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NASA’s Kepler Comes Roaring Back with 100 New Exoplanet Finds : worldnews
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Refugees caught between hope and harsh winter – Al Jazeera English
How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a psychiatric hospital changes attitudes towards mental illness. In this special edition of Counting the Cost, we look at the biggest business stories to watch in 2016.
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How the International Trade in Geckos Is a Scam
For many species threatened by the illegal wildlife trafficking, such as rhinos, elephants, tigers, and bears, debates persist as to whether a legal trade in their parts and products can reduce smuggling.
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Live long and prosper – it’s what God really wants | Andrew Brown | Opinion | The Guardian
There is a gripping discussion taking place between two multimillionaires on YouTube about how many private planes they ought to own. One of them describes commercial airliners as “demon-infested tubes”, which must resonate with anyone who has trave…
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All the diet advice you need, in one chart from Sweden – Vox
Every January, people making resolutions to lose weight are peppered with loads of free dieting advice. Most of it is absolutely terrible, or plain lies. Even worse, many weight-loss hucksters over-complicate the very simple truths we know about eat…
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The Oregon Militia’s Sworn #BLM Enemy Is Really a Handout to Ranchers | Motherboard
The Bundy militia, the handful of anti-government types currently having a sleepover party in a wildlife refuge visitor’s center, wants an end to the “tyranny” of the federal government’s oversight of public lands.
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Flood warnings remain in place across almost all parts of Britain on Wednesday, with the north-east of England worst hit overnight.
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North Korea says it has carried out an underground test of a hydrogen bomb, a more powerful weapon than the atomic bombs it has tested before. The BBC spoke to nuclear and defence experts Ankit Panda, James Acton and Bruce Bennett about the latest t…
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Bangladesh court upholds death sentence for Nizami – Al Jazeera English
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a top Islamist political leader for crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
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Sometimes in American politics it seems as if we are all talking past each other, that whatever one side says about an issue like, say, taxes zooms right past the other side. The current fight over gun control is not one of those moments.
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The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen https://t.co/jSgW1wuwD1 https://t.co/raJoxxcXzI https://t.co/jqATiXHNhf
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My Dad just got a kitten, I don’t think his dog is too pleased about it. : aww
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The Hear-Nothing Gun Crowd https://t.co/vpO3eF9jzk https://t.co/YcfnyiYZ6K
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Cloudability Scoops Up DataHero As Buying Binge Continues | TechCrunch
Cloudability, a cloud service that helps companies manage and optimize their cloud spending, announced today that it was buying DataHero, a cloud service that helps non-technical users generate data visualization.
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Virtual Reality Therapy: Treating The Global Mental Health Crisis | TechCrunch
Most of us experience some level of stress and anxiety in our lives. It can be relatively mild or extremely severe and debilitating — or anywhere along the spectrum.
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Startup Analytics Firm Adds Ratan Tata As An Angel Investor | TechCrunch
Tracxn, a company that tracks and analyzes data about startups, has added entrepreneur Ratan Tata as an angel investor. Though the amount of new funding was undisclosed, Tata’s contribution is noteworthy because he is one of India’s most renowned bu…
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The Bundy bunch: who are the armed militia in the Oregon standoff? | US news | The Guardian
Ammon is one of 14 children of rancher Cliven Bundy and the de facto spokesman, if not leader, of the occupation.
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Our Most Anticipated Movies of 2016 | New Republic
It’s a new year—and with it comes 12 months’ worth of upcoming movies to get excited about. Rather than doing a conventional rundown of all the big potential blockbusters or major Oscar contenders, we’ve decided to focus on just 20 movies that, for …
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Bernie Sanders Wants to Overhaul Wall Street | New Republic
Bernie Sanders delivered his speech on reforming Wall Street in New York on Tuesday. It was not solely a speech about breaking up the banks and restoring the firewall between investment and commercial banking, although you wouldn’t know that from th…
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The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
A girl named Feo and her mother Marina live in Russia and train wolves to be wild. They need to do this because people who have wolves as pets and then get bored with them pass them on to wolf wilders to train them to be wild.
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How Index Funds Make Investing Easier and Less Scary
Once I finally paid off my debt and generally got my financial life in order, I was ready to start investing. Everything I read told me to check out index funds, so I did. Sure enough, they’re pretty awesome tool with a handful of advantages for new…
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Waterskier makes the most of flooded Lancashire street – video | Environment | The Guardian
Andy Johnson rides a waterski under a railway bridge and past a flooded bus stop on Euxton Lane near Chorley, Lancashire, while locals watch. Kieron McLaughlin filmed the moment on New Year’s Eve after canoeing down the waters. The clip has since pi…
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Tarantino, Iñárritu, and the Remaking of the West | New Republic
American cinema has dealt with the Confederacy by giving its former soldiers guns and free reign to kill Native Americans. Quentin Tarantino doesn’t think that’s quite right.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the Arsène Wenger of politics (copyright J McDonnell), completed his shadow cabinet reshuffle in the early hours with the appointment of his north London neighbour Emily Thornberry, a sceptic about Trident, to shadow defence secretary.
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‘Snooper’s charter’ will cost British lives, MPs to be warned | World news | The Guardian
The “snooper’s charter” legislation extending the mass surveillance powers of the intelligence agencies will “cost lives in Britain”, a former US security chief is to warn parliamentarians.
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The newly elected speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Henry Ramos Allup, has said there will be a change of government within six months. Mr Ramos Allup of the opposition MUD coalition was speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of the new lawmak…
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Serena Williams withdraws from Hopman Cup with knee injury | Sport | The Guardian
Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Hopman Cup because of a knee injury and will not play in the USA’s final match on Thursday. The world No1 missed the first match of the round-robin tournament and then retired during the second set of her match…
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America’s Biggest Carmaker Is Betting On a Future Without Car Ownership | Motherboard
CES is happening this week, where all sorts of companies will trot out all sorts of gizmos. But the biggest tech news to come out so far happened in Detroit, not Las Vegas. America’s largest car company made a substantial bet that, sometime in the n…
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Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian and Straight Outta Compton have been nominated for best film at the Producers Guild of America Awards. The Big Short, Brooklyn, Ex Machina, Bridge of Spies, The Revenant, Sicario and Spotlight also made the list.
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French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez has died at the age of 90. His family said the world-renowned musician died on Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany.
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The chronicler of Indian food – Al Jazeera English
How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a psychiatric hospital changes attitudes towards mental illness. In this special edition of Counting the Cost, we look at the biggest business stories to watch in 2016.
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Satellite Eye on Earth: December 2015 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
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In late December strong winds carried dust from the Sahara desert westward over the west coast of Africa and the Canary Islands. This image, taken on Christmas Day, shows the stark contrast between the tan dust and the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocea… -
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CES 2016: Haptic buttons you can feel, but can’t see https://t.co/B1VaViUwNq https://t.co/ReXSqfrUKD
Haptic controls vibrate your skin with focused ultrasonic waves, giving you the sensation that you are touching buttons that are not really there. The BBC’s Dave Lee went hands-on with a haptic-controlled stereo and quizzed Steve Cliffe from Ultraha… -
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Office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel evacuated due to bomb threat : worldnews
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The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen : EndorNineWorlds
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The head vet at my clinic got this for Christmas and hasn’t put it down since : pics
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The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Bernie Sanders and ‘The Big Short’
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ major policy speech at Town Hall in New York City on Tuesday – in which he declared that he will “break up any banks that are too big to fail and that big bankers will not be too big to jail” – felt …
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Is The GOP Establishment Blowing Its Anti-Trump Campaign? | FiveThirtyEight
In this week’s 2016 Slack chat, we wonder what’s going on with the Republican establishment. As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited.
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Bernie Sanders Takes On Wall Street – The Atlantic
At a moment when Bernie Sanders needs to show that he has broad appeal, the Vermont senator and White House hopeful is sticking to his comfort zone. Sanders delivered an impassioned speech attacking Wall Street in Manhattan on Tuesday.
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Why bullshit is no laughing matter — Aeon Opinions
We live in the age of information, which means that we also live in the age of misinformation. Indeed, you have likely come across more bullshit so far this week than a normal person living 1,000 years ago would in their entire lifetime.
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Twenty-eight. That’s the number of states where it’s not against the law to discriminate against a gay person who’s looking for an apartment, applying for a job, or buying something from a store.
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Top House Democrat Steve Israel Surprises Beltway With Retirement Announcement – The Atlantic
Steve Israel’s announcement of retirement Tuesday surprised the Beltway and its observers. An eight-term congressman, Israel has held leadership positions in the House Democratic caucus for years, most recently as its messaging chief.
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Republicans Are Pushing a Bill That Could Make It Much Harder to Sue Volkswagen | Mother Jones
Volkswagen will likely be spending a lot of time in court over the next few years. On Monday, the automaker was presented with a new lawsuit from the Justice Department over allegations that it had illegally rigged half a million cars sold in the Un…
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has strongly criticised police handling of gang sex attacks on women and girls in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. At least 90 victims have complained of being attacked by gangs of up to 30 men outside Cologne s…
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Why This Is the Most Unpredictable GOP Race in 50 Years | Mother Jones
For decades—that is, for the entire modern political era—anyone with a dash or two of sense could usually make a reasonable guess about who would win the Republican presidential nomination. It wasn’t tough to pick the winner. The conventional choice…
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As aspiring and early career environmental scientists, this was a dismaying welcome, for we are immensely disturbed and angered by the well-documented complicity of these companies in climate denial and disinformation.
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This Map Shows How Student Debt Is Crushing Your Community | Mother Jones
Student debt is an elephant in the room of the American economy. Total educational debt has ballooned from $840 billion in 2010 to more than $1.3 trillion this year, according to the Federal Reserve.
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This AR Company Wants to Make Everything Around You Clickable | Motherboard
In a Consumer Electronics Show saturated with wearables and their accompanying apps, one such company has a very different approach––replacing your phone altogether.
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Earth is ‘experiencing a global warming spurt’ | Environment | The Guardian
While El Niño is being blamed for an outbreak of floods, storms and unseasonable temperatures across the planet, a much slower-moving cycle of the Pacific Ocean has also been playing a role in record-breaking warmth. The recent effects of both ocean…
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Space in Images – 2016 – 01 – Taking down Envisat model
The Netherlands’ Noordwijk coast lost a local landmark recently as a full-scale model of Europe’s largest ever environmental satellite was removed from the visitor centre for ESA’s technical heart. The eight-tonne Envisat satellite was launched in 2…
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Remember the Gores? Al and Tipper? At the Democratic convention in 2000, they shared that hungry, happy kiss, and it was more than a meeting of lips. It was a window, or so we thought, into a partnership of enduring passion and inextinguishable tend…
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You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition | FiveThirtyEight
As the new year begins, millions of people are vowing to shape up their eating habits. This usually involves dividing foods into moralistic categories: good/bad, healthy/unhealthy, nutritious/indulgent, slimming/fattening — but which foods belong wh…
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A prestigious award for graphic novelists in France is facing calls for a boycott after its long list of nominees failed to include any women.The 42-year-old Grand Prix at Angouleme has long faced criticism for its failure to recognise women cartoon…
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South Sudan: Coffee in a time of war? – Al Jazeera English
Yei, South Sudan – Under the hot, midday sun, a handful of farmers huddle around a coffee tree, holding down a branch to pick off the ripe, bright red coffee cherries. The statement reflects a new way of thinking among local farmers, many of whom ha…
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The UK Will Debate Banning Donald Trump From the Country | VICE News
British politicians will hold an official debate on whether US presidential candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the UK after a petition sparked by his comments about Muslims gathered more than half a million signatures.
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Hillary Clinton backs Barack Obama on gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
During a campaign stop on Tuesday night in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Hillary Clinton praises Barack Obama’s executive order aimed at tightening gun control. The Democratic presidential hopeful says Obama’s move made her feel touched and proud
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Space exploration : What does 2016 have in store? 6 January 2016 Last updated at 10:34 GMT 2015 was a momentous year for space exploration, with high-profile missions to Pluto and Ceres giving us unprecedented images.But what does this year hold in …
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Trump attacks Obama over gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump voices his opposition on Tuesday to President Barack Obama’s executive order to tighten gun control. Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, says any decision on the issue shou…
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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers – a weighty novel that still thrills | Books | The Guardian
Books, as I’m sure you all realise, make the perfect gifts. Firstly, as anyone who found themselves unwrapping a paperback can attest, they’re economically efficient: stick to paperbacks and you can furnish someone with a world entire for under a te…
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Bill Cosby’s wife will not have to give evidence on Wednesday in a defamation case filed by seven women accusing the comedian of sexual assault. Last week a judge rejected Camille Cosby’s attempts to avoid testifying, after she claimed she was prote…
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James Foley documentary to get world premiere in US | Media | The Guardian
A documentary about the US journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by the Islamic State extremist group in 2014, will receive its world premiere this month, HBO said on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump: I never played golf with ‘boring’ Samuel L Jackson | Film | The Guardian
Donald Trump has found himself yet another enemy in Hollywood. This time it’s Samuel L Jackson, as the two found themselves in a row over golf.
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National Liberal Groups Back Record Number of 2016 Ballot Measures – The Atlantic
Paul Spencer, a teacher and part-time pecan farmer in Arkansas, drafted a ballot measure for 2016 to reform the state’s campaign-finance laws so his fellow voters could know who paid for election ads on TV. But he and fellow activists there knew the…
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The World Condemns North Korea’s New Hydrogen Bomb Claim | VICE News
Nations around the world on Wednesday condemned North Korea’s announcement that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, while Japan said no radiation had been detected at Japanese monitoring posts.
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Why NASA uses pens, not pencils in Space : space
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International scepticism and condemnation have greeted North Korea’s claim to have successfully carried out an underground hydrogen bomb test. If confirmed, it would be Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test since 2006 and mark a major upgrade in its capab…
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Bill de Blasio Is New York’s Most Progressive Mayor in Decades—Is That Enough? | The Nation
When Bill de Blasio emerged from the City Hall subway station a few minutes before his inauguration two Januarys ago, he wore a smile and a crisp suit. On his right were his wife, son, and daughter. On his back were two narratives destined to define…
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Oak Ridge Physicists Patent a Quantum Mechanical Burglar Alarm | Motherboard
Quantum mechanics could find a near-immediate real-world application in an unexpected place: burglar alarms.
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Snoqualmie Pass Environs [OC] [2048 x 1026] : EarthPorn
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Microsoft to end support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 next week : technology
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Singapore-based Xfers Lands $2.5M To Simplify Bank Transfers For Online Sellers | TechCrunch
Xfers, a startup that wants to simplify bank transfers, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Based in Singapore, Xfers plans to use the funding to expand into Indonesia during the first quarter of this year before tackling o…
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Growth in the eurozone economy rose to a four-month high in December, the closely watched purchasing managers’ index survey suggests. The final reading of the Purchasing Managers’ composite index (PMI) for December, which combines manufacturing and …
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Jordan has acknowledged that thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded in a remote desert area on its northern border with Syria awaiting entry. Government spokesman Mohammed Momani told the Associated Press “the number is 12,000, but it is increasi…
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After neighbor shot down his drone, Kentucky man files federal lawsuit | Ars Technica
The Kentucky man whose drone was shot down by his neighbor last year has now filed a federal lawsuit, asking the court to make a legal determination as to whether his drone’s July 2015 flight constituted trespass.
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Former Nigerian defence minister Bello Haliru Mohammed has been charged with money laundering. He is accused along with his son, Bello Abba Mohammed, of diverting $1.5m (£1m) that was meant to buy arms for soldiers fighting Islamist Boko Haram milit…
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Barack Obama may have cried during his speech on gun control but it seems at least one rocker wasn’t moved. Ted Nugent took to Facebook following the president’s words and labelled him a “psychopathic, America-hating liar”.
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Making a Murderer and the New True Crime | New Republic
Time collapses around local tragedy. Sitting in a tiny station in a small town in Wisconsin, waiting to catch a train home for Christmas, I struck up a conversation with a man who had lived in the area for his entire life.
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Visibly exhausted, the 15-year-old boy slumped in a chair at a little-known cricket ground in Kalyan, a Mumbai suburb, on Monday afternoon. Pranav Dhanawade, son of an auto-rickshaw driver, had just scored more than 1,000 runs in a single innings to…
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Analysis: Can Iraq survive the Iran-Saudi feud? – Al Jazeera English
When Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the execution of the Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, many feared that Iraq would inevitably be caught in the dark storm expected to gather over relations between Saudi Arabia and its…
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North Korea Claims Hydrogen Bomb Test – The Daily Beast
North Korea today claimed that it has joined the world’s first rank of nuclear nations by successfully conducting a hydrogen bomb test at 10:00 A.M. Pyongyang time. If the claim is true, the regime of Kim Jong Un has made far more progress in develo…
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An Islamic court has sentenced a Nigerian cleric to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern city of Kano. Abdul Nyass was convicted after a trial held in secret to avoid protests.
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North Korea Claims Hydrogen Bomb Test – The Daily Beast
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Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Ollie and Moritz can never meet, because if they did, one of them would certainly die. These two young boys feel separate from society but communicate and develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline. They recount tales from their li…
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Clinton: Americans must reject Trump : Liberal
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What does the Paris Agreement mean for the world’s other 8 million species? https://t.co/LO9ehl9VnR https://t.co/p8odnhlkdU
The word ‘biodiversity’ is employed once in the Paris Agreement’s 32 pages. ‘Forests’ appears a few times, but ‘oceans,’ like biodiversity, scores just a single appearance. There is no mention of extinction. -
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in “The Light Between Oceans” : movies
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There are many types of designers, but not many designers that can do it all. Take these four courses and you’ll be a diamond in the rough–ready to take the tech world by a storm.
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How the Charlie Hebdo attack changed France – Al Jazeera English
“I owe you the truth – we are not done with terrorism. Our services constantly thwart attacks,” said French President Francois Hollande in his New Year’s Eve address to the nation. As wishes for the New Year go, this is a decidedly sombre one.
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From director, designer, and animator Elliot Lim comes an animated tribute to his “favorite show of all time,” HBO’s The Wire — a sentiment that he shares with Pres. Obama, countless critics, and many casual TV viewers.
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Ran into this guy at a pet store In Las Vegas : pics
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Warm Ocean Record Number Seals Sea Lions Starving | Al Jazeera America
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They are brought in with all sorts of problems: lockjaw, poisoning, cancer and even bullet wounds from fishermen. But most among the record number of seals and sea lions washing up on California’s shores and being brought to a regional rescue center… -
Free read! The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson | Children’s books | The Guardian
Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth – David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton…
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Hundreds of people in Cologne have been protesting about violence against women in the wake of sexual assaults allegedly carried out on New Year’s Eve. About 90 women say they were sexually assaulted during New Year celebrations in Cologne.
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The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson – get your copy! | Children’s books | The Guardian
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‘It takes guts to write this kind of book’, said site member TheBookThief when reviewing The Art of Being Normal. This is a debut that caused a lot of excitement when the book was first published exactly a year ago this month. -
Dell just announced a wireless monitor that wirelessly charges your phone : technology
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Parks and Regulation: Conservation Fund Imperiled | Al Jazeera America
When armed men shut down the 107-year-old Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the sagebrush steppes of the northern Great Basin on Saturday, their anti-government anger put federal management of public lands in the West in the spotlight for the seco…
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Fort Dix 5 Brothers Are Back in Court | Al Jazeera America
The issue of law enforcement entrapment of suspects on terrorism charges is back in the spotlight as one of the most widely known recent cases — concerning the Fort Dix 5 — returns to a courtroom on Wednesday.
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El Niño Downpours concerns for California Homeless | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — The much-anticipated El Niño downpours are here and while heavy rain is a blessing for drought-stricken California, its impact on the poor and the homeless could be disastrous.
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Biconic Entry Concept for Landing Humans on Mars : space
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You Must Be This Old to Ride The DiCaprio – The Daily Beast
While celebrities might not mate for life, they do mate for crucial publicity opportunities. Therefore, it stands to reason that the celebrity significant other selection process is more nuanced and complicated than it is for us mere mortals.
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Myanmar’s new parliament will convene on 1 February, two months after voters gave the opposition National League for Democracy a landslide victory. The date was announced by the outgoing speaker of parliament Shwe Mann.
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Joseph Brodsky proclaimed in the greatest commencement address of all time, “for … a pointed finger is a victim’s logo.
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It’s just another job for Superman and Wonder Woman: a group of shepherds in the Shimshal region of Pakistan are being menaced by a demigod, until the superheroes show up. Blue-faced baddie and innocent pastoral types exchange the usual banter: “You…
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UN says ‘possible’ Sarin used again as weapon in Syria – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations acting disarmament chief has told the UN Security Council that it is possible the deadly nerve agent sarin has been used in in Syria.
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Razer uses Thunderbolt 3 to add dedicated graphics to its sleek new Ultrabook | Ars Technica
Razer, once a company that mostly made accessories for accessories for gaming PCs, keeps getting more and more serious about its PC business.
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A fish called Tim Winton: scientists name new species after novelist | Environment | The Guardian
Tim Winton – best-selling Australian writer and now, also, a fish species newly identified by a team of bioscientists. The 30cm-long grunter was one of 20 new fish species recorded during fieldwork in the Kimberley, in northern Western Australian.
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Larry Wilmore was barely one minute into a bit about anti-Donald Trump skywriting at the Rose Bowl Tuesday night when his big guest for the night strode onto the stage to dispute the suggestion that he was behind the airborne messaging.
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In 1918, the great Lebanese-American artist, poet, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published a collection of parables and poems titled The Madman (public library | free ebook), which endures as a trove of timeless beau…
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Bangladesh’s highest court has upheld the death sentence for Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the country’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. Nizami was appealing against last year’s conviction for war crimes committed during the independence war…
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Golden Years by Ali Eskandarian review – sex, drugs and rock’n’roll | Books | The Guardian
Ali Eskandarian’s posthumous novel makes perfect reading for sober January days. It tells the story of a young Iranian-American musician on the make in 21st-century New York, pursuing his dream of art through a haze of drugs, alcohol, casual sex and…
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Pot Credit Union Can’t Access US Banking System | Al Jazeera America
Fourth Corner Credit Union challenged a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to keep the pot bank from accessing the nation’s financial system.
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Torrential rainfall and widespread flooding hit the eastern coast of New South Wales, where a severe weather warning was issued. By the morning of 6 January, more than 200mm of rain had fallen in less than 24 hours, and further falls throughout the …
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A man is missing after being thrown off a yacht in rough seas as wild weather and unrelenting rain cause havoc across the east coast of NSW. The yachtsman was wiped off the vessel after being struck by a huge wave near Broughton Island on the NSW mi…
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WeChat Adds Skype-Like International Calls To Its Messaging App | TechCrunch
WeChat, the Uber popular Chinese message app with more than 500 million active users, is taking a leaf out of the Skype playbook after it launched an international telephone calling service. The service is initially available for users based in the …
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High waves in Hawaii are tempting surfers – despite warnings from officials to stay out of the water. Life guards in Oahu rescued more than two dozen people from waves up to 35 feet (10.6m) high on Monday.
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Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies saw its revenue jump 70% to more than $20bn (£13bn) in 2015 from a year ago on strong smartphone sales. The firm, one of the biggest smartphone vendors behind Apple and Samsung, said that its shipments also ros…
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UN struck by new sex abuse allegations in CAR – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations has launched a fact finding mission into new allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused four underage girls in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).
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Police Find 18-minute Gap in San Bernardino Probe | Al Jazeera America
Federal and local law enforcement officials on Tuesday asked for the public’s help in piecing together the movements of a married couple in the hours after they killed 14 people at a county office building in San Bernardino, California.
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Don’t let Trump fool you: rightwing populism is the new normal – video | Opinion | The Guardian
It might be tempting to view the political success of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as something uniquely American. But, argues Gary Younge, rightwing populism and scapegoating of society’s vulnerable is cropping up all across the w…
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WASHINGTON — North Korea declared on Tuesday that it had detonated its first hydrogen bomb. The assertion, if true, would dramatically escalate the nuclear challenge from one of the world’s most isolated and dangerous states.
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Here’s North Korea’s official hydrogen bomb statement. It’s a doozy. – Vox
The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s official media agency, has released an official statement in Korean and English (as well as Chinese and Japanese) claiming that it’s detonated a nuclear device — specifically, a hydrogen bomb.
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Western Australia would not be able to privatise its electricity assets “even if they gave it to them for nothing” because the popularity of rooftop solar panels has made state-owned power stations unprofitable, a renewable energy expert has said.
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Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s Cortana quietly snuck onto Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you happen to own a OnePlus One smartphone.
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Okay, so let’s just begin this whole thing by talking about how great that cold open was, because it was really The Grinder at its best. The rest of the episode was fine but not nearly as good as the few minutes that started it. In the opening, Stew…
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It’s been a busy two days at the CES tech show, and the Las Vegas event has not even officially begun. The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been checking out some of the gadgets and high-end products at preview events ahead of th…
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Volkswagen’s brand new CEO Matthias Muller quickly got the emissions fiasco apologies out of the way on stage at CES on Tuesday and then unveiled two connected and all-electric concept cars of the future, the e-Golf Touch and the much-anticipated Bu…
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GENEVA—Explaining that fatalities attributable to such afflictions had become prevalent among a wide variety of populations across the globe, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday that the group had added gunfire and explosions to its of…
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BA blames UK government for scrapping of £340m green fuels project | Environment | The Guardian
British Airways says that it has been forced to shelve a groundbreaking £340m scheme to create 16m gallons of jet fuel from London’s rubbish every year, partly due to a lack of government support.
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WASHINGTON—Saying such infrastructure improvements were necessary to ensure citizens could continue to pass safely over the nation’s dangerous river rapids and precipitous chasms, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx called for $200 billion in fund…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, January 6. All times are Eastern. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (FXX, 10 p.m.): 11 seasons, It’s Always Sunny? You barely look a day over five.
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Phones and bones · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’m a 45-year-old straight male. Politically and socially, I consider myself an ardent feminist. There is nothing I enjoy more than giving a woman an orgasm or two. I’m very GGG and will cheerfully do whatever it takes. Fingers, tongue, cock, vibrat…
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To call ABC’s American Crime “of its time” is an understatement, given the show was born of an expressed desire to braid multiple strands of the cultural zeitgeist into a scripted prestige drama.
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Directing a romantic comedy this well is an Oscar-worthy achievement · Oscar This · The A.V. Club
This year’s Oscar nominations will be announced on January 14. Will the Academy uphold conventional wisdom or think outside of the box? With Oscar This, we highlight unlikely candidates—the dark horses we’d love to see compete.
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Gossip Girl went from being in on the joke to being the punchline · 100 Episodes · The A.V. Club
For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The shows that have made it to that mark are an unusual group. Many were big hits. Some found small cult audiences.
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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Game Review Devil’s Third is a video game ghost town from a bygone age · Game Review · The A.V. Club
Perhaps it’s enough that Devil’s Third exists at all. A game best known for being mired in development hell almost since it was announced in 2010, the game has been passed from publisher to publisher. It’s been jury-rigged over and over, as the worl…
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Kids here in Southern California don’t know how to handle the rain : pics
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APOD: 2016 January 5 – The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: The majestic Lagoon Nebula is filled with hot gas and the home f…
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly called leaders in Saudi Arabia and Iran to try to defuse their diplomatic row, US officials say. State department spokesman John Kirby said the phone conversations involved foreign ministers of both co…
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Ice Cube, Kevin Hart And Conan Help A Student Driver : television
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VW ‘close to agreement with US regulators’ over emissions scandal | Technology | The Guardian
A senior Volkswagen executive has apologised to German consumers and said that the German car maker is close to reaching an agreement with US regulators on how it will recall some half a million cars that have illegally exceeded emissions targets fo…
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Hunger games in the weird wildwood | Environment | The Guardian
The feeling of just being watched does not make this place eldritch. A strange, otherworldly, wood, it can feel unsettling at the best of times. Now there’s a chill to the east wind, and the year and the weather have changed. Something hungry moves …
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Tech demos don’t always go to plan. Today it was my turn, as a virtual reality demo here at the CES tech show went badly wrong.
