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LEISURE
The Next Great Wine Country? It Might Be Slovenia
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www.winespectator.com - Every great wine country needs beautiful agricultural landscapes, delicious local foods, warm hospitality and wine that can reel you in. Set between the Adriatic coast and the Alps, it's a gorgeous r…
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube Is About to Demote a Wide Swath of Its Creators
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www.nytimes.com - YouTubers also worried that the change would affect their view counts. Verification can impact a YouTuber’s placement in search results and losing it could make it hard for fans to identify the YouTu…
POLITICS
WATCH: Schiff says whistleblower complaint may involve Trump
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www.pbs.org - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence is refusing to turn over to Congress an urgent whistleblower complaint that reportedly concerns Trump making an unspecifie…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Officer helps homeless man struggling to shave
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www.goodmorningamerica.com - A homeless man was struggling over a puddle on the street, trying to rinse off his razor and give himself a shave, when a Detroit police officer stepped in to lend a hand. Jill Metiva Schafer happene…
POLITICS
Someone give Adam Schiff a medal
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www.palmerreport.com - it was always just a matter of time before one of the numerous Democratic House committee investigations managed to uncover something that was uniquely and shockingly devastating for Donald Trump – t…
SPORTS
Joy Behar Slams Lewandowski: ‘I Have Taught Juvenile Delinquents Who Were More Respectful’
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dailycaller.com - Joy Behar attacked former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday’s “The View,” claiming that she had “taught juvenile delinquents who were more respectful.” Behar and her co-hosts addres…
BUSINESS
VanEck, SolidX pull the plug on Bitcoin ETF proposal
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decrypt.co - The VanEck, SolidX super team has withdrawn its proposal for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an SEC filing issued earlier today. The VanEck investment firm and blockchain startup S…
ADULT
Lean Manufacturing | Lean Process | Lean Production
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www.nikunjbhoraniya.com - Cost Reduction by Elimination of Waste Creating Conditions for Improving Product Quality Quality First Time Through Customer Satisfaction Building In Quality at Each Process Awareness of Wastes relat…
LEISURE
Things to see in Ravenna - major attractions, sights and restaurants
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velvetescape.com - Basilica di San Vitale, one of eight UNESCO World Heritage sites in Ravenna. Ravenna is a small, historic town in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Located close to the Adriatic Sea, the town can…
STORIES
Christian activist group demands criminal probe of Jerry Falwell Jr.
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www.nbcnews.com - An activist Christian group has launched a petition drive to get the Virginia Attorney General’s office and the IRS to open criminal investigations into Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.…
LEISURE
Kirsten Daniel Reps ATL All the Way on The Bite Life | Video | stupidDOPE.com
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stupiddope.com - Atlanta is home to a myriad of entertainment taste makers and influencers, so it’s no wonder why Nick Love shares his zest for food and music in this city. For today’s segment of “The Bite Life”, Lov…
WORLD
Trump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Ellen Nakashima and Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email Bio Follow Shane Harris Shane Harris Inte…
ENVIRONMENT
Heavy Rains Drench Texas, Flooding Towns Devastated by Harvey
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www.nytimes.com - Some high schools in the Aldine Independent School District, north of Houston, were dismissing students, while others were sheltering them in place, according to Mike Keeney, a district spokesman. He…
LEISURE
The Glass is NOT Always Half Empty, Stay Positive!
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mralanc.blog - “Life, they say, is not great for no one. Self-love matters.” This person taught me to start thinking positive again. So, this is what I have to keep telling myself every day when I am facing negativ…
WORLD
Netanyahu falls short — and may now face corruption charges
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www.nbcnews.com - As this week's election results and exit polls continue to make grim reading for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister not only faces the possible end of his political career bu…
BUSINESS
Lawmakers question Trump ties to Panama project linked to laundering, trafficking - Reuters
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www.reuters.com - SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee have asked the Trump Organization if it was aware of allegations that real estate agents and investors…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Value of Music to US Society
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guevents.georgetown.edu - In 2000, two Georgetown alumni, Michael Bracy (COL 90) and Jenny Toomey (COL 90), helped create the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) – a non-profit organization specializing in education, research and…
SPORTS
Unilateral and Bilateral Training: Periodization, Neurology and Integration Roundtable with Cal Dietz, Cameron Josse and Chad Dennis: Just Fly Performance Podcast #168 - Just Fly Sports Performance
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www.just-fly-sports.com - Unleash your athletic potential with our FREE training guides which include over 45 PAGES of knowledge! Also receive free weekly updates on cutting edge training methodology! Please allow up to 12 ho…
TECHNOLOGY
Windows 10 Security Warning As Microsoft Confirms Update Breaks Windows Defender
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www.forbes.com - Getty Images Windows Defender was recently boosted by an industry-respected AV Test report that gave it a perfect rating alongside F-Secure Safe 17 and Norton Security 22 for home antivirus protectio…
BUSINESS
Impossible Foods will debut in SoCal grocery stores on Friday as first step in phased national rollout – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Congratulations Southern California Gelsons store shoppers, you’re getting Impossible Foods on your grocery shelves. The meatless ground meat substitute will be appearing in stores across the Souther…
TECHNOLOGY
TPS Consulting Daily
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followme4.blogspot.com - BUSINESS Loyalty360 Reads: September 17, 2019 Shared by Loyalty360 loyalty360.org - Programs Canadian Discounter Takes Off with Mobile Loyalty Program Giant Tiger is expanding its GT VIP mobile loyal…
BUSINESS
Michael Vick’s dogs could have been euthanized. They became adoption ambassadors.
