincinnati police officer, was indicted on a murder charge for the death of Samuel DuBose. Mr Tensing pulled DuBose over for not having a front licence plate and fired one shot, hitting him in the head.
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2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has finally started to lay out his immigration plan: Deport the undocumented population, but allow some immigrants back into the country through an expedited system to obtain legal status.
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World’s cutest male spider does embarrassing dance to impress cutest female spider | The Verge
Does the newly discovered species of peacock spider, Maratus personatus, meet the criteria for world’s cutest spider? I held a debate with myself to uncover the answer. So what are we talking about today, Chris?
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‘Pied Piper of Los Angeles’ spotted playing his recorder in traffic again
The man with the recorder is at it once again. We first spotted him several weeks ago rocking out to “La Grange,” and now he’s been spotted again going all-out at yet another traffic light.
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Met Cries on Field, Thinking He’d Been Traded — NYMag
The Major League Baseball trade deadline is tomorrow, and the Mets have been active over the past several days, acquiring Juan Uribe, Kelly Johnson, and Tyler Clippard. Last night at around 9 p.m.
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This Is How NASA Tests Planes for Safety
NASA has been working on ways to improve search-and-rescue after a plane crash. But how do they test it? Simple, they hoist planes 100 feet into the air and drop them… over and over again.
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Google Street View Soon to Picture Local Pollution Too – Scientific American
The San Francisco Bay Area will soon see Google Street View vehicles that not only take snapshots of its streets but also capture snapshots of the air quality in neighborhoods they pass.
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Why Every Single US Presidential Candidate Would Expand Medicare and Medicaid | VICE News
In 1961, Ronald Reagan made a 10-minute-long spoken-word vinyl record on which he railed against the idea of Medicare.
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American Exceptionalism 101 Now Being Offered — NYMag
After complaints, the College Board makes some changes. Newsweek reports that the College Board has revised AP U.S. history standards in response to complaints last year that
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Leaping through the air with ease and spinning in place like tops, ballet dancers are visions of the human body in action at its most spectacular and controlled. Their brains, too, appear to be special, able to evade the dizziness that normally woul…
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I Am Chris Farley · Film Review · The A.V. Club
There are too many good Chris Farley stories. That’s a central problem of I Am Chris Farley, the documentary from the same producers behind I Am Steve McQueen, I Am Bruce Lee, and I Am Evel Knievel.
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‘Imperfect’ Vaccines May Aid Survival Of Ultra-Hot Viruses – Scientific American
In the 1960s, a cancer-causing herpes virus was ravaging the poultry industry. The virus caused what’s called Marek’s disease–and killed one to two percent of the birds. “Given that there are billions of birds in the industry, that’s a lot of birds.
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YC-Backed PersistIQ Raises $1.7M To Create Smarter Automation For Salespeople | TechCrunch
Sales workflow startup PersistIQ has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. This is one of those stories where the startup says it raised the money months ago, got busy and only decided to announce the news now.
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American cities more ethnically diverse, but not well-integrated – Boing Boing
Racial segregation is not a thing of the past, writes Alana Semuels, and is in fact increasing in many American communities. White Flight never ended.
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The ultimate guide to local SEO ranking
Many people have asked the question, “what did we do before the Internet?” After all, today, everything we do is governed by what we can easily find at our fingertips. If we’re going to a far away destination, we’re likely not opening a paper map; w…
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Numbers Numb, Stories Sell: The Secrets Of Climate Communications | ThinkProgress
Pope Francis has helped jumpstart a broader conversation on climate change. It is long past time for everyone who understands the dire nature of the climate threat — and the supercheap cost of action — to join the conversation.
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Judge: Ex-Cop To Be Held On $1 Million Bond In Killing Of Unarmed Motorist
A judge ordered Ray Tensing, the fired University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot unarmed motorist Sam DuBose after a routine traffic stop, to be held on a $1 million bond on Thursday.
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Jesse Owens biopic sprints away from troubled Hollywood studio | Film | The Guardian
The makers of a forthcoming biopic of celebrated athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, have managed to extricate the project from struggling Hollywood “mini-major” studio Relativity Media as it slides tow…
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New Onstar hack can unlock cars and start engines | The Verge
There’s a new way to break into connected cars. In a report in Wired today, researcher Samy Kamkar revealed a homemade device he calls OwnStar. It’s a small box about the size of a router, built to break into GM’s OnStar system through a rogue Wi-Fi…
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Chauffeur-Privé Acquires Djump Following UberPOP Turmoils | TechCrunch
UberPOP wasn’t the only victim of the recent taxi protests in France. Other ride-sharing companies Djump and Heetch were affected as well. While it’s still unclear what’s going to happen with Heetch, Djump will be joining French transportation compa…
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Wilmore: NFL’s First Female Coach Is 2-Yard Gain, 98 Yards To Go (VIDEO)
“The Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore congratulated the NFL’s first female coach, Jen Welter, on her appointment to the staff of the Arizona Cardinals on Wednesday night. But the host also took plenty of shots at his favorite target: the National Fo…
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VCs Aren’t Hard of Hearing for Innovation As Investments For Hearables Surge | TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: Ruochen Huang is an intern at CrunchBase and an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. These days the hardware you put in your ear can do much more than just play music.
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Typing patterns are the latest anonymity-shattering personal identifier – Boing Boing
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An Art Fair, Courtesy of Paul Allen, Premieres in Seattle | | Observer
Galleristny.com is now bigger, and part of Observer.com. We’re bringing you more arts news, as well as culture, design, style, real estate and politics.
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Apple Music’s first Snapchat story gives a peek inside the studio
Apple Music has launched its first Snapchat story and it’s incredibly well put together. The company has coordinated the story across its global studio locations, from London to LA.
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Maps of the United States of Swearing
Most everyone in the United States swears, but the specific words used vary by region. For example, “fuck” is popular in California but not so much in Oklahoma, which is the “crap” epicenter of America.
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Royal with cheese: A King’s Quest primer | Polygon
Today marks the release of King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember, but considering it’s been 17 years since the launch of the last game in this classic adventure series, there’s a good chance that a few actual grown adults out there have no familiarity …
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If You Have To Say It, Say It In GIFs
Hey! Hey! Look over here! This is an article, written in words, that you should read. Wait, wait, no! Come back! Here, look at this:
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Yemen’s Hidden War | Rolling Stone
Dawn is just breaking on June 5th at Djibouti’s international airport, but it’s already boiling hot on the tarmac. Mohammed Issa, a rotund and mustachioed border-police officer, gestures to a massive U.S. Air Force transport jet — a gray C-17 Globem…
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Wait, What’s This ‘Cecil The Lion’ Thing? – Digg
The Internet outrage machine revved into high gear on Tuesday and Wednesday when it emerged that an American hunter (and dentist) had shot and killed Cecil, a famous leonine resident of a national park in Zimbabwe. If you’re not quite sure what’s be…
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The United Nations has spent half a billion dollars on contracts with a Russian aviation company since discovering one of its helicopter crews in the Democratic Republic of Congo drugged and raped a teenage girl in a sexual attack.
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After more than two years of restricting content creation to their in-house team, Cinématique, the touchable video platform, is releasing a beta version of a cloud-based editor so brands can create their own interactive video content.
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Taliban officially announces death of Mullah Omar | World news | The Guardian
The Taliban has officially announced the death of its founder and spiritual leader Mullah Omar. The confirmation of Omar’s death comes after months of increased speculation about his whereabouts.
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An App That Helps Women Manage Their Sex Health | WIRED
Having open and honest conversations about women’s sexual and reproductive health is pretty uncomfortable for many people. Sure, a lot of us make an effort to be less weird about topics like periods and pregnancy. But there are still some who haven’…
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Hackers Could Heist Semis by Exploiting This Satellite Flaw | WIRED
Remember the opening scene of the first Fast and Furious film when bandits hijacked a truck to steal its cargo? Or consider the recent real-life theft of $4 million in gold from a truck transiting from Miami to Massachusetts.
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Everything Great About Edge, Windows’ Killer New Browser | WIRED
Windows 10 is Microsoft’s excuse to unleash a powerful new Internet browser. Microsoft Edge is secure, fast, and clean, and has become the new default browser for Windows 10.
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Are Online Marketplaces the Future of E-Commerce? | WIRED
When Mariam Naficy looked at the blogosphere, she saw something else. Seeing that the Internet had tapped a whole new community of writers, she wondered whether it could also deliver a new community of product designers.
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VidCon’s Creator track wants to foster the next generation of YouTube stars
The majority of YouTube’s creator base finally has a home at the streaming video giant’s biggest annual convention.
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Numerous tracks the numbers that matter to you
Up until today, Numerous offered an iOS app that allowed you to track all sorts of numbers in one place – from your Twitter followers, to your mortgage rate to your current distance from home.
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This is what it takes to get your mic cut at Summer Games Done Quick
It really takes something special to overshadow all the goodness on display at Summer Games Done Quick, the speedrunning extravaganza that has raised millions for charity. But “gamepro11” is a very special gamer.