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Hey, NRA and Republican Stoolies: Obama’s Not the Tyrant Here – The Daily Beast
On Tuesday, after three years of trying to convince recalcitrant Republican legislators frozen in perpetual genuflection before arms dealers to pass responsible gun-safety legislation, President Obama did the next best thing.
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Best photo yet of damage to the Curiosity Rover’s left front wheel : space
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Surrogate Sues Father Over Triplets – The Daily Beast
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Marco Rubio in 2004: Cheap College for Undocumented Immigrants – The Daily Beast
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Transvaginal Mesh Is the Stuff of Nightmares – The Daily Beast
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Surrogate Sues Father Over Triplets – The Daily Beast
Backed by a well-known anti-choice lawyer, a surrogate mother-to-be in California is suing the genetic father (and intended parent) of the triplets she’s carrying, claiming his alleged wish to terminate one of the fetuses entitles her to keep at lea…
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Marco Rubio in 2004: Cheap College for Undocumented Immigrants – The Daily Beast
When Sen. Marco Rubio was in the Florida state house, he teamed up with his scandal-plagued pal David Rivera to co-sponsor legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates.
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Bernie Sanders’s DNC Lawsuit No One’s Heard of – The Daily Beast
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is continuing a fight that doesn’t seem to be gaining any ground. And no, it’s not the election.
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Last week focused on the friendship part of Girlfriends’ Guide: This week, they’re all splintered again, with our lead even going bi-coastal. But casting around for a common theme here, all our girlfriends are in some sort of power play.
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North Korea’s state TV has announced that a hydrogen bomb was successfully tested in the Asian country. The news came after monitors detected a tremor of magnitude 5.1 near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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This Portland Hippie Is Planning a ‘Peace Concert’ in ISIS-Controlled Syria – The Daily Beast
ISIS generally doesn’t respond well to music. But that isn’t stopping James Twyman, an author and musician based in Portland, Ore., from planning a trip to ISIS-held territory in Syria later this month to help bring peace to the region through the p…
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How a Failed Walmart Made the L.A. Rams – The Daily Beast
On Monday night, three NFL teams, the St. Louis Rams, the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders, formally submitted applications to relocate their franchises to Los Angeles, which has been without a team since the Rams and Raiders both fled in …
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How Wives Brought Down the Wildenstein Art Empire – The Daily Beast
What do a Manhattan-based billionaire, a naked Russian model, and a loaded gun have to do with one of the biggest tax fraud trials in French history now underway in Paris?
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America’s Great Free Speech Battleground – The Daily Beast
Having succeeded in their campaign to remove University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe for the crime of failing to prevent all instances of racial insensitivity on campus, Mizzou student-protesters appear to be getting exactly what they wanted: a c…
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The Secret, Hypocritical Gay World of ISIS – The Daily Beast
The murder of a 15-year-old teenager, thrown to his death by ISIS for being gay, not only reveals—yet again—the terror group’s murderous homophobia, but also the hypocrisy that exists alongside it.
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Exclusive: CIA Eyes Russian Hackers in ‘Blackout’ Attack – The Daily Beast
U.S. intelligence and security agencies are investigating whether Russian government hackers were behind a cyber attack on the Ukrainian power grid last month, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told The Daily Beast.
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Transvaginal Mesh Is the Stuff of Nightmares – The Daily Beast
The FDA has warned women about the risks of transvaginal mesh for years. Now, the agency is finally taking direct action to limit the use of this popular but potentially dangerous product.
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Ted Cruz’s Dad: The GOP’s New Mythical Hero – The Daily Beast
DALLAS -Rafael Cruz has biography that seems made of Red-State American dreams: fleeing Cuba, coming to the United States, becoming a born-again Christian, falling hard for Reagan, and now trying to help his son, Ted, inspire an Evangelical resurgen…
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Zigzagging Road Image, Morocco – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Beauty Out of Death | Space Wallpaper
About this Image The beauty of the planetary nebula ESO 456-67 exhibits how the death of a sun-like star can create immense beauty. As the dying star inside Sagittarius throws off its remnants of dust and gas into space this unique and inspiring ima…
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Jeremy Corbyn keeps Hilary Benn in post, amid reshuffle sackings – BBC News
Labour MP Hilary Benn is to remain as shadow foreign secretary, as details of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle emerged. Emily Thornberry is replacing Maria Eagle as shadow defence secretary, while Ms Eagle moves to the culture brief.
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Capitalism under the spotlight: six must read books | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics, the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
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2 Baseball Players Sue Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera America
Two Major League Baseball players have filed defamation lawsuits against Al Jazeera America over statements made in a documentary about performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals and Ryan Howard of the Philadel…
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Leading US Republicans have denounced President Barack Obama’s move to tighten gun controls. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said the executive orders, which bypass Congress, “undermined liberty” and would be challenged in court.
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Jarryd Hayne back in Sydney and hopeful of continuing his NFL career | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne remains hopeful of continuing his NFL career after arriving home in Sydney for a holiday following his tumultuous debut season with the San Francisco 49ers.
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Chip-maker Intel has revealed a collision-avoiding drone that automatically dodges obstacles in its path. The device was demoed at the CES tech show where it autonomously detected and avoided a fallen object.
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Like many kids (and probably many adults), I first picked up Terry Brooks’ Shannara series because of one of the book covers.
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Conservative editor declares Leslie Knope a “fascist” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Performing a dedicated and difficult duty for the American people, an editor for conservative media outlet The Federalist has outed one of America’s most beloved sitcom characters as a liberty-hating fascist: Parks And Recreation’s Leslie Knope.
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North Korea has carried out its fourth nuclear test as part of it “self-defence” against US aggression, state televsion has announced. The announcement said the Pyongyang regime had successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device on Wedne…
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Oh isn’t this nice. Last week I’m going off about how The Expanse needs to work harder to make us care about its characters, and this week, we get some actual non-plot related scenes of the Canterbury survivors (now the crew of the re-christened Roc…
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Facebook’s Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots | TechCrunch
M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger.
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David Cross Plots First Stand-Up Comedy Tour in Six Years | Rolling Stone
David Cross Plots First Stand-Up Comedy Tour in Six Years Comedian’s expansive “Making America Great Again!” trek kicks off late January
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Open thread for night owls: Activists going after public land coal leases in 2016
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Afghan War Returns to Blood and Shadows – The Daily Beast
On Tuesday, one U.S. service member was killed and another two were injured while fighting in the city of Marja, in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province. But the Pentagon could not say why those troops were there, or what their mission was.
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N. Korea Says It Has Conducted Hydrogen Bomb T | Al Jazeera America
North Korea said Wednesday that it has conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test, a surprise announcement. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 5.
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Shuffling its feet and avoiding eye contact, the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival is finally ready to be a grown-up and own up to what it did: namely, reuniting Guns N’ Roses for a couple of headlining sets, scheduled for April 2016 (and thu…
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Twitter’s reported plans to remove Twitter’s defining feature are terrible | Ars Technica
Some dude named Shakespeare once wrote: brevity is the soul of tweet. Smart fellow. The 140-character limit is not merely some incidental feature of Twitter; it’s the very essence of the service.
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There’s a petition to name a newly discovered ”heavy metal” after Lemmy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Iconic Motörhead frontman Lemmy died back in December, leaving the world significantly less badass in his absence, but a fan from England is trying to bring a small amount of that awesomeness back. The fan is named John Wright, and he has started a …
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It turns out I’m less attractive than a tent. : funny
It turns out I’m less attractive than a tent. (i.imgur.com) Gawd, the things I’d do to that tent.
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Earthquake detected near North Korea nuclear site – Al Jazeera English
North Korea is “likely” to have conducted a nuclear test that caused an earthquake near a known testing site in the isolated country, South Korea’s meteorological agency has said. The United States Geological Survey on Wesnesday reported a 5.
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Toast, A Point Of Sale Service For Restaurants, Raises $30M | TechCrunch
When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at Toast, a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top of the list.
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Fox News pins their Benghazi hopes and dreams on Hollywood director Michael Bay
In the movie’s epic conclusion, Trey Gowdy’s committee must escape from an overturned Capitol building.
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NASA: Astronomers Uncover Rogue, Runaway Stars Racing Through the Universe
When some speedy, massive stars plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship. Called bow shocks, these dramatic, arc-shaped features in space are leading researchers to …
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Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays : space
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The Avegant Glyph Will Let You Watch 3D Movies On A Plane | TechCrunch
Avegant is showcasing its new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Originally backed by Kickstarter, the startup is releasing its Glyph media player that doubles as a headset.
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Did North Korea just conduct a nuclear test? Here’s what we know so far. – Vox
A 5.1 magnitude “seismic event” was reported near North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear testing site late Tuesday evening.
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Intel Says Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10 | TechCrunch
Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced more details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space.
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Progressive group pushes for ouster of DNC chair : politics
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Technology’s Rapid Pace of Innovation Could Lead to Worldwide Socialism : technology
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MTV’s ‘Shannara Chronicles’: ‘LOTR’ Meets Katniss Everdeen, For Millennials – The Daily Beast
Back in my day, when I was an adolescent nerdling escaping into the pages of Terry Brooks’ Shannara fantasy lit series, the Tolkien-esque escapades of elves, druids, dwarves, and humans were engrossingly epic affairs tinted with somber urgency.
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Earthquake Detected Near North Korean Nuclear Site – The Atlantic
Seismologists detected an earthquake near North Korean nuclear site on Tuesday evening, a possible sign that the secretive regime conducted its fourth underground nuclear-weapons test. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 5.
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Hasbro: Rey Token Left Out of ‘Star Wars’ Monopoly to Avoid Spoilers | Rolling Stone
Hasbro: Rey Token Left Out of ‘Star Wars’ Monopoly to Avoid Spoilers Toy giant responds to growing criticism over heroine’s absence from ‘Force Awakens’ merchandise
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Securifi’s Almond 3 Is A Router And Smart Home Hub In A Nifty Single Box | TechCrunch
Securifi just announced the Almond 3, a brand new touchscreen wireless router that wants to become the central part of your smart home. The Almond 3 will be released in the coming months for $120. At heart, Securifi’s new device remains a wireless r…
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Withings expands fitness family with button-sized, e-ink Go tracker | Ars Technica
Withings is known for its elegant line of products as well as their typically high price tags. In an effort to appeal to the masses, the company debuted the baby of its fitness tracker family at CES 2016: the Withings Go.
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Me, my painting and Bob Ross (1990) : pics
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The Withings Go Is A Cheap Little Activity Tracker | TechCrunch
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Withings has one more thing up its sleeve, a new activity tracker. This isn’t a new version of the Pulse or Activité. This is a brand new activity tracker. And the best part is that it only costs $69. The Withings Go uses an always-on E Ink display … -
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Baltimore Tearing Down Thousands Vacant Buildings | Al Jazeera America
Thousands of abandoned buildings will be demolished in Baltimore, starting in the neighborhood where black detainee Freddie Gray was fatally hurt in police custody, officials said on Tuesday.
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King Salman, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, adheres to Wahhabism, a religious movement that considers itself an ultraconservative subset of Sunni Islam, according to Michael Izady, a historian and cultural geographer who has mapped ethnicity and religio…
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Tension grows as militia prepares for fourth night in Oregon standoff | US news | The Guardian
If there ever was a strategic location for a citizens militia to take a stand against the supposed tyranny of the US government, seizing up one of its remote outposts in anticipation of a standoff that could last months, this would be it.
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Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber : technology
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Footage From Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland : movies
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Magnitude 5.1 seismic disturbance recorded in North Korea : worldnews
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Suspicious Earthquake Raises Fears of Another Nuclear Weapons Test in North Korea | VICE News
South Korea says it’s investigating whether North Korea has conducted another nuclear weapons test after a suspicious earthquake was detected early Wednesday morning near a known nuclear test facility in the North.
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Fusion renews The Chris Gethard Show for a second season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After literally being carried from public access to the Fusion network on the backs of his fans last spring, comedian Chris Gethard and his Chris Gethard Show will be sticking around for at least another year.
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In a strange turn of events, the Die Hard episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine didn’t end up being titled “Hostage Situation.
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The Return of Technics Is Symbolic, But Will Anyone Actually Buy Them? | TechCrunch
The Technics SL-1200 turntable might be the most important piece of DJ equipment ever created. Hip-hop and modern dance music wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for this iconic device.
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Samsung and LG have both said that all their new flagship TVs will support high dynamic range video playback. HDR-enabled screens can show millions more colours and several more shades of brightness between black and white than normal displays.
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New Order – True Faith (1987) [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] – YouTube
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Labour MP Hilary Benn is to remain as shadow foreign secretary, as details of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle emerge.
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Lemmy Kilmister’s Memorial Service to Stream Online | Rolling Stone
Lemmy Kilmister’s memorial service will be broadcast live on YouTube between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. PST on January 9th, Motörhead announced on Facebook.
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California lawsuit could help bring back ‘innocent until proven guilty’
“ … 1,800 San Franciscans every year are detained before their trials because they are poor.
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California lawsuit could help bring back ‘innocent until proven guilty’
“ … 1,800 San Franciscans every year are detained before their trials because they are poor.
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California lawsuit could help bring back ‘innocent until proven guilty’
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Ramona in her tunnel via /r/cats…
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Is a lack of power holding back educational technology in Africa? There are well-documented problems about access to education.
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From drizzle to downpours: how NSW severe weather compares | Australia news | The Guardian
Here is how the torrential rain in NSW compares with other weather events, from a light Melbourne drizzle to the downpours caused by a tropical cyclone.
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Will The Paris Climate Change Deal Prove To Be The Catalyst For Cleantech? | TechCrunch
Back in January 2014, the CBC aired “The Cleantech Crash,” which highlighted the difficulty of operating in cleantech in the past few years. The documentary revealed how much the mood had changed since John Doerr’s now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk…
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Our regular column covering the deaths of significant – but lesser reported – people of the past month. Kenneth Partridge found fame as a designer of homes for pop stars and other beautiful people during the 1960s.
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Sony’s Kicking It Old-School At CES And Releasing A High-Res Turntable | TechCrunch
While most companies are focused on touting their latest internet-connected refrigerators or self-driving cars at CES, Sony is kicking it old-school and announced a turntable at its press conference.
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In January 1959 leftist rebels led by Fidel Castro took over Cuba, ending decades of rule of the US-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
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British troops in World War Two had “forces’ sweetheart” Vera Lynn to buoy their spirits, then comedian Bob Hope entertained the US army in Vietnam and Jennifer Lopez sang in Afghanistan.
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Jessica Day, you should know better by now: “The Year of Us” (or any of its many, melismatic permutations) is doomed from the start. In a comedic fashion, that is.
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Girls’ reign of terror to end after just two more seasons · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Offering potential respite to beleaguered men everywhere, holed up as they are in self-carved bunkers to hide from the tyranny of Lena Dunham’s naked chest, The Hollywood Reporter is suggesting that Girls will soon be ending its self-involved reign …
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Californians warned to keep conserving water despite heavy rains | US news | The Guardian
Forced by drought to conserve water, Californians were warned against reverting to old habits on Tuesday as the first of several storms spawned by a record-tying El Niño began drenching the state.
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US man denies mailing cyanide to suicidal Briton in bid to cover up fraud | US news | The Guardian
A US suspect has pleaded not guilty to mailing cyanide to a suicidal Briton as part of an alleged bid to prevent a moneymaking scheme being exposed. Federal investigators say Sidney Kilmartin, from Maine, advertised and mailed a substance he claimed…
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Hillary Clinton urges moderate gun owners to take on the NRA | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton urged moderate gun owners to band together against the National Rifle Association during an MSNBC interview on Tuesday after Barack Obama’s morning statement on tighter gun control. Clinton recalled an exchange with a gun owner at a …
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Sneakerheads, rejoice: Here are your planet-friendly kicks | Grist
There’s no shortage of environmentally conscious shoes on the market — but if you’re looking for kicks that actually look good, your choices are few and far between.
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It took Indian authorities four days to put down a deadly attack on the Pathankot air force base near the Pakistani border which killed seven Indian soldiers and wounded another 22. The inept handling of the security operation can only be described …
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Authorities investigating a deadly shooting in California have appealed for help in filling an 18-minute gap in the movements of the perpetrators. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 of Mr Farook’s colleagues at a San Bernardino community centr…
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Poll: Americans believe in climate change, remain iffy on the cause | Grist
Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slowdown.
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Amy Schumer Has a Boyfriend (and No, He’s Not Jennifer Lawrence) | Vanity Fair
If your New Year’s resolution was to date Amy Schumer, we have some bad news: The Emmy- and Peabody-winning comedian and Trainwreck star is dating someone, and the relationship seems to be serious as both Schumer and her new beau have gone social me…
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BBC Sport – Greg Dyke says England have ‘got to get out’ of Euro 2016 group
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke believes England can win the World Cup again “one day soon”. Speaking at the start of a year of events to mark the anniversary, Dyke said: “I genuinely believe the building blocks are in place to emulate the ‘…
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Oregon standoff: memory of botched Waco siege shapes federal response | US news | The Guardian
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The shadow of Waco and other botched law enforcement sieges of the 1980s and 1990s is looming large over the standoff in south-eastern Oregon, where federal agents are avoiding anything that smacks of confrontation with the armed anti-government act… -
The economic outlook for 2016 – BBC News
What can we expect in 2016 from the world economy? If the mainstream forecasters are right slightly better than last year.
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The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in the US. But a small youth soccer league, with fields close to the site where this year’s game will be hosted, is refusing to allow the sporting behemoth to disrupt its season.
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Scientists have devised a radical solution for Australia’s deadly cane toad problem. They have trained wild monitor lizards, known locally as goannas, not to eat the toxic amphibians.
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Sling TV Is Finally Updating Its Woeful UI | Motherboard
Sling TV, the streaming video service that delivers channels like ESPN and Food Network over the internet for $20 per month, just fixed one of its biggest problems: Its poor user interface (UI).
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/IMbkljBQBI
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Sony announces three new TVs with crisp 4K HDR and ultra-thin bezels | The Verge
High dynamic range is the theme of the year for TVs at CES 2016. 4K HDR is considered the true jump in picture quality from 1080p over the standard 4K TV sets we’ve seen for the past few years, and nearly every manufacturer has its own take on the f…
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Sony brings Google Cast and party lights to its wireless speakers | The Verge
If you’re in the market for wireless speakers, Sony just announced a ton of them, beefing up its offering from high-end Sonos competitors, down to run of the mill portable Bluetooth options.
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Sony’s new Walkman comes in splashy rainbow colors | The Verge
Sony managed to totally reinvent its Walkman brand at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show with the ZX2, a $1,200 premium music player designed for audiophiles. Walkman is back at this year’s CES, but decidedly less high-end — and a whole lot more …
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This new Sony turntable is turnt | The Verge
Sony is pursuing audiophiles, collectors, and connoisseurs with its new PS-HX500 turntable, a carefully crafted machine that hitches the company’s “hi-res audio” wagon to comparatively ancient technology.
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Vox Sentences: Obama is not taking your guns. Here’s what he is doing. – Vox
Executive orders on guns; Sunni-Shia conflict; and the Oregon takeover: the news cycle has taken pity on the world, and gives us a day to catch up. Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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Live from Sony’s CES 2016 press event – The Verge
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The Red and Black Gamer Workspace
I’m not sure if Flickr user Jason T. Lewis is a gamer. But I’m pretty sure he’s a gamer, judging by the red bias lighting, the desktop wallpaper, and the battlestation gear.
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‘Rick and Morty’ Is The Show You Need To… – NowThis Entertainment | Facebook
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Watch Sony’s CES Extravaganza Press Conference Right Here | TechCrunch
We’re live at the Sony press conference at CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center starting in just a few minutes. We got a lot of… interesting devices all day long, such as Samsung’s frankenstein fridge.
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A free Rick And Morty game is coming to a phone near you · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The existence of multiple realities, most of which are nearly identical to each other, has been an important part of Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty since it started.
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2016 is promising to be a happy new year. The remarkable achievement of 196 nations signing up to the successor of the Kyoto protocol means the first ever year with a global agreement to end the old ways of pumping heat-trapping carbon pollution int…
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Having dined well on the twin intoxicants of strong critical buzz and moderate box-office success, mumbling oracle Sylvester Stallone has emerged this week to prognosticate on the future of the Rambo and Rocky franchises, and specifically its surpri…
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Obama Just Announced His New Gun Control Measures — Here’s What’s Going On – Digg
In an emotional press conference on Tuesday afternoon, President Obama announced new executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence. Here are details from the announcement and the actions themselves. You can read the full White House fact sheet on …
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Samsung gets into the Surface clone business with the Galaxy TabPro S | Ars Technica
Samsung is the latest company to try putting its own spin on Microsoft’s Surface idea: Today at its CES press conference the company announced the Galaxy TabPro S.
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BMW’s CES fever dream: a beautiful i8 Spyder with ridiculous technology | The Verge
At CES today, I watched a man wave an empty car into an open parking spot. But that’s old hat, really. Self-parking cars have been around for a while, and I even served as a hapless passenger in a self-parking BMW i3 last year.
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DietSensor Scans Your Food For Calories | TechCrunch
For those of you who count your carbs and calories, DietSensor is looking to make your life easier. The French-based startup has created a tool that scans your food and determines its nutritional value.
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Obama’s Gun Speech Was One For The Ages – The Daily Beast
For a president who sometimes is criticized as too cerebral and lacking emotion, the memories he carries from comforting grieving families in Tucson, Fort Hood, Binghamton, Aurora, Oak Creek, Newtown, Navy Yard, Santa Barbara, Charleston, and San Be…
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These Caricatures Of Sci-Fi Icons Are Absolutely Perfect
Some of the best art takes your favorite thing and presents it in a new, fun way. Kevin Greene is a master at this. He takes famous, recognizable sci-fi characters and makes them look like they belong on a wall at a famous Italian restaurant.
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Lena Dunham’s Girls Officially Ending with Season 6 | Vanity Fair
Girls—the show that helped launch the acting careers of Lena Dunham and Adam Driver—will be ending after Season 6. It might be time those girls grew up. According to The Hollywood Reporter the show’s sixth season—which would air in 2017—will be its …
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Capturing of Intelsat VI, the first EVA done by three astronauts at once. : space
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Donald Trump cast doubt on Republican candidate Ted Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency on Tuesday, on the basis that he may not be a US citizen.
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Reheating food seems like a good way of cutting down on waste and expenditure. But when is it dangerous, asks Michael Mosley. After a generous meal we normally end up with leftover food which it seems a shame to throw away.
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The planet is experiencing a global warming spurt | Grist
Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown Earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming trend, following a 15-year global warming slowdown. The Seychelles deal cancels $30 million in national debt and protects a piece of ocean th…
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More than half of UK’s food sourced from abroad, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
More than half of the UK’s food and feed now comes from overseas, which is burdening poorer countries with the related environmental impact, a new study says.
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The dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran has continued to escalate following the execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudis.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Review Skeptic Makes It Easy to Spot Fake Hotel Reviews
Fake reviews are everywhere online. If you want to check whether a particular hotel’s reviews are real before you book it, the Review Skeptic tool can help.
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The annual WELL State of the World, with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky / Boing Boing
Jon Lebkowsky writes, “Bruce Sterling and I are at it again… State of the World 2016 started today and runs for two weeks.” This is my number one annual must-read.
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One year ago this week, Islamist gunmen burst into the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and killed 11 people, before shooting dead a policeman in the streets outside.
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The story could well be the plot of a Latin American soap opera – a Colombian one, to be more precise. Two pairs of identical twins who were mixed up soon after they were born in 1998 and grew up apart, find each other almost 25 years later through …
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Beauty giant L’Oreal has unveiled a smart skin patch that can track the skin’s exposure to harmful UV rays at the technology show CES in Las Vegas. The product will be launched in 16 countries including the UK this summer, and will be available for …
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Kodak Is Bringing Back Super 8 | TechCrunch
If you’ve always wanted to shoot video using the tools your parents probably used to film each other naked then Yves Behar and Kodak have a product for you. Super 8 was a cartridge-based film standard that became surprisingly popular after its relea…
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In some countries the idea of paternity leave – when a father takes time off work to stay at home with a new child – has yet to take hold. In Sweden, which has been encouraging fathers to take paternity leave since 1974, there is now a new incentive…
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A fan’s animated homage to HBO’s ‘The Wire’ / Boing Boing
In April, Geoff “BLDGBLOG” Manaugh will publish A Burglar’s Guide to the City, a new book about London’s rich history of heists and the network of tunnels, catacombs, sewers, and caves that London such a paradise for would-be superthieves.
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Fan edits “Inside Out: Outside Edition,” excising all internal scenes / Boing Boing
Pixar’s “Inside Out” alternates between short scenes of the life of a girl called Riley, with increasingly longer, action-packed scenes from inside her psyche (as one Internet wag has it, Pixar movies follow the “_____ have feelings” template, start…
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Game of Thrones Can’t Really Spoil George R.R. Martin’s Books
It’s now official: George R.R. Martin’s next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, won’t come out before the next season of Game of Thrones.
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Millennials Are Not Ruining The NBA | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Jan. 4, 2016), we discuss the NFL playoffs and whether this year’s NFL c…
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Here’s Why Samsung’s New Frankenstein Fridge Is Actually Dumb | TechCrunch
Is it a fridge? Is it a tablet? No, it’s a fridge-tablet hybrid, coming straight from Samsung’s brainstorming sessions. Samsung’s new Family Hub fridge features a giant tablet on the front. The Internet made fun of the new fridge.
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Astronomers have spotted two huge waves of gas being “burped” by the black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy. The swathes of hot gas, detected in X-ray images from Nasa’s Chandra space telescope, appear to be sweeping cooler hydrogen gas ahead of…
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Kia launches Drive Wise brand to build self-driving cars by 2030 | The Verge
It’s getting perilously difficult to find a major automaker that isn’t funneling cash into autonomous research; the latest is Kia, which pulled the wraps off its “Drive Wise” brand at CES today.
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Freedom of Worship (painting) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freedom of Worship or Freedom to Worship is the second of the Four Freedoms oil paintings produced by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The series was based on the goals known as the Four Freedoms enunciated by the 32nd President of the United St…
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Delayed flight puts Jarryd Hayne cameo against Liverpool Legends in doubt | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne’s flight home to Australia has been delayed, placing in doubt his mooted appearance for the Australian Legends football exhibition match against Liverpool Legends on Thursday night.
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Porsche Design Revs Up A Drive That Powers Your MacBook | TechCrunch
CES is a time of bad photoshopping and the above image is a perfect example. That said, the product it hopes to sell is quite compelling. It’s basically a USB-C desktop hard drive that connects to and powers USB-C devices – primarily the new MacBook.
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New Parrot Consumer Drone Takes Off From Your Hand And Looks Like A Stealth Bomber – Digg
Technology Aviation Toys Today, Parrot released its latest drone that has a fixed-wind design and will automatically take off from your hand.
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Powerful Blast Detected from Nearest Giant Black Hole https://t.co/V9FDSPr7GQ https://t.co/zO5LlsgQ0Y https://t.co/MIsPB1Hqin
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Powerful Blast Detected from Nearest Giant Black Hole https://t.co/V9FDSPr7GQ https://t.co/zO5LlsgQ0Y https://t.co/MIsPB1Hqin
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The beautiful geometric GIFs of Erik Söderberg / Boing Boing
Erik Söderberg, a multimedia artist based in Sweden, created this series of geometric GIFs: “Fractal Experience Part 2.” The artist lives in Stockholm, and works in visual and sound art “exploring the relations of geometry, nature and the human bein…
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Jeb Bush ‘mistaken’ about being given an award nobody actually gave him
Very, very Jeb.
