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Loyalty360 Reads: September 4, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Partnerships Pony.ai and Toyota Partner to Build Self-Driving Cars and Services The vehicle brand has partnered with a Chinese start-up to design and implement driverless technology. “The two compani…
SCIENCE
A Configurator for Creating Custom WebGL Distortion Effects | Codrops
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tympanus.net - A configurator for creating unique fullscreen image animations with WebGL distortion effects powered by Three.js. From our monthly sponsor: Take WordPress to a whole new level with Divi's incredibly …
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple Testing AR Headset With 'StarBoard' Mode, 'Garta' Codename, and More [Updated]
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www.macrumors.com - iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple Testing AR Headset With 'StarBoard' Mode, 'Garta' Codename, and More [Updated] Sunday September 1, 2019 11:40 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol Apple has long been rumored to be work…
BUSINESS
Something is going very wrong with Donald Trump right now
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www.palmerreport.com - We’re starting to observe a sea change in the Trump Administration. It’s been subtle but it’s there. In recent photos, Trump appears to have multiple bruises on his forehead beneath his ubiquitous ba…
POLITICS
AOC Helps Raise Bail Money for Violent Antifa Protesters - David Harris Jr
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www.davidharrisjr.com - Half of The Squad are helping to raise bail money for violent Antifa protesters. AOC and Ayanna Pressley both tweeted out pleas for people to contribute to a fund to be used to bail out protesters of…
LEISURE
Home Depot Sponsors 129 Miles of Trump's Border Wall
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www.gishgallop.com - Atlanta, GA — The world’s largest home improvement retailer announced today that it plans on sponsoring up to 129 miles of President Trump’s border wall. Home Depot, known for its labyrinth-like shop…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘They Legitimized Buying Views’: YouTube Ads Divide Latin Music Industry
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www.rollingstone.com - Major music companies are allegedly spending tens of thousands of dollars to boost view counts on the world’s largest streaming service. How the companies are doing it, though, is entirely legal on Y…
SCIENCE
Fascinating: The CEO Of McDonald’s Has Revealed That Grimace Is The Larval Stage Of Ronald McDonald
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lifestyle.clickhole.com - America’s favorite fast food company just gave the public some fascinating new information about its corporate mascots that is certain to captivate customers both young and old: The CEO of McDonald’s…
BUSINESS
Congratulating the Hedvig Team
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trueventures.com - Today, we are excited to celebrate Commvault’s intent to acquire software-defined storage leader Hedvig at a transaction value of $225 million in cash and stock retention. We extend a huge congratula…
SPORTS
Victim Of Brock Turner Sexual Assault Reveals Her Identity
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www.npr.org - This image released by CBS shows Chanel Miller during an interview on 60 Minutes, set to air Sept. 22. In newspapers she was described as the "unconscious intoxicated woman." In the courtroom she was…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Amy Caudill’s Reviews : Verses for the Dead
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amycaudill.net - A killer who writes poetry and leaves “presents” of his victims’ hearts on the graves of suicides brings FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast to Miami, but with a handicap to his usual methodology. …
TECHNOLOGY
How to CI and CD a Node.JS Application Using GitHub Actions
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blog.bitsrc.io - Our workflow will look like this The complete source code is available on GitHub Easily share reusable components between projects and applications to build faster as a team. Collaborate to develop… …
POLITICS
Donald Trump caught using Sharpie to alter map so it looked like the hurricane hit Alabama
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www.palmerreport.com - Over the holiday weekend, Donald Trump repeatedly and mistakenly insisted that Alabama was going to get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, even though the storm was in the Atlantic Ocean, and Alabama does…
WORLD
Rep. Steve King: I drank from the toilet-fountain hybrid at border facility and it was 'pretty good'
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www.nbcnews.com - Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Wednesday that during a recent visit to a migrant detention facility he drank from a toilet that also served as a water fountain and that the water was "actually pretty …
POLITICS
DraftKings Social September Sweepstakes
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www.mlb.com - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ODDS OF WINNING WILL DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW…
POLITICS
How a “Kamikaze” GOP Primary Could Hit Trump Where It Hurts
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www.vanityfair.com - The Republicans mounting primary challenges to Donald Trump are not exactly the Never Trump movement’s top draft picks. With little hope of defeating an incumbent president dependably popular inside …
WORLD
N.J. gun owners are storing ‘thousands and thousands’ of banned gun magazines in a steel vault
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www.nj.com - When New Jersey’s ban on large-capacity gun magazines went into effect last December, it forced gun owners to make a decision. Should they turn the magazines over to law enforcement? Should they modi…
POLITICS
Charges were dropped against Aaron Schock. He had a gay old time in West Hollywood to celebrate.
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www.lgbtqnation.com - Charges against disgraced former U.S. Representative Aaron Schock (R-IL) have been dropped after he reached a deal with prosecutors. So he celebrated by having a gay old time on the town in West Holl…
WORLD
'I'm So Grateful': Iraqi Translator Embedded With U.S. Soldiers Becomes American Citizen
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minnesota.cbslocal.com - MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO has an update to a story that has been years in the making. Philip first came to America with the help of some Minnesota soldiers. He was a translator in Iraq when he met Mi…
LEISURE
Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
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khn.org - MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure. And he has struggled to…
LEISURE
Marriott Increases the Size of Shower Amenities, Decreases Plastic Use
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loyalty360.org - Marriott International has announced that it’s expanding an initiative to replace miniature, single-use toiletry bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and bath gel in guestroom showers with larger, pump-t…
TECHNOLOGY
Getting Crypto to Write Reviews - BravoCoin
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www.publish0x.com - Get Paid to write reviews of attractions, books, companies, events, hotels, music, restaurants, services, coins and more. BravoCoin® utilizes an improved "Proof-of-Brain" algorithm that distributes B…
TECHNOLOGY
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
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www.telegraph.co.uk - Google is secretly sharing users' personal data with advertisers in breach of Europe's data protection laws, a competing search engine has claimed. In new evidence submitted to Ireland's data watchdo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
National Ampersand Day (Sept. 8) - AmperArt
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amperart.com - Wish someone special a HAPPY AMPERSAND BIRTHDAY on September 8. Send them this link & they’ll see how fun & special their birthday really is! amperart.com/happy-birthday-ampersand-day Do you know a B…
SCIENCE
NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in Earth's solar orbit, and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels
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www.naturalnews.com - (Natural News) For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. B…
LEISURE
Social Media Influence in the Hotel Industry | Triple Crown Construction
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triplecrownconstruction.com - Hotel & Hospitality Renovation Insights Cassandra Soto Brand & Marketing Strategist The digital world and new technologies have undoubtedly impacted every industry in different ways. Picture-perfect …
SCIENCE
A cave is no place for humans, so DARPA is sending in the robots
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www.impactlab.net - DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge aims to make cave exploration a more robotic affair. Outside its cavernous passageways, the mine’s entrance is emblazoned in red lettering that reads “Safety Research C…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record $5 billion over its privacy lapses, a…
BUSINESS
Newly Unsealed Federal Indictment Charges Software Engineer with Taking Stolen Trade Secrets to China
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www.justice.gov - A software engineer at a suburban Chicago locomotive manufacturer stole proprietary information from the company and took it to China, according to an indictment unsealed this week in federal court i…
POLITICS
Labor Department to reinstate Leif Olson after false allegation of anti-Semitism
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hotair.com - Leif Olson, the lawyer who “resigned” his position at the Labor Department after Bloomberg Law published a shoddy piece accusing him of anti-Semitism, is going to be re-hired. From the Daily Caller: …
SCIENCE
Is Thorium the fuel of the future to revitalize nuclear?
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www.impactlab.net - Nuclear energy produces carbon-free electricity, and the United States has used nuclear energy for decades to generate baseline power. Nuclear energy, however, carries a dreaded stigma. After disaste…
SPORTS
10 Principles in Culture Gamification: The RewardMe DNA
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yukaichou.com - Our company has been through many cycles and products throughout the years, but it’s the passion and bond between teammates that have always carried on with us. That will continue to carry on no matt…
BUSINESS
Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It's about to lose $400M more to Trump's border wall.
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www.nbcnews.com - President Donald Trump is building his wall, and Puerto Rico is going to pay for it. The Department of Defense released a list of 127 military construction projects that are being delayed as the agen…
TECHNOLOGY
TPS Consulting Daily
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - BUSINESS Pound falls to lowest level in three years as Brexit clash looms Shared by Neil www.theguardian.com - The pound fell below $1.20 to its weakest level in three years at one point on Tuesday b…
TECHNOLOGY
A Portion of Insiders - Windows Weekly 637 - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul look at some Windows history that most forgot or never even knew happened. Plus some other stuff. Download this episode and subscribe Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube Tip of the…
ADULT
El príncipe Harry habla sobre sus polémicos viajes en aviones privados
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www.telemundo.com - El príncipe Harry ha sido criticado por volar en aviones privados y reacciona por primera vez a esta controversia Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más Verónica Cast…
WORLD
Putin Slams Russian’s Detention in Italy as Hostile Act by U.S.
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www.bloomberg.com - The arrest in Italy of an employee of a unit of Russia’s main defense contractor, Rostec State Corp., has drawn the Kremlin’s ire, with President Vladimir Putin suggesting it was ordered to prevent c…
BUSINESS
Russian and Italian Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets From American Aviation Company
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www.justice.gov - A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged in the United States with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company. Alexander Yuryevich Korshuno…
BUSINESS
Stripe launches Stripe Capital to make instant loan offers to customers on its platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers. Now, nearly 12 months on …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Clowning on NASA: Impressionist James Adomian on his Bond-villain Elon Musk
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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—In 2018, Elon Musk showed up at South by Southwest to inspire humanity. In 2019, "Elon Musk" showed up to destroy it. “By the way, my accent? It’s correct," "Musk" told a sold out theat…
SCIENCE
The Designer’s Guide to AI-Driven UX
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medium.muz.li - These days, we’ve seen the proliferation of artificial intelligence as a core new-age technology that is critical for business success. In pop culture, we often think of AI as semi-autonomous intelli…
TECHNOLOGY
RippleMatch nabs $6M for a diversity-focused graduate recruitment platform powered by AI – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn, with 645 million users in 200 countries, is the undisputed leader when it comes to being the world’s biggest network of professionals, a position that it uses to leverage products in areas …
ADULT
Tuvo sexo con su esposa, le vendó los ojos para darle un “regalo” y luego la apuñaló en el cuello
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eldiariony.com - Esa madrugada Shaun May dijo haber escuchado ruidos en la planta baja de su casa. Salió unos minutos y regresó al dormitorio que compartía con su mujer, Laura. Entonces Shaun tuvo sexo con su esposa,…
ADULT
Discoteca causa sensación por sus sensuales bailarinas robóticas
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www.telemundo.com - Una discoteca en Francia posee unas bailarinas no muy comunes y causan sensación entre los clientes del lugar Devastadoras imágenes de la destrucción de Dorian en las Bahamas Varias personas quedan a…
SCIENCE
Physics not “broken” after all? We’re close to resolving proton radius puzzle
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arstechnica.com - Physicists at York University in Toronto have spent the last eight years meticulously conducting a sensitive experiment to measure the charge radius of the proton in hopes of resolving conflicting va…
TECHNOLOGY
Netflix officially launches a ‘Latest’ section with built-in reminders – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last month, Netflix was spotted testing a new section in its TV app called “Latest,” which would connect viewers with a personalized list of upcoming content due to be released over the course of the…
BUSINESS
The power of job crafting for sustainability jobs — and beyond
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www.greenbiz.com - If you think you’ve seen more job posts that say you can "$$$MAKE $2,500/wk FROM HOME $$$" than openings for corporate social responsibility positions, you’re not wrong. The truth is, not many corpor…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
You Know Emily Doe’s Story. Now Learn Her Name.
