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Loyalty360 Reads: August 21, 2019

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loyalty360.org - Programs TripAdvisor Looks to Counter Google by Considering Loyalty Initiatives for First Time The travel planning site is exploring the prospect of launching a loyalty program in order to compensate…
POLITICS
One Big Idea - Steve Bullock for President

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stevebullock.com - Our nation is founded on the basic idea that every American’s voice matters. Yet too often it’s those who can cut the biggest checks who wield the greatest influence. Fighting against the toxic influ…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘He’s empty’: Psychiatrist warns Trump is in a ‘psychotic-like state’

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www.rawstory.com - Dr. Lance Dodes warned that things were going to get worse under President Donald Trump in 2017. That’s precisely what happened. “Is that what we’re seeing this week?” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell a…
BUSINESS
Patrick Byrne, Overstock C.E.O., Resigns After Disclosing Romance With Russian Agent

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www.nytimes.com - In an infamous call with investors and journalists in 2005, the younger Mr. Byrne accused a “Miscreants Ball” of unscrupulous hedge funds, research firms, journalists and others who he believed were …
LEISURE
Get to Know Pineau d’Aunis | SevenFifty Daily

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daily.sevenfifty.com - It was love at first pour when Nita Bardolia, a wine expert and sales associate at 56 Degree Wine, a shop in Bernardsville, New Jersey, tried Pineau d’Aunis. Bardolia has always been a huge fan of Lo…
POLITICS
As focus turns to Jeffrey Epstein's ranch, official says: "There is a story to be told in New Mexico"

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www.cbsnews.com - New Mexico's commissioner of public lands said she's on a mission for justice as details emerge about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex abuse at his ranch in the state. In an exclusive interview, she rev…
WORLD
Newly-released Fast and Furious documents (…still keeping government secrets)

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sharylattkisson.com - Today, I received several pages of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal where the Obama Administration secretly facilitated the delivery of assault rifles and other weapons to Mexican dr…
CRIME
Trump Allies Don’t See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D’Souza’s Pardon

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www.buzzfeednews.com - President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pardoning far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance fraud, caught many in Trump world by surprise Thursday…
BUSINESS
Skechers’ Giving Saves 396,000 Dogs and Cats Through Partnership with Petco Foundation

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loyalty360.org - Skechers has announced that it has donated more than $4.23 million to animal welfare organizations through its BOBS for Dogs and BOBS for Cats collections. Since 2014, the funds have helped more than…
TECHNOLOGY
A Marketer’s guide to Arm TechCon

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www.embedded-computing.com - Arm TechCon, taking place October 8-10, 2019 at the San Jose Convention Center, brings together over 3,500 engineers, architects, developers, and product engineers in a three-day experience with Arm.…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Morning Briefing: Spicey's Dancing With the Stars on Liberal Feelings

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pjmedia.com - In case you missed it: former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is going to be on the next season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," which can be a good or a bad thing, depending on how serious…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Crappy Jew Year’: New York Times Editor Antisemitism, Racism Exposed

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www.breitbart.com - Tom Wright-Piersanti, who has been a Senior Staff Editor at the New York Times for more than five years according to his LinkedIn page and according to his Twitter page oversees the newspaper’s polit…
BUSINESS
5G: Your questions answered - Mobile Future Forward

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www.mobilefutureforward.com - 5G will be a trillion dollar economy. It will require billions in capex to deploy 5G. Like every cycle, there will be winners and losers. But how will the inside of this 5G economy function? And more…
BUSINESS
A $400,000 Profit From Flipping A Single House? - Lisa Eagan

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leaganrealty.com - Flipping homes is popular once again. It took about eight years after the Great Recession that started in 2006 for home prices to rebound to the levels seen before the recession. Then, by 2016, in ma…
SPORTS
NASCAR Rejects Gun Ads, Cites "Gradual Shift" on Guns - The K-Var Armory

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blog.k-var.com - ‘Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.’ ~Winston Churchill. The words are as true today as when Churchill uttered them in 1948 or George Santayana when he originally said e…
LEISURE
What I Learned About Macao Food Culture in 5 Bites

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landlopers.com - There are many reasons to visit Macao. It’s a short and easy ferry ride from Hong Kong. If you love luxury hotels or gaming, then this is the place for you. The city also has a rich history, as demon…
LEISURE
Grote Brand Leger des Heils in Beekbergen

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055nu.com - Ze zijn spoorloos sinds bij het Leger des Heils in Beekbergen brand uitbrak. De vlammen sloegen uit het dak. De brand was rond 21.30 uur onder controle. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display:…
BUSINESS
Three drug lords have their Bitcoin and Litecoin addresses blacklisted by US Treasury

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cryptoslate.com - OFAC and FinCEN announced a coordinated effort to sanction three Chinese nationals for an international drug trafficking operation with profits laundered via Bitcoin and Litecoin. The culprits, ident…
SCIENCE
Zo stel je een offerte op die scoort, in 11 korte punten - Multicopy

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communicatietrends.multicopy.nl - Een offerte opstellen, hoe moeilijk is dat nou? Heel moeilijk, blijkt uit de praktijk. Veel offertes blijven bij een offerte, terwijl ze tot een opdracht moeten leiden. Ga zelf maar na hoeveel van jo…
LEISURE
Apeldoorn CUP

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055nu.com - Het voetbaltoernooi valt onder verantwoording van de Federatie en wordt gespeeld op de velden van csv Apeldoorn. Deze vereniging verleent de faciliteiten en de Federatie is gastheer en organisator. E…
SCIENCE
Yellowstone 'supervolcano' eruption would be catastrophic, NYT op-ed says

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www.foxnews.com - Fox News Flash top headlines for August 21 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com The eruption of a “supervolcano” underneath Yellowstone National Park would be like nothing humanity has …
WORLD
Trump Hammers “Nasty” Greenland PM; Knocks NATO Spending

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www.infowars.com - President Trump continued to distract the public from volatile markets, slowing economic growth and the burgeoning trade war on Wednesday by defending his decision to postpone a state visit to Denmar…
TECHNOLOGY
TPS Consulting Daily

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - LEISURE Loyalty360 Reads: August 20, 2019 Shared by Loyalty360 loyalty360.org - Programs Marriott to Introduce Dynamic Pricing for Bonvoy Award Bookings Taking a cue from the airline industry, the ho…
LEISURE
9 Ways You Can Influence Without Instagram Followers – The Travel Bite

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thetravelbite.com - Do you need a lot of Instagram followers to be an influencer? That’s a question I see often from travelers interested in turning their wanderlust into a career or side hustle. And lately it does seem…
TECHNOLOGY
N26 launches Shared Spaces and is now fully available in the US – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Challenger bank N26 is announcing two things this week. First, the company lets you share sub-accounts with other N26 users in just a few taps. Second, after a limited beta test, the company is offic…
SCIENCE
Color Tools For Designers 2019

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medium.muz.li - Generate beautiful color palettes using the knowledge of millions of designers. A simple and effective tool that generates random colors and gradients to help designers put together unique and striki…
BUSINESS
Second-Largest Indian State to Use Blockchain in Various Spheres

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cointelegraph.com - The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra is preparing a regulatory sandbox for testing blockchain solutions across various applications. According to a report by Indian English-language news…
BUSINESS
At This Rate, It Will Take 100 Years to Pay Off America’s Student Debt