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www.washingtonpost.com - A second chance Twelve years ago, 47 dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live. They've enriched the lives of countless humans and altered the course of animal w…
BUSINESS
Alfa-Bank in association with Amway, one of the world’s largest companies, presents a new partnership program for Amway Independent Business Owners - Russia - PressCenter
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presscenter.com - In Russia and all over the world, products bearing the brand AMWAY™ are distributed through Amway Independent Business Owners (AIBO). The joint program includes a corporate debit card AMWAY- Visa Pur…
TECHNOLOGY
This is what it’s like driving a Bugatti Chiron at 305mph
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arstechnica.com - When Bugatti wants to find out just how fast one if its cars will go, it calls racing driver Andy Wallace. A few weeks ago, Wallace was behind the wheel of this Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+, reach…
TECHNOLOGY
Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun is coming to Disrupt SF – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - He’s a serial entrepreneur and educator, a computer scientist and inventor. He helped bring self-driving cars out of academia through X, the Alphabet moonshot factory he founded. (That little project…
SCIENCE
Quilt Data launches from stealth with free portal to access petabytes of public data – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Quilt Data‘s founders, Kevin Moore and Aneesh Karve, have been hard at work for the last four years building a platform to search for data quickly across vast repositories on AWS S3 storage. The idea…
SCIENCE
Is that supplement safe to take? This AI tool scours research to find out – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Dietary supplements are used by millions who accept the occasionally scarce evidence they help out with some condition or another. But also scarce is documentation of potential harmful interactions w…
LEISURE
La Marina de EEUU confirma que OVNIS captados en video son auténticos
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www.telemundo.com - La Armada de Estados Unidos confirmó que tres videos publicados por The New York Times en 2017 y que muestran a pilotos confundidos por dos misteriosos objetos voladores no identificados son auténtic…
TECHNOLOGY
Built Robotics raises $33M for its self-driving construction equipment – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Built Robotics, a company aiming to make construction equipment autonomous, is announcing a $33 million Series B round this morning. With the construction industry facing a global labor shortage, Bui…
TECHNOLOGY
First encounter: Ohio Challenger 2P (and its 4KB of RAM)
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arstechnica.com - I had seen glimpses of it as I walked past on my way to AP Geometry, but now I was about to enter the school computer lab for the first time. It was September 1980 and my freshman year at Gateway Hig…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple launches iOS 13, watchOS 6, and Apple Arcade
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arstechnica.com - Apple's Craig Federighi unveils iOS 13 at WWDC 2019. Apple has begun pushing iOS 13 and watchOS 6 to supported iPhones and Apple Watches. Both updates bring substantial changes—especially iOS 13—and …
TECHNOLOGY
Marissa Mayer and Alfred Lin are coming to Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Twenty+ startups, each with six minutes to tell the world what they’re about. If they can prove to our panel of judges that they’re the best of the best, they’ll walk away with $100,000 and their nam…
POLITICS
McConnell backs election security amendment after facing criticism
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www.politico.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he is backing a measure to improve election security after Senate Democrats slamm…
BUSINESS
Harbor Tokenizes $100 Million in Real Estate Funds on Ethereum Blockchain
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cointelegraph.com - The startup Harbor announced a partnership with Seattle-based real estate investment firm iCap Equity to tokenize $100 million in real estate funds. On Sept. 16, Harbor announced in a blog post that …
TECHNOLOGY
Wing will test drone delivery in the US with Walgreens and FedEx – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Wing, the drone delivery company that started its life within the Google X lab before spinning out into its own thing under the Alphabet umbrella, is prepping for takeoff. The company announced this …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
YouTube overhauls its problematic verification program – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - YouTube’s verification program is getting a massive overhaul, the company announced today, which will likely result in a number of less prominent creators losing their verification status. Previously…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook expands its playable and AR ad formats – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Ahead of Advertising Week, Facebook is the announcing the expansion of three interactive ad formats. First, it says that poll ads (which you may already have seen in Instagram Stories) are moving to …
WORLD
U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan - Reuters
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www.reuters.com - JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials s…
LEISURE
Lime is shutting down car rental service, LimePod – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Transportation startup Lime is shutting down LimePod, its car-sharing service that it launched last November in Seattle. Lime plans to start removing its vehicles from the streets of Seattle next mon…
TECHNOLOGY
Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Email will likely never die, but if new apps can change how we think about using it, maybe it will feel like the worst parts have croaked. In the wake of popular apps like Inbox and Mailbox being sun…
LEISURE
Inside Apple’s reimagined Fifth Ave. store – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - After two years of work, the wrapper comes off the giant glass cube this week, as Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship opens to the public this Friday. The big reveal coincides with the company’s latest rel…
TECHNOLOGY
Twitter launches its controversial ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the U.S. and Japan – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies feature, aimed at civilizing conversations on its platform, is launching today in the U.S. and Japan after earlier tests in Canada. The addition is one of the mo…
TECHNOLOGY
The man behind Tesla’s Powerwall is now pitching an all-in-one power management system for homes – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Arch Rao, the former head of product at Tesla who was behind the company’s Powerwall home energy storage is system, is back with a new company pitching energy management and efficiency for homes. Spa…
TECHNOLOGY
Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law. Good. – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In a little over three months, California will see the widest-sweeping state-wide changes to its privacy law in years. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks in on January 1 and rolls out swe…
TECHNOLOGY
‘Link’s Awakening’ remake is a classic well worth revisiting – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - We’re all well aware that Nintendo is a nostalgia hound, capitalizing on its rich history to keep today’s gamers on board with its sometimes derivative but always lovingly crafted offerings. Link’s A…
POLITICS
An explosive breach of contract lawsuit against former Sequoia Capital partner Michael Goguen has been dropped – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Three-and-a-half years ago, a lawsuit hit the San Mateo, Ca. county court that briefly attracted the attention of the worldwide venture capital community given its salacious nature. The defendant: lo…
TECHNOLOGY
Private search engine Qwant’s new CEO is Mozilla Europe veteran Tristan Nitot – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - French startup Qwant, whose non-tracking search engine has been gaining traction in its home market as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google, has made a change to its senior leadership team as i…
TECHNOLOGY
Google chases businesses to maintain its payments lead in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google said today it is bringing its mobile payments app — Google Pay — to businesses in India as the Android-maker rushes to maintain its payments lead in one of its key overseas markets before its …
TECHNOLOGY
Google is bringing Assistant to people without internet access – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google Assistant, the digital assistant from the global search giant, is available to users through their smartphones, laptops and smart speakers. Earlier this year, the company partnered with KaiOS …
TECHNOLOGY
The Mate 30 is a moment of truth for Huawei – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - We’ve known this day would come for a long time town. Over the past several months, however, it feels like it’s arrived in slow motion. Seemingly legitimate concerns over security and sanction violat…
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13: Here are the new security and privacy features you need to know – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple’s new iOS 13, the thirteenth major iteration of its popular iPhone software, is out to download. We took iOS 13 for a spin with a focus on the new security and privacy features to see what’s ne…
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube’s Neal Mohan is coming to Disrupt SF – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - YouTube has found itself front-and-center in the recent debates about free speech, the internet and how the online world is shaping our offline lives. There’s no denying the site’s tremendous reach a…
BUSINESS
Readying an IPO, Postmates secures $225M from private equity firm GPI Capital – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Postmates, the popular food delivery service, has raised another $225 million at a valuation of $2.4 billion ahead of an imminent initial public offering, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thurs…
BUSINESS
Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $21.4M – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Of the 1.3 billion people who live in India, more than 100 million of whom are using digital payment apps each day, only about 20 million today invest in mutual funds and stocks. An Indian startup th…
LEISURE
Zume will provide food trucks for &pizza – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Zume first made waves by entering the scene as a robotic pizza company. Since then, however, the SF Bay Area startup has taken pains to demonstrate that it has its sights set on a loftier goal of pro…
SCIENCE
Google completes controversial takeover of DeepMind Health – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google has completed a controversial take-over of the health division of its UK AI acquisition, DeepMind. The personnel move had been delayed as National Health Service (NHS) trusts considered whethe…
