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POLITICS
How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters
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news.yahoo.com - Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, and Republican nominee Brian Kemp during a debate in Atlanta in 2018. (Photo: John Bazemore/Pool via Reuters) The Quitman story also helps…
TECHNOLOGY
CNN: Dayton Shooter Connor Betts Had 'Extreme' Left-Wing Views
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www.breitbart.com - The CNN report came out roughly 24 hours after Breitbart News reported the same information — and just hours after the Dayton Daily News confirmed that the shooter “definitely leaned to the left” and…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland
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www.nytimes.com - Its leaders claim to oppose racism, though the Anti-Defamation League says the group “has participated in white supremacist events all over the country.” On its website, a swastika armband goes for $…
WORLD
O'Rourke says Trump should not visit El Paso in wake of shooting
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thehill.com - Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) said he doesn't think that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFormer White Supremacist calls on Trump to stop using fear to motivate people Walmart employee urges wor…
WORLD
Teen wins Google Science Fair for method to remove microplastics from water
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bigthink.com - What does it take to overthrow a dictator? Reflecting on this question in exile, Leon Trotsky wrote in History of the Russian Revolution (1930): There is no doubt that the fate of every revolution at…
POLITICS
Here Are The Democratic Presidential Candidates With The Most Donations From Billionaires
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www.forbes.com - Democratic presidential candidates debate last week in Detroit. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Getty Images A key part of the race to the White House is fundraising, and the candidates are trying…
WORLD
US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman resigns
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www.cnn.com - Huntsman's successor, whoever it may be, will face the difficult task of fulfilling Trump's goal of improving ties with Russia at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over issues i…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A New Study Has Simple Advice for Collectors Looking for Big Returns on Art: Invest In Women | artnet News
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news.artnet.com - Although the price for women’s artworks at auction still lag far behind those of their male counterparts, there is one segment of the market where women are taking the lead, finds a new study from So…
WORLD
America Is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump
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www.frontpagemag.com - The president of the United States, Donald Trump, never said there were "fine" Nazis or Ku Klux Klansmen. This is one of the two great lies of our time — the other being that all Trump supporters are…
WORLD
The Charlottesville Lie
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www.prageru.com - That is not an indictment of all politicians—it’s simply part of the game. It’s our job, as informed citizens, to figure out the truth. And that’s where journalists and the media come in. They are su…
ENVIRONMENT
Extinction Rebellion: When Prophesy Fails - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
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www.thegwpf.com - “We need to create Fear!” That’s what Al Gore said to me [Hans Rosling] at the start of our first conversation about how to teach climate change. — Hans Rosling, Factfulness – Rosling declined Al Gor…
BUSINESS
The Lost Corvettes: 36 Chevrolet Corvettes From NYC Barn Find To Be Raffled In Charity Sweepstakes
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designyoutrust.com - They’re the Corvettes that time forgot. And 30 years ago, they were the ultimate prize in one of the most outlandish sweepstakes ever. A rare armada of 36 Chevrolet Corvettes has once again seen the …
TECHNOLOGY
The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa
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www.fastcompany.com - Should children be polite to virtual assistants? advertisement advertisement It’s a simple question. And for most parents and child development experts, the answer is simple, too: Yes, of course they…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Luna Louise is creating A Tale of Dragons & Thunder | Patreon
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www.patreon.com - Who I Am: Hi, my name is Luna! I'm an aspiring author from New York. I love writing both original work and fanfiction! I also play D&D, both as a DM and a player. I'm a big fan of anything fantasy re…
LEISURE
VeChain Releases Blockchain-Encrypted Wine Bottles For Australian Winemaker
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cointelegraph.com - Public enterprise blockchain platform VeChain has partnered with Autralian winemaker Penfolds to release a case of blockchain-encrypted wine bottles for sale, as part of its Wine Traceability Platfor…
WORLD
Gove: EU 'refusing to negotiate' on Brexit
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www.bbc.com - Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU "seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK" over a new Brexit deal. Mr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was "deeply saddened" that B…
BUSINESS
How does MiFID II and FinTech work? - Chris Skinner's blog
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Neil
thefinanser.com - Over a decade ago, I curated a book about MiFID – the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. I don’t blog about this much these days, as my audience is firmly in the retail and payments technolo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Ten Marketers Who Are Crushing It With Live Video
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Joel Comm
www.inc.com - Video marketing is as old as movies. Businesses know how to use video and TV commercials to build stories, create brands, and engage audiences. But live audience is very different. It doesn't just co…
BUSINESS
Leading Change in a Company That’s Historically Bad At It
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hbr.org - Organizational change was once a seasonal experience. But today, managing continual disruption is a skill required of most leaders. Change management is the new management, which makes doing it effec…
HEALTH
Alzheimer’s and dementia leading cause of death in England and Wales
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www.theguardian.com - Dementia is the biggest health crisis of our time, experts have said, as statistics show the condition was the primary cause of death in England and Wales last year. Almost one in eight people died f…
LEISURE
Walmart-owned Flipkart bets on free video streaming service and Hindi support to win next 200 million internet users in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - India’s e-commerce giant Flipkart said on Tuesday that it is revamping its shopping app to add support for Hindi language, a video streaming service, and an audio-visual assistant, the latest in a se…
WORLD
Este millonario de California huyó a México tras ser acusado de matar a su esposa. PolicÃa reveló detalles sobre su captura
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www.telemundo.com - Detalles sobre la captura de Peter Chadwick, fueron revelados esta mañana durante una conferencia de prensa (video más adelante) ofrecida por la PolicÃa de Newport Beach (NBPD) y la Oficina del Fisca…
WORLD
Obama Still Sounds Like a President
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Guy Kawasaki
www.theatlantic.com - Inevitably, Obama’s statement was greeted with wistfulness and relief by Democrats, and even by never-Trump conservatives like Bill Kristol, who spent eight years fighting the Obama administration to…
TECHNOLOGY
Galaxy Watch Active2 gets dedicated YouTube
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androidcommunity.com - Have you always wanted to go and watch videos on your smartwatch? No? But even if you never thought of having that functionality, Samsung believes you should. Their upcoming wearable, the Galaxy Watc…
WORLD
AT&T employees took bribes to unlock phones and plant malware, DOJ says
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arstechnica.com - A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently unlock cell phones, according to the US Department of Justice. Muham…
BUSINESS
BlockFi, which lends money to cryptocurrency holders, just raised $18.3 million led by Valar Ventures – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year, we told you about a New York-based startup that’s competing with several other new startups to lend money to cryptocurrency holders who don’t want to offload their holdings but also don’t …
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook sues two app developers for click injection ad fraud – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook has filed lawsuits against two app developers accused of generating fraudulent revenue using the social media giant’s advertising platform. The company announced the legal action in a blog p…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple rolls out Apple Card Preview to select users – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple Card is getting its first group of public test users today. A limited amount of customers that signed up to be notified about the release of Apple Card are getting the ability to apply for the …
BUSINESS
Female founders: Apply to the All Raise AMA to win a free Expo Pass to Disrupt SF – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Shouting out to all the fierce female founders. Have you applied to participate in the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019? No? Women, it’s time to act. Apply for an AMA ses…
WORLD
The crossroads between ethics and technology – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Imagine a growing Israeli startup whose product is deepfake videos that are based on artificial intelligence and appear to be utterly authentic. The company’s marketing efforts, according to its webs…
BUSINESS
Ticket marketplace TickPick raises $40M in its first institutional funding – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity. Brett Goldberg and Chris O’Brie…
BUSINESS
Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics begins deliveries in Texas – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A year after coming out of stealth mode with $40 million, self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics will begin making its first commercial deliveries in Texas. Kodiak will open a new facility in Nor…
SCIENCE
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will go reusable, with the company aiming for mid-air helicopter recovery – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Private rocket launch startup and SpaceX competitor Rocket Lab made a big announcement today: It’ll be looking to re-use the first stage of its Electron rockets, returning them to Earth with a contro…
SCIENCE
Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of da…
SCIENCE
Quantum computing is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise on Sept. 5 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Here at TechCrunch, we like to think about what’s next, and there are few technologies quite as exotic and futuristic as quantum computing. After what felt like decades of being “almost there,” we no…
SCIENCE
DeepCode gets $4M to feed its AI-powered code review tool – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - DeepCode, a Swiss startup that’s using machine learning to automate code reviews, has closed a $4M seed round, led by European VC firm Earlybird, with participation from 3VC and existing investor bto…
TECHNOLOGY
Optimus Ride’s Brooklyn self-driving shuttles begin picking up passengers this week – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Self-driving startup Optimus Ride will become the first to operate a commercial self-driving service in the state of New York — in Brooklyn. But don’t expect these things to be contending with pedest…
SCIENCE
SpaceX successfully launches twice-flown Falcon 9, catches fairing at sea – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 first-stage that had previously served two missions in July and November of 2018, today carrying its final payload, the AMOS-17 satellite for Spacecomm. SpaceX…
TECHNOLOGY
Indie developer flooded with racist, misogynist abuse after announcing Epic partnership – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The two developers of an indie game called Ooblets have been subjected to “tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands” of abusive messages following their decision to put their game on the Epic G…
HEALTH
The Pill Club is donating 5,000 units of emergency contraception – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Eleven million women in the U.S. live more than an hour from an abortion clinic, a number expected to increase as facilities close up shop following new restrictions on women’s healthcare in several …
TECHNOLOGY
Comcast’s $10 internet plan opens up to all low income and disabled Americans – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Low-income families face the same issues the luckier among us do when it comes to getting broadband: few options and fewer still that are affordable. Comcast, though simultaneously the source of many…
SPORTS
Squad, the ‘anti-bro startup,’ is creating a safe space for teenage girls online – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - When we go online to communicate, hang out or play, we’re typically logging on to platforms conceived of and built by men. Mark Zuckerberg famously created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Evan Spi…
TECHNOLOGY
Hardware startup North’s big pivot bet on wearable computing and platform shifts – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Waterloo, Canada-based hardware startup North is a rare bird when it comes to the tech sector: It began life as an entirely different kind of hardware startup as Thalmic Labs in 2012, and launched a …
BUSINESS
Opinion | Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
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www.nytimes.com - But this desire to unionize faces some daunting challenges. In many corporations, the mentality is that any supervisor, whether a factory manager or retail manager, who fails to keep out a union is a…
SCIENCE
July was the hottest month on record
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www.cnn.com - Jean-Noël Thépaut, head of the Copernicus program, said: "While July is usually the warmest month of the year for the globe, according to our data it also was the warmest month recorded globally by a…
LEISURE
10 easy email marketing tips to try – Learn
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Guy Kawasaki
www.canva.com - The stats are in and email far surpasses social media in the marketing stakes. But when the average worker receives around 120 of the staggering 269 billion emails that are pinging around the globe e…
WORLD
The Looser a State's Gun Laws, the More Mass Shootings It Has
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Guy Kawasaki
www.wired.com - It happened again. This time, gunmen in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, murdered 31 people and injured at least 50 more in separate mass shooting attacks within 13 hours of each other Saturday nigh…
POLITICS
The First Amendment: what it really means for free speech and why Donald Trump is trampling on it
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Guy Kawasaki
theconversation.com - US president Donald Trump is engaged in a deliberate and insidious campaign to undermine freedom of expression in the US – essentially declaring war on the First Amendment. In a “normal” political cl…
WORLD
A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come
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www.theatlantic.com - Picciolini now runs a global network, the Free Radicals Project, where former extremists like him provide counseling to others trying to leave extremist movements. He spoke with us yesterday morning …
TECHNOLOGY
Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
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Guy Kawasaki
www.theatlantic.com - Your office is a den of thieves. Don’t take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting wor…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple’s innovative virtual credit card is now available—but only to some people
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arstechnica.com - The Apple Card is first and foremost a virtual card—meaning you make contactless or online payments using your phone or other supported Apple device. There's also a featureless, very Apple-like physi…
TECHNOLOGY
Here’s why Nintendo Switch consoles keep frying
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arstechnica.com - For over a year, Nintendo Switch owners have wondered about—and outright feared—plugging their "hybrid" portable console into unofficial docks. And for good reason: scary, anecdotal reports about thi…
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13 privacy feature will force total overhaul for Facebook apps
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arstechnica.com - Apple's Craig Federighi unveils iOS 13 at WWDC 2019. Privacy has been a renewed focus with Apple’s next operating system update. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could ha…
SCIENCE
SpaceX to launch a rare expendable mission on Tuesday evening
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Less than two and a half years have passed since SpaceX first reused one of the first stages of its Falcon 9 rocket. But in the 28 months since the historic launch of the SES-10 communications satell…
TECHNOLOGY
Silent Windows update patched side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Microsoft last month pushed a silent update that mitigated a serious vulnerability in all CPUs Intel has introduced since 2012, researchers who discovered the flaw said Tuesday. The vulnerability—dis…
TECHNOLOGY
Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?