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It’s one of the most common surnames in China – so why do Chinese internet censors suddenly have a problem with the word “Zhao”? When it comes to criticising powerful people online in China, there’s a long tradition of being indirect.
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HBO’s Girls will end after its sixth season | The Verge
Lena Dunham has suggested in the past that Girls might call it quits after its sixth season, and now E! Online is reporting that HBO has agreed to the end date. That means Girls should wrap up sometime in 2017; the show’s fifth season begins next mo…
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At least 34 people have drowned off the coast of Turkey after their boats sank during an attempted crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos. Several children were among the dead.
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Volkswagen’s CES 2016 keynote: start time, live blog, and streaming | The Verge
CES 2016 is moving full steam ahead, and next up, we’ll see a big announcement from Volkswagen. There are two things you can expect from the company tonight. One: they’ll likely unveil an electric Microbus revival.
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Tribute albums are infinitely more interesting when the artists performing the songs take them in a new direction. The nature of tributes generally dictates that acolytes of the original artist will appear on a tribute album, and sometimes they rema…
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Remarkably easy ways to read more books in 2016 – Vox
You’ve likely spent the last few days tossing around ideas for a New Year’s resolution. If you’ve landed on something that involves reading more, writer and artist Austin Kleon has some advice on how to stick to your literary goals. How to read more.
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Kodak is making a new Super 8 camera · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Film is an increasingly specialized format in the digital age, and no one seems to be embracing that specialization more than Kodak.
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NASA’s Kepler Comes Roaring Back with 100 New Exoplanet Finds
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has bounced back nicely from the malfunction that ended its original exoplanet hunt more than two years ago. Kepler has now discovered more than 100 confirmed alien planets during its second-chance K2 missi…
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Blame Pakistani Spy Service for Attack on Indian Air Force Base – The Daily Beast
The Pakistani intelligence service is behind the recent attack on a major Indian air force base in Punjab using a terrorist group it created 15 years ago, according to well-informed press and other knowledgeable sources.
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Please Share This Video of Koko the Gorilla Reviewing The Force Awakens
Koko, the gorilla who uses sign language, is capable of discussing almost anything that human beings might want to see Koko discuss.
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Hundreds of women have protested in the German city of Cologne over sexual assaults and thefts carried out by groups of men on New Year’s Eve. Some held up signs demanding action from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Toyota has 1,400 self-driving car patents—twice as many as any other company | Ars Technica
According to a report put together by Thompson Reuters’ Intellectual Property and Science Division, Toyota spent the last couple of years filing hundreds of patents related to autonomous driving.
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“What a film director really directs is the audience’s attention.”
From Tony Zhou comes another episode of Every Frame a Painting. In it, he uses Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder to explore ensemble staging, how movies can direct an audience’s onscreen attention when many people are on the screen at the same time,…
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CES 2016: Fitbit Blaze smartwatch sends shares into dive – BBC News
Fitbit’s shares plunged following the announcement of its first colour smartwatch at the CES tech show. The San Francisco-based company’s stock fell more than 18%.
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Ned Overend Is the Champion Cyclist Who Never Grows Old | Outside Online
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It’s two days after Ned Overend’s 60th birthday, his back hurts, and he’s staring into the weeds at Suicide Six—billed as one of the oldest ski areas in the East—puzzling out how to avoid a broken hip. -
ZTE wants to crowdsource a smartphone with your help | The Verge
ZTE wants to crowdsource a smartphone with your help https://t.co/PnjpMtyAND https://t.co/kAXyQTAesH
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Dish’s Hopper 3 DVR lets you watch four shows at once on your 4K TV | The Verge
Dish’s Hopper 3 DVR lets you watch four shows at once on your 4K TV https://t.co/LMahmsRlLO https://t.co/TCJeSpe1sp
Consumers really don’t need to worry about how many tuners their DVRs have nowadays; most allow you to record several shows simultaneously, which is all anyone really needs. But here at CES 2016, Dish is declaring itself the new recordholder with th… -
ZTE’s launches two inexpensive Android phones at CES 2016 | The Verge
ZTE’s launches two inexpensive Android phones at CES 2016 https://t.co/fXvDVfFqyV https://t.co/sGycjMPa3R
If you’re tuned into our CES coverage, these new ZTE smartphones might not be your first choice for a handset. But they’re aimed at a critical market for phone makers; consumers who don’t want to spend flagship prices or get pulled into a monthly fi… -
Sling TV gets a new look and adds ESPN3 to its channel lineup | The Verge
Sling TV gets a new look and adds ESPN3 to its channel lineup https://t.co/87GAetgu1X https://t.co/upG96qKGH9
But where’s the Apple TV app? With Apple pausing on its plans for an over-the-top subscription TV service, 2016 will be another opportunity for Dish’s Sling TV to replace cable for millions of people. -
How Making a Murderer Turned Us All into Conspiracy Theorists | Vanity Fair
How Making a Murderer Turned Us All into Conspiracy Theorists https://t.co/d8GyhmYKUu https://t.co/p9NgsNurl2
When Serial hooked everyone by the ears in 2014, it offered just enough ingredients every week for us to concoct our own strange brew of theories. -
That moment your dog realizes that the treat is for him : aww
That moment your dog realizes that the treat is for him via /r/aww https://t.co/pnWShny4lQ https://t.co/PYkkms6BBz
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Found a letter thanking my grandfather for his work on voyager 1 and voyager 2 : space
Found a letter thanking my grandfather for his work on voyager 1 and voyager 2 via /r/space https://t.co/wlO3jL2iEN https://t.co/WH4rM0YqBs
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Coffee table based on scene from Inception : pics
Coffee table based on scene from Inception via /r/pics https://t.co/FcXrTrPIuk https://t.co/IYBM0k2X8x
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Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, is one of China’s coldest areas.
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Nikki Haley Is Checking All the Boxes to Be the GOP’s Vice Presidential Nominee | VICE News
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech next Tuesday, adding to speculation that she is being groomed as a potential vice presidential candidate for the GOP ticke…
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Our First Look at Pee Wee Herman as the Penguin’s Dad on Gotham Is Here
Say what you want about Gotham—that it’s a bad show, that it’s insane, that it’s horrifically violent given how goofy it is, or that it’s one of the most fundamentally inaccurate Batman stories ever told—but you can’t say the show doesn’t have its m…
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Turn Off Binge On If You Don’t Want T-Mobile Throttling Your Data
T-Mobile’s new Binge On data plan is making waves by throttling video streaming services whether the service is on board or not. Recent tests from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), however, suggest Binge On is actually throttling all video-r…
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2016 Calender now available at http://www.kchronicles.
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When Samsung unveiled the Gear S2, it looked lot like Samsung’s answer to the Apple Watch. And the company announced another move in this direction today by unveiling a new 18-karat rose gold and platinum Gear S2. Like the Apple Watch, it’s made of …
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Obama’s Tears of Despair and Defiance – The New Yorker
The buildup to Tuesday’s announcement by President Obama of a series of administrative measures designed to prevent gun violence, including expanded background checks for gun sales, wasn’t promising.
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Fargo’s Rachel Keller to star in FX’s X-Men TV spinoff · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in October, Fox announced that it was developing two TV shows set in the same universe as its X-Men movies in a strategy presumably dubbed, “Let’s Do What Marvel Does.” One, Hellfire, is going to the vanilla Fox network.
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Emergency Declared in Flint Over Water Problems | Al Jazeera America
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in Flint on Tuesday over problems with lead in the city’s drinking water, the same day federal officials confirmed they’re investigating the matter that prompted a local public health emergency.
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Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning, and Football Between Fathers and Sons – The New Yorker
One of the earliest memories I have of my late father starts with me bundled up and romping through our back yard in Central Jersey one frigid Sunday afternoon, late in 1962. I had just turned eight and was already captivated by football.
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Sony’s PlayStation Now adds over 40 PS3 exclusives to its game library | The Verge
Sony has added a ton of games to its PlayStation Now subscription service since its launch in August — over 100 titles were pumped into the service in November.
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Powerful Blast Detected from Nearest Giant Black Hole
Powerful Blast Detected from Nearest Giant Black Hole https://t.co/soMwWk7q5S https://t.co/goC5LdP7Bz https://t.co/tOKDin3Rwh
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Powerful Blast Detected from Nearest Giant Black Hole https://t.co/soMwWk7q5S https://t.co/goC5LdP7Bz https://t.co/tOKDin3Rwh
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Current pace of environmental change is unprecedented in Earth’s history : environment
Current pace of environmental change is unprecedented in Earth’s history via /r/environment https://t.co/H0jHEi0Nve https://t.co/xeL4dHgl0G
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The Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Just Toured an Underground Bunker Filled With Missiles | VICE News
Iranian state TV released footage on Tuesday that showed Ali Larijani, the head of the country’s parliament, strolling down a long underground corridor beside a long chain of trucks — each one loaded with a large missile.
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Help the EFF Save the Future, by Reading Some Brand New Science Fiction!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the digital world generally. And now, you can help support them—by reading a brand new science fiction book!
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Apple’s smartwatch has Mickey, so Samsung got Snoopy for the Gear S2 | The Verge
Apple loves to show off the throwback Mickey Mouse watch face that it made for the Apple Watch, so naturally, Samsung had to find a way to counter it with another classic character.
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A British man is among five booksellers linked to a shop selling works critical of China’s government who have gone missing in Hong Kong, the UK Foreign Office has confirmed.Paul Lee, also known as Lee Bo, the owner, disappeared last Wednesday.
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Jeb Bush invokes his family’s anguish over daughter’s drug addiction | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush has referenced his daughter’s struggle with substance abuse before, but on Tuesday the Republican presidential candidate laid bare the challenges of being a parent desperately seeking solutions for his child.
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El Niño Brought Drought and Fire to Indonesia : Image of the Day
You have likely heard that an unusually strong El Niño has been brewing in the Pacific Ocean.
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Samsung’s Gear S2 smartwatch will soon work with the iPhone | The Verge
In a departure from earlier models, Samsung made its Tizen-powered Gear S2 smartwatch work with Android phones from other manufacturers — and the company isn’t stopping there. VP Alana Cotton just announced on stage at CES that the Gear S2 will supp…
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Hypnosis replaces anesthetic in brain surgery—and there’s video | Ars Technica
Just imagine that the whirring noise—from drills and saws cutting into your skull—is the gentle engine-hum of a motorboat, gliding past your canoe as you float in a tranquil lake. Those may be some of the instructions a cancer patient might hear whi…
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Caitlyn Jenner Is Still Studying Womanhood: “I’ve Missed So Much” | Vanity Fair
“I am only a spokesperson for my own journey,” Jenner says in the cover story, rejecting the media’s depiction o her as a spokesperson for the trans community. “After that, I know nothing. Am I learning a lot? Absolutely. I’m just trying to do my be…
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Sunlight hitting Derrycunihy Wood Nature Reserve, Ireland [OC][1920×1282] : EarthPorn
Sunlight hitting Derrycunihy Wood Nature Reserve, Ireland [OC][1920×1282] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/PIicrrvbGA https://t.co/GOLqfYoOVJ
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How my dog has changed in last 2+ years : aww
How my dog has changed in last 2+ years via /r/aww https://t.co/i28DPZxMhE https://t.co/IF5YAZBCwY
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In A Crowded Market, A VC Uses Its Office As A Hook | TechCrunch
You might be hearing talk of depressed valuations, but that message certainly isn’t reaching commercial real estate owners in the Bay Area. The median price per square foot to rent office space in the city has shot up 33.
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Bernie Sanders has made a name for himself by pushing in his presidential campaign for fundamental changes to the way financial institutions operate within the U.S.
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Revealing that his new FX series Baskets won’t just be 10 episodes of Zach Galifianakis screaming into an intercom about increasingly obscure and funny-sounding sodas, FX has released a new, extended trailer for the Louis CK-produced comedy that pul…
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Aging and maturation happen so slowly and so deliberately on Steven Universe (like in life) that it’s often difficult to remember when changes actually happened, and what it was like to see them stick.
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Republicans suddenly turn against ‘enforcing existing law’ on guns, because Obama
Remember how the GOP is always touting “enforcing existing laws” as the best way to address gun violence? Well, now that President Obama is trying to do just that by requiring private gun sellers to fully comply with existing law, not so much.
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Blanch Spinach by Boiling Your Kettle, Not a Pot of Water
Prepping spinach and other greens—whether it’s for lasagna or to serve straight—usually involves boiling or blanching them in a pot of boiling water. This method from America’s Test Kitchen brings the water to the greens, not the greens to the water.
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DERRY, N.H. — Jeb Bush, who promised to run for president by showing voters his heart, is making an especially personal appeal in New Hampshire on Tuesday, where he plans to discuss his daughter’s struggles with addiction.
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Twitter is not broken, and they should stop trying to fix it – Vox
In the past couple of years, Twitter’s user growth has slowed and then practically ground to a halt. As a result, the company has come under increasing pressure — from both Wall Street and the media — to reinvent the service in order to jump-start g…
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Twitter CEO welcomes post-140 character era with giant screenshot of text | The Verge
“We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it,” Dorsey wrote. “Instead, what if that text… was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlig…
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Can Obama’s gun control plan work? – Al Jazeera English
US President Barack Obama starts his final year in office focussing on gun control. His efforts to press Congress to address the controversial issue of gun control have failed.
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A 15-year-old Indian schoolboy has become the first batsman in the history of the game to score more than 1,000 runs in an organised match.Fifteen-year-old Pranav Dhanawade broke the previous record of 628 set by Arthur Collins in 1899 on Monday, se…
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Make Magic’s Assistants Do Almost Anything With $100/Hour And A Text Message | TechCrunch
Magic Assistant, an SMS-based personal assistant service, is rolling out a new plan that provides a more premium service for $100 an hour. Magic’s new service, Magic+, is built around getting anything done rather than accomplishing simple tasks for …
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The FBI appealed to the public for help on Tuesday in filling in 18 minutes missing from the timeline of last month’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, saying they hoped new information would shed light on the attackers’ motivations.
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Meet, Pearl. We gotta adopt this girl today. : cats
Meet, Pearl. We gotta adopt this girl today. via /r/cats https://t.co/7yn6MyiDaC https://t.co/3WazSHo1Rd
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This is what losing 135 pounds looks like : pics
This is what losing 135 pounds looks like via /r/pics https://t.co/JJHzch12ya https://t.co/pB1CIgGaNp
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This makes human laugh, I must continue. via /r/aww https://t.co/MwnAyj1RIt https://t.co/j8SuJsM23Q https://t.co/dKXw6gRhM7
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The First Tamil Language Zombie Film Looks Thrilling and Awesomely Nuts
The Indian film industry’s largest realm, Bollywood, dove into the zombie genre with several different 2013 releases. Now Kollywood, which releases films in the Tamil language, rouses the undead with Miruthan.
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Jack Dorsey Thinks Adding More Text To Tweets Is A Swell Idea | TechCrunch
As you know, reports are surfacing about Twitter’s interest in potentially monkeying around with the number of characters you can tweet…or share along with a tweet. 5,000? 10,000? Well, certainly more than the current 140 characters.
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Fall Out Boy conjures up the ghost of NSYNC for a nightmare of a music video | The Verge
Few things are more important to a stable society than maintaining the balance of the boy band ecosystem.
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Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M | TechCrunch
Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (ie, those buttons on web pages that let you share stories or follow acc…
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Baseball’s Hall Of Fame Is Stuck In The ’60s | FiveThirtyEight
Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that nobody was elected in this round of Pre-Integration Era Committee balloting — the second straight year that one of the Hall’s era-based Veterans Committees failed to induct a player from before 19…
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Chicago, see Ride Along 2 early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Is Kevin Hart addicted to buddy comedies? In 2015 he played the zippy yin to both Josh Gad and Will Ferrell’s socially awkward yangs in The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard. This June, he’ll be partnering up with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for Central Int…
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Kodak’s ‘new’ gadget is a Super 8 film camera and it kind of warms my heart | The Verge
While most people at CES are desperate for a glimpse into the future, Kodak serving up a heavy dose of nostalgia and bringing back an iconic gadget from the past. Kodak is remaking the Super 8 camera.
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Why Obama’s Smart Gun Push Will Misfire | TechCrunch
President Obama recently made funding for smart gun research part of his end-of-term gun control push, and it’s easy to see the idea’s appeal.
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In a major surprise, top-ranking House Democrat Steve Israel will not seek re-election
In a shocking development Tuesday evening, Democratic Rep. Steve Israel announced that he would not seek re-election this fall, saying he wants to “spend more time writing my second novel.” Israel was first elected in 2000 to fill the seat left open…
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Sanders Promises to Break Up Big Banks, Tax Speculation and Establish Postal Banking | The Nation
Speaking just a few dozen blocks from Wall Street Wednesday, Bernie Sanders announced that, with regard to so-called “too-big-to-fail” banks, he would “break them up.
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BBC Sport – Stoke City 0-1 Liverpool
Daniel Sturridge will not be available for Liverpool’s League Cup semi-final first leg at Stoke after suffering a minor setback in his recovery from a hamstring injury in training. The striker, 26, has been blighted by injuries, making only 19 appea…
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Ted Cruz: Obama Is Putting On Commando Gear And Coming For Your Guns | ThinkProgress
An emotional President Barack Obama pauses to wipe away tears as he recalled the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps hi…
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Scientists want to do research on your tissues without asking you first | The Verge
Right now, tissues belonging to millions of Americans are being used in scientific research without patients’ consent. That’s because a rule designed long before genetic analysis was able to reidentify samples makes it legal to do so.
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Will Hollywood Continue Its Progress on Diversity in 2016? – The Atlantic
Despite high hopes and higher stakes, 2015 wasn’t quite the year that Hollywood solved its many issues with representation. It was a year that saw a depressingly white slate of Oscar nominees in January, followed by Emma Stone playing a character wh…
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Samsung CES 2016 news: new TVs, laptops, and weird home gadgets | The Verge
Samsung is really, really eager for you to know about its new smart refrigerator with a ridiculously large touchscreen integrated right into the door. It put up posters early, it posted images early, and finally it even put up some PR early.
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State of emergency declared over polluted drinking water in Michigan city | US news | The Guardian
Michigan governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency in Flint over problems with lead in the city’s drinking water as federal officials confirm they are investigating the matter. Snyder announced the action on Tuesday.
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The president announced new measures intended to curb gun violence across the country, pausing at one point to wipe away tears as he spoke of the deaths of 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut in 2012.
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Spend Your Tax Refund Early: DJI Phantoms Are Deeply Discounted Today
DJI’s Phantom series of drones (I know they aren’t really drones, please, save your comments) is the undisputed leader in the prosumer aerial photography market, and three of the line’s four models are on sale today, including the brand new Phantom …
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Emotional Obama unveils plan to cut gun violence – Al Jazeera English
A visibly emotional President Barack Obama – at one point wiping tears from his cheek – unveiled his plan to tighten control and enforcement of firearms in the US, using his presidential powers in the absence of legal changes he implored Congress to…
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Could Machine Guns Become Legal? | The Nation
Given that a hypothetical American who is underage, has been convicted of a gun crime, has restraining orders out against him, and is on a terror watchlist could go online and have an assault rifle shipped to his door without incident, the US gun lo…
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Flashback: See Mary Chapin Carpenter Jam With Keith Urban, Vince Gill | Rolling Stone
As one of the most successful newcomers of the late Eighties and early Nineties, Mary Chapin Carpenter had both commercial and critical success, earning the first of her five Grammy awards in 1992 for the Cajun-flavored dance hit “Down at the Twist …
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The Only Vibrator Company at CES on the Future of Sex | Motherboard
Until 2012, the largest porn convention, the Adult Entertainment Expo, coincided with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, inspiring countless quips about the two spectacles converging on the city at the same time.
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P-Funk Keyboardist Bernie Worrell Reveals Late-Stage Cancer Diagnosis | Rolling Stone
P-Funk Keyboardist Bernie Worrell Reveals Late-Stage Cancer Diagnosis Parliament and Funkadelic musician raising funds to record new album after liver and lung cancer diagnosis
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Ryan Howard, left, and Ryan Zimmerman, right, whose names were mentioned in an Al Jazeera report on doping, appeared in promotional materials for a nutritional supplements company founded by Jason Riley, center, and Charles Sly.
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Sling TV, Dish Network’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, has been helping to stem subscriber loss for the pay TV provider, but its user interface has needed some work.
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This makes human laugh, I must continue. : aww
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There Was a Lot of Yelling During the First Session of Venezuela’s New Congress | VICE News
Venezuela’s first opposition-dominated congress in 17 years was sworn in this Tuesday in a heated session in which chants of “Liberty” and “Yes We Could” competed with those of “Assassins” and “Chávez Lives”.
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Sanders says ‘fraud is the business model of Wall Street’ and vows to force a change
Speaking truth to power once again. His Tuesday afternoon speech about Wall Street was exactly what you would expect from Bernie Sanders on one of his signature issues: Focused. Fiery. And…well…fabulous.
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Samsung’s Gear S2 Classic now comes in platinum and gold | The Verge
Samsung is adding a dash of style and luxury to its Gear S2 smartwatch line today with new platinum and gold options for the S2 Classic. The new finishes are more upscale than the black metal on the S2 Classic released earlier this year and will com…
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Samsung’s new TVs are sleek hubs for your smart home | The Verge
It’s another year, and Samsung is back with the second generation of its SUHD TV lineup. Yes, the curved screens remain, and Tizen is still the underlying platform powering Samsung’s TV software.
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Samsung’s new fridge can order Fresh Direct groceries from its humongous touchscreen | The Verge
Samsung is really, really eager for you to know about its new smart refrigerator with a ridiculously large touchscreen integrated right into the door. It put up posters early, it posted images early, and finally it even put up some PR early.
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Samsung’s Notebook 9 laptops take ‘thin-and-light’ to a beautiful extreme | The Verge
Before Intel coined the term “ultrabook” to describe thin, light, and yet powerful mobile PCs, the category was generally defined by the spliced adjective of “thin-and-light.” That came to mind today as I encountered Samsung’s Notebook 9 laptops for…
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Samsung’s CES TV event was bizarrely normal | The Verge
Three years ago, at Samsung’s CES TV event, the company imprisoned women in metal dresses equipped with cupcake and champagne stands. Two years ago, at Samsung’s CES TV event, the company suspended women from the ceiling and got them to pour attende…
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Samsung’s Galaxy TabPro S is like an Android tablet running Windows 10 | The Verge
After an extended absence, Samsung is getting back into the world of Windows tablets. Today it announced the Galaxy TabPro S, a Windows 10 tablet that bears more than a passing resemblance to Samsung’s line of Android tablets.
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You can preorder Samsung’s first-ever 4K Blu-ray player today | The Verge
With friends like Panasonic and Samsung, the 4K / UHD Blu-ray format might stand a chance of being successful. Or, at least, maybe eventually being as “successful” as regular Blu-ray.
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Female-Focused E-Commerce Sites Moxy And Bilna Team Up In Southeast Asia Merger | TechCrunch
We’re only in the first week of January, but already Southeast Asia has seen its first merger of significance.
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Maryland “hobbyist” sues FAA to overturn new drone registration rule | Ars Technica
According to the civil complaint filed December 24, 2015 at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, John Taylor is a “model aircraft hobbyist” who owns “one or more small unmanned hobby aircraft” and intends on acquiring more.
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Why ‘The Hateful Eight’ Is Tarantino’s Biggest Misstep – The Atlantic
Why ‘The Hateful Eight’ Is Tarantino’s Biggest Misstep https://t.co/NlzcJzzW3V https://t.co/CmvWxJRxPU
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Bernie Sanders sought to rekindle the anger of the Occupy Wall Street movement in a major policy speech in New York on Tuesday that revealed how he would aim to dismantle much of the modern investment banking system within months of taking office.
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India admits security gaps in deadly air base attack – Al Jazeera English
India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has admitted to “some gaps” in security that allowed six gunmen to wage a deadly attack at an Indian air-force base in Pathankot near the border with Pakistan.
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Michael Bay’s Astronomical Net Worth Revealed (by Michael Bay) | Vanity Fair
There are several schools of thought when it comes to discussing money in Hollywood: (1) Talk about it in broad strokes for the good of a greater cause—like wage equality—as American actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Patricia Arquette have done.
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Freezing weather hits central and eastern Europe – Al Jazeera English
How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a psychiatric hospital changes attitudes towards mental illness. In this special edition of Counting the Cost, we look at the biggest business stories to watch in 2016.
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My kitten is pretty photogenic if I do say so myself : cats
My kitten is pretty photogenic if I do say so myself via /r/cats https://t.co/9fnLCIk4HB https://t.co/OjRz8JIk6v
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Grand Canyon near Flagstaff [OC][3771×2121] : EarthPorn
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Life lesson from my new scarf : pics
Life lesson from my new scarf via /r/pics https://t.co/ZsMc5yrqU0 https://t.co/kp6UvUHIaf
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Live from Samsung’s CES 2016 press conference – The Verge
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Gun sales in the US: how many are actually subject to background checks? | US news | The Guardian
An estimated 17.6 million US gun owners have purchased their firearms without a background check. Whether that number is too high or too low depends on where you stand on gun control in America.
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The British Parliament will debate whether to ban Donald Trump from entering the country – Vox
Hundreds of thousands of citizens of the United Kingdom aren’t pleased with presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims “until we can figure out what’s going on.” They’re so displeased, in fact, that they started circulating a pe…
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R.I.P. Wayne Rogers, M*A*S*H’s Trapper John · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by multiple outlets, actor Wayne Rogers, best known for his role as Trapper John McIntyre on M*A*S*H, died on December 31 due to complications from pneumonia. He was 82.
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Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello will produce a scripted series about EDM culture | The Verge
Swedish House Mafia’s frontman Steve Angello has signed on to executive produce a scripted television series themed around electronic dance music, Variety reports.
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Police divers are searching the river Dee in Aberdeenshire for a missing camper after two bags containing his belongings were washed up beside the river on Saturday. Terence Kilbride, 48, from Warrington, is thought to have been camping in the area …
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Obama orders federal research into smart guns | The Verge
As part of executive actions taken today by President Obama, federal agencies will step up research into smart gun technology.
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What Causes Side Pain When You Run (and How to Prevent It)
If you’ve ever had your exercise interrupted by a sharp pain in your side, you’re not alone. Here’s why it happens and how you can try to avoid it in the future.
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This Fan-Made X-Men Animated Series Is Deliciously Retro
One of the easiest ways to make anything look “retro” these days is to give something a pixelated 8- or 16-bit look to make it look like a classic video game.
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: “The Savannah Liars Tour” by Will McIntosh
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Savannah Liars Tour. You can read the story below or you can listen to the podcast. En…
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BREAKING: Judge Agrees To Delay Deposition Of Bill Cosby’s Wife | ThinkProgress
A judge granted Camille Cosby’s request to delay her deposition, scheduled for Wednesday, while she tries to convince a court to block it permanently. Three days ago, U.S.
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The Overheated Reaction to President Obama’s Modest Gun Actions – The Atlantic
Reading the instant reactions from the right and left to President Obama’s gun announcement on Tuesday, you might have thought—if you were an ardent gun-rights supporter—that the president had walked over to the National Archives, retrieved an origi…
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Fears grow over escalation of Saudi-Iran row – Al Jazeera English
The verbal tit-for-tat between regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran continued on Tuesday after Riyadh’s diplomatic missions were attacked following the kingdom’s execution of 47 people, including a Shia cleric.
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Josh Marshall has a great term for what is happening in Oregon: white privilege performance art.
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Cadiz Inc. plans to pump 814 billion gallons from the desert’s aquifer to L.A. and other California communities. The two Democratic candidates support similar solutions to problems with the rural economy, but they differ over the causes.
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Greenland might be contributing more to sea level rise than we thought | Grist
Cadiz Inc. plans to pump 814 billion gallons from the desert’s aquifer to L.A. and other California communities. The two Democratic candidates support similar solutions to problems with the rural economy, but they differ over the causes.
