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In pictures: Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan – BBC News
In pictures: Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan 30 July 2015 Last updated at 08:19 Photographs of the war-ravaged landscape of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan to go on show in London
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Ai Weiwei denied six-month UK visa – BBC News
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been refused a six-month visa by the British government amid claims that he lied on his visa application form. Ai posted a letter on Instagram which states that his entry to the UK has been restricted because h…
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Myanmar frees 6,966 prisoners ahead of polls – BBC News
Myanmar has pardoned and released 6,966 prisoners, including 210 foreigners, the government says. The amnesties, which the information ministry says the president issued “on humanitarian grounds”, come ahead of general elections in November.
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LPT: If you’re looking for a job, spend 8 hours a day applying and looking. Because that is your job right now. (self.LifeProTips) I can be very lazy and slack. So I would apply for two or 3 jobs and call it a day. This made me change my view on thi…
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MH370 search: Malaysia urges caution on Reunion debris find – BBC News
Malaysia has said that it would be “premature” to speculate on whether debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion comes from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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Ted Nugent: Cecil the Lion story ‘is a lie’ | Music | The Guardian
Ted Nugent enjoys killing things. He enjoys killing things so much that when he’s not touring or recording, he offers hunting safaris in the US, Canada and Africa. He enjoys killing things so much that he sells specially branded Ted Nugent hunting a…
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Stewart: Secret Meeting with Ailes, Not Obama — NYMag
Jon Stewart already explained in a Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore cameo that his so-called “secret meeting” with President Obama was actually in the visitor’s log, but apparently he felt the need to elaborate further on his own show – or he just wa…
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Calais migrant crisis: Hundreds head for tunnel – BBC News
Security forces in Calais have been working to prevent a third successive night of mass incursions into the Channel Tunnel by migrants trying to reach Britain. Many migrants in Calais have been risking their lives by either breaking into haulage veh…
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Coast Guard Investigating California Oil Slick | Al Jazeera America
The Coast Guard is investigating a large oil slick that mysteriously appeared Wednesday off the Southern California coast about a dozen miles from where a broken pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of crude into the ocean in May.
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As the world mourned Cecil the lion, five of Kenya’s endangered elephants were slain : news
As the world mourned Cecil the lion, five of Kenya’s endangered elephants were slain (washingtonpost.com)submitted just now by westmontblvdloading…
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So my grandparents sent me a gift for my birthday : gaming
Your grandparents are hip and cool. Can I come over for Thanksgiving?
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Chung Mong-joon wants to replace Sepp Blatter as president
South Korea’s Chung Mong-joon says he wants to replace Sepp Blatter as Fifa’s next president. Mong-joon is a former vice-president of world football’s governing body and the major shareholder of the industrial giant Hyundai.
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The small low pressure area that moved off the coast of North Carolina over the weekend has lost its frontal characteristics and acquired organized deep convection overnight. Advisories are being initiated on Tropical Storm Claudette, the third trop…
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Royal Dutch Shell to cut 6,500 jobs – BBC News
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced it is to shed 6,500 jobs as part of cost cutting plans. The company said the cost cutting was to help “mitigate the impact” on profits amidst a drop in oil prices.
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“One of the most important things is to recognize that we do have this mounting violence in us, and then to find the reasons.
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Zayn Malik says he’ll reveal the “real” him in new music after announcing he’s signed a solo record deal. The former One Direction singer, who quit earlier this year saying he wanted to be a “normal 22-year-old”, posted a picture of himself signing …
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Nap pods and gaming arcades. Walk-in closets and private bathrooms. Rooftop pools and maid service. With modern campuses caught up in what is popularly known as the amenities arms race, it is hard to blame incoming freshmen for expecting cushy suite…
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — At the edge of this coastal California town known for its liberal bent and boardwalk amusement park is a cluster of big red barnlike structures that was supposed to be a freewheeling utopia of its own.
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Planned Parenthood Sites Hacked Second Time | Al Jazeera America
Planned Parenthood said computer hackers snarled traffic to its websites on Wednesday in the second cyber attack mounted against the healthcare organization this week amid a controversy over alleged sales of aborted fetal tissue.
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Angry Birds 2 is out now for Android | The Verge
Okay, so I know since Angry Birds came out in 2009, we’ve had Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Friends, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds Go!, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Fight!, Angry Birds Stella, and…
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At least 16 dead in Nepal landslides after rain – BBC News
At least 16 people have been killed after torrential rain triggered landslides in western Nepal, officials say, with fears the toll could rise. Dozens are missing in villages near Pokhara, more than 200km (124 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu.
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Chat App Line’s Revenue Falls For First Time Amid Struggle For Global Growth | TechCrunch
Mobile messaging app Line saw its revenue decrease quarter-on-quarter for the first time as the Japanese company battles to grow its userbase amid increased competition worldwide. The company, which saw its monthly active user count rise by six mill…
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A surreal night at Citi Field ended with Wilmer Flores’s eyes still puffy from wiping away tears, but also still a member of the Mets.
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When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Cole Hamels to a six-year contract extension, in 2012, they believed he could help extend their long run of success. Instead, after five consecutive division titles, the Phillies collapsed. On Wednesday, they su…
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MH370: Experts investigate Indian ocean plane debris – BBC News
Sixteen months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, a piece of an aircraft has been found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. French officials are examining it, and the airline itself says it is too early to speculate on its origin.
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Sanders Supporters ‘Feel the Bern’ at Livestream Rally in Brooklyn | Observer
More than 100 supporters of Vermont Sen.
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A LEGO Brickumentary · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The Lego Movie performed what seemed like an impossible feat: making a film based on a popular toy line that functions as both a tribute to those toys and a celebration of the general notion of play without coming across…
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“eps1.5br4ve-trave1er.asf” · Mr. Robot · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwh…
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Strike Back · Season 4 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
At several points during the first few episodes of the final season of Cinemax’s Strike Back, the various criminal elements arrayed against British intelligence agency Section 20 scramble to pull together more resources, terrified of what harm the o…
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Andy Daly will Review anything (as long as it doesn’t involve primates) · Interview · The A.V. Club
In addition to being one of 2014’s funniest new shows, Review was also one of the year’s most pleasant surprises.
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Baby-selling case file #41: Cop Rock · My World Of Flops · The A.V. Club
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
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The End Of The Tour · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Voracious readers of the late David Foster Wallace, an author of massively ambitious fiction and casually revealing nonfiction, could be forgiven for regarding a movie about his life with some skepticism.
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Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Ethan Hunt is a secret agent. He works with a team of high-tech specialists to save the world from terrorists. Often, their work involves dangerous physical feats performed under tight time constraints.
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Jason Segel scores the role of his lifetime, David Foster Wallace · Interview · The A.V. Club
Trepidation was not an uncommon response to the announcement, back in late 2013, that Jason Segel had secured the role of David Foster Wallace in an upcoming movie.
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Review our reviews of Review · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, July 30. All times are Eastern. Review (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.): Review was one of the breakout comedies of last year with our own Erik Adams calling it “the funniest TV debut of 2014.
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Best Of Enemies · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Television used to value public intellectuals a lot more than it does today.
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Across the Northeast U.S., a slow moving coastal storm will continue to bring periods of rain going into early Friday. By Friday evening, the cyclone pulls slowly away from the region and allows for improving conditions from west to east.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – GOES West Daylight Images of Hurricane Ana
GOES West entered Rapid Scan Operations between 1829Z on October 15 through 1159Z on October 21 to provide coverage of Hurricane Ana as it moved south of the Hawaiian Islands. This movie shows all available sunlit images with night’s passage remaini…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Hurricane Watch in Effect for Bermuda
Hurricane Gonzalo is moving toward the northwest near 12 mph. A turn toward the north-northwest and then north is expected during the next day or so, followed by a north northeastward acceleration by late Thursday.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Snow Blankets Nepal After Cyclone Hudhud
The remnants of Cyclone Hudhud, passing northwest from India into Nepal on October 13 and 14, 2014, caused a severe blizzard trapping many hikers and their guides on the popular Annapurna Circuit around the mountain.
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A series of storm systems will continue to bring widespread precipitation into northern California and the Pacific Northwest through the coming weekend. 10 to 12 inches of rain is possible, with local amounts up to 15 inches along the immediate coas…
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The ABC has had to correct two statements made by Alan Jones on Q&A last week, including one that put the cost of wind power 10 times higher than it actually is. “Wind power is about $1,502 a kilowatt hour. That is unaffordable.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – GOES West Daylight Images of Hurricane Ana
GOES West entered Rapid Scan Operations between 1829Z on October 15 through 1159Z on October 21 to provide coverage of Hurricane Ana as it moved south of the Hawaiian Islands. This movie shows all available sunlit images with night’s passage remaini…
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Techmeme: Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here! (Kirk Koenigsbauer/Office Blogs)
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JOHNSON CITY, TN—Upon finding the machine in her apartment building’s laundry room completely untouched since she last stopped by, exasperated local woman Sandra Hermus reportedly mounted all her magnanimity Monday and extended the deadline for the …
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Russia Vetoes MH17 Tribunal Proposal | Al Jazeera America
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine.
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Beautiful illustrations take us on a journey into the surreal
Matylda Konecka is an artist from Wrocław, Poland. She graduated from Landscape Architecture at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, and has been awarded prizes in several major competitions, while also having a number of indiv…
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Runaway lorry kills Mexico pilgrims – BBC News
A lorry in central Mexico has ploughed into a religious procession, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring about 30, officials say.The lorry, which was carrying building materials, hit a crowd of about 200 people on the main street in the town of…
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A dentist from Wisconsin goes hunting in Zimbabwe and bags its most famous lion, Cecil. In response, Cecil’s friends have gone hunting in Minnesota in the hope of bagging its most infamous dentist, Walter Palmer. Welcome to the world of charismatic …
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You Will Feel For This Mammoth Who Is Unfrozen In the Future
Tusk — no relation to the Kevin Smith movie — is a short about a mammoth being forced to adapt to future when she is unfrozen. This little film perfectly captures everything that entails. Tusk is by Rory Waudby-Tolley and was a first year film at th…
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TRAVIS Threlkel was standing on the roof of a building on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street looking uptown at his canvas.
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Why I’m Quitting Shoppable Video | TechCrunch
Video has completely taken over: 10 billion video views will roll off today and an estimated 86 percent of Internet traffic will be dedicated to video in 2016. But despite its dominance, video monetization is reliant on old models: TV-style media bu…
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Ai Weiwei claims UK is denying him entry over his “criminal record” – Boing Boing
China only just reinstated artist Ai Weiwei’s passport, and his freedom to travel outside of China, after locking him down since 2011. Just now, the artist and cultural provocateur posted a notice on Instagram that the UK is denying him entry over s…
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With A Slew Of US Investors, Zimmber Launches Home Service Marketplace For india | TechCrunch
Ram Shriram, the founder of Sherpalo Ventures and an investor in Google, IDG Ventures, the Omidyar Network, and the India-based chairman of Manipal Global Education, V. Mohandas Pai, have committed just under $2 million into the company.
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Today is my birthday and I didn’t feel like baking myself an entire cake… : food
Today is my birthday and I didn’t feel like baking myself an entire cake… (imgur.com) Happy birthday! Now that is a creepy cupcake!
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Creatures great and small beneath the sturdy oak | Environment | The Guardian
A row of stately trees guards the meadow’s fence line beneath a sultry summer sky. One tree is a small-leaved lime, a diminutive name for a colossal plant.
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There Is a 17th GOP Presidential Candidate — NYMag
If you’re a right-leaning hipster who considers all 16 Republicans currently running for president a bit too mainstream, have we got the candidate for you. Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore filed with the FEC on Wednesday, just eight days before …
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Betterment Tops 100,000 Customers And $2.5B Under Management | TechCrunch
Automated investment service Betterment is growing at a torrid pace through the first half of 2015. The company has managed to woo over 100,000 customers to its algorithm based investment service and has grown its assets under management to $2.5 bil…
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“Bold Guard” · Deutschland 83 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“The calm before the storm” is the ominous last line in “Bold Guard,” which is itself the calm before the storm, give or take a couple dramatic moments like, oh, Martin confessing he’s a spy to General Edel. But even that is handled with a relativel…
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Mom sent me to the store last night and I started feeling a horrible vibe the closer I got. Then this is what I found upon arriving. I actually couldn’t bring myself to go in. (i.imgur.com) That’s a murder in a parking lot.
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APOD: 2015 July 29 – The Deep Lagoon
Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant.
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The Ballad of Mullah Omar – The New Yorker
Mullah Omar, whose death Afghan authorities announced on Wednesday, was the charismatic spiritual leader of the Taliban, and symbolically a man of great significance. This was so even though he was rarely seen and, according to Afghans, has actually…
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Passionate ski mountaineer and Your Shot member Peter Svoboda loves minimalist compositions in his winter-themed mountain photography. Svoboda saw this scene unfold from about a mile away on the summit of Kreuzkogel in the Austrian Alps. “The angle …
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Tony Abbott has warned against “short-term, xenophobic politics” obstructing the trans Pacific partnership (TPP) negotiations which are expected to reach an agreement in days.
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Calais migrant crisis: Hundreds gather at Channel Tunnel – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants hoping to get to Britain have gathered for a third night along fencing close to the Channel Tunnel freight terminal in Calais. An extra 120 French police officers were sent to the terminal on Wednesday, with MPs urging the UK go…
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Maradona accuses ex-wife Claudia Villafane of $9m theft – BBC News
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has accused his former wife Claudia Villafane of stealing nearly $9m (£6m) from his bank accounts. Maradona said during a live TV show on Canal America that Ms Villafane, his childhood sweetheart, was “a thie…
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Samsung’s Profit Continues To Slide As Its Smartphone Unit Struggles | TechCrunch
As the company forecasted earlier this month, Samsung Electronic posted yet another drop in its quarterly profits. This marks its seventh quarterly decline in a row as the company’s smartphone unit struggles to keep up with competitors like Xiaomi.
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Galaxy S6 smartphones don’t ring true for Samsung Electronics’ profits | Technology | The Guardian
Samsung Electronics has reported a fifth straight quarterly profit drop as the Galaxy S6 series of smartphones failed to reverse its declining fortune in the industry. Samsung’s April-June net income was 5.8tn won (US$5bn/£3.2bn), down 8% from 6.3tn…
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Man sues Etihad over back injury from sitting next to obese passenger | Business | The Guardian
A man is suing an airline, claiming he got a back injury after being forced to sit next to an obese man who coughed a lot.
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Manchester United 0-2 PSG | Match report | Football | The Guardian
More significant than this first ever pre-season defeat for Manchester United under Louis van Gaal is the question of how prepared David De Gea is for the coming campaign. United have no more matches before their Premier League opener against Totten…
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The Joy of Six: sports movie villains | Sport | The Guardian
“Whatever he hits, he destroys.” Dolph Lundgren is a fearsome sight in Rocky IV; a sweaty, dead-eyed killing machine with rippling muscles and a peroxide flat-top.
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$15m Settlement Reached in Hawaii Molasses Spill | Al Jazeera America
Attorney General Doug Chin called the settlement with Hawaii-based Matson Navigation Co. one of the largest for an environmental violation in Hawaii’s history. The settlement includes a combination of cash, restoration efforts and funding for enviro…
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Donald J. Trump on Wednesday called the lawyer who took out a breast pump in front him during a 2011 deposition a “vicious, horrible person,” even as he acknowledged his angry response to the incident. Legal papers that are not in dispute describe M…
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Rolling Stone Sued for Rape Story; Editor Leaves — NYMag
Four months ago, an independent review concluded that Rolling Stone’s article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia was “a journalistic failure that was avoidable.
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The deep convection associated with the remnants of Tropical Depression Nine have persisted and become better organized since yesterday so advisories have been re-initiated, with the system being upgraded to Tropical Storm Hanna. The main hazard ass…
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Open thread for night owls: ‘The new American slavery’
Working as crayfish peelers, the two women claimed pay was as little as $4 an hour. Jessica Garrison:The police brought the women, who were both in their twenties, to the station house. McGee told them they couldn’t leave West’s farm without permiss…
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Securing Virtual Container-Based Applications | TechCrunch
Virtual containers are among the hottest technologies in the software development world today. Containerization is an approach to virtualization in which apps and all their components are packaged up and compartmentalized but share a common operatin…
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“July 29, 2015” · WWE NXT · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The most memorable episodes of NXT have a mythic quality about them. They’re episodes that blow off huge feuds or introduce us to new talents. They pay off months and months of storytelling, and the result is something emotional and transcendent.
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Sanders Lobbies for A.F.L.-C.I.O. Endorsement SILVER SPRING, Md. — Citing his long legislative record and improving performance in opinion polls, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont told leaders of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
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Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug.
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Kitchen Science: What’s the Difference Between Brown and White Sugar?
We know that, scientifically speaking, brown sugar makes better song lyrics than white sugar, but what is the actual chemical difference between the two? Learn why brown sugar clumps up, how you can unclump it, and what it’s good for.
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Samsung will ‘adjust’ Galaxy S6 pricing after disappointing earnings | The Verge
Samsung Electronics posted second-quarter earnings today in line with its own predictions: the company’s net profit fell eight percent year-on-year to 5.75 trillion won ($4.93 billion) on sales of 48.5 trillion won ($41.7 billion), down seven percen…
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Mets trade Wilmer Flores to Brewers, leave sobbing shortstop in game
With the Major League Baseball trade deadline fast approaching, it wasn’t necessarily surprising that New York Mets shortstop Wilmer Flores reportedly was dealt to the Milwaukee Brewers for Carlos Gomez.
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“Severed Head Showcase” · Key & Peele · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The first sketch of “Severed Head Showcase,” in which a church choir tries to warm up without the guidance of their leader, shows Key & Peele doing what they do best: creating highly specific characters and dynamics playing out a near-universal expe…
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A Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles with nearly 300 people on board diverted to a remote US military airport in Alaska’s Aleutian islands on Wednesday due to smoke in the aircraft, airline officials said.
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HPV vaccine shown to be safe and effective, again
Conclusions: These results, along with the safety data from the pre-licensure clinical trials, confirm that the HPV4 vaccine has a favorable safety profile.
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Al-Jazeera journalists to hear Egypt retrial verdicts – BBC News
An Egyptian court is due to rule in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists previously jailed for allegedly aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced …
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Tig Notaro is getting her own Amazon series
Tig Notaro is finally getting her own show. On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it had ordered a pilot from the comedian, which will be produced by Diablo Cody and Louis C.K.
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A raucous crowd attacked Uber drivers and their vehicles with clubs and stones outside the Mexico City airport, according to the company, as licensed taxi drivers demonstrated to demand a “total halt” to app-based rideshare services in the capital.
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Mad Men always walked a fine line between criticism and examination of the era in which it took place, and stark fetishization of its fashions and style. But while fine lines are…uh…fine while a show’s on the air, once it’s over, the power of no…
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Yakub Memon: India carries out only execution over 1993 bomb attacks | World news | The Guardian
India has executed Yakub Memon, who was convicted of involvement in a series of co-ordinated attacks that killed hundreds of people in Mumbai in 1993.
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They didn’t plan for things to turn out this way: both of them well past 50, both living with a parent in the houses they grew up in, never married, no children. Most people don’t.
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MediaThe only reason I want Ben Affleck to direct ‘The Batman’ is for more behind the scenes photos like this. (i.imgur.com)
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Awesome mural is created in Melbourne with just acrylic paint and a brush
Melbourne artist Shawn Lu has created his most recent mural, The Biker, outside of the Juddy Roller studios in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The Biker was completed over three days using household acrylic paint and a simple brush, which allowed for the level …
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MUMBAI — India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country’s deadliest bomb attacks that killed at least 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, two Indian television channels reported.
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India executes Mumbai bomb plotter Yakub Memon – BBC News
India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state.
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Jason Sudeikis joins live-action/animated barbarian comedy Son Of Zorn · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Artemis Pebdani have joined Fox’s Son Of Zorn (née Son Of Zahn), the hybrid live-action/animated comedy about a barbarian struggling to adapt t…
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WASHINGTON — The prospect that the Export-Import Bank would soon reopen its credit windows to support foreign sales for American businesses was dashed on Wednesday as Congress prepared to recess until September without reauthorizin
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better and Faster | Popular Science
When researchers used to try to diagnose and treat diseases, they would often search for one mutation on a single gene that was causing the problem. Or maybe they would look for average effects of a mutation that led to a disease across the entire p…
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Girl Meets World scores coveted Perez Hilton guest appearance · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Really dialing into its core demographic—fans of decade-old gossip journalism and pictures of celebrities with semen crudely drawn on their faces—Disney Channel has announced that Perez Hilton will be guest starring on its second-season sequel serie…
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That Dystopic Version of Little Women No One Asked For Is Coming to TV
I swear this next sentence is true and not the result of a Mad Lib: The CW is developing a “hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation” of Little Women with Michael Weatherly (NCIS) executive producing. Whatever you’re about to say, I KNOW.
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Lion killing dentist emails his clients, shows little remorse – Boing Boing
A claimed client sent us this business communication, allegedly from America’s best known lion killing dentist, Walter J. Palmer, to his patients. Begin forwarded message: From: River Bluff Dental Date: July 28, 2015 at 7:50:58 PM CDT To: REDACTED S…
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Samsung Electronics sees profit fall 8% in the second quarter – BBC News
Electronics giant Samsung has seen its net profit drop by 8% for the second quarter of the year. Profit for the quarter from April to June fell to 5.75trn won (£3.2bn, $4.9bn), down 8% from last year.
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Police officers in Cincinnati appear to have corroborated a false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in the immediate aftermath of the incident, a detailed analysis of body-camera video released on Wednesday shows.
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Postscript: Suniti Solomon, A Pioneer in AIDS Research – The New Yorker
As H.I.V. swept across the world, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, no country possessed a more menacing mix of conditions, predilections, and the kind of poverty likely to hasten an AIDS epidemic than India.
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This Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Was Built Just To Test Elevators
How do you design a new type of elevator without installing it in an existing building? It’s a chicken/egg question that engineers have long struggled with—even using abandoned mine shafts to test new technology.
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Sam DuBose body-camera video may show officers corroborating false claim | US news | The Guardian
University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing was charged with murder on Wednesday, as a prosecutor disputed Tensing’s claim that he was ‘dragged’ by an unarmed black man’s vehicle.
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Dr. Dre might be about to announce his first studio album in 16 years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rumors are swirling that the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton has lured Dr. Dre back into the studio to record his first full album in 16 years.
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The reinvention of an Australian circus – BBC News
Australia’s Circa is part of a wave of circus performers who have transformed the way we think about shows held under the big top. When Circa was first unveiled to the world, it received a raft of bad reviews.
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Why do off-shore tax havens still exist? – BBC News
Described by the former British cabinet minister Vince Cable as “sunny places for shady people”, tax havens are much maligned. It’s thought the total sum hidden away in low-tax, low-regulation jurisdictions around the world could be $21tn (£13.
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Scientists Think They Know the Exact Year Computers Will Render the Human Brain Obsolete – Mic
This week, the greatest minds in science and technology pleaded with the world to prevent an artificial intelligence “arms race” — an apocalyptic scenario in which terrorists would have access to highly advanced weapons like killer robots.
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That Piece of Debris Won’t Tell Us Where MH370 Crashed | WIRED
A piece of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 might have washed up on a tropical island. If investigators do find that the piece belongs to the lost Boeing 777, it would answer a lot of questions. One question it will not answer however, is where the pla…
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For Mark Zuckerberg, The Future is Immersive | WIRED
In a conference call today to discuss the company’s latest earnings, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the current state of the company along with COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO David Wehner.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Super Typhoon Hagupit Heading for the Philippines
Super Typhoon Hagupit is maintaining a 12 nautical mile, round eye with intense core convection. Hagupit remains in a favorable atmospheric environment and the models have come closer in agreement on a straight track into the central Philippines.
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Seven new cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week, the lowest weekly total in more than a year, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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Gotham Adds More Villains, More Heroes, More Worries
As the official io9 reviewer of the first season of Gotham, I thought the show had an unfortunate tendency to merely trot out proto-Batman characters in lieu of decent storytelling and actual character development.
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Step Out in These Intergalactic Star Wars Sneakers | WIRED
Remember when the first Star Wars movies came out and you could buy Luke lunchboxes and Chewie underwear and Obi-Wan sweatshirts and Vader backpacks? And then everywhere you went, you knew you were the coolest because you had pictures of your favori…
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LONDON — IF you think Donald J. Trump’s early lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination is the season’s most spectacular case of unlikely political ascendancy, think again.
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After all our crushin’, we’re crushed out | Grist
You may have noticed that this week’s installment of our series Woman Crush Wednesday never … installed.
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Labour leadership: Beware the muddled middle – BBC News
I’ve been off on a course for a week or so and feel rather detached from the news of the day. Still, I can’t help noting that the Labour leadership has been having an attack of the vapours.
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The shooter who came from nowhere
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Set your adrenalin alight on this Fijian jet ski adventure
Picture this: a vast expanse of tropical islands in every direction you look, blue skies above, and a smattering of ocean life gently swimming around you. Would you really want to interrupt this blissful solitude with a heart stopping guided safari …
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Having the ability to communicate with the dead must be a huge burden. Not only are you superhuman, but you also possess definitive proof that there is life after death—which could be one of the most significant scientific discoveries in all of huma…
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Yoko Ono announces new collaborative album w/ Death Cab For Cutie, more · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In between her busy days of depressing beverages, slapping cloth hands on people’s nipples, and unfairly serving as an easy rallying cry for the music-minded misogynist, Yoko Ono occasionally manages to put out some music of her own.
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Manchester United v PSG: International Champions Cup – live! | Football | The Guardian
Former Manchester United captain Bryan Robson exchanges jerseys with Justin Grimm of the Chicago Cubs. Photograph: David Banks/Getty Images
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Sex trafficking: Lifelong struggle of exploited children – BBC News
In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draws thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of thousands of American children are thought to be sexuall…
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‘Killer brew’ addicts in Kenya face penis cut off threat – BBC News
Authorities in Kenya are cracking down on illicitly brewed alcohol following a recent spate of deaths. Homemade alcohol, sometimes called “killer brew”, is popular among poorer Kenyans in central parts of the country.