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arstechnica.com - On July 23, in a keynote address at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, US Attorney General William Barr took up a banner that the Justice Department and Federal Bur…
SCIENCE
Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not
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arstechnica.com - Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars. And almost all of them use lidar, a type of sensor that uses lasers to build a three-dimensional map of the world around the car. But Tesla…
SCIENCE
With Gerstenmaier gone, decision to fly NASA astronauts may be more contentious
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arstechnica.com - William Gerstenmaier may not have been not particularly well-known to the general public, but as the associate administrator for human spaceflight at NASA he carried considerable influence in the spa…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Tensions rise between humans, mythical creatures in new Carnival Row trailer
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arstechnica.com - Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland live uneasily alongside humans in Carnival Row, the new "neo-Victorian noir" fantasy series from Amazon Prime, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delev…
TECHNOLOGY
Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu bundle will land in November for $12.99/month
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arstechnica.com - The Walt Disney Company's latest quarterly earnings call included an announcement to investors that appears to take dead aim at Netflix: an all-Disney, three-service streaming bundle for $12.99/month…
TECHNOLOGY
Metal Wolf Chaos XD: A weirdly timed return to 2004’s robo-blasting innocence
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft's history with Xbox consoles in Japan is legendary, well-trodden stuff, though mostly because of flops and failures. It's truly a rabbit hole of culture-clash stories, with one byproduct be…
SPORTS
Dumped by Cloudflare, 8chan gets back online—then gets kicked off again
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - 8chan was able to get back online today despite Cloudflare cutting it off, as operators of the controversial website quickly found a new provider of CDN and DDoS protection services. But as of this w…
TECHNOLOGY
Board game blowout: Gen Con 2019 in pictures
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arstechnica.com - A sea of gamers prepares to storm the hall to snatch up the most coveted games before they sell out. A roving steampunk band serenades con-goers in the exhibition hall. Tired of drinking non-geek-bra…
TECHNOLOGY
Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant, report says
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arstechnica.com - Hundreds of police departments around the country have partnerships with Amazon's home surveillance brand Ring. The relationship benefits both sides: the company provides tech and software to law enf…
LEISURE
The Ferrari Portofino—Maranello made this one handle like a Miata
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arstechnica.com - This is the 2019 Ferrari Portofino. I'm sorry the pictures aren't great, but I didn't have very long with the car, and driving seemed more important than taking photographs. I think this picture does…
POLITICS
Biden says violent games are “not healthy” but not the cause of “carnage”
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arstechnica.com - In an interview aired on CNN Monday night, host Anderson Cooper brought up President Trump's previous statements on video games as a potential cause of real violence, noting that Biden had "kind of r…
SCIENCE
Did Stonehenge builders use pig grease to help slide megaliths into place?
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arstechnica.com - For several centuries, modern people have been trying to figure out how prehistoric farmers in southern Britain moved multi-ton blocks of stone into a pair of concentric circles at Stonehenge. Chemic…
SCIENCE
So, how much did the Planetary Society’s light sail really sail?
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arstechnica.com - This image was taken during the LightSail 2 sail deployment sequence on July 23, 2019 at 18:49 UTC. The sail is almost fully deployed here and appears warped near the edges due to the spacecraft's 18…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
HBO Max secures exclusive US streaming rights for Doctor Who, other BBC series
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arstechnica.com - AT&T Time Warner's upcoming video-streaming service, HBO Max, has already been announced with an ambitious content plan ahead of its "Spring 2020" launch window. That plan grew ever larger on Thursda…
ENVIRONMENT
Un restaurante sirvió jabón en lugar de jugo de manzana, un bebé está en el hospital
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Al Rojo Vivo
laopinion.com - El pasado jueves, en Pornic, Francia, un bebé de 22 meses y sus padres se intoxicaron al beber jabón por error en el restaurante de su hotel. Los padres de la bebé, Elisabeth, pidieron un jugo de man…
EDUCATION
El ‘mejor trabajo de América’ paga $108,000 al año y están buscando muchos empleados
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Al Rojo Vivo
www.telemundo.com - Mientras analistas del gobierno revelan que la tasa de desempleo está en su nivel más bajo de las pasadas décadas, otros se dedican a estudiar a fondo el comportamiento laboral y las plazas de empleo…
BUSINESS
US Federal Reserve Launching Payment System, Crypto Bulls Nonplussed
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Joel Comm
cointelegraph.com - The United States Federal Reserve Board is planning to release a real-time payments and settlements service in order to boost the payments infrastructure in the country. A press release published on …
STORIES
FATF Regulations – Is It the End of Crypto Anonymity?
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Joel Comm
cointelegraph.com - The G-20 Summit in Japan brought 20 finance ministers and central bank governors to officially commit to implementing the guidelines of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The lack of regulation …
TECHNOLOGY
7 strategies to keep your phone from taking over your life
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ideas.ted.com - When your mind is even slightly resisting a task, it will look for novel things to focus on. And it doesn’t need to look far — only as far as your phone. Our smartphones provide an endless stream of …
BUSINESS
Litecoin Halving: All You Need to Know Before the Day
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Joel Comm
cointelegraph.com - With just one day to go until Litecoin’s (LTC) next halving event, Cointelegraph sets out all you need to know about the cryptocurrency’s reduction in block rewards. In spite of their reputation for …
TECHNOLOGY
Domino’s Pizza is locked in a legal battle over the future of web design
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www.fastcompany.com - Should websites be accessible to everyone, including the blind? advertisement advertisement That’s the question at the center of an ongoing lawsuit against the pizza restaurant Domino’s that was file…
BUSINESS
How to do digital marketing on a tiny budget • Creative.onl Ltd
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www.creative.onl - Formulating a digital marketing plan on a tiny budget can be tricky. You need to be able to convert leads into paying customers, but without the huge marketing budgets afforded to big-name brands, ho…
TECHNOLOGY
Google's new hardware 'sustainability commitments' are really, really vague
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www.androidpolice.com - Demand for expensive phones might be slowing, but consumerism as a whole continues. In the wake of our collective and unceasing desire for more, better, cheaper, Google is the latest company to stand…
SCIENCE
Was E-mail a Mistake?