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www.nytimes.com - “I just remember being in my kitchen and reading this incredible, riveting piece of work,” Andrea Schulz, the editor in chief of Viking, the book’s publisher, said about reading the victim impact sta…
WORLD
These Are The Military Projects Losing Funding To Trump's Border Wall
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www.npr.org - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle sits near the wall as President Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in El Centro, Calif., on April 5. This area is one where the Pen…
POLITICS
One Campus. Seven Professors Facing Harassment Accusations. Few Consequences. — ProPublica
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www.propublica.org - This article was produced in partnership with NPR Illinois, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces invest…
SCIENCE
Terramera raises $45 million for its technology to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Terramera, a Canadian company selling bio-pesticides and seed treatments to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture, has raised $45 million in its latest round of financing. The round was led by s…
POLITICS
Le premier ministre annonce la nomination d’une nouvelle lieutenante-gouverneure pour le Nouveau-Brunswick
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pm.gc.ca - Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de Brenda Murphy comme prochaine lieutenante-gouverneure du Nouveau-Brunswick. Mme Murphy milite depuis longtemps pour la justic…
TECHNOLOGY
Google’s new feature will help you find something to watch – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google Search can now help you find your next binge. The company this morning announced a new feature which will make personalized recommendations of what to watch, including both TV shows and movies…
SCIENCE
Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech’s Charles Isbell – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to pri…
BUSINESS
OpenGov acquires ViewPoint Cloud, adding building codes and permitting to its platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In the same week that it announced a $51 million round of funding, OpenGov — the startup that provides SaaS software designed to help governments and other civic organizations run their operations — …
SCIENCE
Here are this year’s Breakthrough Prize Winners – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Today, at the 8thth annual Breakthrough Prize Awards, hundreds of scientists will win their share of $10 million in awards for their outstanding work in the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Scienc…
BUSINESS
Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M pre-seed led by ALLVP – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Flat has raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. The company snagged a $4.5 million pre-seed round to expand its busin…
BUSINESS
SoftBank-backed Getaround is raising $200M at a $1.5B+ valuation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Getaround, a used car marketplace and winner of TechCrunch Disrupt New York Battlefield 2011, will enter the unicorn club with a roughly $200 million equity financing. The deal values Getaround, foun…
SPORTS
The new Sonos Port connects your existing stereo setup to Sonos and AirPlay 2 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Sonos has a new addition to its ecosystem for connecting in your existing stereo and AV equipment, and for adding sound out and AirPlay 2 capabilities to existing speaker setups connected via an ampl…
BUSINESS
We Company reportedly mulls slashing its valuation ahead of its initial public offering – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - For SoftBank, no majority stake in WeWork as it scales down talks from a new $16 billion investment to $2 billion For SoftBank, no majority stake in WeWork as it scales down talks from a new $16 bill…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Assistant, navigation and apps coming to GM vehicles starting in 2021 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - GM is turning to Google to provide in-vehicle voice, navigation and other apps in its Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC vehicles starting in 2021. GM began shipping vehicles with Google Android Auto…
TECHNOLOGY
Looks like Medium is testing a way to save articles across the web – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Medium seems to be building a tool to save and reformat online articles for future reading. That’s according to Jane Manchun Wong, a reliable source of scoops on unreleased features. Wong said she sp…
BUSINESS
India’s Milkbasket in talks to raise over $50M – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Milkbasket, a Gurugram-based micro-delivery startup, is in talks to close a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprints in milk, groceries, fruits, and vegetables delivery market that ha…
LEISURE
Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year at this time, Forethought won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. A $9 million Series A investment followed last December. Today at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Franci…
BUSINESS
8-month-old startup FPL Technologies raises $4.5M to improve credit card experience in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - An eight-month-old startup in India that wants to improve the user experience of credit card holders in the nation has received the backing of at least two major investors. Pune-based FPL Technologie…
BUSINESS
SF based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has expanded to Nigeria. The San Francisco based startup, with offices in Ghana and Kenya, will offer its P2P payment service and app in …
SCIENCE
Cooks Venture picks up $12 million to rethink agriculture from the ground up – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - “You are what what you’re eating eats,” says Matthew Wadiak, cofounder and CEO of Cooks Venture and former Blue Apron COO. The company, which just received $12 million in funding, is looking to rethi…
TECHNOLOGY
TCL adopts Tempow’s multi-device bluetooth streaming tech – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Here’s an interesting bit of news out of IFA today. TCL this morning announced a deal with Tempow that will bring the French company’s clever bluetooth streaming protocol to its forthcoming Plex flag…
EDUCATION
The new marketplaces connecting school and work – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Evidence continues to roll in that American workers are out of position for the high-value jobs of today and tomorrow. Start with the fact that there are 7.3 million unfilled jobs, millions of which …
BUSINESS
Facebook’s lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has confirmed it’s put questions to the company about a major security breach that we reported on yesterday. “The DPC became aware of this issue th…
BUSINESS
Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Adam Draper, the son of that Draper, is changing things up a bit at his accelerator. Boost VC has been living life on the fringe of Bay Area accelerators, chasing trends like VR and crypto (and somet…
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube launches a dedicated Fashion vertical – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - YouTube today is launching a new vertical called YouTube Fashion that aims to capitalize on the popular style and beauty content that attracts millions of viewers to its platform. According to Statis…
TECHNOLOGY
Is your startup TC Top Picks material? Apply to exhibit for free at Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - If you’re the founder of an early-stage startup here’s a big, fat reminder about one of the great experiences you can have at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. Apply to our TC Top Picks program …
LEISURE
There’s an ocean of opportunity for startups targeting the seafood industry – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Seafood has blown past its iceberg lettuce stage and entered trendy greens territory, with eaters loading up on oceanic superfoods and falling in love with previously unknown species as fast as dater…
LEISURE
Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to the U.S. – 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. Faceb…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple Music launches a public beta on the web – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple Music is coming to the web. Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide. This the …
LEISURE
Lime stops working with freelancers in Paris – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Scooter startup Lime is ending the juicer model in Paris. The company has announced that it will stop working with freelancers to recharge scooter batteries at night. Lime is switching to Amazon’s mo…
BUSINESS
Only 48 hours left on super early bird savings for Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It’s time to trot out our fractured German. Why? Because you have only 48 hours left to take advantage of super early bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. And that begs the question: Warum …
BUSINESS
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola in deal worth $2 billion – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Alibaba Group said today it has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The announcement follows weeks …
TECHNOLOGY
Atlassian launches free tiers for all its cloud products, extends premium pricing plan – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services. These include the launch of new premiu…
TECHNOLOGY
Porsche Taycan configurator: The 11 details that stood out – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The Porsche Taycan is here — actually two flavors, the Turbo S and the Turbo — in case you haven’t seen the deluge of media coverage. The upshot: the “lower” priced Turbo starts at $150,900 while the…
SCIENCE
Tyson Ventures has invested in a New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Through the company’s venture capital arm, Tyson is investing in New Wave Foods, a San Francisco-based startup that’s making a plant-based shrimp substitute. The company, founded by marine biologist,…
BUSINESS
Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - French startup Upflow has raised a $2.7 million funding round (€2.5 million) from Kima Ventures, eFounders and various business angels. The company tracks your outstanding invoices and makes sure you…
TECHNOLOGY
Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Superside, a startup aiming to create a premium alternative to the existing crowdsourced design platforms, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding. It’s also adding new features …
SCIENCE
Google launches an open-source version of its differential privacy library – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today released an open-source version of the differential privacy library it uses to power some of its own core products. Developers will be able to take this library and build their own tools…
SCIENCE
How early-stage startups can use data effectively – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It is a commonly held belief that startups can measure their way to success. And while there are always exceptions, early-stage companies often can’t leverage data easily, at least not in the way tha…
BUSINESS
BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It turns out GDPR was just the tip of the privacy iceberg. With California’s privacy law coming on line January 1st and dozens more in various stages of development, it’s clear that governments are t…
SCIENCE
Novameat has a platform for 3D-printing steaks and has new money to take it to market – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Novameat, a Spanish startup looking to accelerate the development of alternative proteins across the meat aisle, has gotten a boost in the form of new investment capital from the leading foodtech inv…
BUSINESS
Parallel Markets is trying to make it easy to buy and sell private stock – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Parallel Markets is a new startup aiming to make it as easy to buy and sell private company shares as it is for public company stock. COO Nicholas Goss said this is becoming issue for startups as the…
TECHNOLOGY
After announcing Galaxy Fold release date, Samsung cancels older preorders – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The good news: Samsung says it has addressed the early problems with the Galaxy Fold and finally has a release date (in Korea at least). The bad news: the company is canceling the first round of U.S.…
TECHNOLOGY
Watch TC Session: Enterprise livestream right here – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch is live from San Francisco’s YBCA’s Blue Shield of California Theater where we’re hosting our first event dedicated to the enterprise. Throughout the day, attendees and viewers can expect …
BUSINESS
Senator Bernie Sanders’ and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plan to Stop Big Banks and Payday Lenders from Ripping Off Americans
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medium.com - Today’s modern-day loan sharks are no longer lurking on street corners, threatening violence to collect their payments. Today’s loan sharks wear expensive suits and work on Wall Street, where they ma…
LEISURE
There’s a $218 billion design problem sitting in your fridge right now
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www.fastcompany.com - There’s a nice piece of fruit in your refrigerator right now. Perhaps it’s a veggie. Or a boneless skinless chicken breast. Whatever it is, you’re definitely going to eat it. You’re not a food waster…
LEISURE
10 simple ways to instantly jazz up your brand’s Instagram feed – Learn
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Guy Kawasaki
www.canva.com - Designing individual Instagram posts while taking your entire feed into account isn’t just a great idea—it’s essential. The arrangement of your image lineup as a whole creates an impression on a pros…
TECHNOLOGY
8 of the Best Social Media Management Hacks for Small Businesses
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coschedule.com - Social media management articles for small businesses are usually filled with platitudes and “hacks” like, “social is supposed to be social! Make sure you engage with all your followers!” Sure, that’…
ENVIRONMENT
Trump administration rolls back Obama-era lightbulb rules
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thehill.com - The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a controversial rule Tuesday that would erase Obama-era efficiency standards for lightbulbs. The regulation eliminates efficiency standards for about half the…
BUSINESS
Mike Pence derided by Ireland's media after his Brexit faux pas: "How dare he?"
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www.newsweek.com - The Irish media's reaction to Vice President Mike Pence, who was visiting the country this week, was, at best, less than complimentary, with one acerbic columnist noting that the Republican, metaphor…
SCIENCE
Coming soon: a device that harvests water in a desert
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om.co - It is easy to get despondent about the future and its challenges, especially with the massive amount of change ahead due to climate and weather modifications we are continuing to experience. However,…
ENVIRONMENT
DOE has decided many lightbulbs don’t have to meet efficiency standards
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arstechnica.com - Among the stranger subjects that's been caught up in the political wars raging in the United States is the lowly lightbulb. Back in the George W. Bush administration, a law was passed that set effici…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Part sci-fi thriller, part crime drama, Don’t Let Go is an understated gem
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arstechnica.com - A cell phone connection serves as a link between the past and present for a police detective and his dead niece in Don't Let Go, a new supernatural thriller from Blumhouse Productions that debuted at…
TECHNOLOGY
AT&T’s confusing mess of online TV services even has AT&T confused
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arstechnica.com - AT&T recently made the baffling decision to offer two separate streaming TV services with nearly identical names and to deliver those two distinct services through one app. This obviously had the pot…
TECHNOLOGY
600,000 GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password
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arstechnica.com - An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks, researchers from security firm Avast h…
SCIENCE
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win
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arstechnica.com - Solar panels might seem like they’re in direct competition with plants. One is catching sunlight to do photosynthesis, the other wants to take it to push electrons. Surely Highlander rules apply, and…
TECHNOLOGY
Dealmaster: Snag leftover Labor Day deals on laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, and more
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with a new round of deals to share. Summer may be over and Labor Day may have passed, but many PC manufacturers are still offering good deals on popular lap…
TECHNOLOGY
Everything you wanted to know about Porsche’s new electric car
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arstechnica.com - The new Porsche Taycan is about the same length and width as a Tesla Model S, but it's a couple of inches shorter in height. It's a good deal more expensive than a Tesla though—but did you expect any…
SCIENCE
“Fussy eater” goes blind after years of eating only junk food
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arstechnica.com - In the past, parents may have tried to coax their picky eaters to dinner with misguided reminders of starving children—or perhaps letting them imitate farm animals. But, the parents of today now have…
TECHNOLOGY
Senator pushes Amazon for details about Ring “partnerships” with police
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arstechnica.com - Amazon's Ring line of video doorbells and home surveillance equipment is particularly popular with one key group: police. More than 400 law enforcement agencies around the country have partnered with…
TECHNOLOGY
A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners
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arstechnica.com - When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to "manners camp" if they didn't behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet Society-supported initiative, the Mutually…
BUSINESS
T-Mobile Metro stores sell used phones as new, charge “fake taxes,” NYC says
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arstechnica.com - The New York City government sued T-Mobile yesterday, alleging that its Metro stores routinely use "abusive sales tactics" such as selling used phones as if they are new and charging customers for se…
TECHNOLOGY
8chan owner testifies to Congress about extremism on the site
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arstechnica.com - The owner of infamous imageboard site 8chan, James Watkins, is appearing today in Washington, DC to provide evidence to the House Committee on Homeland Security about the site. Though the live sessio…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Guilty review: Even in 2018, a simple phone can be utterly thrilling
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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—Browsing through written descriptions (whether in this year’s Fantastic Fest brochure or this weekend’s movie listings), The Guilty might sound remarkably unremarkable: a cop on desk du…
WORLD
Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff
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arstechnica.com - As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks. In the past month, dozens of districts nationwide h…
ADULT
First trailer for latest Black Christmas slasher reboot goes for “woke”
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arstechnica.com - The calls (and texts) might be coming from inside the house as a killer stalks a group of sorority sisters in the first trailer for Black Christmas, directed by Sophia Takal (best known for directing…
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 …
TECHNOLOGY
Wii Fit redux: Nintendo shows mysterious exercise ring for the Switch
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arstechnica.com - These pretend weights are a lot easier to lift than real weights! Why does this remind me of a five-year-old pretending to drive a car? Remember the Wii Fit Balance Board? Twelve years ago, Nintendo …
TECHNOLOGY
Zeroday privilege escalation disclosed for Android
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arstechnica.com - Researchers have disclosed a zeroday vulnerability in the Android operating system that gives a major boost to attackers who already have a toe-hold on an affected device. The privilege-escalation fl…
TECHNOLOGY
Gears of War 5 hands-on: A new blockbuster for the game-subscription era
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arstechnica.com - Key art from the new game, along with its source pencil sketch. Some custom character masks flanking a few gameplay stations. VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Gears of War 5, which launches on Windows 7, …
TECHNOLOGY
Nintendo Switch will finally get SNES games—20 of them—starting tomorrow
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arstechnica.com - The latest Nintendo Direct video presentation saw the game maker deliver on a huge slew of holiday-timed announcements for first- and third-party fare. Arguably its biggest news came in the form of O…
LEISURE
Confirman 34 muertes en el incendio de un bote en costas de California
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www.telemundo.com - Decenas de personas vivieron un infierno al una embarcación prenderse en llamas en California y dejar múltiples muertes Captan a un camión de mudanzas embistiendo a unos bomberos Dorian podría causar…
ADULT
Bibi Gaytán regresa a los escenarios luego de 15 años de ausencia
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www.telemundo.com - Bibi Gaytán, estrella mexicana, hace su gran regreso a los escenarios con papel protagónico en famoso musical Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más El príncipe Harry…
HEALTH
Lámina metálica casi deja a una mujer decapitada
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www.telemundo.com - Captan el momento exacto cuando una lámina metálica cae y golpea fuertemente a una mujer en Colombia Muerte de abogada asesinada por su esposo causa gran indignación Genera polémica la muerte de múlt…
ADULT
El Secreto de Selena: El efecto de la investigación en la vida de María Celeste
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www.telemundo.com - El actor Moisés Arizmendi habla sobre su trabajo interpretando al ex esposo de María Celeste Arrarás en El Secreto de Selena. Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más E…
ENVIRONMENT
Micropartículas plásticas que ponen riesgo nuestra salud
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www.telemundo.com - El plástico que contamina el mar, aire y tierra también está presente en nuestro cuerpo y podría tener grandes consecuencias para la salud Revelan que niños obesos pueden sufrir infarto en la adultez…
LEISURE
Walmart restringe la venta de armas y municiones en sus tiendas
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www.telemundo.com - El director ejecutivo de Walmart hizo el anuncio de la restricción de armas en sus tiendas debido a los últimos tiroteos vividos en el país Captan a un camión de mudanzas embistiendo a unos bomberos …
BUSINESS
Walmart’s Foray Into Blockchain, How Is the Technology Used?