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The Kindergarten Teacher · Film Review · The A.V. Club
There’s something fundamentally weird about The Kindergarten Teacher, the sophomore feature by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid (Policeman).
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All this turtle wants to do is dance in the shower
There’s something cuter than watching a puppy take a shower. It’s watching a turtle take a shower, while dancing.
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Republican Women’s Group Posts Image Of A Lynched Black Man Hanging From A Tree | ThinkProgress
If you are about to compare something to lynching, and it is not lynching, it’s probably best to keep your mouth shut. The Oklahoma Federation of Republican Women apologized on Wednesday after they posted an image of a black man being lynched on the…
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Bernie Sanders Livestreams the Future of Grassroots Politics | WIRED
It’s about 7:30 pm on a sweaty Wednesday night in Brooklyn, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a consummate son of Brooklyn, has just accomplished the seemingly insurmountable task of quieting an 8,000-square-foot beer hall full of New Yorkers.
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Techmeme: StubHub lets eventgoers call an Uber from its app (Edgar Alvarez/Engadget)
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Gawker Baby Elephant Frolics With Birds Baby Elephant Frolics With Birds Baby Elephant Frolics With Birds | Gizmodo Scientists Finally Created a White Laser—and It Could Light Your Home | Jalopnik Report: Suitcases Found Near Wing Part Suspected Fro…
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Romney: Ted Cruz Went ‘Way Over The Line’ Saying Obama Finances Terrorism
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Thursday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went “way over the line” by describing President Barack Obama’s administration of financing terrorism with its Iran nuclear deal.
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U.S.-Backed Rebels Can’t Seem to Stop Losing To Syria’s Al-Qaeda | ThinkProgress
American-backed rebels can’t seem to avoid being thwarted by Syria’s al-Qaeda branch. Eight of the 54 U.S. backed Syrian rebels who underwent training in Turkey to fight ISIS were reported on Thursday to have been captured by the Nusra Front – al-Qa…
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Young Africans to Obama: ‘Clean your own house first’ – BBC News
President Obama came to Africa to deliver a “blunt message” to its politicians. But young people in Kenya and Ethiopia had plenty to say to Mr Obama about the state of America.
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What’s it like to go viral? – Boing Boing
Rick Paulas talks to writers and YouTubers about what it feels like for a posting to go viral. “There’s a point when the narrative of how that story’s being disseminated shifts completely,” A.J. Daulerio told him.
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Justice for Cecil | Environment | The Guardian
Like people across the world, I am extremely angry and deeply saddened about the killing of the great lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe. Cecil was a spectacularly beautiful lion.
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Jon Stewart Details Not-So Secret Meetings With Barack Obama | Rolling Stone
After much media speculation over news that Jon Stewart met with Barack Obama twice during his presidency, The Daily Show host came clean Wednesday night with all the juicy details: “I was brought through the secret White House tunnel entrance at Mo…
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Play Arts Kai’s Black Widow Is Here To Kick Ass And Have Fabulous Hair
Play Arts Kai is back with another crazy entrant to their Marvel Variants line, and—wait. This figure isn’t that crazy. It’s quite restrained, in fact. And kind of totally badass. And it’s Black Widow! Who made this figure, and what have they done w…
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Hannibal Buress Asks Beverly Hills Dwellers: ‘Who Is Meek Mill?’ | Rolling Stone
The beef between Meek Mill and Drake might be the biggest (or second biggest) story in hip-hop now, but as Hannibal Buress proved on Wednesday night’s Why, a pair of diss tracks, Twitter jabs and ghostwriting accusations haven’t pushed the feud into…
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The things they say may be “true”, however they are almost always taken out of context (deliberately) or manipulated. That’s not a tip. That’s an opinion.
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Twitter Deleting Stolen Jokes – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In an effort to combat accounts that aggregate others’ original tweets for added clicks, Twitter has begun quietly removing stolen jokes from certain users’ feeds, referring to the original writer as the “copyright holder,” and fielding additional r…
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AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation ha…
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Charismatic lion’s death highlights struggles of conservation scientists : Nature News & Comment
David Macdonald, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, UK, found his research thrust into the limelight this week, after the killing of one of his team’s lions made global headlines.
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There’s a formula to making movie trailers, the many ingredients of which (quirky indie music, dramatic title cards, and so on) have been pointed out, and parodied, again and again.
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On the morning of Sunday, March 29, Sidney Torres was sipping an espresso in the kitchen of his mansion on the edge of the French Quarter when a jarring notification lit up his iPad and two iPhones. Pimps fighting with drug dealers and johns. Man ha…
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The anthropologist Marcel Mauss once said that the difference between magic and religion is that people actually believe in magic. But wearing a FitBit, it is easy to imagine what it feels like to believe in God. Clipped on my bra strap or tucked in…
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Rio Olympics sewage: Water events will be marred by viruses, bacteria, AP finds.
This, from Rio de Janeiro, seems bad. The AP commissioned studies of virus and bacteria levels at three venues scheduled to host Olympic events next summer in Rio—Guanabara Bay (sailing), Copacabana beach (swimming), and Rodrigo de Freitas Lake (can…
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The election of Bill de Blasio as mayor of New York City raised the hopes and expectations of progressives throughout the country. This was especially the case among those who believed that he would develop a progressive vision and approach to manag…
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“I couldn’t sleep last night knowing it was going live today,” he tells me. “The video is the most revealing thing I’ve ever shared.” I reply the only way I know how… with an inspirational quote by someone much wiser than me: Neil Gaiman.
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So Long, E.L. Doctorow, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh | The Nation
E.L. Doctorow, who died on July 21 at the age of 84, was not only a personal pal; he was a supporter of, investor in, and contributor to this magazine and, as the world knows, a gifted, original, and über-relevant novelist.
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The Democracy of ‘Difficult’ Fiction | The Nation
Who Needs Fiction? That was the question I saw on signs around Stockholm during a recent visit. The signs were advertising a local museum, but being a novelist, I took the question as a direct challenge.
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How the Rich Can Keep Their Homes, Businesses, Artwork, and Wealth Tax-Free—Forever | The Nation
It’s a common-sense notion that society’s wealth shouldn’t be governed by ghosts. “Our Creator made the earth for the use of the living and not of the dead,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. (Also: “One generation of men cannot foreclose or burthen its use t…
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Why Donald Trump Is Winning | The Nation
At this point, little more than a week before the first GOP presidential smash-up, one must take a certain pity on the 15 candidates vying to overtake the race’s undisputed front-runner, New York real-estate tycoon and reality-TV star Donald Trump.
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The Lament of John Kasich | The Nation
In polls your announcement should give you a bump. But mine was drowned out by that blustering Trump. The timing of this has me really quite vexed. Will I be upstaged by Kardashians next?
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If You’re Taking Youth For Granted, Try This Instant-Aging Suit – The Atlantic
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Ferlinghetti in June | The Nation
FRANCE–NORTH AFRICA(May–July 1963) Rodez, June 25 If “God” still exists it’s here in the great brown cathedral of Rodez with its huge mass of Gothic glowering, its huge high square tower, its huge high dark interior at sunset, with the late brillian…
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Hillary Clinton faces grilling as she seeks labor movement endorsement | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton faces a crucial test of her wavering support among American labor unions on Thursday, with an hour-long interview to help determine whether the AFL-CIO national federation will endorse her campaign for the Democratic presidential nom…
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Washington delivers F-16s to Egypt after military package is unfrozen | World news | The Guardian
The United States will deliver eight F-16 fighter jets to Egypt within the next two days, the US embassy in Cairo has said, part of a military package that was unfrozen earlier this year. The statement on Thursday said Washington would deliver four …
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BBC Sport – Mo Farah: UK Athletics finds ‘no evidence of impropriety’
There is no suggestion that Briton Farah, 32, has been involved in doping. UK Athletics added that there was no reason to question Salazar’s Oregon Project’s training regime for the double Olympic champion.
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Apprentice star Stuart ‘The Brand’ Baggs found dead – BBC News
Former Apprentice star Stuart Baggs has been found dead on the Isle of Man, police have confirmed. The 27-year-old’s body was found by police after they were called to a property on Central Promenade in Douglas at 09:00 BST.
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Watch This Brown Dwarf’s “Northern Lights”
Brown dwarfs are not quite stars. Some aspects of them resemble planets, like the fact that they have their own versions of “northern lights,” which can be seen from very far away. One of these distant auroras has been captured in the video above
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India ‘to overtake China’s population by 2022’ – UN – BBC News
A new UN study of global population trends predicts that India will overtake China to become the world’s most populous nation by 2022.The report also says that Nigeria will replace the US as the world’s third most populous country by around 2050.