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www.newyorker.com - Anyone who works in a standard office environment has firsthand experience with the problems that followed the enthusiastic embrace of asynchronous communication. As the distributed-system theorists …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
30 creative examples of podcast cover art & branding
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dribbble.com - Just like any other business or product, a podcast’s branding is equally important to attracting and growing your target audience. When searching through the plethora of podcast shows on iTunes, Goog…
LEISURE
Tour de France rebrands and drops the 'le'
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www.creativebloq.com - Le Tour de France is now just Tour de France, according to its new logo. A new bright yellow version of the cycling race's logo was used throughout this year's competition. And yes, we know, we're a …
WORLD
Swiss drone crashes near children, forcing suspension of delivery program
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - A drone delivery program in Switzerland has been suspended indefinitely after one of the vehicles crashed just 50 yards away from a group of children. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports (via IEEE…
SCIENCE
The Decoy Effect, a psychological trick that can influence what you buy and who you vote for
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Reg Saddler
boingboing.net - The Decoy Effect is a simple but powerful trick that marketers use to influence you to buy something that is bigger or more expensive than you need or want. I fall for this every time I go to the mov…
SCIENCE
"Gas Stations" for Spaceships Will Help SpaceX and NASA Explore Solar System
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - The ‘60s-era dream of refueling a rocket in space may finally get liftoff. The idea, akin to building a gas station for a car, could help boost a rocket’s range and enable ships to send humans to Mar…
BUSINESS
Diversity In Venture Capital: In the U.S., It May Be Getting Worse
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - The percentage of venture capital going to women-led companies is at best flat and may be declining. Getty After all the terrible headlines about harassment in Silicon Valley, after all the #MeToo st…
SCIENCE
Ghosts of the Milky Way --"Have Our Galaxy Ringing Like a Bell" | The Daily Galaxy
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dailygalaxy.com - Our galaxy is still ringing like a bell from a galactic collision that possibly occurred within the last 100 million years, when a small satellite galaxy or clump of invisible dark matter plowed thro…
TECHNOLOGY
This incredible real-time voice language translator is also a global WIFI hotspot
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Reg Saddler
futurism.com - If you’re getting ready to travel abroad, you’ve probably already started looking into translator apps for your phone. And that makes a lot of sense. There are tons of different translator apps out t…
TECHNOLOGY
Amazon will let you opt out of human review of Alexa recordings
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - First Google, then Apple, and now Amazon: all three are bowing to pressure from the EU over the issue of humans reviewing recordings from their respective digital assistants. While Apple and Google p…
SCIENCE
The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet
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Reg Saddler
www.theatlantic.com - This overconfidence can actually make us more vulnerable to exploitation, because we underestimate the power of dark patterns. Returning to the example of the free trial, companies are, of course, pr…
BUSINESS
Meet Raphael Sofoluke: An Entrepreneur Showcasing The Best Of Black Business To The World
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - Something that has recently been discussed fairly widely is the lack of diversity in boardrooms across the U.K. One particularly interesting stat that was floating around last year was that in 2018 t…
TECHNOLOGY
There's a record number of immigrant-founded companies on the Fortune 500, despite Trump-era policies
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Reg Saddler
www.businessinsider.com - A new report finds that 45% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, among them tech heavy-hitters like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, and Google parent company Alphabet. While t…
SCIENCE
Introducing a New Theory of Workplace Pettiness
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Anthony Casas
www.shrm.org - This is the first of three excerpts adapted from The Price of Pettiness (SHRM, 2019), written by Alex Alonso. Pettiness, the word that is, dates back to the 14th century, and derives from petit or "s…
POLITICS
Employing the Formerly Incarcerated: A Global Perspective
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Anthony Casas
www.shrm.org - Much attention has been focused recently on second-chance employment in the United States. But what is happening in other countries regarding employing the formerly incarcerated? The Society for Huma…
TECHNOLOGY
Senator Wyden wants answers from Amazon on Capital One hack
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Nansen Malin
www.geekwire.com - A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One customers. Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to Amazon CE…
TECHNOLOGY
August Security Bulletin for supported Google devices now out
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androidcommunity.com - It’s that time of the month again. For Pixel and Essential Phones, the latest Android security update is now available. The Android dev team has just posted a Pixel Update Bulletin for August. As usu…
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AT&T Unlimited & More Premium customers can now have Spotify Premium
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve always wanted to have a Spotify Premium account but didn’t want to pay an extra $9.99, we have good news for you. Well, it’s good news only if you’re an AT&T premium customer. The carrier a…
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Say goodbye to Google Trips which is shutting down August 6
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve gotten used to using Google Trips whenever you travel abroad, you probably know by now that Google will be sunsetting the app eventually since they announced it back in June. Well, that day…
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ASUS Zenfone 6 ready for pre-order in the US
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androidcommunity.com - The ASUS ZenFone 6 prototype images first surfaced last year. Images were soon leaked and then the phone was teased with a Snapdragon SoC and a notch-less screen. Images and specs once again surfaced…
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Electric fans could be dangerous in these U.S. states, scientists warn
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www.newsweek.com - Using electric fans during heatwaves with hot and dry conditions can be dangerous, say scientists who warn that residents in some parts of the U.S. are among those at risk. When the air temperature r…
BUSINESS
China pulling out of US agriculture is a devastating blow to an already struggling industry
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www.cnbc.com - Agriculture has been a weapon of choice in the ongoing trade war between the world's two largest economies. With China officially pulling out of buying U.S. agricultural products, farmers are losing …
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Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free
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SPORTS
Audi Partners with MLS to Support Youth
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loyalty360.org - Audi of America and Major League Soccer have announced a league-wide, multi-year initiative to further elevate the game of soccer in North America by enhancing the on- and off-field experience at MLS…
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Kount Introduces AI-Driven Fraud Prevention Technology
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AOC Turns Throwaway Daily Beast Opinion Line Into McConnell "Quote"
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pjmedia.com - The unholy politically biased propaganda dance between elected Democratic officials and the American mainstream media continues unabated. Not surprisingly, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is a…
WORLD
New York Times Changes Headline After Dem Candidates Complain
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pjmedia.com - Anyone wondering whether the mainstream media takes its orders from the Democratic National Committee can cease doing so now. The New York Times is now taking editorial direction directly from the De…
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Xbox Live Outage Blocks You From Playing Your Digital Games - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Instead of playing Apex Legends right now, I’m writing this post to let you know that Xbox Live is down for many gamers around the globe. The issue is that digital games will not load but if you have…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Official Blog Of Scot McKay | Dating And Relationship Advice For Men And Women
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edumckaytion.com - Filed Under Life, Men's Issues, Newsletter Follow-Up, Pillar Articles, Social Networking, Uncategorized I don’t consider myself to be a world expert in sociology, abnormal psychology or criminal just…
LEISURE
08-06-2019 - [X&Y] Life Lessons From A Cowboy
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archive.aweber.com - ===== IN THIS EDITION: Sometimes the best clues about how to be a "big four" man come from the unlikeliest of places... ===== SO...DOES ONLINE DATING DOMINATION ACTUALLY WORK? Yesterday I announced I…
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A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack
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ENVIRONMENT
Whaley Bridge: Some residents allowed home after reservoir water level drops
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news.sky.com - Around 50 households who were evacuated over fears their town could flood if a nearby damaged dam burst have been told they can now return. More than 1,500 people around Whaley Bridge had been forced…
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Joel Eldridge: Body found in search for British man who went missing in Portugal
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news.sky.com - A body has been found in Portugal by police investigating the disappearance of a 29-year-old British man. Joel Eldridge was last heard from by his family in mid-July 2018 after he travelled to the co…
TECHNOLOGY
Five search reports for ecommerce you can pull now to prep for Q4
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searchenginewatch.com - Ecommerce companies know this to be true, but it bears repeating: the holiday season will be on top of you before you know it, and it’s time to start getting your Q4 plan ready. There are many report…
LEISURE
Hermitage vintage guide - Decanter
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www.decanter.com - Hermitage is one of the Rhône’s most long-lived wines – even the whites can age successfully for decades. See Matt Walls’ vintage guide back to 1998 below, and scroll to the bottom for our experts’ t…
TECHNOLOGY
What’s your podcast about?
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SCIENCE
Architecture and Dystopia: Music Videos Based on Superstudio & Archigram's Criticisms
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www.archdaily.com - Superstudio and Archigram were the pioneers of the dystopia they had popularized in 1960, when they experienced a crisis that tore world economies, positioning Italy in a historic moment of boom and …
TECHNOLOGY
CVS targets millennials with Amazon-like membership
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www.cnbc.com - CVS has a plan to win over millennials and it looks a lot like Amazon Prime: free home delivery of products from shampoo to cold medicine, all for an annual membership fee of $48. CVS announced on Mo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Euphoria’ Music Supervisor on Landing Air Supply, Arcade Fire and a Singing Zendaya
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variety.com - You’d never guess what the Emmy-nominated music supervisor for edgy TV shows like Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” and, most recently, the Drake-produced “Euphoria” chills out to during her downtime. “On th…
WORLD
ABC Admits Ohio Shooter Was a ‘Leftist’, CBS/NBC Still Covering It Up
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www.newsbusters.org - As NewsBusters research analyst Bill D’Agostino exposed Tuesday afternoon, the liberal broadcast networks were doing their best to avoid telling their viewers that the gunman behind the Dayton mass s…
POLITICS
Dayton shooter used a gun that may have exploited a legal loophole
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www.usatoday.com - CINCINNATI – Even though it looked like a rifle, the gun used to kill nine people and wound at least 14 more was likely classified as a pistol, skirting laws restricting short-barreled rifles. Will t…
LEISURE
Chef’s Share: What to Look Forward to at KAABOO 2019
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www.sdentertainer.com - KAABOO doesn’t just attract top talent on the main stage; between culinary demonstrations by celebrity chef Richard Blais (Juniper & Ivy, The Crack Shack) and KAABOO official brand ambassador Michael…
SCIENCE
Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon
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www.theguardian.com - The odds of finding life on the moon have suddenly rocketed skywards. But rather than elusive alien moonlings, the beings in question came from Earth and were spilled across the landscape when a spac…
TECHNOLOGY
Will Hearables be Bearable?
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foxmancommunications.com - Ever lose ear bud headphones? You don’t want to misplace these from an L.A. designer named Ian DeLucca. He recently unveiled a limited edition set of Apple AirPods: 1,000 small diamonds along the ste…
BUSINESS
US Taxpayers Foot $2 Billion Bill for 30,000 Public Employees in Baltimore
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www.dailysignal.com - American taxpayers have paid for nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees in Baltimore at local and federal levels, an audit shows. Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees w…
LEISURE
The Secret To Avoiding Burnout? Try A Little Mindful Indulgence
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How 9 Powerful Ingredients In Our New Multivitamin Benefit Your Health
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SCIENCE
Exactly What To Eat To Prevent Hormone-Related Hair Loss
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www.mindbodygreen.com - "There tend to be four main causes of hair loss in women: hormonal, micronutrient deficiencies, autoimmunity, and environmental," explains Magdalena Wszelaki, endocrine expert and author of Cooking f…
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Mercury is out of retrograde, but the 'retroshade' lingers—here's what that means
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www.wellandgood.com - The only push notifications I allow on my phone are from Apple news, and the three astrology apps I have downloaded. Last night, I got a glorious notification from The Pattern, alerting me that Mercu…
LEISURE
These *mockamole* recipes will make you forget all about avocados
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www.wellandgood.com - Guacamole is snacking perfection. Unfortunately—if you haven’t noticed—avocado prices are still sky-high, turning the delicious dip into something that feels like it should be reserved for special oc…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Exhibition surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995
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artdaily.com - LONDON.- Sprüth Magers is presenting New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976 - 1995, a group exhibition selected by Michael Bracewell that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society b…
TECHNOLOGY
Your No-Questions-Asked Guide To Getting Rid Of ALL Your Old Stuff Responsibly
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www.mindbodygreen.com - buynothingproject.org: A hyperlocal movement of Buy Nothing groups that operate as Facebook groups, where items can be given away or borrowed (no buying or selling, trades or bartering). People can o…
BUSINESS
Learn How To Shop For A Car
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carshopping.biz - Many people avoid looking for a car. The following piece is to make buying a car less stressful. Keep reading to learn more information. You will be wasting your money if you fail to negotiate a pric…
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Questions Answered About Jewelry In This Article
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finegoldjewelry.org - Even a small piece of jewelry can get a wonderful reaction and will be Read this article to learn some tips about jewelry; whether it be your knowledge of jewelry and be able to select tasteful items.
LEISURE
What To in Bath, England
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europeupclose.com - With nice weather our first day, we chose to walk the few miles into town. Bath Abbey and the Roman baths are the physical and historical center of Bath. The majestic Abbey rises to the sky next to t…
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Would You Like To Become An Expert Photographer? Read This
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slr-digitalcamera.com - Photography allows you to capture interesting and beautiful moments that may only occur once in a lifetime. If you know how to make good pictures, you can do it professionally. This article will intr…
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Tips And Ideas For Maintaining Good Nutrition
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africanmango.fatlosscenter.info - If you want good health, you must eat well. Research all that you can to learn what’s best for your body. Everyone uses nutrients differently. You need to understand what works with your body. Contin…
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Fashion Tricks And Tips You Should Know
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internetinfomedia.com - Have you been shopping recently? If you have not done so in awhile, then your wardrobe is probably outdated. Instead of believing that you’re too old or too out of practice to be fashionable, just ta…
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Want To Lose Weight? Try This!