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cointelegraph.com - Walmart is currently making use of blockchain technology to create a food traceability system based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric. Along with IBM, the retail giant has already tested t…
BUSINESS
Pompliano: Satoshi Should Win Nobel Peace Prize for Bitcoin
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cointelegraph.com - American investor and co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets Anthony Pompliano has argued that Satoshi Nakamoto should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for inventing Bitcoin. In a tweet posted on …
SCIENCE
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
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blog.torproject.org - In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy. What is it? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing aga…
TECHNOLOGY
Multiline truncated text with "show more" button (with just CSS) - Paul Bakaus' blog
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paulbakaus.com - TL;DR: I built a CSS-only (~ish) solution for multiline truncated text with read more button. The other day, truncated text came up during a discussion in the office, and I since wondered if CSS has …
TECHNOLOGY
Pressable Review - One Of The Best Managed WordPress Hosts? (2019)
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winningwp.com - Pressable are one of the original providers of managed WordPress hosting. If you’re looking for a new home for your existing site, or you want to launch a new WordPress website with a high-quality ho…
ADULT
8 Best WordPress Testimonial Plugins Compared (2019)
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www.designbombs.com - Testimonials are a key part of every business website. It’s what helps you to build trust and establish authority. If your website still doesn’t have a testimonial or a reviews section, then this pos…
SCIENCE
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. F…
SCIENCE
How to Get Better at Embracing Unknowns
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www.scientificamerican.com - When tracking a hurricane, forecasters often show a map depicting a “cone of uncertainty.” It starts as a point—the hurricane's current position—and widens into a swath of territory the storm might c…
TECHNOLOGY
How to stop your emails from being tracked
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Update July 3, 2019, 3:47PM ET: This article has been updated to include additional information about email clients. Update September 3, 2019, 7:35PM ET: This article has been updated to include dire…
SCIENCE
Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning
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Reg Saddler
theconversation.com - Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it tak…
ENVIRONMENT
Like New: Locals and Experts Re-Chalk a ‘Rude’ Giant on a Hill
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - A gigantic chalk figure that dominates the countryside in England is being restored. The Cerne Abbas Giant is an enigmatic figure in the rolling hills of Dorset. Moreover, it is infamous because of i…
SCIENCE
Facebook is getting very, very good at faking your face
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Reg Saddler
www.fastcompany.com - Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg stated in no uncertain terms that Facebook was going to build the metaverse, a digital world that’s a surrogate for our real one, predicted by science fiction for deca…
SCIENCE
Why Doctors Are Prescribing Gardening for a Common Mental Illness
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - Spending time in outdoors, taking time out of the everyday to surround yourself with greenery and living things can be one of life’s great joys — and recent research also suggest it’s good for your b…
SCIENCE
Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns
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Reg Saddler
theconversation.com - The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers’ ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For …
BUSINESS
Wells Fargo: Artificial intelligence and machine learning a 'double-edged sword' | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - Although a bank's business has basically stayed the same over the last couple of decades, how a bank operates has drastically shifted. The fundamental pillars of a bank, according to Mike Telang, exe…
BUSINESS
DJI is now making you pay Trump’s tariffs when you buy its drones
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Chinese drone juggernaut DJI has made substantial adjustments to pricing and availability on its product lineup in response to increased tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by the Trump administration. …
SCIENCE
Trump tweet accidentally reveals secrets about US spy satellites
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Reg Saddler
futurism.com - In recent tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump included a smartphone picture of Iran’s Semnan Launch Site One — a location where U.S. authorities believe a rocket failure took place. The United States …
SCIENCE
First long-distance heart surgery performed via robot | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using a precision vascular ro…
LEISURE
We’re Wasting More Than Half of the Food In Our Refrigerators, Says New Study
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Reg Saddler
mentalfloss.com - Founded as a modest barbeque shop by brothers Richard and Maurice “Mac” McDonald in 1940, McDonald’s has grown to become synonymous with fast-service food (and car floors littered with paper wrappers…
TECHNOLOGY
USB4 is ready: Twice as fast, smaller, and hitting devices in 2020 | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - The official Thunderbolt-based USB4 specification is complete, the group that designs it announced on Tuesday. USB4 is the next major version of the USB, which gains a major speed boost thanks to Int…
SCIENCE
Siberian Puppy Frozen for 14,300 Years is a Major RNA Breakthrough
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - Never before has RNA - Ribonucleic acid - sequencing been carried out from so far back in time. Finding RNA on the puppy found preserved in permafrost in Tumat in 2015 is a major scientific discovery…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Catholic Teachers Ban ‘Evil’ Harry Potter Books
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - Harry Potter books have been removed from a private Catholic school in Nashville because they include actual “ curses and spells”, according to staff at the school. In a recent report in the US daily…
ENVIRONMENT
Trump administration pulls plug on energy-efficient bulb rules
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Reg Saddler
www.rawstory.com - Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday issued a new rule reversing a requirement for all new light bulbs to be energy-efficient by 2020, a move welcomed by industry but strongly criticized by cli…
SCIENCE
What Are The Most Exciting Trends In AI In 2019?
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - What are the most exciting trends in machine learning/AI in 2019? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the…
BUSINESS
Skills Gap Growing as Companies Struggle to Find Capable Talent
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Anthony Casas
finance.yahoo.com - If you’re willing to undergo training or specialized education, you may find a wealth of job opportunities, as a new study suggests companies are struggling to find the talent they need. Education te…
ENVIRONMENT
Seattle City Council to consider ban on natural gas for new homes, buildings
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Nansen Malin
www.seattletimes.com - The Seattle City Council will consider a ban on natural gas for newly constructed homes and buildings, favoring the use of electricity for heating and cooking. Councilmember Mike O’Brien plans to int…
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei Mate 30 Pro renders, 360-degree video appear before launch
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androidcommunity.com - As early as January and even before the Huawei P30 series was announced, the Mate 30 already became part of the rumor mill. It was said the flagship series due in the second half of the year would co…
TECHNOLOGY
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection now on by default
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androidcommunity.com - Most of us are probably annoyed by the fact that the websites we visit have cookies that follow us around wherever we go on the Internet. But a lot of people also don’t know that most browsers now ha…
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Mirage AR Headset out with free Marvel Dimension of Heroes
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo Mirage Solo standalone VR headset is getting an update. We’re tempted to say it’s a subtle upgrade but with the name Marvel, we have a feeling it will bring in more business for Lenovo. It’s n…
TECHNOLOGY
Twitter won’t let you tweet via SMS for now
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androidcommunity.com - After reports that famous people’s accounts were hacked, including their own CEO’s, Twitter is now temporarily suspending their tweet via SMS feature. The official statement is of course that they ar…
TECHNOLOGY
New Amazon Fire TV products announced
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androidcommunity.com - Amazon is still the top e-commerce site. It’s on top of the world for several reasons and one of which is the fact that it comes up with interesting product lines. At the moment, the Echo and Alexa-p…
TECHNOLOGY
Gmail finally working on calendar spam fix
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve noticed that some unknown entities are adding events to your Google Calendar with links that seem pretty suspicious, you’re right to be wary and you should not be clicking on those. But eve…
TECHNOLOGY
New Lenovo Smart Devices with Google Assistant introduced
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo has recently introduced three new Smart Devices. The smart home consumers are provided more options now with the entrance of the Lenovo Smart Display 7, Lenovo Smart Tab M8, and the Lenovo Yog…
TECHNOLOGY
BLU VIVO X5 and VIVO XL5 introduced, sold unlocked on Amazon
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androidcommunity.com - We’re now in the second half of the year which means OEMs are busy introducing their latest products. Combined with the IFA 2019 event, the next few weeks will be very busy for the phone makers. Taki…
TECHNOLOGY
Honor 20s, Honor Play 3 roll out with triple rear shooters
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androidcommunity.com - Honor, as Huawei’s sub-brand, may be affected by the recent US trade ban. It’s the only Huawei mobile brand that is sold in the United States. Its fate seems to be uncertain especially now that we’re…
SCIENCE
Safe, Factory Mass Producible Truck Sized Nuclear Reactors – NextBigFuture.com
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Rob McNealy
www.nextbigfuture.com - A new Very-Small, Long-LIfe, and Modular (VSLLIM) reactor design has been developed at the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies. It offers passive operation and de…
TECHNOLOGY
Walmart Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents
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Rob McNealy
babylonbee.com - BENTONVILLE, AR—In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday. According to shock…
BUSINESS
How to Measure Your Loyalty Program
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loyalty360.org - Are you thinking about implementing a loyalty program? Or do you already have one in place? Chances are you do: After all, according to the research group Colloquy, there are 2.65 billion loyalty pro…
TECHNOLOGY
HelloWorld Executives Emphasize Authentic Brand Connections
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Loyalty360
loyalty360.org - In numerous conversations with brand and vendor representatives, Loyalty360 has seen the understanding of loyalty shift in a big way. Most executives and c-level officers are emphasizing the need for…
LEISURE
Bad Website Experiences Scare Away Diners
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loyalty360.org - Marketing communications agency MHG has released the results of a survey it conducted of US restaurant goers, ages 18 and up, who dine in or have takeout or delivery at least once a month. Overall, t…
BUSINESS
Panera Bread Expands Its Delivery Service through Third-Party Partners
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Loyalty360
loyalty360.org - Panera Bread has announced the availability of its national delivery service through DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats. In addition to being able to order from Panera’s app and web site, consumers wil…
LEISURE
The Morning Briefing: Let's Swap San Francisco for Greenland
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pjmedia.com - Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of "Thinking Outside All the Boxes." I'm your host, Stephen Kruiser. Look, I have never liked the Bay Area. While California's politics may have chas…
BUSINESS
Calif. Gov. Newsom Backs Bill Designed to Ruin Uber, Lyft and Gig Economy
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SFK
pjmedia.com - In an opinion piece in The Sacramento Bee on Monday, which was Labor Day, Newsom said he was “proud to be supporting” Assembly Bill 5, which details the conditions under which a worker should be cons…
SPORTS
AP 1084: How Do I Create Passive Income for My Growing Product-Based Business?
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Pat Flynn
www.smartpassiveincome.com - Pat Flynn: What’s up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to Episode 1084 of AskPat 2.0. This is the podcast where you’re going to listen in on a coaching call between myself and an entrepreneur jus…
SCIENCE
Pentagon Shelves Neutral Particle Beam Research
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.defenseone.com - Defense officials are taking a step back from one of its most ambitious research goals: launching a massive neutral-particle-beam generator, essentially a ray gun, into space to fry the electronics o…
WORLD
Refugee Arrivals Up as Trump Administration Considers Cutbacks
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.pewtrusts.org - New statistics show refugee arrivals up modestly from historic lows last year, though the Trump administration is considering stopping the flow completely. As of Sept. 4, 28,282 refugees had arrived …
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Moves Away From Alexa With New Android Tablets - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Lenovo kicked off this year with a slew of new products. The company introduced Android tablets that allow users to dock the tablets and use them as Alexa-powered smart displays. It is now moving awa…
TECHNOLOGY
Xbox Insiders Start Testing October Update - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that Xbox Insiders have begun testing some of the features that will come in the October Update. “Starting last week, Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead and Alpha rings began …
TECHNOLOGY
Google Pays $170 Million to Settle Child Privacy Case - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Google will pay a record $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that YouTube has violated the privacy of children. “The FTC and New …
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ First Impressions - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - My Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ arrived today, and I’m up and running. I can already see that I made the right choice in upgrading from the smaller Note 10: The bigger display size really makes a differen…
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Launches Upgraded Yoga Laptops With New Processors, Improved Alexa Integration - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Lenovo is launching four new Yoga laptops at IFA today. The company’s new Yoga laptops include a number of new software-related features aimed to improve productivity on the Yoga devices. Some of the…
BUSINESS
Winning Sales: How To Win When You Have an Hour to Present
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Bob Burg
thesalesblog.com - The following strategy is for salespeople who are asked to present to a prospect by a broker or agent. Here is how to win when you have an hour to present to a prospect you haven’t met. You might wan…
ADULT
The Best Possible Version of You by Randy Gage
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Bob Burg
www.randygage.com - Last post I mentioned the authors I’m working with and how they can get stymied by seeking perfection. They wonder if they have the right and credibility to put lessons out to the world. You may be g…
SPORTS
How to Receive Feedback
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Bob Burg
leadershipfreak.blog - The most important thing about feedback is the way it’s received. Aspiration makes feedback desirable. “Tell me how to improve.” Poorly delivered feedback is useful to highly motivated people. If Tom…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
CC2CC – The Most Effective Way For You To Sell Yourself | Bruce Turkel
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Bob Burg
bruceturkel.com - Minutes after I walk on stage as a keynote speaker presenting on brand building, I reach into my pocket and pull out a little harmonica. After a quick introduction, I play “Minuet in G” by Johann Seb…
ADULT
09-05-2019 - [X&Y] 3 Different Types Of Guys (And You've GOT To Know Which One You Are)
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Scot McKay
archive.aweber.com - ===== IN THIS EDITION: Whether you're all about getting married someday or the exact opposite, today's newsletter is a "must read"... ===== MEETING WOMEN ON STEROIDS (WITHOUT THE GNARLY SIDE EFFECTS)…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The True Message of Jesus! (What religion doesn’t want you to know!) – Law of Attraction Lover
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LOA Lover Tex
loalover.com - Interesting take on the first “sin”. Here is another one, what if as the scriptures say, the serpent told Adam and Eve a “lie” that when they ate the fruit of the tree of good and evil they will know…
ENVIRONMENT
Interview with Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue's labor reporter
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Jay Oatway
boingboing.net - Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue's labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy. Kelly has had a distinguished career as a journalist and a labor o…
BUSINESS
Is Elon Musk Right About Global "Population Collapse"???