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Are IS recruitment tactics more subtle than we think? – BBC News
How exactly does the so-called Islamic State radicalise young Muslims over the internet? The experience of one British teenager, who claims to have turned many others away from IS, reveals tactics similar to those employed by groups who seek to norm…
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Rio’s favelas to accommodate visitors to 2016 Olympics – BBC News
For most foreign visitors to Rio de Janeiro, the thought of spending the night in one of the city’s favelas or shanty towns is a scary proposition.
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‘Nazis secretly eat falafel’: German town’s pro-refugee posters – BBC News
In response to a wave of recent anti-refugee protests across Germany, a political activist placed pro-refugee posters at bus stops in the small town of Freital, sparking a debate online.
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A tourist in the land of the ayatollahs – BBC News
From ayatollahs railing against the Great Satan (aka the United States) to whip-wielding policemen on motorbikes, Iran hasn’t presented the most inviting face to the outside world over the last few decades.
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How to blow up a car and other film special effects – BBC News
Blowing up a car, making a dog snarl, creating an eerie fog on a battlefield; just some of the daily chores carried out by film and TV’s visual effects units.
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Wild Virginia ponies make waves in annual ‘pony swim’ – BBC News
Spectators from around the world have gathered on Chincoteague Island in the US state of Virginia to watch the annual “pony swim”.
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Jim Gilmore launches bid for White House – BBC News
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore has entered the crowded race for the US presidency. He joins the 16 other Republicans vying for the White House.
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Georgia is just one of the Greenpeace activists have suspended themselves from St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon to block a Shell Oil vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters. The climbers have enough supplies to last several days, and are pre…
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Cassini Spies “Unusual” Red Arcs on Saturn’s Icy Moon Tethys
Recently acquired images of Tethys, one of the ice moons of Saturn, have given scientists their best view yet of several “unusual, arc-shaped reddish streaks” that sweep across the satellite’s surface.
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Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph T Deters on Wednesday delivered what may be the strongest official condemnation yet of a police shooting since Michael Brown was killed almost a year ago, sparking widespread unrest in Ferguson.
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Guardian US staff vote to unionise | Media | The Guardian
Staff working at Guardian US will unionise under the News Media Guild after a vote was passed unanimously in favour of collective representation on Wednesday. The vote was recognised by Guardian News & Media LLC, according to a spokeswoman for Guard…
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Can exercise that is intense also be fun? Researchers in Denmark recently began delving into that issue and in the process developed a new approach to intense interval training that could appeal even to those of us who, until now, have been disincli…
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Forget Boston — Buffalo’s Massive Pile Of Snow Still Hasn’t Melted – Digg
Despite record breaking heat in New York, a snow pile still exists in Buffalo after following a storm which occurred 8 months ago. The 10 foot high mound is solid ice, and not melting anytime soon.
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Aurora found around brown dwarf beyond our Solar System – BBC News
An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report. An international team detected the light display around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away in the Lyra constellation.
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Farmworkers score big in new tomato deal | Grist
The Coalition of Imokalee Farmworkers, which you may recall from the documentary Food Chains, fights for fairer conditions for tomato harvesters in the U.S. — and they just scored a pretty major coup.
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This guy is drawing more than 100,000 tool shed items to honour his late grandpa
In ‘#TheShedProject’, artist Lee John Phillips honours his beloved grandfather by illustrating all the items he left behind in his old tool shed. How many items exactly? Over 100,000.
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Canada Outed Medical Weed Users With Mail and Now a Court Has OK’d Their Class Action | VICE News
The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action lawsuit against the country’s health ministry, years after it mailed 41,514 letters that outed users of a government medical marijuana program, allegedly violating their privacy rights.
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Did debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 just wash ashore?
After 16 months with no answers, new clues have emerged regarding the whereabouts of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The wreckage was discovered on Reunion Island, a French territory east of Madagascar.
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Taliban Leader Reports Threaten Peace Talks | Al Jazeera America
The death of reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar has yet to be confirmed by the group itself, but his supposed demise two years ago in a Pakistani hospital could have a very real impact on the here and now — throwing a wrench into Afghanistan’s nas…
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Newly found Hunter S. Thompson audio a rare, candid look at the legend
Forty-eight years ago, legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson was interviewed about the brutal ass-kicking he received while traveling with an infamous motorcycle gang. The rare audio from one of the 20th century’s most cutting voices has been unearthe…
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The myth of the ‘senseless’ mass shooting
There’s something distinctly American about the landscape of the theater: In its gluttonous splendor, it functions as both coliseum and megachurch, bringing together the masses to worship one of the most sacred of American religions—the cinema.
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Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation | TechCrunch
Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another one of them may soon enter the so-called unicorn club.
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GitHub Raises $250M Series B Round Led By Sequoia Capital
GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 2. Afghan officials announced that the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar, believed to be the man pictured above, has been dead since 2013.
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During the recession near the end of the last decade, many young adults facing a dreadful job market moved in with their parents to save money.
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California restaurants stopped serving water. Does that matter? | Grist
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’ve dined out in California lately, you may have noticed something missing: your complimentary glass of water.
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Europe Uses Iran Deal for Wider Diplomatic Push | Al Jazeera America
As Secretary of State John Kerry testified before a Senate committee on Wednesday to defend the Iran nuclear deal, European allies continued to use the recently brokered agreement as a basis for broader diplomacy with Iran.
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Good morning. There’s been a possible breakthrough in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the aircraft that vanished on 8 March last year carrying 239 passengers.
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Holland’s Catawiki Raises $82M To Take On eBay In Collectible Auctions | TechCrunch
While eBay is doubling down on its core business after its split from PayPal, an upstart out of Europe is looking to muscle in on the business where eBay first made its name, collectibles.
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Violent Los Angeles Hashtag Turns to Peace | Al Jazeera America
Los Angeles residents have transformed the hashtag #100days100nights, used by suspected gang members threatening 100 days of retaliatory violence, into a rallying call for peace.
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Three University of Virginia graduates and members of Phi Kappa Psi have filed a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely over the 2014 article A Rape on Campus.
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As anyone who had a working TV at the time probably remembers, back in 2010, a cave-in occurred at the San José copper-gold mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 workers for two months under hundreds of metric tons of rock.
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One Great Teacher May Have Turned Western Civilization Towards Science
We don’t know much about Strato of Lampsacus. None of his books survived to the present day. But he might have turned western civilization towards the sciences, by teaching just the right guy in just the right way.
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Body-camera footage of Samuel DuBose shooting – video | US news | The Guardian
Warning: video contains disturbing sound and images In this four-minute excerpt of body-camera video provided by the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office, officer Raymond Tensing, the wearer, can be seen shooting and killing DuBose
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Astronauts Have Bolted Kombucha Samples to the Space Station
Nope, it’s not a home-brewing experiment gone horribly awry in the ISS. It’s an attempt to test the resilience of kombucha, by throwing it directly against the void of space.
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Debris found near Madagascar may be from long-missing MH370 airliner | The Verge
Multiple reports now indicate that a weather-battered aircraft section found earlier today on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is part of a flaperon — a control surface that acts both as a flap and an aileron — from a Boeing 777.
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We Now Know Who Ethan Embry Is In The Walking Dead Season Six
One of the big takeaways when the first trailer for The Walking Dead season six was released was a role for Ethan Embry. You know him. The ’90s darling who starred in Empire Records, Can’t Hardly Wait and more? Well, we now know who he’s playing, as…
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Zayn Malik announces that he is going to make ‘#realmusic’ now | Music | The Guardian
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik, who broke fans’ hearts when he left the band in March, has announced that he has signed to RCA records, where he intends to make what he described on Twitter as #realmusic. Malik tweeted that he had left the b…
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This ultra-advanced luxury car feature is on affordable cars now | The Verge
Dynamic cruise control is one of those opulent car options that sound a little ridiculous until you actually try it, and then you can’t really imagine using a car without it. It is awesome.
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An 8-year-old boy has become the youngest recipient of a double-hand transplant. Four surgical teams worked in shifts for 11 hours to perform the operation at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Mark Zuckerberg says virtual reality is the obvious next step for Facebook | The Verge
Facebook has another quarter in the books, and the company’s business continues to boom. Its revenues rose roughly 40 percent year over year, to $4.04 billion. But its net income declined compared to last year, declining from $791 million to $719 mi…
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Obama wants to build an exascale supercomputer by 2025 | The Verge
The White House is getting serious about supercomputers. Today, President Obama issued an executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Intiative — essentially a federal strategy for making sure America leads the field in supercomput…
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Google’s Project Loon will cover the entirety of Sri Lanka with internet coverage | The Verge
Project Loon is undoubtably one of the most “Google” projects that Google is working on — Wi-Fi being delivered by giant floating balloons is certainly a unique approach to getting internet to hard-to-reach areas.
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Deadspin Taste Roger Goodell’s Wrath With Our NFL Punishment Generator | Gizmodo Windows 10: The Gizmodo Review | Jalopnik I Took My Hummer To New York City, And It Was Awful | Kotaku Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Responds To Haters In The Best Wa…
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Have You Ever Seen a Soap Bubble Bounce?
Fifteen years ago, researchers used high speed video to show that when a drop of water coalesces into a layer of the same liquid, it does so not instantaneously but in a matryoshka-like cascade, with each step generating a smaller drop.
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AT&T wants your smartphone to get FM radio | The Verge
There’s an FM radio hidden inside of most smartphones, even though most phones don’t actually allow you to use it. But soon, they may start working if you’re on AT&T. AT&T is starting to ask phone manufacturers to turn on the FM radios inside of the…
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Microsoft Has A Brand New Middle Finger With Your Name On It | TechCrunch
Today, Windows 10 met the world with much fanfare. There’s tons of new features, apps and more articles about it than you can shake a stick at.
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Go behind-the-scenes with ‘Henry,’ the next animated 3D short film from Oculus
Soon you’ll be in the movie with animated characters, rather than just watching them on the screen. Oculus has announced the second short film from Oculus Story Studio, founded in 2014 and staffed with veteran filmmakers from Pixar.
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Dr. Dre to Release New Album as ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack | Rolling Stone
Dr. Dre will finally end fans’ 16-year wait for a new album when the rapper releases his Straight Outta Compton soundtrack, which will consist of new music entirely producer by The Chronic mastermind, a source tells Rolling Stone. Dre is expected to…
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Facebook addiction hits an average of 46 minutes per day
Sure, you’re hooked on Facebook—but do all those sneaky mid-day News Feed peeks add up? According to new numbers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, they really, really do.
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Hackers can force a high-tech sniper rifle to shoot the wrong target
Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger, a married pair of computer security experts, have successfully used their skills to access and fundamentally alter how one type of Wi-Fi-enabled hunting rifle operates.
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The extraordinary life of the first American to join China’s Communist Party
Sidney Rittenberg greets me with a faint, friendly voice in the lobby of his condo building in Bellevue, Washington. Ninety-three years old, wearing a striped blue polo shirt and khaki cargo pants, he walks slowly but appears remarkably healthy for …
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Water droplets in these macro photos turn the ordinary into the extraordinary
We’ve seen beautiful and impressive macro photography over the years, but what we’ve never seen are water droplets undergoing ‘a phenomenal metamorphosis’.
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Omg! Grumpy puppy is the funniest thing we’ve seen since Grumpy Cat
And you thought Grumpy Cat was as agro as they get! Meet Earl, the Internet’s ‘most morose mutt’. This little puggle enjoys eating snacks, sunbathing and chasing balls around the park – but with a sourpuss look on his face at all times.
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Meadows resigning from Freedom Caucus board | TheHill
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told his colleagues on Wednesday he was resigning from the conservative House Freedom Caucus board of directors, just a day after he offered a resolution to oust Ohio Republican John Boehner as Speaker of the House.
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AL Seeks End to Prisoner Seeking Abortion | Al Jazeera America
The state of Alabama is petitioning a court to strip a pregnant prisoner of parental rights in order to prevent her from obtaining an abortion, an official said Wednesday.
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LA auto dealer beats Donald Trump piñata on TV spot – Boing Boing
This TV spot for an Los Angeles auto dealer stars a couple of guys beating a Donald Trump piñata to a pulp (or a pulpier version of pulp). The video spot by Van Nuys Nissan features a piñata marketed as a “Donald Trump piñata,” complete with yellow …
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Starbucks food: May contain deforestation palm oil | Grist
Concerned about palm oil, but still grabbing your morning breakfast at Starbucks? You might want to skip that scone.
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Canada Just Bought Israel’s Iron Dome Radar Technology | VICE News
Canada’s Armed Forces has purchased radar technology that is part of Israel’s famous Iron Dome, the missile system tasked with shooting down Hamas and Hezbollah rockets — and it plans to deploy it within Canada.
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Trump would grant ‘good’ immigrants pathway to legal status | TheHill
Donald Trump wants to deport all immigrants in the United States illegally and then grant the “good ones” an expedited pathway to legal status, he told CNN in an interview.
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What you need to know about antibiotics in livestock | Grist
You’ve probably heard some controversy about antibiotics being used on farm animals – what’s the deal? First, it’s important to clarify what we’re actually worried about. If you’re grossed out by the idea of antibiotics in your meat, don’t worry, th…
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Diane Keaton will play a nun in HBO’s The Young Pope · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The papacy is getting even more prestigious for HBO’s The Young Pope, as Coming Soon reports Diane Keaton will be joining director Paolo Sorrentino’s eight-part miniseries.
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William R White, former member of the Tuskegee Airmen, dies aged 88 | US news | The Guardian
William R White, a former member of the famed squadron of African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 88. White was a humble family man who rarely talked about his war experiences, family members said on Wednesday.
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Hillary Clinton says Cuba embargo must end as she takes campaign to Florida | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton will call for an end to the US embargo on Cuba during a rare foreign-policy speech for the Democratic presidential frontrunner, in a signal that the former secretary of state is willing to challenge her chief Republican rivals in the…
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It Looks Like Wreckage From the Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Has Been Found | VICE News
More than a year after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing in Southeast Asia, it appears that wreckage from the plane has washed ashore on an island in the western Indian Ocean.
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Tig Notaro is letting all her funny friends tweet for her · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Admitted Luddite Tig Notaro has finally at least kind of joined Twitter. The comedian is spending the ramp up to her August 22 comedy special by handing her @TigNotaro handle over to a different comedian pal for each of the next 20-odd days.
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Is Jake Gyllenhaal the official star of the fall festival season? Yesterday, the programmers of the Toronto International Film Festival announced the first batch of movies that will be screening there in September, including opening night selection …
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The authors in the running for Britain’s most prestigious literary award come from seven countries and include seven women writers. The longlist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards, was announced Wednesday.
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In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
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Snow Drought on Mount Baker : Image of the Day
Winter and spring 2015 brought average or just-below average precipitation to the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, much of that precipitation fell as rain, not snow, and diminished snowpack was soon evident on peaks throughout the Cascad…
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Snow Drought on Mount Baker : Image of the Day
Winter and spring 2015 brought average or just-below average precipitation to the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, much of that precipitation fell as rain, not snow, and diminished snowpack was soon evident on peaks throughout the Cascad…
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Effort to oust Boehner falls flat | TheHill
House conservatives and establishment Republicans agreed on one thing Wednesday: Rep. Mark Meadows’s measure to depose Speaker John Boehner was a bad idea.
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I HEART USA? No way. We have become numb to the constant mass shootings in the U.S.
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The Working Actor Dream Cast Trailer: Spotlight | WIRED
Does True Detective make you sad? Is the woeful misuse of Rachel McAdams at least part of the reason you are sad? Because that makes us sad.
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PARIS — A large object that appeared to be an airplane part washed up Wednesday on the shore of Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, prompting speculation that it might be debris from Flight 370, the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappea…
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Jane Birkin, left, and the Hermès crocodile bag. Jane Birkin appears to be vying with the Kardashians in an attempt to break the Internet. On Tuesday, she released a statement announcing that she had asked Hermès to take her name off its famous Birk…
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I started my career as a foreign correspondent in Beirut in 1979. I didn’t know it at the time, but 1979 turned out to be one of the great vintage years for foreign news — particularly from the Middle East. It set in motion the most important dynami…
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The Military Weapon of the Future Is a Screaming Ball of Plasma That Terrifies Enemies – Mic
The future of military warfare might not be a bullet or a missile — it could be, quite simply, scaring the bejesus out of people. The U.S.
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Can Lion Trophy Hunting Support Conservation?
The recent illegal killing of Cecil, one of Africa’s most famous lions, has increased calls to outlaw trophy hunting.
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Rare White Rhino Dies, Leaving Only Four Left on the Planet
A northern white rhinoceros named Nabiré died Monday at a Czech zoo, leaving only four of the subspecies alive in the world. Their outlook is bleak: Only one male remains, and at 42 years old he can no longer breed.
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Chasing Nighttime Thunderstorms, Trying to Crack Their Mysteries
Nighttime thunderstorms can be more unpredictable than hurricanes. And they can be just as fierce, unleashing flash floods, violent winds, and thousands of lightning flashes within minutes.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Rain and thunderstorms for the Gulf Coast region
For the Deep South and Gulf Coast region, a wave of low pressure developing along a frontal boundary over the northern Gulf of Mexico will keep the weather unsettled to close out the work week. Based on the latest forecasts, it appears that the Mid-…
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What It’s Like to Plunge Into the Heart of a Forest Fire
For most of us jumping into a fire would be the stuff of nightmares. But for Jason Ramos, author of Smokejumper: A Memoir By One of America’s Most Select Airborne Firefighters it’s a job and way of life.
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With 700 million users, investors are eager to see Facebook earn money on Messenger.
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How to Strengthen Your Willpower and Get More Shit Done | Observer
How many of you out there can be productive when you need to, not be distracted by your phone, sleep for 7–8 hours, and exercise at least 30 minutes a day? Not many huh? I’m like you too.
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Remembering Jack Gibbons, The Rarest Of U.S. Science Advisors | ThinkProgress
John H. (Jack) Gibbons — renowned physicist, former presidential science advisor, and lifelong energy efficiency champion — died on July 17 at the age of 86. He was the rarest of scientists, and, I believe, the only person in U.S.
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No, Nintendo Didn’t Just Delay Wii U Zelda Again | WIRED
Nintendo just released a fairly run-of-the-mill earnings report for its first fiscal quarter, about which I found absolutely nothing at all to be surprising or alarming.
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This looks like a dark one, everybody. Spotlight, the new film from Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor) deals with the The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning exposé on the Catholic Church’s cover-up of priests who molested children in M…
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Peru Rescues Dozens of Hostages Held Captive By Shining Path Rebels For Decades | VICE News
The Peruvian military has rescued 39 people who were kidnapped by a Marxist rebel group as far back as 30 years ago and held in captivity on a farm in one of the world’s largest cocaine-producing regions.
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Planned Parenthood’s Website Is Apparently Under Attack | WIRED
Planned Parenthood has been at the receiving end of a war of words from activists and GOP politicians in the wake of controversial videos purporting to show that the health organization sells body tissue from aborted fetuses. Now the battle has appa…
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Tesla’s Using Its Customers to Get Around Trouble Opening Stores | WIRED
If you drive a Model S, there’s a new way to get $1,000 off your next Tesla: Get a friend to buy a car from Elon Musk. Tesla has started an experimental referral program meant to capitalize on what it says has always been one of its best tricks for …
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Obama Wants the U.S. to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer | WIRED
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the creation of new supercomputing research initiative called the National Strategic Computing Initiative, or NSCI.
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How to Tell if That Wreckage Is Really From MH370 | WIRED
Hang on to your tin hats, here comes MH370 again. A piece of airplane has been found on a small island in the Indian Ocean, and to some, it looks very much like it came from the same model of commercial airliner that infamously disappeared without a…
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5 Black Women Have Died in Jail This Month — The Cut
On Monday, police in Mount Vernon, New York, found Raynetta Turner dead in her holding cell. According to Mayor Ernest Davis, Turner, who was 44, had been arrested for shoplifting on Saturday.
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US official: Debris in photo belongs to same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia plane
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Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri Lanka With Internet | TechCrunch
Google is working on many things, and that includes balloons that fly high in the sky to bring internet infrastructure to locations that can’t be wired for it easily. Today, Sri Lanka announced that it’s the first country to ever get universal inter…
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The sheen was initially reported as about 50-60ft wide about 1,000 yards off the Santa Barbara County city of Goleta, said Coast Guard petty officer Andrea Anderson.
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Get this Snapchat beach towel before it disappears
You can now buy an official Snapchat beach towel, a blindingly yellow monstrosity, complete with the color filters and text overlay options you see on your mobile device. The towel costs $25, and you can snag it on Amazon.
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You’ll be seeing a lot more video on Facebook in the near future, and your musings will be easier to access.
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MTV wants to kill more teenagers, picks up Scream for another season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fresh off a highly coveted F rating from The A.V. Club, MTV has decided to renew its Scream TV series for another season of frustratingly drawn-out serial killer mysteries.
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‘Back to Back’: Did Drake Really Need to Reply to Meek Mill’s Ghostwriting Diss? – The Atlantic
On “Back to Back Freestyle” and “Charged Up,” the rapper forgoes the high road in his beef with Meek Mill. Once upon a time, Drake made a vow of silence.
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Here’s what you want us to ask the TV pros at the TCAs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The phone lines are closed and the inboxes have been shut (but the comment section remains open, so you can still voice your displeasure with our choices below): Here is your 2015 TV Club Questionnaire, the reader-submitted line of inquiry that The …
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VH1’s ‘Twinning’ is exploitative reality at its lowest—and you’ll be hooked
I discovered Twinning on a warm weeknight—curled up with my laptop in my bed, comfortably stoned. This is how I’d recommend you stream the ultimate hate-watch in television.
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Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? – The New Yorker
When the wine critic James Suckling described a Château Haut-Brion in the pages of Wine Spectator in 1992, he needed just a single phrase to sum up the taste: “Big and meaty, with lots of fruit and full tannins, but featuring a sweetness and silkine…
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How Brisket Conquered the BBQ World | First We Feast
Jim Shahin pens the “Smoke Signals” column at The Washington Post, and is an associate professor of journalism at Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications @jimshahin
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How Do Ultra-Dense Galaxies Form? | Simulation
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Dems plot recess message to draw contrast with GOP | TheHill
House Democrats on Wednesday laid out their messaging strategy for the long August recess in a bid to build political momentum heading into the high-stakes policy fights that wait beyond.
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NEW DELHI — Yakub Memon is an unlikely cause célèbre for death penalty opponents in India. India’s Supreme Court has called him “the driving spirit” behind a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993. Prosecutors portrayed Mr.
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On any given night, clubs in the Lan Kwai Fong entertainment district are dark, loud and sweaty. That was not the case at the Levels nightclub on a recent evening, when Tim Luk, a 29-year-old programmer, arrived.
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Russia blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would create a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner last year in eastern Ukraine.
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Part of MH370 Wreckage May Be Found | Al Jazeera America
Apparent plane debris that washed up on La Réunion, a French island in the western Indian Ocean, is being examined by French officials to see if it could be part of Malaysia Airlines MH370, which mysteriously disappeared in March 2014 shortly after …
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Alarm over ‘timber grab’ from Cambodia’s protected forests – BBC News
Ancient, highly valuable forests are being lost at an “unprecedented” rate from protected lands in Cambodia, according to a new report. The analysis, from campaign group Forest Trends, says that large corporations are using legitimate development pe…
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Bendy tech promise for graphene – BBC News
Graphene, a sheet of single carbon atoms, has been manipulated into tiny complex structures like springs using the paper art technique of kirigami. Origami and kirigami, a sister technique where cutting is allowed, have increasingly influenced engin…
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The United States Is The Biggest Importer Of Trophy Lions Like Cecil | FiveThirtyEight
When lions are hunted for trophies, whether they are known and beloved like Cecil the lion or nameless, they’re likely to wind up in the United States, the world’s largest importer of lion trophies.
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Lyft Line Gets Into Perpetual Ride Territory With New Triple Match Service | TechCrunch
Lyft is adding even more riders to its multiple ride-sharing service Lyft Line. Called Triple Match, the feature works like the regular Line service but allows drivers to pick up three or more riders going on similar routes along the way.
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Facebook Events Hits 450 Million Users | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook Events has hit global scale with 450 million active users. That “global scale” he mentioned on today’s earnings call could foreshadow the launch of an enhanced Events feature or a standalone Events app.
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Amazon Now Lets Prime Users Pay Money To Easily Pay More Money Easier | TechCrunch
Amazon Prime has become Amazon’s way of getting cool stuff into people’s hands quicker, to the tune of an annual $99 subscription. You can get packages faster, access video content and more. It’s definitely worth it.
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Yahoo Shows Off Its New Livetext Messaging App | TechCrunch
Yahoo unveiled a new app today called Livetext, where users can send each other video and text — but no sound. To get a sense of how it works, we spoke to Yahoo’s Arjun Sethi (formerly co-founder and CEO of MessageMe). He and I even had a short litt…
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Facebook Just Keeps Raking It in on Mobile | WIRED
Three years ago, Facebook didn’t really have a mobile business. Now, mobile is its core business. Facebook released its second quarter earnings report this afternoon, revealing revenues of more than $4 billion, and that mobile advertising represente…
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Today Is Windows 10 Day | TechCrunch
Ok, the new code is out for the first wave, and you are curious about Windows 10. Or at least we hope so, since we made you a video to go over the broad points of the new operating system from Microsoft.