SCIENCE
Ricoh’s Theta Z1 is the first truly premium consumer 360 camera – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Ricoh has a well-earned good reputation when it comes to building smart, technically excellent photographic equipment – including the almost legendary Ricoh GR series of pocketable APS-C cameras, whi…
SCIENCE
Ginkgo Bioworks’ dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Ginkgo Bioworks is now worth $4 billion after a $290 million capital infusion that will give the company the cash to dramatically expand its developer shop for genetic programming. The Boston-based c…
BUSINESS
Airbnb says it will go public next year – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Airbnb has said that it will have its initial public offering in 2020. The company is one of the last of the big unicorn herd that grew up roughly a decade ago (a herd that includes Uber, Lyft, The W…
TECHNOLOGY
New Relic launches platform for developers to build custom apps – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - When Salesforce launched Force.com in 2007 as a place for developers to build applications on top of Salesforce, it was a pivotal moment for the concept of SaaS platforms. Since then, it’s been said …
BUSINESS
Finding sustainable success with Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - “We were so low that people would take advantage of us. People we knew well would just lie to us. One of my favorites was a company we did an enormous amount of work for and really helped save. We th…
TECHNOLOGY
HappyOrNot raises $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals for stores and other locations – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Customer experience in they physical world has been getting a major infusion of tech in recent years. We now have systems being built to replace cashiers, sensors in stores and other physical locatio…
BUSINESS
Founders, get to Disrupt SF for answers to the really hard questions – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - One lesson from TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF is that founders can’d get enough programming on the really hard questions. How do I get into Y Combinator? How do I hire a technical lead? How do I raise my f…
BUSINESS
Payments giant Stripe is raising another $250M at a $35B pre-money valuation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - After a week of launching new services to bring payments giant Stripe into the areas of lending and credit, the company is announcing another big step forward to fuel its growth: it’s raising another…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV lets you hang out with fr…
BUSINESS
The emergence of super apps in Latin America – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The super apps WeChat and Alipay became an integral part of the Chinese mobile ecosystem, growing to more than 1 billion monthly active users (MAU) and 1 billion annual active users (AAU), respective…
BUSINESS
Darkstore raises $21 million Series B round – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, just raised a $21 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The deal will bring EQT Ventur…
TECHNOLOGY
Daily Crunch: Automattic raises $300M – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Autom…
ENVIRONMENT
Amazon’s “climate pledge” commits to net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and 100% renewables by 2030 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In Washington today, Amazon announced a series of initiatives and issued call for companies to reduce their carbon emissions ten years ahead of the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement as part of s…
TECHNOLOGY
Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation. The Series D round has a single investor, Sale…
BUSINESS
Shipper, a platform for e-commerce logistics in Indonesia, raises $5 million – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Indonesia has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in the world, but the logistics industry there is still very fragmented, creating headaches for both vendors and customers. Shipper is a st…
LEISURE
‘The best VC on Instagram’ is now VC-backed – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name of @thingtesting. The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of the London startup ecosystem as an investor…
LEISURE
Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Salesforce chairman, co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took a lot of big chances when he launched the company 20 years ago. For starters, his was one of the earliest enterprise SaaS companies, but he w…
BUSINESS
Cannabis logistics startup Wayv launches dynamic distribution platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Supply chain logistics is a headache and a half across any industry, but the difficulty level goes way up within the world of cannabis. Because of federal laws, FedEx, UPS and USPS are not an option.…
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13 pushes the envelope across the board – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple released iOS 13, the new major version of iOS. This isn’t a groundbreaking release that is going to change the way you use your phone. But Apple has done some tremendous work across the board t…
LEISURE
Bar savagely shuts down Instagram influencer's request for free drinks
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www.mirror.co.uk - It's no secret that we are living in the age of the Instagram Influencer, with the likes of Caroline Calloway and Marissa Casey Fuchs keeping people talking. But it's also no secret that some people …
POLITICS
Senate Democrats release list of climate studies buried by Trump administration
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www.politico.com - Sen. Debbie Stabenow released the list of more 1,400 climate studies that Department of Agriculture researchers have published. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Updated 09/19/2019 02:57 PM EDT Senate Democ…
LEISURE
What Should Young Children Drink? Mostly Milk and Water, Scientists Say
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www.nytimes.com - A spokesman for the American Beverage Association, William M. Dermody Jr., said beverage companies agree that “it’s important for families to moderate sugar consumption to ensure a balanced, healthy …
SCIENCE
Splitting water to make cement could clean up a dirty industry
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arstechnica.com - Action on climate change has been focused on the electrical grid and our transportation systems, but there are other hurdles between here and a zero-greenhouse-gas-emissions world. Agriculture and de…
SCIENCE
Facebook and Google have ad trackers on your streaming TV, studies find
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arstechnica.com - Modern TV, coming to you over the internet instead of through cable or over the air, has with a modern problem: all of your Internet-connected streaming devices are watching you back and feeding your…
SCIENCE
Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
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arstechnica.com - During a hearing of the House space subcommittee on Wednesday, the outlines of a battle over the future of NASA's Artemis Moon program emerged. Yet it was not a partisan fight over whether the Republ…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Fi gets a cheaper “unlimited” plan, bundled cloud storage
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arstechnica.com - Google Fi, Google's MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) cellular service, is launching a second plan for users today. Besides the original pay-per-megabyte plan with unlimited calls and text, Goog…
TECHNOLOGY
HP debuts Elite Dragonfly 2-in-1 with ultra-light chassis, 24-hour battery life
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arstechnica.com - Its "dragonfly blue" exterior is a refreshing break from the blacks and silvers that adorn most PCs. Despite its slim frame, the Dragonfly includes a USB-A port on its edge. The keyboard and trackpad…
SCIENCE
The math of why it’s so hard to build a spherical Death Star in space
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arstechnica.com - Opting to build the Death Star in the shape of a sphere may not have been classic Star Wars villain Darth Vader's wisest move, according to math teacher Ben Orlin. He investigates this burning questi…
TECHNOLOGY
USB4 is coming soon and will (mostly) unify USB and Thunderbolt
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arstechnica.com - This Tuesday, the USB Implementers Forum published the official USB4 protocol specification. If your initial reaction was "oh no, not again," don't worry—the new spec is backward-compatible with USB …
SCIENCE
Can artificial intelligence make enterprise hybrid storage better?
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arstechnica.com - While the words "artificial intelligence" generally conjure up visions of Skynet, HAL 9000, and the Demon Seed, machine learning and other types of AI technology have already been brought to bear on …
TECHNOLOGY
Wowing and washable: Google’s smart jacket wears and works well at first glance
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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—"The tech couldn't be seen as slapped on the garment," Ivan Poupyrev, technical program lead at Google’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) group, told the crowd during his weekend…
TECHNOLOGY
Borderlands 3 is a lot more Borderlands, in ways both good and bad
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arstechnica.com - These guys seem unstoppable at first, but aim for the backpack and the critical damage will take them out quick Knocking the shields away from these enemies requires a change in the normal strategy o…
TECHNOLOGY
OnePlus’ next flagship smartphone launches September 26
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arstechnica.com - This is the OnePlus 7 Pro, not the OnePlus 7T Pro that is probably launching soon, but it should look a lot like this. The back of this OnePlus 7 Pro is really, really, really blue. Here's a shot of …
TECHNOLOGY
Zelda: Link’s Awakening review: This beach adventure looks 2019, feels 1993
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arstechnica.com - This year's remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which debuted on the original Game Boy in 1993, stands alone in the company's re-release pantheon. No Nintendo game has ever returned with…
SCIENCE
We can phase out fossil fuels fast without having a burst of warming
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arstechnica.com - Burning fossil fuels spews carbon dioxide into the air, which warms the climate through the greenhouse effect (as if you didn’t know that). But burning fossil fuels also spews sulfur dioxide into the…
POLITICS
At Defense Distributed, few glimpses of life after Cody Wilson
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arstechnica.com - Defense Distributed's new leader, Paloma Heindorff, holds up the letter from the Department of State that started all the company's legal battles. It's been nearly a year since 3D-printed firearms ac…
TECHNOLOGY
Another Tesla driver apparently fell asleep—here’s what Tesla could do