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Kenyan governor Kidero denies grass removed after Obama – BBC News
The governor of Kenya’s capital has denied that contractors are uprooting grass planted in Nairobi for the US President Barack Obama’s visit. But Nairobi governor Evans Kidero said a contractor was “restoring the ground in order to do the proper pla…
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The man with the toughest job in the world | Janine di Giovanni | World news | The Guardian
In July 2014, Staffan de Mistura, a 68-year old Italian-Swedish diplomat, was enjoying a peaceful semi-retirement on the isle of Capri when he received a telephone call from his former boss, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, offerin…
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Where Bowling Meets Golf on a Country Road in West Virginia | Atlas Obscura
An Irish Road Bowler in action. (Photo: Courtesy of West Virginia Road Bowling Association) On a winding country road in Ireland, West Virginia, a heated competition is taking place.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Typhoon Dolphin Intensifying Near Guam
A Typhoon Warning is in place for Guam and Rota in the western Pacific Ocean as Typhoon Dolphin tracks west-northwestward around 14 knots.
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An anti-abortion group that has so far released three inflammatory videos accusing Planned Parenthood of profiting from the sale of “aborted baby parts” will not be allowed to publish additional footage featuring a California company that facilitate…
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Rolling Stone Editor Out as Fallout From UVA Rape Story Continues | Observer
Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana is leaving the magazine after nearly two decades, The New York Times reported last night. His last day will be August 7 and no successor has been named. Mr.
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Stewart: My Only Secret Meeting Was With Fox News Boss Roger Ailes (VIDEO)
Politico reported on Wednesday that Stewart had been “summoned” for secret meetings at the White House — twice. The meetings, however, were on the public visitor logs.
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Report: Emails Show Walker’s Role In Attempt To Gut Wisc. Open Records Law
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) aides may have had a bigger role in a failed attempt to gut the state’s government transparency laws than his office previously admitted, The Wisconsin State Journal reported on Thursday.
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Does anyone still make those magazines where David Bowie is mauled by weasels? – Boing Boing
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Athletes at Rio Olympics to compete in ‘basically raw sewage’, study reveals | Sport | The Guardian
Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Planned Parenthood Website Hacked After Release Of ‘Sting’ Videos
The Planned Parenthood website was hacked on Wednesday, and the website was still offline as of Thursday morning. The group’s website was also hacked on Monday as the group is under fire for edited, undercover videos released by an anti-abortion gro…
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Excavators reveal Middle Stone Age artifacts on a landsurface at Vleesbaai that dates to around 70,000 years ago. The red sediment is a paleosol (ancient soil) and a dune is stratified above.
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Last-Ditch Plan Aims to Prevent First Drought Extinction of Native Fish – Scientific American
Noah’s Ark supposedly provided shelter to animals from the rising floodwaters. But at a federal breeding site near Shasta Lake, Calif., the opposite is occurring: The tanks of Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery are providing refuge this summer …
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How 20 States Came To Treat Marital Rape As A Lesser Rape
Donald Trump’s lawyer’s comments that marital rape isn’t a crime rightly inspired outrage. They were both offensive and wrong on the law.
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Elements of Style | The Nation
On a snowy morning in February, Violette Verdy walked into a well-lit rehearsal studio seven stories above Broadway.
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Chucky Taylor, Liberia’s Other Monster | The Nation
On April 22, 1999, a Sierra Leonean refugee named Sulaiman Jusu was attempting to make his way to the Liberian capital of Monrovia with his extended family, fleeing a rebel incursion into northwestern Liberia, when their convoy was stopped at a chec…
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Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. 30 Yes, Zen paradoxically… wait! This word was supposed to be in a clue, not in the diagram! (6)
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New Hampshire Focus Group Fawns Over Trump: ‘He’s Like One Of Us’ (VIDEO)
At least 12 voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire are absolutely gaga over real estate mogul Donald Trump.
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Let’s Go Full Crocodile, Ladies – The Huffington Post
For only five nights in the fall of 1973, a documentary called “Year of the Woman” played at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in Greenwich Village. Crowds lined up around the block. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., described it as “the greatest combination of sex and…
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A closer look at logging into a Windows 10 PC with just your face | The Verge
Windows 10 introduces a number of new apps and features, but one of the more unique additions is Windows Hello. Much like the Xbox One, Windows Hello will allow you to log into a Windows 10 PC with just your face.
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Trump’s Pro-Wrestling Past, The Holy Grail of GOP Primaries, and The Songs of Summer
The Gist: The GOP frontrunner’s bizarre history with pro wrestling goes back more than a quarter of a century. The Gist: All of the coverage of political intrigue, poll results, and gaffes does very little to help us predict who will eventually get …
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10 Questionable Ways to Get Into the GOP Debate — NYMag
A week from today, ten Republican candidates will grace the stage at the first presidential debate of the 2016 election.
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NEW DELHI — Yakub Memon, the “driving spirit” behind a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, was hanged early Thursday morning at a prison in central India.
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Jon Stewart rips apart the conspiracies over his ‘secret’ meetings with Obama
Jon Stewart is usually the one mocking the news—but this time, he was the news. The Daily Show got meta Wednesday night after a Politico report revealed that Stewart had “secretly” visited the White House multiple times during President Barack Obama…
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A Better Way to Treat Concussions? – The Atlantic
Mild traumatic brain injuries are common, yet tracking how a person is healing is still a patchwork of tests that aren’t always reliable. A new blood test might change that.
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Stormy seas in Sagittarius | ESA/Hubble
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the centre of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name.
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Twice Exceptional | The Big Roundtable
Children who have a disability and are also smart are called twice exceptional, a term that makes me want to punch something. When taken literally the term makes sense, in that exceptional can mean a rare instance, but I doubt this is what the inven…
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Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis
Ronald Perry can’t seem to get his patients’ teeth white enough.
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Chelsea Wald on Why Color Categories Are Largely the Same Across Languages
When Paul Kay, then an anthropology graduate student at Harvard University, arrived in Tahiti in 1959 to study island life, he expected to have a hard time learning the local words for colors.
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Congress’ Transportation Stall Is Our Chance to Mobilize
The Senate is likely as early as today to vote for a three-month extension of surface transportation programs that the House approved on Wednesday, shelving for now a six-year bill the Senate had hoped to pass this week.
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Letters From the August 17-24, 2015, Issue | The Nation
I am 94 and have been a subscriber for more than 50 years. I hope I’ll be a subscriber for many more. I’ve disagreed with your writers, correspondents, supporters, and critics before. Never angrily.
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US economic growth accelerates in second quarter as spending picks up | Business | The Guardian
US economic growth accelerated in the second quarter as a pick-up in consumer spending offset the drag from soft business spending on equipment, suggesting a steady momentum that could bring the Federal Reserve closer to hiking interest rates this y…
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Paul Beatty’s Savage Satire | The Nation
Paul Beatty’s latest novel, The Sellout (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $26), recounts the ordeals of a man who tries—and fails—to live up to his father’s, his community’s, and his country’s ideas of what it means to be black in America.
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NEW DELHI — Yakub Memon, the “driving spirit” behind a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, was hanged early Thursday morning at a prison in central India.
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Could Obama Have Made a ‘Better Deal’ With Iran? — NYMag
Neoconservative éminence grise Norman Podhoretz has been arguing for many years that bombing Iran is the only way to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He made the case privately and publicly, and kept it up.
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YANGON, Myanmar — Days after a court in Myanmar sentenced more than 150 Chinese citizens to life in prison for illegal logging, resulting in objections from Beijing, the national government said on Thursday that they would be freed as part of a broa…
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US economic growth picks up to 2.3% – BBC News
The US economy grew at an annualised pace of 2.3% in the three months to June, official figures have shown. The figure – the first estimate of growth in the second quarter – followed an upwardly revised growth rate of 0.6% in the first three months …
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On the Market: Morning links from the New York Observer | Observer
Are Brooklyn’s coolest neighborhoods poisoning their residents? Unsurprisingly many of the borough’s formerly industrial, now rapidly gentrifying enclaves have long histories with chemical toxins, Crain’s reports, and not all of them have been clean…
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Watch: The Mysterious Craters on Ceres Get New Names | WIRED
Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet NASA is interested in these days. The space agency sent up a probe named Dawn in 2007 to two big rocks in the asteroid belt: Ceres and Vesta.
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Here’s A Bonkers Rumor About the Villains of the New Spider-Man Reboot
Night Nurse might be heading to Doctor Strange—and she won’t be played by Rosario Dawson. Simon Pegg teases Idris Elba’s Star Trek Beyond character. Jessica Jones will go even further than the original comics. Plus, a new look at The Martian, The 10…
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Cape Watch: Hugh Jackman Wants Your Input for His Last Wolverine Movie | WIRED
As one chiseled-jawed actor joins a superhero universe, another might be departing, according to rumors. (Of course, rumors also once promised us that we’d get a Miles Morales Spider-Man movie next, and we all know how that turned out.
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Jenny’s Wedding · Film Review · The A.V. Club
If the gay-marriage melodrama Jenny’s Wedding had come out (so to speak) 20 years ago, it might provoke a queasy, quasi-nostalgic fascination today.
