Loyalty360 Reads: July 17, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Programs BP Launches New Loyalty Program BP has launched a new loyalty initiative based on a survey of 2,000 UK adults about what makes them feel good. “The scheme gives customers the chance to enjoy…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
NASA Announces All-Female Remake Of Staged Moon Landings
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babylonbee.com - HOUSTON, TX—As a tribute to the 50th anniversary of its fake moon landing, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced a reboot of the staged event that fooled billions worldwide,…
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waveform visualizes your favourite song into a colored print of abstract shapes
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www.designboom.com - designboom's comment policy guidelines generally speaking, if we publish something, it's because we're genuinely interested in the subject. we hope you'll share this interest and if you know even mor…
POLITICS
Caleb Hull shows the many sides of denying allegations when it comes to Jim Acosta
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twitchy.com - As Twitchy reported earlier, the brave firefighters in the media rushed in to rescue Rep. Ilhan Omar after a reporter asked President Trump about her background and rumors that she’d committed immigr…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Stay Tuned with Preet — Overcast
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overcast.fm - Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice. Released on 7/15/19 In this clip from the…
SPORTS
Art of the deal? Graham praises Trump after playing round of golf with the president
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www.thestate.com - The Columbus Day holiday was recognized on Monday. Many enjoyed a day off, while several others spent time in the office or doing work. For Lindsey Graham, he might have done a little of both. Graham…
BUSINESS
Ghislaine Maxwell abruptly torpedoed her oceanic non-profit in the wake of the scandal surrounding her associate Jeffrey Epstein
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www.businessinsider.com - Embattled socialite Ghislaine Maxwell seemingly sank her own oceanic conservancy group less than a week after her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell h…
BUSINESS
Breaking: Trump Says USS Boxer Destroyed Iranian Drone After Ignoring Stand Down | Dan Bongino
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bongino.com - “I want to apprise everyone of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz today involving USS Boxer a navy amphibious assault ship. The Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian Drone which had closed …
SCIENCE
Bringing new CSS techniques to production
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sidigital.co - Although I don’t think I’d recommend this approach, it’s interesting to explore methods that improve our workflow. I’m increasingly inclined to argue we should reduce usage of CSS preprocessors. Repe…
POLITICS
McConnell is having a hard time getting re-election donations in his own state
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www.sourcepolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell only received 9% of his reelection campaign donations from his home state of Kentucky, reflecting poorly on his popularity there. McConnell reported that his co…
LEISURE
'A kimono is not supposed to be fast fashion' | The Japan Times
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www.japantimes.co.jp - Stasia Matsumoto can predict how her customers will react when they see themselves dressed head to toe in a traditional kimono, even before they have had a chance to glance at themselves in the mirro…
TECHNOLOGY
Tesla Claims Secret Project Has Fallen Into Chinese Rival's Hands
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www.zerohedge.com - Tesla and Apple both suspect that their self-driving car technology has been stolen by engineers who went over to a Chinese competitor. That’s a very time-sensitive claim, with intellectual property …
BUSINESS
Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
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nav.al - If you think and act like an owner, it’s only a matter of time until you become an owner. A principal is an owner; an agent is an employee Nivi: We spoke earlier about picking a business model that h…
POLITICS
Many USDA workers to quit as research agencies move to Kansas City: ‘The brain drain we all feared’
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www.washingtonpost.com - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue holds an avocado he picked as he visits a farm in California on Monday. (Mike Blake/Reuters) By Ben Guarino Ben Guarino Reporter covering the practice and culture o…
POLITICS
Democrats Admit to CNN's Tapper: 'The President Won This One' — 'Squad' Hurting the Party | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - Trump’s implicit criticisms of Omar — describing the Somali immigrant-turned-politician as an America-hating antisemite — triggered a broad partisan Democrat coalescence around her and other “Justice…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Documents Released Showing How Cohen Silenced Trump Accusers
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www.thedailybeast.com - Prosecutors on Thursday unsealed hundreds of documents detailing how Michael Cohen silenced two of President Donald Trump’s alleged mistresses during the middle of the 2016 election. A day earlier th…
LEISURE
Best Things to Do in Prague
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www.traveldudes.org - If you have never before been to Prague, this year is your chance to remedy that. The city itself has so much to offer, from history, to adventure, to food and beer and some amazing wines. It is easy…
BUSINESS
3 Things All In-House Marketing Teams Need
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loyalty360.org - Agencies are no longer as worried about competing on price or skill set: They're concerned about losing work to clients themselves. More and more companies, like T-Mobile have successful digital cont…
BUSINESS
Bernie Sanders says his $40 trillion Medicare-for-all plan would help US save money
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www.foxnews.com - Sanders campaign calls out media coverage bias; Peter Doocy reports. Sen. Bernie Sanders put a number on his Medicare-for-all plan this week, saying his proposed successor to ObamaCare would likely c…
SCIENCE
Ozone Action Day in SE Michigan: What it means
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www.clickondetroit.com - DETROIT - First of all, an Ozone Action Day means it's going to be hot and muggy. Highs Thursday will be in the low 90s with heat indices approaching 95°F or more. The National Weather Service in Det…
LEISURE
21 Traditional Austrian Foods to Try Before You Die (Or Afterwards if You Know How to Do That)
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www.insidethetravellab.com - Traditional Austrian food includes more than just schnitzel, sachertorte and stodge. Fresh from her kitchens and pantries, allow me to guide you through the best of Austrian cuisine. Let’s start at t…
WORLD
CBP detains 3 children, all US citizens, at Chicago airport
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thehill.com - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents reportedly detained three children, all U.S. citizens, for around 13 hours Thursday morning at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after traveling wit…
TECHNOLOGY
Pros and Cons of Manufacturing Your Product in China for Kickstarter
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www.crowdcrux.com - Wondering whether or not you should get your product manufactured in China? I want to shed a light on some of the pros and cons of manufacturing in China. Specifically, I’ll be talking to those looki…
WORLD
Stand Like You Fight: Thoughts on Shooting Stance - USA Carry
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www.usacarry.com - As a shooting instructor, I encounter a very common question: how should I stand when I shoot? Weaver? Isosceles? Any particular variation thereof? Well, as a default “shooting stance” to learn as a …
POLITICS
13 Philadelphia police officers who made racist, offensive Facebook posts to be fired
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www.nbcnews.com - Thirteen Philadelphia police officers are to be fired for making racist or offensive Facebook posts. The 13 are among 72 officers in the city who had been placed on administrative duty after an onlin…
BUSINESS
Your 'Invisible Workforce' Needs More Visibility in Security Planning
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securityintelligence.com - The cybersecurity workforce is becoming more invisible. Trends in employment and talent seeking for specialized skills are increasingly shifting organizational workloads from employees to nonemployee…
TECHNOLOGY
Dealmaster: A handful of good Prime Day deals are still available today
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! Just when the Dealmaster thinks Prime Day is over, the deals pull him back in. Today, we're bringing you a roundup of (mostly) leftover deals that are still live from Amazon's tec…
SCIENCE
ArcBlock Developer Website Accelerates Forge Blockchain App Framework, OCAP-based Blockchain Development
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www.embedded-computing.com - ArcBlock has launched a developer website that enables developers to build, manage, and deploy decentralized blockchain applications based on the Forge Blockchain Application Framework and Open Chain…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Top Gun: Maverick world premiere trailer: It’s not just F-18s this time
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arstechnica.com - Take a closer look here. Does the plot revolve around Cruise stealing and piloting an enemy aircraft? Ed Harris lets Cruise know that "your kind is headed to extinction." A brief look at Jon Hamm as …
BUSINESS
Leaked documents show Jeffrey Epstein kept funds offshore. Can the money even be tracked?