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diet.weight-loss-infos.com - TIP! A staple in any weight loss plan is yogurt. Try choosing plain or raw yogurt. With so much information about weight loss available, it’s no wonder everyone is confused. The article below shares …
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It Is Possible To Have A Happy And Healthy Pregnancy
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bestpregnancysites.com - Pregnancy is known to spit out some rather emotional issues, hormones, but there are negative aspects as well. Pregnancy is a blessing, so go ahead and give some of these tips a try.You can indulge y…
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Free Guide To Aid In Becoming A Wine Connoisseur
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cookingblogs.info - TIP! Know your wine shop. This is particularly important as each shop is different. Are you interested in knowing more about the fascinating world of wines? Perhaps you’d just like to impress friends…
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Solid Cooking Advice For Novices And Pros Alike
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cookingblogs.info - Even the most experienced master chef is always willing to learn new things about their craft.Use these tips and make some great food in the kitchen. Preparation is key when cooking for family or fri…
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Cat Owners Need To Know This Information
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familypetshop.net - Cats are wonderful pets, but it can be expensive to care for them. Vaccinations, toys and check-ups can set you back a lot of money. The following tips can help you maximize your happiness without br…
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The Best Suggestions To Improve Your Fitness Plan
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fatlosscenter.info - It can be difficult to know what the best ways to get into shape.There is a lot of information about getting into shape that is becomes complicated to figure out there about getting in shape that it …
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You Will Get The Most Out Of Vitamins And Minerals With With This Important Advice
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lowcarbbreakfastideas.com - A good daily can ensure you get needed nutrients.Keep reading for you!Vitamins can be synthesized for body usage, so you need to know about any potential reactions. For example, iron is not absorbed …
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Muscle Building Tips You Can Try Out Today
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fatlosscenter.info - Weight lifting can be fun if done in a correct and safe manner. You will begin to enjoy the workout and see fantastic benefits. The first step in this process is finding out and planning a workout an…
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Understanding Your Choices In Website Hosting Services
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agentmonhost.com - Web page hosting companies are what allows you to have a website on the Internet. When you decide to take the plunge and build a web presence, your choice in hosting can make or break your success. T…
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You Can Play Golf A Lot Better With Good Solid Tips | Best Golf Clubs
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golfclubsz.com - If you are seeking a sport that you can play at a nice leisurely pace, try out golf. Golf is an easy game to pick up after gaining basic knowledge of it. Analyze the following information to learn mo…
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Coffee Drinks That Anyone Can Make At Home
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lowcarbbreakfastideas.com - Are you unfamiliar with the various terms related to blends and roasts mean? Do you have no idea what the benefits of non-dairy versus dairy creamers? You may be clueless about coffee if you don’t kn…
BUSINESS
What You Must Know For Your Affiliate Marketing Plan
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marketingpromotion.biz - This article can answer questions you if you have a million questions about where to begin. The following article provides important tips will help you expand your business and reach your internet ma…
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Healthy Eating Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle!
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fatlosscenter.info - It can be hard to see nutritional benefits when young. Read on to learn how you can develop healthier eating habits at any stage in your life.Fiber is important part of anyone’s diet. Fiber helps aid…
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No more dialysis, Scientists Have Developed A Bionic Kidney!
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forum.facmedicine.com - Natural remedies are indeed very powerful, but there are times when we have to turn to modern technology. Dialysis patients can’t live without the treatment, but their suffering is enormous. Many of …
BUSINESS
Fourth Industrial Revolution Reports - CXO Transform
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cxo-transform.com - The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by a convergence of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical and digital, and it’ll transform the way we live, work, and engage w…
SCIENCE
Over 500 Tiny ‘Teeth’ Removed From Boy’s Mouth
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www.webmd.com - A 7-year-old boy in India arrived at a dental school hospital with a swollen jaw. Days later, he left with 526 fewer teeth, so to speak. Surgeons at Saveetha Dental College in Chennai uncovered a “ba…
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Battle for Mars: Planet Bezos, Planet Musk, Planet Branson, or Planet New America?
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www.impactlab.net - On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” becoming the first human being to walk on the moon. NASA reported to Congress that the Apollo program cost …
BUSINESS
Automotive OLED Lighting Market: Impact Of Existing And Emerging Market Trends And Forecast To 2025
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businessfactstoday.com - OLED is an “organic light-emitting diode” (Organic Light Emitting Diode) acronym. Different from current a semiconductor crystal composition using LED, OLED is an organic material. OLED offers comple…
SCIENCE
Scientists capture photographic proof of quantum entanglement
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www.impactlab.net - Humans tend to think they have a pretty good handle on how the physical world operates, but things get unspeakably weird at the small scale. Particles aren’t always particles, and sometimes those par…
SCIENCE
'Selfies' Might Someday Track Your Blood Pressure
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www.webmd.com - TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Taking your blood pressure may become as easy as taking a video selfie if a new smartphone app proves itself. High blood pressure can be a warning sign of a …
TECHNOLOGY
An all-electric Ford F-150 pickup truck prototype has towed more than a million pounds
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www.impactlab.net - The electric F-150 prototype towing 1 million lbs. Ford Ford conducted a demonstration in which an all-electric Ford F-150 prototype towed 1 million pounds of rail cars for 1,000 feet. Ford then load…
BUSINESS
CXO Transform | The Release From Work And What It Costs
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cxotransform.com - Digitisation will cost more jobs than politicians want to let us know about. What can be automated, will be automated – independent from industries and business models. It is time to face reality and…
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Roborace: The futuristic motorsport providing a testbed for autonomous cars
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www.impactlab.net - A new form of motor racing got underway this year, one in which the driver is optional. Roborace, a competition for human and artificial intelligence (AI) teams, is on a mission to push the limits of…
SCIENCE
In Heat Waves, Fans May Do More Harm Than Good
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www.webmd.com - Fans don't cool us down by circulating cooler air, Clarke noted. The air moving through a fan is the same temperature as the surrounding environment. Instead, they cool us by speeding up evaporation …
SCIENCE
Electric powered farm vehicles set to revolutionise agriculture sector
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www.impactlab.net - The use of battery power for agricultural vehicles and machinery promises to revolutionise the agricultural industry by lowering costs and improving production. From battery powered large tractors to…
SPORTS
MLB Picks (8-6-19) | Part 1 of 2 | Major League Baseball Expert Predictions | Vegas Lines & Odds
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baseballallstar.org - 👆1 Pick Per Day: https://www.patreon.com/join/brockpage/checkout?rid=2608940 ✌️2 Picks Per Day: https://www.patreon.com/join/brockpage/checkout?rid=2615342 💵 $3.49 Donation: https://www.patreon.com…
TECHNOLOGY
Fluid omni-channel retail model is crucial in certain areas, new report reveals - Professional Jeweller
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www.professionaljeweller.com - Retailers must build a fluid, cohesive omni-channel shopping experience that caters to living both inside and outside of major cities, rather than considering online and in-store as being two separat…
TECHNOLOGY
How to Use LinkedIn Website Demographics as a Marketing Tool
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to learn more about the professional traits of your website visitors? Are you using LinkedIn’s Website Demographics tool? In this article, you’ll discover how to use LinkedIn Website Demographic…
LEISURE
Travel Day Manchester to New York - Travel Explored
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www.travelexplored.com - Tonight will be a rather short update since there is not a lot to share with you. The last two days I have spent in transit from Berlin to New York where I am now. With an overnight stop in Mancheste…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
How to Create Your Self-Publishing Production Schedule - In Pursuit of Fabulous
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www.lainaturner.com - I’ve talked before that part of being a professional writer meant you needed to show up every day (thanks, Steven Pressfield). Showing up every day ready to work your tail off means you need a plan. …
TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft: Russian state hackers are using IoT devices to breach enterprise networks | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups is going after IoT devices as a way to breach corporate networks, from where they pivot to other more high-value targets. Attacks have been observ…
SPORTS
Suncorp creates chief customer and digital officer role, Pip Marlow to depart
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www.computerworld.com.au - Suncorp has established a new Customer & Digital team that will bring together digital, marketing, customer and strategy functions from across the ASX-listed financial services group. “Working alongs…
TECHNOLOGY
Cybereason Raises $200 Million Led By Softbank Ahead Of IPO
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www.forbes.com - Lior Div, co-founder and chief operating officer of Cybereason Inc. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Doll…
SCIENCE
The 8 Ways Companies Get Work Done, and How to Align Them
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hbr.org - For much of the last 30 years, organizations have agonized about whether they should centralize or decentralize their operations. But today, that debate is increasingly moot. Every organization is es…
WORLD
Obama verurteilt Sprache des Hasses
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www.n-tv.de - Seit Barack Obama nicht mehr im Amt ist, sind Stellungnahmen des ehemaligen US-Präsidenten selten geworden. Nach den Massakern in seinem Land ergreift er nun ausnahmsweise das Wort und äußert Kritik …
BUSINESS
Consolidating Vendors as a Growth Strategy
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www.cio.com - When your tech stack is a hodgepodge of point solutions you've accumulated as needs arise, it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong. It might be because yesterday's solutions don't solv…
WORLD
Fury at new mass shootings. Disinterest in the daily killings. - Fabius Maximus website
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fabiusmaximus.com - Summary: Another week, two more mass shootings in America. It is clickbait heaven for journalists and politicians, both working to make Americans ignorant. Meanwhile, the daily carnage in our cities …
WORLD
Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines
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www.lawfareblog.com - Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, gover…
WORLD
Dan Rather calls on journalists to report what Trump ‘really believes,’ not what he says
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www.washingtontimes.com - Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather on Monday advised fellow journalists to report on what President Trump “really believes” rather than what he says during prepared speeches and on Twitter. …
BUSINESS
Market Assessment Series: Part 8 | Extraordinary Business | Aepiphanni Business Consulting
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aepiphanni.com - We started the market assessment series to take a deeper look into the best ways to analyze a new market when entering it. From market size and segmentation to competition and profit margins we discu…
SCIENCE
Tech driving rise of new agricultural industries
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www.cio.com.au - A report resulting from three years’ research by Queensland University of Technology has identified a number of new agricultural industries that will be arriving as a result of emerging technologies.…
BUSINESS
What happens to allegations of ‘prohibited conduct’ at the European Investment Bank? - The FCPA Blog - The FCPA Blog
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www.fcpablog.com - The European Investment Bank (EIB) recently published its Fraud Investigations Activity Report for 2018, reflecting the EIB’s ”zero tolerance” to fraud and corruption (and other Prohibited Conduct) t…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A man assaulted a 13-year-old because he was ‘disrespecting the national anthem,’ witness says
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www.washingtonpost.com - (iStock) By Michael Brice-Saddler Michael Brice-Saddler General assignment reporter Email Bio Follow August 6 at 6:44 PM A Montana man allegedly slammed a boy’s head to the ground at a county fair be…
TECHNOLOGY
Cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled over the last 6 months | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Cyberattacks designed to cause damage have doubled in the past six months and 50 percent of organizations affected are in the manufacturing sector, researchers say. On Monday, IBM's X-Force IRIS inci…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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m.cnn.com - (CNN) - A Twitter account that appears to belong to Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts retweeted extreme left-wing and anti-police posts, as well as tweets supporting Antifa, or anti-fascist, protester…
WORLD
America’s nuclear-weapons policy isn’t what you think—it’s much worse
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qz.com - In the chaos that currently makes up the day-to-day of American foreign policy—a trade war here, tearing up international agreements and treaties there—it can be easy to miss the larger developments.…
POLITICS
Immigrant children: Meet Dana Sabraw, judge who made US reunite families
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www.usatoday.com - U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego. The polite federal judge forcing the Trump administration to reunite separated immigrant families is a widely respected jurist who says he faced d…
POLITICS
Galveston police apologize after photo surfaces of horse-mounted officers leading handcuffed suspect
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www.chron.com - Galveston police are apologizing after a dramatic photo circulated online showing horse-mounted officers leading a handcuffed man of color by what appears to be a rope. Police issued a press release …
SPORTS
53 Shot, Seven Fatally, in Democrat-Controlled Chicago
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www.breitbart.com - CBS Chicago reports two Chicago mass shootings are included in the tally of 53 shot and seven dead. The first of those mass shootings occurred at 1:20 am Sunday in Douglas Park. Injuries include, “a …
TECHNOLOGY
ERP is Now “Smart” and “Digital” - ERP News
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erpnews.com - Two major trends that will revolutionize this century and redefine all business, economic and production models; digitalization and intelligent automation also led to an identity change in ERP system…
BUSINESS
New Japanese Flying Car Gets Off the Ground, for About a Minute
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www.bloomberg.com - It was caged and only hovered for about a minute, but it flew: a new flying car. Made by NEC Corp., the vehicle is essentially a large drone with four propellers that’s capable of carrying people. Th…
POLITICS
GOP Rep. Michael R. Turner of Dayton backs assault-weapon ban, magazine limits
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Colby Itkowitz Colby Itkowitz Congress, campaigns, health policy, Pennsylvania politics Email Bio Follow August 6 at 5:22 PM Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio), whose congressional district includes …
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How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters