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DuBose’s mother and brother spoke after the announcement of murder charges against University of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing, who shot and killed the unarmed 43-year-old black man on 19 July after a traffic stop for a missing license p…
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How Uber Can Protect Consumer Privacy | TechCrunch
Uber knows who you are, your email address and your credit card number. As consumers, we willingly offer up and share all of this information with the company because the data is what makes Uber so great — enabling them to deliver a service as compl…
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Facebook hails ‘strong quarter’ as users hit 1.49 billion – BBC News
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has hailed “another strong quarter” after reporting the number of people who check into the social network at least monthly grew 13% to 1.49 billion. The rise in monthly active users helped drive second quarter revenue …
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Cecil the lion: US dentist Walter Palmer apologises to patients – BBC News
A US dentist who killed a lion in Zimbabwe has apologised to his patients in Minnesota for the disruption caused by the anger directed at him.Walter Palmer’s dental practice in Minneapolis has been closed since he was named as the tourist who shot C…
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Holding the Line for Another DNR Assault: Ukraine’s Failed Ceasefire (Part 2) | VICE News
After seeing the realities of the “ceasefire” in eastern Ukraine from the perspective of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) separatists, VICE News traveled across the defacto border to visit a number of Ukrainian positions near Donetsk intern…
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Welcome To Sweden no longer welcome at NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The bloom is off the rose (or twin flower) for Greg Poehler’s Welcome To Sweden. Deadline reports NBC has canceled the show due to the waning interest of stateside viewers.
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A White House spokesperson says reports Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is dead appear credible. White House spokesman Eric Schultz says the US intelligence community is continuing to look into the reports made by the Afghan government that Omar…
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Moscow Wants to Ban American Pro-Democracy NGO and Other Groups From Operating in Russia | VICE News
Russia has launched a new crackdown on groups that might challenge President Vladimir Putin’s monopoly on power.
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On the banks of Egypt’s new Suez Canal – BBC News
Egypt is about to inaugurate a new Suez Canal, which is expected to double the revenues of its strategic waterway over the next decade. It has constructed a new lane which runs alongside part of the existing canal, allowing reduced transit and waiti…
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BBC Sport – Champions League: Celtic 1-0 Qarabag
Celtic utility man Charlie Mulgrew is struggling to be fit for Wednesday’s Champions League third qualifying round visit from Qarabag of Kazakhstan. But midfielder Kris Commons is available after recovering from a broken toe that ruled him out of th…
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The president of the University of New Hampshire said Wednesday he is troubled and offended by many parts of a “bias-free language guide” posted on the school’s website, particularly a suggestion that using the word “American” is problematic because…
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An American dentist who admitted that he killed a well-known lion this month in Zimbabwe and planned to mount the head kept his office closed on Wednesday as the furor online turned vitriolic and, at times, threatening. Dr. Walter J.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Two signs posted on the door of a nondescript dental office here asked passers-by to mourn the death of Cecil, a lion who was lured off his sanctuary and killed during a game hunt this month in Zimbabwe. In the hours since Dr. W… -
The Americans With Disabilities Act Is a Model for the World—Literally | The Nation
July 26 marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Its passage harkens back to a bygone era, when Americans with disabilities could count on bipartisan efforts in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Congress passed …
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Each year, using traditional Incan techniques, communities along a canyon in Peru rebuild a rope bridge that has been in continuous use for hundreds of years.
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Tech earnings started strong and have since often led to share declines, disappointed investors, and, oddly enough, a NASDAQ over 5,100. Following Apple’s share decline, and Microsoft’s embarrassing $7.6 billion whoopsie, tech giants have, in many c…
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How to successfully run a crowdfunding campaign
Crowdfunding campaigns have become the go-to funding strategy for new startups and entrepreneurs. Everyone is turning to crowdfunding to get their businesses off the ground. It is oversaturated with ideas and not a given that any particular campaign…
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Afternoon Bulletin: This Heat Wave Isn’t Going Anywhere | | Observer
Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference earlier today, addressing concerns about the heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service until 8pm Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook reported second-quarter revenue and profits on Wednesday that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations.
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Irotoridori is soduku using colored chicks instead of numbers – Boing Boing
Irotoridori, described as a “color palette puzzle” on the box, is a sudoku board game where the numbers have been replaced with colors. It uses sturdy, plastic bird shaped paint drops and a board shaped like an artist’s palette to add a physical dim…
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Disneyland Paris Is Being Investigated for Overcharging Foreigners | VICE News
The European Commission (EC) announced Tuesday that it is investigating allegations that the Disneyland Paris theme park’s pricing practices are taking advantage of visitors from certain countries. According to reports, the pricing complaints origin…
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NBC’s The Wiz Live! adds Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige, punctuation · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When NBC first announced the next installment of its thus-far-ridiculous live musical broadcasts would be The Wiz, people went ahead and got the jokes about easing on down the garbage chute ready to go.
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Finally! A Republican health care plan!
America, our long national nightmare is over. I’m sold.
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“Everything Is Awesome” for this Amazon parrot · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Because the world is a weird and wild place, Princess Yellow Feather— a talented yellow-naped Amazon parrot that lives at Birds On Safari, an exotic pet store in Stuart, Fla.
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#IfAfricaWasABar: The Surprising Lessons of Siyanda Mohutsiwa’s Twitter Hashtag – The Atlantic
There’s something maddeningly reductive, but also surprisingly instructive, about trying to sum up a country, a complex collective of thousands or millions of people, in just a few words.
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Techmeme: Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results (Facebook)
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The US is rewriting its controversial zero-day export policy | The Verge
For two months, security researchers have been fighting a controversial export policy known as the Wassenaar Arrangement — and now it looks like they may have won a crucial battle in that fight.
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What Could Mullah Mohammad Omar’s Death Mean for the Taliban Talks? – The New Yorker
Since he fled Kandahar on the back of a motorcycle, in December, 2001, Mullah Mohammad Omar, whom the Taliban he led called “Amir al-Mu’minin,” Commander of the Faithful, never appeared in public. If he was trying to elude pursuers, he succeeded: no…
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Drake vs. Meek Mill: a roundtable on the summer’s best beef | The Verge
The spat between rappers Drake and Meek Mill is entering its second week, and it’s starting to get ugly. Here’s the shortest possible recap, just in case you haven’t been following every twist and turn: Meek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter…
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Education increases belief in climate change — everywhere except in the U.S. | Grist
In China, people are more likely to understand the risks of climate change if they live in the city instead of the countryside. Almost everyone in Japan knows about climate change. In Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria and India, over 65 percent of people d…
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You Could Sunbathe in this Storm on Vimeo
Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world. New beginnings put an end to familiar patterns. Do we shape as much as we are shaped? My graduation film from the Royal College of Art. See how it was made here: …
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Why I Hate Beach Reading | Observer
I’m going away to the North Carolina coast next week, and, like many ambitious vacationers, I plan to do a lot of reading.
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You might know it as a drink for hipsters or as an ancient brew drunk for centuries in Eurasia, but the culture that ferments sugary tea into Kombucha is going around the world.
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Photo series parodies American Beauty to show that all body types are beautiful
Wanting to change the way we perceive beauty, photographer Carey Fruth has created a series that imagines women of different body types as the muses of a sexual dream.
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Fly Or Die: MC Squares | TechCrunch
You might assume that, when it comes to a standard whiteboard, there isn’t much room for disruption. But you’d be mistaken.
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Apparent Airplane Debris Checked for MH370 Link — NYMag
Experts are examining apparent airplane debris found off the coast of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean to determine whether it’s a piece of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, according to a member of the French Air Force.
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Alabama officials are currently seeking to prevent a pregnant prison inmate from obtaining a legal abortion by stripping her of her parental rights, in a case where a lawyer has been appointed to represent the interests of her fetus.
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WASHINGTON — While the nuclear agreement with Iran will not stop it from funding organizations that the United States considers to be terrorist g
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Boehner: Fall agenda ‘smooth sailing’ | TheHill
Speaker John Boehner isn’t sweating a jam-packed autumn calendar. Figuring out how to avert a government shutdown. A vote on the Iran nuclear agreement. A House-Senate deal on a long-term transportation bill. And raising the debt ceiling.
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Tesla is offering rebates and a free Model X to existing owners who refer friends
Tesla wants existing Model S owners to refer friends. To help get people talking Tesla up, the company is giving away a Model X SUV to a select few who refer 10 friends.
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Michel Platini confirmed on Wednesday that he would run for FIFA president, writing in a letter to the leaders of the organization’s member federations that he wanted “to give FIFA back the dignity and the position it deserves.”Mr.
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A Facebook photo helped scientists discover a new plant | The Verge
No, do not take pictures of the dandelions in your front yard. Those aren’t new
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The United Nations special envoy for Syria said Wednesday that he had invited a range of Syrians to participate in what he described as preparatory, separate discussions on how to restart peace talks after more than four years of war.
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Why a pro-life Twitter hashtag—like the larger campaign to defund Planned Parenthood—is terrible for public health. Following the release a series of pro-life sting videos targeting Planned Parenthood, Republican senators are threatening to defund t…
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Charlie Stillitano (President, New York/New Jersey MetroStars): Sunil and Rothenberg were bringing in all these investors, doing this dog and pony show, saying, You can build a little stadium for $30 million. hunt: The original prospectus envisioned…
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What to Do When Your App Is Racist – The New Yorker
On August 7th of last year, Crain’s ran an article about SketchFactor, an app that was set to launch the next day.
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At long last Republican presidential hopefuls crept out of their foxholes, where they’d been cowering and maintaining radio silence, to attack Donald Trump. With one or two exceptions, the field went AWOL as Trump trashed immigrants, calling them dr…
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American Regrets Role In Killing Famous Lion – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Give your spam filter something to do.
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MH17 crash: Russia vetoes UN resolution for criminal tribunal – BBC News
Russia has vetoed a United Nations draft resolution seeking to set up an international criminal tribunal into the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine. Eleven of the 15 members of the UN Security Council voted in favour of the resolution, while three abstai…
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Facebook Beats In Q2 With $4.04B Revenue, User Growth Slows To 3.47% QOQ To Hit 1.49B | TechCrunch
People aren’t using Facebook less, according to it’s new earnings report. Facebook recovered from last quarter’s miss, beating the street’s estimates in Q2 2015 with 4.04 billion in revenue and $0.50 earnings per share. Facebook now has 1.49 billion…
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Chicago man cleared of murder after 17 years in prison shot and killed | US news | The Guardian
A Chicago man who served 17 years in prison for murder before being cleared of the crime has been shot and killed almost three years after being released, police said Wednesday.
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Marco Rubio: ‘Look at all this outrage over a dead lion’ instead of ‘Planned Parenthood dead babies’
I swear the Republican presidential field is getting dumber by the day. It’s pointless to blame it on Trump: the plain truth of it is that the Republican base wants candidates willing to stand up on that stage and bite the heads off chickens, so tha…
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday continued to pave the way for an increase in interest rates as early as September.
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Syfy desperately wants Lavalantula to be the next Sharknado · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last week, in the midst of all the Sharknado 3 festivities, Syfy premiered another bad-on-purpose schlock-fest called Lavalantula.
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For some of us, Donald Trump embodies the American dream. He’s a self-made heir who turned a lot of money into even more money. Trump stands tall as a titan of (Trump) industry who isn’t afraid to stare down multiple bankruptcies or the waning cultu…
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Garth Brooks tops country music’s rich list, earning $90m in past year | Music | The Guardian
Country music veteran Garth Brooks on Wednesday topped the annual Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid country acts, raking in an estimated $90m in earnings over the past year.
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Hillary Clinton’s pledge on Sunday to support renewable energy and boost subsidies for solar panels was set up as a great unveiling – the Democratic frontrunner’s first public remarks on how her presidency would tackle climate change.
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Boehner: GOP foe went ‘off the reservation’ | TheHill
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) brushed off a long-shot attempt by Rep. Mark Meadows to oust him from power, suggesting the conservative North Carolina Republican was “off the reservation.” “Listen, you’ve got a member here and a member there who are …
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Guardian US Unanimously Votes To Unionize
The Guardian US staff voted unanimously Wednesday to unionize under the News Media Guild, adding to the growing number of online media companies joining organized labor, the Huffington Post reported. The Guardian US was launched in 2011.
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Turkey Signs Off on US Bombers Attacking Islamic State From Its Territory | VICE News
Turkey has formerly signed a deal allowing aircraft from the US-led anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition to operate from a strategic base in the country’s south, as its own jets concentrated on bombing Kurdish militants.
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Russia Just Vetoed a UN Resolution to Bring the People Who Downed MH17 to Justice | VICE News
Russia has vetoed an United Nations Security Council resolution that aimed to establish an international tribunal with powers to prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last year.
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Photos: Thousands of Refugees Camped at Chunnel — NYMag
In France’s Port of Calais, thousands of migrants — including many refugees from Africa and the Middle East — have set up camp not far from the entrance to the Channel tunnel, which connects France and Great Britain.
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Biotech Interest in Mini Organs Booms – Scientific American
It was an otherwise normal day in November when Madeline Lancaster realized that she had accidentally grown a brain. For weeks, she had been trying to get human embryonic stem cells to form neural rosettes, clusters of cells that can become many dif…
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Techmeme: Sonos speakers now work with Microsoft’s Groove music service (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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How to Get Verified on Twitter – The Atlantic
So why are people obsessed with it? One of the best gifts someone could have given Ben O’Keefe for his 21st birthday was a blue checkmark next to his Twitter username. “I’m a public figure,” he told me. O’Keefe, a vocal member of MoveOn.
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The Fight for American Voting Rights: Inside Ari Berman’s New Book | Rolling Stone
The Voting Rights Act is having a bit of a moment in American society right now: The struggle for its passage was brought to the masses last year in Selma, and its 50th anniversary will be marked later this month, just two years after the law was ef…
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Want a free Tesla Model X? Convince ten people to buy a Model S right now | The Verge
Tesla announced today that it’s rolling out a referral program that’s designed to boost sales through word of mouth, and it’s a pretty decent one: for every referral that current owners generate, they’ll get $1,000 — and the new buyers will get $1,0…
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Santa Cruz teen charged as adult in death of girl at artists’ community | US news | The Guardian
Prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged a 15-year-old boy as an adult in the death of an eight-year-old girl in an artists’ complex in a California beach town. Santa Cruz district attorney Jeffrey Rosell said at a news conference that the teen …
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During the multi-country press tour for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, not even Jon Stewart has dared ask Tom Cruise about Scientology. During the media blitz for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation over the past two weeks, Tom Cruise has seemingly …
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New Ghostbusters with Dudes Reportedly Still in the Works | WIRED
Now that, according to director Paul Feig’s very-active Twitter feed, the all-female Ghostbusters movie is in full swing, attention has now shifted back to whether the rumored Ghostbusters-with-men will be happening as well. Apparently, yes.
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Behind Uber and Lyft, the Gig Economy Is Growing | WIRED
For all the attention lavished on Uber, Lyft, and countless other on-demand services, it’s still hard to determine the real impact of these services on the labor force—and the economy as a whole.
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Plane wreckage found in Indian Ocean tested for MH370 links – BBC News
French officials are investigating whether plane wreckage that washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from missing flight MH370. The debris, apparently a wing flap, was found on French-owned Reunion.
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Deafheaven Detail New Studio Album, ‘New Bermuda’ | Rolling Stone
Deafheaven Detail New Studio Album, ‘New Bermuda’ Shoegaze-metal quintet’s follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed ‘Sunbather’ is out October 2nd via new label ANTI-
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US congressman Chaka Fattah faces corruption charges – BBC News
A veteran US Democratic congressman has been charged with misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal, charitable and campaign funds.The charges against Chaka Fattah, who represents Pennsylvania, include bribery, fraud and money laundering.
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Yoko Ono Announces All-Star Remix LP, ‘Yes, I’m a Witch Too’ | Rolling Stone
Yoko Ono Announces All-Star Remix LP, ‘Yes, I’m a Witch Too’ Death Cab for Cutie, Tune-Yards, Sparks, Miike Snow, Cibo Matto and her son Sean Lennon all contribute to sequel of 2007’s ‘Yes, I’m a Witch’
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Here’s What Inspired Top Minds in Artificial Intelligence to Get Into the Field – Bloomberg Business
Artificial intelligence can seem pretty terrifying.
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Like pigeons to bread crumbs, climate hawks have been pecking for final details on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
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Sandra Bland, My Father, and Me
When I heard of Sandra Bland’s death in a Texas jail, after a traffic stop on a dusty road in Waller County, Texas, I thought of the time my father gave me The Talk that generations of African-American parents have had with their children.
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WASHINGTON—Taking slow, labored breaths while clutching his distended abdomen, a bloated President Obama delivered a press conference Wednesday while seated on a couch several feet behind the podium in the White House briefing room.
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What Happened To Rex Henry In A Philadelphia, Mississippi Jail Cell?
Rexdale Wayne Henry, a Mississippi Choctaw Native American activist, was arrested on July 9th for failing to pay an old traffic fine. He was found dead in his Philadelphia, Mississippi jail cell on July 14. What happened?
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KFC made a chicken bucket that is a Bluetooth printer and we have no one to blame but ourselves
The KFC Memories Bucket, available in a limited quantity because distributing them more widely would collapse the fragile chicken-based technology market, will be available in Canada to celebrate KFC’s 60th year of operation in the country.
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Ten Seconds of Black: Revisiting the Life-Affirming Series Finale of ‘The Sopranos’ | | Observer
At approximately 9:55 p.m on June 10, 2007, a scream rang throughout my house. It was followed by what I would call a single curse word, if it was not closer to an amalgam of every curse word strung together to create a dissonant sound of pure anger…
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WASHINGTON — A veteran House member from Philadelphia, one of his staff members, a lobbyist and two others were indicted Wednesday by the federal authorities in connection with bribery schemes and the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fe…
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Queens Democratic Congresswoman Slams Obama Iran Deal | Observer
Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng today became the first House Democrat from New York to break with her party’s national leadership and come out against the Obama administration-brokered trade deal with Iran. Ms.
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Drudge Report Asks Whether Pope Francis Is The ‘Antichrist’
The Drudge Report on Wednesday pondered whether Pope Francis, who has recently fallen out of favor with some conservatives, is actually the “antichrist,” noting that the pope’s “stand on homosexuality, Islam, capitalism, and the New World Order” fue…
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Touching someone’s heart isn’t easy in Tough Love Machine – Offworld
Figuring out how to connect with another human being is often a puzzle.
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Watching Sandra Bland – The New Yorker
In the age of dashboard video cameras and cell-phone-captured arrests, there is so much that we see and can’t ever unsee. Police in Brooklyn putting Eric Garner in a choke hold, while he gasps, over and over, that he can’t breathe.
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If you are, say, 33 years old, you’ve seen the Joker go from Jack Nicholson to Heath Ledger to, now, Jared Leto. You’ve seen Spiderman recast from Tobey Maguire to Andrew Garfield to Tom Holland. You’ve seen, like, 38 Batmen. And with the success of…
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Here’s a curious bit of news out of Tesla this afternoon: they’re experimenting with a customer referral program.
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A new app provides emoji based on FX and FXX shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
FX Networks has released an app full of emoji based on FX and FXX television shows like Archer, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Strain, Man Seeking Woman, and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Even a fool will quickly grasp why this app (cleverly na…
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Germany Just Got 78 Percent Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources | ThinkProgress
On Saturday, July 25, Germany set a new national record for renewable energy by meeting 78 percent of the day’s electricity demand with renewables sources, exceeding the previous record of 74 percent set in May of 2014.
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The political firestorm set off by secret anti-abortion videos reached new heights on Wednesday, as Republicans in the US Senate unveiled legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton acknowledged the undercover footage of the group’s…
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Key And Peele Sketch Raises An Important Question: Why Aren’t Teachers Paid More? | ThinkProgress
Key & Peele released a new sketch, “TeachersCenter,” that focuses on the ways our society devalues teachers by comparing them to professional athletes. Most of the time they focused on salaries and endorsements.
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Body cam footage shows Ohio campus officer fatally shooting Sam DuBose
Shortly after a grand jury indicted University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for the murder of Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop, body camera footage of the incident emerged online on Wednesday.
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PARIS — A large object that appeared to be an airplane part washed up Wednesday on the shore of Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, prompting speculation that it might be debris from Flight 370, the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappea…
PARIS — American investigators have concluded that a large object that washed up Wednesday on the shore of Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, came from a Boeing 777, making it likely that it was debris from Flight 370, the Malaysia Airlin… -
How hackers can take over nuclear power plants
The world’s most important facilities—think massive hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants—are vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks. And it may be just a matter of time before someone gets hurt. But nobody panic.
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Drug Companies Are Failing To Quickly Report Serious Side Effects To The FDA | ThinkProgress
Federal regulations require drug manufacturers to report previously unknown side effects and complications of their products to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within 15 days of receiving reports of patient injury or death.
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University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing was indicted for the murder of Samuel DuBose by a grand jury Wednesday. Tensing originally tried to claim DuBose, 43, almost ran him over with his car and “dragged” him down the road.
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Instagram’s favorite dads Kordale and Kaleb just broke up
But early Wednesday morning, Kaleb Anthony (who has reverted to spelling his name with a “C” rather than a “K” but has not changed any of his accounts on social media) posted a series of six heartbreaking posts detailing his decision to leave his pa…
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A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted on murder charges on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a driver this month that a prosecutor called “totally unwarranted” and “senseless.
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An American dentist who admitted that he killed a well-known lion this month in Zimbabwe and planned to mount the head has closed his practice near Minneapolis as the furor online has turned vitriolic and, at times, threatening. Dr. Walter J.
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9 Recent Male Fashion Trends, Ranked – The Hairpin
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Portlander Ursula K. Le Guin is Breathing Fire to Save American Literature|Portland Monthly
On one side stand the native Athsheans, diminutive, green-furred humanoids who spend their days dreaming, traipsing peaceably through the woods, and generally just being super mellow.
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How brand-new words are spreading across America – Quartz
Words spread like weeds—seemingly at random but actually governed by invisible forces. Look away for too long, and suddenly new ones are emerging from who knows where. The uncertain and gradual growth of words makes it nearly impossible to pinpoint …
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You may have noticed that we’ve developed a slight obsession with Phoo Chan lately. He’s the photographer behind that incredible NatGeo published shot of a crow riding on the back of an Eagle, and the creative behind some of the most incredible bird…
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Cool furniture alert: the Fibonacci Shelf
The Fibonacci Shelf by designer Peng Wang might not be the most functional piece of furniture, but I still want one. The design of the shelf is based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …), which is related to the Go…
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#MediaDiversity Hashtag Shows Hardships of Minorities in Media | Observer
Mainstream media has a diversity problem, and a Twitter conversation started yesterday by CNN correspondent (and former New York Times national race reporter) Tanzina Vega is bringing attention to issues of race, reporting, and hiring bias. Ms.
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De Blasio and Cuomo Strike Different Tones on Hudson Train Tunnels | Observer
Add what to do about the crumbling condition of two cross-Hudson rail tunnels to the growing list of things Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo don’t quite see eye-to-eye on.
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How the big smoke was cleaned up | Letters | Global | The Guardian
The most effective proxy that the western coalition has against Isis is the Kurdish YPG militia operating in northern Syria (Report, 28 July). Given that the territory the YPG controls is now under threat from Turkey, its fighters will engage this n…
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Cincinnati prosecutor releases footage of Samuel DuBose killing – video | US news | The Guardian
Prosecuting attorney Joseph Deters on Wednesday announced a decision to bring murder charges against a University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black man, earlier this month.
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Breaking Bad fans, Jesse Pinkman’s house is for sale: $1.6 million – Boing Boing
Two houses featured on the great AMC television series “Breaking Bad” are up for sale in Albuquerque, NM. The sales pitch includes this line, seriously: “Meth lab not included.” It’s a two-story, 3,500-square foot, 4-bedroom home in the Country Club…
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Graham: Huck ‘Has Gone Down The Wrong Road’ With ‘Oven’ Remark
In a recent radio interview, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that he thinks former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) was wrong to criticize President Barack Obama’s motives for securing the nuclear deal with Iran, according to Buzzfeed. “I don…
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Gwyneth Paltrow pays tribute to hip-hop with $1,695 handbags · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s a problem that has long plagued the fashionable: How do you find a stylish way to tote the many cosmetics and accoutrements necessary to maintaining your lavish lifestyle, while also proclaiming that you’re into classic hip-hop? Stopgaps such a…
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North Korea Likely Supplied Scud Missiles Fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi Rebels | VICE News
South Korean intelligence officials said Wednesday that around 20 Scud missiles fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen by Houthi rebels and their allies originated in North Korea. The Shia rebels fired the Scud missiles in retaliation for an ongoing bombi…
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Battlestar Galactica will air en español on NBC Universo · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The worlds of Battlestar Galactica have been revisited multiple times since the show’s original run ended in 1979—we’ve had multiple miniseries, a prequel, and one amazing weekly series. (That big-screen adaptation is still a ways off).
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Mullah Omar – the evasive ghost who led the Taliban through secrecy | World news | The Guardian
Since 2001, Mullah Omar had been little more than a ghost, almost as elusive to his own rank and file as he was to the Taliban’s enemies He was cipher, figurehead and inspiration, but left day-to-day military and political decisions to a circle of s…
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Learn to be Tom Cruise with one simple YouTube course · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Do you aspire to one day jump all over Oprah’s couch, join Scientology, fly a fighter jet, and defuse bombs? Here’s your chance! YouTubers Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction have put together a quick, two-minute course on how exa…
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots shot back at the N.F.L. a day after Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in deflating footballs used in the A.F.C. championship game. Robert K.
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The failed pilot for the Clerks sitcom is just terrible · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Love or hate Clerks, Kevin’s Smith 1994 debut film, at least its low-key vulgarity and geeky soliloquies were filled with genuine slacker élan.
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Reality Rap — The California Sunday Magazine
In the late 1980s, the album Straight Outta Compton made N.W.A the first superstars of reality rap.
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Meet the World’s Most Controversial Inflatable Yellow Duck | Atlas Obscura
If you were to come across “Rubber Duck” floating placidly in the harbor of your major city, you would probably, like most people, stop and stare for a bit.
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On Tuesday, the National Football League came down hard on Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
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Reddit needs to stop pretending racism is valuable debate | The Verge
Reddit’s executives are still walking a thin, shaky tightrope as they update the site’s content policy.
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World Bank rejects energy industry notion that coal can cure poverty | Environment | The Guardian
The World Bank said coal was no cure for global poverty on Wednesday, rejecting a main industry argument for building new fossil fuel projects in developing countries.