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www.miamiherald.com - Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys, who were hoping to persuade a judge to release the accused sexual predator on bail while awaiting trial, submitted a bare bones accounting of his financing this week. Pro…
POLITICS
More Federal Gun Control Bills Introduced in Congress
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www.gunpowdermagazine.com - As if the universal gun registration bill, H.R. 8—which passed the House earlier this year—wasn’t enough, more gun control bills have been filed in Congress during 2019. Two broad gun control bills w…
WORLD
Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar Compares Jewish Israel to Nazi Germany
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www.redstate.com - Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019,…
POLITICS
Philadelphia D.A. Asks Court to Declare Death Penalty System Unconstitutional
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theappeal.org - Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Jul 15, 2019 Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—who vowed as a candidate not to seek the death penalty—has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to declare that the…
TECHNOLOGY
TPS Consulting Daily
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - Ocasio-Cortez gets new 2020 challenger: a Republican immigrant from Jamaica Shared by gadawg76 www.foxnews.com - Republican Scherie Murray is launching a campaign Wednesday for the New York congressi…
TECHNOLOGY
Watch an unfiltered interview of PicsArt founder at Disrupt Berlin – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Smartphones have become a creative playground thanks to cameras and innovative apps, such as PicsArt. With PicsArt, anybody can add filters and stickers and tweak photos and videos in many different …
ENVIRONMENT
New investments to improve public transit for British Columbia
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pm.gc.ca - British Columbians need efficient and affordable public transit to get them to work or school on time, and back home safely at the end of the day. By investing in public transit, we fight climate cha…
ADULT
Cadáver suda y abre los ojos después de muerto, según testigos
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www.telemundo.com - Familiares se niegan a enterrar a un difunto porque dicen que supuestamente abre y cierra los ojos, está sudando y que además esta caliente Pasajera atascó un pie en estación para que el tren no la d…
SCIENCE
DataSpii: Inside the debacle that dished private data from Apple, Tesla, Blue Origin—and 4M people
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arstechnica.com - When we use browsers to make medical appointments, share tax returns with accountants, or access corporate intranets, we usually trust that the pages we access will remain private. DataSpii, a newly …
BUSINESS
Le premier ministre conclut un Sommet Canada-Union européenne productif
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pm.gc.ca - Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a conclu aujourd'hui sa participation au Sommet Canada‑Union européenne (UE), où il a accueilli le président du Conseil européen, Donald Tusk. La commissaire europé…
WORLD
A shelter, a picket sign, a holocaust survivor. Shit gets real at the Tijuana border.
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medium.com - If you’re like me, you probably have injustice whiplash from trying to keep eyes on all the scary policy being carried out in our name this year. Gutting environmental protection! Weaponizing health …
BUSINESS
CrowdStrike impresses with first earnings report – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity business focused on endpoint protection, posted revenues of $96.1 million on GAAP net losses of $26 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020, according to the com…
SCIENCE
Google creates massive-scale tribute to Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google has a number of different celebrations of the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing going on right now, but one organized by the Maps team might be the most grandiose in terms of s…
TECHNOLOGY
Extra Crunch Membership: Student Discounts – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - To get the discounted rate, students should send an email to extracrunch@techcrunch.com from a college or university email address and request a student discount code. Customer service typically resp…
TECHNOLOGY
This is one way Toyota plans to shuttle people around during the 2020 Olympics – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - When thousands of people converge on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the city’s infrastructure will be tested. Toyota is getting into the mix to handle some of the ways people will g…
TECHNOLOGY
Intel announces deep, multi-year partnership with SAP – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Intel announced a deep partnership with SAP today around using advanced Intel technology to optimize SAP software tools. Specifically, the company plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and…
SCIENCE
SpaceX shares video of multiple Crew Dragon parachute recovery system tests – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - SpaceX is providing a closer look at some of its Crew Dragon parachute recovery system testing, with a new video compiling footage of a number of tests including those flown from a cargo plane and a …
STORIES
How Carl Pope helped drive a $500 million pledge to push the U.S. “Beyond Carbon” (Part 2) – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg recently pledged to rapidly spend $500 million in a bid to push the U.S. “Beyond Carbon,” aiming to end this country’s use of coal and nat…
TECHNOLOGY
Google will now pay bigger rewards for discovering Chrome security bugs – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Bug hunting can be a lucrative gig. Depending on the company, a serious bug reported through the proper channels can earn whoever found it first tens of thousands of dollars. Google launched a bug bo…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook accused of contradicting itself on claims about platform policy violations – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Prepare your best * unsurprised face *: Facebook is being accused of contradicting itself in separate testimonies made on both sides of the Atlantic. The chair of a UK parliamentary committee which s…
TECHNOLOGY
Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a foundational technology for enterprise software development and startups have begun addressing a variety of issues around using AI to make software and p…
TECHNOLOGY
How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Two years ago, Lime was a great addition to guacamole, rather than a sidewalk. The market wasn’t sure about car sharing and whether it had long-term viability. Now, with the acquisition of Drivy, Get…
BUSINESS
Azure revenue continues to slow down for Microsoft – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Microsoft reported in its FY19, Q4 earnings report today that Azure, the company’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering, grew at 64%. It may feel like a large number, but was part of a downwar…
BUSINESS
VComply raises $2.5 million seed round led by Accel to simplify risk and compliance management – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Risk and compliance management platform VComply announced today that it has picked up a $2.5 million seed round led by Accel Partners for its international growth plan. The funding will be used to ac…
BUSINESS
InCountry raises $15M for its cloud-based private data storage-as-a-service solution – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The rise of data breaches, along with an expanding raft of regulations (now numbering 80 different regional regimes, and growing) have thrust data protection — having legal and compliant ways of hand…
BUSINESS
Congressional testimony reveals some faults in Facebook’s digital currency plans – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - As Facebook continues to lay the foundation for getting some of the world’s largest payment processing and technology companies a seat at the global monetary policy table, the company faces significa…
TECHNOLOGY
Toys ‘R’ Us taps tech startup b8ta to bring its stores into the future – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Retail-as-a-Service startup b8ta, which has partnered with the likes of Google and Macy’s, is getting into the kids’ toys space. As part of a new joint venture with Tru Kids Brands, which owns Toys “…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Uber and Lyft drivers demand better pay, workplace protections and driver-led unions – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - As Assembly Bill 5 makes its way through the California state legislature, Uber and Lyft drivers are voicing their demands for better pay, basic workplace protections and the right to organize throug…
BUSINESS
Haus, the real estate startup founded by Garrett Camp, raises $7.1M – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Haus, a startup aiming to make home ownership more affordable and flexible, is announcing that it has raised $7.1 million in new funding. This amount combines a $4.1 million seed equity investment le…
STORIES
The climate is our biggest threat. Carl Pope is fighting to change our fate – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Michael Bloomberg is an unrepentant capitalist who, as he says in his 2017 book A Climate of Hope, is “not exactly your stereotypical environmentalist.” Yet over the past decade, Bloomberg has become…
BUSINESS
EBay picks 5.5% stake in India’s Paytm Mall – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - EBay said today it is buying a 5.5% stake in e-commerce marketplace Paytm Mall as the global firm makes another push to gain footprint in India’s fast-growing e-commerce market. The two firms did not…
BUSINESS
Submittable raises $10M to help publishers and other organizations manage their submissions – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Submittable is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. When I first wrote about the company in 2012, it was focused on helping literary magazines manage their submissions — use…
BUSINESS
Banking startup N26 raises another $170 million at $3.5 billion valuation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Fintech startup N26 is raising $170 million a few months after raising $300 million. While it’s technically structured as a new round, the company considers today’s new funding as an extension of the…
BUSINESS
Boeing set to take $4.9 billion Q2 charge on 737 MAX grounding – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Boeing’s 737 MAX fiasco has cast a dark shadow over the company’s reputation and is impacting the company’s financials in a major way as well. The Seattle aviation company announced that it will be t…
TECHNOLOGY
The FTC looks to change children’s privacy law following complaints about YouTube – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering an update to the laws governing children’s privacy online, known as the COPPA Rule (or, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). The Rule first …
TECHNOLOGY
Inside Harley Davidson’s EV shift with a ride on its LiveWire – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Harley-Davidson will release its first production electric motorcycle in September, the LiveWire. Yes, the American symbol for internal combustion, chrome and steel is going all in on two-wheeled EVs.