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news.yahoo.com - Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, and Republican nominee Brian Kemp during a debate in Atlanta in 2018. (Photo: John Bazemore/Pool via Reuters) The Quitman story also helps…
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CNN: Dayton Shooter Connor Betts Had 'Extreme' Left-Wing Views
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www.breitbart.com - The CNN report came out roughly 24 hours after Breitbart News reported the same information — and just hours after the Dayton Daily News confirmed that the shooter “definitely leaned to the left” and…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland
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www.nytimes.com - Its leaders claim to oppose racism, though the Anti-Defamation League says the group “has participated in white supremacist events all over the country.” On its website, a swastika armband goes for $…
WORLD
O'Rourke says Trump should not visit El Paso in wake of shooting
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thehill.com - Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) said he doesn't think that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFormer White Supremacist calls on Trump to stop using fear to motivate people Walmart employee urges wor…
WORLD
Teen wins Google Science Fair for method to remove microplastics from water
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bigthink.com - What does it take to overthrow a dictator? Reflecting on this question in exile, Leon Trotsky wrote in History of the Russian Revolution (1930): There is no doubt that the fate of every revolution at…
POLITICS
Here Are The Democratic Presidential Candidates With The Most Donations From Billionaires
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www.forbes.com - Democratic presidential candidates debate last week in Detroit. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Getty Images A key part of the race to the White House is fundraising, and the candidates are trying…
WORLD
US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman resigns
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www.cnn.com - Huntsman's successor, whoever it may be, will face the difficult task of fulfilling Trump's goal of improving ties with Russia at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over issues i…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A New Study Has Simple Advice for Collectors Looking for Big Returns on Art: Invest In Women | artnet News
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news.artnet.com - Although the price for women’s artworks at auction still lag far behind those of their male counterparts, there is one segment of the market where women are taking the lead, finds a new study from So…
WORLD
America Is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump
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www.frontpagemag.com - The president of the United States, Donald Trump, never said there were "fine" Nazis or Ku Klux Klansmen. This is one of the two great lies of our time — the other being that all Trump supporters are…
WORLD
The Charlottesville Lie
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www.prageru.com - That is not an indictment of all politicians—it’s simply part of the game. It’s our job, as informed citizens, to figure out the truth. And that’s where journalists and the media come in. They are su…
ENVIRONMENT
Extinction Rebellion: When Prophesy Fails - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
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www.thegwpf.com - “We need to create Fear!” That’s what Al Gore said to me [Hans Rosling] at the start of our first conversation about how to teach climate change. — Hans Rosling, Factfulness – Rosling declined Al Gor…
BUSINESS
The Lost Corvettes: 36 Chevrolet Corvettes From NYC Barn Find To Be Raffled In Charity Sweepstakes
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designyoutrust.com - They’re the Corvettes that time forgot. And 30 years ago, they were the ultimate prize in one of the most outlandish sweepstakes ever. A rare armada of 36 Chevrolet Corvettes has once again seen the …
TECHNOLOGY
The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa
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www.fastcompany.com - Should children be polite to virtual assistants? advertisement advertisement It’s a simple question. And for most parents and child development experts, the answer is simple, too: Yes, of course they…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Luna Louise is creating A Tale of Dragons & Thunder | Patreon
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www.patreon.com - Who I Am: Hi, my name is Luna! I'm an aspiring author from New York. I love writing both original work and fanfiction! I also play D&D, both as a DM and a player. I'm a big fan of anything fantasy re…
LEISURE
VeChain Releases Blockchain-Encrypted Wine Bottles For Australian Winemaker
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cointelegraph.com - Public enterprise blockchain platform VeChain has partnered with Autralian winemaker Penfolds to release a case of blockchain-encrypted wine bottles for sale, as part of its Wine Traceability Platfor…
WORLD
Gove: EU 'refusing to negotiate' on Brexit
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www.bbc.com - Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU "seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK" over a new Brexit deal. Mr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was "deeply saddened" that B…
BUSINESS
How does MiFID II and FinTech work? - Chris Skinner's blog
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thefinanser.com - Over a decade ago, I curated a book about MiFID – the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. I don’t blog about this much these days, as my audience is firmly in the retail and payments technolo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Ten Marketers Who Are Crushing It With Live Video
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www.inc.com - Video marketing is as old as movies. Businesses know how to use video and TV commercials to build stories, create brands, and engage audiences. But live audience is very different. It doesn't just co…
BUSINESS
Leading Change in a Company That’s Historically Bad At It
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hbr.org - Organizational change was once a seasonal experience. But today, managing continual disruption is a skill required of most leaders. Change management is the new management, which makes doing it effec…
HEALTH
Alzheimer’s and dementia leading cause of death in England and Wales
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www.theguardian.com - Dementia is the biggest health crisis of our time, experts have said, as statistics show the condition was the primary cause of death in England and Wales last year. Almost one in eight people died f…
LEISURE
Walmart-owned Flipkart bets on free video streaming service and Hindi support to win next 200 million internet users in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - India’s e-commerce giant Flipkart said on Tuesday that it is revamping its shopping app to add support for Hindi language, a video streaming service, and an audio-visual assistant, the latest in a se…
WORLD
Este millonario de California huyó a México tras ser acusado de matar a su esposa. PolicÃa reveló detalles sobre su captura
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www.telemundo.com - Detalles sobre la captura de Peter Chadwick, fueron revelados esta mañana durante una conferencia de prensa (video más adelante) ofrecida por la PolicÃa de Newport Beach (NBPD) y la Oficina del Fisca…
WORLD
Obama Still Sounds Like a President
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www.theatlantic.com - Inevitably, Obama’s statement was greeted with wistfulness and relief by Democrats, and even by never-Trump conservatives like Bill Kristol, who spent eight years fighting the Obama administration to…
TECHNOLOGY
Galaxy Watch Active2 gets dedicated YouTube
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androidcommunity.com - Have you always wanted to go and watch videos on your smartwatch? No? But even if you never thought of having that functionality, Samsung believes you should. Their upcoming wearable, the Galaxy Watc…
WORLD
AT&T employees took bribes to unlock phones and plant malware, DOJ says
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arstechnica.com - A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently unlock cell phones, according to the US Department of Justice. Muham…
BUSINESS
BlockFi, which lends money to cryptocurrency holders, just raised $18.3 million led by Valar Ventures – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year, we told you about a New York-based startup that’s competing with several other new startups to lend money to cryptocurrency holders who don’t want to offload their holdings but also don’t …
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook sues two app developers for click injection ad fraud – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook has filed lawsuits against two app developers accused of generating fraudulent revenue using the social media giant’s advertising platform. The company announced the legal action in a blog p…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple rolls out Apple Card Preview to select users – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple Card is getting its first group of public test users today. A limited amount of customers that signed up to be notified about the release of Apple Card are getting the ability to apply for the …
BUSINESS
Female founders: Apply to the All Raise AMA to win a free Expo Pass to Disrupt SF – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Shouting out to all the fierce female founders. Have you applied to participate in the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019? No? Women, it’s time to act. Apply for an AMA ses…
WORLD
The crossroads between ethics and technology – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Imagine a growing Israeli startup whose product is deepfake videos that are based on artificial intelligence and appear to be utterly authentic. The company’s marketing efforts, according to its webs…
BUSINESS
Ticket marketplace TickPick raises $40M in its first institutional funding – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity. Brett Goldberg and Chris O’Brie…
BUSINESS
Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics begins deliveries in Texas – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A year after coming out of stealth mode with $40 million, self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics will begin making its first commercial deliveries in Texas. Kodiak will open a new facility in Nor…
SCIENCE
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will go reusable, with the company aiming for mid-air helicopter recovery – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Private rocket launch startup and SpaceX competitor Rocket Lab made a big announcement today: It’ll be looking to re-use the first stage of its Electron rockets, returning them to Earth with a contro…
SCIENCE
Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of da…
SCIENCE
Quantum computing is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise on Sept. 5 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Here at TechCrunch, we like to think about what’s next, and there are few technologies quite as exotic and futuristic as quantum computing. After what felt like decades of being “almost there,” we no…
SCIENCE
DeepCode gets $4M to feed its AI-powered code review tool – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - DeepCode, a Swiss startup that’s using machine learning to automate code reviews, has closed a $4M seed round, led by European VC firm Earlybird, with participation from 3VC and existing investor bto…
TECHNOLOGY
Optimus Ride’s Brooklyn self-driving shuttles begin picking up passengers this week – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Self-driving startup Optimus Ride will become the first to operate a commercial self-driving service in the state of New York — in Brooklyn. But don’t expect these things to be contending with pedest…
SCIENCE
SpaceX successfully launches twice-flown Falcon 9, catches fairing at sea – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 first-stage that had previously served two missions in July and November of 2018, today carrying its final payload, the AMOS-17 satellite for Spacecomm. SpaceX…
TECHNOLOGY
Indie developer flooded with racist, misogynist abuse after announcing Epic partnership – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The two developers of an indie game called Ooblets have been subjected to “tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands” of abusive messages following their decision to put their game on the Epic G…
HEALTH
The Pill Club is donating 5,000 units of emergency contraception – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Eleven million women in the U.S. live more than an hour from an abortion clinic, a number expected to increase as facilities close up shop following new restrictions on women’s healthcare in several …
TECHNOLOGY
Comcast’s $10 internet plan opens up to all low income and disabled Americans – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Low-income families face the same issues the luckier among us do when it comes to getting broadband: few options and fewer still that are affordable. Comcast, though simultaneously the source of many…
SPORTS
Squad, the ‘anti-bro startup,’ is creating a safe space for teenage girls online – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - When we go online to communicate, hang out or play, we’re typically logging on to platforms conceived of and built by men. Mark Zuckerberg famously created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Evan Spi…
TECHNOLOGY
Hardware startup North’s big pivot bet on wearable computing and platform shifts – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Waterloo, Canada-based hardware startup North is a rare bird when it comes to the tech sector: It began life as an entirely different kind of hardware startup as Thalmic Labs in 2012, and launched a …
BUSINESS
Opinion | Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
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www.nytimes.com - But this desire to unionize faces some daunting challenges. In many corporations, the mentality is that any supervisor, whether a factory manager or retail manager, who fails to keep out a union is a…
SCIENCE
July was the hottest month on record
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www.cnn.com - Jean-Noël Thépaut, head of the Copernicus program, said: "While July is usually the warmest month of the year for the globe, according to our data it also was the warmest month recorded globally by a…
LEISURE
10 easy email marketing tips to try – Learn
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www.canva.com - The stats are in and email far surpasses social media in the marketing stakes. But when the average worker receives around 120 of the staggering 269 billion emails that are pinging around the globe e…
WORLD
The Looser a State's Gun Laws, the More Mass Shootings It Has
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www.wired.com - It happened again. This time, gunmen in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, murdered 31 people and injured at least 50 more in separate mass shooting attacks within 13 hours of each other Saturday nigh…
POLITICS
The First Amendment: what it really means for free speech and why Donald Trump is trampling on it
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theconversation.com - US president Donald Trump is engaged in a deliberate and insidious campaign to undermine freedom of expression in the US – essentially declaring war on the First Amendment. In a “normal” political cl…
WORLD
A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come
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www.theatlantic.com - Picciolini now runs a global network, the Free Radicals Project, where former extremists like him provide counseling to others trying to leave extremist movements. He spoke with us yesterday morning …
TECHNOLOGY
Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
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www.theatlantic.com - Your office is a den of thieves. Don’t take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting wor…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple’s innovative virtual credit card is now available—but only to some people
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arstechnica.com - The Apple Card is first and foremost a virtual card—meaning you make contactless or online payments using your phone or other supported Apple device. There's also a featureless, very Apple-like physi…
TECHNOLOGY
Here’s why Nintendo Switch consoles keep frying
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arstechnica.com - For over a year, Nintendo Switch owners have wondered about—and outright feared—plugging their "hybrid" portable console into unofficial docks. And for good reason: scary, anecdotal reports about thi…
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13 privacy feature will force total overhaul for Facebook apps
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arstechnica.com - Apple's Craig Federighi unveils iOS 13 at WWDC 2019. Privacy has been a renewed focus with Apple’s next operating system update. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could ha…
SCIENCE
SpaceX to launch a rare expendable mission on Tuesday evening
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arstechnica.com - Less than two and a half years have passed since SpaceX first reused one of the first stages of its Falcon 9 rocket. But in the 28 months since the historic launch of the SES-10 communications satell…
TECHNOLOGY
Silent Windows update patched side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft last month pushed a silent update that mitigated a serious vulnerability in all CPUs Intel has introduced since 2012, researchers who discovered the flaw said Tuesday. The vulnerability—dis…
TECHNOLOGY
Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?