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Midday open thread: Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Jackie Calmes, a veteran Washington correspondent for The New York Times, makes the case that it’s now no longer Republican Party leaders setting the party agenda.
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Naruto creator asks sequel-hungry fans to let him rest
Nine months after the ending of Naruto, fans are starting to clamor for another sequel. But creator Masashi Kishimoto isn’t having it. At a preview screening for the eagerly awaited Boruto film, fans asked Kishimoto about the potential for more sequ…
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Anti-Birth-Control College Drops Health Coverage To Avoid Filling Out A Form
Wheaton College has taken its battle over Obamacare’s birth control mandate from the courtroom to its campus.
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FireChat’s Off-Grid Messenger Gets Smart Private Messaging Feature | TechCrunch
FireChat, Disrupt alum Open Garden‘s popular off-the-grid messaging app, is getting a major update today that introduces private messaging that can even bridge local networks.
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In the jungle, the mighty jungle, poor Cecil the lion no longer sleeps tonight.
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BBC Sport – World Aquatics: Tom Daley & Rebecca Gallantree win gold
British divers have claimed their second medal of the World Aquatics Championships with Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree combining to win gold in the team event. Daley dived twice from 10m and once from 3m, while Gallantree completed the reverse rou…
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In the Closet in Early America
Yesterday we posted this fascinating story about the discovery of four graves of some of the top leaders of the Jamestown settlement – the first major and permanent English settlement in North America and the origin point of the Virginia colony and …
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Stephen Hawking is right—the AI arms race is already here
This week, a regular who’s who of prospective Bond villains joined together to warn of humanity’s next great threat.
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10 videos of drunk people trying to eat sandwiches – Boing Boing
Eating a sandwich is hard when you have had too much alcohol. Sometimes the best thing to do with a sandwich when you are drunk is to throw it at a police officer.
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Tagplay lets you manage website content using social media and hashtags
There are plenty of really good tools for managing a website, but when you toss in social presence on top of it all, life for a small business owner can get tough. Tagplay is hoping to streamline website and social updates into one convenient servic…
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After the video contradicted his account, a campus cop in Cincinnati is charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist. On July 19, 2015, a 43-year-old Cincinnati man named Samuel Dubose was pulled over by a University of Cincinnati poli…
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Cop who killed Samuel DuBose during traffic stop has been indicted for murder – Boing Boing
A grand jury indicted University of Cincinnati officer Ray Tensing on a murder charge for fatally shooting Samuel DuBose in the head during a traffic stop. “This is the most asinine act I’ve ever seen. This does not happen in the United States,” sai…
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The World’s Most Dangerous Volcano May Kill Another City | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. If you are a volcanologist, nothing strikes fear into your heart as much as thinking about the next Vesuvius eruption. This Italian giant is nestled in the sprawling metropolitan area of Naples, popula…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: James Anderson burst helps England take charge
England took charge of the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston after bowling Australia out for 136 and then reaching 133-3 at stumps. James Anderson was England’s destroyer-in-chief, taking 6-47 – his best Ashes figures – with masterful swing bowling.
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A Fatal F-16 Crash and the Air Force’s Flight-Safety Culture – The Atlantic
Two experienced fighter pilots on suspending judgment about the latest aviation disaster, and the operating realities of the Air Force jet that rammed into a little civilian airplane.
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Calais migrant crisis leads to chaos in UK – BBC News
As at least 1,500 migrants attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel and cross into the UK on Tuesday night, France announced it is to send extra police officers to guard the tunnel.
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Amazon Dash buttons are here for $5 each
Amazon Dash buttons — the branded little doodads that automatically order and ship specific items directly to your house with virtually no effort on your part — are finally available to Amazon Prime members today for just $4.99.
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LOS ANGELES—Angrily stating that he had been “completely ripped off,” Hollywood actor Matt Damon expressed outrage Wednesday after receiving a set of extremely poor-quality headshots from a man who had charged him $500 and guaranteed professional-lo…
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Rick Perry Says the Next Economic Crash Is ‘on the Horizon’ | Observer
Flaying the Clinton administration of the 1990s for driving the economic collapse of 2008, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned in an economic address that the “next crash is on the horizon.”
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How One Decision By Mullah Omar Sealed The Fate Of Afghanistan | ThinkProgress
Mullah Mohammad Omar has been dead for more than two years, at least according to Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency. Many are skeptical of the claim, however, since the enigmatic leader of the Taliban has been reported dead before.
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Snapchat’s Newest Business Model: Beach Towels? | TechCrunch
The Venice-based ephemeral messaging app has obviously left its Amazon Prime account in the hands of the startup’s weed dealer, given the copious Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy references in the description and the very idea that anyone wants to o…
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A Guantánamo Bay detainee who recently published a best-selling memoir is alleging that US authorities at the detention facility have confiscated most of his legal mail and family correspondence to pressure him into submitting to further interrogati…
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Anti-Poverty Group: No, Coal Is Not Good For Poor People | ThinkProgress
The coal industry and its supporters often argue that coal is still a relevant energy source because it’s cheap, and cheap electricity reduces energy poverty.
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Deadline reports Vince Vaughn will star opposite Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge, a movie about the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
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The Soldiers Who Set Two Chilean Protesters on Fire in 1986 Will Finally Face Charges | VICE News
Twelve former Chilean soldiers are under arrest and facing charges for setting two young demonstrators on fire during a 1986 protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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This Is Still Our Best Theory For MH370 | WIRED
Fifteen months later, we have no idea know what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But we keep going back to a theory posited by a pilot Chris Goodfellow just days after March 2014 disappearance.
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Entertainment Podcast: Adam Sandler Is Out, Virtual Reality Is In | WIRED
We got some virtual insanity for you on the Monitor podcast this week. For one, we’re talking about Pixels, its videogame-inspired alien invasion, and whether or not Adam Sandler’s career is virtually over (or at least should be).
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Trevor Noah is essentially the Barack Obama of comedy. He’s stylish, charming, and statuesque, with an impossibly broad smile. He’s biracial and has strong African roots, enabling him to tackle the subject of race without being as frequently accused…
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Adult Swim’s crass humor, thinly veiled social commentary, and ridiculously popular shows may entertain viewers, but people who have the wherewithal to write letters to the FCC are not quite as pleased.
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How You Lose an Airplane in the 21st Century | WIRED
More than a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from air traffic controller scopes on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The captain, with more than 18,000 hours of flight time, gave no warning and no mayday call.
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Yahoo’s Big Idea About Video Messaging: Silence | WIRED
Once upon a time, Yahoo Messenger was mighty. But a decade ago, it faded into obscurity alongside Kazaa and yelling “Wazzzaaap!” when you answered the phone. Now, however, the company is back with a decidedly modern take on mobile messaging.
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Are Car Alarms Completely Fucking Useless?
Shortly after 10 p.m. on an August weeknight in 2005, a car alarm went off in Simi Valley, California. For nearly 45 minutes, the noise blared through the suburbs, catalyzing a symphony of barking dogs and hollering neighbors.
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You Can Now Buy Those Stupid/Great Amazon Dash Buttons
Amazon Dash buttons are either the peak of convenience or a step toward a commercial-rampant apocalypse, but whatever camp you happen to be in, you can now buy those amazingly awful and awfully amazing brand-specific buttons for $5 as long you’re a …
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Why do you really hate Kanye West? | The Verge
Over the last five years, Kanye West has morphed into one of the greatest live performers of our generation. His concert tours are routinely critically acclaimed, and his headlining show at Coachella in 2011 is in the running for the greatest perfor…
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Boehner allies: Coup plot boosts Dems | TheHill
John Boehner’s allies returned fire at Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Wednesday, saying the conservative lawmaker’s half-hatched plot to depose the Speaker has boosted Democrats like Hillary Clinton. “It’s terrible. It makes no sense. It helps the De…
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Did the LAPD Have an LA Times Cartoonist Fired? | Observer
The Los Angeles Times fired a political cartoonist, apparently for fabricating an anecdotal account of an encounter with a police officer. But the cartoonist, Ted Rall—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996—says the move was pure and simple retri…
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Killing of Cecil the Lion casts shadow on hunting exploits of Trump family
It’s not just dentists and cheerleaders and CEOs who have headed off to the Africa with the hope of killing the big five. It’s also the sons of CEOs. His sons—Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump—went to Zimbabwe in 2012, where they killed elephant, leo…
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First there was Grumpy Cat. Now there is Grumpy Puppy
Meet Earl the Grumpy Puppy, who’s recently taken the Web by storm as the latest unhappy pet. Earl is even being compared to the likes of Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation and Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained.
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British man pays deer-ly for speeding, mails in ticket with Bambi envelope
But that’s what they expect. The Man wants you to be angry. Municipal rage can power entire cities, after all. But redditor CapnHammered may have unlocked the key to a whole new power source for ticket-happy cities: Cuteness.
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A couple of years ago, my editor told me to interview a well-known actor. I mentioned this to a friend, and he smirked knowingly. “Better cancel your evening plans. I know at least three female journalists who slept with him after interviewing him,”…
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What happens when your virtual pets die? – Offworld
GHOSTZ recalls the virtual pet craze of the 1990s: simple digital beings in your care, marching obliquely against unchanging backdrops, whimsical of mood and utterly dependent on your actions. Death was often a part of the virtual pet experience, al…
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Cop Facing Murder Charges for Sam DuBose’s Death — NYMag
Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters announced on Wednesday that Ray Tensing, a University of Cincinnati police officer who shot Samuel DuBose — a 43-year-old black man pulled over for not having a license plate on the front of his car — in the hea…
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‘Aircraft debris’ found on Réunion island examined for MH370 links | World news | The Guardian
Police on the island of Réunion are examining what appears to be a piece from an aircraft found washed ashore, amid speculation that it could be wreckage from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
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White House wasn’t aware of Democrat’s impending indictment during AF1 trip | TheHill
The White House was not aware of an impending indictment on Rep. Chaka Fattah when the Pennsylvania Democrat traveled on Air Force One earlier this month with President Obama. Fattah traveled with Obama and attended a July 14 speech the president ga…
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The brutal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe by an American dentist has been met with a torrent of anger worldwide. Many celebrities, including Judd Apatow, Mayim Bialik, Olivia Wilde, and Ricky Gervais, have weighed in to express their disgust.…
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Mexican state known for gender-based violence issues emergency alert | World news | The Guardian
Emergency measures to tackle violence against women are to be implemented in parts of Mexico’s most densely populated state, where thousands of women and girls have been murdered and disappeared in the past decade.
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‘Iron lady’ set to play central role in next act of Greek bailout drama | Business | The Guardian
Delia Velculescu, the Romanian economist chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund’s negotiating team in Greece, was dubbed the “iron lady” during the fraught talks over Cyprus’s bailout.
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Conor McGregor: Ronda Rousey ‘would throw me on my head in one second’ | Sport | The Guardian
Conor McGregor is tough enough to beat most people in UFC, but there’s one person he wouldn’t like to face in the Octagon: Olympic bronze medallist and women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.
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Obama’s Republican Noise Complaints – The New Yorker
“I can’t run again,” President Barack Obama said yesterday, speaking in Mandela Hall at the African Union headquarters, in Addis Ababa. “I actually think I’m a pretty good President—I think if I ran I could win.
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It was an unusual welcome to London. Gazing ahead as we entered the Thames estuary, I made out the dorsal fin of a porpoise, gently rolling through silver waves.
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There are several passages in the new book “Overloaded and Underprepared” that fill me with sadness for American high school students, the most driven of whom are forever in search of a competitive edge. Some use stimulants like Adderall. Some cheat.
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RIO RANCHO, NM—His pace steadily quickening as he rounded the corner out of his kitchen and made a beeline for the front door, local man Henry Parnasse reportedly found himself locked in a race against time Wednesday morning to take out a trash bag …
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Freelancer Labor Rights – The Atlantic
Millions of workers now go it alone—who will provide them with basic labor protections? When Sara Horowitz founded the Freelancers Union in 1995, there was already evidence that the structure of people’s work lives was changing.
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Michael Lopp And The Future Of Engineering At Pinterest | TechCrunch
Michael Lopp’s job at Pinterest is to basically make sure he doesn’t have anything to do all day. Of course, that isn’t the case.
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With both the Shopify and Etsy IPOs, the last year has been a big one for tech companies catering to independent online retailers. Now Tictail, a Swedish company that has migrated to the United States, is hoping to make its mark with a product that’…
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New DEA head: Marijuana “probably not” as dangerous as heroin – Boing Boing
Chuck Rosenberg, the new acting administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Administration: “If you want me to say that marijuana’s not dangerous, I’m not going to say that because I think it is. Do I think it’s as dangerous as heroin? Probably not. I’…
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Fed keeps interest rate on hold again – BBC News
The US Federal Reserve has kept its key interest rate at close to zero again, in a move widely expected by analysts. The unanimous decision means the rate has been at a record low for six and a half years.
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Wedding dance knockout video, now with UFC commentator voiceovers – Boing Boing
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Tom Brady just went nuclear on the NFL about #Deflategate suspension
Brady, who will eventually finish his career as one of the best quarterbacks ever to play the game, took to Facebook to air his grievances.
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An Open Letter To WeWork | TechCrunch
We moved into WeWork Golden Gate on July 1 and signed a four-month lease on a sunny new office space for our growing startup, Glassbreakers. This is a really exciting time for us. We’re hiring our first batch of full-time employees and embarking on …
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Watch this guy solve a 7×7 Rubik’s cube in record-breaking time – Boing Boing
Australian speedsolver Feliks Zemdegs has set a new official world record for the shortest time in which to solve a 7×7 Rubik’s cube: 2:23.55.
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Richard Linklater’s other all-talk experiment with Ethan Hawke · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Arriving in select theaters Friday, The End Of The Tour belongs to a fine tradition of movies that feature little more than two actors gabbin…
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After Fumbles, Tsa Plans to Overhaul Screening | Al Jazeera America
The Transportation Security Administration plans to retrain thousands of airport screeners to detect weapons better, scale back a pre-clearance program and more closely monitor security badges, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Peter V.
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BBC Sport – Sir Peter O’Sullevan: ‘Voice of Racing’ dies aged 97
Former BBC racing commentator Sir Peter O’Sullevan – dubbed the ‘Voice of Racing’ – has died at home in London after a long illness, aged 97. An icon in the sport, he commentated on 50 Grand Nationals and 14,000 races in total before retiring in 199…
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Kid Dynamite made “Heart A Tact” a lasting adrenaline rush · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Our favorite songs under two minutes long. As an avowed lover of punk and it’s assorted offshoots picking a song for this theme was a painstaking process for me.
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The internet is awash with heartbreak after learning that Cecil, one of Zimbabwe’s most well-known and well-loved lions, was shot and killed by an American hunter this month.
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The Soul Man will be laid to rest after fifth season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TV Land doesn’t appear to have any faith left in The Soul Man—via Deadline, the network has just announced that the Hot In Cleveland spinoff’s fifth season will be its last.
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Murder charge for Ohio policeman after driver killed – BBC News
A US police officer has been charged with murder after shooting a driver in the head during a traffic stop over a missing car licence plate.University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing killed 43-year-old Samuel Dubose after pulling him over n…
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Former Navy Seal says CIA operatives turned on him because he is gay – Boing Boing
Brett Jones, a former Navy Seal and an openly gay member of the CIA’s paramilitary Global Response Staff (GRS), told ABC News that other staff members harassed him so much that he feared for his life.
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BBC News – Kenya audit: Government accounts ‘disturbing’
Only 26% of money spent by the Kenyan government has been fully approved in an official audit for 2013-2014. The auditor-general, whose report covered an annual budget of about $16bn (£10bn), said there were “disturbing problems” in government’s acc…
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Malaysia’s Scandal-Plagued Prime Minister Just Purged His Cabinet | VICE News
Under mounting pressure over his alleged role in an escalating corruption scandal, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s effort to stifle criticism led him to make sweeping changes to his cabinet on Tuesday, replacing his deputy premier and attorne…
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‘Coach Jen’ Invades The NFL’s Boys Club | ThinkProgress
To a resume that includes 14 seasons in the Women’s Football Alliance, two gold medals, becoming the first woman to play a non-kicking position in a professional men’s league, and earning a Ph.D., Jen Welter can now add another accomplishment: NFL c…
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Video Shows Police Officer Throwing Peanuts At Handcuffed Homeless Man | ThinkProgress
Days after a photo of an officer sharing a meal with a homeless man went viral, a very different visual shows a policeman throwing peanuts at a handcuffed homeless man who was trespassing in a Sarasota, Florida convenience store.
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911 Dispatcher Resigns After Hanging Up On Teen Helping Dying Friend | VICE News
The Albuquerque Fire Department dispatcher who in June allegedly failed to assist a distressed teen calling to report that her friend had been shot at a party resigned on Tuesday. The caller says she is giving her friend CPR and that he is “barely” …
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China mall blamed for woman’s death in escalator – BBC News
A Chinese shopping mall and the manufacturers of one of its escalators were to blame for the death of a young mother, investigators say.The woman narrowly managed to push her son to safety before she fell into the still moving escalator on Sunday.
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Key and Peele’s Parody: What If ESPN SportsCenter Was About Teachers? – The Atlantic
At the end of the summer, teachers across the country will return to work. They’ll clean off old desks in poorly lit classrooms, filled with supplies paid for with their own paychecks. Soon after, kids will arrive, rambunctious from weeks of break b…
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The championship won by the United States women’s soccer team in the World Cup this month has made the sport a hot topic. To that end, there is already a big list of apps to help people learn more about soccer and to follow news about the game on th…
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Hackers combine coded photos and Twitter to hit targets – BBC News
A cybersecurity company has discovered a piece of malware which uses Twitter, coding site Github and online photographs to attack computers.FireEye said it suspected the tool, called Hammertoss, had been developed by a Russian group.
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Ten Gbps Broadband Service Coming to Southwest Brooklyn | | Observer
Some of the biggest industrial areas in New York will soon have access to gigabit Internet speeds, including Industry City, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and the Liberty View Industrial Plaza.
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Stephen Hawking on Reddit: Ask Him a Question on Artificial Intelligence
If you have any questions about Terminators, Cylons or other human-robot hybrids, now is the time to ask them. For the next nine days, Stephen Hawking will be taking the Internet’s queries about all things related to artificial intelligence (AI).
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Windows 10 ships with malware loophole
Less than a day after the release of Windows 10, Microsoft’s newest operating system is on the receiving end of criticism for hiding file extensions from users, making it easier for hackers to fool their targets. For instance, a hacker may email a t…
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Techmeme: Equity Crowd Funding Platform Seedrs Raises $15.6M To Launch In US (TechCrunch)
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Here’s everything coming to HBO Now in August
Here’s a brief rundown of some of the highlights coming to the streaming service next month, including cult classics Veronica Mars and Serenity, Oscar nominees Birdman and The Theory of Everything, and more.
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Avoid your job in this pleasantly oddball game – Offworld
The objective of NEVER GO TO WORK is in its title: Your alarm goes off just after 6 AM, and it’s time to get to the office. Exept arriving there ends the game, and you don’t really want to go to work, anyway.
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What really killed Cecil the Lion
If a citizen of Zimbabwe traversed the frontier and shot a bald eagle for sport, every self-described American patriot would absolutely be up in arms. After all, the bald eagle remains a historic symbol of American strength and liberty. It appears a…
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The Deceptive Simplicity of Intel’s New Memory Tech | WIRED
The new computer memory from Intel and Micron is deceptively simple. Typically, memory chips store information in transistors, tiny three-pronged devices that can house electrons.
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The Perfect Medium for Bauhaus Artists? Postcards | WIRED
Caption: New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently acquired 20 postcards created by Bauhaus teachers and students, to promote their first exhibit in 1923. This one is by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. John Wronn
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Man Booker longlist is the triumph of the new and diverse | Books | The Guardian
Literature isn’t a game of King-of-the-Mountain, but a book prize can be, since so much reputational capital (and sometimes a much-needed sales bump) is at stake.
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‘Morning Joe’ Piles On Beast Reporter Who Wrote Trump ‘Rape’ Story (VIDEO)
On Monday, the Daily Beast published an article that said the real estate mogul’s ex-wife, Ivana Trump, used the word “rape” to describe a 1989 incident between her and her then-husband.
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Hillary Clinton: Planned Parenthood Sting Videos Are ‘Disturbing’
“Planned Parenthood is answering questions and will continue to answer questions. I think there are two points to make,” Clinton told the newspaper.
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Jail Guards Tortured Inmate With A Burmese Python, Lawsuit Says | ThinkProgress
Correctional officers at an Alabama jail used giant snakes as a “means of torture, harassment, control and intimidation against the inmates,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. Plaintiff Trawick Redding Jr.
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How To Get A Cheap Motorcycle And Not Crash It
The problem is, most things are Good in inverse proportion to the degree to which they’re Fun. Broccoli is Good; Bacon is Fun. Taxes are Good; Casinos are Fun. Gyms are Good; Bars are Fun. You get the picture.
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Pols Want City Vehicles Outfitted With High-Tech Collision Alarms | Observer
The blind spot shall see, if Public Advocate Letitia James and Queens Councilman Rory Lancman get their way.
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Ben Mendelsohn will be back for season two of Bloodline · Newswire · The A.V. Club
[We’re about to spoil season one of Bloodline, so read no further if you’d like to stay in the dark about how that story goes. Or, better yet, go watch it right now, because it’s a good show.
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A thing that is real: “Great Job! Poop Emoji Dog Poop Bags” – Boing Boing
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Tropical Depression Bill continues to move northward farther inland across northern Texas towards the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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Powerful aurorae observed on brown dwarf for the first time | The Verge
Brown dwarfs have long been in a state of cosmic limbo. Though they have a few star-like qualities, these celestial bodies lack some of the fundamental characteristics that define a star; they’re cool, small, and emit for little light.
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Free: Hours of Jack Kerouac Reading Beat Poems & Verse | Open Culture
A high school friend who paid me a visit last weekend said she still doesn’t know whether reading Jack Kerouac saved or ruined her life. I, for one, could think of no higher praise for a writer.
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Buyer of 15 CPW’s Second Most Expensive Penthouse Relists for $65M | Observer
A penthouse duplex that was 15 Central Park West‘s second most expensive sale ever has hit the market again, for $65 million, nearly $20 million more than it sold for just last year. Because, you know, the trophy market is magic.
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Amazon Dash buttons are here for $5 each
Amazon Dash buttons — the branded little doodads that automatically order and ship specific items directly to your house with virtually no effort on your part — are finally available to Amazon Prime members today for just $4.99.
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Google is today opening up a program that allows developers who are running Search app install campaigns on AdWords to advertise their apps within Google Play’s search results.
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Oklahoma governor must move daughter’s mobile home from mansion grounds – Boing Boing
Christina Fallin, the 28-year-old daughter of Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, lives in a trailer on the grounds of the governor’s mansion.
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Watch an orangutan kiss a pregnant woman’s belly – Boing Boing
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Phil Gramm: “exploited worker” AT&T CEO “only” got $75m – Boing Boing
He was kvetching about the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank bill. Whitacre’s severance was actually $158 million. Gramm was co-chair of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and McCain’s top economic advisor until he was forced to resign after…
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Oculus’ Henry the Hedgehog will make you want to hug him, but you can’t
Oculus is making a play for your emotions. Henry the Hedgehog is the star of Oculus’ second short film, which draws you straight into his endearing little world — a place you may not want to leave. Rather than just be entertained, Oculus also wants …
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TV Great Job, Internet! Jul 29, 2015 12:28 PM Poor Jon Arbuckle. Without Garfield, he’s nothing but a sad and lonely man.
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Under Lenovo, Motorola is more like Google than it ever was | The Verge
Ok, Moto! Now that we’ve had a moment to catch our breath after all the excitement surrounding the Windows 10 release, let’s rewind to the other big news of this week: the launch of Motorola’s 2015 smartphone lineup.
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A Trump-Palin ticket in 2016? No kidding, the Donald ‘would love that’ | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s eccentric campaign for president continued apace on Wednesday, with news that he is considering reality television star and former politician Sarah Palin for a position in a Trump administration.
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Snapchat is selling an official Snapchat beach towel on Amazon | The Verge
Snapchat is all about sharing fleeting moments in the form of photos and videos that expire like messages in Mission Impossible. “How do I alert the world of my love for this ephemeral messaging app when I’m out and about, perhaps at the beach?” you…
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Breaking: Hillary Clinton got a haircut
Hillary Clinton may possibly have paid $600 for a haircut, according to a story the always reliable New York Post broke, which is of course being picked up in fine outlets like The Hill.
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44 years after the original Shaft’s Richard Roundtree tossed jive-ass gangsters out of second-story windows, and 15 years after Samuel L. Jackson starred as his nephew in the 2000 film, the planned reboot is one step closer to bringing John Shaft ba…
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Vietnam Is Pissed that China is Blowing Up the South China Sea | VICE News
China has found itself involved in another dustup in the South China Sea, as their current amphibious assault rehearsals and live-fire maritime exercises in the region have drawn Vietnam’s ire.
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Cincinnati Officer Indicted on Murder Charges | Al Jazeera America
Hamilton County’s prosecutor said Wednesday that the grand jury indicted Officer Ray Tensing on a charge of murder in the shooting of 43-year-old black man Samuel DuBose and released a dashcam video of the incident to the public.
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ISTANBUL — Turkey stepped up its offensive against Kurdish militias in northern Iraq early Wednesday, pounding targets in six locations from the air, officials said.
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Kristina is just one of the Greenpeace activists have suspended themselves from St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon to block a Shell Oil vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters. The climbers have enough supplies to last several days, and are pr…
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This crazy F1 concept car could save open wheel racing | The Verge
Last month, another in a long line of ostentatious Formula One concept designs sent automotive fans on the internet in a tizzy: a closed cockpit McLaren. The renderings were created by Dutch designer Andries van Overbeeke as part of a series of reim…
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“I like to start with Cat Pose for this class,” says Amy Apgar, a Prana Power Yoga teacher who’s sitting in front of a ten-person yoga class at Meow Parlour, a “cat café” on the Lower East Side.