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arstechnica.com - Yet another Tesla driver has apparently fallen asleep behind the wheel while his car cruised down the freeway. The latest video comes from the Boston area, where a local man caught a video of a Tesla…
TECHNOLOGY
Password-exposing bug purged from LastPass extensions
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arstechnica.com - Developers of the LastPass password manager have patched a vulnerability that made it possible for websites to steal credentials for the last account the user logged into using the Chrome or Opera ex…
SCIENCE
Weighing in: Physicists cut upper limit on neutrino’s mass in half
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arstechnica.com - Isaac Asimov dubbed neutrinos "ghost particles." John Updike immortalized them in verse. They've been the subject of several Nobel Prize citations, because these weird tiny particles just keep surpri…
SCIENCE
The worst US cyclone this year may be a weak tropical storm [Updated]
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arstechnica.com - 1:45pm ET Update: The National Hurricane Center has upgraded the disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico to Tropical Storm Imelda. The naming of the storm, which may bring some tropical storm-force winds t…
POLITICS
Iowa officials claim confusion over scope led to arrest of pen-testers
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arstechnica.com - In the post, the Iowa Judicial Branch spokesperson wrote: Coalfire and State Court Administration believed they were in agreement regarding the physical security assessments for the locations include…
SCIENCE
Here’s what happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos
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arstechnica.com - Geology is a big science. The Earth is a large enough place today, but when you stretch the fourth dimension back across many millions of years, the largeness can get out of hand. Because we lose a l…
TECHNOLOGY
Arcimoto begins customer deliveries of its fun little electric trike
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arstechnica.com - We've been fortunate enough to test some fun vehicles over the past few years, but few have put as big a smile on my face as the Arcimoto fun utility vehicle, or FUV. This little electric vehicle loo…
SCIENCE
Forget the marshmallow test; this could be the real secret to kids’ future success
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arstechnica.com - Kindergarten children whose teachers rate them as being highly inattentive tend to earn less in their 30s than classmates who are rated highly "pro-social," according to a recent paper in JAMA Psychi…
TECHNOLOGY
Review: 2020 Range Rover Evoque goes big on luxury, price tag
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arstechnica.com - So unmistakably Range Rover from the front that you don't need the badge. Your mileage may vary, but for my money, the Evoque is the sharpest-looking subcompact SUV on the market. Too bad JLR got rid…
TECHNOLOGY
Tesla Model 3 wins top safety rating after acing crash tests
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arstechnica.com - "The driver's overall survival space was maintained well," IIHS wrote after the small overlap driver side front crash test. "Although intrusion overall into the driver's space was minimal, door hinge…
TECHNOLOGY
World’s most destructive botnet returns with stolen passwords and email in tow
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arstechnica.com - If you've noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you've sent or received in the past, you can probably blame Emotet. It's one of the world's most costly and destru…
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei’s new flagship smartphone ships without Google apps
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arstechnica.com - Huawei even bragged that its display wraps farther around the side than other phones, as if that's some kind of improvement. The back of the phone looks great. It's like a point and shoot! One of the…
TECHNOLOGY
Comcast promised not to raise prices—guess what happened next
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arstechnica.com - Comcast offered customers in Utah a "lifetime" price guarantee in order to compete against Google Fiber, then later violated the lifetime promise by raising those customers' prices, according to a la…
SCIENCE
Here are your 2018 Ig Nobel Prize winners
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arstechnica.com - Ever wondered why so many people don't read instruction manuals, or how many calories are in the human body? Or whether stabbing a voodoo doll representing your horrible boss with pins could help red…
WORLD
VIDEO VIRAL: Arrastraron a un tiburón a la muerte y lo grabaron. Todos tendrán que pagar
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laopinion.com - Un hombre de 30 años de Florida fue sentenciado este viernes a 10 días de cárcel por aparecer riéndose en un video de crueldad animal que se hizo viral. Robert Lee Benac y otros dos individuos arrast…
HEALTH
Fue al hospital por una tos y terminaron amputándole las piernas y un brazo
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laopinion.com - A Jayne Carpenter, una mujer originaria del sur de Gales, le cambió radicalmente la vida en abril de 2016, cuando por culpa de una tos acudió a un hospital, en donde días después terminarían amputánd…
TECHNOLOGY
How Finding a Hobby Will Make You A Better Entrepreneur
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www.entrepreneur.com - When he isn’t busy working on the company that changed the internet forever, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has some interesting hobbies: ultimate frisbee, springboard diving and flying trapeze, to na…
LEISURE
10 Free Online Courses To Make You More Successful
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www.lifehack.org - You may think that you don’t have time for office organization, but if you really knew how much time that disorganization cost you, you’d reconsider. Rearranging and moving piles occasionally doesn’t…
LEISURE
Self-Care or Self-Sabotage? When Self-Care... Isn't
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www.psychologytoday.com - You only THINK you're engaging in self-care. Do you know the difference between self-care, self-maintenance, and anesthesia? Parents are finally willing to admit it: Parenting can burn us out. Not ju…
BUSINESS
Here’s What Really Makes Up a Good Company Culture
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entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com - There are a few obvious things people look for in a company culture. We all want to be where people are treated well, where leadership cares, and where the benefits are terrific. At the same time, mo…
ENVIRONMENT
Cryptocurrency Payments Processor BitPay Adds Support for Ether
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cointelegraph.com - Major cryptocurrency payment services provider BitPay has added support for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ether (ETH). Per a press release published on Sept. 16, compani…
BUSINESS
Bitcoin Addresses Worth $100,000 or More Hits All-Time-High
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cointelegraph.com - The number of Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses holding a minimum of 10 BTC — worth over $100,000 to press time — has hit an all-time high, multiple data sources reveal. According to BitInfoCharts’ Bitc…
TECHNOLOGY
HTC Smartphone Adds Built-in Wallet for Bitcoin Cash
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cointelegraph.com - Bitcoin.com announced a partnership with Taiwanese telecommunications manufacturer HTC to support Bitcoin Cash (BCH) on its flagship smartphones. In a press release on Sept. 16, Bitcoin.com announced…
SPORTS
How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played
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www.theverge.com - If you asked video game fans what an idealized, not-yet-possible piece of interactive entertainment might look like in 10 or even 20 years from now, they might describe something eerily similar to th…
BUSINESS
Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why?
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www.fastcompany.com - Are you worried about your job? How would you rate its stability, from “rock solid” to “I keep my things in a box”? What about happiness—how satisfied are you at work on a scale from “ready to quit” …
SCIENCE
Intuition vs. Data
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matthewstrom.com - At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently I attended Front, a product management conference in Salt Lake City. There, Maggie Crowley, product…
TECHNOLOGY
21 essential UX design interview questions & how to answer them
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dribbble.com - Carl Wheatley is a Product Design Recruiter at Facebook with several years of experience in the design and recruiting industries. In this post, Carl sheds light on the most likely interview questions…
SCIENCE
The Seven Patterns Of AI
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www.forbes.com - From autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics applications, facial recognition, to chatbots, virtual assistants, cognitive automation, and fraud detection, the use cases for AI are many. However, re…
SCIENCE
Surprise Discovery That Ancient Tin Ingots Found in Israel Came From England
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www.ancient-origins.net - Researchers have made an astonishing discovery that is transforming our understanding of the Bronze Age . They have established that ancient tin ingots found in Israel actually came from what is now …
SCIENCE
If There is a Multiverse, Can There be Life There Too? - Universe Today
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www.universetoday.com - The Multiverse Theory, which states that there may be multiple or even an infinite number of Universes, is a time-honored concept in cosmology and theoretical physics. While the term goes back to the…
TECHNOLOGY
With "Storm Area 51" looming, FAA shuts down Area 51 airspace
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futurism.com - In July, a Facebook user created an event urging people to “storm” Area 51, the top-secret Nevada military base suspected of housing UFOs and, perhaps, evidence of aliens. The event’s creators soon r…
LEISURE
Phraya Nakhon Cave
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www.atlasobscura.com - Seen at the perfect moment, few sights in Thailand are more spectacular than the Phraya Nakhon Cave. As the rays of the morning sun flood through the roof of the cavern, a small pavilion on the floor…
SCIENCE
Malicious bots and trolls spread vaccine misinformation – now social media companies are fighting back
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theconversation.com - Social media have become one of the preeminent ways of disseminating accurate information about vaccines. However, a lot of the vaccine information propagated across social media in the United States…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See
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www.openculture.com - Image by "Siebbi," Wikimedia Commons Image by "Siebbi," Wikimedia Commons Before the rise of institutional film schools—ensconced in university walls with all the formality that entails—those seeking…
LEISURE
Read this before you use exclamation points in emails!!