EDUCATION
Last chance! Apply for the All Raise female founder program at Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Newsflash for all female founders of the early-stage startup variety. Your chance to meet with leading women VCs at Disrupt SF 2019 on October 2-4 ends on July 19 at 5 p.m. (PT). Apply for an AMA ses…
BUSINESS
Daily Crunch: Netflix has a rough quarter – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Netfl…
TECHNOLOGY
VMware acquires ML acceleration startup Bitfusion – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - VMware today announced that it has acquired Bitfusion, a former participant in our Startup Battlefield competition. Bitfusion was one of the earliest companies to help businesses accelerate their com…
TECHNOLOGY
Hardware startups take center stage for Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Software grabs so much attention that it even has its own catchphrase — there’s an app for that. It’s not a bad thing, but we know nothing happens without hardware. That’s why we’re hunting for the b…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the international real estate co-working startup, WeWork, has reportedly cashed out of more than $700 million from his company ahead of its initial…
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13: Here are the new security and privacy features you might’ve missed – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In just a few weeks Apple’s new iOS 13, the thirteenth major iteration of its popular iPhone software, will be out — along with new iPhones and a new iPad version, the aptly named iPadOS. We’ve taken…
BUSINESS
Only 24 hours left to apply for TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Early-stage startup founders, you have just 24 hours left to complete one small task — a task that holds the potential to shift your venture into hyperdrive. Apply to be a TC Top Pick and the chance …
BUSINESS
Plaid introduces Liabilities to create debt-tracking apps, starting with student loans – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Plaid has always been about helping developers build financial applications. Up until now that has involved standard checking and savings, and more recently investments. Today, they are introducing a…
TECHNOLOGY
Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one sustainable energy ecosystem, fulfilling a vision CEO Elon…
SCIENCE
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to burn up over the Pacific – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The final hours for China’s Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the 8-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some time in the next 20 hours or so in a controlled deorbit manuev…
TECHNOLOGY
Storytelling community Wattpad launches Paid Stories and its ad-free subscription globally – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Online storytelling community Wattpad, also now a content feeder for streaming services and other media companies, is taking its two consumer-facing paid products global. Wattpad Premium, the ad-free…
TECHNOLOGY
Instagram will now warn you before your account gets deleted, offer in-app appeals – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Instagram this morning announced several changes to its moderation policy, the most significant of which is that it will now warn users if their account could become disabled before that actually tak…
SCIENCE
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith joins Disrupt SF to talk about bringing the Moon within reach – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has its sights set on the Moon, and in May unveiled a new lander to help it get there. This October, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith will join us onstage at Disrupt …
TECHNOLOGY
Qualcomm hit with $271M EU fine over predatory pricing of baseband chips – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A long-running European antitrust investigation into whether Qualcomm used predatory pricing when selling UMTS baseband chips about a decade ago has landed the chipmaker with a fine of €242 million (…
ENVIRONMENT
De nouveaux investissements pour améliorer le transport en commun en Colombie-Britannique
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pm.gc.ca - Les gens de la Colombie-Britannique ont besoin de réseaux de transport en commun efficaces et abordables, que ce soit pour se rendre à temps au travail ou à l'école ou pour rentrer chez eux à la fin …
BUSINESS
Prime Minister concludes productive Canada-European Union Summit
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pm.gc.ca - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today concluded his participation at the Canada-European Union (EU) Summit, where he hosted European Council President Donald Tusk. The European Commissioner for T…
LEISURE
What’s the deal with all this fancy new toilet paper?
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www.vox.com - There’s a joke in Seinfeld where George Costanza thinks he’s come up with this amazing conversation starter: that toilet paper hasn’t changed appreciably in his lifetime. “It’s just paper on a cardbo…
BUSINESS
Mid-Year Housing, Mortgage Review Finds Opportunity Amid Affordability Crisis | Bankrate.com
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www.bankrate.com - The first half of 2019 bore promising gifts to eager homebuyers, namely low mortgage rates and slowing home price growth. This comes, however, amid a deepening shortage of affordable housing througho…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
What #AOC Can Teach Us About Small Business Branding
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www.forbes.com - Whatever your political affiliation, it’s hard to deny that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or #AOC as her rabid fans call her) is fire when it comes to marketing. An unknown bartender from the Bronx just …
SPORTS
Here's the real reason Trump is attacking 'the Squad': he's scared of their politics | Joshua Leifer
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www.theguardian.com - Donald Trump is scared. Though it has always been hard to ascertain what he knows and does not know, it appears he knows he is unpopular: he fired three of his five internal pollsters in June because…
WORLD
Opinion | Iran and North Korea aren’t our military’s biggest concerns. This is.
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Guy Snodgrass July 16 Guy Snodgrass is chief executive of Defense Analytics, a strategic advisory firm in the District. He is a retired U.S. Navy commander and most recently served as director of …
LEISURE
A toxic-exposure expert spills her secrets on how to keep your home toxin-free
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www.wellandgood.com - Want to detox your home? Watch the video. Sophia Gushee is all about living a non-toxic lifestyle: The Well+Good Council member is a toxic-exposure expert and author of A to Z of D-Toxing: The Ultima…
POLITICS
Liz Cheney goes all-in on Trump's racism: Meet the future of the Republican Party
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www.salon.com - It's become conventional wisdom among the punditocracy that former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley is on track to be the first woman Republican presidential nominee. She's one o…
TECHNOLOGY
The Comfortably Dumb
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om.co - The most recent issue of my weekend newsletter, in which I conveyed my disinterest in engaging with products equipped with surveillance-type technologies, elicited quite a reaction from the readers. …
SCIENCE
More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their data grabs—and how they’re discovered
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arstechnica.com - In our 5,000 word piece on "DataSpii," we explained how researcher Sam Jadali spent tens of thousands of dollars investigating the murky Internet ecosystem of browser extensions that collect and shar…
POLITICS
Shkreli stays in jail; Infamous ex-pharma CEO quickly loses appeal
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arstechnica.com - In a swift 3-0 vote Thursday, a panel of judges in a New York federal appeals court upheld the August 2017 conviction of Martin Shkreli. The infamous ex-pharmaceutical CEO is currently serving a seve…
TECHNOLOGY
Dropbox silently installs new file manager app on users’ systems [Updated]
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arstechnica.com - This is what Dropbox looks like now. It used to be a folder, now it's a file manager. You can make the Dropbox icon open with your normal file manager by changing this option in the Dropbox preferenc…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
New trailer for IT Chapter Two ratchets up the horror
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arstechnica.com - Pennywise the demonic clown gleefully inflicts all manner of psychological and physical torment on the grown-up members of the Losers Club in a new trailer for IT Chapter Two. The trailer was shown d…
BUSINESS
Facebook is backpedaling from its ambitious vision for Libra
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arstechnica.com - David Marcus, the head of Facebook's new Calibra payments division, appeared before two hostile congressional committees this week with a simple message: Facebook knows policymakers are concerned abo…
SCIENCE
Warming climate likely leading to larger California fires
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arstechnica.com - The last couple years have seen devastating and record-setting wildfires in California, leaving many in the region to wonder what to expect in the future. Elsewhere in the US West, research has found…
ENVIRONMENT
NASA versus Katrina: August 29, 2005
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arstechnica.com - It may not look like much, but Building 320 housed the 38 members of Michoud's ride out team during Hurricane Katrina. MICHOUD, La.—On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina came, the federal levees fail…
LEISURE
Risky Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck—and on sticking to the rules
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arstechnica.com - Last week, the world was riveted by the successful rescue of a youth soccer team as they and their coach were pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand. The team had been stranded on a narrow rock she…
BUSINESS
Microsoft closes fiscal 2019 with revenue spikes driven by cloud services
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft has reported its financial results for the final quarter of the 2019 fiscal year. The tech giant saw notable gains in sales for Azure in its Intelligent Cloud division and for Surface in th…
SCIENCE
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
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arstechnica.com - When we use browsers to make medical appointments, share tax returns with accountants, or access corporate intranets, we usually trust that the pages we access will remain private. DataSpii, a newly …
TECHNOLOGY