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Renaissance painting shows how watermelons looked before selective breeding
That’s because over time, we’ve bred watermelons to have the bright red color we recognize today. That fleshy interior is actually the watermelon’s placenta, which holds the seeds. Before it was fully domesticated, that placenta lacked the high amou…
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Equity Crowd Funding Platform Seedrs Raises $15.6M To Launch In US | TechCrunch
Equity crowd funding platform Seedrs has raised a $15.6 million (£10 million) Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital, the money from which will be used to launch in the US market. Seedrs had previously …
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De Blasio: Don’t Crank Up Your Air Conditioner Tonight | Observer
After a sweaty subway commute home tonight, it’s going to be tempting to set the air conditioner to as cold as it goes—but you may well regret it if you do, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his top administration officials said today.
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Super Mario Maker trailer takes a walk down memory lane
All your favorite Mario enemies, worlds, and music, are going to make for awesome Mario levels that you get to build. Super Mario Maker, our favorite Nintendo game at E3 this year, combines a love of four existing Super Mario Bros.
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This fallen angel sculpture looks so real it’s a bit disturbing
We probably won’t be eating chicken wings for a while. Back in 2008, Beijing-based artistic duo Sun Yuan and Peng Yu unveiled their most disturbing work: a highly-realistic sculpture of a fallen angel.
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Google Translate can recognize text in real time from 20 new languages
Google Translate’s ability to translate signs and menus in foreign countries just got a huge upgrade. When you hold your smartphone up to text and use this feature, Google crunches the data and immediately tells you what the text says.
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CNN Breaks Into Coverage For ‘Airplane Debris’ Found In Indian Ocean
CNN interrupted a newscast on Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether airplane debris found off an island in the Indian Ocean may belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March 2014. The debris has been taken to Reunion island, a …
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That Wreckage Is Nearly 4,000 Miles From Where MH370 Was Last Seen | WIRED
A piece of airplane that appears to match the missing MH370 jet that went missing in March 2014 was found on the island of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar.
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Fifa exhibit to open at America’s national museum of organized crime | Football | The Guardian
America’s national museum of organized crime is opening a Fifa exhibit in September. The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas announced on Monday the opening of The ‘Beautiful Game’ Turns Ugly, a permanent display on world soccer’s governing body and th…
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Yahoo is quite late to the world of mobile messaging, but you’ve got to give the company some credit: The new chat service it finally debuted on Wednesday sure is different from the rest of them.
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Amazon’s push-to-order Dash Buttons are now on sale for $4.99 | The Verge
When Amazon announced the Dash Button back on March 31st, it seemed like an early April Fools’ joke: it had made a button you can buy that would place an order for something — a single, specific product — whenever you pressed it.
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You don’t have to love cars, but you can’t make them go away | The Verge
Hating cars is easy, fun, and fashionable. I get it: they run into people, you might say. They contribute to noise pollution, they turn the planet into a festering ball of hot atmospheric gas.
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Astronomers find aurora a million times brighter than the northern lights | Science | The Guardian
The sky above a failed star in a distant constellation shimmers with a beautiful green and yellow aurora one million times brighter than the northern lights. The spectacular light show is the first confirmed aurora on a body outside the solar system…
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Researchers engineered a protein factory inside a living cell for the first time | The Verge
For the first time, scientists have discovered what makes the cell’s tiny protein-making machines run — and have built their own molecular gadget.
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We Finally Know What Graphene Is Good For: Origami | WIRED
Graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb grid—is the strongest material ever measured. It conducts electricity better than copper.
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World Population to Hit 11.2 Billion by 2100 | Al Jazeera America
Fueled by population growth in some of the poorest African countries, the number of people on earth is expected to grow faster than previously expected, reaching 8.5 billion in 15 years and 11.2 billion by the end of this century, according to Unite…
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Windows 10 tablet mode: a mobile OS that stays out of your way | The Verge
Microsoft’s bet on touch interfaces led to some of Windows 8’s most frustrating design choices, and the company has been doing damage control over it for the past three years. Windows 10 is the culmination of these efforts, bringing back desktop-fri…
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In a segment entitled “Hannibal Interviews That Shark,” Hannibal Buress investigates the shark who attacked an Australian surfer on international television recently, and finds the creature to have an even more disagreeable attitude than you’d expec…
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Run Forever explores the heartbreak hidden in “Separate Bedrooms” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For its upcoming third album Run Forever underwent some changes. One was changing its name—albeit slightly—so that it no longer had a comma cutting down the middle of its moniker; the other was making the move to No Sleep Records.
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They May Have Found a Piece of MH370 | WIRED
A chunk of airplane wing that may match the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing more than a year ago was found on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
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Use the New Emoji in Windows 10 | WIRED
To write emoji in Windows 10, you just use the built-in software keyboard. Look for the keyboard icon in the Windows taskbar in the lower-right corner. There are a few new emoji included in this new update, including the middle finger (hey now).
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UC officer charged with murder for DuBose shooting
1: 20 p.m. UPDATE: “He purposely killed him.” Prosecutor Joe Deters about UC officer Ray Tensing in Sam DuBose’s shooting death. “He should never have been a police officer.” Deters says his office reviewed hundreds of police shootings. “This is w…
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A Rare Look Inside Iron Mountain, Home To America’s Most Priceless Artifacts – Digg
Hidden away in the hills of rural Butler Pennsylvania, Iron Mountain houses some of America’s most amazing, priceless treasures.
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New Trade Deal Could Undermine Migrant Labor Rights | The Nation
You might have thought the prospects for an immigration reform bill were dead on Capitol Hill, but elsewhere in Washington, policymakers could soon retool the immigration system through a different legislative pipeline: an obscure trade deal that tr…
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Welcome to this week’s 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.
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Disabled Americans Are Worse Off In The Job Market Than They Were 25 Years Ago
Twenty-five years ago this past Sunday, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Today, people with disabilities are less likely to be employed than they were before the law was enacted.
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Philadelphia Representative Indicted — NYMag
Democratic Representative Chaka Fattah and four of his associates were hit with a 29-count indictment on Wednesday. The charges include bribery, participating in a racketeering conspiracy, accepting illegal contributions, mail fraud, stealing charit…
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Apple Music’s Strategy Is No-Paywall Premieres, Not Exclusives | TechCrunch
The idea of Apple Music struck fear in the hearts of listeners like me. The company had enough money to buy exclusives that could fracture and balkanize the world’s music catalog.
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Google AI Now Lets Users Instantly Translate Text In 27 Languages With Phone Cameras | Observer
Thanks to artificial intelligence, traveling abroad has never been simpler. The Google Translate app lets users translate text instantly.
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Black Lives Movement Is Altering Democratic Race — NYMag
Marcus Ferrell, the new African-American outreach coordinator for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, was only a week into his new job when he went to Netroots Nation two weekends ago and watched Black Lives Matter activists shout down his candi…
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Is Instagram censoring searches for Sandra Bland and #BlackLivesMatter?
On Tuesday night, Instagram users looking for posts about Sandra Bland found nothing. The hashtag for her name, however, appeared to have been disabled. According to the Huffington Post, Instagram temporarily blocked the #SandraBland tag on Monday.
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Meet Hairdressers Edward Tricomi and Joel Warren | Observer
“New York, if you’re different we love you. Come!” Edward Tricomi, co-founder of the legendary Warren Tricomi salon, hollered over coffee in his salon at The Plaza Hotel. Mr.
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Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, to be subject of feature film | Film | The Guardian
The Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, is set to become the subject of a feature film. The Pollard espionage scandal of the 1980s has remained a source of contention between the US and Israel for decades.
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The PGA Tour Gets Its First Over-The-Top Subscription Service | TechCrunch
It’s been a good week for cord-cutting sports fans. Word has it that CBS will livestream the Super Bowl commercials for the first time. Disney is considering its options for making ESPN a standalone service (well…maybe five years from now.
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Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, and Tituss Burgess woke up like this and lip-synced Beyoncé
Being flawless may seem impossible for almost anyone who isn’t Beyoncé, but the cast of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt comes really close with some help from Queen Bey herself.
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KFC’s new chicken bucket is also a Bluetooth photo printer | The Verge
Introducing our Memories Bucket – Capture memories made with this limited edition anniversary bucket. Want one? #Happy60KFC Global poultry syndicate KFC is celebrating its 60th anniversary of operation in Canada, and it’s introducing a special new c…
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18-year-old makes thoughtful gift to homeless man, wants his admirers to pay it forward
College freshman Brandon Daroowala is paying it forward at an age when most of his peers are more worried about paying back loans.
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Sonos speakers now work with Microsoft’s Groove music service | The Verge
Microsoft rebranded its Xbox Music service to Groove earlier this month, and it officially launches today. While Sonos never supported Xbox Music, fans will be pleased to hear that Groove is now officially supported.
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Yahoo reveals Livetext, its new silent video chat app | The Verge
Yahoo has a new way to connect with your friend. At an event today in Manhattan, Yahoo announced a new app called Livetext, available tomorrow in the iTunes store. Yahoo describes the app as “live video texting,” essentially a combination of self-fa…
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Google Street View cars are starting to map air pollution | The Verge
A small number of Google Street View cars are recording more than photos of the road — they’re also taking snapshots of the air quality around them.
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The Fuckbois of Vine – The Awl
Maggie Lindemann and Carter Reynolds have had a rough relationship. Unlike most teenagers though, they’re partners and social media stars.
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I am a person who finds fault with the world. I try my best not to be unpleasant about it, but I wish that many things were not as they are. It would be better, for instance, if it weren’t so hot outside.
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Windows 10 Gets Its Own Shiny New Twitter App | TechCrunch
If you’re on a PC, you might be following the Windows 10 news closely. One of the items that popped up last night was that Twitter had a brand new app coming tailored specifically for the platform. It’s here.
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Trump Would ‘Love’ To Include Sarah Palin In His Cabinet
If Donald Trump wins the 2016 presidential election, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) may again grace the national political stage. During a Monday interview on radio show “The Palin Update,” Trump said he was open to including Palin as a member o…
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Police body camera footage of Samuel Dubose shooting to be released | US news | The Guardian
Authorities in Cincinnati have indicted a university police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black man earlier this month. Police body camera footage depicting the fatal shooting will be released on Wednesday, as the city braces for a gra…
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Pelosi: Corruption Charges Against Dem Rep. Are ‘Deeply Saddening’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday called the federal corruption charges against Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) “deeply saddening.”
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Tom Brady’s four-game suspension has angered many Patriots fans, who’ve since questioned the decision.
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Camille Paglia thinks Trump is the best comedian since Lenny Bruce – Boing Boing
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Cindy Crawford is developing a “model wars” show for NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Period dramas have seen much success on TV, especially when set in the recent past—see Mad Men, The Americans, and maybe even Halt And Catch Fire (we’ll see how that “assessment” goes).
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Breaking: In Art World Shake-Up, Mogul Peter Brant Sheds Art Magazines | | Observer
Two of the art world’s largest publishers have become one.
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Why Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Has a Red Pole
The red pole on Pluto’s largest moon could be remnants of the dwarf planet’s escaped atmosphere. This image was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015 during its historic flyby.
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Demographers have known for some time that the number of people in India would surpass the number in China, the two most populous countries in the world. But they did not anticipate that the change would happen so quickly.
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Techmeme: Microsoft is working on streaming PC games to Xbox One (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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It’s time to talk about the Muslim victims of terrorism
In the aftermath of September 11, Islamophobia in the U.S. and the West became an intimate part of the public sphere.
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Fox News Lets All 2016ers Into Runner-up Debate — NYMag
As of yesterday morning, Lindsey Graham and George Pataki were definitely not going to make it into either of Fox News’ Republican presidential debates scheduled next week; Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Carly Fiorina were at risk of being left…
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JERUSALEM — After an Israeli court ruled on Wednesday that two apartment blocks in a West Bank settlement had been built illegally and ordered them demolished, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the immediate construction of 300 more housi…
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When will the Fed begin to raise interest rates? Six and a half years ago the Federal Reserve put its benchmark interest rate close to zero, as a way to bolster the economy. But that policy is about to change.
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The Animal Serial Killer Who Shot Cecil The Lion – The Daily Beast
In early July, a Minnesota dentist traded in his spray nozzle for a bow and arrow and apparently spent 40 hours stalking through a national park in Zimbabwe on the trail of a dying lion. Cecil the lion was beloved by his home country and the tourist…
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Portland activists try to block Shell ship from heading to Arctic | Grist
Before sunrise Wednesday morning, Portland kayaktivists and rapellers took to the Willamette River to block the MSV Fennica, a Shell icebreaking vessel that’s been docked in Portland for repairs.
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“An Entire Spiral Galaxy Fell Through the Center of Massive Elliptical Galaxy M87” –ESO
“We are witnessing a single recent accretion event where a medium-sized galaxy fell through the center of Messier 87, and as a consequence of the enormous gravitational tidal forces, its stars are now scattered over a region that is 100 times larger…
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Yahoo Unveils Its Audio-Free Video Messaging App, Livetext | TechCrunch
Yahoo has officially launched Livetext, the app where users chat with friends by share a video image and text — but no sound. Earlier this month, we spotted the Livetext app in the Apple App Store in Hong Kong.
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The Koch Brothers Are Backing Away From Donald Trump | VICE News
The vast network of conservative political groups coordinated by the Koch brothers are set to spend $889 million on the 2016 presidential election — but it appears to be unlikely that any of that cash will find its way to GOP presidential hopeful Do…
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Despite a continuing slowdown in the rate of population growth, it is “almost inevitable” that the number of people on the planet will rise from 7.3 billion today to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to the latest UN projections. Ten years ago, the wor…
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WATCH: Florida cop treating handcuffed homeless man like hungry zoo animal – Boing Boing
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Yanis Varoufakis may face criminal charges over Greek currency plan | World news | The Guardian
The scene has been set for possible criminal charges to be brought against the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, following revelations of his secret plan to establish an alternative currency in the event of the country leaving the eur…
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Reddit plans to moderate private messages too
As the dust settles at Reddit, CEO Steve Huffman has updated the community on what the company has planned.
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Is Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Really Dead This Time? – The Atlantic
It isn’t the first time the Taliban leader’s demise has been reported, but the latest claim has the highest level of confirmation yet. Mullah Muhammad Omar’s survival record would be the envy of any alley cat.
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How to download and install Windows 10
Today is the day that Windows 10 finally rolls out for real, and thanks to Microsoft’s decision to offer a free upgrade to anyone running Windows 7 (SP1), or 8.1, you’re going to be hearing an awful lot about it in the next few days and weeks.
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Cara Delevingne doesn’t have necessary oomph for Good Day Sacramento · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Cara Delevingne has a lot of things going for her: A successful career as a model and actress. Roles in the young-adult novel adaptation Paper Towns and the upcoming Suicide Squad. Membership in Taylor Swift’s dark army of vengeance.
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Announcing The Judges For The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In NYC | TechCrunch
Boy do I have a treat for you! I have a pretty strong intuition and expectation that the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is going to be our best yet. Which makes sense, given that New York is the best city in the world.
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Nike made a hood that keeps your head cool while working out
The hood, developed by the Nike Sports Research Lab (NSRL) in partnership with U.S. Olympic champion and decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, is designed to keep the wearer’s head cool, minimizing the recovery time between events and improvin…
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Nokia is making an advanced VR camera for filmmakers
Just because Nokia stopped making phones, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been busy. First apps and tablets, and now it’s getting into the VR game with a new 360-degree camera called Ozo. The device mixes footage and audio from eight image sensors and an equ…
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Cara Delevingne should be cut some slack – TV interviews are seldom fun | Film | The Guardian
It’s easy to be suspicious of entertainment journalists who spring rather too readily to the defence of celebrities ambushed by other journalists – if anyone has got the moxie to break the convention and ask awkward questions, like Krishna Guru-Murt…
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Man Booker prize 2015: the longlist – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
The first Jamaican writer to be nominated for the Booker, James’s third novel, told in a multitude of voices, builds on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 to tell the story of Jamaica over three decades: the guns and corruption, the d…
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Jesse Pinkman’s house from Breaking Bad is for sale · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Good news, future meth dealers of America: Now you, too, can experience the thrill of living in a house that slowly came to function as an allegory for the decay of a young man’s sense of identity.
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Tom Brady: ‘I Did Nothing Wrong’ — NYMag
Yesterday, the NFL announced that commissioner Roger Goodell had upheld Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for his alleged role in the Patriots’ ball-deflation scandal.
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Killing Of Beloved Lion Triggers Debate Over Hunting As Conservation | ThinkProgress
Two men will face charges in a Zimbabwe courtroom on Wednesday that they took bribes from an American dentist to guide him on an illegal hunt of a beloved local lion.
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Afghanistan Intelligence: Taliban Leader Dead | Al Jazeera America
The Afghanistan president’s office said Wednesday that intelligence has confirmed that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is dead. The main intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, said Omar has been dead for more than t…
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In a dramatic stand against Obamacare’s birth control coverage requirement, an evangelical college has opted to end its student health insurance plans altogether so it won’t need to worry about indirectly facilitating Americans’ access to contracept…
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To Solve Slave Labor Problem, Brazil Turns To Drones | ThinkProgress
After decades of surviving the rigorous conditions of slave labor in Brazil, Cícero Guedes was shot and killed on Jan. 25, 2013. Guedes had been organizing an occupation for the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) across seven sugar plantations. G…
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Goodbye, Android | Motherboard
Last week, I was hanging out with some hackers and security experts at a conference in Brooklyn when I took out my Sony phone. “Oh! The journalist uses Android. That’s secure!” said one guy next to me, in a highly sarcastic tone.
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Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior | The Nation
Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the jailed darling of Venezuela’s opposition. López is celebrated in the US press as a cross between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Modernizing the NYC subway’s ancient technologies
This video from the MTA shows some of the vintage technologies that are still in use to control many of the NYC’s subway lines and how they are upgrading (ve. ry. slow. ly.) to safer and more reliable computerized systems. Some of control systems ar…
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Check whether Hacking Team demoed cyberweapons for your local cops – Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock sez, “Turns out death squads aren’t the only agencies buying Hacking Squad’s controversial spyware. Town from Miami Shores, FL to Eugene, OR appeared on a list of US agencies that received demonstrations from the hacked surveil…
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Watch this parrot sing “Everything is Awesome” and other tunes – Boing Boing
Amazon parrot singing sensation Princess Yellowfeather resides at the Birds on Safari store in Stuart, Florida. More of her repertoire can be heard at the Birds On Safari Facebook page.
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The government can’t keep its own data safe, but Congress wants companies to give it even more of your private information In the wake of a series of widely-publicized hacks, including the recent compromise of government personnel records, the US Se…
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Lion numbers are in steep decline across Africa, but trophy hunting is only partly responsible for the long-term losses, say conservationists.
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Colo. Ed Board Members Who Pushed AP History Changes May Face Recall
Three conservative members of the Jefferson County school board in Colorado may face consequences for seeking unpopular changes to the AP U.S. History course last year.
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Violence Flares as Bulldozers Enter West Bank Jewish Settlement | VICE News
Violent clashes between Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers reignited at the West Bank settlement of Beit El on Wednesday as bulldozers finally moved in to carry out a longstanding demolition order against half-finished apartment blocks in t…
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Activists chant Kendrick Lamar’s Alright during police harassment protest | Music | The Guardian
Activists at Cleveland State University repurposed a Kendrick Lamar track during a protest against police harassment, which saw an officer use pepper spray on a crowd.
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Bernie Sanders will livestream his 2016 pitch to more than 3,300 house parties tonight
Bernie Sanders will address supporters at thousands of watch parties Wednesday night in a livestreamed speech that raises the bar for 2016 presidential candidates’ voter engagement.
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Jet.com, a well-funded new shopping site, opened to the public last week and celebrated the debut by sending reporters a big box of swag. I got a T-shirt with a company logo, fuzzy socks, stickers and $1,400 in oversize, fake $100 bills.
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Pastel hair was the literal highlight of VidCon 2015
She wasn’t far off. The hottest hair accessory at VidCon 2015 was a dye job, and most likely one in a pastel hue.
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Suspected robber wore “Crime Pays” t-shirt – Boing Boing
This gentleman dressed for the occasion of robbing a Baltimore pizza shop, wearing a “Crime Pays” t-shirt. It didn’t though. The employees couldn’t get the safe open and the fellow eventually ran off.
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Turn to Bone: a cover of Turn to Stone that’s about osteopathology – Boing Boing
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Jonathan Miller is the Most Trusted (and Quoted) Man in New York Real Estate | | Observer
“Everyone you meet in real estate is here by accident,” opined appraiser Jonathan Miller, sitting in his many-monitored and very chilled office on West 38th Street several weeks ago. Mr.
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This 3D Tribute To Hayao Miyazaki is Jaw-Droppingly Gorgeous
Legendary Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki has created some of the most beautiful animated films—but this video tribute takes some of Miyazaki’s most-loved characters and puts them into a 3D world. The result gives you Miyazaki like you’ve never see…
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A fucking interesting history of swearing on television! – Boing Boing
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Yahoo launches Livetext, its attempt at revamping Yahoo Messenger for the GIF generation
Last week, Yahoo quietly launched its video messaging app Livetext in Hong Kong. In a press event today, the company unveiled the app for download out of the Asian market.
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It’s Simple: Under This Deal, Iran Will Have Nuclear Weapons in Little Over a Decade | | Observer
In a recent column in Time magazine criticizing opponents of the Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, Joe Klein devotes much space to recounting pleasant encounters he had during his trips to Iran.
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This week we’re barely putting up with deep-fried Starbucks · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
The return of Syfy’s imminently watchable Project Runway-but-for-special-effects-makeup-show, Face Off. The first reality show where the phrase “working with latex” doesn’t have revolting connotations. Sprint’s idiotic David Beckham commercials.
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Snowball Debuts A “Priority Inbox” For Your Phone’s Notifications | TechCrunch
With a growing number of mobile applications available to download, and only a handful that see regular usage, push notifications have become one of the only ways for developers to grab users’ attention in order to get them to re-open their app and …
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Creepy little kids. Creepy identical twin kids. Creepy mothers with creepy face bandages. Secluded farmhouses. Cockroaches. Awful things happening to mouths.
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Calais migrant crisis: France sends extra police to Channel Tunnel – BBC News
France is to send 120 extra police officers to Calais as the migrant crisis there continues. Migrants attempting to reach Britain told the BBC they would continue to try to enter the Channel Tunnel, despite one man dying on Tuesday night.
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Why Is Donald Trump the Only Person Talking About Immigrant Crime? – The Atlantic
Donald Trump has gained political traction by demagoguing on an issue more responsible leaders have neglected.
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft turns guns on NFL over Tom Brady | Sport | The Guardian
The New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, has generally been one of Roger Goodell’s biggest supporters.
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Thousands of Animals Have Been Saved in Nepal as Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled | VICE News
A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists.
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Fingers crossed: The Olsen twins may return for Fuller House · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Netflix has triggered a viral outbreak of “TGIF” flashbacks by announcing that the Olsen twins may participate in Fuller House, the upcoming reboot of the show that made them famous.
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Twitter’s shares plunge as honesty fails to pay off – BBC News
Twitter’s openness about the difficulty it is having attracting new users has failed to pay off with investors. In shareholders’ first chance to react to Tuesday night’s results, the stock plunged more than 13% to $31.58 in early trading, wiping an …
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Republican Presidential Candidates Battle for Attention – The Atlantic
The crowded GOP presidential field is driving candidates to indulge in outrageous antics as they battle for attention. Any day now, Rick Santorum is going to gyrocopter into the White House and try to make a citizens arrest.
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Why Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 for free | The Verge
When Microsoft released Windows 95 almost 20 years ago, people packed into stores to be among the first lucky buyers to get their hands on this cutting edge new technology.
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13 Hours trailer: Michael Bay makes Benghazi movie with Jim from The Office | The Verge
On September 11th, 2012, Islamic militants attacked two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing two CIA contractors, a US foreign service information management officer, and a US ambassador — Ambassador J.
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Cecil the lion: Two men in Zimbabwe court over killing – BBC News
Two men have appeared in a Zimbabwe court in relation to the killing of Cecil, the country’s most famous lion. Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu, are to be charged with illegal hunting and poaching offences.
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BBC Sport – Rory McIlroy out of Bridgestone Invitational defence though injury
Doubts over Rory McIlroy playing in the US PGA have increased after the injured world number one withdrew from next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. The Northern Irishman. who ruptured an ankle ligament earlier this month, is the defending champ…
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How to get Windows 10 on your Mac | The Verge
Windows 8 was bad enough that it forced me — a lifelong Windows user up until that point — to switch my entire family over to Macs. True story.
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Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form – The New Yorker
Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form.
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When President Obama was selling Congress on granting “fast track” for his Trans-Pacific Partnership, he made lots of huge (and improbable) promises. His new 12-nation trade deal would protect worker rights better than ever before in the global econ…
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Twilio Closes $130M Series E Round Led By Fidelity And T. Rowe Price | TechCrunch
Twilio, the developer-centric communications platform, today announced that it has raised a $130 million Series E round led by Fidelity and T. Rowe Price. The round also includes new investors Altimeter Capital Management and Arrowpoint Partners, as…
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Why infographics are the secret to super SEO
As founders, we are conceptualizers, thinkers, leaders, developers and most of all, we are change agents. We obviously oversee the most serious issues in business; do we really have to get worked up with all those SEO tips and tweaks we hear all the…
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Cecil the lion was doomed from the moment he got his name | Environment | The Guardian
Cecil the lion? Shot by a Minnesotan dentist with a bow and arrow. Maurius the giraffe? Fed to his fellow inmates in a Copenhagen zoo. Knut the polar bear? Died of stress in front of 600 Berliners. Give an animal a name, and its fate is sealed.