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Litvinenko inquiry: Russian state ‘wished Litvinenko dead’ – BBC News
The two men suspected of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210 have “no credible answer” to the scientific evidence against them, the inquiry into his death has been told. UK officials believe Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi poisoned Mr …
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Phillies farewell for Cole Hamels as he heads to Rangers | Sport | The Guardian
After years of trade speculation, Cole Hamels’ time in Philadelphia is ending. According to AP sources, the Phillies have agreed to trade the ace left-hander to the Texas Rangers for a package of prospects. Hamels has a limited no-trade clause but d…
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Lessons Learned from a Childhood Spent Touching Myself | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
I was watching a squirrel eating trash through a window one day in middle school when I learned what masturbation was.
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Thrive Market, A Health-Conscious Costco On The Web, Raises $30M | TechCrunch
The demographic of health-conscious consumers is growing rapidly, and yet there is no dominant online player that provides high quality, organic, natural products to those consumers. Thrive Market, an LA-based startup that just closed a $30 million …
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Bazaart photo app for iOS now integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud
With the explosion in mobile photography, it’s become critical for people be able to move back and forth between mobile and desktop environments with minimal friction.
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How to Acquire a Luxury Watch, 21st Century-Style | | Observer
Not too long ago, the options to get the the perfect watch were limited: buy new from an authorized retailer, purchase it on the less-than-reliable secondhand market (verifying the provenance was, and continues to be, difficult) or inherit it.
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Top Gear’s Old Crew Signs With Amazon For New Show | TechCrunch
The original trio behind popular U.K. TV show Top Gear will be back sooner rather than later as they signed a deal with Amazon. Amazon Prime members in the U.K. will be able to stream the new car show starting in 2016. Prime members in the U.S.
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Baby-Making App Glow Gets Into Sex Ed With Ruby, An iOS App For Women’s Sexual Health | TechCrunch
Glow, the app that aims to help women get pregnant (or not) launched a new iOS app for women’s sexual health today called Ruby.
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Dentist killer of Cecil the lion writes to his patients to apologise | Environment | The Guardian
A Minnesota dentist at the centre of international storm over the illegal killing of a beloved Zimbabwean lion has written to his patients to apologise, as crowds gathered around his suburban practice calling for him to face charges.
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A California senator who successfully fought to make vaccines a mandatory requirement for most school kids is now fighting to keep his job in the face of recall efforts from opponents of the new law.
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The Special Hazards Of Jail For African Americans | ThinkProgress
Five hundred dollars would have gotten Sandra Bland out of jail before she died. She and at least four other black women have died in jail since mid-July. They died before going to trial, and before being convicted of any crime.
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Invisibility Blues: Help open up the conversation about race in games – Offworld
“We want to open up a conversation about race in video games,” write Dr. Samantha Blackmon and Alisha Karabinus, in a Kickstarter video for Invisibility Blues, a proposed video series exploring racial representation in the world of gaming.
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Fullscreen launching all-female live tour of YouTube stars
Fullscreen Live is bringing digital stars in front of thousands of their fans.
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Video: HOWTO make a 3D origami Darth Vader – Boing Boing
Origami enthusiasts have created a number of small foldable units that can then be assembled into all kinds of 3-D shapes, like this Darth Vader. Arthur has a helpful description explaining the origins of the character: You will learn how to make Da…
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WATCH: Our robot overlords will excel at ping-pong – Boing Boing
This ad from Omron Automation & Safety intends to make advanced automation seem fun, but the execution makes it seem like your future will depend on whether you win your sudden death table tennis match with a robotic version of the Aliens xenomorph.
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Minnesota kids get creative to protest lion-killing dentist – Boing Boing
Kids in the Twin Cities asked their families what they could do to express their feelings about local lion-killing dentist Walter Palmer. Star-Tribune’s Glen Stubbe got some great shots during protests at Palmer’s office.
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Why Mullah Omar’s Death Could Disrupt Peace Talks in Afghanistan – The Atlantic
Will a divided Taliban negotiate peace without Mullah Omar? Reports on Wednesday that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar had died will be rightly hailed by some as the demise of an American nemesis.
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Turkey PKK: ‘Three soldiers killed’ as convoy ambushed – BBC News
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed in an attack on a convoy in the south-east by PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) militants, the army says. Drones, helicopter gunships and commando units have been deployed to strike PKK positions, it said.
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Taliban ‘pick Mullah Omar successor’ – BBC News
Taliban appoint successor to Mullah Omar, who was reported dead by the Afghan government on Wednesday, BBC told. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Cassini captures strange red arcs on Saturn’s moon Tethys – Boing Boing
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The American economy regained its footing last quarter, expanding at an annual rate of 2.3 percent amid a better trade picture, growing consumer spending and a resilient housing sector.
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Angry Birds 2’s creative director defends in-app fees – BBC News
Rovio’s Angry Birds 2 has been added to Apple and Google’s app stores. The title is in fact the 12th title in the six-year-old series, not including spin-offs, such as Bad Piggies.
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Flooding in northern Vietnam has killed at least 17 people, with the continuing rain prompting concerns of landslides and of pollution from inundated coal mines reaching one of the country’s most famous sites of natural beauty.
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BBC Sport – Dame Sarah Storey: British Paralympian wins 21st world title
Dame Sarah Storey claimed the 21st world title of her career with gold in the time trial at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships. The Briton finished more than two minutes ahead of Poland’s Anna Harkowska in Nottwil, Switzerland.
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France acts against olive disease outbreak in Corsica – BBC News
A bacterial infection ravaging olive trees in the far south of Italy has spread to Corsica, where emergency measures are being implemented. Xylella fastidiosa, spread by insects, was found at Propriano in southern Corsica. The bacterium can also att…
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Taliban Confirm Leader’s Death, Choose Mullah Omar Successor – ABC News
The Afghan Taliban have issued a statement saying that they are “not aware” of a new round of peace talks that had been expected to take place in Pakistan on Friday.
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Supercomputers: Obama orders world’s fastest computer – BBC News
President Obama has signed an executive order calling for the US to build the world’s fastest computer by 2025. The supercomputer would be 20 times quicker than the current leading machine, which is in China.
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MH370 search: Debris found on Reunion being sent to France – BBC News
Malaysia has said that it would be “premature” to speculate on whether debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion comes from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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Tom Brady’s mistake was to fight an NFL commissioner obsessed with PR | Sport | The Guardian
The debacle that is Deflategate has long stopped being about underinflated footballs – if it ever really was.
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For many it would be a horrifying sight, but when Dan Tichenor draws his bow and aims an arrow at an animal in the wild he feels an affinity with humanity’s ancestors and the age-old contest between hunter and hunted.
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The symbiotic relationship between ageing footballers and MLS transfers | Football | The Guardian
It’s strange what falling out with the Real Madrid manager can lead to; the evolution of Major League Soccer and the career of David Beckham can attest to that.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET! Or click this link to listen through your own media player.
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Top e-learning deals – over 90% off!
These courses and assets over at TNW Deals teach you what you need to know without breaking the bank. Here is a round-up of the best E-learning deals with discounts over 90 percent off and an additional 10 percent off coupon for the OSTraining Bundl…
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Jindal: Guns Should Be Allowed In Movie Theaters
One week after a gunman killed two people after opening fire in a Lafayette, La. movie theater, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said that people should be able to bring firearms into movie theaters.
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Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Finally Allowed to Leave China, Only to be Refused a UK Visa | VICE News
Chinese government critic and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been denied a business visa to the UK because of his criminal record, even though he has never actually been charged or convicted of any crimes.
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Satisfaction at work is not a sprint, it’s a marathon
Any runner will tell you that a satisfying race is one prepared for. Meaning, it hurt while it was happening, but putting the hard intervals in, hill sprints, multitudinous miles, and healthy diet pays off at that sweaty, glorious finish line. Simil…
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3 ways to prevent electronics from ruining a good night’s sleep
Electronics are wreaking havoc on our sleep. Late night reading on smartphones and tablets bombards our eyes with artificial light, tricking our brains into being alert right before we attempt to fall asleep. Our sleep problems have slowly been gett…
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Lancashire fracking: appeal against refusal may take 16 months | Environment | The Guardian
The government’s energy plans have been delivered a severe blow after ministers were told they may have to wait at least 16 months before learning whether fracking will be allowed in Lancashire.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone that reminds us what a Democratic president and solid Democratic majorities in Congress can accomplish. And, like Obamacare, it wasn’t a slam dunk until late in the game. Ladies and germs, let’s give i…
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UK solar growth stalls following government subsidy cuts | Environment | The Guardian
The amount of solar power being installed in the UK has largely flatlined since the closure by the government of a subsidy scheme in April, even before a new round of subsidy cuts has taken effect.
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CVS Health Taps IBM’s Watson To Predict Patient Health Decline Before It Happens | TechCrunch
CVS and IBM have teamed up to stop chronic diseases patients from having a medical emergency before it gets to that point. The corner store pharmacy giant will use Watson, IBM’s cognitive computing technology, to predict chronic disease patients in …
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Sport picture of the day: surf’s up in California | Sport | The Guardian
Professional surfer Carlos Munoz of Costa Rica gets some air as he competes during his round two men’s heat of the US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, California. The event celebrates its 56th year beside the historic Huntington Pier which is co…
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‘When you mess up, people die’: civilians who are drone pilots’ extra eyes | US news | The Guardian
Sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida, an image analyst was watching footage transmitted from a battlefield drone.