Nigerian scammers slide into DMs, so Ars trolls them
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arstechnica.com - I've got a history with Internet scammers. I've spent hours on the phone with tech support scammers, and I've hunted down bot networks spreading fake news. But for some reason, I've lately become a m…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Lion King remake review: Roaring visuals, but the execution is a hairball
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arstechnica.com - You have definitely seen The Lion King before. That sentence applies to both the 1994 Disney classic and next week's CGI-filled remake. This new version, premiering worldwide on Friday, July 19, has …
TECHNOLOGY
The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet
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arstechnica.com - Ars Live is filmed by Chris Schodt and produced by Jennifer Hahn. Lindsey told us how EDGI got started in November 2016, within days of the presidential election. Its founders are scientists and acad…
TECHNOLOGY
As Russian “FaceApp” gobbles up user photos, Schumer asks FBI to investigate
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arstechnica.com - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called for a federal investigation into FaceApp, saying the Russian-operated mobile application "could pose national security and privacy risks for m…
LEISURE
Pasajera atascó un pie en estación para que el tren no la dejara
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www.telemundo.com - Una pasajera en China intentó parar el tren con su pie para que éste no saliera de la estación y así ella no llegaría tarde a su trabajo. Una ráfaga de viento arrastró a un bebé en flotador en una pl…
BUSINESS
Christmas in July: Getting a Head Start on the Holiday Shopping Season
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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - Put down your Pina Colada and step away from the pool. If you’re a retailer, now is the time to start planning for holiday shopping success. Last year 89 million consumers shopped both online and in …
BUSINESS
Ron Paul: ‘I’m All for Cryptocurrencies, I Like Competing Currencies’
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cointelegraph.com - Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says he is in favor of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology because he likes competing currencies. Ron Paul delivered his remar…
BUSINESS
IMF: Network Effects Could Spark Blaze of Digital Money Adoption
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cointelegraph.com - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has argued that network effects could spark the blaze for the mass adoption of new digital money. In a fresh report published on July 15, the IMF aims to create …
BUSINESS
Mnuchin Crypto Speech Was Total Validation of Bitcoin: Barry Silbert
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cointelegraph.com - Bitcoin (BTC) proponents were reacting to fresh criticism of cryptocurrency from the United States government July 16, following a press conference with Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin. Mnuchin, w…
BUSINESS
Canadian Town Says Yes to Accepting Bitcoin for Property Taxes
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cointelegraph.com - Canadian crypto solutions provider and trading platform operator Coinberry has struck its second municipal partnership to provide Bitcoin payments processing for property taxes. A press release publi…
BUSINESS
Siemens Considers Using Blockchain Tech for Carsharing
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cointelegraph.com - Self-proclaimed electrification, automation and digitalization global giant Siemens has shown an interest in adopting blockchain-based solutions. In particular, Siemens is exploring the use of blockc…
SCIENCE
These Strategies Help Entrepreneurs Combat Anxiety and Depression
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entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com - Entrepreneurs are not strangers to anxiety and depression. They’re just as susceptible as the rest of the population, if not more so, to mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, sociopathy, schizop…
BUSINESS
“Work Culture” is Finally Changing: What’s Your Dream Career?
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medium.com - We spend a lot of time thinking about our “careers” and we cannot always follow our dreams. That much is clear. As a result, many people end up feeling trapped in a world created by others. I sometim…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years
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unlikekinds.com - Since its earliest days, the core of Google’s search algorithm - and its greatest innovation - has been ranking a page by the amount and quality of the links pointing to it. For almost as long, busin…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
When the Personal Shapes the Professional
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99u.adobe.com - We show up to our work as whole people, unable to compartmentalize our lives into personal and professional. Our careers influence our relationships, mental and physical health, social lives, and per…
BUSINESS
Everything You Need To Know About CSS Margins — Smashing Magazine
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www.smashingmagazine.com - Rachel Andrew is not only editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including … More about Rachel Andrew … Upgrade yo…
BUSINESS
Everyone Wants Facebook's Libra to Be Regulated. But How?
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www.wired.com - Everyone from President Trump to Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) says Libra, Facebook's planned cryptocurrency, should be heavily regulated. But nobody seems to know how—including Faceboo…
SCIENCE
See the world’s oldest emoji in this new archive of 650 ancient symbols
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www.fastcompany.com - Today, we are bombarded with a never-ending stream of images and logos and symbols. In this time of overstimulation, how do you create symbols that stand out? One designer is looking to the past for …
SCIENCE
Richard Feynman’s Technique for Learning Something New: An Animated Introduction
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www.openculture.com - I sometimes wonder: why do people post amateur repair videos, made with smartphones in kitchens and garages, with no obvious commercial value and, often, a level of expertise just minimally above tha…
LEISURE
How a devout Muslim is keeping the only kosher restaurant in the Hamptons alive
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www.newsweek.com - When the Beach Bakery and Grand Cafe went up for sale last year, locals were worried they'd lose the only kosher restaurant in the Hamptons. But the eatery found its savior: Rashid Sulehri, a devout …
BUSINESS
How Smart Small Business Owners Think About Outsourcing
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Reg Saddler
www.inc.com - Small businesses are big-time commitments. As entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk has said, you have to work your butt off to see a payoff-- and it's important to spend that time wisely. According to payrol…
TECHNOLOGY
Phishing Emails Have Become Very Stealthy. Here Are 5 Ways to Spot Them Every Time
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www.inc.com - Phishing scams are nothing new. In fact, we've all heard about the "Nigerian prince" phishing emails that have been showing up in inboxes for years. Unfortunately, phishing attacks continue to increa…
SCIENCE
Galileo GPS service is back, as Europe looks at what went wrong | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GNSS) had said the days-long outage as a result of an incident last week that knocked out the Galileo satellite constellation's GPS navigation…
BUSINESS
Instagram’s design gave rise to the influencer economy. It may also be its downfall
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www.fastcompany.com - When everyone is an influencer, no one is an influencer. And Instagram’s design isn’t helping matters. advertisement advertisement Influencers are publishing more than ever. They published 15 times m…
SCIENCE
Scottish Prof Links Mysterious Pictish Symbols and Distant Gobekli Tepe Signs
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - The Picts were an ancient race of people who from at least the 1st century AD dominated the northern territories of what is known today as Scotland. In the works of Roman propaganda they are savages.…
BUSINESS
The Most Hired Employees Have These Skills
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www.inc.com - Today's expanding skills gap is threatening the long-term prosperity of many (if not all) organizations. The labor pool shrinking, technology forcing reskilling, and global competition heating up are…
LEISURE
17 Anti-Procrastination Quotes to Conquer the Most Challenging Tasks
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www.inc.com - "One of the first things I learned," Chris Bailey writes for the Harvard Business Review, "was that procrastination is a human condition. About 95 percent of people admit to putting off work, accordi…
HEALTH
Want to Raise Financially Successful Children? A 30-Year Study Says Teach Them This 1 Thing
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www.inc.com - We all worry to some extent about how financially successful we'll be. But if you're a parent, there's an extension of that financial concern that gets talked about less often, which is the financial…
SCIENCE
New research on Tunguska finds such events happen less often than we thought
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arstechnica.com - Last month marked the 111th anniversary of the Tunguska event, a blast that flattened trees across half a million acres of Siberian forest on June 20, 1908. Scientists have been puzzling over the det…
BUSINESS
10 Trends That Will Change How You Do Business Over the Next 10 Years
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Reg Saddler
www.inc.com - Some trends in business quickly go the way of Formica tables as we learn study by study (open office layouts, we're looking at you). But others evolve as the entire world develops for the long haul, …
TECHNOLOGY
Windows 7: Hospitals and healthcare aren't ready to say goodbye | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - The world can safely look at 2017's WannaCry outbreak through the rear-view mirror. But the impending cut-off date for Windows 7 patches could set the stage for a repeat in a healthcare sector that d…
ENVIRONMENT
Another three Russian nuclear reactors offline after short-circuit malfunction at power plant
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Reg Saddler
www.newsweek.com - Three reactors at a Russian nuclear power plant have been taken offline following a short circuit, in what is the second operating incident affecting the national nuclear grid in one week. Three of t…
SCIENCE
Where Do Supermassive Black Holes Come From?