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Why Did This Black Hole Mysteriously Lose a Ton of Weight? | Motherboard
Approximately one billion light-years from Earth, caught in the midst of a galactic collision, sits an enigmatic black hole in the galaxy SDSS J1126+2944. Typically, black holes are surrounded by a massive clump of stars.
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South Carolina governor Nikki Haley will deliver the Republican reply to Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address next Tuesday, House speaker Paul Ryan announced.
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The outside edition of Inside Out
Jordan Hanzon made an edit of Inside Out showing only the “outside” parts of the film…so, none of the stuff with Joy, Sadness, Anger, etc. I bet Pixar had an internal cut like this just to make sure the outside stuff hung together independent of t…
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Martin Sandbu has a summary of the three-cornered discussion over models and policy; Brad DeLong has excerpts for those without FT Premium access. I have some quibbles, basically amounting to “But I’m right in the end!” But never mind.
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To women of a certain age, the early ’90s NBC sitcom Blossom was an oasis of intelligence.
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FX’s Cassius And Clay drives off into the post-apocalyptic sunset · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In an unexpected twist of events, Deadline reports that FX has opted to drop the female-driven animated series Cassius And Clay as the companion to the highly successful Archer on the network’s 2016 lineup.
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Dwayne Johnson is set to executive produce a new scripted series for Fox, The Wrap reports. The genre? Action, duh.
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Fisher-Price made a caterpillar that teaches coding basics to preschoolers | The Verge
Parents worried about how to mold their three-year-olds into computer programmers will be relieved to know that Fisher-Price is on the case, starting with a toy caterpillar.
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Billy Corgan repurposes unheard Smashing Pumpkins song for wrestling show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s no accounting for Billy Corgan’s (or “William,” as he’s known to his Facebook fans) tastes or interests in his post-Zwan life.
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FTC settles with Lumos Labs over its phony ‘brain training’ program | The Verge
Lumos Labs, the company behind the Lumosity “brain training” program, settled with the FTC today for $2 million over charges that it made unsubstantiated claims about its program’s positive effects on memory and cognition.
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What Caitlyn Jenner Taught Kim Kardashian About Fame – The Daily Beast
The trans community’s reluctant poster child showed up to support Tangerine’s historic Oscar campaign—and told us what she told Kim in her early days of fame.
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The 2016 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival (23 photos) https://t.co/GRxxMyiRte https://t.co/HHn5sYIPf6 https://t.co/MBWPDQOS0j
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Graceful as fuck….. via /r/gifs https://t.co/mMCM5R0FQ4 https://t.co/AsxLR9B0L6
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The 2016 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival (23 photos) https://t.co/GRxxMyiRte https://t.co/HHn5sYIPf6 https://t.co/MBWPDQOS0j
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A looming Supreme Court case that could severely undermine the right to an abortion has attracted an unprecedented amount of opposition from across the country.
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Fitbit Takes 18% Stock Hit For Invading Apple’s Personal Smartwatch Space | TechCrunch
So much for the Christmas bump for Fitbit shares. After seeing a huge boost following Christmas — when the app topped the App Store, indicating that the device seemed to be a popular gift — Fitbit shares tumbled more than 18% in trading today.
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Disable OS X and iOS Contact Email Suggestions to Clean Up the Recipient Field
One of the new features in El Capitan and iOS 9 is “Proactive,” which supposedly helps you find email addresses and other info automatically. It doesn’t always work great though. Thankfully, Macworld points to where you can turn it off.
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All the Backstory You Desperately Want to Know About The Force Awakens
If there’s one thing that rankles about The Force Awakens, it’s that a lot of its world-building is left to the array of tie-in media that launched with the movie on December 18th.
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Watch 5 Seconds of Summer Strip Down ‘Hey Everybody’ on ‘Conan’ | Rolling Stone
Despite the stripped-down instrumentals, 5 Seconds of Summer delivered the infectious cut with the requisite attitude and angst, cruising through the chorus with an impressive wave of four-part harmonies.
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The Chip Kelly Error: Why Do College Coaches Fail in the NFL? | Rolling Stone
Chip Kelly was not the kind of coach who would stop his players in the hallway and ask what they had watched on TV the night before, or inquire about their family.
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Dallas Researchers and Tattoo Parlors Push the Boundaries of Implanted Electronics | Dallas Observer
Ryan Mills snaps black surgical gloves on his hands and plucks a syringe off a paper-shrouded tray. Its 10-gauge needle gleams under the fluorescent lights. Hidden inside the tip is a half-inch long electronic implant.
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It was a secret that had finally become too burdensome to keep. To most people it was startling news. For roughly four years, Mr.
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Why STEM’s Future Rests In The Hands Of 12-Year-Old Girls | TechCrunch
The report found that, although girls often perform better than their male peers — staying in school longer and out-performing them in reading — the top-performing girls continue to lag behind top-performing boys in math and science.
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The FBI’s ‘Unprecedented’ Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers | Motherboard
In the summer of 2015, two men from New York were charged with online child pornography crimes. The site the men allegedly visited was a Tor hidden service, which supposedly would protect the identity of its users and server location.
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Casio’s first smartwatch brings Android Wear outdoors | The Verge
Big, rugged, and expensive… but it might just work For all the talk of smartwatches over the past year-plus, it’s been difficult to convince most people that it’s worth wearing one every day.
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Methodist Minister Bucks Church Doctrine, Comes Out As A Lesbian During Sermon | ThinkProgress
A minister of the United Methodist Church came out to her congregation as a lesbian this past Sunday, telling congregants that “the Lord has led me here to share my whole truth with you.” On Sunday, Rev.
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What Do the Bundys Want? – The New Yorker
Second-generation radical propagandists tend to be more tempered. You see your father denounced as a loon, and you learn to round off your edges.
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Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, the directors behind the true crime series Making a Murderer, said that one of the jurors in Steven Avery’s murder trial contacted them to say they believe Avery was framed.
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Zimbabwe: Woman promoted to a top air force post – Al Jazeera English
A woman has been given one of the most prominent positions in Zimbabwe’s air force as she became the southern African country’s first female Air Commodore. Ellen Chiweshe was promoted to the third-highest post in Zimbabwe’s air force.
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Right-Wing Lawlessness in Oregon Must Not Stand
The right-wing lawlessness on display in the armed standoff in Oregon must not stand. The federal government needs to get it right thing time, or risk emboldening homegrown extremists.
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Early space travelers faced darkness, danger and truly terrible food. By William Pogue had made an interesting — if somewhat distasteful — personal discovery.
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President Obama is Finally Changing the Debate on Guns | New Republic
The seditionists who took over a federal building in southeastern Oregon last Saturday now have a moniker. The group, led by two sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, are calling themselves the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom.
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Sanders Vows to Break Up Banks | Al Jazeera America
Characterizing Wall Street as an industry run on “greed, fraud, dishonesty and arrogance,” Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pledged to break up the country’s biggest financial firms within a year, should he become president, in a maj…
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Documentary Probes Challenger Disaster on 30th Anniversary (Exclusive Video)
A powerful new documentary takes a fresh look at the space shuttle Challenger explosion, a tragedy that is still seared into the minds of a generation 30 years after the smoke cleared. The National Geographic Channel’s hour-long “Challenger Disaster…
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Lego sets are a better investment than the stock market right now · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a report that was most likely published just so some writer could justify spending a bunch of money on awesome Lego sets, The Telegraph has declared that Lego is a better investment than gold or the stock market.
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Jello Biafra (birth name: Eric Boucher) has had quite the colorful career in show business already.
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Obama administration urges Supreme Court to reject dangerous Texas abortion law
In a “friend of the court” brief, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a Texas law whose provisions have already shut down half the state’s abortion clinics and could shut down half the rest if upheld.
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Penguins vs a rope via /r/gifs https://t.co/n31K1hVjIx https://t.co/UafValinoa
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My aunt saved a newspaper from when the first moon landing was announced. : space
My aunt saved a newspaper from when the first moon landing was announced. via /r/space https://t.co/AMzzdMwnEz https://t.co/4LKaoqueIF
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I survived this yesterday, took a photo and then quit my job. : pics
I survived this yesterday, took a photo and then quit my job. via /r/pics https://t.co/b2qth7RlT3 https://t.co/5NnGwDLrxw
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The End Of YA Novel Adaptations — And 4 Other Pop Culture Predictions For 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
It’s January, which means the last few bits of Oscar bait are hitting theaters. But we still have a week or so until the nominations are announced, giving us a brief breather after the start of the new year to contemplate a crucial question: What on…
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Here’s Why Japan and Russia Might Sign a Peace Treaty — 70 Years After the War | VICE News
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging talks with Russia so that the two nations can finally sign a peace treaty. This should come as something of a surprise to the vast majority of people, who likely had no idea that there even was a peace tr…
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Hide Apps In iOS 9 with a Folder Trick
Hiding apps on iOS is a time honored tradition and the process always goes the same. Apple doesn’t let you delete default apps, an intrepid tinkerer finds a glitch around it. Apple patches said glitch in the next update. iOS 9-9.2 is no different.
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Huawei made a 10-inch Android tablet with a stylus | The Verge
Huawei didn’t spend too much time talking about this one at its CES press conference today, but the Chinese smartphone maker revealed a new 10-inch Android tablet called the MediaPad M2, a larger version of the 8-inch M2 it shipped last year.
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’90’s Mass Suicide Cult Website Is Still Online and Is Both Fascinating and Terrifying | GOOD
The cult Heaven’s Gate committed mass suicide in 1997. They sedated and then suffocated themselves in bunk beds, all wearing brand new black Nike Decade sneakers. They believed they were about to commune with an alien space craft that was following …
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The Devastating Impact of a Single Gas Well Leak | New Republic
The single biggest contributor to climate change in California is a blown-out natural gas well more than 8,700 ft. underground, state authorities and campaign groups said Monday.
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No More Overcooking Pork Chops (or Burning Down the House in the Process) – Bon Appétit
Yes, everybody makes basic cooking mistakes. Like, say, something as simple as overcooking mushrooms or toasting grains and spices. Below, senior associate web editor Rochelle Bilow confesses overcooking pork chops to associate food editor Rick Mart…
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How the Federal Government Is Responding to the Oregon Armed Standoff – The Atlantic
Federal law-enforcement agents have so far kept a low profile as armed anti-government protesters occupy a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. That strategy is likely the best way to resolve a standoff peacefully. It may also ease tensions between an…
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Black Hole’s Epic Belch May Solve Stellar Mystery
Astronomers have found a “burping” supermassive black hole is 26 million light-years from Earth in the Messier 51 galaxy (which includes the picturesque Whirlpool galaxy). They used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the monster black hole, wh…
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Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the Forgotten Shiites of Saudi Arabia – The Atlantic
The execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has not only precipitated a new diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran, it also puts Saudi Arabia’s little known, beleaguered Shiite population into the spotlight.
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FedEx Takes Needlessly Cruel Swipe At A Grieving Lesbian Widow | ThinkProgress
Stacey Schuett and Lesly Taboada-Hall lived together as a committed couple for nearly three decades. They had two children together. Nearly a quarter of a century into their relationship, Taboada-Hall was diagnosed with cancer.
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How the Shape of Your Glass Can Make Your Beer Taste Better | Outside Online
In 2016, instead of talking about the nuances of Cascade versus Saaz hops, we’re going to spend the year talking about how a concave bottom and bulbous top maximize aromas and help keep a beer’s head foamy. And it will be really, really pretentious.
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The hardships of Delhi’s street vendors – Al Jazeera English
New Delhi, India – An estimated 10 million vendors sell goods and services on the streets of India. The court ordered it to present a clear policy on Tuesday to regulate the number of vendors and help others find new jobs.
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Intel’s CES 2016 keynote: start time, live blog, and streaming | The Verge
We’re on the ground at CES in Las Vegas to bring you inside the biggest events. Tonight we’ll be attending Intel’s CES 2016 keynote to see what one of the world’s largest chipmakers has in store for the future.
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UN: New Sexual Abuse Allegations in CAR | Al Jazeera America
The United Nations on Tuesday said it was investigating new allegations that U.N. peacekeepers sexually abused four underage girls in the Central African Republic. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N.
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California lawmakers propose $2bn to aid mentally ill homeless people | US news | The Guardian
Faced with the largest homeless population in the country, California lawmakers proposed a $2bn investment in housing for mentally ill homeless people, which, if passed, would be the largest state commitment of its kind.
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820A is a high-end phone chip adapted for your car | Ars Technica
A few years ago, chip companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia used CES to make announcements about new chips for smartphones and tablets.
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Why The Walking Dead Is About to Kill off Half Its Cast | Vanity Fair
Just after zombies swarmed the gates of Alexandria in Episode 8, The Walking Dead show runner Scott Gimple promised, “Episode 9 is one of the biggest episodes we’ve done.” “So many people die,” comic creator Robert Kirkman laughingly agreed of the u…
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‘Break ‘Em Up’: Bernie Sanders Offers Tough Wall Street Reform Plan
“Greed is not good. In fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation.
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Nancy Sinatra sings about her secret agent / Boing Boing
Punk icon Jello Biafra’s acting showreel, used as a resume-of-sorts in the TV/movie business, features his moments in Portlandia, Death and Taxes, Tapeheads, The Hipster Games, and others. (via Dangerous Minds)
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Exploitation trailer compilations are certainly nothing new: Johnny Legend’s Sleazemania was a VHS favorite throughout the ’80s and Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell seems to be perpetually streaming on Netflix.
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It follows the governing Socialist Party’s heavy defeat in last month’s election. The result put an end to 16 years of government majorities in the single-chamber assembly.
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LCD Soundsystem might be headlining Coachella, but that’s the not the band’s only plan for 2016. In a lengthy note on the band’s website, the group’s frontman, James Murphy, says LCD will tour beyond Coachella and plans to release a new record in 20…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Mistakes were made via /r/aww…
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A German man strangled and dismembered his wife before encasing her head in a concrete block and drowning himself in an Austrian lake, police say.The man, 72, and his 71-year-old wife have not been named.
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Venezuela Opposition to Take Over Congress | Al Jazeera America
Venezuela’s opposition took control of Congress for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday, potentially setting up a power struggle with President Nicolás Maduro amid a worsening economic crisis.
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India’s street vendors fearful for the future – Al Jazeera English
New Delhi, India – It’s one of the first sights you’ll see when driving away from the airport in New Delhi. Men, women, and sometimes even children, walk through traffic at the red light, waving books, toys, and car chargers at you.
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Waiving the Age of Reason
Most kids start to learn their multiplication tables in the third grade. Their storybooks—typically illustrated, with only a few sentences per page—begin to give way to short chapter books. A year later, they are taught the difference between sedime…
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Homeless New Yorkers speak out over governor’s cold weather shelter plan | US news | The Guardian
A controversial measure which may force New York’s homeless into shelters during cold weather has not been well received by the people it’s meant to protect, and has civil libertarians concerned about its possible overreach. “The governor is going a…
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Corn Added To List Of Items That Upset Grandma’s Stomach – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
JOPLIN, MO—Saying that even a small amount of the grain gives her trouble, local grandmother Gertrude Rogers, 84, announced Monday that corn has been added to the list of food items that upset her stomach.
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For Russia’s space program, 2016 may be a make-or-break year | Ars Technica
An old theater rises above the center of Baikonur, a dusty town in Kazakhstan near the cosmodrome from which Russians have launched humans into space since 1961. Long ago, Soviet soldiers mingled in its lobby and sat in its uncomfortable wooden chai…
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Jedi Knight Samuel L. Jackson Has Some Harsh Words for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mace Windu, a.k.a. Samuel L. Jackson, appeared on ABC to talk about his new movie The Hateful Eight and drop some serious shade on the The Force Awakens. He’s being crazy diplomatic there, but it really doesn’t sound like he liked the movie at all.
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Adequate Man Remake The Star Wars Prequels! | Jezebel Making a Murderer Victim, Juror React to Series: ‘I Can’t Un-Ring This Bell’ | Sploid Here’s the Fastest Way to Defrost Your Car Windshield According to Science | Gawker Barack Obama Just Cried o…
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Prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.
America’s prisons have become warehouses for the severely mentally ill.
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Chameleon Tongues Among Fastest on Earth, Video Reveals
Sticking your tongue out might seem like child’s play, but for chameleons, it’s a matter of survival. The color-changing reptiles famously flick their long, sticky tongues to catch insects unawares.
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James Murphy Defends LCD Soundsystem Reunion, Plots Tour, New Album | Rolling Stone
LCD Soundsystem will release a new record and embark on an extensive tour this year, mastermind James Murphy wrote in a lengthy letter on the band’s website that shifted tonally between defensiveness, contrition and exuberance.
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A.J. Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura and Bullet Club: WWE Goes for Broke | Rolling Stone
At Monday night’s Wrestle Kingdom 10, A.J. Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura faced each other for the first time.
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Lumosity Has to Pay $2 Million for Lying About Its Bullshit Brain Games : technology
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2016 BAFTA Rising Star Award Nominees : movies
2016 BAFTA Rising Star Award Nominees via /r/movies https://t.co/iHjs9QP8J7 https://t.co/XiQsZSRdU6
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Canada Is Counting the Country’s Homeless For the First Time | VICE News
By April 30, Canada will have a pretty good idea of how many homeless people live across the country. That’s thanks to a federally-driven effort to count every Canadian staying in a shelter, sleeping on the street, or living in a public area.
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Sexual Assaults in Germany on New Year’s Eve Spark Debate Over Refugee Policy – The Atlantic
Outrage is growing in Germany over the reported sexual harassment of and assaults on women in the city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve that police have blamed on as many as 1,000 men of “Arab or North African” background.
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Midday open thread: U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan; fracking tremors plague OK
Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Oregon militants: Patriots or Owl Qaeda? In California, we get essentially all of our water in the winter – typically, nearly all of it in just a few big winter storms, each passing through the state in just a few da…
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Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials – Scientific American
A technique called optogenetics has transformed neuroscience during the past 10 years by allowing researchers to turn specific neurons on and off in experimental animals.
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A Confident Ben Carson Shows Up on Staten Island as Donald Trump – The Daily Beast
STATEN ISLAND — “Who said there weren’t warm people in New York?” Ben Carson began, beaming on the stage of a small ballroom in the Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island.
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Live from Qualcomm’s CES 2016 press event – The Verge
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Sony’s CES 2016 press conference: start time, live blog, and streaming | The Verge
Tuesday is packed with big CES events, and The Verge will be there to take you inside. Join us tonight as we witness Sony’s CES 2016 keynote, which is sure to have plenty of the company’s signature fanfare.
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The real roots of Sunni-Shia conflict: beyond the myth of “ancient religious hatreds” – Vox
The story, as told, usually goes something like this: 1,400 years ago, during the seventh century, there was a schism among Muslims over who would succeed as leader of the faithful, and that schism led to a civil war.
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Ultimate All-Level Excel Bootcamp | Digg Store
With over 500,000 users throughout the world, Skillsology has developed courses with an emphasis on high-quality training for business or pleasure, with courses in Excel, Project Management, Web-Design, Accounting and Bookkeeping, and various langua…
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Is “legacy” the key to climate action? (And no, this is not about estate planning) | Grist
It’s complicated. Cadiz Inc. plans to pump 814 billion gallons from the desert’s aquifer to L.A. and other California communities.
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Aptoide Lands $4M To Grow Its Alternative Android App Store In Emerging Markets | TechCrunch
Searching the app store is a pain in the ass unless you know what you’re looking for. That’s even more true if you happen to own a $150 smartphone and have patchy a mobile internet connection on a prepay deal, as many of the world’s new internet pop…
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How Firearm Background Checks Work – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
With gun violence in the United States rising to unprecedented levels, many lawmakers have pushed to expand federal background checks for the purchase of firearms. Here’s how background checks are currently conducted: Step 1: Second Amendment rights…
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Temba Bavuma’s magnificent unbeaten century for South Africa against England on day four in Cape Town transcended cricket. I’ve been very lucky – I have followed South Africa and witnessed their first tour after they came back into world cricket in …
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Wearable tech company sues Apple Watch and Fitbit over patents | Ars Technica
Wearable technology company Valencell has sued both Apple and Fitbit, saying the two companies’ devices infringe on various Valencell patents.
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Ted Cruz Is Trying To Out-Trump Donald Trump On Harsh Immigration Policies | ThinkProgress
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s latest position on undocumented immigrants is so extreme that it makes Donald Trump — who has become infamous for his harsh, xenophobic anti-immigrant remarks on the campaign trail — look tame in comparison.
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About 16,000 properties were flooded in England last month during the wettest December in a century, the environment minister has said.
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A Michigan auction house is set to sell an ex-con’s lotto ticket worth $1,000 a month, though it carries an unusual caveat: the payout will last only as long as the original winner lives.
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Nikon announces a 360-degree action camera | The Verge
Nikon just announced the D5, a brand new 4K DSLR flagship camera. But the bigger surprise might be the KeyMission 360, which is the company’s first ever action camera — and it shoots 360-degree video.
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Wonderful wacky portrait of a very excited Donald Trump fan / Boing Boing
The visibly excited Donald Trump supporter in this photo is Ms. Robin Roy. We should all be so lucky to experience such exhilaration in this lifetime. Ms. Roy was among the many fans of U.S.
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Making A Murderer juror now believes Steven Avery was framed, is innocent · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At least one person who voted to convict Steven Avery believes the Making A Murderer subject is innocent. The revelation comes via Murderer filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who were interviewed this morning on The Today Show.
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David Cross announces his first stand-up tour in 6 years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It looks like we won’t be seeing a Banes & Dunfrey tour any time soon, because David Cross has already made plans for 2016: The comedian announced last night on The Daily Show that he would be hitting the road for his first stand-up comedy tour in s…
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For some, the dawning of a new year can be a clean slate, a time of renewal and redemption. For others, it is a challenge, a call to greatness.
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What you should know about California’s massive methane leak | Grist
What’s SoCalGas doing about it? According to company spokesperson Melissa Bailey, SoCalGas is “doing everything we can to stop the leak as quickly as possible.” Furthermore, the company has “committed to mitigating the effects” of the leak on climat…
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Review: MTV’s ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ Gets Wrong What ‘Star Wars’ Got Right – The Atlantic
Watching the first three episodes of MTV’s new series The Shannara Chronicles, I kept thinking about Star Wars. When the naive country boy Wil learned of the heroism and sad fate of a father he barely knew, I thought of Luke Skywalker’s original imp…
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This New Year’s Eve, Kendall Jenner revealed every powerful girl squad’s Achilles’ heel: boys. More specifically, boys with tattoos, accents, a gift for harmonizing and a certain joie de vivre.
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Nikon announces the D500, its new DSLR for the smartphone age | The Verge
Nikon just unveiled the new D500, part of its Nikon DX series of APS-C digital cameras, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today.
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The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode – In These Times
New Year’s Eve in Chicago may lack an iconic midnight ball drop, but this year the city got a massive document drop as it prepared to ring in 2016.
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Bernie Sanders attacks Donald Trump for being stupid about climate change | Grist
The two Democratic candidates support similar solutions to problems with the rural economy, but they differ over the causes. Researchers say we prefer to be “willfully ignorant” when it comes to the ethical issues behind our purchases.
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Was Obama serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground? Here’s a Colorado test case. – Vox
In 2013, when Republicans were pushing President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, he pushed back, saying that “our national interest will be served only if this pipeline does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem.
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Gun violence has already killed at least 147 people in the US in 2016 – Vox
President Barack Obama has begun his final full year in office by taking new executive actions on guns. And as of the fourth day into that last full year in office, a new analysis shows that gun violence has killed at least 147 people in the US.
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Huawei’s Mate 8 flagship smartphone has fast charging, better fingerprint scanning | The Verge
Huawei unveiled its newest flagship smartphone today at its CES press conference, showing off some new and improved hardware mixed with Huawei’s own software skin over Android. The sleek-looking Huawei Mate 8 has a large, 6-inch HD display coated in…
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What Will Come Across the US-Mexican Border in 2016 | Motherboard
This year, rather than writing our own predictions, we decided to have Motherboard interview each other. Thanks partly to Americans’ renewed fears of terrorism, our borders became one of the biggest issues of 2015.
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A Geeky Video Store Finds Unexpected New Life in This Hopeful Short Doc
Cinephile hotspot Videoport was located in Portland, Maine.
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Vice News Says Reporter Released on Bail in Turkey | Al Jazeera America
Iraqi Kurdish journalist Mohammed Rasool has been released after 131 days in a Turkish prison, the organization he was working for said Tuesday. Rasool’s arrest on charges of assisting a terrorist organization had been widely criticized by internati…
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After a long hiatus, the RSA (The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has returned with another one of the whiteboard animated-lectures they pioneered five years ago.
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After years of skiing half-blind, I’ve finally found the answer / Boing Boing
I’m not a hardcore skiier, but growing up in Canada I did learn, and my family and I go skiing about once a year. As someone who wears glasses — and not contacts — there always comes a point at which I have to choose between being able to see and …
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South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) says it will push for tougher legislation to jail anyone guilty of “racial bigotry”, or “glorifying” apartheid. Black people could no longer be treated as “sub-humans”, it said.
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Cool Ikea hack: make a bicycle out of a FROSTA stool
With just a few modifications, Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhends made a working bicycle out of a pair of Ikea FROSTA stools.
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Defrost your windshield in half the time with a science-backed method / Boing Boing
You’d think hitting the defrost button in your car on a chilly morning would be the quickest way to defrost your windshield. But not necessarily so, according to ex-Nasa engineer Mark Rober, who has come up with a way to defrost car windows in half …
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Smith & Wesson shares surge after Obama unveils gun control measures | Business | The Guardian
Smith & Wesson shares have soared to their highest level in more than a decade as Barack Obama tearfully announced new restrictions on gun sales designed to reduce the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings. Shares in Smith & Wesson rose by more than 1…
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When the Boxing Day flood swept through my village, Mytholmroyd in the Calder Valley, it didn’t just engulf the newsagents in seven feet of water. It seeped into the very fabric of our community.
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The case for killing the 140-character limit, in one tweet – Vox
Speaking as someone who loves Twitter and who worries about the fact that it is failing in stock market terms, I think this is a sign of why bringing back Jack Dorsey as CEO was ultimately a good idea.
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LCD Soundsystem is releasing a new album ‘sometime this year’ | The Verge
You wanted a reunion? You’ve got one.
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The Sikhs had been dishing out free curry in Mytholmroyd for a few days when a man in his mid to late 20s came up to them, looking emotional. He had a confession to make.
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The latest video from so-called Islamic State (IS) is thought to have been fronted by a masked British man. In the footage, five men are murdered, accused of spying for Britain.
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Donald Trump’s campaign: ‘No sh-t’ we’re faking border footage to justify Trump’s claims
By now you’ve probably heard that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has released his first television ad, one parroting Trump’s race-baiting warnings about the scary brown menace coming for us all, and that it features grainy colorless …
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Inside the little-known kitchen of Afghanistan’s Sikhs – Al Jazeera English
Kabul, Afghanistan – On December 16, Mukesh woke just before 5am. He smoothed down his shirt, slipped on leather sandals, and shuffled out into the dark courtyard of the Karte Parwan Gurdwara, the main place of worship for Kabul’s Sikh community.
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Ars readers set an annual charity drive record: Over $38,000 in donations | Ars Technica
2015 was our ninth straight year asking readers to donate to some worthy charities for a chance to win the swag we collected during the year. It was also our most successful charity fundraising year by a good margin. All told, Ars Technica readers d…
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Tearful Obama calls for ‘sense of urgency’ to fight gun violence in America / Boing Boing
President Obama wept today as he spoke today about the ever-increasing waves of gun violence throughout America. He announced new executive actions to reduce the frequency of mass shootings, suicides and other gun killings, which have become a commo…
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I used this cool liquid plastic welding material to repair a broken butter tray door / Boing Boing
Our refrigerator has a bad butter tray design. If you forget to lower the butter tray door and then close the refrigerator door, the butter tray door will get pinched between the refrigerator door and the refrigerator. If you close the refrigerator …
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Sylvester Stallone says he won’t make any more Rambo movies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a new interview with Variety, Sylvester Stallone declared that he will not continue the Rambo franchise, despite earlier this year confirming his intention to make Rambo 5.