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econimica.blogspot.com - 15 to 40 year old population growth (as a %) versus federal funds rate, below. Looking at the global childbearing population (excluding Africa, blue line below) versus 0-15 year old young (x-Africa, …
SCIENCE
Greg Potter: The Effects and Application of Circadian Rhythm on Nutrition, Workout, and Sleep Enhancement: Just Fly Performance Podcast #166 - Just Fly Sports Performance
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Mike Young, PhD
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…
POLITICS
Analysis: Black Vote to Play Key Role in 2020 Dem Race
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - For all the strategic calculations, sophisticated voter targeting, and relentless talk about electability in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential nomination will be determined by a dec…
SCIENCE
Watch Live: Eye Of The Storm – Dems Push UN Climate Agenda As Dorian Hits
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - The all new and advanced Super Male Vitality formula uses the newest extraction technology with even more powerful concentrations of various herbs and extracts designed to be even stronger. https://a…
WORLD
September 5th – 2019 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #959
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theconservativetreehouse.com - — * USA * 🇺🇸 —-” Week of Prayer ” —- 🇺🇸 * USA * –(425 days to E-Day) 🙏—Pray — Hurricane Dorian loses wind speed soon and away from land — for those still in path of Hurricane Dorian–protection, …
BUSINESS
Warren to Utility Companies Using Carbon-Based Fuel: '2035, You're Done'
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www.breitbart.com - “Bernie Sanders has endorsed the idea of the public ownership of utilities, arguing that we can’t adequately solve this crisis without removing the profit motive from the distribution of essential ne…
POLITICS
Coulter: We Don't Trust You
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www.breitbart.com - Leaving aside the usual suspects, who are rushing to the microphones to demand the immediate confiscation of all guns, liberals are appealing to us to come together in good faith and formulate a plan…
POLITICS
'Racist Debra Messing' Trends on Twitter Following Tweet About ‘Mentally Ill’ Black Trump Voters
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www.breitbart.com - Last weekend, the Will and Grace star wrote “THANK YOU” in a re-tweet of a church sign in Alabama that read, “A black vote or Trump is mental illness.” The other side of the sign read, “A white vote …
LEISURE
Hmmm: Williamson deletes tweet crediting mind power for turning Dorian's path away from mainland
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hotair.com - As a person of faith, I believe in the power of prayer, but not in its potential to control the weather. Marianne Williamson deleted this tweet after perhaps thinking twice about how it came across: …
LEISURE
Leftist Council Member Says Cleaning Feces Off Seattle Streets With a Power Washer is Racist
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www.infowars.com - A leftist council member recently tried to stop feces being cleaned off the streets of Seattle with a power washer, arguing that it was racist. The problem centers around King County courthouse in do…
WORLD
Taliban Suicide Bombing Kills 10 Near US Embassy in Kabul
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www.newsmax.com - A Taliban suicide car bomb rocked Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area that includes the U.S. Embassy — the second such attack this week that underscored Afghan …
BUSINESS
9 of the Most Affordable Places to Retire in the US
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www.newsmax.com - As you approach your golden years, the question of where to retire becomes more pronounced. You want your nest egg to last as long as possible, which is why it is important to first weigh up various …
POLITICS
Why Universal Background Checks Would Have Failed In Odessa
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bearingarms.com - The Odessa shooting looked like a moment for gun control that they’ve been waiting for, a chance to prove that universal background checks could stop a mass shooting. After all, the killer had been b…
BUSINESS
Starbucks CEO's New Ideas Start With a Pick-Up-Only Store in NYC
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www.newsmax.com - They’ve scrapped the newspapers and beefed up the food, but most Starbucks cafes in the U.S. don’t look all that different today than they did a decade ago. That’s about to change. Starbucks Corp. Ch…
ENVIRONMENT
Hurricane Dorian Has Regained Strength And Is Reportedly “On A Collision Course With The Carolinas”
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www.infowars.com - Are the Carolinas about to take a direct hit from Hurricane Dorian? As you will see below, that is what some mainstream media reports appear to indicate, but the truth is much more nuanced than that.…
SCIENCE
Scientists: Loch Ness Monster Might Be a Giant Eel
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www.newsmax.com - Scotland's fabled Loch Ness monster could possibly be a giant eel, scientists said on Thursday after an intensive analysis of traces of DNA in the Loch's icy waters. The results ruled out the presenc…
BUSINESS
Hurricane Dorian Reorganized on Approach to Carolinas [ECMWF (Euro) + GFS + HWRF Forecasts] | People's Pundit Daily
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www.peoplespunditdaily.com - On Thursday, the ECMWF (Euro), GFS, and HWRF models forecast a reorganized Hurricane Dorian to move North before accelerating North-Northeastward. The above forecasts — generated via Tropical Tidbits…
ENVIRONMENT
Julian Castro Climate Plan Addresses 'Environmental Injustice and Racism'
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www.breitbart.com - “You all know that oftentimes the first folks that get flooded out are the poorest communities. They’re often communities of color. They’re the ones who can least afford to deal with the climate cris…
WORLD
Two Children and Four Adults Injured in Acid Attack at Supermarket
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www.breitbart.com - The incident took place at 2:30pm on Wednesday at the supermarket in the Northfield area of Birmingham, the UK’s ‘second city’. Police said that two people were attempting to shoplift from the store,…
SCIENCE
Dogs, Cats Ease Depression, Loneliness After Spousal Loss
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www.infowars.com - As Healthy Aging Month is underway this September, Florida State University researchers have found the companionship of a pet after the loss of a spouse can help reduce feelings of depression and lon…
BUSINESS
Biden on His Climate Change Plan: Some People in Some Industries 'Are Going to Be Displaced' | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - Wednesday during CNN’s climate town hall, Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden said enacting his climate change plan meant some workers “will be displaced.” Biden said, “Th…
POLITICS
Jim Carrey: 'Osama Bin Laden Doesn’t Hold a Candle to Mitch McConnell'
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www.breitbart.com - “10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell,” Jim Carrey said in a Tweet that included an ima…
POLITICS
Wis. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner the 15th Republican to Exit House
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www.newsmax.com - The surprise announcement by Wisconsin's Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Wednesday night that he would not seek reelection brings to 15 the number of Republicans leaving the House in 2020. With the number of …
LEISURE
Report: China May Try To Send Aid to Devastated Bahamas
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www.newsmax.com - The Trump administration is considering the national security implications if China steps in and tries to help the Bahamas rebuild after the destruction left by Hurricane Dorian, Axios is reporting. …
SCIENCE
When Bad Things Happen to Innocent Bystanders - by Robert Ringer
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robertringer.com - While pundits and politicians use the mass shootings in Dayton, El Paso, and Odessa to score cheap political points, I thought it would be a good time to take a deep breath and reflect on that age-ol…
WORLD
YouTube Purged Over 100k Videos And 17k Channels For ‘Hate Speech’ In 3 Mos., Deleted 500m Comments
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www.infowars.com - Our ruling oligarchs are desperate to regain control of the narrative. Google-owned YouTube announced on Tuesday that they’ve purged over 17,000 channels, 100,000 videos and a whopping 500 million co…
WORLD
NJ Gun Owners Aren't Turning In Their Magazines Despite New Law
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bearingarms.com - New Jersey is a hostile place for gun owners. The progressive state is a big fan of gun control and continually works to pass more and more restrictive measures, even if those restrictions make no se…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Many Requirements Of Hold Music, A Genre For No One
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www.npr.org - Hold music has a paradoxical purpose: Keep folks on the line, but don't draw their attention. Someone is late for the conference call, so the music starts. "Well, I've been sitting here all day," the…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Brad Pitt Tells All About Attending AA Meetings
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www.newsmax.com - The world was shocked when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie called it quits in 2016. Two years later the Hollywood actor admitted to GQ Magazine that he had used drugs and alcohol for a large portion of …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
John Kelly to Trump: I won't publish a tell-all about you until after you're out of office -- unless you attack me first
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hotair.com - The most basic part of being a good general, I’d imagine, is being able to identify and exploit an enemy’s weakness. Know what he fears. Understand how he operates. John Kelly knows that Trump fears …
BUSINESS
U.S. Private Sector Adds 195K Jobs in August, Easily Beating Forecasts | People's Pundit Daily
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www.peoplespunditdaily.com - The ADP National Employment Report found the U.S. private sector added 195,000 jobs in August, easily beating the high end of the forecast range. Total private employment added for July was revised d…
WORLD
A new plan to deal with Baltimore's gang violence
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hotair.com - Just yesterday we talked about the City of Baltimore and how they are currently on track to break yet another record for murders this year. As I said at the time, this is not an impossible situation …
POLITICS
Trump Promises Action On Gun Control 'Soon' - Bearing Arms
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bearingarms.com - Like it or not, President Donald Trump is going to push for some degree of gun control. Frankly, he has to do something to look like he’s working to stem the flow of mass shootings that seem to take …
POLITICS
Daily Beast: The opponent Trump is increasingly worried about is...
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hotair.com - There’s only one Democrat who’s risen steadily in the polls since summer began, only one who’s getting buzz for the enthusiasm with which she’s received at events. She also happens to be running on p…
WORLD
JoJo to BoJo: Cheerio, bro
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hotair.com - Maybe this could be called … Jexit? Imagine if Bobby Kennedy had resigned in protest after JFK’s bad leadership in the Bay of Pigs disaster. That might be the closest hypothetical parallel to Jo John…
TECHNOLOGY
The latest Apple AirPods are down to their lowest price ever
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www.usatoday.com - — Our editors review and recommend products to help you buy the stuff you need. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and o…
POLITICS
HPSCI Member Devin Nunes Files Lawsuit Against Fusion-GPS Claiming Racketeering and Conspiracy…
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theconservativetreehouse.com - Cute, Sundance. “Tick Tock Club”. Let’s take another run at this thing from another direction. Walk with me for a bit…. This whole thing looks like a Kabuki play to me. Everyone seems to be playing a…
STORIES
Thursday September 5th – Open Thread
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theconservativetreehouse.com - The resurrection of Christ is God’s answer to unbelief. The changed attitudes of His followers who saw Him alive after His crucifixion and the revolution in the life of Paul, who saw Him “last of all…
WORLD
'BoJo' Remaking British Conservative Party
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www.newsmax.com - In recent political maneuvers that left observers worldwide spellbound, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his top political advisor Dominic Cummings began the process of remaking their Conserv…
ADULT
Study: Gay Fathers Have Less Parental Leave Than Other Couples
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www.newsmax.com - Gay men around the world receive less paid parental leave than lesbian or heterosexual couples, researchers said on Thursday, with many left struggling to pay household bills if they opt to spend mor…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Lawyer For Epstein’s ‘Madam’ Says ‘Hundreds Of Names’ Contained In Upcoming Records Dump
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www.infowars.com - An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein confidant (and alleged groomer) Ghislaine Maxwell told a judge on Wednesday that there are “hundreds” of people named in what is expected to be approximately 2,000 pag…
BUSINESS
Revealed: The US Government Is Blowing Billions Of Dollars On Pointless Crap
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www.infowars.com - Senator Rand Paul is waging battle against waste. In his latest ‘waste report’, the Senator reveals how the government is adding to the $22 trillion national debt by subsidizing all manner of pointle…
BUSINESS
Weekly Jobless Claims Rise Modestly Amid Trade Fears
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www.newsmax.com - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week, suggesting little impact on the labor market from trade tensions, which have eroded business confidence …
POLITICS
Wisconsin poll: Biden 51, Trump 42
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hotair.com - No need to panic. Maybe the GOP will get lucky again next year when the Democratic nominee forgets to campaign there. Considering that the Dem convention is being held in Milwaukee, though, it seems …
WORLD
Buttigieg: Climate Change Fight Maybe Worse than World War II
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www.breitbart.com - “This is the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime as a country, this on par with winning World War II,” he said. “Perhaps even more challenging than that.” Buttigieg lamented duri…
LEISURE
Supporters: Greta Thunberg the Victim of ‘Scientifically Illiterate Bullies’
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www.breitbart.com - The activism of Greta Thunberg — including refusing to fly on a plane — has gained international attention from both those who agree with her climate agenda that calls for giving up fossil fuels and …
BUSINESS
Here’s a really unique way to own gold | Sovereign Man
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Chris From WI
www.sovereignman.com - Last week we dove into a series about different ways to own gold. And I explained in that first article why it’s a great idea to own physical bullion– gold you can hold in your hand. With physical go…
WORLD
Newt Gingrich: 'Radical Left' Pressuring Pelosi to Shelve Trade Deal
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www.newsmax.com - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't advance the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement to a House vote because the pressure on her from the "radical left" is "very, very real" not to give President Donald T…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ writer says she is leaving because of pay disparity with white male co-writer
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www.washingtonpost.com - Screenwriter Adele Lim arrives at the “Crazy Rich Asians” premiere in Hollywood in 2018. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) By Rebecca Tan Rebecca Tan Local reporter Email Bio Follow September 4 at 7:27 PM…
SCIENCE
Biden's bloody eye: A new health problem for Dem frontrunner?
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hotair.com - One would think that having a leading candidate spontaneously bleed out of an eye socket on live television would grab the media’s attention. One would think incorrectly, as it turns out, even when t…
LEISURE
Fire company shuttered for failing to address a volunteer's Proud Boys ties
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www.nbcnews.com - A Pennsylvania fire company was closed by town officials on Wednesday after the company's leadership refused to address that one its volunteer firefighters was affiliated with the extremist group the…
LEISURE
A man bought 100 generators to help the Bahamas. They're being delivered by boat
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www.cnn.com - "It's important that we help each other out. It's better than just sitting there," he said. "You see a need and you fill it." The world knows about this man's good deed because someone else was at th…
BUSINESS
Trump has never explained this mysterious $50 million loan. Is it evidence of tax fraud?