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arstechnica.com - On July 23, in a keynote address at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, US Attorney General William Barr took up a banner that the Justice Department and Federal Bur…
SCIENCE
Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not
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arstechnica.com - Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars. And almost all of them use lidar, a type of sensor that uses lasers to build a three-dimensional map of the world around the car. But Tesla…
SCIENCE
With Gerstenmaier gone, decision to fly NASA astronauts may be more contentious
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arstechnica.com - William Gerstenmaier may not have been not particularly well-known to the general public, but as the associate administrator for human spaceflight at NASA he carried considerable influence in the spa…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Tensions rise between humans, mythical creatures in new Carnival Row trailer
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arstechnica.com - Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland live uneasily alongside humans in Carnival Row, the new "neo-Victorian noir" fantasy series from Amazon Prime, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delev…
TECHNOLOGY
Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu bundle will land in November for $12.99/month
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arstechnica.com - The Walt Disney Company's latest quarterly earnings call included an announcement to investors that appears to take dead aim at Netflix: an all-Disney, three-service streaming bundle for $12.99/month…
TECHNOLOGY
Metal Wolf Chaos XD: A weirdly timed return to 2004’s robo-blasting innocence
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft's history with Xbox consoles in Japan is legendary, well-trodden stuff, though mostly because of flops and failures. It's truly a rabbit hole of culture-clash stories, with one byproduct be…
SPORTS
Dumped by Cloudflare, 8chan gets back online—then gets kicked off again
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arstechnica.com - 8chan was able to get back online today despite Cloudflare cutting it off, as operators of the controversial website quickly found a new provider of CDN and DDoS protection services. But as of this w…
TECHNOLOGY
Board game blowout: Gen Con 2019 in pictures
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arstechnica.com - A sea of gamers prepares to storm the hall to snatch up the most coveted games before they sell out. A roving steampunk band serenades con-goers in the exhibition hall. Tired of drinking non-geek-bra…
TECHNOLOGY
Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant, report says
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arstechnica.com - Hundreds of police departments around the country have partnerships with Amazon's home surveillance brand Ring. The relationship benefits both sides: the company provides tech and software to law enf…
LEISURE
The Ferrari Portofino—Maranello made this one handle like a Miata
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arstechnica.com - This is the 2019 Ferrari Portofino. I'm sorry the pictures aren't great, but I didn't have very long with the car, and driving seemed more important than taking photographs. I think this picture does…
POLITICS
Biden says violent games are “not healthy” but not the cause of “carnage”
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arstechnica.com - In an interview aired on CNN Monday night, host Anderson Cooper brought up President Trump's previous statements on video games as a potential cause of real violence, noting that Biden had "kind of r…
SCIENCE
Did Stonehenge builders use pig grease to help slide megaliths into place?
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arstechnica.com - For several centuries, modern people have been trying to figure out how prehistoric farmers in southern Britain moved multi-ton blocks of stone into a pair of concentric circles at Stonehenge. Chemic…
SCIENCE
So, how much did the Planetary Society’s light sail really sail?
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arstechnica.com - This image was taken during the LightSail 2 sail deployment sequence on July 23, 2019 at 18:49 UTC. The sail is almost fully deployed here and appears warped near the edges due to the spacecraft's 18…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
HBO Max secures exclusive US streaming rights for Doctor Who, other BBC series
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arstechnica.com - AT&T Time Warner's upcoming video-streaming service, HBO Max, has already been announced with an ambitious content plan ahead of its "Spring 2020" launch window. That plan grew ever larger on Thursda…
ENVIRONMENT
Un restaurante sirvió jabón en lugar de jugo de manzana, un bebé está en el hospital
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laopinion.com - El pasado jueves, en Pornic, Francia, un bebé de 22 meses y sus padres se intoxicaron al beber jabón por error en el restaurante de su hotel. Los padres de la bebé, Elisabeth, pidieron un jugo de man…
EDUCATION
El ‘mejor trabajo de América’ paga $108,000 al año y están buscando muchos empleados
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www.telemundo.com - Mientras analistas del gobierno revelan que la tasa de desempleo está en su nivel más bajo de las pasadas décadas, otros se dedican a estudiar a fondo el comportamiento laboral y las plazas de empleo…
BUSINESS
US Federal Reserve Launching Payment System, Crypto Bulls Nonplussed
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cointelegraph.com - The United States Federal Reserve Board is planning to release a real-time payments and settlements service in order to boost the payments infrastructure in the country. A press release published on …
STORIES
FATF Regulations – Is It the End of Crypto Anonymity?
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cointelegraph.com - The G-20 Summit in Japan brought 20 finance ministers and central bank governors to officially commit to implementing the guidelines of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The lack of regulation …
TECHNOLOGY
7 strategies to keep your phone from taking over your life
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ideas.ted.com - When your mind is even slightly resisting a task, it will look for novel things to focus on. And it doesn’t need to look far — only as far as your phone. Our smartphones provide an endless stream of …
BUSINESS
Litecoin Halving: All You Need to Know Before the Day
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cointelegraph.com - With just one day to go until Litecoin’s (LTC) next halving event, Cointelegraph sets out all you need to know about the cryptocurrency’s reduction in block rewards. In spite of their reputation for …
TECHNOLOGY
Domino’s Pizza is locked in a legal battle over the future of web design
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www.fastcompany.com - Should websites be accessible to everyone, including the blind? advertisement advertisement That’s the question at the center of an ongoing lawsuit against the pizza restaurant Domino’s that was file…
BUSINESS
How to do digital marketing on a tiny budget • Creative.onl Ltd
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www.creative.onl - Formulating a digital marketing plan on a tiny budget can be tricky. You need to be able to convert leads into paying customers, but without the huge marketing budgets afforded to big-name brands, ho…
TECHNOLOGY
Google's new hardware 'sustainability commitments' are really, really vague
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www.androidpolice.com - Demand for expensive phones might be slowing, but consumerism as a whole continues. In the wake of our collective and unceasing desire for more, better, cheaper, Google is the latest company to stand…
SCIENCE
Was E-mail a Mistake?