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British Airways flight evacuated after bomb threat – video | World news | The Guardian
A British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London is evacuated in Montreal after the pilot diverted the plane following a bomb threat, according to the Canadian national police. Flight BA274 touched down at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau internatio…
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1,000 self-targeting sniper rifles can be remotely hacked…
Today in scary exploits: TrackingPoint sniper rifles – which run Linux and Android and have WiFi connections – can be remotely hacked. Who could have predicted that?*
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Microsoft’s Edge browser can win back bitter Web developers
Microsoft’s new browser that comes with Windows 10 is great on the surface. It’s fast, stable and has a slick new look. Web developers, however, don’t care about that. They care if Microsoft’s new browser will break their websites or not with its ne…
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The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: What If The Bard Wrote The Big Lebowski? | Open Culture
We live in an age of mash ups. A few years ago some malcontent came up with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Our cities are teeming with food trucks hawking Korean tacos and ramen burgers. And chess boxing is apparently a thing.
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Will France and Other European Countries Break With the US on the Ukrainian Crisis? | The Nation
The John Batchelor Show, July 28. Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new US–Russian Cold War.
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Paramount has released the first trailer for Michael Bay’s movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, about the 2012 attack on the US compound in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya, J Christopher Stevens.
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Travel tip: don’t set fire to airplane cabins – Boing Boing
Cabin crew “shouting over screaming passengers” managed to help them subdue a traveler who had set fire to a Shenzhen Airlines flight from Taizhou to Guangzhou.
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‘Two Step,’ a Texas Crime Thriller, Is Short on Thrills but Enjoyable Enough | | Observer
Two Step is a chicken-fried Texas melodrama that cross-stitches the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law in a torrid tale of murder and grand larceny in a Lone Star town time forgot. Made by a first-time writer-director, Alex R.
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Balenciaga and Alexander Wang Might Be Calling It Quits | Observer
The honeymoon phase between Alexander Wang and Balenciaga is officially over and it looks like their relationship is irreparable. This morning WWD has reported that the Kering-owned brand has decided not to renew their contract with Mr. Wang, who wa…
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Dem Rep. Indicted On Federal Corruption Charges
The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) and four of his associates were indicted on federal corruption charges in connection with an alleged racketeering scheme.
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The Boy Scouts finally lifted its ban on gay leaders—but there’s still one huge problem
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has finally lifted its ban on gay adults—except for those groups that still want to discriminate. The response on Twitter to the long overdue decision was exuberant—if cautious.
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Obama, Putin, Rouhani, Xi and Hollande to address UN on same day | World news | The Guardian
It promises to be a rhetorical battle of the titans, on a scale not seen for at least a decade.
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Chris Christie Says He’s Coming For Your Weed | WIRED
At a Town Hall meeting in New Hampshire last night, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie had a message for recreational marijuana users: enjoy it while it lasts, kids. “We have a federal law on the books that says marijuana is illegal in…
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Robert De Niro to direct A Bronx Tale musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Robert De Niro is already quite familiar with A Bronx Tale, having directed and starred in a 1993 film adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s one-man show, which originally ran in Los Angeles in 1990.
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This image from the Suomi NPP satellite’s Day/Night Band shows the eastern part of the U.S. clearly for the most part, highlighting the snow on the ground from the latest storms.
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‘Big Significant Things’ Is a Tour of America’s Campy Architectural Marvels | | Observer
Big Significant Things is the kind of polished, well acted and carefully observed little trifle that film festivals like Sundance and SXSW in Austin, Texas, love to discover and display on their way to one-week runs at the Film Forum.
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#HarryPotterAMovie Is The Perfect Millennial Nostalgia Trip | Observer
Twitter was transformed into a virtual Diagon Alley early Wednesday when #HarryPotterAMovie began trending in the U.S. From coast to coast, millennials unleashed four years’ worth of pent-up nostalgia by posting Photoshopped images of Harry Potter c…
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The Kindergarten Teacher review – inscrutable drama about a poetic prodigy | Film | The Guardian
Rare is the movie where you are rooting for someone to kidnap a five-year-old child. Yet The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid’s follow-up to his extraordinary film Policeman, slowly lays down bricks for this strangely logical path.
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France Plans to Reduce Nuclear in Favor of Renewables – Scientific American
France, one of the world’s leaders in nuclear energy production, plans to draw down nuclear’s share of electricity generation from 75 to 50 percent by 2025—giving itself a 10-year time frame equivalent to the complete shutdown now ongoing in Germany.
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High Camp, and High Art, at the Frick Through Sept. 6 | | Observer
History, especially sometimes art history, is cruel.
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John Kasich On Sex Assault Allegations Against Trump: ‘Let It Go’ (VIDEO)
Presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said on Tuesday that the media needs to leave decades old sexual assault allegations against his rival, real estate mogul Donald Trump, alone.
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Farm Noir: Xavier Nolan’s New Psychological Thriller Draws You In | | Observer
Except for a few rare exceptions, like Testament of Youth and Infinitely Polar Bear, the dog days of summer 2015 drone by with two kinds of movies: expensive Hollywood crap and low-budget indie-prod crap.
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BALLO KE, India — In this sleepy Punjabi village, no one was surprised to see a seven-foot-tall Sikh farmer striding the narrow lanes toward the local Sikh temple on June 25. The farmer, Balbir Singh Bamrah, is a familiar presence in Ballo Ke, and s…
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Drake responds to Meek Mill accusations with second diss track | Music | The Guardian
In the history of rap beefs there is often one definitive track that ends the dispute because it is too crushing to come back from. A song such as Fuck Wit’ Dre Day, which saw Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg take Easy-E to task; or Jay Z’s salty diss The Take…
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LONDON — Britain and France scrambled on Wednesday to address the latest flash point in Europe’s festering migrant crisis after a second consecutive night in which hundreds of people living in squalid camps in northern France sought to force their w…
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Techmeme: Facebook is testing out LinkedIn-style profile tags (Ariha Setalvad/The Verge)
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Turkey Launches Heaviest Assault Yet on PKK | Al Jazeera America
Turkey on Tuesday launched its heaviest assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq since commencing its airstrike campaign against the group last week. The overnight assault started shortly after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkey-Kurd…
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Barely more than a week before the Super Bowl, he appeared at a news conference wearing a sweatshirt, slacks and a woolen Patriots hat, and a two-day growth of beard. He affected a soft, doe-eyed innocence.
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Updated, 5:22 p.m. | Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt at cheese-steak diplomacy appeared to backfire on Tuesday when he stopped at both Pat’s and Geno’s, rival sandwich establishments, during a campaign swing through Philadelphia. His crime? Asking for A…
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The sounds of Voyager’s Golden Record
When they were launched in 1977, the two Voyager spacecraft each carried with them a 12-inch gold-plated copper record containing images and sounds of Earth for the viewing pleasure of whichever aliens happened across them. NASA has put the sounds o…
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New Mexico firefighter who hung up on frantic 911 caller resigns | US news | The Guardian
An Albuquerque, New Mexico firefighter who hung up on a frantic 911 caller attempting to save the life of a 17-year-old gunshot victim has resigned, according to media reports.
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‘King Liz’ Zeroes in Brilliantly on the Internecine World of Sports | | Observer
The unorthodox, cutthroat world of sports agents is a subject so few people know about that to my knowledge King Liz, a powerful, riveting new play by Fernanda Coppel at the Second Stage Theatre’s small space uptown, is the first play ever produced …
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Reinvented Dominoes Are More Addictive Than Candy Crush | WIRED
Caption: In these wired times, designer Victor Alemán thinks we’ve lost touch with the tradition of gathering around a table to play a game. So he’s designed a new one. Estudio Victor Alemán
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Does Uber Have a Future in the Hamptons? | | Observer
Since Uber was reportedly ousted from East Hampton almost two months ago, Hamptonites have had to manage their summertime revelries without the ride-sharing app.
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Inside a Tokyo JK Cafe (Excerpt from ‘Schoolgirls for Sale’) | VICE News
This Thursday at 12pm EDT, Simon Ostrovsky and Jake Adelstein will join ‘On The Line’ to discuss this story. Ask your questions on Twitter @VICENews with #OnTheLine
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Chimps Are Eating Clay to Detox Themselves
A group of chimpanzees has been observed eating clay. Scientists think that they’re after the clay because it contains a very important element that helps neutralize problematic parts of their diet.
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Europa’s “Brown Gunk” Suggests a Briny Sea – Scientific American
Alien life may flourish in subsurface oceans on Jupiter’s Europa, but another of the icy moon’s secrets is displayed in plain view: a mysterious “brown gunk” filling many of the fissures, fractures and craters that crisscross its face.
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Twitter’s Facebook fixation could be sending the company into crisis | Technology | The Guardian
Twitter is in trouble. With user growth stalled, staff fleeing the company by the hundreds, and the company’s stock still at the bottom of the cliff it fell from in April, sources say the company’s futile obsession with matching its biggest competit…
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The Big Question from the Aspen Ideas Festival: What Is Happiness? – The Atlantic
At this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, psychologists, and journalists how they would define happiness.
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Rory McIlroy announces he will not defend Bridgestone Invitational title | Sport | The Guardian
Rory McIlroy will not defend his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title next week as he continues his recovery from a serious ankle injury. It increases the likelihood that the four-times major winner will also be unable to defend the following week’s U…
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Why Is iTunes So Bad? – The Atlantic
It’s not just unreliable. Apple’s signature media software makes bizarre, arbitrary design choices, which are uncharacteristic of the world’s most valuable company.
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Terry O’Quinn joins the cast of Secrets & Lies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hoping to spark some renewed interested in the second season of its anthology crime series Secrets & Lies, ABC has fallen back on its favorite tactic for building mystery and devoted water cooler debate: throw Terry O’Quinn at the problem.
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On the 1st of July, a beautiful 13 year old male lion was shot and killed in Zimbabwe. His name was Cecil.
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Why Key And Peele Shouldn’t Have Gotten Canceled
Now we all get to see our destination. Thanks for the ride everyone. #KeyandPeele
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When Donald Trump Is the Father In Law of Your Publisher | Observer
The Observer’s owner and publisher, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump. This is a well-known fact. Mr. Trump is running for president. This is also a well-known fact. You may have heard about that in other newspa…
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Jane Birkin To Hermes: Take My Name Off ‘Cruel’ Croc-Skin Handbags!
PARIS (AP) — British singer Jane Birkin has asked Hermes to take her name off the crocodile-skin versions of the iconic Birkin handbag, after being contacted by animal rights group PETA over “cruel” slaughtering practices.
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Former Judge Piers Morgan on ‘America’s Got Talent’ 10th Anniversary | | Observer
On Wednesday night, America’s Got Talent is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a two hour special during which Piers Morgan, who helped cement the show’s success by acting as one of the first individuals to sit on the judge’s panel, returns.
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Trump Had ‘Meltdown’ About Lawyer’s Breast Pump: ‘You’re Disgusting!’
Real estate mogul Donald Trump waits for no one, not even a new mother who needs to take a break to breast pump for her three-month-old child.
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Japanese soccer players rely on each other for amazing 24-man headbutt stunt
When it comes to goofing off, teamwork is just as important on the field as it is off the field. This group of soccer players in Shiojiri, Japan, discovered how important teamwork was while pulling off a 24-person headbutt stunt.
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Tejay van Garderen will ride in the Vuelta a España next month after abandoning the Tour de France because of illness. The American rider, who pulled out of Tour at the 17th stage when sitting third in the overall standings, will compete at the Vuel…
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How to cook the perfect caponata | Life and style | The Guardian
Caponata, a lovely, piquant dish of stewed Mediterranean vegetables – and “one of the peaks of Sicilian cooking”, according to Anna Del Conte – is a textbook example of the intense sweet and sour agrodolce flavours typical of the island.
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LGBT website founder fined under Russia’s gay propaganda laws | World news | The Guardian
The founder of an online community for LGBT teenagers in Russia has been fined under the country’s law against gay propaganda.
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Netanyahu approves more West Bank construction despite demolition ruling | World news | The Guardian
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has approved the “immediate construction” of hundreds of settlement units in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem in an effort to stave off a growing threat posed by pro-settler parties in his rig…
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Dear Ted Cruz: Rorschach is not a hero | Polygon
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, Polygon as an organization.
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The actors Morgan Freeman, Jack Black and Natasha Lyonne have leant their support to Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. The stars feature in a new video designed to help persuade legislators to get the agreement through Congress when it goe…
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A Millennial Reviews: ‘Family Ties,’ A Haunting Portrayal of the American Dream | | Observer
Family Ties is a surgical cross section of a nation at once at war with itself and yet forced to live in close quarters, sopping with ideological kerosene, and with it’s many players holding matches. It raises to us the questions that haunt our Amer…
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Ode To The Properly Rated: Ben Zobrist Edition | FiveThirtyEight
It wasn’t long ago that a career .265-ish hitter with some pop and a versatile glove was destined for cult status. (Think Ty Wigginton or Fernando Tatis.
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47°51’57.5″N, 123°52’13.3″W is America’s “quietest” place – Boing Boing
The quietest inch isn’t a sound vacuum. It represents a place with a minimum of human-made noise.
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Bald man blasts Hollywood’s reliance on hairless villains
Hollywood has a representation problem, and one bald man took to the Internet to raise awareness of the “pervasive negative portrayal” of the follically challenged in film and TV.
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What All the Screaming Is About – Scientific American
Got your attention? Thought so. But what is it about a piercing shriek that really turns our heads? It’s what it does to our brains. The acoustical properties of the human scream poke at the neural circuits that control fear. That’s according to a s…
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Fossil fuel industry still winning the investment war, experts say | Environment | The Guardian
There’s sobering news for campaigners trying to persuade investors to withdraw their funds from the fossil fuel industry: UK experts say their efforts are unlikely to achieve enough quickly enough.
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Meet the queen of ‘Doctor Who’ animation on YouTube, #WCW Alisa Stern
The Daily Dot is celebrating Woman Crush Wednesday, better known as #WCW on Twitter and Instagram, by highlighting female creators on YouTube whose work we admire.
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Little Creatures of the Deep [Slide Show] – Scientific American
The larvae of some nectochaetes have more elaborate setae. In this case, the larva was rolling up into a ball with setae pointing outward, perhaps for protection from perceived predators.
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Skeletal Remains Found at Jamestown Site Identified as Colony Leaders
Archaeologists have identified the 400-year-old remains of four men considered to be among the first leaders of Virginia’s Jamestown settlement, the New World’s first successful British colony.
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Jimmy Kimmel has emotional response to death of Cecil the lion – video | Environment | The Guardian
US talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel gives an emotional response to the death of Cecil the lion, a cherished creature at Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! says he was saddened to hear the lion was killed by an American hunter…
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Gawker “Deal With It Yourself”: 911 Operator Hangs Up On Caller While Teen Dies | Gizmodo The World’s Most Powerful Laser Has Been Fired in Japan | Kotaku The UFC Needs To Change Its Stoppage Rules, Badly | Lifehacker How to Craft the Perfect Sex Pl…
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Can this Spotify playlist make you a better employee?
For all of the high-energy party playlists rotting away on our phones, arranging a useful office-hours soundtrack continues to elude mankind. Music for when you’re chained to a desk is a beautiful proposition, but spinning your favorite artists can …
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Chiefs’ Eric Berry to practice eight months after cancer diagnosis | Sport | The Guardian
Eight months after getting the stunning news that he had cancer, Chiefs Pro Bowl safety Eric Berry was expected back on the practice field Wednesday, a day after doctors gave him the all-clear.
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Galacticon shocks fans by canceling ‘Battlestar Galactica’ guests with no warning
The world’s biggest Battlestar Galactica convention has been thrown into turmoil after organizers announced multiple guest cancellations at the last minute.
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New owner will cover Ouya’s pledges to game developers – Boing Boing
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Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Get Why Beyoncé, Jay Z Support Black Lives Matter (VIDEO)
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly investigated the Black Lives Matter movement on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday night and found out Grammy winners Jay Z and Beyoncé are supporters. This knowledge shocked him.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 29th – The New Yorker
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Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe, may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conversationists could do to protect them, a conversation charity has warne…
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Peru stalling new national park for unique Amazon mountain range | Environment | The Guardian
The Sierra del Divisor region in the Peruvian Amazon was identified as a biodiversity conservation priority back in the early 1990s.
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Good morning, I thought I’d give a quick update. : announcements
Good morning, I thought I’d give a quick update. (self.announcements) I thought I’d start my day with a quick status update for you all. It’s only been a couple weeks since my return, but we’ve got a lot going on.
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Found! “The Missing Piece in a Long-Standing Milky Way Puzzle”
The lack of lithium in older stars is a long-standing puzzle. Lithium has now been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova.
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Car alarms deemed useless: so why do they exist? – Boing Boing
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Donald Trump Is The Nickelback Of GOP Candidates | FiveThirtyEight
Despite what you may have read elsewhere — or heard from the man himself — Donald Trump is not all that popular with Republican voters. Sure, he’s in first place in many polls. But Trump is near the back of the pack by another important measure.
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Google’s internet balloons will provide connectivity to all of Sri Lanka
Two years on, Google’s Project Loon is getting its first big client: the entire country of Sri Lanka. Google and the government of Sri Lanka have signed an agreement that will see the internet balloons providing connectivity across the entire countr…
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What ‘Ant-Man’ missed by failing to include the Wasp
As Marvel Studios embarks on its third phase of movies, filmmakers are beginning to mine Marvel’s back-catalog for more obscure characters. Yet there’s one Avenger who has virtually been erased from the franchise: Janet Van Dyne.
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Consider the Movie About the Book About David Foster Wallace | WIRED
The novelist David Foster Wallace predicted many features of the modern world—FaceTime, Netflix, Twitter, data-sickness—but it’s safe to say that even he never imagined anything like The End of the Tour, the new biopic starring Jason Segel as Wallac…
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Having to root out a traitor in your midst plays a major part in plenty of board and party games. It forces you to analyze the actions of your fellow players and figure out their true motivations.
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Hannibal Buress took to the streets for his latest story, interviewing members of PETA while they protested a circus—and the comedian found himself less than convinced by the activists.
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iTunes Connect is down again and developers are annoyed
Big trouble in app town today as iTunes Connect is down. That means developers wanting to push updates or verify apps are out of luck. We’ve pinged Apple to find out what’s happening and will update this post as when we hear back/service is restored.
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Mexico Busts Giant Weed Greenhouses in Jalisco Allegedly Run By Team of Colombians | VICE News
Mexican authorities discovered three enormous hauls of marijuana across the western states of Jalisco and Nayarit this week, including a sophisticated plantation with genetically modified crops allegedly run by a team of Colombians.
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Taking the risk out of hiring an IT freelancer
As the owner of a medium-sized retail medical company, I’ve watched over the years as technical experts raise awareness of website security and the protection of data. My customers demand privacy! A breach of our ecommerce site was a huge concern – …
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My son is Abraham Amuhaya Imbula. He was born Nov. 16, 2009. The silence at his delivery penetrates my being. I remember his pregnancy, delivery, and the time we spent with him so vividly. I can still smell his scent. Our family valued our time with…
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TEL AVIV — On Tuesday, the United States announced that it would release Jonathan J. Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, in what many observers believe is an effort to mute the Israeli government’s criticism of the July 14 nuclear a…
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Twenty-three-year-old Marta recently decided to enter the porn industry in Barcelona. Marta, who prefers not to publish her full name, asserts she has never seen porn as taboo; she merely saw a good career opportunity.
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NY Mag Lost Over 500,000 Page Views on Cosby Cover Story During DDoS Attack | Observer
The anonymous hacker behind the cyber attack that brought down New York magazine’s website for nearly 12 hours on Sunday and Monday claims he only did it because he hates NYC. Even if the attack wasn’t personal, it couldn’t have come at a more incon…
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NFL Enacts New Rules In Wake Of Deflategate – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following a controversy during the 2014-15 NFL playoffs in which the New England Patriots were accused of deflating footballs to make them easier for quarterback Tom Brady to throw, the NFL has debuted new rules pertaining to the quantity, air press…
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Man Realizes Petting Cougars Was ‘Bad Decision’ — NYMag
An Ohio man is going to court today to deal with charges stemming from his decision to jump a fence at the Columbus Zoo, pet a few “geriatric” cougars, and film the whole thing while softly saying, “Here, kitty, kitty.
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New military “noise gun” very loud indeed – Boing Boing
Attention, protestors and other undesirable crowds! “The 130-decibel roar of a fighter jet” will one day be projected into your head by these delightful new noise weapons.
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Techmeme: How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse (Katrina Brooker/Bloomberg Business)
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Tom Brokaw Thinks Meryl Streep Is “A Hell Of A Lot Cuter” Than Mozart | Observer
“Here’s the definition of being in gala heaven,” Jed Bernstein said last night, taking the stage in the upper concourse of Avery Fisher Hall. “When the person being honored actually loves what they’re being honored for. Tom Brokaw actually loves Moz…
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The Best Mezcal Watermelon Recipe and Other Summer Party Tricks | | Observer
Can you share a golden tip for summer entertaining? Daniel Eddy, chef and partner of newly opened Rebelle “A clam bake! For me, the summer is all about being outdoors with friends and this is a great way to feed a big group of people and still be ab…
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This Week On Bullish: Stacey Ferreira’s Call For Optimism | TechCrunch
Welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s newest show that may or may not be a ruse to force me into a tie every week. This time ’round we invited Stacey Ferreira to drop by HQ to dish on her new book, 2 Billion Under 20, which argues against the idea t…
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Windows Edge review: Microsoft finally has a good browser | The Verge
For two decades, the default web browsing experience in Windows has been Internet Explorer. Over the years, Microsoft’s home-built browser became bloated, insecure, confusing to use, and just plain hated by many users. A lot of people turned to alte…
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A copycat town of Austria’s Hallstatt, smack bang in the middle of China
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right? This seems to be the way things are going in Huizhou, China. A real estate development company has replicated the picturesque city of Hallstatt in Austria with lookalike buildings and quaint cobblestone lanewa…
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What’s the oldest seed you’ve successfully sprouted? Robert Krulwich has done a round-up of seeds that made the unlikely journey through time, from lost seed packets that were found when they sprouted to the oldest-known sprouting seed: A 2,000 year…
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How to Protect your Hearing – Scientific American
In animal studies in several different species, we have produced irreversible nerve damage in the ear with two hours of continuous exposure to noise at 100 to 104 decibels (dB). There is every reason to believe that human ears are just as sensitive.
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Captain Crunch Oops All Berries was the best cereal… – Boing Boing
Growing up, the best cereal in the world was Cap’n Crunch even though eating it felt like I was chewing on fiberglass. Experiencing that cereal always came with the price of tearing up the roof of my mouth but it was always worth it.
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2 Men in Court over Killing of Cecil the Lion – Scientific American
HWANGE, Zimbabwe, July 29 (Reuters) – Two Zimbabwean men who were paid $50,000 by an American hunter who killed ‘Cecil’, the country’s best-known lion, arrived in court on Wednesday facing charges of poaching.
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The best Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts | The Verge
Windows 10 is available today as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. If you’ve followed our guide on how to upgrade, then you might be interested in some new keyboard shortcuts.
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Ronda Rousey Wants to Punish Bethe Correia: ‘I Don’t Like This Chick’ | Rolling Stone
Ronda Rousey Wants to Punish Bethe Correia: ‘I Don’t Like This Chick’ With UFC 190 set for Saturday, the champ says she’ll make her opponent suffer inside the Octagon – and she’ll take her time doing it
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Cartoon: Mike Huckabee goes Godwin
I’m Kickstarting a 300-page collection of political cartoons and comics journalism called Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib. Order a copy here!
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Windows 10 commercials in Russia are basically Saturday morning cartoons | The Verge
It’s Saturday morning. You’ve got a bowl of cereal. You’re sitting on the couch flipping through channels, looking for something good to watch. And there it is, your favorite show: The Windows 10 Fun Time Updates.
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Watch Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Dreamy ‘Ur Life One Night’ Video | Rolling Stone
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have shared the dreamy, folk art-inspired video for “Ur Life One Night,” a track off the psychedelic outfit’s third LP Multi-Love.
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Neil Young Erases Most of Catalog From Streaming Services | Rolling Stone
It took two weeks but Neil Young finally expunged the vast majority of his catalog from streaming services.
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Jimmy Page Wraps Led Zeppelin Reissues With a Bang | Rolling Stone
Jimmy Page (seen here in 1977) says, “I’ve got new material.
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Vine star Logan Paul profile – Tech Insider
Logan Paul knows how to blow up the internet: That’s the easy part.
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How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future – Bloomberg Business
A few years ago, during his commute across California’s Pajaro Valley, Phil Stewart began stopping more regularly at the Burger King in Watsonville. He wasn’t just there for the Whoppers. He was visiting a wild strawberry plant.
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It still seems kind of incredible that Jeb Bush is running in large part on claims that Florida’s growth during his governorship shows that he knows how to bring prosperity.
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Weightless Antacid Globule Fizzes In Free Fall | Video
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Christie: Smoke Your Weed While It’s Still Legal
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) suggested in a town hall meeting Tuesday that residents of states where marijuana is legal roll their blunts and smoke up before the next presidential inauguration, according to Bloomberg News.
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The Women’s Open deserves better than to be Trumped by Donald | Ewan Murray | Sport | The Guardian
You have to feel sorry for those seeking coverage of the Ricoh British Women’s Open. And the sponsors themselves, in fact. As for every event on the female golf circuit, there is a battle to wrestle attention away from the men’s equivalent.
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The Gist: Trump has said his lawyer’s comments dismissing the concept of marital rape do not reflect his own thoughts, but he has a long history of making off-color public statements about sexual assault.
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Oklahoma Guv’s Daughter Living In Trailer Parked Outside Guv’s Mansion
Oklahomans were not happy to discover this week that Gov. Mary Fallin’s (R) daughter had been living in a trailer on the grounds of the governor’s mansion for months.
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Wilmore: Obama Is Doing The ‘I-Give-Zero-F**ks Shuffle’ (VIDEO)
In chronicling President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa, “The Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore realized on Tuesday that Obama has reached peak care-free. “Obama don’t care. He never would’ve gone to Kenya in his first term,” Wilmore said.
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Chris Pine Joins the Wonder Woman Movie as Dude-in-Distress Steve Trevor
Apparently Chris Pine is more interested in hanging out with Wonder Woman than being the star of the Green Lantern Corps.
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On the morning of his wedding, in 1956, Henry Frye realized that he had a few hours to spare before the afternoon ceremony. He was staying at his parents’ house in Ellerbe, N.C.