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www.fastcompany.com - The words we use to express ourselves at work continue to evolve. And no channel is the repository of so many of our daily missives than email. To find out exactly what has changed about the way we u…
TECHNOLOGY
The Air Force Will Start Work on Flying Cars This Fall
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www.defenseone.com - If you thought that flying cars were just for Marty McFly or maybe Rick Deckard, the U.S. Air Force has some good news for you. This fall, service officials will kick off Agility Prime, an effort to …
TECHNOLOGY
How Jeff Bezos almost bought Netflix for about $15 million
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www.fastcompany.com - When he spoke, I noticed that unlike me, Jeff [Bezos] didn’t gesture with his hands. Instead, he used his head for emphasis, lifting his chin up for questions, dropping it down suddenly for emphasis.…
EDUCATION
How the University of Texas Turned to Meritocracy to Slow Integration
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www.theatlantic.com - Historically, however, the university went to great lengths to perpetuate white supremacy. Today, standardized testing is widely seen as an objective index of merit. In Texas, in the immediate post-B…
SCIENCE
'Ad Astra': It's a Grim Space Epic That Feels Too Real to Be Science Fiction
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www.inverse.com - We’re obligated to call director James Gray’s Ad Astra science fiction on account of the moon-based space pirates and the anti-matter tech that threatens to destroy the entire solar system, but when …
ENVIRONMENT
Trump administration's new hog slaughterhouse rules may risk "more contamination and food safety recalls'"
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www.newsweek.com - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced updates on Tuesday to the nation's hog slaughterhouse inspection procedures that critics warn yield more oversight to the industry and could endanger work…
LEISURE
Pithekoussai: Ancient Greek Colony of Nestor’s Cup
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www.ancient-origins.net - Celebrated for its thermal springs and verdant landscapes, the volcanic island of Ischia, called Pithekoussai during its ancient Greek days —located in the Bay of Naples —harkens back to the Mycenaea…
SCIENCE
"Mindboggling" --A City-Sized Object So Massive It Shouldn't Exist | The Daily Galaxy
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dailygalaxy.com - Though astronomers and physicists have studied and marveled at neutron stars for decades where just a single sugar-cube worth of neutron-star material would weigh 100 million tons here on Earth, or a…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook is learning that hardware is hard
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www.theverge.com - Meet me at our first-ever Interface Live on Tuesday, October 22nd! I’ll be chatting with misinformation researcher Renee DiResta. Get tickets. One of the first adages I heard as a tech reporter is a …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Box Office: ‘Hustlers’ Scored The Biggest Debut Ever For A Movie Starring Women Of Color
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www.forbes.com - STX Entertainment There’s a lot to be happy about regarding the $33.21 million domestic debut of STX Entertainment’s Hustlers. The first biggie, as noted above, is that it is the biggest opening week…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
3 Reasons to Expect a Mace Windu Comeback in 'Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker'
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www.inverse.com - In Attack of the Clones, Jedi Master Mace Windu said “This party’s over!” but what if the Samuel L. Jackson party is just getting started? Could Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker pull the most unexpec…
SCIENCE
The Man Who Makes Water From Thin Air Wins Half-A-Million Dollar Prize
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www.forbes.com - Source Hydropanels have been installed in more than 30 countries across six continents. Zero Mass Water Cody Friesen, associate professor at Arizona State University, has just won this year’s Lemelso…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
350 Year Old Code Found In Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’
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www.ancient-origins.net - Has an undergraduate student discovered a secret message in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost ? Miranda Phaal, an undergraduate from Tufts University in Massachusetts, discovered what is being ce…
SPORTS
Will Your Career End Like Eli Manning’s? It Is Likely
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www.forbes.com - Eli Manning passes in what might be his last start with the New York Giants, against the Buffalo Bills on 9/15/19. Getty Images Most people have a “fairy tale” comprehension of how careers end. We en…
SPORTS
Company Socializing Has Become Work
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www.nytimes.com - The benefits did not last. Eventually, she said, “I realized that all that gossiping was causing me to get more disgruntled than I would have been if I had just kept my head down. It was basically cr…
TECHNOLOGY
OnePlus 7T Pro rendered photo surface again with a different cam
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androidcommunity.com - Here is another render of the upcoming OnePlus 7T Pro. Thanks again to OnLeaks (Steve Hemmerstoffer) and iGeeksBlog for sharing the rendered image. The smartphone was leaked by OnePlus CEO Peta Lau h…
TECHNOLOGY
Google brings new data saving features for Android TV in India
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androidcommunity.com - India is one of those countries where smart TVs are gaining popularity but WiFi connections at home are still not as prevalent. Some people use their mobile hotspot in order to watch their favorite m…
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei Watch GT 2 launched, ready with more sports modes
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androidcommunity.com - Aside from the new Huawei Mate 30 phones, the top Chinese OEM has also revealed the new Huawei Watch GT 2. The smartwatch is a follow-up to the Huawei Watch GT that was introduced last year but only …
TECHNOLOGY
DxOMark retests Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, hits a new high-score
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androidcommunity.com - DxOMark is known for publishing comprehensive reviews of cameras of the latest smartphones available in the market today. Most of the phones tested are premium flagships but there are some mid-range …
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Galaxy M30s with 6000mAh batt, Galaxy M10s out in India
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androidcommunity.com - Numerous Samsung Galaxy M series phones have already been released in India. Two more models will be added–the Samsung Galaxy M30s and the Galaxy M10s. The Galaxy M30s’ specs and protective phone cas…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Family Link updated, lets you limit time on each apps
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androidcommunity.com - Over two years ago, Google launched the new Family Link app to help parents and guardians manage children’s gadget usage. It was quickly made available to everyone in the US and eventually for teens …
TECHNOLOGY
Pocket Casts app now available for free, launches subscription service
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been wanting to download the podcast app Pocket Casts but you were put off by the price tag, then we have good news for you. The developers have now decided to make the app free instead of …
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei Mate 30 Series now official with premium specs, prices
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androidcommunity.com - After nine months of anticipation, the new-gen Huawei Mate 30 Series has finally arrived. There is no scarcity of information and leaks but we everybody wants to see the real thing. It’s more excitin…
SCIENCE
Google and Fossil’s first smartwatch project may be launched soon
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androidcommunity.com - The smartwatch industry isn’t exactly growing but it’s still alive. Only a few brands have remained in producing new wearables. One group that has been faithful is Fossil. We have lost count of how m…
TECHNOLOGY
Canceled Pixel Watch still haunts Google, may still not arrive
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androidcommunity.com - Earlier today, we sighted what could be the first smartwatch project of Google and Fossil after months of working together. The Fossil Collider DIANA Smartwatch series is believed to be the first pro…
LEISURE
Pinterest update upgrades Lens feature for better visual search
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androidcommunity.com - Pinterest is making itself even more relevant to those who want to bridge online to offline when it comes to both visual inspiration and shopping. Its visual search through the power of its Lens feat…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook Portal line gets new products for smarter video calling
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androidcommunity.com - Facebook is venturing into a different industry. Well, it’s not totally a different one. It’s still related to social communications as it introduces the new Portal Family. It’s a line of smart devic…
BUSINESS
Trump's trade war with China will contribute to weakest global economic growth since 2008 recession, OECD predicts
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www.newsweek.com - Global growth may weaken to a level that has not occurred since the 2008 financial crisis, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced in a report released Thursday th…
LEISURE
Merrell and Dogfish Head Team Up for Beer-Inspired Performance Shoes
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loyalty360.org - It’s always interesting to see brands in separate industries collaborate to produce a new experience or product. It’s a great way to make the most of overlapping audiences and give each brand an enri…