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Why Keeping A Daily Journal Could Change Your Life | Observer
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” ― J.M. Barrie (Author of Peter Pan) You know exactly what you w…
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Secret of Qwerty is a ‘typing RPG’ that will steal your whole afternoon – Offworld
I admit: as someone who clocks in at about 120 words per minute I have a special affection for typing games. Deprived of virtually all other reflex skills or precision aiming, it is fun to feel good at something.
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What’s Driving Trump’s Social Media Success? Pancakes | WIRED
Caption: Perhaps you’ve heard of him. Or, perhaps you’re sick and tired of hearing about him.
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Invent Stuff and Leave it For Others at New Soho LittleBits Store | | Observer
The new LittleBits store at 355 West Broadway in Manhattan, opening to the public July 31st, will test a new retail model: Inventions To Stay or Inventions To Go. LittleBits is a company aimed at democratizing access to technology.
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Germany Takes On Facebook’s ‘Real Name’ Policy | ThinkProgress
German privacy regulators determined Facebook’s controversial “real name” policy violates individual privacy rights under the country’s data protection law and that consumers can use pseudonyms if they choose.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 88 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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A new study from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology examines how states can reduce carbon pollution cheaply while also keeping household energy prices low. Titled “Low-Carbon Electricity Pathways for the U.S.
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When Sister Kathleen Erickson arrived in March to serve as the interim chaplain at a family detention facility in Texas, the center only held about 400 women and children. One weekly mass was sufficient for Catholic, Pentecostal, and Evangelical nee…
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Tom Cruise’s Personal Life Probably Won’t Hurt ‘Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation’ – The Atlantic
The franchise channels its star’s manic energy, resisting character development in favor of insane stunts. The theater promos that ran for weeks hyping Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation wanted to make one thing very clear.
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Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For | Brain Pickings
“Immerse yourself in the common ground of the universe so that your true voice — not the egoistic voice that clamors vainly for power (for it will ruin you if you listen to it) — your authentic voice … may be heard.
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Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day two – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Hello world! Three. It’s the magic number. Three wickets down. Three runs behind. Third Test of the series. Three victories required to take the Ashes. Yes, no doubt about it, today’s pre-play build-up is sponsored by the number three. Welcome, boys…
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Amazon has signed a deal with the three former hosts of the BBC’s wildly successful car show Top Gear to produce a new automotive-focused program for the streaming service.
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Man uses Lego to build remote-controlled robot exoskeleton
Apparently it’s possible to build an exoskeleton-controlled robot in the comfort of your own home. Reverse Pacific Rim, here we come.
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Dashlane brings its one-touch password changer to iPhone and Apple Watch
Changing your passwords regularly may well be good practice, but in the real world, few people bother. In fact, in the real world people still use passwords like 1,2,3,4,5,6.
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Can We Spot Soldiers at Risk for PTSD? – Scientific American
The bomb that shattered Travis Adams’s peace of mind never actually exploded. Its timer went off, but the bomb malfunctioned. Still, the 25-year-old U.S. marine remained haunted by the memory of an explosive device diabolically concealed beneath a t…
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Listen to this exclusive stream from ‘Walking Dead’ star Emily Kinney
Kinney released her debut EP in 2011, the same year she began appearing on the show, followed up by another in 2013, and she’s managed to grow her music into something more nuanced.
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US Police Open Investigation as Lion-Killing Dentist Faces ‘Terroristic Threats’ | VICE News
“Terroristic threats” have been made against an American dentist who killed a cherished lion in Zimbabwe, prompting a police investigation, as hundreds protested outside the accused’s office on Wednesday night.
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YourMoji keyboard for iOS lets you create emoji composites with your own photos
Emoji: It’s the new magic word that seems to inspire universal appeal. So what better time to release more emoji into the world? YourMoji, a new keyboard app for iOS, lets you create and share custom emojis derived from photos of yourself, your frie…
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Techmeme: Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Landslides set off by heavy rain struck several villages in Kaski, a popular tourist area in western Nepal, killing at least 24 people, a senior local official said on Thursday.
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First Click: Apple Lightning cables are more like lemons | The Verge
I tried replacing the cables at my local Apple Store, but since we bought our phones through a carrier (and don’t have AppleCare) Apple refused to replace them.
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Revealed: Private firms at heart of US drone warfare | US news | The Guardian
The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to the heart of its drone operations to analyse top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders, an investigation has found.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: More ‘Christie is toast’ stories
New York Times: Despite Chris Christie’s intense focus on winning New Hampshire, many local Republicans are not exactly enamored with the New Jersey governor.
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Stop It With the Tech Sexification, Dice.com | | Observer
The other day walking through Manhattan, I saw the ad above on a New York taxi cab. Later that same day, I saw another one, featuring a shirtless Python developer wearing a snake (hilarious). Dice.com is a career website that also provides analytics…
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White Flight and Segregation – The Atlantic
Today’s cities may be more diverse overall, but people of different races still don’t live near each other. Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B.
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If you took a poll to determine in whose voice most readers would like to hear their audio books, I imagine Orson Welles would land pretty high on the list.
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PicMonkey Grabs $41 Million Investment | TechCrunch
PicMonkey, a Seattle-based photo editing web app just secured a $41 million growth equity investment from Spectrum Equity. This is the three-year-old company’s first ever round of outside funding, the site has bootstrapped its way into profitability.
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GoButler Takes Its Virtual Personal Assistant Out Of Beta, Raises $8M | TechCrunch
GoButler has a straightforward premise — you should be able to text one of the service’s “Heroes”, and they can help you get whatever you need, whether you want to order dinner or make a flight reservation.
GoButler has a straightforward premise — you should be able to send a text message and one of its “Heroes” will help you get whatever you need, whether you want to order dinner or make a flight reservation. -
Debt After Death: What Happens When a Loan Outlives Its Borrower? – The Atlantic
When a young person dies unexpectedly, his or her family could end up with the burden of paying off student loans. Can that be avoided? What would happen to all of your debt if you died?
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A Cincinnati Prosecutor Indicts Officer Ray Tensing for the Murder of Sam DuBose – The Atlantic
His press conference announcing murder charges had just one flaw: he understated how often police officers shoot unarmed people in traffic stops.
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Windows 10 tries to make you pay to play Solitaire
Windows 10, which was released yesterday, includes an update to a number of Microsoft’s card games previously included for free in Windows.
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GoButler wants to be your new (and free!) digital on-demand concierge service
Wouldn’t it be nice to send a text and have things just magically happen for you? GoButler thinks so, and is launching an SMS-based concierge service to help you get through your day, and can help you with just about anything.
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The most polluted US national parks | Environment | The Guardian
It’s late summer, and Americans are flocking to the country’s national parks for some recreation and fresh air.
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Mullah Omar: Talks doubts after Taliban leader ‘dies’ – BBC News
The Taliban have distanced themselves from a new round of peace talks with the Afghan government, a day after Kabul announced the death of their leader Mullah Omar. On Wednesday, the Afghan government said Mullah Omar had died in a Karachi hospital …
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The greatest tech references in hip hop
This is one of my songs of the summer – Krept & Konan’s ‘Freak of the Week (feat. Jeremih)’: The line “You last ten seconds, man, you’re a Snapchat…” got me thinking about the best tech references in hip hop.
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Women Screw Islamic State out of Thousands of Dollars by Posing as Potential Brides | VICE News
Three young Chechen women are in trouble after being caught scamming Islamic State (IS) fighters out of thousands of dollars by posing as wannabe jihadi brides, according to reports in Russia. The women are reportedly now being held by Russian autho…
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Trump Dominates Fellow GOPers, But Trails Democrats In New Poll
Donald Trump dominated the Republican presidential field in yet another poll on Thursday, but his favorability was the lowest of any candidate and he lost all three match-ups with Democrats tested by Quinnipiac University in a poll released on Thurs…
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Doctorow’s Doctor | | Observer
Back in the early 1990s, I mailed E.L. Doctorow a short story I had written and he wrote back inviting me to visit him at his NYU office. It turned out he was generous with his time and he liked that I was a practicing physician.
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Should Scientists be Looking for the Last Lifeforms on Mars?
This image snapped by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater, from a perspective in Yellowknife Bay. The photo was taken on Feb. 14, 2013.
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Lost and Found: Seth Kushner—October 30, 1973 to May 17, 2015 | | Observer
Seth Kushner, self-portrait. (Photo: Seth Kushner, courtesy of the family) Seth Kushner once took a whimsical photo of electronic music superstar Moby with a Simpsons doll hanging from his mouth.
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NASA Wants Your Help to Classify Weird Mars Terrain
These images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter zoom into “spider” features, which are channels carved in the surface in radial patterns, located in the south polar region of Mars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Univ.
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Why Is Jeb Bush So Cozy With A Discredited Charter School Mill? | Observer
Everywhere in our lives, we get the chance to choose. Go down any supermarket aisle – you’ll find an incredible selection of milk.