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www.bloomberg.com - Illustration: Eva Cremers for Bloomberg Businessweek Illustration: Eva Cremers for Bloomberg Businessweek The Wilsons are hardly the kind of couple you’d expect to find locked in a latter-day debtors…
BUSINESS
Google says China used YouTube to meddle in Hong Kong protests – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Google has disabled 210 YouTube accounts after it said China used the video platform to sow discord among protesters in Hong Kong. The search giant, which owns YouTube, followed in the footsteps of T…
BUSINESS
Overstock CEO resigns after ‘deep state’ comments – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Overstock .com announced today that CEO Patrick Byrne has resigned from his role as chief executive and board member. Another board member, Jonathan Johnson, will be taking over as Overstock’s interi…
BUSINESS
The fight for seed – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - When Mike Fitzsimmons went out to raise his seed round, he negotiated with all the usual suspects. The second-time founder needed a few million to get his cloud SaaS hiring tool, Crosschq, off the gr…
TECHNOLOGY
Pew: Mobile and social media users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The latest study from Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact mobile technology, including the use of smartphones and social media, is having on the diversity of people’s social network in eme…
SCIENCE
Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought? – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Once considered the most boring of topics, enterprise software is now getting infused with such energy that it is arguably the hottest space in tech. It’s been a long time coming. And it is the devel…
SCIENCE
NASA’s new HPE-built supercomputer will prepare for landing Artemis astronauts on the Moon – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to build a new supercomputer, which will serve NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and develop models and simulations of the landing pro…
TECHNOLOGY
HP CEO steps down, citing ‘family health matter’ – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - HP announced this afternoon that Dion Weisler is stepping down as President and CEO. The executive cited a “family health matter” in his decision, noting that he will be returning home to Australia. …
TECHNOLOGY
Mobile gaming is a $68.5 billion global business, and investors are buying in – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - By the end of 2019, the global gaming market is estimated to be worth $152 billion with 45% of that, $68.5 billion, coming directly from mobile games. With this tremendous growth (10.2% YoY to be pre…
TECHNOLOGY
Workplace digital assistant startup Capacity raises $13.2M from Midwestern VCs – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Solving information scatter inside enterprises seems to be the founding idea behind dozens of enterprise software startups. Capacity, which recently rebranded from Jane.ai, is raising new cash to tac…
TECHNOLOGY
Compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Lasst die Spiele beginnen, startup founders — let the games begin! In case you haven’t heard, the application window for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019 is wide open and waiting for yo…
TECHNOLOGY
Hulu and Amazon Prime Video chip away at Netflix’s dominance – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Netflix is still the No. 1 subscription streaming service in the U.S., according to a new report from eMarketer, but rivals including Amazon Prime Video and Hulu are starting to cut into its market s…
TECHNOLOGY
Verizon is teaming with Boingo to bring 5G inside – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - We’ve long known that 5G rollout wouldn’t happen overnight. But now that carriers have gotten things started, they’ve been confronted with pushback against the next-gen wireless technology’s limitati…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers to launch a protest caravan across California – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - If you’re like me, chances are good you just distractedly clicked on this article while scrolling through your feed in, or while waiting for, a Lyft. Maybe, like me, you need that app to get to back-…
TECHNOLOGY
Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The role of Product Manager can mean very different things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated? J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies.…
TECHNOLOGY
VMware acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7 billion – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - VMware today announced that it is acquiring Carbon Black, a publicly traded security company that focuses on securing modern cloud-native workloads. The price of the acquisition is about $2.1 billion.
LEISURE
Zomato hits roadblocks in India as restaurants lose appetite for gold – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Zomato, one of India’s biggest food delivery startups, has major ambitions. It is increasingly expanding its reach in the country to serve dozens of new cities and towns every few weeks. It is invest…
SCIENCE
How Oculus squeezed sophisticated tracking into pipsqueak hardware – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Making the VR experience simple and portable was the main goal of the Oculus Quest, and it definitely accomplishes that. But going from things in the room tracking your headset to your headset tracki…
TECHNOLOGY
Reliability concerns raised over pi-top’s STEM learning laptop – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch has learned of a safety issue and a number of product reliability questions being raised about a modular computer made by a London edtech startup that’s intended for children to learn codi…
TECHNOLOGY
US cell carriers plan to combat robocalls – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Twelve cell carriers, including the four largest — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — have promised to make efforts to prevent spoofed and automated robocalls. Announced Thursday, the pledge comes …
TECHNOLOGY
How do you build a secure startup? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt SF – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Security is everything — more so than ever in startup land. But with the constant pressures to launch and scale, how do you build a secure startup from the ground up without slowing growth? Whether y…
TECHNOLOGY
FCC approves $4.9B in funding for rural broadband improvements – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The FCC has just approved nearly five billion dollars in subsidies for rural broadband operators to be paid out over the next ten years. Recipients of this windfall will have to “maintain, improve, a…
BUSINESS
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: 3Q Digital – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - With 12 offices and 350 employees around the world, 3Q Digital is a giant among growth marketing agencies. They’ve worked with companies like Brandless, Opendoor, and Warby Parker, but they also have…
TECHNOLOGY
Hey students, launch your startup this year with this special Extra Crunch discount – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Entrepreneurship is on the rise, and nowhere is that more true than on college campuses. Students are ditching boring office jobs to seek out their own opportunities, whether that is launching a boot…
EDUCATION
Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Earlier this year, the world turned very sour on a group of rich and famous parents who were exposed for having paid big money to get their not-so-academic offspring into competitive universities, us…
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo’s Smart Clock gets more useful with latest Google update – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - I liked the Lenovo Smart Clock when I reviewed it back in June. It’s a pretty minimalist take on the smart screen designed for the very specific purpose of living next to your bed. The streamlined fe…
TECHNOLOGY
Spotify matches Apple Music’s 3-month trial – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Spotify’s battle with Apple Music is continuing to heat up. On Monday, the company introduced upgrades to its Premium Family plan which now offers parental controls and other exclusive features, like…
LEISURE
Herschel’s Retreat brings classical simplicity to the laptop backpack – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s finally Bag Week again! The most wonderful week of the year at TechCrunch. Just in time for back to school, we’re bringing you reviews of bags of all varieties: from backpacks to rollers to mess…
TECHNOLOGY
Inside the Porsche Taycan’s minimalist, 911-inspired interior – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Porsche has taken the wraps off of the interior of the all-new, all-electric Porsche Taycan ahead of its world debut September 4. Gone are the buttons and the clutter. This is a minimalist and sleek …
BUSINESS
The CareVoice raises $10 million to develop better tech for insurance providers in Asia – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The CareVoice, a Shanghai-based health insurance software startup with ambitions to expand throughout Asia, announced today that it has raised about $10 million in Series A funding. The investment wa…
BUSINESS
Densify update helps finance make more intelligent cloud buying decisions – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Densify has been a company that helps engineers buy cloud resources in a cost-effective way, but the company wanted to show this this cloud spending data to finance as well. This week it announced a …
TECHNOLOGY
Google proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting controls for the web – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web. This new proposal follows the company’…
TECHNOLOGY
Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Three years after closing a $9.3 billion deal to acquire NetSuite, several Oracle board members have written an extraordinary letter to the Delaware Court, approving a shareholder lawsuit against com…
BUSINESS
On-demand parking startup SpotHero raises $50 million – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - SpotHero, the Chicago-based company that has developed an on-demand parking app, has raised $50 million in a Series D round led by Macquarie Capital. Union Grove Venture Partners participated in the …
BUSINESS
A $44M Series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time, the cost of acquiring users is increasing year-over…
BUSINESS
Amazon is acquiring 49% stake in India’s Future Coupons – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Amazon, which has invested over $6 billion in India’s growing internet market, just invested a little more to expand its foothold in the the world’s second largest internet market. The U.S. e-commerc…
TECHNOLOGY
Remediant lands $15M Series A to disrupt privileged access security – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Remediant, a startup that helps companies secure privileged access in a modern context, announced a $15 million Series A today led by Dell Technologies Capital and ForgePoint Capital. Remediant’s co-…
SCIENCE
Silicone 3D printing startup Spectroplast spins out of ETHZ with $1.5M – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - 3D printing has become commonplace in the hardware industry, but because few materials can be used for it easily, the process rarely results in final products. A Swiss startup called Spectroplast hop…
BUSINESS
AmazonFresh expands to three key markets: Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - AmazonFresh, one of two main grocery delivery services Amazon operates, is expanding to new markets, the retailer announced this morning. The service will now be available to Prime members in Houston…
BUSINESS
Analysis | The Trump vs. Obama economy — in 15 charts