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‘Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes’ Includes McAuliffe Lesson Plan Rehearsal | Nat Geo Video
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Obama’s gun control speech: fact-checking the statistics | US news | The Guardian
Although the president was clearly moved while speaking about gun violence in America, he repeatedly referred to statistics which he claimed served as evidence that such violence was preventable.
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LCD Soundsystem, Guns N’ Roses reunions top this year’s Coachella lineup · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Confirming the speculative chatter that has been flying around over the past couple of months, both Guns N’ Roses—which encouraged the rumors—and LCD Soundsystem—which vehemently denied the rumors—are reuniting and will play headlining sets at this …
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President Obama Tears Up as Gun Stocks Skyrocket | Vanity Fair
President Barack Obama, introduced by the father of a little boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting three years ago, made it through most of his midday speech about new gun-control measures his administration introduced Tuesday befo…
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ISIL launches major assault on Iraq’s Haditha – Al Jazeera English
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has launched a major offensive against the strategic Iraqi city of Haditha with hundreds killed during three days of heavy fighting, a tribal source said on Tuesday.
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US Immigration Agents Are Rounding Up Central American Families to Deport Them | VICE News
Maria Hernandez and her two sons were asleep early Saturday morning in her parents’ Dallas home when several immigration agents banged on the door. Her father opened it, confused, and the agents burst inside.
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A Canadian Professor Is Sanctioned After Asking for Free Rein to Swear in Class | VICE News
An Ontario professor has been suspended from teaching his class after his university found out he was asking students to sign off on his use of profane language in lectures. Every year, Laurentian University professor Dr.
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Sony has sold over 35 million PlayStation 4s | The Verge
Sony sold-though more than 5.7 million PlayStation 4s during the holiday season, according to the company. Including the holiday sales, the total number of PS4s sold has increased to more than 35.
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News | Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space
Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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Can Brazil’s Workers’ Party Survive? | The Nation
São Paulo—A torrent of mud, glowing orange at sunset like molten steel, killed 17 people and poisoned all else in its path after the collapse in early November of two dams at the Samarco iron-ore mine in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
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TCL’s new X1 is the latest 4K TV to show off the power of Dolby Vision HDR | The Verge
CES 2016 is shaping up to be the year of HDR, and one of the most vocal proponents behind high dynamic range imagery has announced a pair of new content partners and a new line of televisions from TCL to help move the ball forward.
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A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement | The Nation
Guilherme Boulos is the leader of the homeless movement (MTST) in the megalopolis of São Paulo, a city with more than 20 million inhabitants.
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11-Year-Old Boy Undergoes Mastectomy – The Daily Beast
An 11-year-old schoolboy has become the first child in Britain to undergo a mastectomy. Surgeons in Birmingham, UK, removed the right pectoral muscle of Lewis Deakin, who suffers from arteriovenous malformations (AVM)—a rare condition in which benig…
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Why ISIS Is the Minor Leagues of Terror | The Nation
It’s time to panic! As 2015 ended, this country was certifiably terror-stricken. It had the Islamic State (IS) on the brain. Hoax terror threats or terror imbroglios shut down school systems from Los Angeles to New Hampshire, Indiana to a rural coun…
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WASHINGTON — With tears streaming down his face, President Obama on Tuesday condemned the repeated spasms of gun violence across America as he announced new executive actions intended to reduce the number of mass shootings, suicides
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By JAN. 5, 2016 When news broke that the Four Seasons Restaurant would be leaving its landmark home in the Seagram Building in Midtown Manhattan, a collective gasp could be heard in the city’s corridors of power.
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Man with inflatable penis implant will lose virginity to sex worker / Boing Boing
Last year, Mohammed Abad, 43, whose penis was destroyed when he was hit by a car as a child, received an 8-inch implant involving two tubes that inflate his reconstructed flesh phallus when he pumps it up via a button in his scrotum.
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Candle that smells like a motorcycle engine / Boing Boing
Flying Tiger Motorcycles offers this curious “Two Stroke Smoke Candle” that is made from two-stroke oil and “high-octane fragrance” to give your home that singular bike bouquet. It’s $20 and comes in a metal can.
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Get ‘Em While They’re Cheap: $3 Lightning and $2 MicroUSB Cables
Spigen’s excellent Lightning cables are down to just $3 today, which is basically as low as you can ever hope to see them. [Spigen Lightning Cable, $3 with code DJ733RG4] If you’re more of an Android person, the microUSB version is also down to $2.
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Pretend Your Job Interviewer Is an Old Friend to Be More Comfortable
Interviews tend to be awkward, perhaps nerve-wracking experiences. One simple trick to get more comfortable: Imagine you’re old pals with the interviewers. Before a job interview, imagine yourself as being old pals with your interviewers. That puts …
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Lumosity pays $2 million to FTC to settle bogus “Brain Training” claims | Ars Technica
Lumos Labs, the company behind the popular Lumosity “Brain Training” program, is agreeing to pay $2 million to settle deceptive advertising claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Nikon announces the D5, its new flagship pro camera | The Verge
After confirming in November that the D5 would follow the D4, Nikon is finally unveiling its new flagship pro camera in full today at CES 2016.
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The Technics SL-1200 turntable returns in two new audiophile models | The Verge
The legendary Technics SL-1200 turntable has been a mainstay of the DJ scene for decades now, but the tanklike direct-drive turntable has also long had a quiet reputation for sound quality as well.
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Huawei unveils two new opulent smartwatches dubbed ‘Elegant’ and ‘Jewel’ | The Verge
If you’ve been thinking lately your smartwatch just doesn’t contain enough jewels, you’re in luck. Huawei is offering two new glamorous Android Wear smartwatch options.
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A campaign to pardon Steven Avery, a convicted murderer and main subject of the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, has gathered hundreds of thousands of supporters.If you haven’t seen it yourself, you may have seen friends’ posts about it…
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The Man Behind the Mask? When We Met Islamic State’s Suspected New Executioner | VICE News
As soon as the latest Islamic State (IS) propaganda video was released on Sunday, the world rushed to identify the British man behind the mask, who promised the UK would be attacked before beginning the executions of five hostages.
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HERE Launches Cloud-Based Maps For Automated Driving | TechCrunch
HERE, the mapping service now owned by Audi, BMW and Daimler, today announced a new cloud-based mapping service for enhancing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving features in cars.
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Firm behind .sucks wants its TLD to be “magnet for conversation” | Ars Technica
Have something to complain about but haven’t found a top-level domain (TLD) with adequate panache? Fear not. Nearly six months ago, .sucks became available, and, sure enough, people have been using it in spades to gripe about stuff.
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A leading economist’s 10-point plan to restore US economic growth – Vox
Most of the country’s top economists are gathered this week in San Francisco for the annual American Economic Association conference. And from what I’m hearing, the buzz is all about Robert Gordon, a Northwestern professor who’s been arguing for som…
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What 2016 Holds for the Mysterious World of Physics – Scientific American
The New Year may also be a year of discoveries for physicists plumbing the deepest mysteries of matter. Since 2013, when scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) confirmed they had discovered the Higgs boson, the particle that lends others mass…
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Live from Nikon’s CES 2016 press event – The Verge
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NRA responds to New York ammunition bills with menacing photo of lawmakers | US news | The Guardian
A National Rifle Association publication targeted a pair of New York state legislators who sponsored recent bills aimed at limiting ammunition by tweeting a threatening photo on Monday of several bullets strewn across polaroid pictures of the two wo…
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A woeful response to flooding as the climate crisis hits home | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
The risible inadequacy of the government’s £40m “extra” spending on flood defences (Cameron’s £40m flood money criticised as ‘sticking plaster’, 4 January) means that it’s time to seriously address how to find the countless billions needed to effect…
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AT&T wants to make every city smart | The Verge
First we had smart phones. Then we were promised smart homes. Now, if AT&T has its way, we’ll all be living in smart cities. And it’s not thinking small, either. “We believe the scale is big,” explained AT&T Mobility CEO Glenn Lurie in an interview …
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Cruz angles to be worse on immigration than Trump
I know, I know. You didn’t think it was possible for ANYONE to be more repugnant on immigration than Donald “mass deportation” Trump. But Ted Cruz begs to differ, reports Andrew Kaczynski.
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Obama Delivers Tearful Speech on Why America Needs Gun Control, Now | Rolling Stone
After seven years of congressional foot dragging — despite the mounting death toll from mass shootings from Newtown, Connecticut, to San Bernardino, California — president Obama announced in an at times emotional speech Tuesday executive actions aim…
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Watch Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato Parody ‘N Sync in ‘Irresistible’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato Parody ‘N Sync in ‘Irresistible’ Video Former boy band members Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick make cameos in toy store-set clip
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Plot Thickens as Missing Hong Kong Bookseller Faxes Mysterious Message to Wife | VICE News
A Hong Kong bookseller who went missing last week has apparently faxed a vague letter to his wife telling her that “all is normal,” a cryptic message that has deepened the mystery surrounding the man’s disappearance.
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Gambia’s President Orders Female Government Workers to Cover Their Hair | VICE News
The small West African country of Gambia is now in the business of telling women how to dress. Just weeks after President Yahya Jammeh declared the country an Islamic republic, the government issued an executive decree on Monday ordering female civi…
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The Saudi Coalition Bombed A Rehabilitation Center for Blind People in Yemen | VICE News
United Nations officials have confirmed to VICE News that aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition have struck a rehabilitation center for the blind in Yemen’s capital Sana’a early on Tuesday morning.
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Review: A heated dog bed, for a senior pup whose old bones love warmth / Boing Boing
My dog is a 10-year-old whose history includes time in animal shelters, and in various homes. He has arthritis, a progressive condition that will cause him more pain as he grows older.
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With ‘Lazarus,’ David Bowie’s Science Fiction Falls to Earth | Motherboard
Truer to the source material than is probably advisable, the new David Bowie musical Lazarus both rises and falls just like the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth, which it is a sort of sequel to.
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NBA Players Sit Front Row For President Obama’s Speech On Gun Control | ThinkProgress
President Barack Obama announced his plan to take executive action on gun control in an emotional speech on Tuesday at the White House. And sitting just next to his podium were two active NBA players — Bradley Beal and Alan Anderson of the Washingto…
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Steven Universe Returns With a Fairytale Ode to Its Most Secretive Character
Steven Universe made its highly anticipated return last night with an episode dedicated to one of the shows most intriguing characters: Garnet.
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This Is Why You Got That Weird Tinder Push Notification This Week | TechCrunch
On January 3, three sad days after folks celebrated the New Year by sharing a kiss with a lover, Tinder had its biggest growth day in its entire history, recording the most downloads in a single day ever and the most growth of active users in a sing…
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It’s not just the Oregon militia: Why many Westerners get angry about federal land rights. – Vox
By all accounts, the militia that seized the headquarters of the federal Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, isn’t terribly popular with the locals. Most people aren’t fans of illegal armed takeovers, especially by outsiders.
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President Obama’s Emotional Speech on Gun Control – The Atlantic
President Obama announced Tuesday new measures that he said would curb gun violence across the country. “People are dying,” the president said. “And the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice. That is why we are here today.
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Rough Start for Dow, S&P, Nasdaq in 2016 – The Atlantic
The first two days of trading in 2016 have been a rough ride for investors. On Monday, markets tanked due to concerns about a global economic slowdown and a sell-off in the Chinese markets—where, for the first time, trading was halted after weak man…
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Daredevil season 2 will debut on the same day as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Vox
Netflix and Marvel apparently aren’t afraid of a little competition. According to ComicBook.com, the second season of Daredevil, a joint effort between the streaming service and the comics giant, will debut on March 25, 2016 — the same day Warner Br…
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Panasonic’s new 4K point-and-shoot is like a more affordable Sony RX100 | The Verge
Panasonic is taking a swing at the extremely young 4K point-and-shoot market with a new $699 camera called the Lumix ZS100, which was announced today at CES. The new Lumix ZS100 is a welcome and generous improvement on the ZS50, which Panasonic debu…
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President Obama has given an emotional speech about tightening controls on gun purchases in the US. He said he was using his presidential powers because Congress had failed to act.
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How Obama’s reactions to mass shootings evolved from grieving to angry — to this – Vox
President Obama’s speech today announcing his new executive action on guns was very different than the kind of speeches he’d been giving time and time again after mass shootings.
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MPs to debate banning Donald Trump from UK | US news | The Guardian
MPs are to debate calls for the US presidential candidate Donald Trump to be banned from the UK following his controversial comments about Muslims, after more than half a million people signed a petition.
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Samsung at CES 2016: start time, live blog, and streaming | The Verge
Samsung always puts on a weird show, and we can’t wait to take you there tonight.
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The Best Youtube Channels You Can Work Out to Right Now
It’s cold. The gym is crowded. Might as well stay home and watch videos…workout videos. Here are some of our favorite ways to get fit with YouTube.
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Panasonic is releasing a 4K Blu-ray player in the US this year | The Verge
Blu-ray’s 4K future is on the horizon, and Panasonic is making sure it’s involved with a new Blu-Ray player that delivers on the promise of the prototype it previewed at last year’s CES.
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BERLIN — German authorities said on Tuesday that coordinated attacks in which young women were sexually harassed and robbed by hundreds of young men on New Year’s Eve in the western city of Cologne were unprecedented in scale and nature.
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Obama Notes Blocks Of Gun Violence Research – Scientific American
In his announcement today that he was taking executive action to require more gun sellers to be licensed and to do background checks on gun buyers, President Obama also touched upon the problems facing public health researchers who try to study gun …
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Black Hole’s Rejected Snack Becomes Science Goldmine
This observation shows a false-color infrared image of the region around the nucleus of our Milky Way, the supermassive black hole Sag A*.
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Gideon Mendel’s Photography of Floods – The Atlantic
For several years, the South Africa-born, London-based photographer Gideon Mendel has been photographing floods around the world.
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Virgin Galactic’s Second SpaceShipTwo to Roll Out on Feb. 19
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, as seen being built in May 2015, will be rolled out on Feb. 19, 2016, at the Mojave Air and Space Port in CaliforniaCredit: Virgin Galactic View full size image Virgin Galactic will roll out and christen its se…
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MPs are to debate whether to bar Donald Trump from entering the UK in response to a public petition calling for action against the US Presidential candidate. About 568,000 people have backed a petition calling on the tycoon to be barred for comments…
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AT&T is updating its system for monitoring patient health remotely | The Verge
Over the past two years, AT&T has jumped in on the growing telehealth trend with its Remote Patient Monitoring kit.
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How The Saudi-Iranian Tensions Could Undermine U.S. Interests In The Middle East | ThinkProgress
Tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran has long festered via regional proxy wars, but the execution of a prominent Saudi Shia cleric by Riyadh over the weekend and the subsequent reactions could affect the United States’ interests in the Middle East.
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Smart glucose monitor will wirelessly transmit patients’ data to doctors | The Verge
AT&T is teaming up with the manufacturers of a smart glucose monitor, in an attempt to help diabetic patients better record and share their blood sugar levels.
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Fox News lies. How can I tell? Their lips are moving. Cops lie too. Some of them do it so often, there’s a nickname for it: testilying. What’s this week’s lie? Actually, it’s looking back at last year’s big lie: a war on cops.
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What We’ve Learned About Pluto So Far – The New Yorker
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft concluded its tightly choreographed flyby of Pluto, back in July, with a pirouette, pointing its antenna toward Earth. Five hours later, the anxious team at mission control, in Maryland, received the first handful of i…
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Here’s What 10,000 Characters Looks Like | TechCrunch
So, Recode reported today that Twitter was tinkering around with the idea of expanding its 140 character limit to a number a bit higher….10,000 characters. But what, you ask (and I’m glad you did), does 10,000 characters look like? Well, hey. Let’s …
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The last season of Vikings left things off in the usual places. Once again, Ragnar Lothbrok faced daunting odds only to turn the tables and triumph over his overconfident adversaries while his family and countrymen oscillated between varying degrees…
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Here’s what I think Donald Trump’s loss will look like – Vox
2) Here’s the bomb: “For all you Republicans and pundits who are still talking about a Cruz-Rubio final, here’s a wake-up data point: It’s been 168 days since Trump took a big lead in national polling, and he has widened his margin by 10 points sinc…
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Grizzly Bear Catches Spawning Michael Phelps In Jaws – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
KENAI, AK—Sitting on a rock atop the powerful, churning rapids, a grizzly bear reportedly caught Michael Phelps in its jaws Tuesday as the sexually mature Olympian leaped out of the water while swimming upstream to spawn.
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GOP Candidates Reject Obama’s Tearful Plea For Gun Control | ThinkProgress
President Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control on Tuesday during an emotional briefing in the East Room of the White House.
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Turkey frees Vice News reporter after 131 days in jail – Al Jazeera English
Vice News announced on Tuesday that its reporter Mohammed Rasool was released on bail after being held in a Turkish jail for more than four months.
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Breaking: Adam Got A PS4 For Christmas – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
DANVILLE, CA—Saying that the 10-year-old was so freaking lucky, sources in Mrs. Burnett’s homeroom class confirmed Monday that local 5th-grader Adam Samuels got a PlayStation 4 for Christmas and Star Wars Battlefront, too.
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Seth Meyers Drops a Perfect Making a Murderer Parody | Vanity Fair
Much has been made of Seth Meyers and his ability to incisively and entertainingly tackle the news on his late-night talk show. But the former Saturday Night Live head writer doesn’t always get enough credit for the enormously entertaining sketch wo…
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Turns Out Pigs Are Pretty Good Swimmers : gifs
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Call me an owl again, I’ll give you such a doin’! : aww
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Obama wipes away tears while talking gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama made an emotional plea on Tuesday in defense of his administration’s plan to increase background checks for buyers of firearms over the internet and at gun shows, saying current exceptions do not make sense.
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Fuller House is now asking non-twin Olsens to play Michelle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
No one is happy that Michelle Tanner co-originators Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen won’t reprise the role (in shifts) for Netflix’s Fuller House, but no one seems quite as conflicted by the news as John Stamos.
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The star of Phoenix headlines a pared-down Western · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Hateful Eight and The Revenant have us thinking about modern Westerns. Thomas Arslan has a no-frills approach to genre. A contemporary of…
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An Iraqi Kurdish journalist has been released after 131 days in a Turkish prison, his employer Vice News says. Mohammed Rasool was detained along with two British colleagues in August and held on terror charges.
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In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we discovered in video games. Among the many quantum leaps that make Grand Theft Auto V the best open-world game ever produced is its massive, eclectic so…
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Surprise! A new season of Venture Bros. is coming at the end of January · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s a good thing that The Venture Bros. has such high re-watch value, because the wait between seasons can feel interminable. ”The writing is excellent, and the mythology dense.
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Twitter May Increase Tweets To 10,000 Characters, But Hide All Past 140 | TechCrunch
No, you’re not going to have article-length tweets overwhelming you timeline, but Twitter is looking to let you write more without leaving the service.
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New Zealand rules police raid on journalist Nicky Hager was illegal / Boing Boing
In a huge victory for press freedom, New Zealand’s High Court has ruled decisively in favor of independent journalist Nicky Hager in his case against the New Zealand government for raiding his house and seizing his family’s possessions in 2014.
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WHEN Saudi Arabia executed the Shiite cleric and political dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday, the country’s leaders were aware that doing so would upset their longtime rivals in Iran. In fact, the royal court in Riyadh was probably counting …
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With ‘Superstore’, NBC Produces Yet Another Gloriously Mediocre Sitcom – The Atlantic
If you’re employing the traditional, critical definition of “good,” Superstore is not a good TV show. The NBC sitcom, which premieres this week after a teaser aired late last year, is not especially innovative (it’s The Office, essentially, only set…
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A strategy called “design thinking” has helped numerous entrepreneurs and engineers develop successful new products and businesses. But can design thinking help you create healthful habits?
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On New Year’s Eve some friends and family members had a drink at a bar in Tel Aviv. The next day a gunman shot up the place, killing two people and wounding at least five.
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You can now buy a hardcover book filled with Reddit’s best AMAs | The Verge
Reddit’s Ask Me Anything subreddit is a place where users can ask all sorts of people — from Barack Obama and Aphex Twin to drunk college kids — questions about their lives.
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A stable fire in Puslinch, Ontario in Canada has killed 43 horses despite dozens of firefighters working to douse the flames.The fire began around 23:00 local time (04:00 GMT) on Monday, and the cause of the fire is not yet known.
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Seven in 10 middle and high school students were exposed to e-cig ads in 2014 | The Verge
The unrestricted marketing of e-cigarettes could reverse decades of progress in preventing the use of tobacco products among youth, the CDC says. In 2014, 18.3 million middle and high school students were exposed to ads for e-cigs, according to an a…
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Feds Go Looking for ISIS, Find Child Porn Instead – The Daily Beast
In October, federal agents searched 18-year-old Ameer Abu-Hammad’s home and electronic devices seeking evidence that he was providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
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Google And Huawei Bring Gold-Colored Nexus 6P To US | TechCrunch
Have you been waiting to buy your Nexus 6P but held back because it wasn’t available in gold in the U.S. yet? Your long and agonizing wait is now over.
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Just What the Middle East Needs: Turkey’s Getting an Aircraft Carrier – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — Turkey is getting ready to widen the reach of its military considerably by building a multipurpose aircraft carrier with “trans-continental” capabilities.
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Tearful Obama tightens gun control and tells idle Congress: ‘We can’t wait’ | US news | The Guardian
A tear-stained Barack Obama marked his final year in office with a last-ditch call for US gun control on Tuesday as he outlined new rules that will close important background check loopholes but leave much of the political heavy lifting to his succe…
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Letters From the November 23/30 Issue | The Nation
Thank you, Bob Dreyfuss, Nick Turse, and all of the journalists who are helping to inform us about the recent war crime in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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The founder of new Utah-based dating site WhereWhitePeopleMeet has responded to online criticism by saying the site is “not racist in the slightest bit”, despite its discriminatory sounding name.
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The 2016 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival (23 photos) https://t.co/LezbDLV6yA https://t.co/cwAaj6voTT https://t.co/ej9vNn0A2K
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Sanders Blasts Trump On Weird Climate Change Claim | ThinkProgress
Bernie Sanders is apparently fed up with Donald Trump’s offhand and often outlandish claims. On Monday night, the Democratic candidate blasted Trump’s claim that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
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Rubio Ramps Up New Hampshire G.O.P. Primary Campaign | Vanity Fair
There are only 35 days left before New Hampshire’s Republican primary, which means there’s just enough time for Sen. Marco Rubio to finally begin a rigorous campaign in the key primary state.
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Get a Better Creative Workflow in Evernote by Ditching Tags
Tags can be useful for organization but they can also get in the way of your notes. Maybe we should ditch using tags in Evernote altogether. When you rely heavily on tags, you have to perfectly recall every single tag you’ve ever used, and exactly h…
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Watch Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra’s acting reel / Boing Boing
Punk icon Jello Biafra’s acting showreel, used as a resume-of-sorts in the TV/movie business, features his moments in Portlandia, Death and Taxes, Tapeheads, The Hipster Games, and others. (via Dangerous Minds)
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Graydon Carter on the Twin Torments of Donald Trump and Martin Shkreli | Vanity Fair
It’s interesting that Donald Trump’s “Silent Majority”—the adherents to his vision of the American future—have put their shoulders behind the loudest of loudmouths in a field of loudmouths. Nothing, it seems, is beyond his disdain or ridicule.
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I like this Instagram feed of handwritten, passive aggressive parking notes / Boing Boing
Many years ago I found a handwritten note on my car windshield that said, “If you ever touch my car again I will break your antenna.” I don’t think I touched anyone’s car, so the person who wrote the note was mistaken. Fortunately I didn’t lose my a…
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Computer Vision Startup ThirdEye Pivots From Google Glass To Mobile | TechCrunch
ThirdEye, a startup started by four Penn sophomores that helps the blind “see” what is around them, launched its mobile apps this morning.
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7 Reasons Why It Sucks to Be a Superhero Girlfriend
Wives and girlfriends of superheroes aren’t as hard-done-by as parents of superheros, but they’re a close second. Not only do they inevitably have a rough time, but everybody (including fans) hate them—which is no surprise.
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Google is releasing a gold Nexus 6P | The Verge
If you were having difficulty picking between the light and dark Nexus 6P options, here comes a gold variant to add some color and make matters that little bit more complicated.
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We’ve seen Blackpool swamped with chocolate biscuits and Worthing almost buried under mounds of wood, but the the undisputed capital of British beachcombing is the south-west.
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George RR Martin: when writers just can’t finish their books | Books | The Guardian
When George RR Martin announced this weekend that he still hadn’t finished the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, the reaction took two broad themes. One, as we chronicled here, saw fans of the books being broadly supportive of his slowness and e…
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Gunmaker Stocks Spike On White House Background Checks Announcement | ThinkProgress
Even before President Obama began explaining a slate of executive actions to tighten background checks for gun buyers on Tuesday morning, Wall Street speculators delivered a late Christmas present to gun manufacturers.
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Build Your Own Enterprise! Celebrate ‘Star Trek’s’ 50th with Mega Bloks
Mega Bloks is celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek” in 2016 with three new sets from the original series of the sci-fi franchise, including this flagship model of the USS Enterprise. All three sets will launch in the fall.
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Live from Huawei’s CES 2016 press event – The Verge
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The Environmental Movement Awakens | ThinkProgress
Star Wars is not the only popular 1970s franchise that showed in 2015 it still has muscles to flex. The remarkable reawakening of the environmental movement –- which had also seen its biggest successes in the 1970s — might be the sleeper story of th…
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Thai police websites hacked over death sentences – Al Jazeera English
Anonymous hackers attacked more than a dozen Thai police websites in protest against death sentences handed down to two Myanmar migrant workers for allegedly killing two British tourists.
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San Diego officer who fatally shot man was involved in two previous killings
San Diego Police Officer Richard Butera was back in the news Monday after fatally shooting a knife-wielding man, 30-year-old Joshua Adam Sisson, following a domestic dispute between Sisson and his boyfriend. According to NBC San Diego:
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Have you been drinking? : gifs
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Make a horse penis joke on Facebook, get 5 years in Kyrgyzstan prison / Boing Boing
Do not compare sausages to horse penises in Kyrgyzstan, or you could end up spending five years in prison. One man who learned this the hard way is Michael Mcfeat, a Brit who works at a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan.
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Comcast security flaw could help burglars break into homes undetected | Ars Technica
A security vendor says it discovered a flaw in Comcast’s home security system that could let criminals break into houses undetected by using radio jamming equipment. The vendor, Rapid7, says it alerted Comcast to the problem two months ago but never…
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GAIA Design, the Mexico City-based online furniture retailer, has raised $2.5 million from a coterie of Mexican and international investment funds and super angels, as interest in startups south of the US border picks up.
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California Could Sound the Loudest Call Yet for Overturning Citizens United | The Nation
When Americans cast their ballots for president next November—at the close of what will be the most expensive campaign in the country’s history—voters in the nation’s largest state could weigh in on the question of whether to amend the US Constituti…
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Despite Frigid Winter Temperatures, Students Are Waking Up To Unheated Classrooms | ThinkProgress
As east coast temperatures begin to dip after an unusually warm December, students in major school systems across the country are sitting in unheated classrooms wearing winter jackets.
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The 2016 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival – The Atlantic
Every year, in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, the city of Harbin hosts the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, featuring massive ice and snow sculptures—more than a million visitors are anticipated this year.
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How Virtual Reality Could Aid Mars Astronauts
Could virtual reality make the long trek to Mars more exciting and less stressful for astronauts? An ongoing study in the Canadian High Arctic attempts to answer that question.