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NASA Working to Avoid Traffic Jams at Mars
With two more Mars orbiters sent into space last year, traffic has picked up around the Red Planet — so much so that NASA recently bolstered its monitoring process to avoid future traffic jams.
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Man balances on a motorbike in the least safe way imaginable
This motorbike stunt is simultaneously impressive and terrifying. Balanced on the back of his bike with no way of steering or braking in an emergency, this anonymous man was spotted driving calmly along the road. He’s wearing a Santa hat, for unknow…
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PlayStation Plus subscribers will get these great free games in August
Sony has announced several new games available for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, and there are some quality titles among them. For the PlayStation 4, gamers will be able to invite friends over and enjoy some couch co-op.
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A tour of abandoned New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
An abandoned home in the Broadmoor neighbourhood of New Orleans, an area badly flooded in the aftermath of Katrina Photograph: Seph Lawless Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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The other side of Braid – Offworld
On the evening of Christmas 2009, a damaged young transwoman in a bad situation purchased the 2D puzzle platforming videogame Braid in a sale on the Steam download service for a total of $2.50 with a gift card she just received.
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Related: Wet Hot American Summer is back – but did it typecast its comedy all-stars?
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Good Thursday morning from Washington, where the Iran nuclear deal has resurrected a debate on oil. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont threw a nationwide house party, and Donald J.
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Watching the high-stakes melodrama that has unfolded in the Chinese stock market over the past month is a bit like watching a giant game of chicken.
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Creating Made-Up Data From Real Census Information Could Protect Individual Privacy – The Atlantic
Synthetic datasets allow researchers to study social systems without compromising individual identities—but how reliable is the information they’re using? The first U.S. Census was carried out in 1790 to count the population in each state and assign…
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Terror on the beach – BBC News
The world watched in horror last month as gunman Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people on a beach at the Tunisian resort of Sousse. Survivors of the attack tell Panorama’s Jane Corbin what it was like to go through the experience. I’ve been going on ho…
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Ann Rule’s true crime books: what made them so compelling? | Books | The Guardian
Usually, when a writer as widely read as Ann Rule dies, the internet gets papered over with heartfelt tributes. That didn’t happen for her – there are obituaries everywhere, but few eulogies – and I’ve been ruminating on why.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Blanca Weakens, Begins Drift Northward
The combination of upwelling and an eyewall replacement cycle has resulted in significant weakening of Blanca during the past 18 hours or so. The eye is not as clear as it was yesterday, and the deep convection is no longer symmetric around what is …
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Obama will use veto to defend climate change plan if necessary | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama will use all of his powers – including his veto – to defend his plan to fight climate change, the White House said, on the eve of new rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants.
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Peter Bogdanovich Stages His Latest Comeback | Observer
Peter Bogdanovich, 75, trademark bandana wrapped around his neck like an ascot, carries himself with old world charm, which you would expect from a Serbian count, which he is.
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David Cameron promises to protect wildlife after Cecil the lion killing | Politics | The Guardian
David Cameron has promised to step up government efforts to protect wildlife from poachers in the wake of the outcry over the killing of Cecil the lion.
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Shell to cut 6,500 jobs due to continuing oil price slump | Business | The Guardian
Shell sees no quick end to the slump in oil prices and plans to accelerate its own cutbacks with 6,500 more jobs to go, annual spending reduced by a further $3bn (£1.9bn) and more than $30bn of asset sales by 2018.
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These Photos of Starry Nights Aren’t of Starry Nights | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Related Galleries Vanessa Marsh’s images might look like breathtaking photos of starry night skies in the wilderness, but she never left the darkroom. That’s because Marsh doesn’t photograph the stars;…
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Facebook Coders Compete to Build the Ultimate Mario Level | WIRED
The last time I played Nintendo was years ago, on an original Wii console. Now, I’m being asked to demonstrate prowess with a Wii U, which is just different enough that it’s not going well. In fact, I’m embarrassing myself in front of a small crowd …
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The Physics of Some Seriously Awesome MythBusters Stunts | WIRED
Mythbusters, the TV show, isn’t trying to discover new scientific principles. They just test the coolest myths using basic scientific ideas. However, the show is only an hour long and they don’t have time to go over all the awesome science. But gue…
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Our Freakish Cyborg Future Looks Like a Dali Painting | WIRED
Caption: Insula, a collaboration between the two artists Jon Jacobsen and Daniel Ramos Obgregón, illustrates what our cyborgian bodies could look like in the future. Jon Jacobsen Caption: Obgregón makes bizarre porcelain prosthetics.
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This Gadget Hacks GM Cars to Locate, Unlock, and Start Them | WIRED
GM’s Onstar service offers some of the most futuristic features on any connected car, including the ability to locate the vehicle, unlock it, and even start its ignition—all from a smartphone app.
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Microsoft Solitaire goes freemium in Windows 10
Windows 10 introduced a slew of new features, but the update to Solitaire was less than stellar. Microsoft’s most famous built-in game is now “freemium,” meaning that, while the game is free, certain features are locked behind a paywall. For $1.49 a…
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FreedomPop, the U.S. wireless carrier startup that has been building a business based on completely free voice and data services, has raised another $10 million in funding from two strategic investors, the pan-Asian mobile carrier Axiata and an unna…
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Even if Tom Brady Did Smash His Phone, It’d Make Zero Sense | WIRED
Just how easy is it to destroy your text messages? In the eyes of the NFL, it’s as simple as destroying your cellphone. But as anyone who has ever had their phone stolen can tell you, that’s not even remotely true.
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Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare | Sport | The Guardian
On Friday the International Olympic Committee will decide whether Almaty in Kazakhstan or the Chinese capital Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Both countries are human-rights nightmares. No matter which city wins, the Olympic movement los…
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First kid to get a double hand transplant has a touching message for the doctors
Zion Harvey, an 8-year-old boy from Baltimore, is the first child ever to receive a double hand transplant. Harvey had his extremities amputated when he was 2 years old after an infection caused him to develop gangrene.
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On the morning of Sunday, March 29, Sidney Torres was sipping an espresso in the kitchen of his mansion on the edge of the French Quarter when a jarring notification lit up his iPad and two iPhones. Pimps fighting with drug dealers and johns. Man ha…
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Shaft comic writer slams planned remake’s comedic take | Film | The Guardian
Yet another reinvention of blaxploitation detective Shaft is on the way and there’s at least one person who isn’t very happy about it.
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MILAN — I HAVE been a journalist for over 30 years, first as a foreign correspondent and then as a columnist. Along the way I have written 15 books, all nonfiction. Last year — don’t ask me why — I decided to write a play. I called it “La vita è un …
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Significant Digits For Thursday, July 30, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The U.S. unemployment rate is projected to drop to 4.5 percent by December assuming current trends hold. Then again, “assuming current trends hold” is a…
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Buster Posey’s Pitch Framing Makes Him A Potential MVP | FiveThirtyEight
At the top of FanGraphs’ wins above replacement leaderboard, you will find the two leading candidates for MLB’s Most Valuable Player, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper. But despite his comparative lack of WAR, Posey may be just as deserving of the MVP.
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Kenya Airways blames tourism slump for record losses – BBC News
One of Africa’s largest airlines Kenya Airways has announced its biggest ever annual loss. It has partly blamed the $290m (£188m) shortfall on a decline in Kenya’s tourism sector.
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‘Taco Belle’ is a fast-food-loving, dress-wearing goddess
Meet Olivia Mears, the genius costume maker behind this beautiful “Taco Belle” dress. She turned herself into true crunchy royalty with a gown that’s getting tons of love on Reddit and Imgur. According to Mears, the tacos are hand-painted card stock…
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Tower of London poppies tour: North of England to host displays – BBC News
Thousands of ceramic poppies used in the Tower of London installation are to go on display across the north of England, it has been announced. The cascade – or weeping window – section will be shown at St George’s Hall in Liverpool and Woodhorn Muse…
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Obama in Africa: 12 things we learned from his historic trip | World news | The Guardian
Obama is on a roll. He arrived in east Africa on the back of a ruling upholding his healthcare plan, endorsement of his Pacific trade agreement, a nuclear deal with Iran, the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and stirring eulogy in Charle…
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Jake Gyllenhaal in talks to take lead role in Boston marathon bombing drama | Film | The Guardian
Jake Gyllenhaal is considering the lead role in a drama set in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombing, according to Variety. The film, called Stronger, is based on the experiences of survivor Jeff Bauman. Bauman, who was waiting for his girlfr…
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Amazon signs Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond, and May for new show | The Verge
Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May have signed up for a new show on Amazon Prime, according to a tweet from Clarkson.
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Ukrainian pilot Savchenko in court for pre-trial hearing – BBC News
A Ukrainian helicopter pilot, accused of involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, has appeared in court in Russia.The pre-trial hearing for Nadia Savchenko, in custody for more than a year, is being held in the town …
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MH370 search: Relative torn over debris find – BBC News
Jacquita Gomes, wife of MH370 passenger Patrick, has said she is torn over whether to believe that plane debris found in Reunion is from the missing airliner.