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www.washingtonpost.com - By Heather Long Heather Long Economics correspondent Email Bio Follow August 20 Is a recession coming in 2020 or 2021? Experts continue to debate the conflicting signals, but an equally telling quest…
POLITICS
Trump’s Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA’s Influence

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www.theatlantic.com - At the time, his words seemed to indicate a softening of sorts, as though Trump had completed the transition from wanting to seriously consider universal background checks to being dead set against t…
BUSINESS
U.S. created 501,000 fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, new figures show

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www.marketwatch.com - Turns out hiring wasn’t nearly as strong in 2018 and early 2019 as the government initially reported — by about a half-million jobs. The economy had about 501,000 fewer jobs as of March 2019 than the…
SCIENCE
Want to Improve Your Memory? A Decade-Long Stanford Study Suggests You Should Stop Doing This 1 Thing

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www.inc.com - Do you ever have trouble keeping track of all the things racing through your mind? Do you ever feel like your life would fall apart without to-do lists, calendars, and constant reminders? Most of us …
STORIES
Opinion | Trump is weaponizing evangelicals’ mistrust. And he’s succeeding.

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www.washingtonpost.com - By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist August 21 at 6:41 PM Are the dominant voices of white evangelical Christianity in the United States …
TECHNOLOGY
20 Social Media Ideas to Keep Your Brand’s Feed Fresh

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sproutsocial.com - The toughest part of running any sort of social media campaign? Coming up with new ideas. Marketers are expected to juggle multiple social profiles and keep them up-to-date with fresh posts. It’s tou…
TECHNOLOGY
A complete guide to creating an Instagram Story – Learn

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www.canva.com - Humans are natural storytellers. It’s how we make sense of the world, how we engage with and entertain our peers, and how we connect with one another. But we’ve come a long way from the campfire. The…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
13 Critical Things to Consider Before Switching Careers

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www.lifehack.org - Do you have a path not taken? Maybe you had big career dreams when you were younger, but somehow they didn’t materialize. Maybe you took your first job, thinking it would be a stepping stone to a bet…
SCIENCE
This is what it's like to swim through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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www.nationalgeographic.com - Roughly a thousand miles southwest of San Francisco, Ben Lecomte, a 52-year-old French long-distance swimmer, is exploring one of the ocean’s most polluted places. It’s day 71 of his 80-day swim acro…
LEISURE
7 Tiny Habits That Can Steal Your Happiness »

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www.powerofpositivity.com - “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” –Norma…
LEISURE
Unionmade Shuts Retail Stores In Castro After 10 Years

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sfist.com - Yet another significant retail closure to tick off for the Castro neighborhood: Unionmade has closed both its men's and women's stores on 18th Street after a decade in business. The high-end clothing…
TECHNOLOGY
Porsche finally shows the interior of its new electric car

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arstechnica.com - The line of the dash as it rises and falls over the main instrument display is classic 911. But the execution is ultramodern minimalism. No, there really is no cowl over the main instrument panel. Th…
TECHNOLOGY
Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake

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arstechnica.com - In an attempt to quell a controversy that has raised the ire of white-hat hackers, the maker of the Steam online game platform said on Thursday it made a mistake when it turned away a researcher who …
TECHNOLOGY
After seven roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws

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arstechnica.com - Walmart filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Tesla on Tuesday. The retail giant says Tesla's "negligent installation and maintenance" of solar panels caused fires on the roofs of as many as s…
TECHNOLOGY
Unsweetened: Android swaps sugary codenames for boring numbers

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arstechnica.com - The new Android logo, complete with a tweaked robot design. Of course, this all looks better with some color behind it. Google even provided complementary color swatches. The robot can apparently do …
TECHNOLOGY
Intel’s line of notebook CPUs gets more confusing with 14nm Comet Lake

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arstechnica.com - The best news about Comet Lake is the high-end 6C/12T i7. We'd recommend taking the 16% overall performance boost far more seriously than the 41% boost claimed for very specific O365 scenarios. Get r…
POLITICS
At Defense Distributed, few glimpses of life after Cody Wilson

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arstechnica.com - Defense Distributed's new leader, Paloma Heindorff, holds up the letter from the Department of State that started all the company's legal battles. It's been nearly a year since 3D-printed firearms ac…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Disney acquires Marvel for $4 billion

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arstechnica.com - Marvel Comics, the publishing/entertainment powerhouse has been purchased by the even-bigger entertainment powerhouse, the Walt Disney Company. The deal, valued at approximately $4 billion, will invo…
TECHNOLOGY
How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

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arstechnica.com - Last week's feature explaining why passwords are under assault like never before touched a nerve with many Ars readers, and with good reason. After all, passwords are the keys that secure Web-based b…
TECHNOLOGY
Google, Apple, and Mozilla block Kazakhstan government’s browser spying

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arstechnica.com - Major browser makers are blocking the use of a root certificate that Kazakhstan's government has used to intercept Internet traffic. Mozilla and Google issued a joint announcement today saying that "…
HEALTH
Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says

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arstechnica.com - Cases of severe lung disease linked to vaping rose from 94 to 153—a jump of over 60%—in just five days, according to an update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of the August 17, …
SCIENCE
The last single-stick Delta rocket launched Thursday, and it put on a show

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arstechnica.com - On Thursday morning, the final Delta IV Medium rocket launched from Florida. This version of the Delta IV was powered by a single RS-68A engine and two side-boosters. United Launch Alliance is phasin…
TECHNOLOGY
Three decades of the Commodore 64

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arstechnica.com - The BBC was kind enough to point out that one of the most significant early personal computers, the Commodore 64, went on sale in August 30 years ago. For many people, this machine was their introduc…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A bride must play the most dangerous game in Ready or Not red band trailer

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arstechnica.com - A young bride's idealized wedding night takes a deadly turn when her eccentric new in-laws insist that playing a game at midnight is a family tradition in the red-band trailer for Ready or Not, a for…
SCIENCE
Tiny robot finds an asteroid that’s freakishly free of dust

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arstechnica.com - For the last few months, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been engaged in various acts of interplanetary aggression, shooting the asteroid Ryugu in order to blast free material for a return to Earth.…
SCIENCE
Identical photons generated 150 million kilometers apart

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arstechnica.com - Up until the mid-20th century, light was pretty ordinary. Yes, it was both a particle and a wave, but it didn’t do anything very weird. Then scientists, under-employed after the end of World War II, …
TECHNOLOGY
Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs

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arstechnica.com - SAN JOSE, Calif.—When Apple revealed macOS Catalina at WWDC this month, one related announcement drew considerable interest from Mac users and developers alike: a new way to turn iPad apps into fully…
TECHNOLOGY
These McLaren F1s and Bugatti EB110s were the stars of Car Week

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arstechnica.com - With only 106 ever built, a McLaren F1 is a rare thing. But this bright orange one is rarer than most. McLaren built five F1 LMs (plus a prototype) during the winter of 1995-1996 to celebrate winning…
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YouTube flags robot battle videos as “animal fights”

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arstechnica.com - On Monday, several YouTube users had their videos removed from the service due to YouTube's restrictions on animal fight footage. This was confusing, because the videos in question showed no animals …
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The FCC has no idea how many people don’t have broadband access

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arstechnica.com - A new broadband mapping system is starting to show just how inaccurate the Federal Communications Commission's connectivity data is. In Missouri and Virginia, up to 38 percent of rural homes and busi…
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Record-breaking 20 qubits entangle to make “Schrödinger’s cat” in the lab

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arstechnica.com - Schrödinger's cat is quite possibly the most famous paradox in physics, and rudimentary real-world versions have even been built in the laboratory. Now a team of German physicists has set a new recor…
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One could fly to Mars in this spacious habitat and not go crazy