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www.motherjones.com - Donald Trump’s massive debts—he owes hundreds of millions of dollars—are the subject of continuous congressional and journalistic scrutiny. But for years, one Trump loan has been particularly mystify…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Local communities prepare for fifth annual Kaaboo
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www.encinitasadvocate.com - The stages will soon be set for the KAABOO music festival, returning to the Del Mar Fairgrounds Sept. 13-15 for its fifth year. Musical artists from multiple genres performing throughout the weekend …
WORLD
Taliban blast in Kabul kills 10, including U.S. and Romanian service members
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Siobhán O'Grady and Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow Sayed Salahuddin September 5 at 12:11 PM KABUL — Two NATO service members, including an American, were among 10 people kill…
SCIENCE
Trial of SAGE-217 in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. - PubMed - NCBI
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Altered neurotransmission of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of depression. Whether SAGE-217, an oral, positive allosteric modulator of GABA type A receptors, is ef…
SCIENCE
Inhaled GM-CSF for Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. - PubMed - NCBI
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Tom Heston
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a disease characterized by abnormal accumulation of surfactant in the alveoli. Most cases are autoimmune and are associated with an autoantibody against granulocyte-…
LEISURE
Florida man parks Smart car in kitchen over fear Hurricane Dorian would blow it away
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www.nbcnews.com - A Florida man who was worried his Smart car may blow away in Hurricane Dorian's punishing winds parked it in his kitchen, his wife posted on Facebook. Jessica Eldridge said her husband Patrick was "a…
SCIENCE
Applying artificial intelligence for social good
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Gerd Leonhard
www.mckinsey.com - Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems. To analyze potential applications for social good, we compiled a library of about 1…
SCIENCE
Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler – Quote Investigator
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quoteinvestigator.com - Albert Einstein? Louis Zukofsky? Roger Sessions? William of Ockham? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The credibility of a quotation is increased substantially if it can be ascribed to a widely-rec…
SPORTS
Sources: Raiders to suspend AB after tiff with GM
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www.espn.com - Antonio Brown and Raiders general manager Mike Mayock got into a heated exchange Wednesday, and the team is now planning to suspend its star wide receiver, league sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter. T…
BUSINESS
What will the world of work look like in 2035? - RSA
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Gerd Leonhard
www.thersa.org - The RSA’s Future Work Centre has today released research that models four ‘futures of work’ by 2035 - and shows how our warring politicians are nowhere near up to speed on what’s going on. Most of us…
SCIENCE
Scientists Have Found Another Way To Safely Treat Peanut Allergies
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Who remembers those dreaded immunotherapy shots you might have had to endure during elementary school? You know, the ones where you'd show up to school (perhaps teary-eyed) with an inflamed bicep, al…
SCIENCE
How To Detox Your Space & Body At The Same Time
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www.mindbodygreen.com - And here are a few tips to clean up the inner environment of your body. Because you are what you eat, drink, breathe, touch, and that which you cannot eliminate. The basics. When I use the term "deto…
ADULT
This flawless $44 vibrator promises the most intense orgasm of your life in less than a minute
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www.wellandgood.com - The French refer to the brief loss of consciousness during an orgasm as la petite mort, or “the little death.” I wonder what chic name they’d have for the Tracy’s Dog Clitoral Sucking Vibrator ($44),…
LEISURE
These Falafel Bowls Will Satisfy Your Mediterranean Craving
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www.mindbodygreen.com - To make the falafel: Pour the dried chickpeas into a large bowl and add enough cold water until the chickpeas are just covered. Place a clean dish towel over the top of the bowl and let the chickpeas…
SCIENCE
The Latest On Why Certain Sounds Are Physically & Emotionally Healing
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Mark Leeds, D.O., a doctor in Florida who specializes in opioid addiction treatment, also recommends Sacred Acoustics to help his patients relax. When I talked to Leeds, he explained many of the reco…
SCIENCE
Is the 28-Day Cycle A Myth?
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www.mindbodygreen.com - If you're a woman, you've almost definitely been told that 28 days is the "normal" cycle length. But ladies, is your cycle actually 28 days? And if it's not, is that something to worry about? Accordi…
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Computers, Technology and the Future!
Loyalty360 Reads: September 4, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Partnerships Pony.ai and Toyota Partner to Build Self-Driving Cars and Services The vehicle brand has partnered with a Chinese start-up to design and implement driverless technology. “The two compani…
SCIENCE
A Configurator for Creating Custom WebGL Distortion Effects | Codrops
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tympanus.net - A configurator for creating unique fullscreen image animations with WebGL distortion effects powered by Three.js. From our monthly sponsor: Take WordPress to a whole new level with Divi's incredibly …
TECHNOLOGY
iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple Testing AR Headset With 'StarBoard' Mode, 'Garta' Codename, and More [Updated]
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Dan Parks
www.macrumors.com - iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple Testing AR Headset With 'StarBoard' Mode, 'Garta' Codename, and More [Updated] Sunday September 1, 2019 11:40 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol Apple has long been rumored to be work…
BUSINESS
Something is going very wrong with Donald Trump right now
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www.palmerreport.com - We’re starting to observe a sea change in the Trump Administration. It’s been subtle but it’s there. In recent photos, Trump appears to have multiple bruises on his forehead beneath his ubiquitous ba…
POLITICS
AOC Helps Raise Bail Money for Violent Antifa Protesters - David Harris Jr
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www.davidharrisjr.com - Half of The Squad are helping to raise bail money for violent Antifa protesters. AOC and Ayanna Pressley both tweeted out pleas for people to contribute to a fund to be used to bail out protesters of…
LEISURE
Home Depot Sponsors 129 Miles of Trump's Border Wall
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www.gishgallop.com - Atlanta, GA — The world’s largest home improvement retailer announced today that it plans on sponsoring up to 129 miles of President Trump’s border wall. Home Depot, known for its labyrinth-like shop…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘They Legitimized Buying Views’: YouTube Ads Divide Latin Music Industry
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www.rollingstone.com - Major music companies are allegedly spending tens of thousands of dollars to boost view counts on the world’s largest streaming service. How the companies are doing it, though, is entirely legal on Y…
SCIENCE
Fascinating: The CEO Of McDonald’s Has Revealed That Grimace Is The Larval Stage Of Ronald McDonald
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lifestyle.clickhole.com - America’s favorite fast food company just gave the public some fascinating new information about its corporate mascots that is certain to captivate customers both young and old: The CEO of McDonald’s…
BUSINESS
Congratulating the Hedvig Team
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trueventures.com - Today, we are excited to celebrate Commvault’s intent to acquire software-defined storage leader Hedvig at a transaction value of $225 million in cash and stock retention. We extend a huge congratula…
SPORTS
Victim Of Brock Turner Sexual Assault Reveals Her Identity
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www.npr.org - This image released by CBS shows Chanel Miller during an interview on 60 Minutes, set to air Sept. 22. In newspapers she was described as the "unconscious intoxicated woman." In the courtroom she was…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Amy Caudill’s Reviews : Verses for the Dead
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amycaudill.net - A killer who writes poetry and leaves “presents” of his victims’ hearts on the graves of suicides brings FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast to Miami, but with a handicap to his usual methodology. …
TECHNOLOGY
How to CI and CD a Node.JS Application Using GitHub Actions
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blog.bitsrc.io - Our workflow will look like this The complete source code is available on GitHub Easily share reusable components between projects and applications to build faster as a team. Collaborate to develop… …
POLITICS
Donald Trump caught using Sharpie to alter map so it looked like the hurricane hit Alabama
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Linda
www.palmerreport.com - Over the holiday weekend, Donald Trump repeatedly and mistakenly insisted that Alabama was going to get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, even though the storm was in the Atlantic Ocean, and Alabama does…
WORLD
Rep. Steve King: I drank from the toilet-fountain hybrid at border facility and it was 'pretty good'
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Rev Dr Susan K Smith
www.nbcnews.com - Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Wednesday that during a recent visit to a migrant detention facility he drank from a toilet that also served as a water fountain and that the water was "actually pretty …
POLITICS
DraftKings Social September Sweepstakes
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www.mlb.com - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ODDS OF WINNING WILL DEPEND ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE ENTRIES RECEIVED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW…
POLITICS
How a “Kamikaze” GOP Primary Could Hit Trump Where It Hurts
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www.vanityfair.com - The Republicans mounting primary challenges to Donald Trump are not exactly the Never Trump movement’s top draft picks. With little hope of defeating an incumbent president dependably popular inside …
WORLD
N.J. gun owners are storing ‘thousands and thousands’ of banned gun magazines in a steel vault
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Rob McNealy
www.nj.com - When New Jersey’s ban on large-capacity gun magazines went into effect last December, it forced gun owners to make a decision. Should they turn the magazines over to law enforcement? Should they modi…
POLITICS
Charges were dropped against Aaron Schock. He had a gay old time in West Hollywood to celebrate.
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Susan Cooper 💙🌊🆘
www.lgbtqnation.com - Charges against disgraced former U.S. Representative Aaron Schock (R-IL) have been dropped after he reached a deal with prosecutors. So he celebrated by having a gay old time on the town in West Holl…
WORLD
'I'm So Grateful': Iraqi Translator Embedded With U.S. Soldiers Becomes American Citizen
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minnesota.cbslocal.com - MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO has an update to a story that has been years in the making. Philip first came to America with the help of some Minnesota soldiers. He was a translator in Iraq when he met Mi…
LEISURE
Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
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khn.org - MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure. And he has struggled to…
LEISURE
Marriott Increases the Size of Shower Amenities, Decreases Plastic Use
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loyalty360.org - Marriott International has announced that it’s expanding an initiative to replace miniature, single-use toiletry bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and bath gel in guestroom showers with larger, pump-t…
TECHNOLOGY
Getting Crypto to Write Reviews - BravoCoin
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Rob McNealy
www.publish0x.com - Get Paid to write reviews of attractions, books, companies, events, hotels, music, restaurants, services, coins and more. BravoCoin® utilizes an improved "Proof-of-Brain" algorithm that distributes B…
TECHNOLOGY
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
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Eric Garland
www.telegraph.co.uk - Google is secretly sharing users' personal data with advertisers in breach of Europe's data protection laws, a competing search engine has claimed. In new evidence submitted to Ireland's data watchdo…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
National Ampersand Day (Sept. 8) - AmperArt
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amperart.com - Wish someone special a HAPPY AMPERSAND BIRTHDAY on September 8. Send them this link & they’ll see how fun & special their birthday really is! amperart.com/happy-birthday-ampersand-day Do you know a B…
SCIENCE
NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in Earth's solar orbit, and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels
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www.naturalnews.com - (Natural News) For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. B…
LEISURE
Social Media Influence in the Hotel Industry | Triple Crown Construction
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triplecrownconstruction.com - Hotel & Hospitality Renovation Insights Cassandra Soto Brand & Marketing Strategist The digital world and new technologies have undoubtedly impacted every industry in different ways. Picture-perfect …
SCIENCE
A cave is no place for humans, so DARPA is sending in the robots
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Thomas Frey CSP
www.impactlab.net - DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge aims to make cave exploration a more robotic affair. Outside its cavernous passageways, the mine’s entrance is emblazoned in red lettering that reads “Safety Research C…
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record $5 billion over its privacy lapses, a…
BUSINESS
Newly Unsealed Federal Indictment Charges Software Engineer with Taking Stolen Trade Secrets to China
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Eric Garland
www.justice.gov - A software engineer at a suburban Chicago locomotive manufacturer stole proprietary information from the company and took it to China, according to an indictment unsealed this week in federal court i…
POLITICS
Labor Department to reinstate Leif Olson after false allegation of anti-Semitism
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hotair.com - Leif Olson, the lawyer who “resigned” his position at the Labor Department after Bloomberg Law published a shoddy piece accusing him of anti-Semitism, is going to be re-hired. From the Daily Caller: …
SCIENCE
Is Thorium the fuel of the future to revitalize nuclear?
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www.impactlab.net - Nuclear energy produces carbon-free electricity, and the United States has used nuclear energy for decades to generate baseline power. Nuclear energy, however, carries a dreaded stigma. After disaste…
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10 Principles in Culture Gamification: The RewardMe DNA
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yukaichou.com - Our company has been through many cycles and products throughout the years, but it’s the passion and bond between teammates that have always carried on with us. That will continue to carry on no matt…
BUSINESS
Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It's about to lose $400M more to Trump's border wall.
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www.nbcnews.com - President Donald Trump is building his wall, and Puerto Rico is going to pay for it. The Department of Defense released a list of 127 military construction projects that are being delayed as the agen…
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TPS Consulting Daily
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - BUSINESS Pound falls to lowest level in three years as Brexit clash looms Shared by Neil www.theguardian.com - The pound fell below $1.20 to its weakest level in three years at one point on Tuesday b…
TECHNOLOGY
A Portion of Insiders - Windows Weekly 637 - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul look at some Windows history that most forgot or never even knew happened. Plus some other stuff. Download this episode and subscribe Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube Tip of the…
ADULT
El príncipe Harry habla sobre sus polémicos viajes en aviones privados
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www.telemundo.com - El príncipe Harry ha sido criticado por volar en aviones privados y reacciona por primera vez a esta controversia Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más Verónica Cast…
WORLD
Putin Slams Russian’s Detention in Italy as Hostile Act by U.S.
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www.bloomberg.com - The arrest in Italy of an employee of a unit of Russia’s main defense contractor, Rostec State Corp., has drawn the Kremlin’s ire, with President Vladimir Putin suggesting it was ordered to prevent c…
BUSINESS
Russian and Italian Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets From American Aviation Company
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www.justice.gov - A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged in the United States with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company. Alexander Yuryevich Korshuno…
BUSINESS
Stripe launches Stripe Capital to make instant loan offers to customers on its platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers. Now, nearly 12 months on …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Clowning on NASA: Impressionist James Adomian on his Bond-villain Elon Musk
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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—In 2018, Elon Musk showed up at South by Southwest to inspire humanity. In 2019, "Elon Musk" showed up to destroy it. “By the way, my accent? It’s correct," "Musk" told a sold out theat…
SCIENCE
The Designer’s Guide to AI-Driven UX
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medium.muz.li - These days, we’ve seen the proliferation of artificial intelligence as a core new-age technology that is critical for business success. In pop culture, we often think of AI as semi-autonomous intelli…
TECHNOLOGY
RippleMatch nabs $6M for a diversity-focused graduate recruitment platform powered by AI – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn, with 645 million users in 200 countries, is the undisputed leader when it comes to being the world’s biggest network of professionals, a position that it uses to leverage products in areas …
ADULT
Tuvo sexo con su esposa, le vendó los ojos para darle un “regalo” y luego la apuñaló en el cuello
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eldiariony.com - Esa madrugada Shaun May dijo haber escuchado ruidos en la planta baja de su casa. Salió unos minutos y regresó al dormitorio que compartía con su mujer, Laura. Entonces Shaun tuvo sexo con su esposa,…
ADULT
Discoteca causa sensación por sus sensuales bailarinas robóticas
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www.telemundo.com - Una discoteca en Francia posee unas bailarinas no muy comunes y causan sensación entre los clientes del lugar Devastadoras imágenes de la destrucción de Dorian en las Bahamas Varias personas quedan a…
SCIENCE
Physics not “broken” after all? We’re close to resolving proton radius puzzle
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arstechnica.com - Physicists at York University in Toronto have spent the last eight years meticulously conducting a sensitive experiment to measure the charge radius of the proton in hopes of resolving conflicting va…
TECHNOLOGY
Netflix officially launches a ‘Latest’ section with built-in reminders – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last month, Netflix was spotted testing a new section in its TV app called “Latest,” which would connect viewers with a personalized list of upcoming content due to be released over the course of the…
BUSINESS
The power of job crafting for sustainability jobs — and beyond
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www.greenbiz.com - If you think you’ve seen more job posts that say you can "$$$MAKE $2,500/wk FROM HOME $$$" than openings for corporate social responsibility positions, you’re not wrong. The truth is, not many corpor…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
You Know Emily Doe’s Story. Now Learn Her Name.