BUSINESS
Sally Beauty Embraces Private Label Credit Cards
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loyalty360.org - Private label credit cards are popular among consumers because they frequently offer some of the strongest value propositions on the market. It’s not unusual for a consumer to sign up for a card whil…
LEISURE
Using Voice To Amplify Your Brand Experience
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loyalty360.org - The Voice Revolution is here. Welcome to the modern world where custom skills perform pretty much anything – from turning the lights on, to playing soft lullabies, and everything in between. How do b…
BUSINESS
Kroger and Ocado Announce New Fulfillment in Dallas
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loyalty360.org - Grocery retailer Korger and Ocado, a dedicated online grocery retailer, have announced Dallas, Texas, as the fifth location for a Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC). It will measure 350,000 square fee…
BUSINESS
Loyalty360 Reads: September 19, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Programs Sally Beauty Enhances Payment, Loyalty Offerings The retailer “has signed a multi-year agreement with Alliance Data’s card services business to launch a new private label credit card program…
WORLD
Snowden’s memoir: Key takeaways on his time in Geneva
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www.swissinfo.ch - "Permanent Record" offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Edward Snowden came to leak secret documents about US telephone and Internet surveillance Former US spy Edward Snowden …
BUSINESS
Senate Panel Advances Spending Bills Blocking OPM-GSA Merger, Allowing USDA Relocations
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www.govexec.com - A Senate panel on Thursday advanced to the floor for final consideration spending bills that effectively endorse President Trump’s proposed 2.6% across-the-board pay increase for federal civilian emp…
POLITICS
Democrats Promising Fall Border Battle
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www.nationaljournal.com - Congress is setting the table for a pre-Thanksgiving battle over the administration’s border policies. Nine months after the longest government shutdown in American history amid a protracted debate o…
LEISURE
My London: Shruti Haasan - Actress and Musician
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www.ldnfashion.com - Shruti Haasan is a pop/rock musician and one of India’s most celebrated actresses. The songstress, who is based between Mumbai and London, released her first single when she was just 6 and emerged on…
LEISURE
Best Places for Tattoo Removal in London
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www.ldnfashion.com - Tattoo artists have been using the human body as their canvas for thousands of year. While some people consider tattoos just another way to express their personality beyond their hairstyle and their …
LEISURE
Best London Markets for Clothes
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www.ldnfashion.com - London’s markets are the perfect antidote to faceless shopping centres and high street chains. If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind vintage piece, or a bargain designer find, head to one of these fa…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Now Answers People's Questions in India Without an Internet Connection - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google is launching some new services in India this week. The company launched some new features for Android TV in India earlier this week, and it’s now announcing improvements to its core services t…
BUSINESS
Manipulative Selling
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stevekeating.me - There are quite a few definitions of manipulation. The one that closely fits some, likely too many, selling situations is: to change by artful or unfair means for one’s own benefit or purpose. In res…
LEISURE
What Will You Let the Universe Give You? by Randy Gage
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www.randygage.com - Home | Blog | What Will You Let the Universe Give You? As I look around my city, my country and my world, I see a lot of people who are experiencing lack and limitation in their lives. I know that so…
LEISURE
One Bowl Pumpkin Bread
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thetravelbite.com - During the fall, I’ll typically post several different variations of pumpkin flavored treats — but pumpkin bread has to be my favorite. Not only is it a classic fall recipe, but baking pumpkin bread …
ADULT
Remembering Harriet Tubman on the Centennial of Her Death
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www.cato.org - Her owner subsequently sold two of her sisters, and they were probably condemned to a Deep South chain gang. Tubman never saw them again. This convinced her that she must try to escape. In September …
BUSINESS
How to Respond to a Pestering Nagging Boss
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leadershipfreak.blog - There are nagging bosses. Then there are micromanaging bosses. I can deal with a supervisor or manager as long as they are being reasonable. If the supervisor or manager is concerned about the work i…
WORLD
See creepy deepfake Vladimir Putin interviewed live at MIT conference
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www.cnet.com - MIT showed off deepfake technology Wednesday that can be used in real time. During its EmTech conference, MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield conducted an interview with deepfake "…
LEISURE
UK weather: Temperatures could reach 26C on Saturday
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news.sky.com - Summer weather is expected to continue into the weekend, with temperatures set to hit 26C (78.8F) in places on Saturday, forecasters have said. Autumn is due to begin officially on Monday - but much …
LEISURE
Burger King removes all plastic toys from kids meals
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news.sky.com - Burger King has removed all plastic toys from its children's meals from today after two sisters started a petition. The fast food chain says the move will save an estimated 320 tonnes of waste annual…
POLITICS
Twitter Suspends Entire Leadership Team Of Latinos For Trump - Laura Loomer Official
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lauraloomer.us - Wednesday, the entire leadership team for Latinos for Trump was suspended from Twitter, according to a press release. “On September 18th, Twitter management suspended the accounts for the entire lead…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Photo of Canadian PM Trudeau in racist brown-face costume surfaces
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www.theblaze.com - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared in a racist "brown-face" costume in a resurfaced photo that was published by Time magazine on Wednesday. Trudeau admitted that it was him in the photo …
WORLD
Revealed: 80 Percent of Central American Women, Girls Raped Crossing into U.S.
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www.breitbart.com - The media and Democrats’ refusal to acknowledge this wanton brutality is why I wrote my new book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, in which I highlight a seldom reported investigation into sexua…
POLITICS
Latina Veteran Launches GOP Congressional Bid In Florida’s 13th District
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www.dailywire.com - Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna, 30, announced this week that she is running for U.S. Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District against Democrat Rep. Charlie Crist. Luna, who is Hispanic,…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Groundbreaking $4.8M Lawsuit Threatens to Unearth SPLC's Secrets
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pjmedia.com - Over the past two years, the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has faced numerous lawsuits for defamation and other claims. The SPLC earned its reputation by suing the Ku Klux Klan, and in …
POLITICS
Video: Cruz Slams “Crazy Left-wing Ideology” Of NYT, Dems Wanting To Impeach Kavanaugh
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www.infowars.com - Senator Ted Cruz hit out at Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday, declaring that Democrats calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh are using “crazy left-wing ideology” to “inti…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Dines with Senators in DC
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www.newsmax.com - The social media giant has been under fire on a number of fronts for more than a year and faces antitrust investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and a number of state attorneys general as wel…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
NBC News Asks Americans To Confess Their Climate Change Sins
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www.infowars.com - NBC News is asking Americans to confess their climate change sins, though at least some people have taken the opportunity to troll the news company. “Even those who care deeply about the planet’s fut…
POLITICS
Beto Now Attacking Fellow Democrats On Gun Issue
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bearingarms.com - Beto O’Rourke has already ticked off Democrats on Capitol Hill with his repeated endorsements of gun confiscation, including telling Chris Cuomo on CNN Wednesday evening that he will confiscate “AR-1…
WORLD
Some Guy Did Something – Judge Denies Bail for Sketchy Airline Mechanic Caught Tampering With GPS…
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theconservativetreehouse.com - I don’t know of any instance in which a Muslim doing an act like this is not Islamic terror related. This guy apparently came prior to 9/11/01 but it seems they’re all turn out the same. The “moderat…
WORLD
US Airforce General Warns About ‘Secrets’ in Area 51 That ‘Deserve to be Protected’
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www.infowars.com - While the viral “Storm Area 51” event that purported to prove the existence of aliens allegedly concealed by the highly classified US base has been cancelled, the US military is still preparing for a…
BUSINESS
Why Does The Federal Reserve Keep Slamming The Panic Button Over And Over If Everything Is Okay?