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www.newyorker.com - Anyone who works in a standard office environment has firsthand experience with the problems that followed the enthusiastic embrace of asynchronous communication. As the distributed-system theorists …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
30 creative examples of podcast cover art & branding
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dribbble.com - Just like any other business or product, a podcast’s branding is equally important to attracting and growing your target audience. When searching through the plethora of podcast shows on iTunes, Goog…
LEISURE
Tour de France rebrands and drops the 'le'
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www.creativebloq.com - Le Tour de France is now just Tour de France, according to its new logo. A new bright yellow version of the cycling race's logo was used throughout this year's competition. And yes, we know, we're a …
WORLD
Swiss drone crashes near children, forcing suspension of delivery program
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www.theverge.com - A drone delivery program in Switzerland has been suspended indefinitely after one of the vehicles crashed just 50 yards away from a group of children. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports (via IEEE…
SCIENCE
The Decoy Effect, a psychological trick that can influence what you buy and who you vote for
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boingboing.net - The Decoy Effect is a simple but powerful trick that marketers use to influence you to buy something that is bigger or more expensive than you need or want. I fall for this every time I go to the mov…
SCIENCE
"Gas Stations" for Spaceships Will Help SpaceX and NASA Explore Solar System
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www.inverse.com - The ‘60s-era dream of refueling a rocket in space may finally get liftoff. The idea, akin to building a gas station for a car, could help boost a rocket’s range and enable ships to send humans to Mar…
BUSINESS
Diversity In Venture Capital: In the U.S., It May Be Getting Worse
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www.forbes.com - The percentage of venture capital going to women-led companies is at best flat and may be declining. Getty After all the terrible headlines about harassment in Silicon Valley, after all the #MeToo st…
SCIENCE
Ghosts of the Milky Way --"Have Our Galaxy Ringing Like a Bell" | The Daily Galaxy
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dailygalaxy.com - Our galaxy is still ringing like a bell from a galactic collision that possibly occurred within the last 100 million years, when a small satellite galaxy or clump of invisible dark matter plowed thro…
TECHNOLOGY
This incredible real-time voice language translator is also a global WIFI hotspot
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futurism.com - If you’re getting ready to travel abroad, you’ve probably already started looking into translator apps for your phone. And that makes a lot of sense. There are tons of different translator apps out t…
TECHNOLOGY
Amazon will let you opt out of human review of Alexa recordings
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www.theverge.com - First Google, then Apple, and now Amazon: all three are bowing to pressure from the EU over the issue of humans reviewing recordings from their respective digital assistants. While Apple and Google p…
SCIENCE
The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet
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www.theatlantic.com - This overconfidence can actually make us more vulnerable to exploitation, because we underestimate the power of dark patterns. Returning to the example of the free trial, companies are, of course, pr…
BUSINESS
Meet Raphael Sofoluke: An Entrepreneur Showcasing The Best Of Black Business To The World
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www.forbes.com - Something that has recently been discussed fairly widely is the lack of diversity in boardrooms across the U.K. One particularly interesting stat that was floating around last year was that in 2018 t…
TECHNOLOGY
There's a record number of immigrant-founded companies on the Fortune 500, despite Trump-era policies
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www.businessinsider.com - A new report finds that 45% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, among them tech heavy-hitters like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, and Google parent company Alphabet. While t…
SCIENCE
Introducing a New Theory of Workplace Pettiness
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www.shrm.org - This is the first of three excerpts adapted from The Price of Pettiness (SHRM, 2019), written by Alex Alonso. Pettiness, the word that is, dates back to the 14th century, and derives from petit or "s…
POLITICS
Employing the Formerly Incarcerated: A Global Perspective
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www.shrm.org - Much attention has been focused recently on second-chance employment in the United States. But what is happening in other countries regarding employing the formerly incarcerated? The Society for Huma…
TECHNOLOGY
Senator Wyden wants answers from Amazon on Capital One hack
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www.geekwire.com - A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One customers. Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to Amazon CE…
TECHNOLOGY
August Security Bulletin for supported Google devices now out
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androidcommunity.com - It’s that time of the month again. For Pixel and Essential Phones, the latest Android security update is now available. The Android dev team has just posted a Pixel Update Bulletin for August. As usu…
TECHNOLOGY
AT&T Unlimited & More Premium customers can now have Spotify Premium
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve always wanted to have a Spotify Premium account but didn’t want to pay an extra $9.99, we have good news for you. Well, it’s good news only if you’re an AT&T premium customer. The carrier a…
TECHNOLOGY
Say goodbye to Google Trips which is shutting down August 6
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve gotten used to using Google Trips whenever you travel abroad, you probably know by now that Google will be sunsetting the app eventually since they announced it back in June. Well, that day…
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ASUS Zenfone 6 ready for pre-order in the US
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androidcommunity.com - The ASUS ZenFone 6 prototype images first surfaced last year. Images were soon leaked and then the phone was teased with a Snapdragon SoC and a notch-less screen. Images and specs once again surfaced…
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Electric fans could be dangerous in these U.S. states, scientists warn
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www.newsweek.com - Using electric fans during heatwaves with hot and dry conditions can be dangerous, say scientists who warn that residents in some parts of the U.S. are among those at risk. When the air temperature r…
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China pulling out of US agriculture is a devastating blow to an already struggling industry
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www.cnbc.com - Agriculture has been a weapon of choice in the ongoing trade war between the world's two largest economies. With China officially pulling out of buying U.S. agricultural products, farmers are losing …
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Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free
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SPORTS
Audi Partners with MLS to Support Youth
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loyalty360.org - Audi of America and Major League Soccer have announced a league-wide, multi-year initiative to further elevate the game of soccer in North America by enhancing the on- and off-field experience at MLS…
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Kount Introduces AI-Driven Fraud Prevention Technology
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loyalty360.org - We are in a world with rapidly involving tech, where payments are increasingly electronic and fraud attempts are all but inevitable. Fortunately, numerous anti-fraud solutions have appeared in recent…
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AOC Turns Throwaway Daily Beast Opinion Line Into McConnell "Quote"
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pjmedia.com - The unholy politically biased propaganda dance between elected Democratic officials and the American mainstream media continues unabated. Not surprisingly, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is a…
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New York Times Changes Headline After Dem Candidates Complain
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pjmedia.com - Anyone wondering whether the mainstream media takes its orders from the Democratic National Committee can cease doing so now. The New York Times is now taking editorial direction directly from the De…
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Xbox Live Outage Blocks You From Playing Your Digital Games - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Instead of playing Apex Legends right now, I’m writing this post to let you know that Xbox Live is down for many gamers around the globe. The issue is that digital games will not load but if you have…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Official Blog Of Scot McKay | Dating And Relationship Advice For Men And Women
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LEISURE
08-06-2019 - [X&Y] Life Lessons From A Cowboy
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A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack
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Whaley Bridge: Some residents allowed home after reservoir water level drops
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news.sky.com - Around 50 households who were evacuated over fears their town could flood if a nearby damaged dam burst have been told they can now return. More than 1,500 people around Whaley Bridge had been forced…
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Joel Eldridge: Body found in search for British man who went missing in Portugal
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news.sky.com - A body has been found in Portugal by police investigating the disappearance of a 29-year-old British man. Joel Eldridge was last heard from by his family in mid-July 2018 after he travelled to the co…
TECHNOLOGY
Five search reports for ecommerce you can pull now to prep for Q4
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searchenginewatch.com - Ecommerce companies know this to be true, but it bears repeating: the holiday season will be on top of you before you know it, and it’s time to start getting your Q4 plan ready. There are many report…
LEISURE
Hermitage vintage guide - Decanter
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www.decanter.com - Hermitage is one of the Rhône’s most long-lived wines – even the whites can age successfully for decades. See Matt Walls’ vintage guide back to 1998 below, and scroll to the bottom for our experts’ t…
TECHNOLOGY
What’s your podcast about?
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seths.blog - This is the moment, right here and right now, to start your podcast. Not because it will make you rich. Hardly. There are too many other ways for people to spend their attention for you (or me) to po…
SCIENCE
Architecture and Dystopia: Music Videos Based on Superstudio & Archigram's Criticisms
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www.archdaily.com - Superstudio and Archigram were the pioneers of the dystopia they had popularized in 1960, when they experienced a crisis that tore world economies, positioning Italy in a historic moment of boom and …
TECHNOLOGY
CVS targets millennials with Amazon-like membership
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www.cnbc.com - CVS has a plan to win over millennials and it looks a lot like Amazon Prime: free home delivery of products from shampoo to cold medicine, all for an annual membership fee of $48. CVS announced on Mo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Euphoria’ Music Supervisor on Landing Air Supply, Arcade Fire and a Singing Zendaya
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variety.com - You’d never guess what the Emmy-nominated music supervisor for edgy TV shows like Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” and, most recently, the Drake-produced “Euphoria” chills out to during her downtime. “On th…
WORLD
ABC Admits Ohio Shooter Was a ‘Leftist’, CBS/NBC Still Covering It Up
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www.newsbusters.org - As NewsBusters research analyst Bill D’Agostino exposed Tuesday afternoon, the liberal broadcast networks were doing their best to avoid telling their viewers that the gunman behind the Dayton mass s…
POLITICS
Dayton shooter used a gun that may have exploited a legal loophole
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www.usatoday.com - CINCINNATI – Even though it looked like a rifle, the gun used to kill nine people and wound at least 14 more was likely classified as a pistol, skirting laws restricting short-barreled rifles. Will t…
LEISURE
Chef’s Share: What to Look Forward to at KAABOO 2019
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www.sdentertainer.com - KAABOO doesn’t just attract top talent on the main stage; between culinary demonstrations by celebrity chef Richard Blais (Juniper & Ivy, The Crack Shack) and KAABOO official brand ambassador Michael…
SCIENCE
Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon
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www.theguardian.com - The odds of finding life on the moon have suddenly rocketed skywards. But rather than elusive alien moonlings, the beings in question came from Earth and were spilled across the landscape when a spac…
TECHNOLOGY
Will Hearables be Bearable?
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foxmancommunications.com - Ever lose ear bud headphones? You don’t want to misplace these from an L.A. designer named Ian DeLucca. He recently unveiled a limited edition set of Apple AirPods: 1,000 small diamonds along the ste…
BUSINESS
US Taxpayers Foot $2 Billion Bill for 30,000 Public Employees in Baltimore
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www.dailysignal.com - American taxpayers have paid for nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees in Baltimore at local and federal levels, an audit shows. Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees w…
LEISURE
The Secret To Avoiding Burnout? Try A Little Mindful Indulgence
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How 9 Powerful Ingredients In Our New Multivitamin Benefit Your Health
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SCIENCE
Exactly What To Eat To Prevent Hormone-Related Hair Loss
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www.mindbodygreen.com - "There tend to be four main causes of hair loss in women: hormonal, micronutrient deficiencies, autoimmunity, and environmental," explains Magdalena Wszelaki, endocrine expert and author of Cooking f…
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Mercury is out of retrograde, but the 'retroshade' lingers—here's what that means
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www.wellandgood.com - The only push notifications I allow on my phone are from Apple news, and the three astrology apps I have downloaded. Last night, I got a glorious notification from The Pattern, alerting me that Mercu…
LEISURE
These *mockamole* recipes will make you forget all about avocados
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www.wellandgood.com - Guacamole is snacking perfection. Unfortunately—if you haven’t noticed—avocado prices are still sky-high, turning the delicious dip into something that feels like it should be reserved for special oc…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Exhibition surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995
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artdaily.com - LONDON.- Sprüth Magers is presenting New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976 - 1995, a group exhibition selected by Michael Bracewell that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society b…
TECHNOLOGY
Your No-Questions-Asked Guide To Getting Rid Of ALL Your Old Stuff Responsibly
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www.mindbodygreen.com - buynothingproject.org: A hyperlocal movement of Buy Nothing groups that operate as Facebook groups, where items can be given away or borrowed (no buying or selling, trades or bartering). People can o…
BUSINESS
Learn How To Shop For A Car
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carshopping.biz - Many people avoid looking for a car. The following piece is to make buying a car less stressful. Keep reading to learn more information. You will be wasting your money if you fail to negotiate a pric…
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Questions Answered About Jewelry In This Article
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finegoldjewelry.org - Even a small piece of jewelry can get a wonderful reaction and will be Read this article to learn some tips about jewelry; whether it be your knowledge of jewelry and be able to select tasteful items.
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What To in Bath, England
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europeupclose.com - With nice weather our first day, we chose to walk the few miles into town. Bath Abbey and the Roman baths are the physical and historical center of Bath. The majestic Abbey rises to the sky next to t…
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Would You Like To Become An Expert Photographer? Read This
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slr-digitalcamera.com - Photography allows you to capture interesting and beautiful moments that may only occur once in a lifetime. If you know how to make good pictures, you can do it professionally. This article will intr…
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Tips And Ideas For Maintaining Good Nutrition
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africanmango.fatlosscenter.info - If you want good health, you must eat well. Research all that you can to learn what’s best for your body. Everyone uses nutrients differently. You need to understand what works with your body. Contin…
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Fashion Tricks And Tips You Should Know
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internetinfomedia.com - Have you been shopping recently? If you have not done so in awhile, then your wardrobe is probably outdated. Instead of believing that you’re too old or too out of practice to be fashionable, just ta…
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Want To Lose Weight? Try This!