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www.nytimes.com - “I just remember being in my kitchen and reading this incredible, riveting piece of work,” Andrea Schulz, the editor in chief of Viking, the book’s publisher, said about reading the victim impact sta…
WORLD
These Are The Military Projects Losing Funding To Trump's Border Wall
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www.npr.org - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle sits near the wall as President Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in El Centro, Calif., on April 5. This area is one where the Pen…
POLITICS
One Campus. Seven Professors Facing Harassment Accusations. Few Consequences. — ProPublica
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www.propublica.org - This article was produced in partnership with NPR Illinois, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces invest…
SCIENCE
Terramera raises $45 million for its technology to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Terramera, a Canadian company selling bio-pesticides and seed treatments to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture, has raised $45 million in its latest round of financing. The round was led by s…
POLITICS
Le premier ministre annonce la nomination d’une nouvelle lieutenante-gouverneure pour le Nouveau-Brunswick
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pm.gc.ca - Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de Brenda Murphy comme prochaine lieutenante-gouverneure du Nouveau-Brunswick. Mme Murphy milite depuis longtemps pour la justic…
TECHNOLOGY
Google’s new feature will help you find something to watch – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google Search can now help you find your next binge. The company this morning announced a new feature which will make personalized recommendations of what to watch, including both TV shows and movies…
SCIENCE
Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech’s Charles Isbell – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to pri…
BUSINESS
OpenGov acquires ViewPoint Cloud, adding building codes and permitting to its platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In the same week that it announced a $51 million round of funding, OpenGov — the startup that provides SaaS software designed to help governments and other civic organizations run their operations — …
SCIENCE
Here are this year’s Breakthrough Prize Winners – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Today, at the 8thth annual Breakthrough Prize Awards, hundreds of scientists will win their share of $10 million in awards for their outstanding work in the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Scienc…
BUSINESS
Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M pre-seed led by ALLVP – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Flat has raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. The company snagged a $4.5 million pre-seed round to expand its busin…
BUSINESS
SoftBank-backed Getaround is raising $200M at a $1.5B+ valuation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Getaround, a used car marketplace and winner of TechCrunch Disrupt New York Battlefield 2011, will enter the unicorn club with a roughly $200 million equity financing. The deal values Getaround, foun…
SPORTS
The new Sonos Port connects your existing stereo setup to Sonos and AirPlay 2 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Sonos has a new addition to its ecosystem for connecting in your existing stereo and AV equipment, and for adding sound out and AirPlay 2 capabilities to existing speaker setups connected via an ampl…
BUSINESS
We Company reportedly mulls slashing its valuation ahead of its initial public offering – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - For SoftBank, no majority stake in WeWork as it scales down talks from a new $16 billion investment to $2 billion For SoftBank, no majority stake in WeWork as it scales down talks from a new $16 bill…
TECHNOLOGY
Google Assistant, navigation and apps coming to GM vehicles starting in 2021 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - GM is turning to Google to provide in-vehicle voice, navigation and other apps in its Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC vehicles starting in 2021. GM began shipping vehicles with Google Android Auto…
TECHNOLOGY
Looks like Medium is testing a way to save articles across the web – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Medium seems to be building a tool to save and reformat online articles for future reading. That’s according to Jane Manchun Wong, a reliable source of scoops on unreleased features. Wong said she sp…
BUSINESS
India’s Milkbasket in talks to raise over $50M – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Milkbasket, a Gurugram-based micro-delivery startup, is in talks to close a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprints in milk, groceries, fruits, and vegetables delivery market that ha…
LEISURE
Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year at this time, Forethought won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. A $9 million Series A investment followed last December. Today at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Franci…
BUSINESS
8-month-old startup FPL Technologies raises $4.5M to improve credit card experience in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - An eight-month-old startup in India that wants to improve the user experience of credit card holders in the nation has received the backing of at least two major investors. Pune-based FPL Technologie…
BUSINESS
SF based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has expanded to Nigeria. The San Francisco based startup, with offices in Ghana and Kenya, will offer its P2P payment service and app in …
SCIENCE
Cooks Venture picks up $12 million to rethink agriculture from the ground up – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - “You are what what you’re eating eats,” says Matthew Wadiak, cofounder and CEO of Cooks Venture and former Blue Apron COO. The company, which just received $12 million in funding, is looking to rethi…
TECHNOLOGY
TCL adopts Tempow’s multi-device bluetooth streaming tech – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Here’s an interesting bit of news out of IFA today. TCL this morning announced a deal with Tempow that will bring the French company’s clever bluetooth streaming protocol to its forthcoming Plex flag…
EDUCATION
The new marketplaces connecting school and work – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Evidence continues to roll in that American workers are out of position for the high-value jobs of today and tomorrow. Start with the fact that there are 7.3 million unfilled jobs, millions of which …
BUSINESS
Facebook’s lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has confirmed it’s put questions to the company about a major security breach that we reported on yesterday. “The DPC became aware of this issue th…
BUSINESS
Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Adam Draper, the son of that Draper, is changing things up a bit at his accelerator. Boost VC has been living life on the fringe of Bay Area accelerators, chasing trends like VR and crypto (and somet…
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube launches a dedicated Fashion vertical – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - YouTube today is launching a new vertical called YouTube Fashion that aims to capitalize on the popular style and beauty content that attracts millions of viewers to its platform. According to Statis…
TECHNOLOGY
Is your startup TC Top Picks material? Apply to exhibit for free at Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - If you’re the founder of an early-stage startup here’s a big, fat reminder about one of the great experiences you can have at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. Apply to our TC Top Picks program …
LEISURE
There’s an ocean of opportunity for startups targeting the seafood industry – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Seafood has blown past its iceberg lettuce stage and entered trendy greens territory, with eaters loading up on oceanic superfoods and falling in love with previously unknown species as fast as dater…
LEISURE
Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to the U.S. – 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. Faceb…
TECHNOLOGY
Apple Music launches a public beta on the web – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Apple Music is coming to the web. Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide. This the …
LEISURE
Lime stops working with freelancers in Paris – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Scooter startup Lime is ending the juicer model in Paris. The company has announced that it will stop working with freelancers to recharge scooter batteries at night. Lime is switching to Amazon’s mo…
BUSINESS
Only 48 hours left on super early bird savings for Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It’s time to trot out our fractured German. Why? Because you have only 48 hours left to take advantage of super early bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. And that begs the question: Warum …
BUSINESS
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola in deal worth $2 billion – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Alibaba Group said today it has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The announcement follows weeks …
TECHNOLOGY
Atlassian launches free tiers for all its cloud products, extends premium pricing plan – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services. These include the launch of new premiu…
TECHNOLOGY
Porsche Taycan configurator: The 11 details that stood out – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The Porsche Taycan is here — actually two flavors, the Turbo S and the Turbo — in case you haven’t seen the deluge of media coverage. The upshot: the “lower” priced Turbo starts at $150,900 while the…
SCIENCE
Tyson Ventures has invested in a New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Through the company’s venture capital arm, Tyson is investing in New Wave Foods, a San Francisco-based startup that’s making a plant-based shrimp substitute. The company, founded by marine biologist,…
BUSINESS
Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - French startup Upflow has raised a $2.7 million funding round (€2.5 million) from Kima Ventures, eFounders and various business angels. The company tracks your outstanding invoices and makes sure you…
TECHNOLOGY
Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Superside, a startup aiming to create a premium alternative to the existing crowdsourced design platforms, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding. It’s also adding new features …
SCIENCE
Google launches an open-source version of its differential privacy library – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today released an open-source version of the differential privacy library it uses to power some of its own core products. Developers will be able to take this library and build their own tools…
SCIENCE
How early-stage startups can use data effectively – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It is a commonly held belief that startups can measure their way to success. And while there are always exceptions, early-stage companies often can’t leverage data easily, at least not in the way tha…
BUSINESS
BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It turns out GDPR was just the tip of the privacy iceberg. With California’s privacy law coming on line January 1st and dozens more in various stages of development, it’s clear that governments are t…
SCIENCE
Novameat has a platform for 3D-printing steaks and has new money to take it to market – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Novameat, a Spanish startup looking to accelerate the development of alternative proteins across the meat aisle, has gotten a boost in the form of new investment capital from the leading foodtech inv…
BUSINESS
Parallel Markets is trying to make it easy to buy and sell private stock – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Parallel Markets is a new startup aiming to make it as easy to buy and sell private company shares as it is for public company stock. COO Nicholas Goss said this is becoming issue for startups as the…
TECHNOLOGY
After announcing Galaxy Fold release date, Samsung cancels older preorders – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The good news: Samsung says it has addressed the early problems with the Galaxy Fold and finally has a release date (in Korea at least). The bad news: the company is canceling the first round of U.S.…
TECHNOLOGY
Watch TC Session: Enterprise livestream right here – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch is live from San Francisco’s YBCA’s Blue Shield of California Theater where we’re hosting our first event dedicated to the enterprise. Throughout the day, attendees and viewers can expect …
BUSINESS
Senator Bernie Sanders’ and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plan to Stop Big Banks and Payday Lenders from Ripping Off Americans
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medium.com - Today’s modern-day loan sharks are no longer lurking on street corners, threatening violence to collect their payments. Today’s loan sharks wear expensive suits and work on Wall Street, where they ma…
LEISURE
There’s a $218 billion design problem sitting in your fridge right now
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www.fastcompany.com - There’s a nice piece of fruit in your refrigerator right now. Perhaps it’s a veggie. Or a boneless skinless chicken breast. Whatever it is, you’re definitely going to eat it. You’re not a food waster…
LEISURE
10 simple ways to instantly jazz up your brand’s Instagram feed – Learn
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www.canva.com - Designing individual Instagram posts while taking your entire feed into account isn’t just a great idea—it’s essential. The arrangement of your image lineup as a whole creates an impression on a pros…
TECHNOLOGY
8 of the Best Social Media Management Hacks for Small Businesses
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coschedule.com - Social media management articles for small businesses are usually filled with platitudes and “hacks” like, “social is supposed to be social! Make sure you engage with all your followers!” Sure, that’…
ENVIRONMENT
Trump administration rolls back Obama-era lightbulb rules
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thehill.com - The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a controversial rule Tuesday that would erase Obama-era efficiency standards for lightbulbs. The regulation eliminates efficiency standards for about half the…
BUSINESS
Mike Pence derided by Ireland's media after his Brexit faux pas: "How dare he?"
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www.newsweek.com - The Irish media's reaction to Vice President Mike Pence, who was visiting the country this week, was, at best, less than complimentary, with one acerbic columnist noting that the Republican, metaphor…
SCIENCE
Coming soon: a device that harvests water in a desert
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om.co - It is easy to get despondent about the future and its challenges, especially with the massive amount of change ahead due to climate and weather modifications we are continuing to experience. However,…
ENVIRONMENT
DOE has decided many lightbulbs don’t have to meet efficiency standards
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arstechnica.com - Among the stranger subjects that's been caught up in the political wars raging in the United States is the lowly lightbulb. Back in the George W. Bush administration, a law was passed that set effici…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Part sci-fi thriller, part crime drama, Don’t Let Go is an understated gem
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arstechnica.com - A cell phone connection serves as a link between the past and present for a police detective and his dead niece in Don't Let Go, a new supernatural thriller from Blumhouse Productions that debuted at…
TECHNOLOGY
AT&T’s confusing mess of online TV services even has AT&T confused
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arstechnica.com - AT&T recently made the baffling decision to offer two separate streaming TV services with nearly identical names and to deliver those two distinct services through one app. This obviously had the pot…
TECHNOLOGY
600,000 GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password
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arstechnica.com - An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks, researchers from security firm Avast h…
SCIENCE
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win
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arstechnica.com - Solar panels might seem like they’re in direct competition with plants. One is catching sunlight to do photosynthesis, the other wants to take it to push electrons. Surely Highlander rules apply, and…
TECHNOLOGY
Dealmaster: Snag leftover Labor Day deals on laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, and more
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with a new round of deals to share. Summer may be over and Labor Day may have passed, but many PC manufacturers are still offering good deals on popular lap…
TECHNOLOGY
Everything you wanted to know about Porsche’s new electric car
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arstechnica.com - The new Porsche Taycan is about the same length and width as a Tesla Model S, but it's a couple of inches shorter in height. It's a good deal more expensive than a Tesla though—but did you expect any…
SCIENCE
“Fussy eater” goes blind after years of eating only junk food
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arstechnica.com - In the past, parents may have tried to coax their picky eaters to dinner with misguided reminders of starving children—or perhaps letting them imitate farm animals. But, the parents of today now have…
TECHNOLOGY
Senator pushes Amazon for details about Ring “partnerships” with police
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arstechnica.com - Amazon's Ring line of video doorbells and home surveillance equipment is particularly popular with one key group: police. More than 400 law enforcement agencies around the country have partnered with…
TECHNOLOGY
A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners
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arstechnica.com - When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to "manners camp" if they didn't behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet Society-supported initiative, the Mutually…
BUSINESS
T-Mobile Metro stores sell used phones as new, charge “fake taxes,” NYC says
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arstechnica.com - The New York City government sued T-Mobile yesterday, alleging that its Metro stores routinely use "abusive sales tactics" such as selling used phones as if they are new and charging customers for se…
TECHNOLOGY
8chan owner testifies to Congress about extremism on the site
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arstechnica.com - The owner of infamous imageboard site 8chan, James Watkins, is appearing today in Washington, DC to provide evidence to the House Committee on Homeland Security about the site. Though the live sessio…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Guilty review: Even in 2018, a simple phone can be utterly thrilling
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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—Browsing through written descriptions (whether in this year’s Fantastic Fest brochure or this weekend’s movie listings), The Guilty might sound remarkably unremarkable: a cop on desk du…
WORLD
Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff
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arstechnica.com - As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks. In the past month, dozens of districts nationwide h…
ADULT
First trailer for latest Black Christmas slasher reboot goes for “woke”
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arstechnica.com - The calls (and texts) might be coming from inside the house as a killer stalks a group of sorority sisters in the first trailer for Black Christmas, directed by Sophia Takal (best known for directing…
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 …
TECHNOLOGY
Wii Fit redux: Nintendo shows mysterious exercise ring for the Switch
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arstechnica.com - These pretend weights are a lot easier to lift than real weights! Why does this remind me of a five-year-old pretending to drive a car? Remember the Wii Fit Balance Board? Twelve years ago, Nintendo …
TECHNOLOGY
Zeroday privilege escalation disclosed for Android
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arstechnica.com - Researchers have disclosed a zeroday vulnerability in the Android operating system that gives a major boost to attackers who already have a toe-hold on an affected device. The privilege-escalation fl…
TECHNOLOGY
Gears of War 5 hands-on: A new blockbuster for the game-subscription era
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arstechnica.com - Key art from the new game, along with its source pencil sketch. Some custom character masks flanking a few gameplay stations. VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Gears of War 5, which launches on Windows 7, …
TECHNOLOGY
Nintendo Switch will finally get SNES games—20 of them—starting tomorrow
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arstechnica.com - The latest Nintendo Direct video presentation saw the game maker deliver on a huge slew of holiday-timed announcements for first- and third-party fare. Arguably its biggest news came in the form of O…
LEISURE
Confirman 34 muertes en el incendio de un bote en costas de California
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www.telemundo.com - Decenas de personas vivieron un infierno al una embarcación prenderse en llamas en California y dejar múltiples muertes Captan a un camión de mudanzas embistiendo a unos bomberos Dorian podría causar…
ADULT
Bibi Gaytán regresa a los escenarios luego de 15 años de ausencia
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www.telemundo.com - Bibi Gaytán, estrella mexicana, hace su gran regreso a los escenarios con papel protagónico en famoso musical Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más El príncipe Harry…
HEALTH
Lámina metálica casi deja a una mujer decapitada
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www.telemundo.com - Captan el momento exacto cuando una lámina metálica cae y golpea fuertemente a una mujer en Colombia Muerte de abogada asesinada por su esposo causa gran indignación Genera polémica la muerte de múlt…
ADULT
El Secreto de Selena: El efecto de la investigación en la vida de María Celeste
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www.telemundo.com - El actor Moisés Arizmendi habla sobre su trabajo interpretando al ex esposo de María Celeste Arrarás en El Secreto de Selena. Famosos ARV: Verónica Castro reacciona a boda con Yolanda Andrade y más E…
ENVIRONMENT
Micropartículas plásticas que ponen riesgo nuestra salud
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www.telemundo.com - El plástico que contamina el mar, aire y tierra también está presente en nuestro cuerpo y podría tener grandes consecuencias para la salud Revelan que niños obesos pueden sufrir infarto en la adultez…
LEISURE
Walmart restringe la venta de armas y municiones en sus tiendas
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www.telemundo.com - El director ejecutivo de Walmart hizo el anuncio de la restricción de armas en sus tiendas debido a los últimos tiroteos vividos en el país Captan a un camión de mudanzas embistiendo a unos bomberos …
BUSINESS
Walmart’s Foray Into Blockchain, How Is the Technology Used?