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Will Republicans Back Pell Grants for Prisoners? – The Atlantic
The Obama administration’s plan to offer Pell grants to inmates could test conservative support for criminal-justice reform.
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Samuel DuBose Killing: Why Police Reform Can’t Just Focus on Big Urban Departments – The Atlantic
Samuel DuBose’s death at the hands of a campus officer points to problems with university cops—and shows the limitations of a celebrated reform effort like Cincinnati’s.
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Encryption Backdoors Are Opposed by Former Government Officials – The Atlantic
From their perches in the private sector, they are speaking out against the push by current government officials to mandate “backdoors” in communication platforms.
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Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May sign Amazon deal | Media | The Guardian
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have been signed up by Amazon for a new motoring show to rival the BBC’s Top Gear. The trio’s new show will be broadcast on Amazon’s on-demand TV service, with the US giant beating off competition from …
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First Chapter! I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai | Children’s books | The Guardian
Read the opening of the memoir, written with Patricia McCormick, of the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, who spoke out for girls’ education and was shot by the Taliban.
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The FBI’s Flawed ViCAP Database – The Atlantic
Three decades after the FBI launched a revolutionary system to catch repeat offenders, it remains largely unused.
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Amazon signs deal with ex-Top Gear presenters
Amazon has signed a contract with Top Gear’s presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to create a new car show exclusively for its streaming service.
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A Pakistan glacier, as viewed from a drone – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
At the heart of Karakoram, a glacier formation found at Concordia at the very beginning of one of the longest glaciers on the planet, Baltoro Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Chinese loggers among 7,000 prisoners released in Burma | World news | The Guardian
More than 150 Chinese workers sentenced to life in prison for illegal logging less than two weeks ago were freed in Burma on Thursday under a massive presidential pardon that saw nearly 7,000 prisoners released.
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13 historical Lolcats from YouTube (with shareable GIFs!)
Ever since AP and Movietone dropped a 500,000+ historical videos on YouTube, I’ve been trawling through finding interesting things to share. My finds have included one of the world’s first synthesizers, how Britain responded to ‘Star Wars’ and a rea…
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Use LINE’s extension to chat from your computer
LINE quietly got a Chrome extension for its messenger today so you can send replies to friends from the comfort of your browser. Its messaging service is wildly popular in Japan, but before today hasn’t had an official way for users to access it on …
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ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be heading for space a third time, as part of Expeditions 52 and 53 to the International Space Station. He will be launched on a Soyuz vehicle in May 2017 on a five-month mission.
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Amazon Prime signs ex-Top Gear hosts – BBC News
Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have signed up to present a new show on Amazon’s streaming video service. The trio will front three series of a new motoring programme for Amazon Prime, with the first season to be…
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Clinton’s habit of dodging key issues draws Democrats’ fire | TheHill
Could an excess of caution hurt Hillary Clinton? Nonpartisan observers were also critical. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza termed the comment a “ridiculous hedge.”
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Ben Carson faces high stakes at first debate | TheHill
Ben Carson on Wednesday bought the suit he’ll wear to the first Republican debate.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Donald Trump And Pro Wrestling
Before Donald Trump was dominating sitting governors and U.S. senators in the polls, the top GOP presidential contender was facing off with an adversary of a different sort: Vince McMahon, the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Good morning on this equatorial Thursday. It’s a good day to get out of the kitchen.
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The New Holy Grail Of GOP Primaries
Rick Perlstein is the national correspondent for the The Washington Spectator, where this article first appeared. His most recent book is The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan.
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Vaniday, Rocket Internet’s Beauty And Wellness Marketplace, Scores €15M Backing | TechCrunch
Vaniday, the online marketplace for beauty and wellness professionals co-founded by e-commerce behemoth and ‘startup builder’ Rocket Internet, has bagged its first major round of funding.
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The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was prevented from traveling outside his country for the past four years, said on Thursday that a visa dispute with Britain may restrict his ability to attend the opening of his installation at London’s Royal Academ…
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In the northwestern suburbs of Beijing, about 18 miles from Tiananmen Square in the heart of the city, villagers were surprised this year to see a replica of the square with its Gate of Heavenly Peace being erected on what used to be a military shoo…
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Two-day shipping: Free to you, but how costly to the planet? | Grist
Q. Who doesn’t love Amazon Prime’s free two-day shipping? But sometimes I wonder what the differential is in resource use, CO2 emissions, etc. between shipment speeds.
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July 30, 1965: LBJ Signs Medicare Into Law | The Nation
“Medicare for all” has become the rallying cry in recent years of those who argue for a single-payer universal public health-insurance system. The Nation was onto this point early on, even before Medicare was signed into law, 50 years ago today.
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Good morning. Officials were cautious today, reluctant to fan hopes after the discovery of possible wreckage from a Malaysian plane that vanished last year with 239 people on board.
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SAN FRANCISCO XOCHICUAUTLA, Mexico — Armando García has filed lawsuits, joined protests and gotten arrested trying to stop a highway from slicing through his hilly backyard in a nature reserve.
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The Early Reviews For Windows 10 Are In (And They’re Pretty Good!) – Digg
Are you still using Windows 7 because you were afraid to update to the dumpster-fire that was Windows 8? You know, the Windows 8 with the weird colored-rectangle grid, the Windows 8 that was so loathed that Microsoft up and skipped version 9 and we…
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Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds return to original Slough production site – BBC News
Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds are set to return to the site where they were originally created to mark the show’s 50th anniversary. Three new episodes, starring the show’s iconic puppets, including Lady Penelope and Parker, will be produced at Sloug…
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A sixth of humanity spends upwards of $40bn (£26bn) per year on lighting (20% of the total energy spend for lighting), yet enjoys only 0.1% as much illumination as does the electrified world.
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Russia warns US as NGO blacklisted as ‘undesirable’ – BBC News
Russia has said it will not tolerate “interference” by foreign organisations after it put a US pro-democracy foundation on a blacklist. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by the US Congress, is the first organisation to be labelled “…
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Sam DuBose protesters make themselves heard in Cincinatti – video | US news | The Guardian
Protesters gather in Cincinatti to call for justice after African-American man Sam Dubose was shot dead by police. The white police officer at the centre of the case, 43-year-old Ray Tensing, has been indicted for murder by a grand jury. Protesters …
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Europe’s offshore wind power industry has set a record for its biggest ever year just six months into 2015.
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This continues to be the sizeable elephant in the Manchester United squad. If the Spaniard stays beyond 1 September and does not depart for Real Madrid then the club retains a world class goalkeeper.
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SAN FRANCISCO XOCHICUAUTLA, Mexico — Armando García has filed lawsuits, joined protests and gotten arrested trying to stop a highway from slicing through his hilly backyard in a nature reserve.
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Myanmar Pardons Almost 7,000 Prisoners | Al Jazeera America
Nearly 7,000 prisoners in Myanmar, including some former military intelligence officials purged by their army colleagues, have been given presidential pardons.
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Cara Delevingne: ‘Some people just don’t understand sarcasm’ | Film | The Guardian
After an awkward interview with a US morning show went viral, model-turned-actor Cara Delevingne has taken to Twitter to defend herself. The Paper Towns star was told by Good Day Sacramento hosts that she seemed “in a mood” in a live chat to discuss…
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Tom Cruise Crushes Jimmy Fallon In Lip Sync Battle, Leaves No Survivors – Digg
No matter what you think of him as a person, Tom Cruise is still an incredible showman. See? He’s upstaging you right now and you don’t even know it.
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VICE News Capsule – Thursday, July 30 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: El Salvador’s bus drivers brace for violence, Zimbabwe goes after two alleged poachers, foreigners seeking surrogates can no longer find them in Thailand, and sinkholes …
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The day FC Dallas coach Oscar Pareja took on drug lord Pablo Escobar | Football | The Guardian
Oscar Pareja was a bright-eyed 21-year-old when the tragic news filtered through. It was the evening of 15 November 1989, and he was heading home after Deportivo Independiente Medellín’s league clash with America de Cali.
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BBC Sport – Anthony Crolla set for Darleys Perez rematch – Eddie Hearn
British lightweight Anthony Crolla will face a WBA title rematch with Colombia’s Darleys Perez, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. More to follow.
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Everything We Know About the UVA Rape Case — NYMag
In November Rolling Stone published a 9,000-word article that described the horrific 2012 gang rape of a University of Virginia freshman, and how the school mishandled the incident.
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Facebook ordered to allow fake user names in Germany | The Verge
A German privacy watchdog this week ordered Facebook to allow users to join the social network with pseudonyms, Reuters reports, directly challenging the company’s “authentic name” policy.
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1) A recent upload to YouTube: the 1994 World Cup draw, starring Sepp Blatter and Robin Williams. And more randomness: Saint & Greavsie watch a referee butt a player during a 1980s Red Star Belgrade match. 2) The Voice of Racing, Sir Peter O’Sulleva…
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Sony’s smartphone losses are canceling out its PS4 wins | The Verge
Sony’s rapidly shrinking mobile division has put a damper on the company’s latest quarterly earnings, which show great improvement in sales of imaging sensors and PS4 games plus a healthy bump in operating profit.