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arstechnica.com - Under a NASA contract, Sierra Nevada has built a prototype habitat module for the Lunar Gateway. Here, the expandable module is shown with an additional cargo storage area. The single module has the …
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Anti-vaxxer livestreamed alleged assault on pro-vaccine lawmaker

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arstechnica.com - The Sacramento Police Department on Wednesday cited a prominent anti-vaccine advocate on suspicion of assault after he shoved state Sen. Richard Pan from behind while livestreaming the interaction on…
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Maybe don’t keep your Apple Card in a leather wallet, Apple warns

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arstechnica.com - Apple's shiny new credit credit card boasts many features, such as clear statements, a cash-back program, and an extremely Apple aesthetic. The flat, white titanium design echoes a decade's worth of …
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The ten best console racing games of all time

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arstechnica.com - Welcome to Ars Gaming Week 2019! As a staff full of gamers and game-lovers, we'll be serving up extra reviews, guides, interviews, and other stories all about gaming from August 19 to August 23. Have…
SCIENCE
Researchers are creepily close to predicting when you’re going to die

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arstechnica.com - If death is in the cards, it may also be in your blood. Measurements of 14 metabolic substances in blood were pretty good at predicting whether people were likely to die in the next five to 10 years.…
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Staffsource: Ars staffers reminisce on the games that made them gamers

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arstechnica.com - Welcome to Ars Gaming Week 2019! As a staff full of gamers and game-lovers, we'll be serving up extra reviews, guides, interviews, and other stories all about gaming from August 19 to August 23. Whil…
SCIENCE
Physicists discover hidden text in what was thought to be blank Egyptian papyri

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arstechnica.com - A team of German scientists has used a combination of cutting-edge physics techniques to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus, part of an extensive collection housed in the Berlin Egyptian …
TECHNOLOGY
Ring asks police not to tell public how its law enforcement backend works

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arstechnica.com - Amazon's Ring line of consumer home surveillance products enjoys an extensive partnership with local police departments all over the country. Cops receive free product, extensive coaching, and pre-ap…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Achieve Any Goal With the Law of Attraction | Jack Canfield

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jackcanfield.com - The Law of Attraction is one of the most powerful laws in the universe. Just like gravity, it is always influencing your life and reality. And once you are aware of it you can leverage it to create t…
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Gemini Launches in Australia, Enables All Supported Coins Except GUSD

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cointelegraph.com - The Winklevoss twins’ crypto exchange and custodian Gemini is expanding to Australia, enabling residents of the country to use its platform to buy, sell and store crypto. Australian residents can now…
BUSINESS
Is Your Payroll Ready for New Labor Department Rules?

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - The Department of Labor has made changes that could impact your Small Business payroll. Listen to Erron Stark, an ADP Executive, share insights on what the latest Labor Department rule changes mean f…
BUSINESS
Silvergate Bank Plans to Offer Cryptocurrency-Collateralized Loans

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cointelegraph.com - The holding company of cryptocurrency-friendly Silvergate Bank, Silvergate Capital Corporation, announced that the firm plans to offer cryptocurrency-collateralized loans. In an S1/A form filed with …
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Creating Small Business Wins Through Cross Promotion

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - One of the best ways to get more customers for your small business is by cross-promoting with other small businesses. Big companies cross-promote all the time (such as fast-food operators offering ki…
BUSINESS
Max Keiser: New Bitcoin Network Hash Rate High Suggests Price Is Next

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cointelegraph.com - The Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate has broken yet another new all-time high, according to Aug. 19 data from monitoring resource Blockchain.com. The top coin’s hash rate has continued to break previous recor…
SCIENCE
How to use transparency in graphic design – Learn

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www.canva.com - There are a number of principles that make up the building blocks of great design. Some of them, like balance or alignment, are fairly basic—and well-known to anyone who’s even tangentially familiar …
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Bootstrap Grid System Guide: Examples, Tutorials, and Tricks - Designmodo

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designmodo.com - Bootstrap grid is at the core of the framework. It underlies everything. It is the heart and soul of the boilerplate and the main reason we choose it in the first place. In one word, it is where ever…
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Gzip Compression WordPress Guide: How to Enable It (5 Methods)

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wplift.com - WordPress Gzip compression is a way to speed up your WordPress site by compressing the files that your server sends to visitors’ browsers. With a smaller file size, visitors are able to load your web…
SCIENCE
Real-Time Blog Post Views with React and Firebase - Lee Robinson

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leerob.io - One metric for a website's success is the amount of traffic it receives. For a blog, this translates to page views. Articles with lots of views indicate the content your readers care most about. This…
LEISURE
Roman Diploma Unearthed In Bulgaria Spells Out Warrior’s Freedom

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www.ancient-origins.net - A tiny, rare and unique piece of a Roman military diploma has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Deultum near the village of Debelt in Bulgaria. Deultum was built in the 1st century AD durin…
SCIENCE
"Unknown Dark Energy"-- A Fifth Force or New Form of Matter? | The Daily Galaxy

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dailygalaxy.com - An experiment to test a popular theory that dark energy –the unknown force that is causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate– is a ‘fifth’ force that acts on matter has found no evidence…
SCIENCE
Water From Melting Glaciers Is Capturing Carbon Dioxide, but Not for Long

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www.inverse.com - Our planet’s glaciers are melting at all three poles, offering indisputable evidence of the global climate crisis. But even as these ancient masses of ice shrink away, they may perform one final bene…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Eric Prydz’s 5-ton Holosphere shows the ambitious future of concert tech

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www.theverge.com - sSwedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz and his team are behind some of dance music’s most extravagant and tech-forward events. His latest effort is his most ambitious — and potentially his shortest run …
SCIENCE
The Ethics of Hiding Your Data From the Machines

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www.wired.com - I recently met with a company that wants to do a sincerely good thing. They’ve created a sensor that pregnant women can wear, and it measures their contractions. It can reliably predict when women ar…
LEISURE
The Odessa Catacombs: Lost in Eternal Darkness

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www.ancient-origins.net - Ukraine. A vast country that prides itself on a history rich with heroes and artists. A nation whose foundations stand on centuries of struggle and fighting for independence. Many of Ukraine’s cities…
SPORTS
'Another Life' Season 2 Release Date and Plot for the Netflix Sci-Fi Show

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www.inverse.com - With so many sci-fi options to choose from these days, there’s something rather comforting about Another Life, the new Netflix show that draws inspiration from all of your favorites to create somethi…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music

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www.openculture.com - No amount of continuous repeats in coffeeshops around the world can dull the crystalline brilliance of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue one bit. The album turned 60 three days ago, and it still stands as on…
LEISURE
Where Did the Term <em>Brownie Points</em> Come From?

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mentalfloss.com - In a Los Angeles Times column published on March 15, 1951, writer Marvin Miles observed a peculiar phrase spreading throughout his circle of friends and the social scene at large. While standing in a…
WORLD
Trump Has Defected from the Free World

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www.theatlantic.com - Yesterday, President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with the new Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, because she refuses to discuss the sale of Greenland. Greenland used to be a Danish colony …
SCIENCE
Astronomers just drastically narrowed the search for alien life

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futurism.com - Scientists may have been looking for extraterrestrial life in all the wrong places. Astronomers were just able to rule out life on an entire class of exoplanets. The research, published Monday in the…
WORLD
This general says the US Army is outgunned in information warfare

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futurism.com - The U.S. Army is unprepared for the future of informational warfare. That’s according to General Paul Funk, who oversees the entirety of the Army’s combat training programs, C4ISRNET reports. Speakin…
LEISURE
How a Cooling Vest Invented by a Furry Made Its Way Into the U.S. Military

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www.thedailybeast.com - Travis finished 14 years of military service clad ears-to-paws in white fur striped with electric blue. In his green claws, the former armorer for the U.S. Army held a collection of military insignia…
SCIENCE
Stem cells could regenerate organs – but only if the body won't reject them