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Reg Saddler
www.wired.com - Astronomers have a pretty good idea of how most black holes form: A massive star dies, and after it goes supernova, the remaining mass (if there’s enough of it) collapses under the force of its own g…
SPORTS
JFK's Brilliant 3-Part Communication Strategy Helped Launch the Moon Mission. You Can Use It to Motivate Your Team
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Reg Saddler
www.inc.com - The world celebrates a major historical milestone this week. Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon. I once had the rare opportunity to have…
SCIENCE
How to Tell if a Person, Animal, or Thing Is Conscious: Try These 3 Tests
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal subjective experience, complete with sensations and emotions li…
TECHNOLOGY
Google to release 65 new emojis with Android Q
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re the kind of person who thinks July 17 is the most important day of the year since it’s World Emoji Day, then we have good news for you. To celebrate this momentous holiday, Google has annou…
TECHNOLOGY
Family Link parental controls now integrated with Digital Wellbeing beta
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androidcommunity.com - Since Digital Wellbeing and Family Link controls have pretty similar goals with different but sometimes similar audience, it makes sense that Google will integrate the two or at least connect them wi…
TECHNOLOGY
Nomad releases rugged Kevlar-protected cable lineup
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re the type of person who goes through cables like it’s ice cream, it might be time to invest in more durable accessories. Nomad has now just announced their newest line-up of products and the…
TECHNOLOGY
Xiaomi Mi A3 debuts as new Android One phone
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androidcommunity.com - A few days ago, images, specs, and colors of the Xiaomi Mi A3 were made known before launch. Today, the Chinese OEM is finally announcing the new smartphone running on Android One. It’s a mid-range p…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Spotify brings new Disney Hub for fans of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a fan of anything Disney, and that includes Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and everything else they now own, you are probably a fan of their music as well. And why most of their musical propertie…
TECHNOLOGY
Art of Color is newest exhibit in Pocket Gallery of Google Arts & Culture app
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androidcommunity.com - Every time Google Arts & Culture releases a new exhibit or feature, we think it’s an opportune time to remind people that this is one of the best apps you can have on your smartphone, especially if y…
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung 12Gb LPDDR5 Mobile DRAM finally enters production
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androidcommunity.com - Back in March, we happily shared with you the news that Samsung was launching a 12GB LPDDR4X RAM. It’s the highest-capacity mobile DRAM then. It’s being overtaken by a newer version. It will be the f…
TECHNOLOGY
OPPO Reno Teardown reveals the interesting camera design
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androidcommunity.com - The OPPO Reno is making waves in the mobile market. It may not be big in the US right now but the OPPO sub-brand is becoming more popular in the mid-range category for its almost premium specs and un…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Maps brings bikeshare info to 24 more cities
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androidcommunity.com - Bikesharing has become a popular transportation alternative in several cities and there are now an estimated 1,600 bikeshare systems available globally. Google Maps previously introduced a feature th…
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Galaxy A10e now available from Boost Mobile
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung rolled out the Galaxy A10e last month together with the Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A20 in the US. It’s not exactly an exclusive offering from Boost Mobile but the arrive has announced you can alre…
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung 45W fast charger sold separately for the Galaxy Note 10
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is highly anticipated for many reasons. A lot has been said about the premium flagship phablet as early as November when we first mentioned the device would have a bigger a…
TECHNOLOGY
Special gold Redmi K20 Pro launches, only 20 units will be made
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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is always busy with new smartphones and smart home products. After the Mi A3 as a new Android One phone and the new Xiaomi CC series, here is a new Redmi phone. It’s been a few months since we…
TECHNOLOGY
Is FaceApp safe? Data and privacy concerns about the Russian old age challenge app – and what they really mean
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Charles Yeo
inews.co.uk - FaceApp – an application that lets you apply AI-powered filters to your face to see what you may look like in old age – has got a second wind of virality. Thanks to the #AgeChallenge, which “challeng…
BUSINESS
Bitcoin nears $10,000 as total value of all cryptocurrencies surpasses $300 billion
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Charles Yeo
mashable.com - On November 28, 2017, the price of one bitcoin hit the magical figure of $10,000. At the time, it seemed ridiculous; Bitcoin was this weird internet money that wasn't quite money and that cost a coup…
SCIENCE
By targeting each patient's unique tumor, precision medicine is crushing once-untreatable cancers. But only a fraction of patients currently benefit. Can medicine close the gap?
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Charles Yeo
www.newsweek.com - For tens of thousands of patients, precision medicine is rewriting their cancer stories. Linda Boyed, for example, an energetic 52-year-old occupational therapist, was thrilled to be on vacation with…
BUSINESS
Congressman implies Facebook's Libra is a 'shitcoin'
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Charles Yeo
mashable.com - Congressman Warren Davidson really wants to talk about shitcoins. The representative from Ohio took pains Wednesday to make that clear during a congressional hearing examining the potential ramificat…
LEISURE
Hinda Incentives Executives Talk Customer Loyalty Trends: Part Three
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loyalty360.org - In the third and final installment of Loyalty 360’s discussion of rewards with the merchandising specialists at Hinda, we explore the growth in experiential rewards and discuss future trends. What wi…
SCIENCE
Subway Partners with Cornell University to Cut Back on Waste
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loyalty360.org - Consumers are more likely to give their loyalty to a brand that they perceive as socially conscious. Ever since the rise in popularity of the Food Network and the resultant food-mindedness, consumers…
TECHNOLOGY
Joel and Travis’ Excellent CryptoCurrency Adventure Begins! Episode 001 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. - The Bad Crypto Podcast
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badcryptopodcast.com - In the inaugural episode of the The Bad Crypto Podcast, Futurist Joel Comm and Technologist Travis Wright discuss why they decided to create a show around cryptocurrency. They believe cryptocurrency …
BUSINESS
New Dumb Argument for Minimum Wage Hike: Tipping Is Totally Racist
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SFK
pjmedia.com - A word of caution to everyone who feels that they are doing some good in the world by being generous tippers: according to Politico, tipping has a "racist history": You might not think of tipping as …
SPORTS
President Trump 'Not Happy' with 'Send Her Back' Chant at Rally
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pjmedia.com - President Trump is pushing back against the feverish attempts by many in the media to portray him as having started or egged on a chant of "send her back" at his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday …
POLITICS
LOL: Bernie Isn't Paying Staffers the $15 Minimum Wage He Champions
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pjmedia.com - It would seem that Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), that tireless champion of the poor, downtrodden, and underpaid is kind of full of it. The Washington Post reports that the field hires on Sanders' president…
BUSINESS
The Weakening of Nations: How Tax Work-Arounds Undermine Our Society
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Eric Garland
www.theatlantic.com - It should be noted that when individuals attempt to place income in foreign bank accounts for these same purposes, they are either arrested for tax evasion or subject to an audit (unless, it seems, t…
SCIENCE
Army Goggles Will Feature Facial Recognition Tech ‘Very Soon’
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www.defenseone.com - “Very soon” U.S. soldiers could be able to identify enemies, suspects, or any persons of interest they’re seeking just by looking through the goggles on their head. U.S. Army officials are testing a …
POLITICS
Everyone Dreads Shutdowns, So Why Do They Keep Happening?