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Trump and Media: Love-Hate Rapport Made for TV | Al Jazeera America
Donald Trump has never had a problem attracting attention. And now, as his years-in-the-making-but-all-talk-until-now run for president is underway and dominating recent media coverage of the GOP primary, he’s giving news outlets fits. Or so some of…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Hurricane Gonzalo Strengthens to Category 4
Hurricane Gonzalo becomes the first Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic basin since Ophelia in 2011. Gonzalo should turn northward by early Thursday and north-northeastward Thursday night and Friday, likely bringing Gonzalo near Bermuda in about tw…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Tracking Typhoon Phanfone from Japan to the U.S.
North America’s Pacific Northwest region is no stranger to wet weather, especially in the fall.
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Just how big can bug-ranching grow? | Grist
Previously: Why do we turn up our noses at eating bugs? A few years ago, I got invited to a bug-eating party by a friend. It was pretty classy.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Tracking Typhoon Phanfone from Japan to the U.S.
North America’s Pacific Northwest region is no stranger to wet weather, especially in the fall.
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Artist Mark Balma discusses why he is painting a huge mural of Cecil the lion outside Walter Palmer’s dental practice in Minnesota. Palmer received widespread condemnation for hunting and killing the lion in Zimbabwe.
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The Queensland government is considering stepping in to head off a legal challenge to one of Australia’s largest planned solar farms in the state’s northern sugar belt.
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Watch this tiny car burn rubber as it sets new EV acceleration record | The Verge
This fully electric vehicle might look dinky (hell, even its burnouts are cute), but it’s just become one of the fastest accelerating cars on the planets, beating the likes of the Bugatti Veyron and Porsche 918 to cinch a new world record for EVs.
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‘Extinct’ fly found in Devon nature reserve – BBC News
The rhaphium pectinatum was last recorded in Britain 147 years ago in 1868 but was rediscovered in Old Sludge Beds on the outskirts of Exeter. The fly is from the Dolichopidiae family, a group known as long-legged flies, and is usually found in trop…
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SYDNEY, Australia — Government officials and families of passengers lost on a Malaysian jet that vanished last year with 239 people aboard responded warily on Thursday to the discovery of possible wreckage from the aircraft, relucta
SYDNEY, Australia — It may be a week or more before investigators determine whether a piece of debris found on the island of Réunion came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a French official with knowledge of the investigation said on Thursday. -
The Joy of Six: the best Major League Baseball rental pickups | Sport | The Guardian
When the undersized journeyman second baseman was acquired from the Colorado Rockies for Charlie Culberson and promptly nicknamed ‘The Blockbuster’ by his teammates, it was said with 24 Giant tongues firmly planted in their 48 cheeks.
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Calais migrant crisis: One night by the fence – BBC News
Many of the migrants trying to make the crossing from France to England live in a makeshift camp near Calais dubbed ‘The Jungle’. As darkness falls each night, hundreds try to break through the security fences and onto the tracks that lead to the tu…
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SYDNEY, Australia — Government officials and families of passengers lost on a Malaysian jet that vanished last year with 239 people aboard responded warily on Thursday to the discovery of possible wreckage from the aircraft, relucta
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David Cameron pushes for MH17 inquiry after Russia blocks UN tribunal | World news | The Guardian
David Cameron suggested a fresh inquiry outside the auspices of the UN could be opened into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane over eastern Ukraine, after Russia blocked a UN security council resolution on Wednesday that would have crea…
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Rolling Stone to face false campus rape article lawsuit – BBC News
Three members of a University of Virginia fraternity profiled in a debunked Rolling Stone article about gang rape are suing the magazine. The graduates filed a defamation suit in New York on Wednesday.
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India state funeral for former president APJ Abdul Kalam – BBC News
The funeral of former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam has been held in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the state funeral, which was held in Mr Kalam’s native town of Rameswaram.
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BBC Sport – Wladimir Klitschko: Anthony Joshua most promising in 25 years
World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko says Britain’s Anthony Joshua is the most promising boxer he has seen in 25 years. WBA, IBF and WBO champion Klitschko, who shared a training camp with Joshua, said: “In 25 years of experience in trainin…
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The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accused British authorities of turning their backs on human rights defenders after UK immigration officials rejected his application for a six-month business visa, claiming he had not declared a criminal co…
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How the 1993 Mumbai blasts changed the city forever – BBC News
India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings. Columnist Bachi Karkaria reflects on how the bombings changed India’s financial and entertainment capital forever.
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Artist creates amazing pottery that’s no bigger than your finger
Tacoma, Washington-based artist Jon Almeda creates beautiful hand-thrown ceramics such as vases, bowls, and teapots. You’d have to squint a bit, though, otherwise you might not see them!
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Actress Gina McKee backs north-east talent plan – BBC News
Actress Gina McKee has backed a scheme to give all children in the north-east of England a taste of the arts to make sure young talent does not go untapped. McKee said attending a youth drama group in her home town of Peterlee, County Durham, “chang…
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LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that its profit fell sharply in the second quarter as a strong performance in marketing and refining failed to offset the brunt of lower oil and gas prices.
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MH370 search: Could debris be from missing plane? – BBC News
The discovery of an aeroplane part on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is being investigated to see if it came from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The plane disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people…
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Chaldal Wants To Become The Amazon Fresh Of Bangladesh’s Capital | TechCrunch
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the densest cities in the world. Since real estate is at a premium, stores are often tiny and carry very limited inventory. Chaldal‘s goal is to give customers the experience of shopping in a big-box store…
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The Enterprise Model Of Pepper, SoftBank’s Robot, Will Cost $440 A Month To Rent | TechCrunch
SoftBank will start taking pre-orders for the enterprise model of its humanoid robot, Pepper, on October 1. The company revealed today “Pepper for Biz” will cost 55,000 yen (about $440 a month) per month to rent.
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Cecil the lion: Protesters call for US hunter’s extradition – BBC News
A group of protestors have held a demonstration outside the office of the American dentist who killed the Zimbabwean lion Cecil.They are calling for Walter Palmer to be extradited to Zimbabwe to face prosecution.
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Tracking spacecraft through the cosmos contest: enter and win / Operations / Our Activities / ESA
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Kiruna: the arctic city being knocked down and relocated two miles away | Cities | The Guardian
A remote arctic settlement, with a centre dominated by a car park, Kiruna feels like the sort of city that might be forgotten about. The place is eerily, unnervingly quiet; the streets so empty I half expect a tumbleweed to pass by as a punchline.
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Mia Farrow criticised for posting address of Cecil the Lion killer | Film | The Guardian
Mia Farrow is facing a storm of protest after posting the business address of the American dentist who shot Zimbabwe safari icon Cecil the Lion online. Some called for the Rosemary’s Baby star, who later removed her tweet, to be banned from the soci…
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Hand-Drawn Sketches of Mind-Bending Chess Problems | Open Culture
Most of us strive to achieve some kind of distinction—or competence—in one, often quite narrow, field. And for some of us, the path to success involves leaving behind many a path not taken. Childhood pursuits like ballet, for example, the high jump,…
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The area of rain extending from southwest Arkansas eastward into north-central Alabama is expected to gradually transition to snow throughout Wednesday afternoon with possible snowfall rates around 1 inch per hour.
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Sony Posts $780M Profit On Strong PlayStation And Sensor Businesses | TechCrunch
Sony today reported a $780 million operating profit for Q1 2015, up 39 percent annually, as the company’s camera sensor business and PlayStation 4 arm pushed it past analyst expectations. The Japanese firm posted quarterly revenue of $14.5 billion, …
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Patrick Osborne, Director of Feast, Will Adapt Battling Boy For Film
In 2008, we first heard that Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company had picked up the rights to Paul Pope’s excellent Battling Boy. Now we finally have some movement on it. And fabulous movement it is: Patrick Osborne, director of the Oscar-winning F…
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MLS All-Stars 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur | pre-season match report | Football | The Guardian
The MLS All-Stars beat Tottenham Hotspur in the annual league All-Star game thanks to first half goals from Kaká and David Villa, with a spectacular Harry Kane goal Tottenham’s only consolation, on a night where he spurned several simpler chances fr…
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Sony’s net profit more than triples in second quarter – BBC News
Japanese tech giant Sony saw its net profit more than triple in the April-to-June quarter, helped by strong sales of its PlayStation 4 games and camera sensors. Its net profit rose to 82.4bn yen ($664m; £425m), while operating profit also rose 39% -…
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Video Ad Company Jun Group Raises $28M In Its First Venture Round | TechCrunch
Jun Group was founded back in 2005, but according to founder and CEO Mitchell Reichgut, the video ad company has never accepted any venture funding — until now. Today, however, the company is announcing that it has raised $28 million in its first in…
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Troika talks in Greece overshadowed by IMF bombshell – business live | Business | The Guardian The envoys from the EU and IMF will meet Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday, following talks this week between officials at a lower level on reforming the tax system and labour market…
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