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Bite into a pastry, find a diamond / Boing Boing
Tomorrow, buying a puff pastry in a French boulangerie will be as exciting as buying a chocolate Wonka Bar. Almost.
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Despite law changes, 2015 saw a heap of patent troll lawsuits | Ars Technica
Statistics released today show that 2015 saw more patent lawsuits filed than any other year save one.
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The governor of Yemen’s port city of Aden, Aidarus al-Zubaidi, has survived an assassination attempt, security sources say. A car bomb exploded as his convoy was passing, killing at least one body guard. The so-called Islamic State (IS) group says i…
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LastPass adds password recovery feature for ‘people I trust’ | The Verge
What happens to your passwords if you die? It’s a tricky question, and one most security systems avoid entirely. But LastPass has a new answer, rolled out today with a redesigned 4.0 version of the password manager.
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ASUS just dropped the first portable monitor with a USB Type-C port | The Verge
The USB Type-C specification promises a simpler workstation, with just one standard port for all our needs and a few adapters to make everything fit. ASUS is the first company to throw single-cable portable monitors into that mix, according to Engad…
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WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing|Dangerous Minds
Leonard Koren was surely one of the more eccentric people to ever run an influential magazine, although admittedly the category of influential publishers would not be expected to produce the most normal lot by any reckoning.
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Obama’s Executive Action May Actually Have Little Impact on Gun Violence | VICE News
With tears visibly streaming down his face, President Barack Obama unveiled his executive action on gun control today in an effort to cut down on what he called the “epidemic of gun violence” that kills approximately 33,000 Americans every year.
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Since Netflix released the documentary “Making a Murderer” in mid-December, its imprisoned central character has received a wave of support, including more than 240,000 signatures on a petition asking President Obama to pardon him.
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US Soldier Killed, Two Others Wounded in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province | VICE News
A member of the US armed forces was killed and another two were wounded in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, where fierce fighting has raged between Taliban insurgents and Afghan government forces.
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Watch The Munsters… in color! / Boing Boing
Pop Colorture hand-colorized 1,300 frames of The Munsters title sequence, turning the grimly fiendish and funny family into the full color characters that were originally black-and-white only due to budgetary reasons. From Pop Colorture:
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Take my video class on becoming a maker / Boing Boing
Skillshare is a terrific online learning community for creative people. It teaches you new skills through well-made videos with great production values. I’ve been using Skillshare to teach myself Adobe After Effects. All the videos feature people wh…
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A biographical look at pre-digital sign making by comic artist turned sign painter / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Justin Green is the author of the classic Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, an underground comix autobiography about growing up Catholic and OCD.
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Obama announces executive actions seeking to expand background checks on gun sales
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays…
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The Threat of Foreign Drug Syndicates in Manila (Extra Scene from ‘The Shabu Trap’) | VICE News
At the start of 2015, Mexican national Horacio Hernandez Herrera, allegedly third in command of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, at the center of a 12 million peso ($255,000) drug bust.
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This Video Explains the Difference Between Depression and Sadness
One of the common misconceptions about depression is that the same as sadness but just stronger. This video from TED-Ed explains clearly the difference between the two, as well as many other aspects of depression. Depression is an illness that could…
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Chicago Mails Out Checks Totalling $5.5 Million to Police Torture Survivors | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. Chicago has paid $5.
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Researchers uncover JavaScript-based ransomware-as-service | Ars Technica
Malware researchers at the anti-virus company Emisoft have uncovered a new “ransomware” package that encrypts the files of victims and demands payment to restore them.
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CES: everything you need to know about the biggest annual event in tech | The Verge
We live in the future, where drones skim the sky, corporations enter the space race, and smartwatches track our every movement. But how? And why? What’s Tech? invites experts to explain the technology bit by bit, in clear, brief, enjoyable audio nug…
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ISIS War On Children | ThinkProgress
The child is Isa Dare, the son of a radicalized Muslim convert who left her home in southeast London to join the so-called Islamic State in 2012.
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The 2015 Year in Photographs from the official White House photographer
Pete Souza’s job for the past seven years has been to take photographs of the goings-on at the White House, including its inhabitants, staff, and guests. Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs is a selection of more than 100 photographs that Souz…
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Balderton Capital Promotes Rob Moffat And James Wise To Partner | TechCrunch
The VC firm now counts eight investing partners, adding five new partners since late 2013 — a further sign that the European tech startup ecosystem is maturing exponentially. It’s also talking up the range of entrepreneurial, operational and investm…
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Mapping the Massive (and Empty) Federal Lands in the American West – The Atlantic
When a handful of armed protesters occupied a remote Oregon wildlife refuge on Sunday, most Americans probably scratched their heads. Their cause—that the government relinquish control over federal grazing lands—is not exactly a national hot-button …
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How ESPN writer Bill Barnwell lost 125 pounds last year / Boing Boing
Bill Barnwell topped the scales at 334.7 pounds on January 1, 2105. This year, he’s a little over 200. In this essay he writes about his depression, body image, compulsive eating, and what he did about it. Barnwell describes his compulsive eating as…
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TV Review: Discovery’s ‘Killing Fields’ Follows a Cold Case Murder In Real-Time – The Atlantic
Discovery’s new true-crime series, Killing Fields, unfolds in the picturesque bayous of Louisiana, where dragonflies buzz around swamps in the drowsy sun.
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The City at the Heart of the Philippines’ HIV Epidemic – The Atlantic
CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES—The dealer’s hands move quickly as he dispenses small vials from the waistband of his shorts, his front pockets bulging from the weight of coins and small bills. From his back pocket, he hands out syringes or collects them.
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A History of Sound From the Big Bang to the Cellphone – The Atlantic
It can sometimes feel like the world is very noisy—from planes arcing loudly through the sky to the unceasing buzz of your cellphone. But it wasn’t always this way.
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Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change | Re/code
Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple…
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This LG fridge opens for you | The Verge
In case you were tired of opening refrigerator doors like some kind of Neanderthal, LG has the perfect fridge for you.
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51% of Trump’s supporters say they’re certain to back him. 26% of Rubio’s supporters do. – Vox
Donald Trump has led Republican primary polls for six months now. Still, many have wondered whether his supporters will actually stick with him in the end — or whether they’ll get cold feet and opt for a more conventional choice when the time comes …
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Saoirse Ronan Calls Herself “Saoirse From the Block,” Steals the Show | Vanity Fair
Sometimes one great speech is all it takes.
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Much has been made about the extreme conditions under which Leonardo DiCaprio, filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and their cast and crew made The Revenant, the survival epic filmed entirely in natural light and freezing weather.
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Jennifer Lawrence set the tone for a new no-holds-barred interview with Glamour when she said that her sudden rise to fame left her feeling “angry and distorted.” Lawrence is no longer angry and certainly quick to avoid sounding self-pitying about h…
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Another photo of my terrible Bulgarian Calicos. : cats
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What does the Chris Gayle row reveal? – BBC News
A West Indies cricketer has sparked a sexism row after asking a TV reporter for a date live on air. But what does this reveal about the challenges facing female sports journalists?
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Chris Gayle has incurred widespread wrath for asking a reporter out during a live television interview. The West Indian batsman has apologised and been fined $10,000 by his Big Bash League side Melbourne Renegades.
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That Voltron Movie Reboot Is a Netflix TV Series Reboot Now
The instant DreamWorks Animation acquired Classic Media’s stable of animated properties in 2013, it started talking about a Voltron reboot. Given the decade(!) of talk about a live-action Voltron movie, most people generally assumed DreamWorks would…
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US service member killed and two injured in Afghanistan operation | US news | The Guardian
One US service member has died and two were injured in an operation in southern Afghanistan, according to the US military command in Kabul.
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Fitbit’s Blaze is the company’s attempt to make a fashionable fitness watch | Ars Technica
With all of the smartwatch and fitness tracker launches in 2015, one company was noticeably silent after releasing three activity-focused devices: Fitbit. The company had a huge year with the launch of its Charge, Charge HR, and Surge fitness tracke…
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Finding a babysitter online is a lot like Internet dating.
I’m sitting in front of my computer, scrolling through page after page of profiles and photos. Beverly is a professional chef and has a nice smile—maybe I should send her a message.
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Go-to bad guy Xander Berkeley to play Walking Dead’s newest villain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Xander Berkeley doesn’t want to only be the creepy bad guy. After all, it was barely more than a year ago when Berkeley told The A.V. Club, ”I’ve got two little girls, and I want them to think that Daddy was something other than a shit-heel at the e…
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The blockchain will become our new signature (Wired UK)
This article was taken from The WIRED World in 2016 — our fourth annual trends report, a standalone magazine in which our network of expert writers and influencers predicts what’s coming next.
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How to Keep Your Christmas Lights Tangle-Free
The holiday season is coming to a close, and it’s time to start taking down those decorations and Christmas lights. But fear knot! With just a piece of cardboard or even an old coffee can, you can organize your strands of holiday lights to avoid a t…
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“The occupation of Malheur by armed, out-of-state militia groups puts one of America’s most important wildlife refuges at risk.
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HTC’s New Vive Dev Kit Blends VR And AR | TechCrunch
Virtual reality. If you’re sick of the sound of VR already consider that a taster of the queasy sensations tech companies are aiming to flog consumers this year.
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Review: Battery life and keyboard problems hinder HP Envy 13 Ultrabook | Ars Technica
The Asus Zenbook UX305C and Dell XPS 13 are two of our favorite thin-and-light laptops right now, the former because it represents a good value at $700 and the latter because it’s a slick, lightweight machine with plenty of high-end features.
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Obama announces executive actions seeking to expand background checks on gun sales
President Obama announced Tuesday new executive actions designed to expand background checks and increase both enforcement of existing gun laws and funding for mental health treatment.
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Eliminating malaria requires beating artemisinin resistance.
WANG PHA, Thailand—Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo hasn’t seen a malaria case in five days. That’s not so unusual anymore at the clinic he runs in this small town just on the Thai side of the border with Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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A Visual Rendition of Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
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The Cat-Kara Relationship Is the Best Love Story on Supergirl
When we caught our first glimpse of Supergirl last spring, Calista Flockhart’s Devil Wears Prada-influenced take on Kara’s boss, Cat Grant, seemed like the biggest potential liability. But nine episodes in, she’s clearly the best part of the show.
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Tablo Brings Live Network Television, DVR Functionality To Apple TV | TechCrunch
Apple’s own streaming TV service may have been delayed due to stalled negotiations, but a new app launching for Apple’s newest media player will allow you to watch both live and recorded network television programs directly on your TV’s big screen.
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Watch Kanye West’s Full Audition for American Idol | Vanity Fair
In October, we learned, via, of course, a Kim Kardashian Instagram, that Kanye West had made a pit stop in San Francisco to . . . audition for the final season of American Idol.
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Chris Stapleton to Represent Country Music at Coachella 2016 | Rolling Stone
Chris Stapleton to Represent Country Music at Coachella 2016 Underdog-turned-chart-topper is only country artist booked for California festival
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Ben Carson Confronted at Town Hall: ‘Do You Think I Chose to Be Gay?’ : politics
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Feds cutting power to Oregon refuge militia occupiers : Liberal
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Researchers found a way to break through Comcast’s home security system | The Verge
Home intruders no longer need to come in through the kitchen window. Instead, they can waltz right in through the front door, even when a home is protected by an internet-connected alarm system.
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Why Bernie Sanders Is Beating All Fundraising Expectations | The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel joins Ed Schultz to explain how Sanders is ending a downsized politics of excluded alternatives.
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Design an outrageous wig on this interactive website / Boing Boing
Slap Kirk allows you to refresh the captain of the Starship Enterprise until the man comes to his goddamn senses. Warning: loud noises. Slap Kirk is the creation of coder Josh Kowarsky and sound designer Remy Dylan. Today’s internet bubble wrap is K…
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What a con artist can teach us about storytelling / Boing Boing
Read Maria Konnikova’s gripping article about con artist Sammy Azzopardi, whose new identities and wheezes seem impervious to detection until a technical fact or failing becomes impossible to ignore.
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ISIL’s masked man allegedly a Briton named ‘Sid’ – Al Jazeera English
The masked man in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant video showing the killing of five men accused of being Western spies is believed to be a Londoner known as “Sid” who was associated with hard-line groups.
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This Teacher Dancing with his Students Will Make You Smile – The Daily Beast
As part of the “Do it Like Me Challenge” Ron Clarke, who is known for his hands on teaching method that often involves music, posted a video of him dancing alongside his students.
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Golden State Warriors: More Human Than Human | Rolling Stone
When you start off an NBA season with 32 wins in 34 games – a feat that no team in the history of the league had ever accomplished before last night – it seems as if every matchup ultimately becomes a celebration of the incredulous.
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8 Unanswered Questions About the Guns N’ Roses Reunion | Rolling Stone
After months of rumors, the official news finally hit last night that Guns N’ Roses will reunite in April at this year’s Coachella. Well, sort of.
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Samuel L. Jackson Makes Classic Movie Lines His Own on ‘Colbert’ – The Daily Beast
Each of those movie lines was elevated immeasurably by the indelible performances of the one and only Samuel L. Jackson.
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When the US military announced in October 2014 that it chose Operation Inherent Resolve as the name for its bombing campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, the reaction from the American public was not especially kind.
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Ford says this sensor will make its driverless cars the most advanced in the world | The Verge
Ford has just unveiled a new tool it says will help it win the race to make a fully autonomous vehicle: a coffee-can sized light and radar sensor, or LiDAR, developed by a Silicon Valley-based company called Velodyne, Inc.
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An Arcane Patent Law May Decide Crispr’s Big Legal Fight | WIRED
Let us revel in the irony: The US Patent Office will now resolve a dispute over one of the hottest biotech breakthrough of the decade, the genome-editing technology Crispr/Cas9, through an arcane proceeding that technically should no longer exists.
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Police to deploy drones to catch thieves, help break sieges | Ars Technica
Blighty’s slate grey skies may soon be peppered with DroneCops, after it was revealed by The Times that drones have been given the go ahead for “high-risk” criminal investigations by UK police.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced outrage over the sexual assaults and thefts that male gangs inflicted on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Women have made at least 90 criminal complaints to police about the harassment by gangs at Cologn…
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“What are you doing in my f?!@#g house?”—a behind-the-lens look at body cameras | Ars Technica
SAN LEANDRO, Calif.—All I knew was that somebody called in a local disturbance—a local barbecue had apparently gotten a little too loud. I tapped twice to activate my body-worn camera, which hung from the middle of my chest.
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An afternoon at the battleship in the desert—Ars visits Taser’s HQ | Ars Technica
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—We arrived at an imposing building that stood apart from its boring office park neighbors. While other structures looked to be housing pencil-pushers, this exterior had a three-story image of a police officer looming over all visit…
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End inaction on gun control – Obama – 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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Twitter is announcing a new “conversational” ad unit today, where users are prompted to personalize and share a marketer’s message.
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Heavy rains have started to fill Australia’s vast Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and are bringing the desert to life. Pictures captured by pilot Trevor Wright show water filling dry salt plains that lie 700km (435 miles) north of Adelaide.
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Dogs Thwart Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm – Scientific American
A decades-long push to make Guinea-worm disease the first parasitic infection to be wiped out is close to victory. But a mysterious epidemic of the parasite in dogs threatens to foil the eradication effort.
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Photographs of the Internet – The Atlantic
It’s difficult to define “the cloud.” Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that’s precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photo essay The Internet.
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How Zoning Segregates Cities – The Atlantic
Two things have long been known about land-use regulations. One is that elements of them—in the form of large lot requirements and other aspects of “exclusionary zoning”—have led to racial and economic segregation.
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In Photos: Inside the Internet – The Atlantic
In Photos: Inside the Internet Photographs of what “the cloud” actually looks like curated by , Photographs by Peter Garritano. 1 / 15 New higher capacity fiber-optic cables are fitted onto a rack, replacing slower copper cabling.
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What We’re Following on Tuesday Afternoon, 1/5 – The Atlantic
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This is how you get smart drunk at CES 2016 | The Verge
Drinking loses a solid chunk of its appeal when it’s tied to labor.
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CRISPR’s Most Exciting Uses Have Nothing to do With Gene-Editing – The Atlantic
Three years ago, Stanley Qi took CRISPR—the world’s most versatile gene-editing tool—and stopped it from editing any genes.
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An interesting reason for the drop in vehicles damaged by bears : pics
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Virtual Reality May Help Curb Isolation in Deep Space Travel : space
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Marie Kondo’s Life-Changing Magic and death.
The cover art for Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—3 million copies sold and counting—is strikingly low-key for self-help: A wash of pale blue watercolor resembling a late-spring sky forms the background, and the title is set all …
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‘Star Trek’ Postal Stamps Beaming in for 50th Anniversary
Set phasers to mail! With space as much a “final frontier” today for “Star Trek” fans as it was in 1966, a new set of stamps will commemorate the sci-fi franchise’s 50th anniversary. According to the U.S.
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The thief had driven off with the toddler strapped in the back, while her mother was just feet away filling up a water jug. The car was eventually retrieved, but Caraline wasn’t found until four hours later, abandoned and freezing in a car park, at …
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The fascinating banality of Making A Murderer’s phone calls · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Thanks to Netflix’s 10-episode series Making A Murderer, Americans were able to spend the Christmas holiday indulging in the new national pastime: obsessing over the specifics of grisly real-life crimes.
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LG made a 15-inch gold MacBook | The Verge
Apple’s new MacBook is slim, light, and especially fetching in gold, but its small screen may not be big enough for everyone. If you’re one of those people looking for a larger screen, but still want a slim and light computer, LG may have just what …
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LG brought a mammoth 98-inch 8K display to CES 2016 | The Verge
It wouldn’t be the Consumer Electronics Show unless a tech company showed up to Las Vegas with a stupid large television. This year LG decided to fill that role with its UH9800 model, a 98-inch “super ultra-high-definition” 8K display.
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In January of 2015, astronomers discovered a solar system with five Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy.
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Afghan Fighting Kills 1, Injures 2 U.S. Troops | Al Jazeera America
One U.S. service member was killed and two others were wounded in fighting in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a senior U.S. defense official said. The fighting, which reflects intensified efforts by the U.S.
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Win a horror movie prize package, courtesy of Universal Pictures · Contest · The A.V. Club
More than any other season, winter is perfect for watching horror films.
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Obama to announce executive actions to tighten gun control – live updates | US news | The Guardian
Welcome – we’re about to watch President Obama announce new executive actions on gun control that would tighten the so-called gun show loophole, which currently allows some in-person and lots of online sales to be conducted without background checks.
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I designed and animated this piece as an homage to my favorite show of all time, HBO’s The Wire. Music: “Way Down in the Hole” / The Blind Boys of Alabama.
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Netflix, DreamWorks Animation Expand Streaming Deal – Hollywood Reporter
Netflix has expanded its multi-year distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation, scooping up global rights, outside of China, to several new DWA original series.
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This is the look she gives me when her food bowl is empty. : cats
This is the look she gives me when her food bowl is empty. via /r/cats https://t.co/EJDAxiGNOP https://t.co/j1xRSRubMn
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Buddy wants his belly rubbed. (but only 3 times) : cats
Buddy wants his belly rubbed. (but only 3 times) via /r/cats https://t.co/BOfTSUCnzJ https://t.co/R1Wd86FDod
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Watcha thinkin about? via /r/cats https://t.co/vMlMLE3Gf1 https://t.co/tP2hA7MAaJ
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I fits I sits via /r/cats https://t.co/QXzmxUqqu2 https://t.co/nnQMf8Luz0
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Laying down some hose via /r/gifs https://t.co/9qlqW6O5va https://t.co/aL4QPK6zYJ
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Animated homage to The Wire by Elliot Lim (x-post from r/TheWire) : television
Animated homage to The Wire by Elliot Lim (x-post from r/TheWire) via /r/television https://t.co/O6nrJ0DHui https://t.co/QvdG0I3owo
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So my 7 month old kitten, Zelda, did this today.. via /r/cats https://t.co/xZhqiyyTRV https://t.co/a55ytTsTWj https://t.co/ZoFW0GM8qG
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Kitten in a cast (taking a nap!) via /r/cats https://t.co/KqAM3kWXy8 https://t.co/fkI647jQpr https://t.co/V8hVVtCEI5
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Can Taxes Help Change the Way Companies Make Decisions About Risk? – The Atlantic
Listen to any recent presidential debate, and you’ll hear candidates emphatically backing plans that alternately promise to lower or raise the share that corporations turn over to the government each year in taxes.
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One in five insured Americans still struggle to pay medical bills – survey | US news | The Guardian
One in five Americans with health insurance has had problems paying for medical expenses, according to a new survey.
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London mayor race: fares must be starting point of big transport debate | UK news | The Guardian
Two mayoral candidates have made bold New Year pledges to lessen the cost of traveling round the capital using its lifeblood public transport modes.
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HP’s sleek Spectre x360 now has a 15-inch big brother and an OLED option | Ars Technica
We liked the Broadwell version of HP’s Spectre x360 last year. As it makes its Skylake refresh, HP is also expanding the range. The 13-inch laptop is picking up a 15.6-inch big brother. It’s the same style of machine—a thin-and-light laptop with a 3…
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US casualties in fighting with Afghan Taliban – Al Jazeera English
The fighting on Tuesday against the Taliban was in the district of Marja in Helmand province, where the Taliban has made recent gains. One American soldier was killed and two others were wounded, the US military said in a statement.
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Why Skills Are Not Enough to Land a Job | The Nation
What good is a high school diploma these days? The educational establishment appears to grade the country’s graduating seniors on a very twisted curve.
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Can You Spot All the Moons in This Picture?
Here you can see two of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus and Rhea, above and below the planet’s rings, respectively. But what about a third moon, Atlas? Atlas is a mere 19 miles (30 km) across, compared to Enceladus, which is 313 miles (504 km), and Rhea, …
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US President Barack Obama is to widen background checks on buyers of firearms, in a series of measures to attempt to address gun violence. The plans are being announced by the president despite opposition from Congress to any new gun laws or restric…
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The most poignant quotes from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is John Boyne’s heartbreaking tale, first published on 5 January 2006, following the friendship between Bruno and Shmuel during the Holocaust in the second world war.
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The Daily Show debuts an updated theme song produced by Timbaland · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When Trevor Noah took over as host of The Daily Show, he did so gingerly, making sure to show plenty of gratitude and care for having been placed in the driver’s seat. But some changes were to be expected—there’s a new set (and chair height), for st…
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Inside the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Occupation | The Nation
Burns, Oregon—Stretching across 188,000 acres of low-slung scrubland in southeastern Oregon, the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge is home to more than 320 species of birds and, as of this writing, an armed group of self-styled militiamen.
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The White House has announced numerous executive actions aimed at decreasing gun violence in the US. President Obama has said the actions are in his executive authority and that they will save lives.
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The City of Milan Will Pay you 350 Euros to Host a Refugee | VICE News
The second-biggest Italian city is offering a monthly payment of 350 euros ($376) to every resident willing to host a refugee, or an asylum seeker, in their home.
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Turkey Has Released VICE News Journalist Mohammed Rasool On Bail | VICE News
Rasool was detained alongside two VICE News colleagues on August 27 and sent to a maximum security prison. A document issued by a court in Diyarbakir stated that no bail payment was made, that Rasool was detained “as a protective measure,” and he ca…
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New HTC Vive adds front-facing camera, redesigned controller ergonomics | Ars Technica
With all the recent excitement about upcoming virtual reality headsets, many observers have still worried about a pretty basic problem: the inability to see the world around you when your eyes are encased in a vision-blocking headset.
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Watch live: President Obama announces executive actions on guns – Vox
President Barack Obama will announce new executive actions to deal with gun violence in America at 11:40 am Eastern on Tuesday.
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Unless you’re a heroin addict, you probably don’t need to detox. Here’s why. – Vox
As the holiday season winds down, you may start to consider some kind of detox regimen.
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LG’s new OLED 4K TV with HDR could be the one to beat at CES 2016 | The Verge
You’re going to see what feels like an endless stream of new TVs this week. Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, and a bunch of lesser-known brands are all here to show off their latest living room screens. (I’m not mentioning Vizio only because they’re sk…
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School bus pulled from floodwater in North Yorkshire – video | UK news | The Guardian
A school bus is recovered after becoming stuck in several feet of floodwater in Newton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. The bus appears to have been swept off the road by the overflowing river and rested at an angle against a hedge. Firefighters rescued ar…
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What it looks like when a couple of galaxies collide – Vox
NASA and the European Space Agency have spotted something truly epic about 230 million light-years away from Earth. The Hubble-produced image below shows two galaxies — each one a collection of billions of stars and untold numbers of planets — mergi…
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HTC Vive Pre Adds Front Camera to Blend VR, Real World – Scientific American
A virtual reality war is coming between the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, and the latest edition of HTC’s head-mounted display makes it an even tougher foe.
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Amazon’s Own Email & Calendaring Service, Amazon WorkMail, Exits Preview | TechCrunch
Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is meant to sub in for legacy solutions, like Microsoft Ex…
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Crazy edit of Wizard of Oz – alphabetical ordering of dialog and titles / Boing Boing
Earbuds often don’t fit well, a literally uncomfortable truth that extends to even Apple EarPods. Earhoox offer an easy solution in the form of silicone molds that wrap around your EarPods, helping them apply traction and pressure to key points on y…
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Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner Spend New Year’s on Yacht with Ellen DeGeneres | Vanity Fair
Whatever you did for New Year’s—however raucous and well-attended your party was, however thrilling it was to stand with a million other people as 2016 descended upon Times Square—it cannot compare to how Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner, two young p…
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Who really killed John F. Kennedy? Did America really land on the moon? What really brought down the Twin Towers? Few modern phenomena possess the sheer fascination quotient of conspiracy theories.
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The Zika virus may cause birth defects — and experts think it’s coming to the US – Vox
The Zika virus, a rare tropical disease that’s causing a panic in Brazil — because it may lead to babies being born with abnormally small heads — has now made its way to Puerto Rico. And experts fear the United States could be next.
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This graph shows causes of death by age / Boing Boing
People between the ages of 15-30 are more likely to die from external causes than any other reason. The 60s, 70s, and 80s are cancer years. If you’ve made it that far, your failing heart is most likely to kill you.
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CES 2016 – Las Vegas – January 6 – 9, 2016 | TechCrunch
CES 2016 CoverageHardware Battlefield, Oculus, Fitbit, Samsung, Parrot, and more Full coverage here CES 2016 January 6 – 9, 2016 | Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
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As Justices Weigh Affirmative Action, Michigan Offers an Alternative https://t.co/ameMTkV9D4 https://t.co/yiAugYbjPa
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Sebastian Wernicke: How to use data to make a hit TV show | TED Talk | TED.com
How to use data to make a hit TV show https://t.co/8SWG7DKRDt https://t.co/KvzKMH45nH
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LaCie’s $1,100 external SSD is a chrome sculpture for your desk | The Verge
External drives don’t get much fancier than this. Behold the LaCie Chrome, a $1,100 external SSD designed by Neil Poulton, who has collaborated with the company for a number of years now. LaCie describes it as a “trophy for tech connoisseurs.
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The first products for Google’s new smart home platform are being announced | The Verge
Google wants to be the thread that ties together the smart home world, and we’re starting to see what that could look like today.
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When Oliver Sacks was starting out on his career in neurology, he noted that many of his colleagues never seemed to read or make reference to any scientific papers more than five years old.
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A Lonely Inventor Built This Alcohol-Drinking Robot to Keep Him Company | Motherboard
Most of us have probably gotten drunk alone at some time or another, and experienced firsthand how quickly the experience turns from novel to depressingly lonely. That’s why Eunchan Park built Drinky, a saucy little robot that will knock ‘em back al…
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These Are The Best Wild-Card Road Teams In Modern History | FiveThirtyEight
Since the NFL postseason expanded to 12 teams in 1990, home teams have won 65 percent of the time on wild-card weekend — an even better rate than the league’s 59 percent home field advantage in the regular season.