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.govexec.com - In April, with painful memories of last winter’s 35-day partial government shutdown still raw, Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, delivered a favorite shutdown anecdote: During the 16-day governmentwide sh…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Nicolette van Wijngaarden: Unique Estates’ fraudster who counted Chris Hemsworth as a customer – Brinkwire
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
en.brinkwire.com - A luxury real estate agent lived an extravagant lifestyle of champagne, choppers and superyachts while counting Chris Hemsworth and Collette Dinnigan among her high end customers. But South African-b…
LEISURE
My London: Brigit Bloch - Founder of Brigit’s Bakery
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www.ldnfashion.com - Brigit Bloch is the Founder of Brigit’s Bakery in Chandos Place, Covent Garden and the internationally renowned BRIGIT’S BAKERY’S Afternoon Tea Bus Tour, an innovative and widely documented experienc…
TECHNOLOGY
Instagram Starts Hiding Like Counts in More Countries - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Instagram started testing a really interesting change to its app that hid like counts from users in Canada. The test involved users seeing like counts only on their own posts, meaning their followers…
BUSINESS
Netflix Confirms New Mobile-Only Subscription Plan Following Lackluster Earnings Report - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Netflix has been making some significant changes to how its pricing plans all over the world recently. The company released its latest earnings report for the second quarter of 2019 last night, and i…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Answers a Few More Stadia Questions in an AMA - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Google’s Stadia streaming platform will launch later this year and ahead of that release, the company took to Reddit to answer a bunch of questions today. If you want to take a look at the thread for…
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Advances Its Premium Memory Lineup With Latest LPDDR5 Memory - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Samsung is launching yet another new mobile DRAM memory this month. The company is today launching the new 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, advancing its premium memory lineup even further. Samsung had only …
BUSINESS
Top 5 Online Business Ideas
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www.bitrebels.com - Earning money online is a dream job for many. Millions of people make a living online, and so can anyone. All a person needs is a good internet connection, and they are all set to work from anywhere …
TECHNOLOGY
FaceApp Isn’t Creepy Because It’s Russian, It's Creepy Because It’s Capitalist
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Jay Oatway
www.vice.com - Every couple of months, photos from FaceApp—a face-editing app that uses neural network to make users look younger, older, more feminine, or more masculine—goes viral. Two years ago, it rolled out a …
SPORTS
Are celebrities putting themselves at risk by using FaceApp?
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news.sky.com - An app which artificially alters faces to make them look older has gone viral on social media over the past few days, with people rushing to download it and take part in the #FaceAppChallenge. But wa…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Nicki Minaj pulls out; Janet Jackson, Chris Brown in for Saudi fest
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - This combination photo shows, from left, rapper 50 Cent, singer Janet Jackson and rapper Future who have been added to the lineup for the Jeddah World Fest, the concert in Saudi Arabia. Nicki Minaj p…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
'The Nanny' star Fran Drescher opens up about rape, uterine cancer
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher is continuing to open up about how being brutally attacked during a 1985 home invasion changed her life. The actress previously told Larry King that two men had been…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa continue Spanish getaway in stunning pad
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Earl Castro
www.dailymail.co.uk - They were spotted partying on a yacht in Ibiza, Spain earlier this week. But Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky are now enjoying their holiday at a slower pace, having rented a home in the far north of …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
From Pain and Tragedy to Global Empire: How Trevor Noah Became the Busiest Man in Comedy
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Earl Castro
www.hollywoodreporter.com - At a sushi joint a few blocks east of The Daily Show studio this spring, Trevor Noah sits comfortably in an all-too-visible window seat contemplating a question he ducked earlier that evening: When d…
ENVIRONMENT
There are so many great whites at Santa Cruz beaches, locals are calling it 'shark park'
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Earl Castro
www.sfgate.com - Great white sharks are being seen in greater numbers near Santa Cruz beaches, KPIX reports. Great white sharks are being seen in greater numbers near Santa Cruz beaches, KPIX reports. Great white sha…
ENVIRONMENT
New York City's rat problem is 'running wild' on Upper West Side
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - New York, like other metropolitan cities including Philadelphia and Chicago, faces a major rat problem. According to the New York Times, rat complaints have risen from 12,617 in 2014 to 17,353 last y…
POLITICS
Rep. Mike Kelly on Trump tweets: I'm a 'person of color. I'm white'
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - WASHINGTON – Ahead of Tuesday's House vote to condemn as racist recent tweets by President Donald Trump about four Democratic congresswomen of color, a white Republican congressman asserted that he i…
LEISURE
Jane Anson: Why we need ethical fine wine - Decanter
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Kelly Mitchell
www.decanter.com - Isn’t it about time that we start defining ‘fine wine’ by how seriously the producer is about taking care of the land and the people who work on it? And that means not only applauding the ones that d…
SPORTS
Shay Mitchell opens up about previous miscarriage
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Shay Mitchell is opening up about her previous miscarriage in 2018. During the first episode of her YouTube series, "Almost Ready," Mitchell — who is currently pregnant with her first child with boyf…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Elizabeth Hurley's 17-year-old son Damian is a makeup model now
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Elizabeth Hurley's son is a makeup model now, and we can certainly see the familial resemblance. Remember when model/actress Elizabeth Hurley, now 54, was the face of Estee Lauder starting in 1995? N…
BUSINESS
New Hampshire menstruation law: Schools must give free period products
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - New Hampshire middle and high schools must now provide free menstrual products to students under a bill signed Wednesday. Describing access to period products as an issue of equality and dignity, Rep…
POLITICS
Who made the second 2020 Democratic debate? Here are the candidates
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - WASHINGTON – The nation will once again hear from 20 Democratic presidential candidates later this month. The candidates who qualified for the second Democratic debates, which are being held on July …
TECHNOLOGY
How to set up Google Analytics annotations to show Google updates - Search Engine Watch
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searchenginewatch.com - With Google releasing more information of when updates take place, you should see it as a good practice to highlight this information in your Google Analytics account. With the use of annotations, yo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Howard Stern thinks O.J. Simpson should be banned from Twitter
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Howard Stern thinks O.J. Simpson should get booted from Twitter. While speaking to Kim Goldman during Wednesday's episode of his SiriusXM radio show, Stern said he's "triggered" by Simpson's social m…
SCIENCE
Climate change has displaced 55 species from UK over the last decade, study finds
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news.sky.com - A new study utilising social media images of animals online has revealed that at least 55 species in the UK have been displaced by climate change over the last decade. This displacement means that na…
SPORTS
David Price-Dennis Eckersley: Red Sox feud rages on
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - What began as a shouting match aboard an airplane two years ago now, the David Price-Dennis Eckersley feud is still going. Eckersley, who serves as a color commentator on Red Sox telecasts for NESN, …
ENVIRONMENT
Zero-waste: Meet 3 people who barely throw anything away
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Reusable shopping bag with groceries in reusable or recyclable containers. Imagine fitting months of your trash into a single mason jar. Sounds impossible, right? Kathryn Kellog, owner of the blog, "…
BUSINESS
No-deal Brexit would plunge UK into recession, OBR watchdog warns
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news.sky.com - A no-deal Brexit will plunge the UK economy into recession and could leave a £30bn black hole in public finances, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The independent body, tasked…
SPORTS
Manny Machado rips Dan Plesac, Eric Byrnes on Instagram
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Manny Machado took to Instagram Live on Tuesday to give his thoughts on the league's handling of Houston Astros outfielder Jake Marinsick's suspension for colliding with Los Angeles Angels catcher Jo…
LEISURE
What to do if you can't seem to lose fat. ~ KellyOlexa.com
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Kelly Olexa
kellyolexa.com - Ladies, we each have to decide what is most important to us. And if you are like me, and being in your most optimal health is beyond appealing to you, then you have to embrace the notion that it requ…
SPORTS
Whitecaps FC Player Monitoring System Part 1
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Mike Young, PhD
fitforfutbol.com - Last year, when I arrived at Whitecaps FC I built a rudimentary player monitoring system that took in to account several data streams that could be used to provide coaches and medical staff with info…
SCIENCE
Your mattress could be harming you while you sleep
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Kelly Olexa
www.reviewed.com - You probably know that the right (or the wrong) mattress can have a major impact on both your sleep and your spine—but did you know that it may also affect your health? According to a new study publi…
POLITICS
David Steinberg promises new 'smoking gun' evidence on Rep. Ilhan Omar's past