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cointelegraph.com - Walmart is currently making use of blockchain technology to create a food traceability system based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric. Along with IBM, the retail giant has already tested t…
BUSINESS
Pompliano: Satoshi Should Win Nobel Peace Prize for Bitcoin
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cointelegraph.com - American investor and co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets Anthony Pompliano has argued that Satoshi Nakamoto should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for inventing Bitcoin. In a tweet posted on …
SCIENCE
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
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blog.torproject.org - In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy. What is it? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing aga…
TECHNOLOGY
Multiline truncated text with "show more" button (with just CSS) - Paul Bakaus' blog
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paulbakaus.com - TL;DR: I built a CSS-only (~ish) solution for multiline truncated text with read more button. The other day, truncated text came up during a discussion in the office, and I since wondered if CSS has …
TECHNOLOGY
Pressable Review - One Of The Best Managed WordPress Hosts? (2019)
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winningwp.com - Pressable are one of the original providers of managed WordPress hosting. If you’re looking for a new home for your existing site, or you want to launch a new WordPress website with a high-quality ho…
ADULT
8 Best WordPress Testimonial Plugins Compared (2019)
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www.designbombs.com - Testimonials are a key part of every business website. It’s what helps you to build trust and establish authority. If your website still doesn’t have a testimonial or a reviews section, then this pos…
SCIENCE
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. F…
SCIENCE
How to Get Better at Embracing Unknowns
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www.scientificamerican.com - When tracking a hurricane, forecasters often show a map depicting a “cone of uncertainty.” It starts as a point—the hurricane's current position—and widens into a swath of territory the storm might c…
TECHNOLOGY
How to stop your emails from being tracked
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Update July 3, 2019, 3:47PM ET: This article has been updated to include additional information about email clients. Update September 3, 2019, 7:35PM ET: This article has been updated to include dire…
SCIENCE
Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning
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Reg Saddler
theconversation.com - Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it tak…
ENVIRONMENT
Like New: Locals and Experts Re-Chalk a ‘Rude’ Giant on a Hill
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - A gigantic chalk figure that dominates the countryside in England is being restored. The Cerne Abbas Giant is an enigmatic figure in the rolling hills of Dorset. Moreover, it is infamous because of i…
SCIENCE
Facebook is getting very, very good at faking your face
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Reg Saddler
www.fastcompany.com - Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg stated in no uncertain terms that Facebook was going to build the metaverse, a digital world that’s a surrogate for our real one, predicted by science fiction for deca…
SCIENCE
Why Doctors Are Prescribing Gardening for a Common Mental Illness
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - Spending time in outdoors, taking time out of the everyday to surround yourself with greenery and living things can be one of life’s great joys — and recent research also suggest it’s good for your b…
SCIENCE
Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns
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Reg Saddler
theconversation.com - The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers’ ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For …
BUSINESS
Wells Fargo: Artificial intelligence and machine learning a 'double-edged sword' | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - Although a bank's business has basically stayed the same over the last couple of decades, how a bank operates has drastically shifted. The fundamental pillars of a bank, according to Mike Telang, exe…
BUSINESS
DJI is now making you pay Trump’s tariffs when you buy its drones
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Chinese drone juggernaut DJI has made substantial adjustments to pricing and availability on its product lineup in response to increased tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by the Trump administration. …
SCIENCE
Trump tweet accidentally reveals secrets about US spy satellites
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Reg Saddler
futurism.com - In recent tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump included a smartphone picture of Iran’s Semnan Launch Site One — a location where U.S. authorities believe a rocket failure took place. The United States …
SCIENCE
First long-distance heart surgery performed via robot | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using a precision vascular ro…
LEISURE
We’re Wasting More Than Half of the Food In Our Refrigerators, Says New Study
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Reg Saddler
mentalfloss.com - Founded as a modest barbeque shop by brothers Richard and Maurice “Mac” McDonald in 1940, McDonald’s has grown to become synonymous with fast-service food (and car floors littered with paper wrappers…
TECHNOLOGY
USB4 is ready: Twice as fast, smaller, and hitting devices in 2020 | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - The official Thunderbolt-based USB4 specification is complete, the group that designs it announced on Tuesday. USB4 is the next major version of the USB, which gains a major speed boost thanks to Int…
SCIENCE
Siberian Puppy Frozen for 14,300 Years is a Major RNA Breakthrough
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - Never before has RNA - Ribonucleic acid - sequencing been carried out from so far back in time. Finding RNA on the puppy found preserved in permafrost in Tumat in 2015 is a major scientific discovery…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Catholic Teachers Ban ‘Evil’ Harry Potter Books
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Reg Saddler
www.ancient-origins.net - Harry Potter books have been removed from a private Catholic school in Nashville because they include actual “ curses and spells”, according to staff at the school. In a recent report in the US daily…
ENVIRONMENT
Trump administration pulls plug on energy-efficient bulb rules
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Reg Saddler
www.rawstory.com - Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday issued a new rule reversing a requirement for all new light bulbs to be energy-efficient by 2020, a move welcomed by industry but strongly criticized by cli…
SCIENCE
What Are The Most Exciting Trends In AI In 2019?
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - What are the most exciting trends in machine learning/AI in 2019? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the…
BUSINESS
Skills Gap Growing as Companies Struggle to Find Capable Talent
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finance.yahoo.com - If you’re willing to undergo training or specialized education, you may find a wealth of job opportunities, as a new study suggests companies are struggling to find the talent they need. Education te…
ENVIRONMENT
Seattle City Council to consider ban on natural gas for new homes, buildings
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Nansen Malin
www.seattletimes.com - The Seattle City Council will consider a ban on natural gas for newly constructed homes and buildings, favoring the use of electricity for heating and cooking. Councilmember Mike O’Brien plans to int…
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei Mate 30 Pro renders, 360-degree video appear before launch
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androidcommunity.com - As early as January and even before the Huawei P30 series was announced, the Mate 30 already became part of the rumor mill. It was said the flagship series due in the second half of the year would co…
TECHNOLOGY
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection now on by default
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androidcommunity.com - Most of us are probably annoyed by the fact that the websites we visit have cookies that follow us around wherever we go on the Internet. But a lot of people also don’t know that most browsers now ha…
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Mirage AR Headset out with free Marvel Dimension of Heroes
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo Mirage Solo standalone VR headset is getting an update. We’re tempted to say it’s a subtle upgrade but with the name Marvel, we have a feeling it will bring in more business for Lenovo. It’s n…
TECHNOLOGY
Twitter won’t let you tweet via SMS for now
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androidcommunity.com - After reports that famous people’s accounts were hacked, including their own CEO’s, Twitter is now temporarily suspending their tweet via SMS feature. The official statement is of course that they ar…
TECHNOLOGY
New Amazon Fire TV products announced
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androidcommunity.com - Amazon is still the top e-commerce site. It’s on top of the world for several reasons and one of which is the fact that it comes up with interesting product lines. At the moment, the Echo and Alexa-p…
TECHNOLOGY
Gmail finally working on calendar spam fix
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve noticed that some unknown entities are adding events to your Google Calendar with links that seem pretty suspicious, you’re right to be wary and you should not be clicking on those. But eve…
TECHNOLOGY
New Lenovo Smart Devices with Google Assistant introduced
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo has recently introduced three new Smart Devices. The smart home consumers are provided more options now with the entrance of the Lenovo Smart Display 7, Lenovo Smart Tab M8, and the Lenovo Yog…
TECHNOLOGY
BLU VIVO X5 and VIVO XL5 introduced, sold unlocked on Amazon
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androidcommunity.com - We’re now in the second half of the year which means OEMs are busy introducing their latest products. Combined with the IFA 2019 event, the next few weeks will be very busy for the phone makers. Taki…
TECHNOLOGY
Honor 20s, Honor Play 3 roll out with triple rear shooters
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androidcommunity.com - Honor, as Huawei’s sub-brand, may be affected by the recent US trade ban. It’s the only Huawei mobile brand that is sold in the United States. Its fate seems to be uncertain especially now that we’re…
SCIENCE
Safe, Factory Mass Producible Truck Sized Nuclear Reactors – NextBigFuture.com
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Rob McNealy
www.nextbigfuture.com - A new Very-Small, Long-LIfe, and Modular (VSLLIM) reactor design has been developed at the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies. It offers passive operation and de…
TECHNOLOGY
Walmart Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents
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Rob McNealy
babylonbee.com - BENTONVILLE, AR—In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday. According to shock…
BUSINESS
How to Measure Your Loyalty Program
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loyalty360.org - Are you thinking about implementing a loyalty program? Or do you already have one in place? Chances are you do: After all, according to the research group Colloquy, there are 2.65 billion loyalty pro…
TECHNOLOGY
HelloWorld Executives Emphasize Authentic Brand Connections
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Loyalty360
loyalty360.org - In numerous conversations with brand and vendor representatives, Loyalty360 has seen the understanding of loyalty shift in a big way. Most executives and c-level officers are emphasizing the need for…
LEISURE
Bad Website Experiences Scare Away Diners
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loyalty360.org - Marketing communications agency MHG has released the results of a survey it conducted of US restaurant goers, ages 18 and up, who dine in or have takeout or delivery at least once a month. Overall, t…
BUSINESS
Panera Bread Expands Its Delivery Service through Third-Party Partners
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loyalty360.org - Panera Bread has announced the availability of its national delivery service through DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats. In addition to being able to order from Panera’s app and web site, consumers wil…
LEISURE
The Morning Briefing: Let's Swap San Francisco for Greenland
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pjmedia.com - Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of "Thinking Outside All the Boxes." I'm your host, Stephen Kruiser. Look, I have never liked the Bay Area. While California's politics may have chas…
BUSINESS
Calif. Gov. Newsom Backs Bill Designed to Ruin Uber, Lyft and Gig Economy
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pjmedia.com - In an opinion piece in The Sacramento Bee on Monday, which was Labor Day, Newsom said he was “proud to be supporting” Assembly Bill 5, which details the conditions under which a worker should be cons…
SPORTS
AP 1084: How Do I Create Passive Income for My Growing Product-Based Business?