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Virus Suspected of Shrinking the Heads of Brazilian Babies Arrives in Puerto Rico | VICE News
A virus suspected of causing infants to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains has arrived in a United States territory, and it may be headed north.
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Trump Is Wrong About Mexican Immigrants | New Republic
Trump is right that the United States has been a major immigrant destination since the 1960s, but if he is referring to Mexican flows today, he is wrong.
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“Blatant immoral acts” Downton Abbey FCC complaints
Last Sunday, PBS aired the premier of Downton Abbey’s sixth and final season, beginning the end for the popular period drama. While a bittersweet moment for anglophiles everywhere, FCC complaints released to Robert Delaware show that at least a coup…
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Oculus Gives Original Kickstarter Backers The Final Rift Headset For Free | TechCrunch
Remember that time Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion, and Kickstarter backers were angry? Kickstarter backers all got a dev kit, but they didn’t get anything out of the acquisition. Today, Oculus announced that original Kickstarter backers are a…
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kedra Ishop got results. A year after Dr.
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Under Armour and HTC create HealthBox, a fitness device bundle for athletes | Ars Technica
Fitness tech continues to have a strong presence at CES 2106, with some bigger names now jumping into the hardware field.
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South Africa captain Hashim Amla celebrates his double century, the fourth of his careerA double hundred from Hashim Amla and Temba Bavuma’s maiden Test century saw South Africa continue to frustrate England in Cape Town.
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The Bundys, the family behind the Oregon militia standoff, explained – Vox
The Oregon militia standoff is in an odd spot.
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On my morning drives to the hospital, the tears fell like rain. The prospect of the next 14 hours – 8am to 10pm with not a second’s respite from the nurses’ bleeps, or the overwhelming needs of too many sick patients – was almost too much to bear.
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Congressional Republican threatens DOJ shutdown over Obama’s gun measures—bring it!
President Obama is set to outline his new executive actions to improve gun safety Tuesday and, despite his rather modest effort to expand background checks among other things, Republicans are already having a coronary.
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Study: Doctors Keep Prescribing Opioids to Patients After They’ve Overdosed – The Atlantic
Since 2000, deaths from opioid overdoses in the United States have gone up by 200 percent.
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Film vs. digital: the most contentious debate in the film world, explained – Vox
Picture a TV that appears to be displaying a cheap, unnatural-looking image, even though it’s just come out of the box. We, or someone we know, have said something similar to the above when faced with just this situation.
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Sebastian Wernicke: How to use data to make a hit TV show | TED Talk | TED.com
Does collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone doesn’t always produce optimum results. In this talk, data scientist Sebastian Wernicke…
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Watch Mack Wilds Return Home to Talk Hip-Hop and Haircuts | Rolling Stone
Watch Mack Wilds Return Home to Talk Hip-Hop and Haircuts Adele’s ‘Hello’ leading man and star of hip-hop film ‘The Breaks’ takes Rolling Stone around his hometown in ‘Off the Clock’ video
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Cabinet of the Universe Part 2: The Earth Forms – Scientific American
Richard Garriott’s Cabinet of the Universe–the Big Bang December 23, 2015 — Eliene Augenbraun and Lee Billings
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Antarctic Clouds Studied for First Time in Five Decades – Scientific American
On Antarctica’s Ross Island, a short drive from the US McMurdo research station, high-tech radar antennas and other atmospheric instruments gaze skyward, gathering detailed measurements of West Antarctic clouds.
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‘WWE Raw’: Vince McMahon Royally Screws Roman Reigns | Rolling Stone
Ah, San Antonio, home of multi-time WWE/F World Champion Shawn Michaels, the many-times-over NBA champions Spurs and this. But last night, America’s most venerable mohair-manufacturing city (it’s true) played host to a different, more insidious kind…
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How the Oregon Militants’ Revolutionary Plan Went Sideways | Rolling Stone
The armed standoff in remote southeast Oregon, where white militants led by the Bundy clan have taken over federal buildings at a wildlife refuge, isn’t going according to plan. The would-be insurrectionists are undermanned, undersupplied and exhaus…
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Lobster shedding it’s shell : gifs
Lobster shedding it’s shell via /r/gifs https://t.co/gAt8Ugc1GR https://t.co/nMFRgNQunH
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So my 7 month old kitten, Zelda, did this today.. : cats
So my 7 month old kitten, Zelda, did this today.. via /r/cats https://t.co/xZhqiyyTRV https://t.co/nkIkgLbVyQ
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Southern Alps, New Zealand; Michael Melford [990 x 742] : EarthPorn
Southern Alps, New Zealand; Michael Melford [990 x 742] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/0jyj7VYY5z https://t.co/odIdyXI3no
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Kitten in a cast (taking a nap!) : cats
Kitten in a cast (taking a nap!) via /r/cats https://t.co/KqAM3kWXy8 https://t.co/RpC7DciUzJ
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Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays | NASA
Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays via NASA https://t.co/f66IHGfuoc https://t.co/CsjeVuPdaY https://t.co/8SiU8gSJmp
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Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays via NASA https://t.co/f66IHGfuoc https://t.co/CsjeVuPdaY https://t.co/8SiU8gSJmp
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/BApoQn4aZh https://t.co/DOo3TVQAMn https://t.co/yksciqsDPy
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Israeli Arabs removed from flight at demand of Jewish passengers : worldnews
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zhangjiajie China,[OC] [2500 x 1633] : EarthPorn
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Radiohead were commissioned to write the theme song for Spectre, the newest James Bond movie. The movie’s producers decided to go in a different musical direction, so the band recently put the rejected song up on Soundcloud. Enjoy. (via df)
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The day of the champagne environmentalist has arrived | Andrew Simms | Environment | The Guardian
Protesters standing in floodwaters hold a sign that reads: “Can we talk about climate change now?” Scant media coverage of the link between increasing weather extremes and a warming world suggests it’s a conversation still seriously waiting to begin.
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No, the Bundys Aren’t Terrorists | New Republic
The occupation of the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon by armed insurrectionaries may as well have been designed to allow liberals to troll conservatives—and vice-versa. For liberals, the ironies are especially potent.
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Stress on Simulated Mars Was Not What I Expected – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
For 6 crewmembers who have supposedly traveled 150 million miles—and were, beforehand, complete strangers—we have remarkably little space.
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Why This Socialist Feminist Is Not Voting for Hillary | The Nation
Socialism, it turns out, can be a form of identity politics.
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This was supposed to be the Year of the Internet of Things. In fact, it was the third year in a row that was going to mark the arrival of the connected home, according to everyone from experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to industry…
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Fitbit Unveils Blaze Smart Fitness Watch With Color Touch Screen | TechCrunch
Today at CES 2016, Fitbit has unveiled the latest generation of its smart fitness watch in the Fitbit Blaze. With the Blaze, the company is looking to be competitive with products like the Apple Watch, which offer less by the way of fitness but far …
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5 Questions To Answer Before Launching A Social Campaign | TechCrunch
People still don’t get social media. And I’m not just talking about Donald Trump. It’s an established best practice for building community support for a point of view or an initiative, and that’s because it works.
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See Ted’s plan to stop illegal immigration at FixOurBorder.com
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 5th – The New Yorker
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News | Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-ray Vision
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy, Andromeda.
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Live from LG’s CES 2016 press conference – The Verge
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JW Player Raises $20M To Expand Its Video Platform | TechCrunch
There’s been “a very big shift” in the thinking of many online publishers, according to JW Player President Chris Mahl.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Schiaparelli emerges
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Why Are Republican Candidates Backing Saudi Arabia in Its Fight With Iran? – The Atlantic
Once upon a time, Republican leaders said the United States should push the Middle East toward democracy because Arab dictators were breeding Arab terrorists. Not anymore. In the party George W. Bush once ran, his fight-terrorism-with-democratizatio…
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The dangerous Catch-22 of coming out as a sex worker | Fusion
vie* introduced herself with a little wave to a woman in black cutoff shorts.
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In 1967, the government of Canada established the Canadian Film Development Corporation. In an attempt to stimulate the country’s film industry, the CFDC offered a 60% tax credit to investors who financed Canadian films that promoted Canadian cultur…
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Wild at heart: How the NFL’s outsider teams will crash Super Bowl 50 | Sport | The Guardian
If Johnny Manziel used his time wisely in Las Vegas over the weekend – or the blond-haired, bespectacled man bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Browns quarterback, at least – he went to a sports book and bet on two wild-card teams to meet in the …
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Fitbit’s new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze | The Verge
How do you compete in a growing smartwatch market without making a smartwatch? You make a dedicated fitness watch, one with smart notifications, but without all of the third-party app complications that come with a full-featured smartwatch.
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David Cameron is to announce that UK ministers will be allowed to campaign for either side ahead of the EU referendum.
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How to Understand Donald Trump’s Sexist New Low | The Nation
Donald Trump, the man of the bottomless bottom, is making headlines for slurring Hillary Clinton as an “enabler” of her husband’s sexual misbehavior.
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Republican candidates accuse one another of policies that would help Isis | US news | The Guardian
Republicans began the new year with a new rhetorical insult as candidates striving to stand out from the crowd focused on voters anxieties over the immigration and national security.
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We’re Hiring A Copy Chief | FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight is hiring a copy chief, a senior editor who will oversee the flow and production of articles onto the website.
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The spine of a cat consists largely of silly putty : aww
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Netflix will debut a Guillermo del Toro animated series later this year | The Verge
Netflix continues to push its offerings toward original content and potentially mediocre children’s television.
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Altec Lansing’s new DJ headphones have a built-in live-streaming camera | The Verge
In an age when everything is being uploaded to YouTube and Facebook, it’s only natural that a pair of DJ headphones should have a camera built in to capture that great set.
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BMW’s concept motorcycle helmet has a heads-up display | The Verge
BMW’s motorcycle division is showing off a next-generation helmet with a built-in heads-up display at CES this week — and it’ll be a real product “within the next few years,” the company says.
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BMW’s badass new i8 Spyder concept is packed with tech you can’t have yet | The Verge
At CES today, BMW took the wraps off its “i Vision Future Interaction” concept car. That’s a mouthful, and what you really need to know is that it’s a Spyder version of the incredible i8 hybrid, reworked with an absurd amount of weird new tech.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake will carry out a spacewalk on 15 January, Nasa has confirmed. The walk, to replace a failed voltage regulator on the outside of the International Space Station, is the first for a British astronaut.
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CommuteKit Helps You Find Things to Do During Your Commute
If you have a morning commute, there are plenty of ways to make it suck less. You could fit in some reading. Or catch up on podcasts. But where to start? CommuteKit helps you figure it out. The site is simply a curated list of 120 different podcasts…
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The race for NFL in LA: Chargers, Raiders and Rams apply for 2016 relocation | Sport | The Guardian
The San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St Louis Rams filed for relocation to the Los Angeles area on Monday night, trying not to be left out in the race to return the NFL to the nation’s second-largest market after a 21-year absence.
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Politwoops Is Back Online Tracking Politicians’ Tweet Deletes | TechCrunch
Politicians in 25 countries will be shifting a little more uneasily on their benches this week as Politwoops, the service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets, and can thus flag up attempts to edit previously expressed public opinions or cover up…
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Here is the surest way to enjoy the peace of mind that comes with having health insurance: Don’t get sick. The number of uninsured Americans has fallen by an estimated 15 million since 2013, thanks largely to the Affordable Care Act.
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Live from Ford’s CES 2016 press conference – The Verge
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Oculus gives free Rift headsets to thousands of early Kickstarter backers | Ars Technica
More than 7,500 early adopters who provided the initial funding for the Oculus Rift VR headset through its original Kickstarter will get a free unit of the Rift’s upcoming first consumer edition, the company announced today.
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U.S. Sues Volkswagen for Alleged Pollution Cheating – Scientific American
The Justice Department yesterday filed a multibillion-dollar civil lawsuit against Volkswagen and five of its subsidiaries, including Audi and Porsche, related to the VW software that allowed its diesels to pass emission tests but release an unsafe …
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Oculus Rift Kickstarter backers will get a free consumer edition | The Verge
Oculus will be shipping a consumer version of its Rift VR headset to anyone who backed the original Kickstarter project in 2012. In a post this morning, the company announced a “Kickstarter Edition” of the Rift for its 9,522 original supporters.
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Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare | New Republic
To call Jeanette Winterson a novelist would be to sell her short. The novel is a limited thing, a technology like the bicycle pump or the gas stove. Stories are much older, a species constant, like cooking and language. Novels are fiction, while sto…
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Mobile App Usage Up 58 Percent In 2015, With Emoji Keyboards Leading The Pack | TechCrunch
The number of mobile addicts is increasing, according to a new report released this morning from Yahoo-owned mobile analytics firm Flurry, which found that 40 percent of the 58 percent total growth in mobile app sessions came from existing users in …
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The Science Behind Period Underwear – Racked
If teen magazines are to be believed, period accidents can happen to anyone, at any time, to extreme effect.
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of January 5, 2016 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Your shortness of breath and wild fainting spells will be cured this week thanks to a series of well-placed commas. They say you have a head for numbers, but that’s because “head for tumors” isn’t really an expression. The stars apologize for last w…
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Affluenza Teen Mom in Court Tuesday | Al Jazeera America
The mother of a teenage boy who escaped jail in a deadly drunk driving case after successfully arguing his wealthy family’s lax discipline absolved him of guilt is set to appear in court in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Prosecutors are set to ask that Ton…
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Why Obama’s Going After Gun Sellers | ThinkProgress
President Obama will announce a series of executive orders Tuesday to tackle gun violence, the first major effort to institute federal gun control after a bipartisan background check bill failed in the Senate in 2013.
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Carly Fiorina’s Campaign Is Very Proud of Her Bad Kardashian-Trump Jok | Vanity Fair
Carly Fiorina is still running for president, and will no doubt look to next week’s debate to try to climb up from the eighth-place slot she currently holds in the Republican primary battle.
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The Bachelor and The Bachelorette Fantasy League: the basic rules and how to play | The Verge
I am the standing champion of my The Bachelor / Bachelorette fantasy league. When colleagues learn this, they ask a number of questions, but today, I would like to answer the most important one: How do I start my own Bachelor / Bachelorette fantasy …
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Green Bay fans are worried, but Rodgers and co insist they can get it done | Sport | The Guardian
Even though the Green Bay Packers dropped their regular-season finale Sunday night at Lambeau Field to the Minnesota Vikings, 20-13, the general consensus among NFL experts was that the loss was actually kind of a good thing for the Packers.
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Explainer: World reaction to Iran-Saudi hostilities – Al Jazeera English
Diplomatic tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran began with the kingdom’s execution of 47 people convicted of terrorism charges – including a prominent Shia cleric – and later saw attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in the Islamic Republic.
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CES 2016 Day 2: All the news from Samsung, Sony, and more | The Verge
MTV’s shiny new epic-fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles is adamantly not a comedy. It has the kind of grim-faced ultra-seriousness that so often makes genre films feel a little ridiculous, with characters declaiming instead of just talking.
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Meet the Mastermind Behind The $100, 24-Karat Gold, Cristal Ube Doughnut | First We Feast
Williamsburg’s Manila Social Club, recently written up in the New York Times, is making noise in the food world by pushing the boundaries of Filipino cuisine as we know it.
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An org for left-wing US municipal politicians is transforming American politics / Boing Boing
Local Progress is a national coordinating organization for left-wing US city councillors that supports initiatives like higher minimum wages, bans on fracking and deportation detention centers, multilingual information for voters, guaranteed sick le…
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New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Toys Give Us Our First Look At Krang
It was only very recently that we learned that TMNT cartoon classic Krang would be heading to the movie sequel, Out of the Shadows. But now thanks to a series of images from a toy catalogue, we know pretty much what he’ll look like—and it’s surprisi…
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Ted Cruz’s new ad positions him as the respectable face of Trumpism – Vox
Ted Cruz has a new immigration-focused ad that offers a striking break with the clichéd visuals of US presidential campaigns. Indeed, it’s even fairly novel in its content by opening with what amounts to a thought experiment.
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The Wearable That Promises to Ease Your Chronic Pain | Motherboard
A new wearable called Quell claims to be the first to alleviate some of the symptoms of chronic pain using intensive nerve stimulation. The FDA-approved, drug-free device works by stimulating nerves in the upper calf, which carry neural pulses to th…
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Melvins and Redd Kross mashed up in real life and in handy T-shirt form|Dangerous Minds
Like time itself, the procession of Melvins bass players marches ever onward.
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Retro chicks and robots (sometimes) behaving badly|Dangerous Minds
Actress Caroline Munro and “Elle” the robot from the 1978 film, Starcrash I feel like I’ve been on a bit of a throwback kick for a while now, so I thought I’d keep that retro train running with a photo series depicting cool vintage chicks battling (…
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Communities across California are bracing for two weeks of heavy rains generated by the El Nino system. Northern California could receive up to 15in (38.1cm) of rain over the next 16 days, with parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains getting up to 24in…
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In the Future, LA Will Look More Like NYC | Motherboard
This year, rather than writing our own predictions, we decided to have Motherboard interview each other. Motherboard senior editor Brian Merchant recently abandoned us for the west coast.
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‘Come and Get Your Love’: Meet Redbone, the world’s first Native American rock group|Dangerous Minds
A week before Christmas, Netflix posted F is for Family, a new animated series based on the politically incorrect outlook of acerbic stand-up comedian Bill Burr.
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Cartoon: Oregon militants: Patriots or Owl Qaeda?
I’m fine with a little healthy civil disobedience, but once you add guns to the mix and threaten to use them against the powers that be, you’re no longer just a protester. You are, at the very least, a militant.
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Fridge Cam! BedPhones! Here’s a First Look at the Gadgets and Trends at CES 2016 | Motherboard
The show technically doesn’t begin until Wednesday—Tuesday is a press preview day—but after several hours at an event called CES Unveiled on Monday evening I’m already comfortable drawing a few early conclusions about CES this year.
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Sophie Someone by Hayley Long – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Sophie doesn’t remember her life before Belgium. She goes to school like any normal child. She gets into trouble with her best friend, Comet. Her dad works in a garage. Her mum doesn’t go outside. But one day a strange man shows up at her father’s g…
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Museum asks for help finding 1,000 first editions of Theodore Roethke debut | Books | The Guardian
A quest to find as many as possible of the 1,000 hand-numbered copies of the great US poet Theodore Roethke’s debut collection, Open House, has been launched to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the work’s publication.
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Giants Close Door on Tom Coughlin Era, Ushering In Uncertainty https://t.co/NUSGChsgDy https://t.co/PM0vRLwtC8
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Tom Coughlin’s smile in the aftermath of Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles might have been the biggest tip-off of what was to come.
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The Best Ways to Retain The Information You Study
Whether you’re studying for an exam or learning on your own, you want to do more than just re-read your material to absorb it. This video offers four ways to study smarter, not just harder, and really remember what you’ve read.
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The Shannara Chronicles is Game of Thrones without wrinkles | The Verge
MTV’s shiny new epic-fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles is adamantly not a comedy. It has the kind of grim-faced ultra-seriousness that so often makes genre films feel a little ridiculous, with characters declaiming instead of just talking.
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The newest HomeKit products can be built right into your walls | The Verge
It’s cool being able to control your home through an app, but sometimes you just want to keep it simple and flip a switch. That’s about to become possible for people building out a smart home with products connected with Apple’s HomeKit.
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Fossil adds another watch to its growing line of wearables | The Verge
Fossil just launched its Q line of connected wearables this past fall, but it’s already expanding the range with another model. The new Q54 Pilot is an analog watch with Intel technology for basic smartphone notifications and activity tracking.
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The second HTC Vive development kit has a built-in camera and new controllers | The Verge
HTC is spending a surprisingly good name on a product that will only exist for a few months. The product is the Vive Pre, a virtual reality headset that’s going out to developers soon after its unveiling this morning.
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Taiwanese tech firm HTC has revealed changes to its forthcoming virtual reality headset at the CES tech show. The Vive’s release was delayed after what chief executive Cher Wang described as a “very, very big technological breakthrough”.
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Seth Meyers Coerced Back to ‘Late Night’ in ‘Making a Murderer’ Parody | Rolling Stone
Seth Meyers Coerced Back to ‘Late Night’ in ‘Making a Murderer’ Parody Host lays on thick Wisconsin accent as he tries to prolong holiday vacation
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Islamic State (IS) has lost 40% of the territory it once controlled in Iraq, a spokesman for the US-led coalition battling the jihadist group says. Col Steve Warren told reporters in Baghdad that IS was “weaker and on the defensive”, and had “not ga…
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The Strokes Ask Fans to Help Find Nick Valensi’s ‘Beloved’ Guitar | Rolling Stone
The Strokes Ask Fans to Help Find Nick Valensi’s ‘Beloved’ Guitar “We ask that you join us in keeping an eye out for it.
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Blake Shelton to Voice a Pig in ‘Angry Birds Movie’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Blake Shelton to Voice a Pig in ‘Angry Birds Movie’: The Ram Report Singer also wrote a new song for the upcoming film based on the popular game
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More Than 120 Central Americans Taken Into Custody In Large-Scale Deportation Raid | ThinkProgress
Don’t open your door. Ask for a warrant when a stranger knocks on your door. Memorize the phone numbers of relatives and lawyers.
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Turkey Find Bodies of 27 Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Turkish authorities said they found the bodies of 27 refugees, at least three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after a boat apparently capsized as it tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Data recovered from Gene Roddenberry’s floppies—but what’s on them? / Boing Boing
Several years after Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died, his heirs found a cache of floppy disks. It’s taken until now, some 20 years later, for the data to be recovered.
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Cassius and Clay, the Post-Apocalyptic Cartoon from the Archer Team, Is No More
When news broke that Archer’s Adam Reed and Modern Family’s Megan Ganz were teaming up for a new animated show set in a post-apocalyptic American south, people were understandably excited. But bad news: despite a full run of episodes being commissio…
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A Jew and his sandwich / Boing Boing
What did you think about on New Year’s day? I sat in my home in Washington, DC, and dreamed the dream of a middle-aged Jew. Not of wealth.
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Current Pace of Climate Change –“Unprecedented in Earth’s History”
University of Bristol Cabot Institute researchers and their colleagues today published research that further documents the unprecedented rate of environmental change occurring today, compared to that which occurred during natural events in Earth’s h…
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Michael Bay to direct (at least) one more Transformers movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite his claims to the contrary, it seems Michael Bay’s not ready to hand over the keys to the Transformers franchise. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the bombastic director confirms he’ll helm the next installment of the cinematic clas…
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Laurie Anderson plays concert for dogs in New York’s Times Square | Music | The Guardian
There is little a dog could want for in the 21st century. You can buy dog shoes. You can buy dog clothes. You can even buy food for some of them. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that at some point there would be a concert specifically for dogs.
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Kuwait Recalls Its Envoy From Iran as Saudi Allies Close Ranks – The Atlantic
Kuwait has recalled its envoy from Iran, a day after Bahrain and Sudan—two other allies of Saudi Arabia—severed diplomatic relations with Tehran, and a third, the United Arab Emirates, downgraded them.
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Watch Nvidia explain its supercomputer for self-driving cars | The Verge
Nvidia, a company known predominantly for its graphics card business, has over the last few years been making a big push toward automotive. More specifically, Nvidia wants to power the future slate of self-driving cars — and it has a number of autom…
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LCD Soundsystem to Reunite for Coachella: Too Soon? – The Atlantic
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Star Wars Wars: the first six movies, overlaid / Boing Boing
Marcus Rosentrater composited the first six Star Wars movies into a single videostream, with the audio mixed so that you can — more or less — work out all the individual dialog and SFX, and with selective transparency in the video streams to let t…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is going to be the biggest movie in US box office history – Vox
It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on track to dislodge James Cameron’s Avatar as the top-selling movie in North American box office history. The Force Awakens’ domestic gross is currently $742.
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Watch what happens when you put 20,386 cars into Trackmania / Boing Boing
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Faraday Future FFZERO1: Is This The Future Of Cars Or Total Bullshit?
Faraday Future has, until now remained a huge mystery to both the car and tech worlds. It has tremendous Chinese financing, teased an autonomous car concept, secured a billion dollar factory in Nevada, and hyped up a big hit-or-miss reveal at this y…
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Methane ‘Volcano’ Continues To Erupt In Southern California | ThinkProgress
For more than two months, methane has been escaping from a storage well in Los Angeles, causing the evacuation of thousands of homes and dumping more than six coal plants’ worth of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
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The activists who began occupying government buildings in the Oregon wilderness over the weekend say that they’re protesting how federal authorities treated rancher Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, his middle-aged son.
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You guys, the new elements are out!
IUPAC, the governing body for the official periodic table of elements, has announced the addition of four new elements to the table: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium. Those are working names…the teams that discovered each elemen…
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Transvaginal foetal sonic bombardment: woo-tunes for your hoo-hah / Boing Boing
Babypod is a wireless speaker designed to be worn by pregnant women in their vaginas so as to bombard their foetuses with music with minimal distortion.
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Obama thrusts gun control debate into forefront of 2016 – Al Jazeera English
US President Barack Obama is making good on his pledge to politicise gun violence. The package of gun-control executive actions Obama will formally announce Tuesday has pushed the contentious issue to the forefront of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Brazil is heading for its worst recession since 1901 : worldnews
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CommonBond Picks Up $275 Million In New Lending Capacity | TechCrunch
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Menopoly: female lead missing from Star Wars Monopoly game / Boing Boing
Rey, the female lead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is not among the character tokens one may play in the film’s tie-in version of Monopoly. Featured are only male characters, including one not even present in the new movie.
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Stunning starling murmuration in Israeli desert – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
A flock of starlings flies in formation near the Bedouin town of Rahat, southern Israel Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Run 365 Miles in 2016 | Vanity Fair
Mark Zuckerberg, millennial dad—unsatisfied with the small task of building an A.I. to run his home, work life, and spy on daughter Max—has set himself another challenge to tackle in 2016.
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CommonBond Picks Up $275 Million In New Lending Capacity | TechCrunch
The online lending market continues to generate heat in the financial services sector as student lending service CommonBond rakes in another $275 million in available lending capital.
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With its first major product release since its acquisition by watchmaker Fossil Group in November, Misfit today debuted its latest entry in its line of fashion-forward fitness trackers with the launch of the Misfit Ray.
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Elizabeth Olsen Was Approached to Play Michelle Tanner on Fuller House | Vanity Fair
If you’re anything like us, it still, to this day, takes you a few moments, every time, to connect that Elizabeth Olsen is the sister of world’s most famous twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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One Reason Hillary Clinton Might Underperform In The Early States | FiveThirtyEight
I wrote an article on Monday suggesting that because he’s polling so well nationally, Donald Trump could do worse in Iowa and New Hampshire than current polls of those states show. The same may be true, to a lesser extent, of Hillary Clinton.
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Eliminating malaria requires beating artemisinin resistance.
WANG PHA, Thailand—Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo hasn’t seen a malaria case in five days. That’s not so unusual anymore at the clinic he runs in this small town just on the Thai side of the border with Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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That Leftover Liquid From Homemade Yogurt or Cheese Has Uses From Braising to Cocktail Making
If you make your own Greek yogurt or ricotta you know that there is usually a fair amount of liquid (known as “sour whey”) left behind after straining. What you may not know is that it has many uses, and pouring it down the drain would be a kitchen …
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Red Alert, life inside the Beijing smog – Al Jazeera English
Beijing, China – It is Tuesday morning, 8am in the financial centre. Streets ordinarily choked with traffic are strangely quiet.
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Of Oz the Wizard: all the dialog in alphabetical order / Boing Boing
This alphabetized version of the Wizard of Oz, edited so that everything from the titles onward is presented in alphabetical order, dates from 2004. It makes a good companion to other alphabetized classics like The Well Sorted Bible and that alphabe…
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‘Confessional’ Gaming Captures the Voyeurism of Exploring Someone’s Desktop | Motherboard
What does it mean when you see someone else’s screen? Unless you share a device with another person it rarely happens—and even then it’s likely you have separate accounts.