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twitchy.com - You might have noticed that we at Twitchy shy away from using tweets claiming Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother when we do posts about her, not that we don’t run across them by the hundreds. As Set…
POLITICS
DEMS IN DISARRAY: Impeachment Vote Fails Miserably After Months of Rhetoric - Big League Politics
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bigleaguepolitics.com - The most concentrated effort in the House of Representatives thus far to impeach President Trump failed Wednesday, foiled by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The vote to introduce articles of impea…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Illegal Alien Teen Released into U.S. Charged with Raping 7-Year-Old Girl
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www.breitbart.com - Baudilio Salomon Diaz Ambrosio, a 17-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested and charged by the Marietta Police Department with rape, aggravated child molestation, and aggravated sexual b…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Paul McCartney writes first musical, stage version of It's a Wonderful Life
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www.theguardian.com - He has written perhaps the greatest canon of pop music, collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello to Rihanna, and even soundtracked a video game, but at 77, Paul McCartney is ticking off another…
WORLD
U.S. Marines jam an Iranian drone in the Gulf, destroying it
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www.nbcnews.com - U.S. Marines jammed an Iranian drone in the Gulf of Hormuz Thursday, senior defense officials said, bringing the aircraft down and destroying it. It was the latest in a series of tense incidents betw…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Major new act announced for Fusion Presents at Sefton Park
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www.liverpoolecho.co.uk - Fusion Presents has added another name to its lineup this summer - British singer-songwriter Jake Bugg. Fusion Festival relocates from Otterspool Promenade to Sefton Park this year, with Fusion Prese…
POLITICS
Cop who was fired for mocking gay teen’s suicide is rehired two months later
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www.queerty.com - A former Alabama sheriff’s deputy who went on a homophobic Facebook tirade after a gay teenager took his own life just landed a new gig with a different Alabama law enforcement agency. Jeff Graves wa…
WORLD
Honduran girl grew tired Trump's immigration policy, hanged herself
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www.dailymail.co.uk - A teenage immigrant girl from Honduras, who spent four years separated from her father, has been finally reunited with him, but it's all too late. Heydi Gámez García, 13, will be disconnected from li…
ENVIRONMENT
Wisconsin weather: It's only going to get hotter as week continues
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www.jsonline.com - Poblocki Paving employee Daniel Huaracha takes a moment to wipe the sweat away while paving a lot at FIS, 4900 W. Brown Deer Road in Brown Deer on Monday, July 15, 2019. The job was just one of many …
POLITICS
FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show
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www.nbcnews.com - The FBI believed then-candidate Donald Trump was closely involved in a scheme to hide hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an affair with Trump, court docume…
SPORTS
Kings Of Leon, Courtney Barnett set for Lollapalooza Berlin | Live4ever Media
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www.live4ever.uk.com - Courtney Barnett live at Manchester Ritz (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media) The Berlin leg of Lollapalooza has confirmed Kings Of Leon, Courtney Barnett, Twenty One Pilots and many more for thi…
BUSINESS
AOC grills acting Homeland Security chief about ‘rape memes’ she appears in
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nypost.com - WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked acting Homeland Security head Kevin McAleenan how so many Border Patrol agents ended up in a Facebook group where “rape memes” featuring the congressw…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Netflix delivers smackdown to Boston’s Straight Pride Parade organizers
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www.queerty.com - If Netflix’s legal department is half as queer as their social media department, they aren’t kidding around. The streaming giant with more queer content than an angsty gay teen’s AP art sketchbook wi…
WORLD
Jeffrey Epstein denied bail, will remain jailed pending trial on sex trafficking charges
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Renae Merle and Renae Merle Reporter covering white-collar crime and Wall Street Email Bio Follow Matt Zapotosky Matt Zapotosky National security reporter covering the Justice Department Email Bio…
LEISURE
10 things to see, do and eat at Festa Italiana in 2019
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www.jsonline.com - Festa Italiana, Milwaukee's annual celebration of Italian heritage, fills the lakefront's Maier Festival Park with sights, sounds and smells Friday through Sunday. Here are 10 suggestions for enjoyin…
WORLD
‘You had the Nobel Prize?’ Trump learns of Yazidi activist Murad
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www.rawstory.com - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unfamiliar with the work and cause of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad as she pleaded with him to help the Yazidis of Iraq. Murad, one of thousands of women …
BUSINESS
Drilling into the DEA’s pain pill database
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www.washingtonpost.com - The Opioid Files Drilling into the DEA’s pain pill database By The Washington Post July 16, 2019 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Tumbl…
CRIME
Shocking video: White man attacks black woman after traffic accident — then pulls a gun on her and bystanders
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www.rawstory.com - A Lockport, New York man has been charged with throwing an African-American Muslim woman to the ground before drawing his gun and pointing it at her and others. According to WBFO, Jeffrey Calhoun is …
BUSINESS
Mike Klingler on the #1 Online Marketing Success Strategy. - Mike Klingler
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mikeklingler.com - Mike Klingler wants to help struggling marketers see it clearly… There is only ONE online marketing strategy. REALLY. What you perceive as variation is merely tactic. Facebook ads, groups, Instagram,…
BUSINESS
MyBANKCODE.com
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www.mybankcode.com - By using this site ("Site") or by clicking "I agree" to this Agreement, you ("User") signify your agreement to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to this Agreement, please do not use thi…
SCIENCE
Neuroscience Reveals How Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to Be Happier
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realfarmacy.com - We often hear about the power of gratitude for creating a more positive and happy mental state. But did you know that gratitude literally transforms your brain? According to UCLA’s Mindfulness Awaren…
ADULT
Emoji gods approve skin-tone options for couples of color
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apnews.com - NEW YORK (AP) — In 1664, Maryland passed the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves. An 1883 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that state prohibitions on interracial marriage d…
BUSINESS
Jeffries defends Democratic Caucus tweet slamming Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff
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thehill.com - House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem JeffriesHakeem Sekou JeffriesThe House Democrats who voted to kill impeachment effort House votes to kill impeachment effort against Trump Jeffries defends Dem…
SCIENCE
A.I.'s Hidden Biases Are Continuing to Bedevil Businesses. Can They Be Stopped?
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fortune.com - Bias will continue to be a fundamental concern for businesses hoping to adopt artificial intelligence software, according to senior executives from IBM and Salesforce, two of the leading companies se…
WORLD
Stanford Investigating a Noose Spotted on Campus
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www.nbcbayarea.com - Counselors for a summer program at Stanford University say they spotted a noose hanging from a tree near their dorm last week. The medical students told NBC Bay Area they spotted the noose Friday nig…
POLITICS
Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Reuters
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www.reuters.com - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democra…
TECHNOLOGY
Africa Is Technology's Next Frontier, Github Machine Learning Exec Says
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fortune.com - The bleeding edge of technology innovation is increasingly shifting from Silicon Valley to places that are also at the frontiers of economic development, including sub-Saharan Africa, says Omoju Mill…
SCIENCE
Which blood pressure number is more important to heart health? Both
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www.nbcnews.com - The bottom number in a blood pressure reading (the diastolic pressure) has sometimes played second fiddle to the top number (systolic) in clinical settings, but new research confirms that both number…
ENVIRONMENT
More than 20 feared dead in suspected arson attack at Kyoto Animation | TokyoReporter
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www.tokyoreporter.com - KYOTO (TR) – The number of persons feared dead now exceeds 20 following a suspected arson attack at a studio of Kyoto Animation Co. in Kyoto City on Thursday, authorities said, reports NHK (July 18).…
SCIENCE
Effect of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure on Cardiovascular Outcomes. - PubMed - NCBI
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - The relationship between outpatient systolic and diastolic blood pressure and cardiovascular outcomes remains unclear and has been complicated by recently revised guidelines with two different thresh…
SCIENCE
What makes some people more receptive to the idea of being vaccinated against infectious disease? Three factors are identified as the primary motivators
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www.sciencedaily.com - Following the highly-publicized 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Africa and anticipating the possibility of a future Ebola outbreak in the United States, a 2014 CNN/ORC poll asked a random sample of 1,018 a…
EDUCATION
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
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www.theatlantic.com - Raj Chetty got his biggest break before his life began. His mother, Anbu, grew up in Tamil Nadu, a tropical state at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Anbu showed the greatest academic pot…
SCIENCE
Can Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?