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter‘s interim chief executive, tried to bring some different elements to the social media company’s quarterly results on Tuesday, including by live video-streaming the earnings call for the first time through Twitter’s Periscope app.
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Nova Blast Site Reveals Lithium In Astronomical First | Video
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Inflatable Flip Cup with Danny DeVito – YouTube
Jimmy competes against Danny DeVito in a game of flip cup while wearing inflatable fat suits.Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aNWatch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknigh… http://Twitter.com/Jimmy
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Titanfall is getting a free-to-play spinoff, but only in Asia | The Verge
The rapid fire robot action of Titanfall will soon be free-to-play — but only in Asia. EA and Titanfall developer Respawn have announced a partnership with Nexon, which will see the Japanese company release a free, PC-only version of the game.
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Vector Plans Developer Platform For It’s ‘Affordable Luxury’ Smart Watch | TechCrunch
Back in March the Vector — a smart watch with an e-ink LCD screen — made its debut in a number of reviews in the tech press. Of note was the unusual 30 day battery life and a smartphone control app which worked across iOS, Android and Windows phones.
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Video: How do pygmy seahorses end up on matching corals? – Boing Boing
Biologists at the California Academy of Sciences have finally bred them in captivity successfully, then put the dark colored babies of orange seahorses in with a vibrant purple sea fan. The babies changed color to match the fan.
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The perils of group blogging in one gif – Boing Boing
Say, I’ll bet our readers will love this wonderful thing! I’ll just spend 20 minutes meticulously creating this gif. Sure hope no one else saw this wonderful thing yet. ::rechecks scheduled posts::
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Intricate 3D paper typography by Sabeena Karnik – Boing Boing
Mumbia-based illustrator Sabeena Karnik specializes in forming strips of paper into intricate typography. Below is a sequence showing creation of her piece for a radio station.
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Watch Foals’ new 360-degree video filmed on a GoPro | The Verge
The UK’s raspy folk jugglers Foals are gearing up to release their forth LP, What Went Down, at the end of August. Today, the band dropped a video for the album single “Mountain at my Gates,” which was filmed using GoPro’s new spherical camera mount…
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Kitten + Owlet + Coffee equals cute – Boing Boing
Hukulou Coffee in Osaka has several owls, but Fuku the owlet and Marimo the kitten are the star attractions, as they have become very good friends. The posts below have some very cute recent videos.
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Most famous writers don’t have a clue that their work has been translated into Persian and that they are literary celebrities in Iran. When they eventually find out, some are amused, others outraged.
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Tom Brady is one of the most accomplished quarterbacks in NFL history by any measure. Four Super Bowl titles. Three Super Bowl MVPs. Two league MVPs. The most postseason wins in NFL history. Seven seasons with more than 4,000 yards. A 50-touchdown s…
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What is the best Windows 10 PC? | The Verge
No better excuse to buy a new PC than a new version of Windows Windows 10 has arrived, and with it comes the inevitable question: should I upgrade my PC? Even with a few outstanding bugs left to quash, Microsoft’s new software marks a major improvem…
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Everything Is Problematic, University Explains — NYMag
The University of New Hampshire has a “Bias-Free Language Guide.” As the document assures its readers, it “is not meant to represent absolute requirements of language use.
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Self-aiming sniper rifle can be pwned over the Internet – Boing Boing
The $13,000 Trackingpoint sniper rifle is vulnerable to wifi-based attacks that allow your adversary to redirect bullets to new targets of their choosing. Attackers can also brick the rifle, rendering its computer-based targeting permanently inopera…
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Jon Stewart Shows How Donald Trump Jokes Unite The World (VIDEO)
Jon Stewart is counting down the days until his final ‘The Daily Show” and is taking every opportunity to mention Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump, including on Tuesday night with President Barack Obama’s visit to…
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Joyce Mitchell ‘Was Caught Up in the Fantasy’ — NYMag
Joyce Mitchell, the prison seamstress who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, spoke with investigators at length about her role in the strange prison break.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG – “I sacrifice thee in the name of The Second Amendment” – Boing Boing
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook. And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug’s subscription club, the INNER HIVE for advance access to comics and more stuff.
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Windows 10 Launches Today. But We’re Still Waiting For the Important Stuff | WIRED
Today, Microsoft launched its new operating system, Windows 10. How much does that really matter? All things considered, not that much. To be sure, many people and businesses will use the new OS. That’s not in question.
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Who is the greatest wizard ever? A bracket-busting tournament
Across the universe, in countless dimensions, exist beings of mysterious and limitless power. Some fight for evil, some for good. Where do they come from? What do they want? And most importantly—who would win in a fight? The only way to find out is …
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Can you say ‘Where can I buy weed?’ in Thai? Now you can. The Google Translate app is about to get a lot more powerful.
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You can buy a new wardrobe using Instagram comments
The first time I saw someone make sales via Instagram comments, it was a childhood friend who was unloading gently used clothes her kids outgrew and some pieces from her closet.
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Which version of Windows 10 should you buy? | The Verge
Microsoft is positioning Windows 10 as “the last version of Windows” you’ll ever need to get, with regular feature updates and product improvements taking the place of big releases every couple of years.
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Competition No. 53: “Hey, What’s That Smell?” — NYMag
Welcome back to the New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Mondays (delayed this week, owing to our site outage), we lay out a challenge and offer a sample responses. Enter in the comments section, or on Twitter with the hashtag we’ve provided,…
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Scientists Want to Know: Are Musicians Playing to the Weather? | Hakai Magazine
As the scientists found, many musicians appeal to weather as “kind of an escapism,” says Brown. By focusing on the warmth of the sun or the sting of the rain, crooners can distract from their troubles.
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Get your business off the ground with the Coding for Entrepreneurs Bundle
If you have shelved business ideas due to a lack of technical knowledge, it’s time to dust them off. The Coding for Entrepreneurs Bundle will teach you – in the space of a few hours – how to build marketable products from scratch.
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Funky Accessories That Visualize Invisible Air Pollution | WIRED
Caption: Air Transformed is a conceptual line of accessories designed to make you more environmentally aware. Steve McInerny If you’re hiking in Los Angeles, your naked eye can’t really tell the difference between pollution and run-of-the-mill fog.
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How to Abandon Expectations and Start Appreciating the Little Things – The Atlantic
Abandon expectations, appreciate everything. Brooks has said many contentious things in his tenure with the Times, but the insinuation that a waffle maker is ever not a treat is a moment that will mar his career with particular shame.
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A British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London has been forced to perform an emergency landing in Montreal, reportedly due to a bomb threat. Flight BA274 touched down at Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International airport at around 5.15am local…
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On the Market: Morning links from the New York Observer | Observer
Does the city really need another food court? Well, it’s getting one! Crain’s reports that the Brooklyn Navy Yard is on tap to get a Marvel Architects-designed food court/”collaboration hub.”
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Conservative Rep. Offers Resolution To Oust Boehner As Speaker
In a surprise move, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) on Tuesday introduced a resolution to remove Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) from his position as Speaker of the House.
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Adobe’s Digital Publishing Solution embraces content marketers
Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite was synonymous with the era of iPad magazine apps. In the past five years, it was responsible for 6,700 mobile apps that have been downloaded a total of 315 million times.
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Beat The Summer Lull With Social Responsibility Abroad | Observer
“Voluntourism” is the newest travel fad making a comeback for young students looking to explore the world on a dime.
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Google Translate updated with more languages, smoother conversations
Back in January, Google changed its Translate app in significant and powerful ways, offering written translations across 90 languages, as well as active conversation interpreting for 32 languages and an AR sign-reading translation tool for 7 common …
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Google Translate’s App Now Instantly Translates Printed Text In 27 Languages | TechCrunch
One of the most intense experiences you’ll ever have is visiting a country that speaks a language different than yours. There’s a host of tools you can use, but Google’s Translate product has leapfrogged just about everything out there over the year…
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Subway Teams Up With PayPal On Mobile Payments | TechCrunch
Ordering your food or beverages by smartphone and then paying for it via an app is quickly becoming the new normal. Starbucks already allows for this across thousands of its stores in the U.S.
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Will Suicide Squad Tell Harley Quinn’s Origin Story From the Comics?
Netflix wants a new season of a Marvel show to arrive every six months. A sneak peek at the next season of Doctor Who is coming to theaters. Plus new pictures from Deadpool and Batman v Superman, and new footage from The Man From UNCLE. To me, my Sp…
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Every chocolate company needs to buy cocoa beans. For Seattle-based Theo Chocolate, sourcing this essential ingredient is not about finding the right vendors – it’s about creating them.
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Tictail Wants to Be Your Global Marketplace By Going Local | WIRED
Tictail, a young Swedish e-commerce startup, has two aim. The company want to make it easier for new designers, independent brands, and emerging small businesses an easier way to set up shop online—and make it easier for the rest of us to shop for s…
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Ugly Ducklings of the Universe are Born Like Stars – Scientific American
If the universe were a fairy tale, the celestial objects called brown dwarfs would be the ugly ducklings. Small and dim as they are, brown dwarfs are informally known as “failed stars.
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US newspaper editorial employment reaches a 37-year low | Media | The Guardian
In an unsurprising, but undeniably sad, reflection on the state of the US newspaper industry, a major survey shows that newsroom jobs have fallen to their lowest level since 1978, the year of the first such survey. The latest annual decline to the 3…
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‘Daily Show’ correspondents interrogate Jon Stewart with viewer questions
With The Daily Show winding down, fans have plenty of questions, and both Jordan Klepper and Hasan Minhaj are determined to make Jon Stewart answer them—no matter the cost. As far as interrogation-room situations go, this one is pretty low-key.
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‘Mzee Ojwang’ funeral: Kenyans mourn father of family comedy – BBC News
Kenyans have gathered to mourn the comedian Benson Wanjau, known to many by the name of his popular TV character “Mzee Ojwang”. He died of pneumonia at hospital earlier in July aged 78 years old.
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Parents and educators at a struggling, racially isolated San Francisco school hope their changing community means better times ahead.
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Could Special Eyedrops Replace Night-Vision Goggles? – The Atlantic
The tantalizing promise—and practical pitfalls—of eyedrops that let a person see in the dark. In March, Gabriel Licina pinned his eyes open and had his friend, Jeffrey Tibbetts, place several drops of a carefully calibrated liquid into his eyes.
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Migrants Have Made 3,500 Attempts to Enter the Channel Tunnel Over Two Nights | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. A man has died as migrants made 1,500 attempts to enter the UK through the Channel Tunnel during another night of chaos in Calais, France.
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FixApp wants to provide a fair marketplace for all your household or business tasks
Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York on November 18.
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EngineeringThe First White Laser. Scientists and engineers at Arizona State University have created the first lasers that can shine light over the full spectrum of visible colors. (spectrum.ieee.org)
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady reiterated his innocence on Wednesday morning, a day after N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld his four-game suspension for his role in deflating footballs used in the A.F.C. Championship game.
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Inside the world’s quietest room | Ars Technica UK
In a hole, on some bedrock a few miles outside central Zurich, there lived a spin-polarised scanning electron microscope. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole: it was a nanotech hole, and that means quiet. And electromagnetically shielded. And vibration-fre…
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Photo highlights of the day | Global | The Guardian
Calais, FranceMigrants on a road outside the Eurotunnel area in Calais, after around 2,100 migrants tried to storm the area on Tuesday morning Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest …
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Stunning Photo Shows SpaceShipTwo Pilot Parachuting to Earth After Crash
SpaceShipTwo pilot Peter Siebold parachutes to Earth after the space plane broke apart during a test flight on Oct. 31, 2014, killing copilot Michael Alsbury.Credit: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic View full size image It is a picture of test pilot b…
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What is CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act?
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is either the key to combating hackers or a dire threat to Americans’ privacy—it just depends who you ask.
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The Chromecast Comes with a $5 Discount and a $10 Amazon Card Today
For a limited time, if you purchase a Google Chromecast for $30 from Amazon (which is actually $5 off MSRP), you’ll get a free $10 Amazon gift card tossed in for your trouble. If you have any TVs left in your home without a streaming box of some sor…
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Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed | Ars Technica
I’m more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows. In some ways, the operating system is extremely ambitious; in others, it represents a great loss of ambition.
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Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki on Vimeo
Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki Music by Joe Hisaishi Made with Blender, Gimp, Octane and Natron. Thanks to Boby, Christophe, Clouclou, Cremuss, David, Félicia, Frenchman, Sozap, Stéphane, Virgil ! And Thanks to Ton Roosendaal, the Blender community, the …
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Sitting in an executive-styled chair in the executive-styled “conference” room of her record company’s Los Angeles headquarters, Janet Jackson’s stomach makes a gurgling sound. “Oh, my!!” she squeaks in gross embarrassment, not knowing where to look.
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Los Angeles union wants to be exempt from $15 minimum wage it fought for | US news | The Guardian
Union officials in Los Angeles are fighting to be excluded from minimum wage rules that they have lobbied to put in place. Los Angeles city council is set to vote on a union-backed clause to its $15-an-hour minimum wage bill that would exempt worker…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Such things do happen, in the course of providing you with consistently fresh and informative written content, you know. But we’re still sitting on the mother lode of intriguing stories, so we’re good no matter what.
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Short List / Reading Brought to Life | Observer
Worthy of a road trip, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art– a beautiful 40,000 square foot contemporary building set in an old apple orchard in Amherst, Massachusetts– celebrates the picture book art created by Eric Carle and other renowned ar…
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Tom Brady denies Deflategate ‘smoking gun’ exists after suspension upheld | Sport | The Guardian
Tom Brady has released a lengthy criticism of the NFL’s decision to uphold his four-game suspension over the Deflategate scandal.
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“White Power Laundries” and the Clash Over Asians in America | JSTOR Daily
The story of Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century was often marred by virulent anti-Asian sentiments on the parts of whites. This is perhaps best exemplified by attempts to keep Asians out of the United States using laws s…
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Death of rare Northern White Rhino leaves four alive – BBC News
One of the last five Northern White Rhino left in the world has died. Nabire, a 31-year-old female, died at the Dvur Kralove zoo in the Czech Republic on Monday evening of a ruptured cyst.
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Short List / Reading Brought to Life | Observer
“A theater you never outgrow,” the off-Broadway gem New Victory Theater introduces extraordinary artists from around the world to audiences of all ages.
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Sen. Rand Paul will cut up a Donald Trump mannequin with a chainsaw, throw the pieces into a woodchipper, and set the pile of Trump dust on fire with a flamethrower. Sen.
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Short List / Reading Brought to Life | Observer
Both grown-ups and kids alike will love the newly-published long-lost Dr.
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Why Your Doctor Won’t Prescibe Antibiotics – Scientific American
Scientific American presents House Call Doctor by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Have you ever wondered why doctors seem so stingy with antibiotic prescriptions?
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Yes, there is such a thing as rape within marriage | Life and style | The Guardian
Donald Trump has hit the headlines, yet again, for all the wrong reasons after his lawyer and campaign spokesperson claimed it isn’t possible to rape your spouse.
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Lone Star buys Wembley Arena owner Quintain for £700m | Business | The Guardian
British property firm Quintain Estates and Development, the developer behind Wembley Arena, has been snapped up by US private equity group Lone Star for £700m. Dallas-based Lone Star agreed to pay 131p in cash for each Quintain share.
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Windows 10, the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, arrives on Wednesday, and it will have a familiar look and feel to the more than one billion people who have touched a Windows computer in the last two decades.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 87 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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The Wanderers of Nusantara – Roads & Kingdoms
There’s a term for this place, not much employed in English anymore: Nusantara. To some, it refers to the territory of the Majapahit empire at its 14th-century zenith: a hundred maritime kingdoms under the throne in Java, stretching as far north as …
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Enjoy Your Romaine Lettuce—While It Lasts | WIRED
The mighty Central Valley hogs the headlines, but California’s Salinas Valley is an agricultural behemoth, too.
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Even Mega Man’s Creator Isn’t Sure to Succeed on Kickstarter | WIRED
Well… no, it’s not. Inafune, the longtime producer of the Mega Man series did indeed launch a new Kickstarter just a few weeks after making that comment, for a new game called Red Ash. But it’s not going to break the record for the most-funded game …
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Free: Mammoth Interactive 5-hour developer training bundle
The biggest challenge in learning to code is actually getting started. To incentivize you, TNW Deals is currently giving away the five-hour Mammoth Interactive Developer Bundle absolutely free.
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The story of Windows 10 from inside Microsoft | The Verge
Windows 10 has a lot to live up to. Microsoft has made a lot of promises about it. And oddly enough, we’ve heard most of them before, with Windows 8.
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Meals are delivered by roller coaster at this bizarre Bavarian restaurant
Looking for a place to eat while travelling through Germany? Head south to Bavaria and don’t stop until you reach Nuremberg. When you get to Nuremberg, don’t stop until you reach the Rollercoaster Restaurant. Yes, there is a rollercoaster restaurant.
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Will Lampard, Gerrard, Pirlo, Drogba, and Villa Help Major League Soccer or Hurt It? – The Atlantic
A flood of highly paid, past-their-prime European players are coming to the U.S., raising questions about whether their star power helps the American game or hurts it.
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PLOS Study Says Music Taste Can Predict Personality – The Atlantic
For anyone who has ever caught some treacly adult contemporary on the radio and wondered “Who on earth likes this stuff?” while twisting the dial, a new study might have an answer. A bunch of softies, that’s who.
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Contaminated Tap Water Could Become More Common Thanks to Failing Infrastructure – The Atlantic
In Flint, Michigan, lead, copper, and bacteria are contaminating the drinking supply and making residents ill. If other cities fail to fix their old pipes, the problem could soon become a lot more common. FLINT, Mich.
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10 Google Easter eggs you have to test
True to Google’s playful image, the search engine has a few fun tricks up its sleeve. There are various secret-sauce Easter eggs that can be activated if you know the right words or phrase to enter.
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8 must-listen podcasts about your favorite TV shows
If you’re a Game of Thrones obsessive, if you live and breathe The Walking Dead, or even if you just sense Sense8 is for you, you need to stop watching and start listening.
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100-Person Poll: Do You Work Too Much? — NYMag
Jeb Bush recently said that we all ought to be working more. So we asked 100 New Yorkers at Union Square, Columbus Circle, and the Atlantic Avenue subway stop how they felt about their own workloads. Most of the people we spoke to said they’re doing…
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Uber, But for Job Growth — NYMag
Here are two data points about the so-called “1099” or “sharing” economy, made up of companies like Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates, and TaskRabbit. The number of workers with gig-type jobs surged to 32 million in 2014, up from 20 million in 2001.
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Motor and Sensory Symptoms Help Predict Who Will Develop Lewy Body Dementia – Scientific American
Shouting during a nightmare. Struggling to balance a checkbook. A weakened sense of smell. Hallucinations. Chronic constipation.
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Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Campaign for President – The Atlantic
The Vermont senator’s revolutionary zeal has met its moment. There’s no way this man could be president, right? Just look at him: rumpled and scowling, bald pate topped by an entropic nimbus of white hair. Just listen to him: ranting, in his gravell…
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BBC Sport – Deflate-gate: Tom Brady accuses NFL over four-game ban
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has accused the National Football League of attempting “to hide evidence” in a “manufactured” controversy after it upheld a four-game ban over the ‘deflate-gate’ scandal. The Patriots deflated balls to give…
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Uber’s problems could send shockwaves through the on-demand economy
Uber’s battles with regulation and disregard for local laws governing the running of its service are not new.
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How Robots Could Build a Radio Telescope on Far Side of the Moon
BOULDER, Colorado — Researchers are making strides on a radio telescope array that would be unfurled on the far side of the moon by an unmanned rover operated by nearby astronauts.
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Baby elephant playing with birds will instantly brighten your day
Baby elephants are a recipe for cuteness. But a baby elephant playing with a flock of birds? That’s even better. In case you’ve ever wondered what the word “gamboling” looks like, this is it. This is one happy elephant.
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We love a good fight, don’t we? Enter Walter J Palmer, a tanned dentist from Minnesota, with a bow and arrow.
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Trump: Lawyer ‘Not Speaking For Me’ On Marital Rape
After a special counsel to Donald Trump said that legally, a man cannot rape his wife, the presidential candidate on Tuesday distanced himself from his lawyer’s comments. “He’s speaking for himself. He’s not speaking for me, obviously,” Trump told C…
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Elizabeth is just one of the Greenpeace activists have suspended themselves from St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon to block a Shell Oil vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters. The climbers have enough supplies to last several days, and are p…
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There’s no way around it, German philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is incredibly difficult to understand. And yet, his work, like few others since Plato, has been reduced over and over again to one idea—the “Hegelian dialectic” of “thesis, …
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Harmony is just one of the Greenpeace activists have suspended themselves from St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon to block a Shell Oil vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters. The climbers have enough supplies to last several days, and are pre…
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Give your spam filter something to do.
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Rich People Raise Rich Kids—Even When They’re Adopted – The Atlantic
Even when they’re adopted, the children of the wealthy grow up to be just as well-off as their parents.
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NASA’s Next Megarocket Could Launch Mission to Europa
The huge rocket NASA is developing to get astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other distant destinations should also greatly aid robotic exploration efforts, members of Congress were told Tuesday (July 28).
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Lexus will show its hoverboard in action on August 5th | The Verge
Last month, Lexus unveiled the “Slide” — an honest-to-god, working hoverboard. Now, the company says it’s ready to show off the board to the public, setting the date for August 5th in this brief teaser video.
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Remembering Cecil the lion, Jimmy Kimmel says what many of us are thinking about hunting
The Internet is in an uproar after the man who killed Cecil the ion was identified Tuesday, and Jimmy Kimmel was among those devastated by the news.
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Activists hang from bridge in Portland to block Shell’s Arctic vessel | Environment | The Guardian
Greenpeace said that 13 of its climbers were hanging off St John’s bridge and had enough supplies to last days in their attempt to hinder Shell’s Arctic drilling plans, with another 13 people assisting them.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Without ever quite saying so explicitly, President Obama used his four-day trip to Africa to suggest that the United States offers an alternative to China’s aggressive courtship of the continent.
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Tottenham Hotspur ready for MLS All-Stars clash – video | Football | The Guardian
Tottenham Hotspur train on Tuesday ahead of their match again the Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star team in Colorado on Wednesday. Midfielder Christian Eriksen is expecting the match to be a challenge but says Spurs’ manager Mauricio Pochettino has…
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Rihanna’s Freddie Gray concert was blocked by Baltimore police – reports | US news | The Guardian
Rihanna was reportedly blocked by Baltimore police from playing a free concert for Freddie Gray, the 25-year old African-American man who was fatally injured by six police officers in April.
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What Obama Can Learn From China About Investing in Africa – The Atlantic
The president visited the region as yet another donor, not an equal partner. On Tuesday, Barack Obama spoke to the delegates of the African Union at the organization’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Standing at the podium in Mandela Hall, th…
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How to conquer designer’s block
It happens to everyone from time to time. A creative block. An empty mind. Staring at a blank screen and wondering, “well, what do I do now?” Photo credit: “Waitin.” Khalid Albaih. Creative Commons.
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URBANDALE, IA—Saying it was important that the candidate have a distinctive, relatable look, campaign consultant Brian Sims reportedly presented Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker with several possible human sides to choose from Wednesday.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, July 29, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. That’s the number of female coaches in the NFL after Jen Welter was hired by the Arizona Cardinals as an assistant coaching intern.
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Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Mountains and Craters Get Names in NASA Map
Colorful new maps of the dwarf planet Ceres reveal its dramatic mountains and deep craters, now with official new names. The new Ceres maps were created using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the dwarf planet since March.
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The sacking of Miguel Herrera, just hours after he had delivered Mexico their record seventh Gold Cup, brought an end to one of the more demonstrative national team coaching reigns in recent history.
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Full Moon on Friday Is a Blue Moon: Here’s Why
On Friday, much of the world will have the opportunity to observe a Blue Moon: A somewhat rare occurrence that doesn’t have anything to do with the moon’s color. During most years, the Earth experiences 12 full moons, one in each month.
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Wireless charging for electric cars inches closer to reality | The Verge
Wireless charging could be a big deal for electric vehicles, allowing drivers to top up their car’s batteries simply by parking in the right spot, but right now the technology simply isn’t available.
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Stunning Photo of New Moon Evokes ‘Star Wars’ Cloud City
This stunning view of an extremely young moon over a cloudy landscape may look like the Cloud City of Bespin from “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” but it is a view that is completely real.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Trump rising, Christie sinking
About 1-in-7 (15%) likely voters in the New Hampshire GOP primary report having met or seen one of the candidates in person. About half that number (7%) say they have seen Chris Christie. No more than 3% name any of the other candidates.
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First Click: Twitter’s battle between hearts and stars is a battle for hearts and minds | The Verge
The battle between stars and hearts is a struggle that will define our expression of public digital affection in the 21st century.
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Occipital Raises $13M Series B For Its Computer Vision Platform | TechCrunch
Occipital made its first splash years ago with the RedLaser barcode scanning app and 360 Panorama app.
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Man Booker Prize: 2007 winner Anne Enright makes longlist – BBC News
The 13 books longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize have been announced, with previous winner Anne Enright among those in contention. The Irish author, who won the £50,000 prize in 2007, is longlisted for her sixth novel, The Green Road.
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Anti-Boko Haram force ‘to cross borders to fight’ – BBC News
Multinational troops fighting Boko Haram in West Africa will be able to pursue the militants across borders, Nigeria’s presidential spokesman says. Garba Shehu told the BBC this was there was now trust between those contributing troops since the ele…
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Michael Moore film to attack US government’s state of ‘infinite war’ | Film | The Guardian
Michael Moore’s new film, Where to Invade Next, explores how the US government maintains a state of “infinite war”, according to the Oscar-winning documentary film-maker.
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Search for Alien Life Ignites Battle over Giant Telescope – Scientific American
Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, faces an uncertain future amidst a tug-of-war between public and private funding sources.
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Michel Platini confirms he will stand for presidency
Uefa president Michel Platini has confirmed he will be a candidate to be the next president of Fifa. The 79-year-old Swiss has been in charge of Fifa since 1998.