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theconversation.com - Many of the most common diseases, like heart failure, liver failure, Type 1 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, occur when cells or whole organs fail to do their job. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if it wer…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Nest Mini may come with aux jack, built-in wall mount

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androidcommunity.com - Ever since the Google Nest acquisition happened some five years ago, we’ve seen a number of Nest products. It was only recently that Google has started testing out “Move to” controls on Nest Hub whic…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Play Store rolls out a complete visual redesign

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androidcommunity.com - It’s not very often that Google updates the actual Play Store but when it does, expect major changes and new features. Last week, the tech giant started letting app developers add tags for better dis…
ADULT
Denuvo DRM solution coming to Android mobile games

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androidcommunity.com - Phones definitely need protection from different elements whether from actual and physical elements or from different malware that abound. When it comes to mobile games, broken or those laden with vi…
TECHNOLOGY
Galaxy Note 10 launches in Korea, gets record 1.3M pre-orders

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androidcommunity.com - Things are looking up for Samsung with the release of its latest Galaxy device. At least in the early days in its native country. The Galaxy Note 10 has officially gone on sale in South Korea after g…
TECHNOLOGY
Xbox Elite Controller support over USB on Android possible soon

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androidcommunity.com - Not many people may be using an XBOX Elite controller but when support for such is added to your favorite gaming console, then we pay attention. A few months ago, we reported the NVIDIA SHIELD added …
TECHNOLOGY
Chrome for Android will soon have Google Lens for image search

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androidcommunity.com - When you’re browsing a website or a social network, you will come across images that you want to know more about. You can always do a reverse image search or use the power of Google Lens. However bot…
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2017), Tab S3 ready for Android Pie update

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 may be considered a bit old but the tablet is getting a slice of Pie. An Android 9.0 update gives any device a refresh with its new features and enhancements. It may have be…
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube Music now available on the Waze app

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androidcommunity.com - Waze has several music services already available in-app so you don’t need to switch between apps while you’re in transit. But one that was missing is YouTube Music. Well, if that’s your music stream…
TECHNOLOGY
G Suite users now get auto-correct, typing suggestions in Gmail

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androidcommunity.com - While most of the regular Gmail users have been enjoying (or not) the autocorrect and suggestions as-you-type in their email app, G Suite users have yet to see that squiggly blue line appear as they’…
TECHNOLOGY
Select Garmin smarwatches now support Amazon Music

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androidcommunity.com - If Amazon Music is your music app of choice and you have one of the newer Garmin smartwatches, we have good news for you. The music streaming service is now supported by selected Garmin smartwatches …
TECHNOLOGY
Philips PicoPix Max projector on Indiegogo, runs on Android TV

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androidcommunity.com - Pico projectors are nothing new to us. We’ve seen and tried a few since way back in 2011 when we were introduced to Android-powered pico projectors. Through the years, many small projectors have been…
TECHNOLOGY
Digital Wellbeing app updated with Screen Time Goal, Focus Mode

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androidcommunity.com - Digital Wellbeing is becoming a very important feature of Android. It’s part of Android 9 Pie that is slowly rolling out to many devices especially beginning this year. It’s been integrated with the …
SPORTS
Updated Casio Pro Tek smartwatch adds sensors, heart rate monitor

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androidcommunity.com - If you bought a Casio Pro Tek smartwatch a couple of years ago and you’re kind of attached to how it looks and functions, you may want to upgrade to the new version. The Casio Pro Tek WSD-F21HR is st…
TECHNOLOGY
Nokia 7.2 live image surface, shows a round Zeiss camera module

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androidcommunity.com - The Nokia 7 series first appeared in 2017, breaking cover with a Snapdragon 630 processor, 6GB or RAM, and a Bothies feature. A Plus variant was soon leaked before its MWC 2019 release as an Android …
WORLD
Supreme Court will not hear case on gun silencer regulations

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www.pbs.org - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia. The jus…
BUSINESS
The economist who first linked the yield curve to recessions sees 'pretty high' chance of downturn

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www.cnbc.com - Arturo Estrella, the economist who first discovered the predictive power of the yield curve, has a message for recession naysayers: It could hit sooner than you think. "It's been 50 years and 7 reces…
TECHNOLOGY
Optimize your predictive analytics through model ecosystems

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loyalty360.org - Friends, I did it. I bought a pair of shorts via an Instagram ad. It wasn’t hard for them to find me. Summer is on the way. I needed shorts. But now, they haunt me. Wherever I go, internet or app, up…
LEISURE
Selina Launches Tiered-Rewards Program

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loyalty360.org - Selina has officially launched its new rewards program, Luna by Selina, at all 52 locations across the globe after conducting a beta launch earlier this month. Guests are able to immediately sign up …
TECHNOLOGY
T-Mobile Ranks Number One in J.D. Power Wireless Purchase Experience Study

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loyalty360.org - J.D. Power has announced that T-Mobile has earned the highest scores in the 2019 US Wireless Purchase Experience Study for full-service providers. Also, Metro by T-Mobile is among the highest ranked …
LEISURE
Is that Chihuahua a real service dog? The truth, unleashed.

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www.csmonitor.com - Despite the official-looking red vest and a laminated ID tag that proclaimed it a “service dog,” beachgoers noticed something off about “Mylie.” Witnesses say that on a packed day at this sandy barri…
LEISURE
Field of tie-dyed dreams: How Woodstock changed a generation

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www.csmonitor.com - David Crosby’s most enduring memory of Woodstock isn’t going onstage at 3 o’clock in the morning. It isn’t the fear that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young felt at playing their second-ever show. Nor is it…
POLITICS
North Carolina Sheriffs Win a Round Against ICE

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www.theatlantic.com - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a bill yesterday that would have required the state’s sheriffs to cooperate with federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. “This legislation is simply ab…
TECHNOLOGY
How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

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www.govexec.com - On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon employee responsible for policing conflicts of interest, emailed an urgent warning to the chief of staff of then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Several de…
BUSINESS
Sanders Campaign Proposes Granting Feds the Right to Strike

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www.govexec.com - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday unveiled a comprehensive plan to restore the American labor movement following decades of declining union membership, and that plan …
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Note 10+ Preview - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - As I explained in Samsung Galaxy Note 10 First Impressions, I realized shortly after preordering the smaller Note 10 that what I really wanted was the larger—and more expensive—Note 10+. But by the t…
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Google Wants to Continue Selling Ads While Protecting User Privacy - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Selling ads is a big part of Google’s business. And with the recent crackdown on online tracking and users being more protective over their data, Google is taking steps to make sure its business, alo…
TECHNOLOGY
Will A.I. for Food - Windows Weekly 635 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul discuss the new Edge Beta, Windows 10, Xbox, and, yes, the recipe for the Patch Tuesday cocktail! Download this episode and subscribe Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube Tip of the…
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Google Reportedly Plans Major Home Mini Speaker Refresh, Will Embrace Nest Branding - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google is reporting planning a major upgrade to the Home Mini speaker. 9to5Google reported last night that the company is working on a new upgrade to the Home Mini, and it’s embracing the Nest brandi…
ADULT
The #1 Stupid Reason You Hold Back from Success by Randy Gage

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www.randygage.com - Home | Blog | The #1 Stupid Reason You Hold Back from Success You want to propose to a woman, but you’re afraid. You think it’s because you’re fearful she might say ‘no.’ But that’s not the real reas…
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Data-Driven Run Training with TrainAsOne: Observations from a Tracking Guy Who Runs - Mark Koester

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www.markwk.com - “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” - Archilochos (6th Century BCE Greek Poet) Much in life is about our training and preparation. This is especial…
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08-22-2019 - [X&Y] He Lost "The Girl He Loved"

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archive.aweber.com - ===== IN THIS ISSUE: If something isn't working...should you do twice as much of it? ===== WHEN YOU MEET HER, WILL YOU BE READY? After all of the work you put in getting better with women, what's goi…
LEISURE
Chianti Classico great Lapo Mazzei dies - Decanter