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It Is Possible To Have A Happy And Healthy Pregnancy
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bestpregnancysites.com - Pregnancy is known to spit out some rather emotional issues, hormones, but there are negative aspects as well. Pregnancy is a blessing, so go ahead and give some of these tips a try.You can indulge y…
LEISURE
Free Guide To Aid In Becoming A Wine Connoisseur
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Solid Cooking Advice For Novices And Pros Alike
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cookingblogs.info - Even the most experienced master chef is always willing to learn new things about their craft.Use these tips and make some great food in the kitchen. Preparation is key when cooking for family or fri…
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Cat Owners Need To Know This Information
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familypetshop.net - Cats are wonderful pets, but it can be expensive to care for them. Vaccinations, toys and check-ups can set you back a lot of money. The following tips can help you maximize your happiness without br…
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The Best Suggestions To Improve Your Fitness Plan
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You Will Get The Most Out Of Vitamins And Minerals With With This Important Advice
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Muscle Building Tips You Can Try Out Today
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Understanding Your Choices In Website Hosting Services
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agentmonhost.com - Web page hosting companies are what allows you to have a website on the Internet. When you decide to take the plunge and build a web presence, your choice in hosting can make or break your success. T…
SPORTS
You Can Play Golf A Lot Better With Good Solid Tips | Best Golf Clubs
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golfclubsz.com - If you are seeking a sport that you can play at a nice leisurely pace, try out golf. Golf is an easy game to pick up after gaining basic knowledge of it. Analyze the following information to learn mo…
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Coffee Drinks That Anyone Can Make At Home
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lowcarbbreakfastideas.com - Are you unfamiliar with the various terms related to blends and roasts mean? Do you have no idea what the benefits of non-dairy versus dairy creamers? You may be clueless about coffee if you don’t kn…
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What You Must Know For Your Affiliate Marketing Plan
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marketingpromotion.biz - This article can answer questions you if you have a million questions about where to begin. The following article provides important tips will help you expand your business and reach your internet ma…
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Healthy Eating Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle!
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No more dialysis, Scientists Have Developed A Bionic Kidney!
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Fourth Industrial Revolution Reports - CXO Transform
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cxo-transform.com - The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by a convergence of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical and digital, and it’ll transform the way we live, work, and engage w…
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Over 500 Tiny ‘Teeth’ Removed From Boy’s Mouth
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www.webmd.com - A 7-year-old boy in India arrived at a dental school hospital with a swollen jaw. Days later, he left with 526 fewer teeth, so to speak. Surgeons at Saveetha Dental College in Chennai uncovered a “ba…
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Battle for Mars: Planet Bezos, Planet Musk, Planet Branson, or Planet New America?
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www.impactlab.net - On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” becoming the first human being to walk on the moon. NASA reported to Congress that the Apollo program cost …
BUSINESS
Automotive OLED Lighting Market: Impact Of Existing And Emerging Market Trends And Forecast To 2025
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SCIENCE
Scientists capture photographic proof of quantum entanglement
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www.impactlab.net - Humans tend to think they have a pretty good handle on how the physical world operates, but things get unspeakably weird at the small scale. Particles aren’t always particles, and sometimes those par…
SCIENCE
'Selfies' Might Someday Track Your Blood Pressure
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www.webmd.com - TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Taking your blood pressure may become as easy as taking a video selfie if a new smartphone app proves itself. High blood pressure can be a warning sign of a …
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An all-electric Ford F-150 pickup truck prototype has towed more than a million pounds
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www.impactlab.net - The electric F-150 prototype towing 1 million lbs. Ford Ford conducted a demonstration in which an all-electric Ford F-150 prototype towed 1 million pounds of rail cars for 1,000 feet. Ford then load…
BUSINESS
CXO Transform | The Release From Work And What It Costs
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cxotransform.com - Digitisation will cost more jobs than politicians want to let us know about. What can be automated, will be automated – independent from industries and business models. It is time to face reality and…
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Roborace: The futuristic motorsport providing a testbed for autonomous cars
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www.impactlab.net - A new form of motor racing got underway this year, one in which the driver is optional. Roborace, a competition for human and artificial intelligence (AI) teams, is on a mission to push the limits of…
SCIENCE
In Heat Waves, Fans May Do More Harm Than Good
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www.webmd.com - Fans don't cool us down by circulating cooler air, Clarke noted. The air moving through a fan is the same temperature as the surrounding environment. Instead, they cool us by speeding up evaporation …
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Electric powered farm vehicles set to revolutionise agriculture sector
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www.impactlab.net - The use of battery power for agricultural vehicles and machinery promises to revolutionise the agricultural industry by lowering costs and improving production. From battery powered large tractors to…
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MLB Picks (8-6-19) | Part 1 of 2 | Major League Baseball Expert Predictions | Vegas Lines & Odds
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Fluid omni-channel retail model is crucial in certain areas, new report reveals - Professional Jeweller
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www.professionaljeweller.com - Retailers must build a fluid, cohesive omni-channel shopping experience that caters to living both inside and outside of major cities, rather than considering online and in-store as being two separat…
TECHNOLOGY
How to Use LinkedIn Website Demographics as a Marketing Tool
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Travel Day Manchester to New York - Travel Explored
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www.travelexplored.com - Tonight will be a rather short update since there is not a lot to share with you. The last two days I have spent in transit from Berlin to New York where I am now. With an overnight stop in Mancheste…
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How to Create Your Self-Publishing Production Schedule - In Pursuit of Fabulous
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Microsoft: Russian state hackers are using IoT devices to breach enterprise networks | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups is going after IoT devices as a way to breach corporate networks, from where they pivot to other more high-value targets. Attacks have been observ…
SPORTS
Suncorp creates chief customer and digital officer role, Pip Marlow to depart
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www.computerworld.com.au - Suncorp has established a new Customer & Digital team that will bring together digital, marketing, customer and strategy functions from across the ASX-listed financial services group. “Working alongs…
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Cybereason Raises $200 Million Led By Softbank Ahead Of IPO
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www.forbes.com - Lior Div, co-founder and chief operating officer of Cybereason Inc. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Doll…
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The 8 Ways Companies Get Work Done, and How to Align Them
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hbr.org - For much of the last 30 years, organizations have agonized about whether they should centralize or decentralize their operations. But today, that debate is increasingly moot. Every organization is es…
WORLD
Obama verurteilt Sprache des Hasses
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www.n-tv.de - Seit Barack Obama nicht mehr im Amt ist, sind Stellungnahmen des ehemaligen US-Präsidenten selten geworden. Nach den Massakern in seinem Land ergreift er nun ausnahmsweise das Wort und äußert Kritik …
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Consolidating Vendors as a Growth Strategy
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www.cio.com - When your tech stack is a hodgepodge of point solutions you've accumulated as needs arise, it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong. It might be because yesterday's solutions don't solv…
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Fury at new mass shootings. Disinterest in the daily killings. - Fabius Maximus website
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WORLD
Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines
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www.lawfareblog.com - Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, gover…
WORLD
Dan Rather calls on journalists to report what Trump ‘really believes,’ not what he says
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www.washingtontimes.com - Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather on Monday advised fellow journalists to report on what President Trump “really believes” rather than what he says during prepared speeches and on Twitter. …
BUSINESS
Market Assessment Series: Part 8 | Extraordinary Business | Aepiphanni Business Consulting
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aepiphanni.com - We started the market assessment series to take a deeper look into the best ways to analyze a new market when entering it. From market size and segmentation to competition and profit margins we discu…
SCIENCE
Tech driving rise of new agricultural industries
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www.cio.com.au - A report resulting from three years’ research by Queensland University of Technology has identified a number of new agricultural industries that will be arriving as a result of emerging technologies.…
BUSINESS
What happens to allegations of ‘prohibited conduct’ at the European Investment Bank? - The FCPA Blog - The FCPA Blog
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www.fcpablog.com - The European Investment Bank (EIB) recently published its Fraud Investigations Activity Report for 2018, reflecting the EIB’s ”zero tolerance” to fraud and corruption (and other Prohibited Conduct) t…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
A man assaulted a 13-year-old because he was ‘disrespecting the national anthem,’ witness says
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www.washingtonpost.com - (iStock) By Michael Brice-Saddler Michael Brice-Saddler General assignment reporter Email Bio Follow August 6 at 6:44 PM A Montana man allegedly slammed a boy’s head to the ground at a county fair be…
TECHNOLOGY
Cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled over the last 6 months | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Cyberattacks designed to cause damage have doubled in the past six months and 50 percent of organizations affected are in the manufacturing sector, researchers say. On Monday, IBM's X-Force IRIS inci…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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m.cnn.com - (CNN) - A Twitter account that appears to belong to Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts retweeted extreme left-wing and anti-police posts, as well as tweets supporting Antifa, or anti-fascist, protester…
WORLD
America’s nuclear-weapons policy isn’t what you think—it’s much worse
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qz.com - In the chaos that currently makes up the day-to-day of American foreign policy—a trade war here, tearing up international agreements and treaties there—it can be easy to miss the larger developments.…
POLITICS
Immigrant children: Meet Dana Sabraw, judge who made US reunite families
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www.usatoday.com - U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego. The polite federal judge forcing the Trump administration to reunite separated immigrant families is a widely respected jurist who says he faced d…
POLITICS
Galveston police apologize after photo surfaces of horse-mounted officers leading handcuffed suspect
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www.chron.com - Galveston police are apologizing after a dramatic photo circulated online showing horse-mounted officers leading a handcuffed man of color by what appears to be a rope. Police issued a press release …
SPORTS
53 Shot, Seven Fatally, in Democrat-Controlled Chicago
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www.breitbart.com - CBS Chicago reports two Chicago mass shootings are included in the tally of 53 shot and seven dead. The first of those mass shootings occurred at 1:20 am Sunday in Douglas Park. Injuries include, “a …
TECHNOLOGY
ERP is Now “Smart” and “Digital” - ERP News
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erpnews.com - Two major trends that will revolutionize this century and redefine all business, economic and production models; digitalization and intelligent automation also led to an identity change in ERP system…
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New Japanese Flying Car Gets Off the Ground, for About a Minute
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www.bloomberg.com - It was caged and only hovered for about a minute, but it flew: a new flying car. Made by NEC Corp., the vehicle is essentially a large drone with four propellers that’s capable of carrying people. Th…
POLITICS
GOP Rep. Michael R. Turner of Dayton backs assault-weapon ban, magazine limits
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Colby Itkowitz Colby Itkowitz Congress, campaigns, health policy, Pennsylvania politics Email Bio Follow August 6 at 5:22 PM Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio), whose congressional district includes …
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