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Nintendo Ekes Out $9M Profit As Wii U Sales Cross 10M To Date | TechCrunch
It’s earnings day at Nintendo, and the Japanese company surprised watchers by eking out a unexpected, and albeit meagre, $8.9 million profit for its most recent quarter of business.
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Facebook loses battle over users’ fake names in Germany – BBC News
Facebook has been prevented from stopping users in Germany creating accounts under false names. The Hamburg data protection authority said the social network could not change people’s chosen usernames or ask them to provide any official ID.
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The Afghan government has said it is investigating reports that Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban, has been dead for two years. The Taliban has yet to confirm or deny the claims, which follow a week of speculation about the the fate of the insurg…
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BBC Sport – Rio 2016: Organisers’ pollution challenge in Guanabara Bay
Cleaning up the polluted bay where sailing and windsurfing competitions will be held at Rio 2016 remains a serious challenge, the International Olympic Committee president has said. Sailors in Guanabara Bay have reported seeing pollution including f…
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Why The Black Lives Matter Campaign Matters To Bernie Sanders | Observer
Bernie Sanders is unlikely to be the Democratic nominee, but he is having an impact on the primary race in several ways. First, he has helped focus the Democratic discourse on economic questions.
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We Can Run And We Won’t Hide: Jewish Athletes Compete In Berlin | Observer
More than 2,000 Jewish athletes are currently competing in the stadium that Hitler built, the stadium that hosted the famed 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Olympics that turned Jesse Owens into the “fastest man in the world.” The European Maccabi Games…
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government said on Wednesday that it was investigating reports, in a recent chorus of unsourced or anonymous claims, that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban, is dead.
KABUL, Afghanistan — After months of speculation, Afghan officials announced Wednesday that they were now certain that the Taliban’s reclusive leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, died in a Pakistani hospital in 2013. -
Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Eighteen days ago – really, that’s all it’s been – Cardiff buzzed with delight and disbelief as England took the first Test at a canter. Australia turned down their offer of a post-match pint, in favour of a spot of sober reflection.
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Mega Man creator releases buggy demo for his next game to promote its Kickstarter
Earlier this month, Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune launched a Kickstarter campaign to build the spiritual successor to Mega Man Legends. Unfortunately for Inafune and his studio Comcept, things haven’t been a resounding success.
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Ferrari’s Newest Convertible Is Its Most Aerodynamic Ever | WIRED
Caption: The gorgeous “posteriore” of the Ferrari 488 Spider. Ferrari Lots of supercars look amazing. But it’s often the case that if you chop off the roof, the result looks a bit more … supercar-y.
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An off-duty Medford, Massachusetts cop threatened a motorist during a traffic stop. His colleagues seemed unperturbed by his behavior. Three years ago in Medford, Massachusetts, narcotics detective Stephen LeBert calmly told the brother of a man he …
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Startup Has a Clever Tool to Get Non-Techies to Code: Excel | WIRED
Paul Katsen worked at a consulting firm, and he was in charge of “engagement analytics.” This meant his colleagues would ask him to write scripts that could gather data about real-time engagement across the workforce and beyond.
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Professional Videogaming Has Doping Scandals, Too | WIRED
Welcome to 2015. Video games are a sport, its top players are athletes, and they play in professional leagues.
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Monsoons Relieve Some Africa Droughts
A late-arriving monsoon season created drought conditions throughout southeast Africa in late 2014. The dryness can be seen in satellite estimates of vegetation health, shown in this image. The data imagery on the left is from the first week of Dece…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – El Niño Arrives in 2015
For nearly a year, conditions in the Pacific seemed favorable for the formation of an El Niño – part of a multi-year cycle that creates warmer than average ocean temperatures, and greatly impacts weather and climate around the planet.
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Sir Richard Branson has called for sharks to be protected rather than hunted down and killed in the wake of an attack on one of the world’s leading surfers.
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‘Twizzlering’ is a hilarious, slightly dangerous prank to play on sleeping friends
Twizzlering. It’s a great way to either wake up a friend with a delicious snack or choke them to death in a horrible accident. Either way, it’s worth recording. When Micah fell asleep on a long car trip, his friends decided to see how many Twizzlers…
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The City So Nice They Walked It Twice – The New Yorker
A few years ago, William Helmreich, a sociology professor at CUNY, wrote a book called “The New York Nobody Knows.” Helmreich had spent four years walking every block in the five boroughs—that’s a hundred and twenty thousand blocks and six thousand …
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Smart Spreadsheet Service Blockspring Raises $3.4 Million | TechCrunch
Blockspring, a service that connects to spreadsheets like Excel and Google Spreadsheets to easier import data, said it has raised $3.4 million.
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Kid dancing to Beyoncé in gym class is our school hero of the day
With all this practice, this kid’s going to be the highlight of the school dance.
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If it makes no logical sense that a young and seemingly happy woman would kill herself days after being offered a new job, then the death of Sandra Bland is an anomaly on a statistical level as well. The official, hotly disputed account is that the …
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Following the post of my colleague, Dana Nuccitelli on misreporting of ice trends, this article is a timely guest post by Neven Acropolis who runs the Arctic Sea Ice blog.
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Members of Congress put the onus on gun dealers to enforce safety laws | US news | The Guardian
Faced with little appetite in the US Congress to strengthen federal gun laws, a group of senators on Tuesday called on firearm dealers to help reduce the scourge of gun violence in America by performing more robust background checks, even when it’s …
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The baby boomer generation was supposed to be the one that slid into its twilight years with everything sorted out – health, financial stability and long life expectancy. But that may not be the case.
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The strange beauty and profound surrealism in ‘Dog of Wisdom’
Salvador Dali never painted bunnies and Man Ray never produced a kitten calendar. (That we know of.) But if you like your surrealism adorable look no further than YouTube animator Joe Gran’s Dog of Wisdom. A video gift from the Internet gods, sent t…
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A surprising number of Americans still doesn’t have Internet access
Approximately one in seven Americans does not use the Internet, according to the Pew Research Center, and while that number has declined significantly since 2010, it remains stubbornly high, particularly among certain segments of the population.
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Fake marriage proposals will get you tons of social-media engagement
There’s nothing more uplifting than a bunch of notifications letting you know that a slew of randos from your hometown have liked your latest selfie or life announcement on Facebook.
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Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ is the perfect soundtrack for that weird screaming deer
Vine user hi im josh put together Sia’s hit “Chandelier” with that viral video of an adorable deer letting out a giant scream, and the result is a mashup that fits together perfectly while also being uproariously hilarious. Prepare yourself. Here it…
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Donald Trump is a monster of the GOP’s own creation | Trevor Timm | Comment is free | The Guardian
It’s hard not to laugh at the entirely self-created dilemma the Republicans now find themselves in with Donald Trump. The more he insults wide swaths of voters, the more he climbs in the polls.
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IOC president Thomas Bach hits out at Boston for aborted 2024 Olympics bid | Sport | The Guardian
The International Olympic Committee has laid the blame squarely on Boston for its aborted attempt to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, saying the city had failed to deliver on its promises.
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Updated, 7:00 a.m. Good morning on this sun-baked Wednesday. And New York City is in its second day of a humbling heat wave that could linger through Sunday. Today is supposed to be the most arduous, with the high expected to reach 94 degrees.
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Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Is ‘Dead’ | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. Reports are now emerging that Taliban leader Mullah Omar has died, and has indeed been dead for several years.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The leader of a banned Sunni extremist group that is believed to have killed hundreds of Pakistani Shiites in a series of bombings died in a shootout Wednesday after supporters tried to free him from police custody, the Pakista…
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Structural secret of T. rex’s bone-crushing teeth – BBC News
Scientists have discovered the unique internal structure of the serrated teeth belonging to carnivorous dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus. This structure allowed them to rip through flesh and bones of larger animals, surviving as top predators fo…
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Deepak Chopra Dissects The Brain For Young, Wealthy Philanthropists | | Observer
Just before my first guided Meditation, I sit in the back of an un-air conditioned taxi crawling through traffic on East 46th Street. Flop sweat drips and my heart rate speeds up. I am agitated, as we pause behind not one, but two garbage trucks. I …
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Calls for Cecil the Lion’s Killer to Be Hanged as Suspects Are Due in Court | VICE News
Public anger over the death of a cherished and protected animal has forced a dentist from Minnesota to close his practice in the US, as two other men are set to appear in a Zimbabwean court today over the slaughter.
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Judge Dismisses Zimmerman Lawsuit Against Roseanne Barr
In the lawsuit, Gladys and Robert Zimmerman Sr. protested tweets published by Barr after the death of Trayvon Martin, including a retweet with the address for the Zimmermans’ home in Lake Mary, Fla., according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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VW reports profit rise but warns of ‘challenges’ ahead – BBC News
The German carmaker Volkswagen reported a rise in its quarterly profit, but noted slowing demand in key markets. Second quarter operating profit rose nearly 5% to 3.49bn euros (£2.47bn).
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Gaza: ‘Israeli war crimes’ followed soldier’s capture – Amnesty – BBC News
Amnesty International says there is “strong evidence” Israel committed war crimes in Gaza following the capture of a soldier by Hamas in last year’s war. Its report says at least 135 civilians were killed in a bombardment of Rafah after Lt Hadar Gol…
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LONDON — The private equity firm Lone Star Funds has agreed to acquire the British property investment company Quintain Estates and Development for 700 million pounds, or about $1.1 billion, in cash, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Cara Delevingne has awkward interview on US morning TV – video | Fashion | The Guardian
Model-turned-actor Cara Delevingne takes part in an uncomfortable interview with the hosts of Good Day Sacramento. Delevingne was promoting her new film, teen romance Paper Towns, when her on-camera reactions to the hosts’s questions raised some eye…
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Americans Are Divided — And Slightly Confused — By the Iran Nuclear Deal | VICE News
With about 50 days left for Congress to approve the nuclear agreement with Iran, supporters and opponents of the deal are frantically lobbying on Capitol Hill, exchanging barbs in the press, and making their case to the public.
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Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Apparently Died a Few Years Ago | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. Reports are now emerging that Taliban leader Mullah Omar has died, and has indeed been dead for several years.
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Little, A Hyperlocal Deals Service For India, Launches With $50M In Funding | TechCrunch
Called Little, the project is founded Manish Chopra and Satish Mani — the same duo behind male-focused fashion startup Zovi — and it is kicking off with a $50 million funding round led by Indian payment and commerce firm Paytm.
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TEHRAN — The French foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, one of the first visits by what is likely to be a string of officials from European countries seeking closer economic and political ties with Iran following the nuclear agreement e…
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Has Donald Trump’s Rise Squeezed Ben Carson in the Republican Race? – The Atlantic
Since Donald Trump’s rapid rise in the Republican polls, it’s been quiet for the other outsider candidate in the field. Remember Ben Carson? Medical hero? Scolded Obama? Occasional propensity to deliver ill-advised non-sequiturs? Ringing any bells?
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Rescuers search for survivors after military helicopter crashes in Laos | World news | The Guardian
More than 20 people are missing after a military helicopter in Laos crashed in poor weather earlier this week, state media have said.
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How to Upgrade to Windows 10 | WIRED
Windows 10 is finally here, bringing the familiar desktop back to the forefront and introducing new treats like Cortana, the virtual assistant, and Edge, the browser that will finally erase those bad memories of Internet Explorer. Wondering how to g…
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Wait, How Do I Find Cortana? | WIRED
Cortana, Microsoft’s voice-activated personal assistant (and distant cousin of Siri) is one of Windows 10’s shiny new features. So far, the voice assistant has appeared on Windows Phone 8.1 as well as other mobile devices, but with the new OS, Corta…
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How to Stop Windows 10 Auto-Updates | WIRED
Microsoft included automatic software updates on Windows 10 in order to keep people up to date and using the most secure software. However, the opposite happened after beta testers were forced to download a Nvidia driver that kept causing crashes.
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Brittney Griner and Elena Della Donne: the Magic and Bird of the NBA? | Sport | The Guardian
Back in the late 1970s, the NBA was a league still struggling to find a mainstream audience. The league was considered niche entertainment. Arenas weren’t full. Television coverage was the exception, not the rule. Then along came Larry Bird and Magi…
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How to Share (Or Not Share) Your Wi-Fi in Windows 10 | WIRED
One nifty little Windows 10 feature is a Wi-Fi sharing tool called Wi-Fi sense. Well, nifty if you indeed want to share your Wi-Fi with your Facebook friends, Skype contacts, and Outlook.com contacts—which is, indeed quite a few people.
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New York City FC threw their first ‘Pirlo Party’ on Sunday, and the guest of honour made a timely appearance for the MLS newcomers, providing a welcome second-half boost in an eight-goal thriller that did much for the league’s excitement level, if l…
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Will Victims of Chad’s Former Dictator Hissène Habré Get Justice? – The Atlantic
Former Chadian President Hissène Habré is accused of killing and torturing thousands of people in the 1980s. But an attempt to try him for crimes against humanity has been more difficult than expected.
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A Brief History Of Donald Trump Talking About Sexual Assault
Donald Trump made his splashy debut in the 2016 race by denouncing Mexican immigrants as “rapists.
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Syfy has ordered thirteen episodes of Blood Drive, from a script by James Roland under the supervision of John Hlavin. The show follows L.A.’s “last good cop” forced to join a death race where cars run on blood as fuel. Sounds intense. [Deadline]
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Good morning. House Republicans are poised today to pass an extension of only three months to keep the Highway Trust Fund afloat during peak construction season.
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Calais migrant crisis: How people enter tunnel site – BBC News
Eurotunnel – which manages and operates Channel Tunnel services – says migrant incursions in Calais are now “an almost nightly occurrence”. The BBC’s Peter Whittlesea explains the route many people take to gain access to the railway tracks.
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David Cameron becomes first British PM to visit Vietnam | Politics | The Guardian
David Cameron has landed in Hanoi for the first ever visit by a British prime minister, saying he was excited to be in a country that had transformed itself into a vibrant society with a young and expanding middle class.
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Get Ready for Scott Walker… and the Ruthless Politics of Walkerism | The Nation
Cott Kevin Walker, fresh from a free-spending yet folksy campaign in which he carried his lunch in a brown paper bag and promised to create 250,000 jobs, delivered his first inaugural address as governor of Wisconsin on January 3, 2011.
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At the beginning of the first Hague conference in 1899, The Nation mocked the delegates for pledging themselves to peace while apparently taking few concrete steps toward enshrining anything substantive in law.
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Urban Resurgence Is A Double-Edged Sword For Democrats | FiveThirtyEight
For the first time in the post-World War II era, cities are growing at about the same rate as their suburbs, which for decades grew at a much faster clip.
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First Detection of Lithium from an Exploding Star | ESO
The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The leader of a banned Sunni extremist group that is believed to have killed hundreds of Pakistani Shiites in a series of bombings died in a shootout Wednesday after supporters tried to free him from police custody, the Pakista…
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Decontaminating Fukushima – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
The district of Iitate, which covers more than 200 sq km, northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, was one of the most contaminated areas following the March 2011 catastrophe. Photograph: Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace Facebook Twitter Pin…
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Rakuten Opens New Research Centers In Boston And Singapore | TechCrunch
Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce company, has opened two new branches of its research center in Boston and Singapore.
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9 New Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know | WIRED
You should upgrade to Windows 10. That much is clear. You should also, though, know how best to take advantage of its shiny new features.
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Donald Trump’s explosive rise in the polls has come at the expense of every other GOP presidential candidate except for Jeb Bush and Scott Walker — who arguably have been helped by the businessman’s rise.
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The NWS Storm Prediction Center has updated its Day 1 severe weather outlook to include a Moderate Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening across portions of northern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas and western Missouri.
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With more in-flight entertainment than ever, the longest flights can often seem short these days.
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Emoji for food allergies may come to your phone soon
The proposal, submitted by a Google engineer, is under discussion and may not be added to the standard at all but offers a peek into some useful new emoji.
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Bhutan tiger population higher than previously thought, survey reveals | Environment | The Guardian
Bhutan is home to more than 100 tigers, a rise of more than a third on the previous population estimate, a survey has revealed.
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Windows 10? Here are privacy issues you should consider
Windows 10 has just arrived and there’s a new Privacy Policy and Service Agreement from Microsoft coming swiftly in its wake.
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US fugitive Jason Stange caught after starring in horror film – BBC News
A bank robber wanted for violating his probation has been apprehended by US police after starring in a low-budget horror film using his own name.Jason Stange, 44, had taken a role as a doctor who commits a “deranged act” in a film called Marla Mae.
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Nintendo records best Q1 sales since 2012 thanks to Amiibo and Splatoon | The Verge
Nintendo has published its first quarter earnings for the three months ending June 30th, revealing net sales of ¥90 billion ($727 million) and operating profit of ¥1.1 billion ($9.3 million).
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LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that it had sold $2.2 billion in shares of the Citizens Financial Group, an American retail bank, in a larger-than-expected offering as it further reduces its stake in the lender. R.B.S.
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Love Minecraft? Get the next update free with Windows 10
Windows 10 is out today and it’s a free upgrade for your computer if you’re already using Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition is a beta version of a new experience.
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An eight-year-old boy from Baltimore who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection is the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant. A 40-person medical team used steel plates and screws to attach the old and new bones.
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Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been out of office for a year and a half, but his influence over New York schools is practically as strong as ever.
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WASHINGTON — When Gov.
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‘Happy Birthday!’ is dead, and it’s all Facebook’s fault | Technology | The Guardian
Good news! Birthday wishes are finally meaningless. All the birthday cards you’ve ever posted, all the tender heartfelt messages sent to loved ones, all the dates seared into your memory through years of joy, are now utterly invalidated, so we shoul…
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar ‘is dead’ – BBC News
The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has died, Afghan officials say, but the militant group has not commented on the claim. The reclusive leader died two to three years ago, Afghan government and intelligence sources said. No furt…
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LONDON — The Belgian chemical company Solvay said on Wednesday that it had agreed to acquire its American rival Cytec Industries for $5.5 billion in cash. The deal is expected to widen Solvay’s scale, particularly in sales to the aerospace sector, S…
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Stewart Reveals Why He Went to the White House — NYMag
Rather than discussing the report that he met President Obama twice at the White House during his own show, Jon Stewart dropped by The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Tuesday night. When asked about the “secret” meetings, the Daily Show host resp…
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Cara Delevingne clashes with US morning TV hosts in awkward interview | Film | The Guardian
Cara Delevingne discovered the perils of live TV during an uncomfortable interview with the hosts of Good Morning Sacramento. The model-turned-actor was up early to promote her new film, teen romance Paper Towns, but her on-camera performance didn’t…
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Chimpanzees eating clay ‘as mineral supplement’ – BBC News
Writing in the journal , an international team of researchers described the animals eating clay and drinking clay water, often by using leaves as sponges.
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Why do we turn up our noses at eating bugs? | Grist
In 1845, John C. Fremont was exploring the state that would later come to be known as California. He met a man who had been traveling with a group of trappers, who told him a story.
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Rough night on the town in Tokyo? Cozy up in a tiny capsule til morning
It’s happened to the best of us – we have a bit too much fun on a night out and we miss the train. Or, we’re about to catch the train but we feel too under-the-weather to sit in a rattling carriage for an hour ’til we arrive home. So Japan came up w…
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VICE News Capsule – Wednesday, July 29 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines.
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Alibaba Plows $1B Into Aliyun, Its Cloud Computing Unit | TechCrunch
Alibaba Group announced today that it will invest a further $1 billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun, which currently has data centers in China, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, into other internation…
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Dentist who killed Cecil the lion faces calls for prosecution | World news | The Guardian
There are mounting calls for the prosecution of an American dentist who shot dead one of Africa’s most famous lions, as two other men involved in the hunt prepare to appear in court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday.
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Yelp reviewers tear apart American dentist who killed Cecil the lion | The Verge
The man who paid $54,000 to kill a beloved lion in Zimbabwe was identified this week as Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu back in South Africa hospital – BBC News
South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu has returned to hospital just a week after being discharged. He has what has only been described as a “persistent infection” which his foundation says is unrelated to the prostate cancer he has had for 15 years.
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The Peruvian military rescues more than a dozen people who were kidnapped by the Shining Path rebel group up to 25 years ago. After being used as slaves in remote mountain communities, the 13 adults and 26 children are evacuated by helicopters.
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Turkey steps up bombing of Kurdish targets in Iraq | World news | The Guardian
Turkish fighter jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, a government official said, hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible.
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China’s crusade to remove crosses from churches ‘is for safety concerns’ | World news | The Guardian
A Communist party campaign that has seen crosses stripped from the roofs of more than 1,200 Chinese churches is being conducted “for the sake of safety and beauty”, a government official has claimed.
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Mark Hamill Will Voice the Joker One More Time for The Killing Joke Film
Mark Hamill will always be the Joker we want and deserve. This time, he’s back for an animated direct-to-video version of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s The Killing Joke. To be honest, can anyone else really fill his shoes for that famous a story?
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Mexican beaches hit with tonnes of seaweed – BBC News
Tonnes of seaweed has washed ashore on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, covering the usually pristine white beaches. Workers are battling to clear the seaweed across more than 112 miles (180km) of coastline.
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Trump: Spox ‘Speaks for Himself’ on Marital Rape — NYMag
If you’re trying to guess what will finally bring the Trump 2016 ride to a stop, you can cross off sexual assault allegations and rape-related gaffes.
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Pakistan terrorist leader killed in police shootout | World news | The Guardian
Leaders of Pakistan’s most infamous sectarian terrorist group, including its founder Malik Ishaq, were killed in a gun battle with police on Wednesday that many suspect may have been deliberately staged.
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Bookmaker suspends Bond song betting after £15,000 bet – BBC News
A leading bookmaker is refusing to take bets on which artist will record the next James Bond theme song after one customer tried to place a £15,000 wager on Radiohead being selected.
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LONDON — The British bank Barclays on Wednesday reported improved earnings in its second quarter, but its new chairman said the lender would speed up its overhaul and curtail “marginal” activity as it kept its dividend flat this year.
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Bee-harming pesticide firms took part in key meeting on their ban | Environment | The Guardian
The manufacturers of controversial pesticides took part in a key meeting on whether a Europe-wide ban on their chemicals should be lifted in the UK, according to newly published documents.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho says Rafael Benitez ‘destroyed’ Inter in six months
Jose Mourinho has accused Real Madrid boss Rafael Benitez of “destroying the best team in Europe” when the Spaniard replaced him at Inter Milan in 2010. The Chelsea boss spoke after Benitez’s wife joked her husband was “tidying up” another Mourinho …
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KFAR SABA, Israel — It took Second Lt. Hadar Goldin’s comrades a few minutes to discover that he was missing after a burst of gunfire on the outskirts of Rafah, in southern Gaza, pierced a painstakingly negotiated truce that was barely an hour old.
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Jeff Flocken from the International Fund for Animal Welfare says it is easy for tourists to legally hunt down and kill wild animals on organised safari operations. Zimbabwean police say Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, faces poaching c…
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Earlier this week I got on a call with Duane Jackson, founder of online accounting company KashFlow, which in late 2013 was acquired by Iris Software, making Jackson a millionaire “many times over”.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Universe Recreated in a Wonderful CGI Tribute | Open Culture
The exponential democratization of digital technology every year has led to a wealth of video essays and fan films from bedroom auteurs, the likes of which would have been unimaginable even five years ago To wit: this beautiful tribute to the works…
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BERLIN — At the height of crucial negotiations over the latest bailout of Greece this month, Germany circulated a proposal that undercut decades of promises about the march toward deeper European unity: Greece, it said, could be offered a temporary …
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KFAR SABA, Israel — It took Second Lt. Hadar Goldin’s comrades a few minutes to discover that he was missing after a burst of gunfire on the outskirts of Rafah, in southern Gaza, pierced a painstakingly negotiated truce that was barely an hour old.
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Hugh Jackman crowdsources plot for his final Wolverine | Film | The Guardian
Hugh Jackman has asked fans on Twitter to help decide how his 15-year career as superhero Wolverine comes to an end.
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Greek bailout talks continue as Merkel ally warns of Grexit ‘chaos’ – live | Business | The Guardian
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and business. Coming up…..
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Barclays makes further provision for scandals and cuts costs | Business | The Guardian
Barclays set aside £1.8bn in the first half of the year to compensate customers for a string of mis-selling scandals and fines.
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BERLIN — At the height of crucial negotiations over the latest bailout of Greece this month, Germany circulated a proposal that undercut decades of promises about the march toward deeper European unity: Greece, it said, could be offered a temporary …
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Zimbabwean pair due in court over Cecil the lion killing – BBC News
Two men are due to appear in court in Zimbabwe later over the killing of Cecil, the country’s most famous lion. Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu, are charged with poaching offences for not having the required hunting …
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Sandra Bland death: Texas police release new CCTV – BBC News
Texas police have released video footage of Sandra Bland in custody, showing her movements before she was found dead in her cell. The footage shows her arriving at the jail, filling out forms and making a phone call.
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Digital photography: Can mini printer reinvent instant snaps? – BBC News
The BBC’s John Maguire’s reports on how new mobile phone technology could be helping with the reintroduction of printed photos. Companies like Polaroid are returning to their roots, creating prints for the Instagram generation.
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With more than 10 cement plants grinding up stone, the village of Goutou in the central Chinese province of Henan has a serious problem with dust and lung disease risk, according to a Henan Television report.
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LG Posts Slim $206M Profit In Q2 2015 As Smartphone Shipments Slip To 14.1M | TechCrunch
Korea’s LG shipped a (then) record 14.5 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2014, but now, a year later, it’s a different story. The firm just revealed its Q2 2015 financials and, while not as disastrous as HTC, the company itself describes…
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“Exposed” · Scream · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Wow, you sound like a bad romantic comedy. Except we didn’t meet cute. We met sick-twisted.” – Emma, with a line that made it on to television
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Lending Platform China Rapid Finance Raises $35M Series C At A $1B Valuation | TechCrunch
China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has closed a $35 million Series C led by Broadline Capital. The round pegs the company’s pre-money valuation of $1 billion.
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