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www.decanter.com - Marquis Lapo Mazzei died aged 94 at his Fonterutoli estate near to Siena, according to Italian media. Born into one of Tuscany’s oldest winemaking families in 1925, he is credited with helping to bri…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Changemakers: Helen Costa is using VR to help adopted children feel safe

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www.bigissue.com - What if you could see the world through a child’s eyes – would you change your behaviour towards them? Helen Costa thinks so. When she co-founded the Cornerstone Partnership, she had one mission: to …
SPORTS
Edward Norton Attempts to Solve Mentor's Murder in 'Motherless Brooklyn' Trailer

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - Warner Bros. Pictures released the first trailer for Motherless Brooklyn on Thursday. Set in 1950s New York, the film follows lonely private detective Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton) who lives with Tou…
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Coinbase Review 2019: Buy & Sell Crypto - Is it Safe? All the Pros & Cons

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moneycheck.com - If you’re thinking about entering the cryptocurrency space for the very first time, the internet is now full of third-party exchanges that allow you to buy and sell digital tokens at the click of a b…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Constance Wu-Jennifer Lopez Film 'Hustlers' Tracking for $24M Debut

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - Lorene Scafaria's star-studded, female-led drama Hustlers is tracking for a strong $24 million debut at the U.S. box office, according to those with access to the surveys. From STX Entertainment, the…
WORLD
Adam Driver Investigates CIA Interrogation Program in 'The Report' Teaser Trailer

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - Amazon released the teaser trailer for The Report on Thursday. Based on actual events, the thriller follows Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) and his boss, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Annette B…
TECHNOLOGY
How AMP technology can upgrade your email campaigns

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www.searchenginewatch.com - Accelerated mobile page (AMP) technology is what going to revolutionize bulk email marketing as we know it today. It enables to add dynamic content to previously static flat email pages, and lets rec…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Nate Parker's 'American Skin' Producer: He "Deserves a Second Chance"

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - Tarak Ben Ammar and Mark Burg think Nate Parker deserves a second chance. The two producers bankrolling American Skin, Parker's follow-up to his 2016 directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, say the…
LEISURE
How to pair wine with burgers - Decanter

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www.decanter.com - An ancient recipe book named Apicius suggests that Romans were eating wine-infused meat patties centuries before Ronald McDonald and his dubious associates, including Mayor McCheese, were discovered …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Trump's tweets on Jews must have Ivanka 'proud,' Anderson Cooper jabs

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www.usatoday.com - Anderson Cooper brought Ivanka Trump into his analysis of President Donald Trump's recent remarks about Jewish Americans. Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to the president, converted to Judaism before …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Lionsgate Nabs Hilary Swank's Noir Thriller 'Fatale'

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - Lionsgate has acquired the North American and key international rights to Fatale, the Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy-starring noir thriller from The Intruder director Deon Taylor. Fatale centers on a …
SPORTS
Epstein's Pilot Drops Royal Family Bombshell | American Action News

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americanactionnews.com - Buckingham Palace tonight furiously denied allegations that Prince Andrew flew repeatedly with Jeffrey Epstein and his 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts, saying they were demonstrably untrue. The claims, …
SPORTS
Kevin Foster on Training the Feet, Spine, and Hips for Elastic Power: Just Fly Performance Podcast #164 - Just Fly Sports Performance

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www.just-fly-sports.com - - Find the best lifts for sprinting vs. jumping - How to peak when it counts, and more! Please allow up to 12 hour to recieve response. Email may be filtered into a spam file according to your email …
TECHNOLOGY
Sooner or later, the shark gets jumped

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seths.blog - Short-term thinking repeated again and again doesn’t lead to long-term thinking. Rand Fishkin shares a thoughtful analysis about a trend that now affects just about everyone: Google is hoarding more …
BUSINESS
Watch YC CEO Michael Seibel chat startups, prices and tech’s center of gravity – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - This week, nearly 200 startups convened at Y Combinator Demo Day to pitch venture capitalists, angels and other folks looking to spend some money. YC chief executive officer Michael Seibel took some …
POLITICS
California Lawmakers Demand Gun Control summit With Nevada

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bearingarms.com - More than two dozen California lawmakers are calling for a “guns safety summit” with their counterparts in Nevada in an effort to impose California-style gun laws on the Silver State. Nevada’s new De…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Was 2016 the greatest year ever for music?

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www.bbc.com - What was the greatest year for music of all time? Many of us, when asked, would probably choose an era from our own youth. Certain songs or albums which remind you of school, your rebellious teenage …
WORLD
Judge Jeanine on Epstein: Neck Bones Break When Someone Strangles You

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www.breitbart.com - The death of Jeffrey Epstein was claimed to be the result of suicide by Barbara Sampson, chief medical examiner of New York City, NY. “Epstein’s cellmate, on July 23rd, when he allegedly tried his fi…
BUSINESS
Factory Manufacturing Sector Contracts for First Time Since 2009

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www.newsmax.com - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting the labor market was holding firm despite a manufacturing slowdown and concerns the economy is…
TECHNOLOGY
Guarantee Great Hiring Decisions, Every Time! - Recruiters Network

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www.recruiters.network - Register here. Outside of shadowing a few interviews roughly 80% of interviewers and hiring teams in organizations have never had proper training on effective interviewing and questioning techniques.…
LEISURE
Root: Jews in Israel Love Donald Trump 'Like He's the King of Israel'

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www.breitbart.com - Root claimed that Jews in Israel loved him as much as the “King of Israel” or the “second coming of God.” During his Newsmax show, he said: This is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in t…
WORLD
Epstein Used Network Of Shell Companies And Associates For Sex-Trafficking Ring, Lawsuits Claim

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www.infowars.com - Jeffrey Epstein used his tangled web of shell companies as a “brazen and powerful organization” to operate a sex-trafficking ring, according to three new civil lawsuits filed against his $578 million…
TECHNOLOGY
The Right To Live And The Right To Bear Arms - Bearing Arms

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bearingarms.com - Anyone who has debated the Second Amendment on social media has probably been told that their right to own a gun doesn’t supersede someone else’s right to live. The argument, they make, is that your …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Rep. Lee Zeldin Calls for NYT's Tom Wright-Piersanti to Be Fired

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www.breitbart.com - Zeldin made the plea as part of his comments on how the far-left “The Squad” remain unchecked by the House Democrat leadership for their repeated antisemitism and anti-Israel positions. “An editor fr…
POLITICS
August 22nd – 2019 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #945

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theconservativetreehouse.com - — * USA * 🇺🇸 —-” Summer of MAGA ” —- 🇺🇸 * USA * –(439 days to E-Day) 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 1 day til President Trump leaves for G-7 in France 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🦅 KAG while Making America Greater Again Thank Y…
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Jay Inslee Quits 2020 Race -- Before His Long-Awaited Climate Change Debate | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Maddow began by asking Inslee if he had some news to announce. And he did: This show has been so good to me, this is sort of the book ends of my campaign. We started saying climate change had to be t…
BUSINESS
One Quarter of Germans Now Come From Migrant Backgrounds

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www.breitbart.com - The new statistics come from a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office this week which states there are now 20.8 million German residents who come from migrant backgrounds, defined b…
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Merkel to Johnson: You've got 30 days to solve the Irish border issue

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hotair.com - A “blistering timetable” indeed, as Boris Johnson observed, considering his Tories haven’t come up with a plan to leave the Irish border open for the past three years. The UK’s prime minister acknowl…
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University of Kentucky Apologizes for Staff Mocking, Slow-Walking Application for Conservative Club | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - According to a press release from the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), officials at the University of Kentucky allegedly conspired to block the formation of a chapter of the YAF. In a series of emai…
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Report: Scaramucci hosted Trump Jr at a dinner to promote his business just two weeks before breaking with POTUS

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hotair.com - Another hit piece on Mooch from the Washington Examiner, the same outlet that published yesterday’s scoop about Scaramucci allegedly trying to intimidate White House comms staffers when he worked the…
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McConnell Lobbies to Keep Senate Filibuster

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www.newsmax.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell argued in a new opinion piece that the filibuster is a crucial piece of the legislative process that must remain in place. Writing for The New York Times, McCon…
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$16 Trillion Sanders Climate Plan Builds on Green New Deal

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www.newsmax.com - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released a $16.3 trillion climate plan that builds on the Green New Deal and calls for the United States to move to renewable energy across the ec…
POLITICS
New Epstein mystery: Why haven't the feds raided his New Mexico compound?