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www.wired.com - What will 2050 be like? As our existential anxiety is fueled by a burning planet, eroding privacy, and geopolitical instability, it’s a question that big companies have to take seriously. So earlier …
POLITICS
President Trump Loses — Government Can't Block Critics on Social Media
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www.eff.org - In a long-awaited ruling, the Second Circuit has found that the replies section on President Trump’s Twitter @realDonaldTrump is a public forum and that the President cannot block his critics from re…
TECHNOLOGY
Musician's Guide to Instagram: Growing Your Fanbase - New Artist Model
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newartistmodel.com - Instagram is one of the best places to grow a fanbase for musicians. But you only have to take a trip to the explore page to realize that there is a ton of content posted on Instagram every single da…
TECHNOLOGY
Audio Sunglasses Market – Adoption of Wearable in Multiple Application Areas – Market Industry Reports
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aindustryreports.com - Audio sunglasses refer to sunglasses which have major functionalities such as, wireless headphones, and audio AR features on a single device. The technology used in audio sunglasses harnesses the pow…
ADULT
Out of Office Reply - Natali Morris
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natalimorris.com - Last month my family and I moved abroad. We have many reasons for this but the other day at our visa application appointment, I realized that the main motivation was the same thing that has pushed ge…
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei's Alternative OS Might Be Called Harmony
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www.pcmag.com - Huawei has filed to trademark the name Harmony for the smartphone and PC operating system it might have to use if the company cannot hang on to Android. As LetsGoDigital first reported, the applicati…
POLITICS
5 Questions For Recognizing The Root Of Your Relationship Troubles
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Without wanting to be presumptuous, I can guess that you judge yourself, your partner, and your relationship on a daily basis—and your partner is most likely judging you right back. It's no one's fau…
LEISURE
9 keto-approved muffin recipes that pair perfectly with buttered-up coffee
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www.wellandgood.com - When making the switch to a new eating plan, there’s inevitably some growing pains. If you’re going vegan, it might be figuring out what veggie burgers actually hit the spot. New to the Mediterranean…
SCIENCE
The 3 Most Common Advertising Agency Hierarchies & How to Structure Yours
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instapage.com - What is an agency hierarchy? The traditional model The matrix model The pod system Variations by agency type Variations by agency size Tips for improving efficiency Which structure is best? Your adve…
SCIENCE
Exhibition explores sculpture and self in the age of computer generated imagery
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artdaily.com - TEL AVIV.- CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv is presenting “Stumbling Through the Uncanny Valley: Sculpture and Self in the Age of Computer Generated Imagery” a group exhibition spanning the…
LEISURE
I hit my 10,000 steps every day… does that mean I can skip cardio for, like, ever?
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www.wellandgood.com - I will look for literally any excuse not to go to the gym, from “it’s raining” to “my calves hurt” to “my cat is sick” (… I do not have a cat.). And my personal favorite: “I already hit 10,000 steps …
LEISURE
Finding lunchbox inspiration this Winter. - Shape Me, by Susie Burrell
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www.shapeme.com.au - This is a sponsored post, brought to you by DON® Smallgoods Take control of your nutrition in the lead up to the Easter break with our brand new 14 day Autumn Kickstart plan! Get your 14 day meal pla…
LEISURE
French MPs agree Notre-Dame restoration as controversy swirls
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artdaily.com - PARIS (AFP).- French MPs on Tuesday approved a law on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame, three months after flames ravaged the great Paris cathedral, but with the rebuilding process still mired in con…
LEISURE
I Tried Sephora's Newest Natural Hair Care Brand — And I'm Hooked
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www.mindbodygreen.com - A common question beauty editors get asked is what is our favorite beauty subject—be it skin care, makeup, body, or hair. For the longest time, I loved skin care: I've been a stickler about my routin…
SPORTS
My Glutes Were Definitely NOT Prepared For This Olympic Gymnast's 6-Move Booty Workout
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www.popsugar.com - When I tested out an ab routine from former Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone Quinn two months ago, my core was in for a treat. With plank ankle taps, plank rocks, and tabletop step outs, it really di…
ADULT
The one thing everybody gets wrong with mountain climbers, according to a trainer
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www.wellandgood.com - Mountain climbers are one of those workout moves—much like burpees and jumping lunges—that I could actually write full-fledged hate mail to. Seriously. I can never seem to do them for 30 seconds stra…
LEISURE
3 easy ways to make healthy 'Lunchables' for grown-ups
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www.wellandgood.com - Ahh—remember Lunchables? There was nothing quite like digging into those cute boxes of crackers and cheese, pizza bites, and salty deli meats for some finger-food munching. Unfortunately, while we di…
SCIENCE
5 Gut-Supporting Foods You Should Definitely Be Eating On A Keto Diet
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www.mindbodygreen.com - The ketogenic diet is a fat-focused, significantly carb-restricted diet—and while this can be a good way to lose weight by shifting your body to use fat as an energy source rather than glucose, many …
SCIENCE
New Research Finds A Big Link Between Physical Exercise & Alzheimer's
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Approximately 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's today, and though the root cause of the disease is largely unknown, we suspect that genetics and lifestyle both play a role. A new stud…
ENVIRONMENT
Ivory Nut Buttons & Tapioca Packaging: These Clothes Are Completely Compostable
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Creating these clothes, especially in the fashion industry's notoriously muddled supply chain, wasn't easy. It took the company, best known for its bags made from recycled tarps, five years to create…
SCIENCE
These 5 Minerals May Be Why You Feel Great After Swimming In The Ocean
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www.mindbodygreen.com - The most common mineral in seawater is chloride. Not to be mistaken for chlorine, "Chloride is one of the most important electrolytes in the blood," according to the University of Michigan School of …
SCIENCE
The Weird Reason Most People Carry Babies On Their Left Arm
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www.mindbodygreen.com - I can't say I have a preference as to which arm I typically carry a baby on—is that even a thing? Well, a recent study published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews revealed that th…
LEISURE
The shower hack that will *actually* change how silky your skin is
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www.wellandgood.com - Given a choice between applying lotion every day for the rest of my life and swimming with a school of great white sharks, I kid you not: I would choose Jaws. There’s something about the grooming tas…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
New exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts explores sound as an artistic medium
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artdaily.com - OMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts invites the public to Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium. The exhibition will be on view through September 14, 2019. Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium e…
TECHNOLOGY
A Trade War, the Tech Market, and a Taiwanese Trade Show
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www.embedded-computing.com - The U.S. and China are in the midst of a trade war. You’re surely aware of that by now. These events will have far-reaching, long-lasting implications in nearly every industry, including electronics.…
BUSINESS
Do Not Get Ripped Off On Your Next Car
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carshopping.biz - Have you had the experience of looking for a car before and overwhelmed by the process? You may need a little advice to help make the whole buying process better. Keep reading for some useful tips on…
LEISURE
Finding The Right Shoes – Some Tips And Advice
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internetinfomedia.com - Making sure your closet is full of beautiful, well-made shoes that you can actually afford can be a daunting task indeed. But, you can be successful if you do your homework. These tips are a wonderfu…
SPORTS
Improve Your Golf Game With This Helpful Advice | Best Golf Clubs
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golfclubsz.com - Golf is an enduring sport that has withstood the test of time. There are things that can be very frustrating when it comes to golf, such as wind or your ball landing in a sand pit or a lake. You may …
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