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2016 Will Be the Year Everyone Sucks at Security, Again | Motherboard
Meghan Neal is a generalist when it comes to the future.
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Melting of massive ice ‘lid’ resulted in huge release of CO2 at the end of the ice age
A new study reconstructing conditions at the end of the last ice age suggests that as the Antarctic sea ice melted, massive amounts of carbon dioxide that had been trapped in the ocean were released into the atmosphere.
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“Oxygen-Rich Planet Earth” –800 Million Years Before the First Animals
Oxygen is crucial for the existence of animals on Earth. But, an increase in oxygen did not apparently lead to the rise of the first animals. New research shows that 1.
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Drax biomass conversion must comply with EU state aid rules | Business | The Guardian
The European commission has opened an investigation into the UK’s plans to support the conversion of part of its Drax coal power plant to biomass.
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LOS ANGELES—While acknowledging concerns that men vastly outnumber women in key creative positions in Hollywood, a coalition of female writers, producers, and directors told reporters Wednesday they have “absolutely no problem at all” being underrep…
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David Cameron is to announce that UK ministers will be allowed to campaign for either side ahead of the EU referendum.
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Cuvva, The U.K. Hourly Car Insurance App, Picks Up Investment | TechCrunch
Cuvva, a burgeoning startup based in Scotland, is solving a problem that I didn’t know existed: the need to insure a car for as little as an hour.
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Xfinity’s Security System Flaws Open Homes to Thieves | WIRED
New-generation alarm systems that send real-time text alerts and other digital notifications if an intruder tries to breach a property offer homeowners a great sense of security.
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Increasing yields produced in UK fields and using the spare farmland to plant trees and restore wetlands could greatly reduce emissions, says a study.
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Waco and Ruby Ridge: the 1990s standoffs haunting the Oregon takeover, explained – Vox
To many people, the most notable thing about the ongoing takeover of a federal government building in Burns, Oregon, is what it doesn’t resemble: law enforcement’s response to groups of nonwhite protesters, which is often much more aggressive even w…
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Space in Images – 2016 – 01 – Northern lights
ESA organises regular rocket launches together with the Swedish Space Corporation from northern Sweden in Esrange, Kiruna. The 13th Maser campaign saw experiments being carried 270 km up for six minutes of weightlessness.
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Watch Surreal Trailer for Zach Galifianakis Clown-Comedy ‘Baskets’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Surreal Trailer for Zach Galifianakis Clown-Comedy ‘Baskets’ Hilarious clip for FX sitcom features comedian offending the French, getting gored by bull
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How “true crime” went from guilty pleasure to high culture – Quartz
If you’re like me, there’s nothing better than settling into the couch after a long day’s work and flipping on the television to Investigation Discovery.
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Another Major Comics Character Is Coming to The Walking Dead!
You can breathe again—Michael Bay is directing Transformers 5. Marvel is throwing down another gauntlet against Batman v Superman. Plus, superheroes scrap in Civil War art, new pictures from Deadpool, and what’s to come on Agent Carter and Legends o…
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The Saudi royal family’s favorite anecdote about Iran says much more about Saudi Arabia – Vox
On the subject of the long history of enmity between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is currently driving much of the Middle East’s violence and since the new year has worsened considerably, there is an anecdote the Saudis like to tell.
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NASA’s Mars spacesuit prototype.. : space
NASA’s Mars spacesuit prototype.. via /r/space https://t.co/MsB9klw2Yl https://t.co/3foDIXzQUu
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It was a cold day in city centre Amman : aww
It was a cold day in city centre Amman via /r/aww https://t.co/EwNo1PrVyb https://t.co/SfY1xjCvQj
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Last night,Costa Blanca,Spain[OC][5472×3648] : SkyPorn
Last night,Costa Blanca,Spain[OC][5472×3648] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/xBgHQxjCM7 https://t.co/xiERBxGTKD
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Hillary Clinton dismisses Trump’s ‘alternate reality’ : Liberal
Hillary Clinton dismisses Trump’s ‘alternate reality’ via /r/Liberal https://t.co/UtDEmK3CxL https://t.co/GXfIRtM8TD
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Misift’s Ray is the slender, more fashionable cousin of its Shine fitness band | Ars Technica
Misfit has announced its newest device, the Misfit Ray, at CES 2016. The thin, tubular tracker is the first device to come from Misfit since the company was acquired by Fossil last year, although it’s unclear how much input the fashion company had i…
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Misfit’s new Ray tracker is a legitimately good-looking wearable | The Verge
Wearable maker Misfit has always managed to bring an element of jewelry-like design to its activity trackers, and its newest wearable is no different. The new Misfit Ray, announced today at CES, could easily be mistaken for a bracelet instead of an …
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A fairytale of CES | The Verge
In the beginning, the gadgets all lived in your house, mostly in your living room, and CES was so important it happened twice a year. The most important gadget anyone would ever buy was a TV, and they were so massive we turned them into furniture an…
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Audeze’s Sine are smaller and lighter than most planar magnetic headphones | The Verge
The world of headphones is full of extravagantly convoluted and obfuscating language. Just witness this paragraph from Audeze’s latest press release: What does seductive even mean with respect to midrange? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you wha…
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This Apple Watch charging dock is very cute | The Verge
The Bozon Apple Watch charging dock is not complicated. It’s a hollow piece of extruded silicone designed to hold your actual Apple Watch charger. You loop up the extra cable inside it, seat the inductive piece on the front, seal up the foot where t…
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Joanna Biggs: ‘Work is where we make friends, exert power, fall in love’ | Books | The Guardian
I set myself an impossible task in trying to capture what it was like to work in post-crash Britain, so I would often find myself dreaming of an impossible book: an oral history of every person working in the UK in 2015.
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Under Armour and HTC want to sell you a box full of fitness products | The Verge
Last year Under Armour and HTC announced that they would partner up to make connected hardware. This year at CES we’re seeing some of the results of that partnership: the two companies just announced an entire kit of fitness hardware.
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HTC and Under Armour shelved the Grip and made this wristband instead | The Verge
Earlier this year HTC announced plans for a GPS-equipped fitness tracker, made in collaboration with apparel company Under Armour, that would ship sometime this year. That product, called the Grip is no longer.
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Ian Rankin in Manchester – Guardian Live event | Membership | The Guardian
Even Dogs in the Wild is said to explore the darkest corners of our instincts and desires.
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Thanks to a new charger, Gogoro’s cool electric scooter might roll out faster | The Verge
Gogoro, a Taiwanese startup helmed by former HTC designer Horace Luke, makes a smartphone-connected electric scooter powered by swappable batteries available at kiosks strategically placed around a city. It looks great, the concept is novel, and we’…
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Obama’s gun control plan may be watered down, but it’s not flat | US news | The Guardian
More than 2,500 miles away from the calm White House east room where Barack Obama will announce his 10-point plan to tackle gun violence on Tuesday, the armed occupation of a federal building by rightwing militia in Oregon is a potent reminder of wh…
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Buy a 4K TV for Christmas? Bet it wasn’t a new “UHD Premium” set | Ars Technica
The UHD Alliance (UHDA), a who’s who of the TV and movie industries, has unveiled Ultra HD Premium, a new standard for UHD (4K) TVs that arrives just in time for everyone to regret picking up a new 4K TV for Christmas.
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Explore – A Street in Bronzeville – Gwendolyn Brooks’s…
A Street in Bronzeville – Gwendolyn Brooks’s trailblazing vintage poems for and about kids, celebrating diversity and the universal experience of childhood.
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The Circle of Poo | Hakai Magazine
In the Southern Ocean, surrounding Antarctica, blue whales were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling from the 1920s to 1940s. But now, with whaling curtailed, the whales are surging back: their population growing by 7.3 percent per year.
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The Google Car Is a Hoax – The Drive
On the eve of its press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford chief executive Mark Fields was still coy on the automaker’s reported deal to partner with Google to build self-driving, Ford-branded cars.
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Amazon’s Offering Massive Discounts on Vega Protein Powder and Bars, Today Only
Continuing a string of deals that can help with your new year’s resolutions, Amazon’s offering a Gold Box deal today on a variety of Vega One and Vega Sport protein powder and bars.
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Electric vehicles may be the future of transportation, but they can travel only as far as there are places to charge them. Often called the “Tesla of scooters,” Taiwanese startup Gogoro is known for its sleek, battery-powered two wheelers.
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Reagan’s Impossible Dream: The X-30 National Aerospace Plane –
On February 4th 1986, mere days after the United States had been shocked by the Challenger disaster, President Reagan rose before Congress to give his State of the Union Address. “We’re going forward with our shuttle flights. We’re going forward to …
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My Tinder date with ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli – The Washington Post
This fall, I went on a date with Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old ‘Pharma bro’ recently arrested on charges of securities fraud, and widely known as the most hated man in America. I hate to disappoint the masses, but I have to say: I had a pretty goo…
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Zimbabwe is to increase the export of wildlife, including elephants, to China, the environment minister says. The move will reduce the chances of elephants dying because of drought, Oppah Muchinguri is quoted by the state-owned Herald newspaper as s…
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How Reinventing the Toilet Can Improve Public Health in the Developing World – The Atlantic
When we think about the most dire threats to our planet, poor sanitation rarely tops the list. And yet it’s a significant (and in some cases immediate) contributor to sickness and pollution in both rural and urban areas.
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New Euclide mission set to map dark space like never before : space
New Euclide mission set to map dark space like never before via /r/space https://t.co/TNYH8uVUe9 https://t.co/EffgUulYaf
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There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies the ways into 113 causes, which are grouped into 20 categories.
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Six Other Times Armed Militia Groups Took On the Government | Vanity Fair
Last Saturday, a group of armed militiamen, led by the son of right-wing folk hero Cliven Bundy, seized a federal building in a remote Oregon wildlife refuge, refusing to give it up in protest over two ranchers convicted of setting illegal wildfires.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Pakistan to take action against militants India says are responsible for a recent attack on an air base. He phoned his counterpart Nawaz Sharif and called for an “immediate” response to the assault on th…
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Disney princesses reimagined as cement mixers|Dangerous Minds
Thank God, the final nail in the coffin for the whole “Disney Princesses Reimagined As (insert whatever the hell you want here)” craze. I thought this meme would never, ever die.
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This Video Explains the Basics of Investing in Stocks and Bonds
Stocks and bonds are fundamental investing terms, but if you’re new to investing, you might not have any idea what these terms mean. This video breaks it down. In a quick explainer video, Fidelity explains the difference between stocks and bonds, al…
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This is so dumb, but by the end of it I was nearly hyperventilating from laughing so hard.
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I swear to God, there’s more happening than just these yahoos in the wildlife refuge! And there’s even a possibility we’ll be able to tear ourselves away from the spectacle and give them proper consideration. Place your bets!
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Fighting While Friending: The Grey War Advantage of ISIS, Russia, and China – Defense One
From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts that exist in a gray zone, one which is not quite open war but more than regular competition, which is attuned to …
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How a Vietnamese Refugee Is Rethinking Food Delivery in America – Bloomberg Business
Tri Tran was always looking for something better to eat than government gruel. He grew up in the desperately lean decade after the end of the Vietnam War, in the small city of Ba Ria, about 50 miles southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.
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To Catch a Rapist https://t.co/Uq3ltFa90L https://t.co/VPOZqiMpj8
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This Is the Entire Universe Squeezed into One Image
This Is the Entire Universe Squeezed into One Image https://t.co/7uRADuKcJ3 https://t.co/ai5QYgh0zw
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Alien Atmospheres: The Search for Signs of Life
Alien Atmospheres: The Search for Signs of Life https://t.co/0RvymvBvz5 https://t.co/RtMtCgbWEe
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Most Americans Agree With Obama That More Gun Buyers Should Get Background Checks | FiveThirtyEight
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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday https://t.co/CT8vjCTcSq https://t.co/9aaNkd4apZ
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Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Casts Victoria Justice as Janet : television
Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Casts Victoria Justice as Janet via /r/television https://t.co/GVcIqitIi8 https://t.co/4bs6vpsZxK
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Nvidia outs Pascal GPU in new “supercomputer” for self-driving cars | Ars Technica
As with last year’s CES, Nvidia devoted its keynote this year to machine learning and self-driving cars, unveiling a new version of its Drive PX system.
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US bookstore changes Isis branding after attacks | Books | The Guardian
Colorado bookstore Isis Books & Gifts has been forced to change its sign following a series of attacks from vandals because it shared its name with the terrorist network.
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The single biggest contributor to climate change in California is a blown-out natural gas well more than 8,700ft underground, state authorities and campaign groups said Monday.
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The GOP Kicks Off The New Year With An Empty Threat To Repeal Obamacare | ThinkProgress
Republicans in Congress have wasted no time in establishing their lead battle of the new year: repealing Obamacare.
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Anti-LGBT ‘Religious Liberty’ Fight Set To Return To Georgia’s Legislature | ThinkProgress
Last spring, when conservative lawmakers in Indiana and Arkansas were pushing through “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA) legislation intended to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination, a similar bill was under consideration in Georgia.
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BBC Sport – Zidane: 6,000 Real Madrid fans watch first training session
As many as 6,000 fans watched the Real Madrid squad train at the club’s Valdebebas base for the first time under new boss Zinedine Zidane. Zidane, a World Cup winner, had been responsible for Real’s B side prior to his promotion.
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The UK has “urgently enquired” of Chinese and local officials following the disappearance of a British bookseller in Hong Kong, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said. UK passport holder Lee Bo, 65 – also known as Paul Lee – is one of five bookse…
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The Strain of Always Being on Call – Scientific American
We would all appreciate a healthy work-life balance, but even those of us who try to unwind outside the office are frustrated by the gentle chime of email at all hours.
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Reports that a company in north-east China is making female staff “apply” to have children have prompted lively debate on social media.
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3D-Printed Ceramics Could Build Next-Gen Spaceships
Engineers have always liked ceramic parts – they are strong, lightweight and handle heat better than many metals, ideal for crafting parts for airplanes or rockets. Heat-shielding tiles on the space shuttle were made from ceramics, for example.
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Dozens More Migrants Drown off Turkey After Boat Capsizes | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here.
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Month after month, even during a busy holiday season, they never fail to do the intellectual heavy lifting on behalf of our grateful nation… Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold… [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to get off Facebook and go run | The Verge
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has issued a new challenge to his 47 million followers: get up and go run. In a Facebook post published yesterday, Zuckerberg said he aims to run 365 miles in 2016, and encouraged his followers to do the same.
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U.S. Struggles to Explain Alliance With Saudis https://t.co/Z7bbIGek12 https://t.co/piMDxOv4zV
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Scientists To ‘Resurrect’ Giant Tortoise – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Though the last living Galapagos tortoise, “Lonesome George,” died in 2012 at 100 years old, scientists are hopeful they can resurrect the extinct species and return it to its environment by breeding tortoises on nearby islands who have the closest …
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President Francois Hollande has unveiled plaques to the victims of last January’s jihadist attacks in Paris as anniversary commemorations begin. Seventeen people died in three days of attacks targeting Charlie Hebdo magazine, police and a kosher sto…
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Sainsbury’s says it made an offer for Argos owner Home Retail Group in November, but that the offer was rejected. Sainsbury’s said it was now “considering its position”.
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The Latest in the Oregon Standoff – The Atlantic
—Ryan Bundy, one of the leaders of the group that is now calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the group would leave if the local community asked it to. “This is their county. We can’t be here and f…
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Why Saturn Is the Best Planet – The Atlantic
Last October, The Atlantic published, “Jupiter Is the Best Planet,” an article by Adrienne LaFrance. As editor of that article, I must take responsibility for the way it misled readers.
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When Picky Eating Becomes a Disorder – Scientific American
Plenty of children refuse to eat their vegetables, but for some the problem extends far beyond picky eating. In severe cases, abnormal eating patterns can lead to dangerously low body weight or nutrient deficiencies.
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‘Super Bowl of Astronomy’ Kicks Off in Florida This Week
The latest astronomical discoveries in dark matter, exoplanets and more will take center stage as the so-called Super Bowl of Astronomy, the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, kicks off in Kissimmee, Florida this week.Credit…
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A dull, frigid winter morning. Overhead, the sky was locked in gray, only occasionally releasing an ashen, icy flake or two, more like iron shavings than snow. On the third floor of the New Haven police station, Detective Kris Cuddy had just finishe…
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday confronted the fundamental contradiction in its increasingly tense relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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Why Ghana Started a Space Program | Motherboard
Plantain sellers, fruit vendors and market stalls line the road as taxis and local tro tro buses dart through the busy high street. The lively centre of Koforidua, hemmed in by lush green mountains, appears to be the typical Ghanaian city.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran and how we got here – Al Jazeera English
The decision by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to recall its diplomats from Tehran and expel all Iranian diplomats is a deeply worrying development in a troubled relationship between the Middle East’s pre-eminent regional powers.
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Significant Digits for Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Right on schedule, the St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Oakland Raiders filed their applications to relocate to Los Angeles on the first day the …
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Hubble captures image of two galaxies merging : space
Hubble captures image of two galaxies merging via /r/space https://t.co/8DSHz7hmL5 https://t.co/clHcXk6WPJ
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Standards organization accepts completion of last row of periodic table | Ars Technica
Just prior to the end of 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC to everyone, including itself) made a momentous discovery: it was accepting the existence of four new chemical elements. Combined, they complete the bottom r…
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June 23, 1987: I am born. My parents decide to name me after my grandmother’s Hebrew name: Leah. They choose not to spell my name like hers for fear I will be called “Lee-ah” my entire life, rather than “Lay-ah,” as it’s meant to be pronounced.
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Space in Images – 2016 – 01 – The ExoMars 2016 Schiaparelli module in Baikonur
On 14 March, the launch window opens for ExoMars 2016, ESA’s next mission to Mars, composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli.
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The case that prompted the ongoing occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon by armed militiamen dates back to September 30, 2001. Nearly 15 years later, exactly what happened that day remains hotly disputed.
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A Father, a Dying Son, and the Quest to Make the Most Profound Videogame Ever | WIRED
You find yourself in a hotel room in a strange city, like a character in the first scene of a videogame. Take a second to get oriented, to remember where fate has delivered you. Seattle. OK.
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Cliven Bundy’s War Never Ended | ThinkProgress
A year and a half after television news crews departed Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch, the revolution he hoped to spark against federal stewardship of public lands is still going. But it’s hard to say it’s going strong.
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Political ad experts weigh in: is Donald’s new spot a campaign trump card? | US news | The Guardian
Candidates running for office in 2016 are expected to spend a record amount of money on political advertising. Last year, Wells Fargo Securities reported that an estimated $6bn was going to be spent on political ads in 2016, up 16% from the 2012 cam…
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Why The Star Of Louis Vuitton’s Womenswear Campaign Is A 17-Year-Old Boy | ThinkProgress
Jaden Smith, believer in the melancholiness of the ocean but doubter of his own reflection — “How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real” — is the star of the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2016 womenswear campaign.
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Windows 10 Mobile on an 8-inch tablet looks like a giant phone | The Verge
Windows 10 on smaller tablets has been a little bit of a mystery ever since Microsoft originally unveiled many new features almost a year ago. While Intel-powered small tablets look like miniature PCs running the full version of Windows 10, ARM-powe…
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Harman Kardon adds Google Cast support to its wireless speakers | The Verge
Who wants a $1,000 soundbar? Harman Kardon has just announced an update to its Omni line of wireless speakers, the Omni+. Designed to compete with Sonos for the home audio market, has added a new speaker to its offerings with the Omni 50+ which is w…
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Jabra’s new wireless earbuds let you filter specific outside noises | The Verge
Wireless earbuds — the ones that employ a wire behind your head and connect to your phone over Bluetooth, not ones that don’t actually have any wires at all — have started including more and more features like fitness tracking and hands-free calling.
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Update Your Budget Now, To Recover From Holiday Spending
The holiday months have a terrible habit of sucking every last dime out of your wallet. Now that it’s over, it’s the perfect time to update your budget to fix last year’s shortfalls, and prepare for next year.
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Harman brings Microsoft Office to your car | The Verge
Get ready to build PowerPoint presentations in your car. Harman is integrating Microsoft Office 365 into its infotainment systems. The partnership will bring the entire suite of productivity apps including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to the automoti…
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This pocket-sized camera can see the length of a football field in the dark | The Verge
In 2015, long time thermal imaging company Flir introduced a smartphone accessory called the Flir One that gave users a superpower: it let them see in the dark. Today at CES, all the work that went into miniaturizing that image sensor for the Flir O…
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Swimming with Oliver Sacks – The New Yorker
Oliver Sacks swam until he died. He believed swimming was instinctive, and that we must learn to walk but not to swim. Still, for many years he took a weekly lesson from a Russian coach, Slava, to perfect his stroke, and his backstroke was especiall…
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BBC Sport – Pep Guardiola: Bayern Munich boss wants to coach in England
Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola says he is leaving the club to manage in England. The former Barcelona boss recently announced he would not extend his contract in Germany when it expires at the end of this season.
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LastPass Revamps Its Interface, Adds Emergency Access and Better Sharing
LastPass is one of the best password managers around. Today it gets a bit better with an improved interface and a handful of new features. The new interface makes LastPass much easier to use, concentrating on bigger icons, simpler navigation, and br…
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Subway Art, originally published in 1984, introduced New York City’s graffiti to the world. A new edition produced by Thames & Hudson and available on 11 January features over 70 photographs by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfont not in the original ed…
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How to Power Dress Megyn Kelly | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair’s February 2016 Megyn Kelly cover shoot posed a very modern fashion quandary to fashion and style director Jessica Diehl: How does a woman draw attention to her clothing without sacrificing respect for her intellect? Kelly is well suited…
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What is actually in erectile dysfunction supplements?
In western Iran and other parts of the Middle East, some men forcefully strike their penises to generate stronger erections. “We hear a lot of things” men will try to treat erectile dysfunction, said Dr. Landon Trost, head of andrology and male infe…
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A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h).
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It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties, although the band has also come in for its share of reappraisals, particularly for their psych-rock album Head.
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Sun glinting off the surface of the Earth : space
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Why the Cleveland Browns are champions of NFL’s Black Monday | Sport | The Guardian
Jimmy Haslam has owned the Cleveland Browns for a little more than three years, and yet in that time he has become so experienced at firing coaches and executives he didn’t wait for Black Monday to gut his franchise again. He blew everyone out on Su…
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Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute sits in the heart of Fentress County, Tennessee, high on the Cumberland Plateau within spitting distance of the Kentucky border. The area is a beautiful, bucolic place characterized by rising hills and encroachin…
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When Do You Become an Adult? – The Atlantic
It would probably be fair to call Henry “aimless.” After he graduated from Harvard, he moved back in with his parents, a boomerang kid straight out of a trend piece about the travails of young adults.
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Saudi-Iran standoff: War or a grand bargain? – Al Jazeera English
With the negotiations already unlikely to be successful, the larger question is what the rift may mean for the trajectory of the Syrian conflict and future peace talks.
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Jezebel Op-Ed: Cheerleaders Don’t Need to Be Paid Since They ‘Work Closely’ with Rich Athletes [Updated] | Gizmodo How You’ll Probably Die, Visualized | Gawker Megyn Kelly Is a Horrible Person | Jalopnik Faraday Future FFZERO1: Is This The Future Of…
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Camera MX Brings iOS-Style Live Photos to Android
Android: There are plenty of alternative camera apps on Android, so it’s a little hard to stand out. Camera MX is doing a decent job though, most recently by adding Live Shots, which allow you to capture brief videos, in an easily shareable format.
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What the 2016 Presidential Candidates Must Do to Win – Bloomberg Politics
Less than four weeks before Iowans kick off the 2016 presidential contest with their Feb. 1 caucuses, the early road to the White House appears to be shaping up as a slippery and uncharted one for the Republican Party.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: President Obama takes executive action to prevent gun violence
Guns are dangerous. This simple fact deserves more prominence in the discussion of gun rights and gun regulation in the U.S. — a debate that will be rejoined (if not renewed) this week as President Barack Obama announces new efforts to reduce gun v…
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Children rescued from North Yorkshire school bus caught in flood water | UK news | The Guardian
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More than 20 children have been freed from a school bus that became trapped in floodwater in York in the latest extreme weather to hit North Yorkshire. Flood rescue officers smashed a back window of the bus to rescue the children in Newton-on-Ouse o… -
Garmin releases hardcore Tactix Bravo GPS watch, adds HRM to Fenix 3 | Ars Technica
Garmin releases hardcore Tactix Bravo GPS watch, adds HRM to Fenix 3 https://t.co/aX38OYl8OP https://t.co/WBwHgYEmAn
Garmin is kicking off the year at CES 2016 by focusing on its outdoor line of smartwatches. The company announced the new Tactix Bravo multisport GPS watch and new Fenix 3 HR watches featuring Garmin’s Elevate wrist-bound heart rate monitors. -
The Expanse is the best new science fiction series in years | Ars Technica
The Expanse is the best new science fiction series in years https://t.co/QGGttD9AnW https://t.co/X6Jl0Yv6tc
There was a time—a long time—when every new science fiction TV series raised the same question: Is it as good as the first Battlestar Galactica miniseries? And always the answer was no. -
This App Wants To Kill The Selfie Stick | TechCrunch
Can an app replace the selfie stick? Sadly that seems a forlorn hope at this point. The plague of wands topped with phone clamps and wielded by photo-loving tourists everywhere seems unstoppable.
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Beijing’s air quality actually improved last year, authorities say | The Verge
Despite unprecedented alerts over dangerously high smog levels last month, authorities in Beijing say the city’s air quality actually improved last year over 2014. The average concentration of PM2.
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To his detractors, Edward Blum is one of the most dangerous men in America, a human wrecking ball on a mission to destroy the landmark achievements of the civil rights era and send the country back to a dark age of discrimination and harassment of m…
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First Click: USB-C arrives in force at CES 2016 | The Verge
Back in June at Computex, I wrote that USB-C has already won. But back in June, USB-C still felt like a new, far-off technology — my point was that its adoption was a foregone conclusion. And as CES kicks off this week, there are already a range of …
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GM could crowdsource your car’s data to make better maps for self-driving cars | The Verge
Today at CES, GM announced that it’s “exploring” the use of cameras on board its cars to automatically build high-definition mapping data — the kind of data needed for fully autonomous driving.
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Olwyn Hughes obituary | Books | The Guardian
In a photograph of Ted Hughes from his youth, the poet is cradling a jagged mirror. It reflects his sister, Olwyn Hughes, holding a box camera: the combination of their images symbolises how, from the age of 35 until her death at the age of 87, she …
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An expert on right-wing terrorism explains the militia movement behind the Oregon takeover – Vox
A group of armed activists calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom took over a federal building on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, on Saturday, saying they were protesting the tyranny of the federal government.
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Star Wars actor John Boyega is one of five new faces who will be in the running for the Rising Star Award at the Bafta Film Awards next month. The Londoner, who plays Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, faces competition including Fifty Shades Of …
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Burundi government says will not join peace talks – Al Jazeera English
Burundi’s government will not take part in peace talks with the opposition scheduled for Wednesday, a senior official said, casting doubts on efforts to end months of violence.
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Comedian Nick Offerman Destroys Gun Nuts – YouTube
Comedian Nick Offerman Destroys Gun Nuts https://t.co/ucvwjeR4a7 https://t.co/KZrYbuTwky
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Comedian Nick Offerman Destroys Gun Nuts https://t.co/ucvwjeR4a7 https://t.co/KZrYbuTwky
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NASA’s Kepler Comes Roaring Back with 100 New Exoplanet Finds : worldnews NASA’s Kepler Comes Roaring Back with 100 New Exoplanet Finds via /r/worldnews https://t.co/oC6hcZAf1N https://t.co/nUng1XqY5y tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Refugees caught between hope and harsh winter – Al Jazeera English How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a…
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