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hotair.com - Maybe they need special bio-hazard suits, considering the mission Jeffrey Epstein had for his “ranch” in New Mexico. Still, as CBS News reported last night, it seems at least a little odd that federa…
POLITICS
Bloomberg's Gun Ban Group Targeting Suburban Republicans In Ad Blitz

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bearingarms.com - Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown For Gun Safety says it will spend more than $2-million in this fall’s Virginia elections, starting with a $135,000 ad buy targeting Republican lawmakers in several subur…
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Incredible – FBI Blocking Release of Unredacted Text Messages Between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok…

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theconservativetreehouse.com - …Every minute spent outraged at what Muller did yesterday, is one minute less that Bill Barr is being held accountable for what he is not doing today… Judicial Watch is fighting for one of the more c…
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How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution

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www.nytimes.com - Ferraro, who started at “Sesame” right out of college as a secretary and has now been a writer and lyricist there for 26 years, is responsible for one of Elmo’s most popular numbers, “Brushy Brush,” …
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The Nation: It's Time To Repeal And Replace The Second Amendment

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bearingarms.com - Gun control is still a hard sell in a lot of legislatures, including Congress. While the House is tripping all over itself to pass gun control, the Senate has held matters firmly in check, thus maint…
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Exclusive -- White House 'Disgusted' by NY Times Antisemitism

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www.breitbart.com - “I am disgusted but not surprised by this latest revelation out of the New York Times,” Grisham said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “Will there be consequences? Doubtful. The …
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Inslee: I suddenly realized I'm not going to win the nomination

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hotair.com - And then there were … twenty-two? Thirty-four? Eleventy-seven? Jay Inslee told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he will withdraw from the Democratic presidential primaries, one week shy of a debate qualify…
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Bobbi Brown's Guide to Success: Go To Fewer Meetings, and Take More Action

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www.entrepreneur.com - This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » What do you do for a second act, when your firs…
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NY Democrats in a civil war over... pizza?

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hotair.com - There’s a battle brewing in Brooklyn and it’s shaping up to be yet another fight between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Big Apple Mayor (and presidential candidate, for some reason) Bill de Blasi…
TECHNOLOGY
Wikipedia Has ICE Facilities Listed Under ‘Concentration And Internment Camps’ Section

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www.infowars.com - Wikipedia, the online Encyclopedia, which has been routinely accused of left wing bias, has a list of ICE facilities under a section titled “concentration and internment camps,” and is keeping it the…
SCIENCE
This Is The Most Relaxing Music To Travel To According To Science

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www.forbes.com - Happy commuter traveling into a train listening to music with a smart phone and headphones Getty We’ve all been there. The race to the airport followed by long security lines and ubiquitous flight de…
LEISURE
Chick-fil-A and Popeyes Just Did Something Brilliant, and Customers are Going Crazy. (Now Wendy's and Shake Shack Are Trying It, Too)

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www.inc.com - Once upon a time we had the Burger Wars: McDonald's versus Burger King. Then we had a battle between the burger places and the chicken restaurants. Now, there's a chicken civil war, in which a trio o…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
O'Rourke: I can think of nothing more resonant of what you might see in the Third Reich than what Trump said about Jewish disloyalty

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hotair.com - Leave it to this guy to take a topic on which Trump absolutely deserves criticism and make a giant Godwin-y mess of it. I do not think it’s “resonant of what you might see in the Third Reich” for a c…
BUSINESS
There are some enormous benefits in setting up a Solo 401(k) | Sovereign Man

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www.sovereignman.com - Earlier this year the US government reported that Social Security’s long-term, unfunded liability now exceeds $50 TRILLION. Moreover, they forecast that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds w…
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New York Times: Joe Biden Suffers 'Enthusiasm Gap' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Joseph R. Biden Jr. is coasting in the national polls. Surveys show him ahead of his Democratic rivals in hypothetical matchups against President Trump. He has maintained a lead in Iowa all summer, d…
ADULT
Car Repairs You Are Wasting Money On

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www.newsmax.com - Fixing and maintaining a car can be expensive. Certain repairs you just can't skimp on, but there are others that may actually be wasting your money. Take the cabin air filter, for example. You can e…
SCIENCE
Creepy Joe Biden whispers into mic: I’m going to make Trump ‘feel the pain’

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www.infowars.com - The all new and advanced Super Male Vitality formula uses the newest extraction technology with even more powerful concentrations of various herbs and extracts designed to be even stronger. https://w…
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Sweden: Bombings and Explosions Up 45 Percent in 2019

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www.breitbart.com - Statistics released by the police show that Sweden saw a total of 83 explosive incidents during the period from January to July, a number that has increased to 120 this year, Swedish newspaper Dagens…
POLITICS
Obama’s Harvard Professor: Trump Is a ‘F*****g Racist’; Wants to ‘Reverse Outcome of the Civil War’

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www.infowars.com - Long time anti-Trump professor Laurence Tribe called the President a “fucking racist” Wednesday, and declared that Trump wants to “reverse the outcome of the Civil War.” Tribe linked to a Daily Kos h…
BUSINESS
Democrat John Delaney: It feels like some Dems are rooting for a recession because it'll hurt Trump next year

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hotair.com - Of course they are. Is this even in dispute? It’s taken for granted that Pelosi won’t agree to cut payroll taxes to stimulate the economy even though that idea is normally popular with Democrats beca…
POLITICS
Audio Glitch Distorts de Blasio's Voice in Iowa Speech

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www.newsmax.com - An audio glitch distorted New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's voice during a live-streamed speech Wednesday to Iowa labor union leaders and members. De Blasio, who is seeking the Democratic presidential …
TECHNOLOGY
Amazon Opens Biggest Campus Yet - in India | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Bloomberg reports that Amazon has opened its largest campus building ever in the south Indian city of Hyderabad in preparation for aggressive expansion in an attempt to compete with retail giant Walm…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Rihanna to Honor Shaun King for 'Groundbreaking Work' -- Slammed on Social Media

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www.breitbart.com - Rihanna’s annual Diamond Ball announced Wednesday that it will honor King alongside Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley for their “groundbreaking work.” The star-studded bash, set for Sept. 12 in New…
SCIENCE
“Boiling Frogs” with 5G: Dr. Frey’s Research on EM Cancer, Behavior Modification

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www.infowars.com - The all new and advanced Super Male Vitality formula uses the newest extraction technology with even more powerful concentrations of various herbs and extracts designed to be even stronger. https://w…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The 10 Highest-Paid Actors Revealed

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www.newsmax.com - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the top-earning actor for 2019. The wrestler-turned-actor raked in $89.4 million in a year, making him one of the richest celebrities, and putting him at the top of the n…
CRIME
New York Times and Never Trump's Bill Kristol Want Joe Walsh to Primary Trump | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - The Times, realistic about Walsh’s dim chances but enthusiastic about the prospect of a primary challenge, recounted Walsh’s conversion from a brash Tea Party conservative to an acerbic critic of the…
SCIENCE
New Blood Test Predicts When You Will Die

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www.newsmax.com - Scientists have developed a blood test that was stunningly accurate at predicting when people will die. The test showed great results in predicting death within five to 10 years. The groundbreaking d…
WORLD
Joe Biden’s Staff Forced Reporter into Closet During 2011 Fundraiser