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www.infowars.com - What in the world is the Federal Reserve doing? For months the Fed has been trying to publicly convince us that the U.S. economy is “strong”, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently unequivocally stated…
BUSINESS
Jobless Claims Increase Less Than Forecast to 208,000
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www.newsmax.com - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits increased less than expected last week, pointing to strong labor market conditions that should continue to support a moderately g…
WORLD
ISIS connection? New twist in Florida airline sabotage story
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hotair.com - Two weeks ago, law enforcement arrested an aviation mechanic for sabotaging an American Airlines jet, supposedly for retaliation over a labor dispute. Now, however, federal prosecutors allege that Ab…
BUSINESS
Fed Policies Setting Economy Up for Disaster
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - The Federal Reserve did exactly what the markets expected on Wednesday, cutting interest rates by another 25 basis points. The central bank sent out mixed signals about what will happen next. Markets…
BUSINESS
Pence: Trump Wants a 'Level Playing Field' With World
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www.newsmax.com - President Donald Trump's wants a level playing field with the rest of the world, so his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is justified, Vice President Mike Pence says in an intervie…
WORLD
Ariz. Gun Store Sells 200 AR-15s Via 'Beto Special'
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www.newsmax.com - The owner of an Arizona gun store says the "Beto Special" on AR-15 rifles he ran has resulted in an outpouring of support and positivity for the store. Matt Boggs, who owns Alpha Dog Firearms in Temp…
TECHNOLOGY
Ezra Levant Offers $10,000 For Video of BlackFace Trudeau Singing ‘Day-O’
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Life is stressful. Get Chill Force. Support your body’s natural systems in the fight against stress & help return to a state of healthy relaxation. The perfect pair with Brain Force or Turbo Force fo…
TECHNOLOGY
Watch Live: Democrats Want to Crash The Economy to Gain Power
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www.infowars.com - Life is stressful. Get Chill Force. Support your body’s natural systems in the fight against stress & help return to a state of healthy relaxation. The perfect pair with Brain Force or Turbo Force fo…
BUSINESS
Pence: USMCA Comes Down to Pelosi's Actions
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www.newsmax.com - The U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement would pass in the House and Senate if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would bring it up for a vote, Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview airing Thu…
WORLD
Guess who Tim Kaine is blaming for the attack on Saudi Arabia?
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hotair.com - I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. Wait… you still need a hint? It rhymes with “rump.” Yes, Virginia Senator (and failed Vice Presidential candidate) Tim Kaine sat down yester…
POLITICS
White House Backs Away From Barr's Background Check Proposal
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - Yesterday, we learned of an idea being floated by Attorney General William Barr that would expand universal background checks. (Fun fact, the journalist who broke the news, Amber Athey, will be on to…
LEISURE
Empty the Cages!
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chuffed.org - "How is this dog not adopted yet?" ...every time someone visits the farm and spends time with our adoptable pups. They are sweet, adorable, affectionate dogs. So why have some of them - like Chunnu a…
BUSINESS
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey Signals Strength in September | People's Pundit Daily
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Chris From WI
www.peoplespunditdaily.com - The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey headline index came in at a better-than-expected 12.0, indicating solid growth. That’s a decline of 5 points but still solid and…
ADULT
Delingpole: Justin Trudeau in Blackface Has Made Satire Redundant
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Over the past few years, Trudeau has amassed enough woke points to cover his entire body including his ass cheeks in brown makeup and run naked through the streets of Vancouver singing ‘Daylight Come…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Michelle Malkin: Corporate America at Center of Open Borders Inc.
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Informally named the “country caps” bill, S. 386 would remove country-based limits on H-1B visa issuances. “The hatred by the left and the Democrat Media Complex … as Andrew Breitbart made so clear t…
TECHNOLOGY
Chinese Govt. Releases Official Message To The American People
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Life is stressful. Get Chill Force. Support your body’s natural systems in the fight against stress & help return to a state of healthy relaxation. The perfect pair with Brain Force or Turbo Force fo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Justin Trudeau Downplays Brown- and Blackface Costumes as 'Makeup'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Trudeau held a press conference after an image surfaced of himself dated from 2001 dressed in what he described as an “Aladdin” costume, wearing skin paint that made him appear black and an oversized…
SCIENCE
From DNA, Scientists Create Skull of Neanderthal Cousin
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Scientists say they've deciphered features of the skull and some other details of a mysterious, extinct cousin of Neanderthals by analyzing its DNA. The genetic material came from the finger bone of …
POLITICS
Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff Friend/Donor Arrested, Charged With Running Drug House…
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Chris From WI
theconservativetreehouse.com - Ed Buck is a major donor to the Democrat party. Buck’s list of close political associations extends from Adam Schiff (pictured below left) to Hillary Clinton (pictured below right). Two black males w…
POLITICS
Hawley: Future of GOP Will Have to Be Movement of Working People
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Sen. Hawley spoke to Breitbart News Wednesday on a wide-ranging series of topics including the future of the Republican Party and populism, fighting big tech’s dominance on the Internet, as well as i…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Report: Comic fired from SNL for using racial slur was hired to appeal to ... "conservatives"
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - Smells bullsh*tty. Almost as if, like Seth Mandel says, it’s Lorne Michaels’s “transparent attempt to blame-shift and win back some of the credibility he thinks he lost with his viewers.” The show hi…
BUSINESS
Natixis Report: Climate Change Could Derail Your Retirement
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - A new global survey of retiree well-being paints a bleak picture for Americans hoping for an old age free of financial stress. A separate report on the impact of global warming makes it even worse. T…
ENVIRONMENT
Delingpole: Fact Checking Alarmist Kids’ False Claims at Climate Crisis Hearing
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Finally, something on which the pig-tailed 16-year-old Swedish climate activist and I can agree. I too believe passionately that if the world’s governments are going to spend upwards of $1.5 trillion…
POLITICS
Tucker: Soros-Funded Prosecutors Letting Criminals Go Free
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday showed how billionaire George Soros effectively bought a bunch of District Attorney seats for far-left Democrats who are outright refusing to prosecute crimina…
POLITICS
Remembering Cokie Roberts — and Cokie's Washington
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - The word spread fast and the mourning began almost immediately in Washington, D.C., Tuesday after the family of Cokie Roberts announced that the veteran radio (National Public Radio) and TV (ABC) rep…
POLITICS
Sabato: Electoral College 'Exactly Split' Between Trump, Democrat
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - The overall Electoral College ratings are now "exactly split," between President Donald Trump and the eventual Democratic presidential nominee at 248 electoral votes each, according to an analysis in…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Here's the Guitar That Prince Revolutionized Music With in 'Purple Rain'
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MARCOME
www.smithsonianmag.com - It’s hard to imagine an artist more committed to a singular vision than Prince Rogers Nelson. His career began in 1978, with the release of his debut album, For You, and ended nearly 40 albums later,…
ADULT