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www.breitbart.com - Scott Powers, at the time a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, was forced into a storage closet by Biden’s staff during a Florida fundraiser held on the behalf of then-Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). Accord…
BUSINESS
Trump Attacks Ford Motor for Not Backing Fuel Economy Rollback

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www.newsmax.com - Ford is one of four automakers, along with Honda Motor Co , BMW AG and Volkswagen AG, that reached a voluntary agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, defying Trump and his administration…
BUSINESS
Washington Post: Kamala Harris has shifted positions on health care at least three times

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hotair.com - Yesterday, Ed wrote about Sen. Kamala Harris and other Democrats backing away from Bernie Sanders Medicare for All plan. Today, the Washington Post published an entertaining video clip which pulls to…
POLITICS
Dave Chappelle to Host Free Dayton Block Party in Wake of Mass Shooting

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www.breitbart.com - The block party will take place on Sunday in the Oregon District, a popular entertainment area in Dayton where the recent shooting took place. It is restricted to legal residents of Dayton, Ohio area…
POLITICS
Size matters: Joe Biden scolds FNC reporter about crowds in Iowa

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hotair.com - Good old Joe Biden snapped at a Fox News Channel (FNC) reporter Tuesday in Iowa. He didn’t appreciate being corrected after he boasted of being the king of crowds when it comes to campaign events. FN…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Thursday August 22nd – Open Thread

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theconservativetreehouse.com - The above title is based on an old Christian joke that tells of a hymn by this name that was misunderstood by a child to refer to a cross-eyed bear named Gladly! It is not known if there ever was suc…
WORLD
AOC, Omar, Tlaib Silent as Palestine Outlaws LGBT Activity in West Bank

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www.infowars.com - Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have remained silent after the Palestinian Authority banned LGBT activity in the West Bank. These members of…
TECHNOLOGY
Young Turks' Hasan Piker Says American 'Deserved 9/11'

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www.breitbart.com - “America deserved 9/11, dude. Fuck it I’m saying it,” Piker said during an expletive-laced tirade he broadcast live on the internet. Piker later doubled down on blaming America for 9/11, a terrorist …
WORLD
Girlfriend of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Denied US Visa

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www.newsmax.com - The girlfriend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because she traveled to Somaliland last year. Carrie Symonds, 31, an environmental acti…
POLITICS
Trump Moves Towards Background Check Bill, Offers No Specifics

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bearingarms.com - Earlier today I wrote a headline titled Trump Backs Off Background Checks, which was true at the time. Unfortunately, the president and his plans for gun control at the moment appear to be a lot like…
WORLD
GOP Groups Offer Shirts Promoting US Purchase of Greenland

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www.newsmax.com - Multiple groups associated with the Republican Party are using shirts promoting the purchase of Greenland by the United States as a fundraising incentive, Newsweek reports. The National Republican Co…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
We don’t deserve to sit beside ‘normal people’: Kelowna homeless - Chilliwack Progress

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www.theprogress.com - A Kelowna woman, her boyfriend and another couple were in a park, playing guitar, fixing a bike chain and otherwise just relaxing on a nice day recently, when two officers rode up to them on bikes an…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Ten Other Memorable Things That Happened at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

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www.billboard.com - If you remember the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards for one thing, it's the Kanye West / Taylor Swift incident that knocked the culture off its axis, changing the course of pop music for the decade to co…
ADULT
If Trump Is Really God's 'Chosen One,' God's A Dumbass

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www.wonkette.com - Scenes from the last 24 hours in the life of the anti-semitic human pubic thatch with the messiah complex, Donald John Trump! Trump looked up at the sky earlier today while he was talking about his d…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
This gay teen figured out a way to keep Trump’s rallies empty AF

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www.queerty.com - A 17-year-old gay teen known only as Noah started a campaign to help keep Trump’s public rallies empty: Noah encourages people to reserve rally seats via Trump’s website and then not show up. This ke…
SCIENCE
Fake news can lead to false memories

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www.sciencedaily.com - The research was conducted in the week preceding the 2018 referendum on legalizing abortion in Ireland, but the researchers suggest that fake news is likely to have similar effects in other political…
SCIENCE
Mapping the global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of Plasmodium falciparum, 2000-17: a spatial and temporal modelling study. - PubMed - NCBI

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Since 2000, the scale-up of malaria control interventions has substantially reduced morbidity and mortality caused by the disease globally, fuelling bold aims for disease elimination. In tandem with …
SCIENCE
Brazil’s presidential election could mean billions of tons of additional greenhouse gases

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www.technologyreview.com - Environmentalists and scientists fear that Brazil’s newly elected president, the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro, will accelerate the destruction of the nation’s Amazon rainforest and Cerrado sav…
BUSINESS
Gift of Nothing

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silverdisobedience.rocks - THIS SITE MAY CONTAIN SPONSORED CONTENT WHICH COULD BE ADVERTORIAL CONTENT. Links to third-party sites are for your convenience only, and their inclusion on the SilverDisobedience™ (“Silver Disobedie…
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Big Data’s Threat to Elections and Democracy Is Quickly Becoming a Global Problem - Citizen Truth

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citizentruth.org - The cost of the 2016 U.S. elections was $6.5 billion if we combine the presidential and congressional elections. The Indian Parliamentary election of 2019 outspent the 2016 U.S. 2016 election, costin…
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Pursuadables: the undecided majority that threaten the end of democracy as we know it - The Futures Agency

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thefuturesagency.com - Yesterday, I watched The Great Hack on Netflix, a movie about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Believe me, if you weren’t already, you’re guaranteed to become paranoid by the end of the film. Incred…
BUSINESS
Is the future of shipping in ships and ports, or chips and blocks?

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www.ey.com - Blockchain is a remarkable technology because of what it avoids. Because the information it contains is distributed between multiple participants on the chain – and changes in recorded information ar…
LEISURE
Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture

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boingboing.net - Bruce Sterling's hour-long lecture to the Southern California Institute of Architecture is pretty good vintage Sterling: a seeming grab-bag of loosely related futuristic, ascerbic observations about …
TECHNOLOGY
City centre 'slow lane' trial for phone users

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www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk - Pedestrian 'slow lanes' designed for distracted mobile phone users are being tried out in a busy city centre. The scheme, a marketing idea from online retailer AO.com, is to stop phone fanatics from …
POLITICS
The New York Times Is Trying to Rewrite History to Fit Its Biases

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www.dailysignal.com - Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Barack Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In context, the president was trying to make the …
WORLD
DHS Using Loophole Around Flores To Address Immigration Crisis

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dailycaller.com - The Trump administration is rolling out its own licensing standards for family residential centers, a move that will work around the Flores settlement and mitigate the illegal immigration crisis. The…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Highest-Paid Actors 2019: Dwayne Johnson, Bradley Cooper And Chris Hemsworth

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www.forbes.com - Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock, has managed to leverage his popularity into one of the best movie deals in Hollywood MICHAEL PRINCE FOR FORBES A bankable leading man is still one of Hollywood’s su…
WORLD
Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Blockchain voting: Can it help secure our elections? The technology-enabled mechanism of trust could make online balloting more realistic. A French security researcher has found a critical vulnerabil…
TECHNOLOGY
Chinese Consumers Live on 'Super Apps' Thanks To In-App Payment System

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martechseries.com - WeChat Remains China’s King of Social Media with Its 94% Adoption Rate Towering over Second-Place Tencent Qq, Which Got 70% China’s ‘super apps’ enable a variety of capabilities from third-party serv…
WORLD
Texas executes Larry Swearingen in 1998 slaying of college student

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www.usatoday.com - This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Larry Swearingen. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate who argued t…
LEISURE
BIG's MÉCA folds three arts institutions into one cultural loop for Bordeaux

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artdaily.com - BORDEAUX.- Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects, MÉCA creates a frame for the celebration of contemporary art, film and performances, giving Bordeaux the gift of art-filled p…

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