Samantha Bee Triggered By Ted Cruz Defense of Kavanaugh: 'Shut the F**k Up, B*tch!'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Cruz appeared on ABC’s This Week and dismissed allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh uncovered by writers Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly in their book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An…
BUSINESS
China Attacks Pelosi for Meeting Hong Kong Activists
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - China's foreign ministry on Thursday accused U.S. congressional leader Nancy Pelosi of making irresponsible remarks about pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, one day after she welcomed activists fro…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Thursday September 19th – Open Thread
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Chris From WI
theconservativetreehouse.com - Our Apostle Paul wrote, “All Scripture…is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16). Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written to and for …
WORLD
Weakened Netanyahu's Offer for Unity Government Rebuffed by Rival Gantz
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Netanyahu's surprise move was an abrupt change of strategy for the right-wing leader. Its rejection could spell weeks of wrangling after Tuesday's election, which followed an inconclusive national ba…
ENVIRONMENT
Obama exploits teen activist to promote his foundation
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is in Washington, D.C. to do her thing – she is berating politicians for not doing enough to save the planet from the inevitable apocalypse brought on…
WORLD
Tulsi Gabbard: Saudi Promotion of 'Extremist Wahhabi Ideology' a Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Iran | Breitbart
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination criticized President Donald Trump’s response to an attack on…
BUSINESS
Brexit Has Cost London Just 1,000 Investment Bank Jobs
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Banks have moved 1,000 posts to rival hubs like Frankfurt and Paris since the referendum in June 2016, a report by EY said. That contrasts with some estimates of tens or even hundreds of thousands sh…
POLITICS
Sanders Campaign Signals Concern After Losing Coveted Endorsement
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - The Working Families Party – which backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2015 – chose to endorse Warren over the Vermont socialist, it was revealed on Monday. “Senator Warren strikes fear into the hea…
POLITICS
Jimmy Carter: Shouldn't there be an age limit on the presidency?
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - This could have been an entirely self-effacing moment — or it might be Jimmy Carter’s message to the Democratic Party. “What will it take to convince you to run for president?” asked the moderator of…
WORLD
American Airlines mechanic Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani arrested over sabotaging plane ‘may have ties to ISIS’
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - An airline mechanic who claimed he sabotaged a plane’s controls because he was disgruntled about union contract negotiations “may have ties to ISIS,” Local 10 reports. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani…
WORLD
Martha McSally's GOP primary challenger: What if we let parts of Mexico become U.S. states?
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - Via RCP, let me stress up front that this guy, Daniel McCarthy, isn’t some sort of Bill-Weld-style centrist running to the incumbent’s left in the primary. He’s full MAGA. He and the host, Garret Lew…
TECHNOLOGY
Instagram is Now Banning Photos of People at Gun Ranges, Claiming They Promote ‘Violence’
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WORLD
US Intelligence Official to Brief Lawmakers Over Mystery Complaint
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - U.S. intelligence officials have agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, apparently ending a standoff over a still-mysterious whistleblower’s report. The intelligence community inspecto…
WORLD
Watch Live: Tea Party Patriots Host 'Stop Socialism, Choose Freedom'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - In honor of our 10 years of strength, we are heading back to Washington, DC on September 19, 2019, to send a loud message to Washington and the entire nation that the American people DO NOT want to s…
WORLD
Understanding Florida's Potential Assault Weapon Ban
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - Florida has long had a reputation as a pro-gun state. It’s even been called “The Gunshine State,” a play on its more official nickname. While it’s not necessarily as pro-gun as many like to believe, …
WORLD
The Hill Reports Guns Killed More Than Cars. Just One Problem Here
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - The Hill had news. They’d just learned that 2017 was the first year in which cars were responsible for fewer deaths than firearms. In a state of panic over guns throughout the nation, this is distres…
WORLD
Al Green Perpetuates 'Fine People' Hoax in White Nationalism Hearing
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - “Were there any nice people among the folks who were screaming, “blood and soil,” “Jews will not replace us,’ — were there any nice people among them?” Green asked the white nationalism expert witnes…
SPORTS
High School Wrestling Ref Who Forced Student to Cut Dreadlocks Handed 2-Year Suspension
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Alan Maloney, the ref who forced Buena Regional High School wrestler Andrew Johnson to shear his hair before being allowed to compete in December of 2018, was investigated and found at fault by the N…
POLITICS
Twitter Suspends Second Amendment Foundation On Eve Of Annual Conference - Bearing Arms - Gun Rights Policy Conference, Second Amendment Foundation, Twitter
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - The 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference is taking place in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend, but the event’s sponsor, the Washington State-based Second Amendment Foundation, found its Twitter accou…
WORLD
F-16 Crash in France: Pilot Left Dangling From Power Lines, No Injuries
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Emergency workers extracted the pilot safely after cutting off power in the area, and he was been taken to a nearby hospital for medical checks, a spokesman for the regional administration told The A…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
HUD Secretary Ben Carson makes dismissive comments about transgender people, angering agency staff
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www.washingtonpost.com - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson takes questions from the media as he visits the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. (Damian …
POLITICS
Let's Get to Know Mike Pence's New Press Secretary, Who Is Also Reportedly Dating Stephen Miller
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Susan Cooper 💙🌊🆘
theslot.jezebel.com - Mike Pence has a new press secretary, and it is 27-year-old Katie Waldman, who made quite a name for herself when, as a deputy press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, she publicly def…
POLITICS
PolitiFact corrects conservatives: The NYT Kavanaugh story has not been debunked
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Susan Cooper 💙🌊🆘
www.rawstory.com - The new report from The New York Times on the allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh contained some stunning new revelations — including that several people tried to contact the FB…
POLITICS
Former FBI agent explains why Trump just opened himself to more legal problems
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Susan Cooper 💙🌊🆘
www.rawstory.com - Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa explained that the recent revelations that President Donald Trump made a promise to a foreign leader that made an intelligence official uncomfortable enough to declare …
ENVIRONMENT
Haz clic aquí para apoyar la campaña Help this young Water Protector get to the UN organizada por Jennifer Billig
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www.gofundme.com - Autumn Peltier, 14 is a Canadian water activist and she advocates for clean water in First Nations communities and across Mother Earth. Autumn was named the chief water commissioner of the Great Lake…
SCIENCE
Maribavir for Preemptive Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Reactivation. - PubMed - NCBI
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Tom Heston
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Maribavir is a benzimidazole riboside with activity against cytomegalovirus (CMV). The safety and efficacy of maribavir for preemptive treatment of CMV infection in transplant recipients is not known.
SPORTS
Jalen Ramsey trade buzz: Chiefs, Eagles, Seahawks among early favorites to land star corner
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Tom Heston
www.cbssports.com - Jalen Ramsey is set to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday night, but that's not necessarily because the All-Pro cornerback doesn't have a trade market. A day after Ramsey all but admitted …
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