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Pat Flynn
www.smartpassiveincome.com - Pat Flynn: What’s up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to Episode 1084 of AskPat 2.0. This is the podcast where you’re going to listen in on a coaching call between myself and an entrepreneur jus…
SCIENCE
Pentagon Shelves Neutral Particle Beam Research
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.defenseone.com - Defense officials are taking a step back from one of its most ambitious research goals: launching a massive neutral-particle-beam generator, essentially a ray gun, into space to fry the electronics o…
WORLD
Refugee Arrivals Up as Trump Administration Considers Cutbacks
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.pewtrusts.org - New statistics show refugee arrivals up modestly from historic lows last year, though the Trump administration is considering stopping the flow completely. As of Sept. 4, 28,282 refugees had arrived …
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Moves Away From Alexa With New Android Tablets - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Lenovo kicked off this year with a slew of new products. The company introduced Android tablets that allow users to dock the tablets and use them as Alexa-powered smart displays. It is now moving awa…
TECHNOLOGY
Xbox Insiders Start Testing October Update - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that Xbox Insiders have begun testing some of the features that will come in the October Update. “Starting last week, Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead and Alpha rings began …
TECHNOLOGY
Google Pays $170 Million to Settle Child Privacy Case - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Google will pay a record $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that YouTube has violated the privacy of children. “The FTC and New …
TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ First Impressions - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - My Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ arrived today, and I’m up and running. I can already see that I made the right choice in upgrading from the smaller Note 10: The bigger display size really makes a differen…
TECHNOLOGY
Lenovo Launches Upgraded Yoga Laptops With New Processors, Improved Alexa Integration - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Lenovo is launching four new Yoga laptops at IFA today. The company’s new Yoga laptops include a number of new software-related features aimed to improve productivity on the Yoga devices. Some of the…
BUSINESS
Winning Sales: How To Win When You Have an Hour to Present
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Bob Burg
thesalesblog.com - The following strategy is for salespeople who are asked to present to a prospect by a broker or agent. Here is how to win when you have an hour to present to a prospect you haven’t met. You might wan…
ADULT
The Best Possible Version of You by Randy Gage
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Bob Burg
www.randygage.com - Last post I mentioned the authors I’m working with and how they can get stymied by seeking perfection. They wonder if they have the right and credibility to put lessons out to the world. You may be g…
SPORTS
How to Receive Feedback
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Bob Burg
leadershipfreak.blog - The most important thing about feedback is the way it’s received. Aspiration makes feedback desirable. “Tell me how to improve.” Poorly delivered feedback is useful to highly motivated people. If Tom…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
CC2CC – The Most Effective Way For You To Sell Yourself | Bruce Turkel
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Bob Burg
bruceturkel.com - Minutes after I walk on stage as a keynote speaker presenting on brand building, I reach into my pocket and pull out a little harmonica. After a quick introduction, I play “Minuet in G” by Johann Seb…
ADULT
09-05-2019 - [X&Y] 3 Different Types Of Guys (And You've GOT To Know Which One You Are)
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archive.aweber.com - ===== IN THIS EDITION: Whether you're all about getting married someday or the exact opposite, today's newsletter is a "must read"... ===== MEETING WOMEN ON STEROIDS (WITHOUT THE GNARLY SIDE EFFECTS)…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The True Message of Jesus! (What religion doesn’t want you to know!) – Law of Attraction Lover
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loalover.com - Interesting take on the first “sin”. Here is another one, what if as the scriptures say, the serpent told Adam and Eve a “lie” that when they ate the fruit of the tree of good and evil they will know…
ENVIRONMENT
Interview with Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue's labor reporter
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Jay Oatway
boingboing.net - Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue's labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy. Kelly has had a distinguished career as a journalist and a labor o…
BUSINESS
Is Elon Musk Right About Global "Population Collapse"???
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econimica.blogspot.com - 15 to 40 year old population growth (as a %) versus federal funds rate, below. Looking at the global childbearing population (excluding Africa, blue line below) versus 0-15 year old young (x-Africa, …
SCIENCE
Greg Potter: The Effects and Application of Circadian Rhythm on Nutrition, Workout, and Sleep Enhancement: Just Fly Performance Podcast #166 - 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…
POLITICS
Analysis: Black Vote to Play Key Role in 2020 Dem Race
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - For all the strategic calculations, sophisticated voter targeting, and relentless talk about electability in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential nomination will be determined by a dec…
SCIENCE
Watch Live: Eye Of The Storm – Dems Push UN Climate Agenda As Dorian Hits
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - The all new and advanced Super Male Vitality formula uses the newest extraction technology with even more powerful concentrations of various herbs and extracts designed to be even stronger. https://a…
WORLD
September 5th – 2019 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #959
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theconservativetreehouse.com - — * USA * 🇺🇸 —-” Week of Prayer ” —- 🇺🇸 * USA * –(425 days to E-Day) 🙏—Pray — Hurricane Dorian loses wind speed soon and away from land — for those still in path of Hurricane Dorian–protection, …
BUSINESS
Warren to Utility Companies Using Carbon-Based Fuel: '2035, You're Done'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - “Bernie Sanders has endorsed the idea of the public ownership of utilities, arguing that we can’t adequately solve this crisis without removing the profit motive from the distribution of essential ne…
POLITICS
Coulter: We Don't Trust You
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Leaving aside the usual suspects, who are rushing to the microphones to demand the immediate confiscation of all guns, liberals are appealing to us to come together in good faith and formulate a plan…
POLITICS
'Racist Debra Messing' Trends on Twitter Following Tweet About ‘Mentally Ill’ Black Trump Voters
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Last weekend, the Will and Grace star wrote “THANK YOU” in a re-tweet of a church sign in Alabama that read, “A black vote or Trump is mental illness.” The other side of the sign read, “A white vote …
LEISURE
Hmmm: Williamson deletes tweet crediting mind power for turning Dorian's path away from mainland
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - As a person of faith, I believe in the power of prayer, but not in its potential to control the weather. Marianne Williamson deleted this tweet after perhaps thinking twice about how it came across: …
LEISURE
Leftist Council Member Says Cleaning Feces Off Seattle Streets With a Power Washer is Racist
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - A leftist council member recently tried to stop feces being cleaned off the streets of Seattle with a power washer, arguing that it was racist. The problem centers around King County courthouse in do…
WORLD
Taliban Suicide Bombing Kills 10 Near US Embassy in Kabul
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - A Taliban suicide car bomb rocked Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area that includes the U.S. Embassy — the second such attack this week that underscored Afghan …
BUSINESS
9 of the Most Affordable Places to Retire in the US
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - As you approach your golden years, the question of where to retire becomes more pronounced. You want your nest egg to last as long as possible, which is why it is important to first weigh up various …
POLITICS
Why Universal Background Checks Would Have Failed In Odessa
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - The Odessa shooting looked like a moment for gun control that they’ve been waiting for, a chance to prove that universal background checks could stop a mass shooting. After all, the killer had been b…
BUSINESS
Starbucks CEO's New Ideas Start With a Pick-Up-Only Store in NYC
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - They’ve scrapped the newspapers and beefed up the food, but most Starbucks cafes in the U.S. don’t look all that different today than they did a decade ago. That’s about to change. Starbucks Corp. Ch…
ENVIRONMENT
Hurricane Dorian Has Regained Strength And Is Reportedly “On A Collision Course With The Carolinas”
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Are the Carolinas about to take a direct hit from Hurricane Dorian? As you will see below, that is what some mainstream media reports appear to indicate, but the truth is much more nuanced than that.…
SCIENCE
Scientists: Loch Ness Monster Might Be a Giant Eel
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Scotland's fabled Loch Ness monster could possibly be a giant eel, scientists said on Thursday after an intensive analysis of traces of DNA in the Loch's icy waters. The results ruled out the presenc…
BUSINESS
Hurricane Dorian Reorganized on Approach to Carolinas [ECMWF (Euro) + GFS + HWRF Forecasts] | People's Pundit Daily
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Chris From WI
www.peoplespunditdaily.com - On Thursday, the ECMWF (Euro), GFS, and HWRF models forecast a reorganized Hurricane Dorian to move North before accelerating North-Northeastward. The above forecasts — generated via Tropical Tidbits…
ENVIRONMENT
Julian Castro Climate Plan Addresses 'Environmental Injustice and Racism'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - “You all know that oftentimes the first folks that get flooded out are the poorest communities. They’re often communities of color. They’re the ones who can least afford to deal with the climate cris…
WORLD
Two Children and Four Adults Injured in Acid Attack at Supermarket
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - The incident took place at 2:30pm on Wednesday at the supermarket in the Northfield area of Birmingham, the UK’s ‘second city’. Police said that two people were attempting to shoplift from the store,…
SCIENCE
Dogs, Cats Ease Depression, Loneliness After Spousal Loss
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - As Healthy Aging Month is underway this September, Florida State University researchers have found the companionship of a pet after the loss of a spouse can help reduce feelings of depression and lon…
BUSINESS
Biden on His Climate Change Plan: Some People in Some Industries 'Are Going to Be Displaced' | Breitbart
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - Wednesday during CNN’s climate town hall, Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden said enacting his climate change plan meant some workers “will be displaced.” Biden said, “Th…
POLITICS
Jim Carrey: 'Osama Bin Laden Doesn’t Hold a Candle to Mitch McConnell'
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - “10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell,” Jim Carrey said in a Tweet that included an ima…
POLITICS
Wis. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner the 15th Republican to Exit House
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - The surprise announcement by Wisconsin's Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner Wednesday night that he would not seek reelection brings to 15 the number of Republicans leaving the House in 2020. With the number of …
LEISURE
Report: China May Try To Send Aid to Devastated Bahamas
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - The Trump administration is considering the national security implications if China steps in and tries to help the Bahamas rebuild after the destruction left by Hurricane Dorian, Axios is reporting. …
SCIENCE
When Bad Things Happen to Innocent Bystanders - by Robert Ringer
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Chris From WI
robertringer.com - While pundits and politicians use the mass shootings in Dayton, El Paso, and Odessa to score cheap political points, I thought it would be a good time to take a deep breath and reflect on that age-ol…
WORLD
YouTube Purged Over 100k Videos And 17k Channels For ‘Hate Speech’ In 3 Mos., Deleted 500m Comments
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Our ruling oligarchs are desperate to regain control of the narrative. Google-owned YouTube announced on Tuesday that they’ve purged over 17,000 channels, 100,000 videos and a whopping 500 million co…
WORLD
NJ Gun Owners Aren't Turning In Their Magazines Despite New Law
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - New Jersey is a hostile place for gun owners. The progressive state is a big fan of gun control and continually works to pass more and more restrictive measures, even if those restrictions make no se…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Many Requirements Of Hold Music, A Genre For No One
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MARCOME
www.npr.org - Hold music has a paradoxical purpose: Keep folks on the line, but don't draw their attention. Someone is late for the conference call, so the music starts. "Well, I've been sitting here all day," the…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Brad Pitt Tells All About Attending AA Meetings
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - The world was shocked when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie called it quits in 2016. Two years later the Hollywood actor admitted to GQ Magazine that he had used drugs and alcohol for a large portion of …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
John Kelly to Trump: I won't publish a tell-all about you until after you're out of office -- unless you attack me first
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - The most basic part of being a good general, I’d imagine, is being able to identify and exploit an enemy’s weakness. Know what he fears. Understand how he operates. John Kelly knows that Trump fears …
BUSINESS
U.S. Private Sector Adds 195K Jobs in August, Easily Beating Forecasts | People's Pundit Daily
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Chris From WI
www.peoplespunditdaily.com - The ADP National Employment Report found the U.S. private sector added 195,000 jobs in August, easily beating the high end of the forecast range. Total private employment added for July was revised d…
WORLD
A new plan to deal with Baltimore's gang violence
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - Just yesterday we talked about the City of Baltimore and how they are currently on track to break yet another record for murders this year. As I said at the time, this is not an impossible situation …
POLITICS
Trump Promises Action On Gun Control 'Soon' - Bearing Arms
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Chris From WI
bearingarms.com - Like it or not, President Donald Trump is going to push for some degree of gun control. Frankly, he has to do something to look like he’s working to stem the flow of mass shootings that seem to take …
POLITICS
Daily Beast: The opponent Trump is increasingly worried about is...
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - There’s only one Democrat who’s risen steadily in the polls since summer began, only one who’s getting buzz for the enthusiasm with which she’s received at events. She also happens to be running on p…
WORLD
JoJo to BoJo: Cheerio, bro
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hotair.com - Maybe this could be called … Jexit? Imagine if Bobby Kennedy had resigned in protest after JFK’s bad leadership in the Bay of Pigs disaster. That might be the closest hypothetical parallel to Jo John…
TECHNOLOGY
The latest Apple AirPods are down to their lowest price ever
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Kelly Olexa
www.usatoday.com - — Our editors review and recommend products to help you buy the stuff you need. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and o…
POLITICS
HPSCI Member Devin Nunes Files Lawsuit Against Fusion-GPS Claiming Racketeering and Conspiracy…
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Chris From WI
theconservativetreehouse.com - Cute, Sundance. “Tick Tock Club”. Let’s take another run at this thing from another direction. Walk with me for a bit…. This whole thing looks like a Kabuki play to me. Everyone seems to be playing a…
STORIES
Thursday September 5th – Open Thread
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Chris From WI
theconservativetreehouse.com - The resurrection of Christ is God’s answer to unbelief. The changed attitudes of His followers who saw Him alive after His crucifixion and the revolution in the life of Paul, who saw Him “last of all…
WORLD
'BoJo' Remaking British Conservative Party
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www.newsmax.com - In recent political maneuvers that left observers worldwide spellbound, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his top political advisor Dominic Cummings began the process of remaking their Conserv…
ADULT
Study: Gay Fathers Have Less Parental Leave Than Other Couples
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Gay men around the world receive less paid parental leave than lesbian or heterosexual couples, researchers said on Thursday, with many left struggling to pay household bills if they opt to spend mor…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Lawyer For Epstein’s ‘Madam’ Says ‘Hundreds Of Names’ Contained In Upcoming Records Dump
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein confidant (and alleged groomer) Ghislaine Maxwell told a judge on Wednesday that there are “hundreds” of people named in what is expected to be approximately 2,000 pag…
BUSINESS
Revealed: The US Government Is Blowing Billions Of Dollars On Pointless Crap
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Chris From WI
www.infowars.com - Senator Rand Paul is waging battle against waste. In his latest ‘waste report’, the Senator reveals how the government is adding to the $22 trillion national debt by subsidizing all manner of pointle…
BUSINESS
Weekly Jobless Claims Rise Modestly Amid Trade Fears
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www.newsmax.com - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week, suggesting little impact on the labor market from trade tensions, which have eroded business confidence …
POLITICS
Wisconsin poll: Biden 51, Trump 42
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - No need to panic. Maybe the GOP will get lucky again next year when the Democratic nominee forgets to campaign there. Considering that the Dem convention is being held in Milwaukee, though, it seems …
WORLD
Buttigieg: Climate Change Fight Maybe Worse than World War II
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - “This is the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime as a country, this on par with winning World War II,” he said. “Perhaps even more challenging than that.” Buttigieg lamented duri…
LEISURE
Supporters: Greta Thunberg the Victim of ‘Scientifically Illiterate Bullies’
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - The activism of Greta Thunberg — including refusing to fly on a plane — has gained international attention from both those who agree with her climate agenda that calls for giving up fossil fuels and …
BUSINESS
Here’s a really unique way to own gold | Sovereign Man
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Chris From WI
www.sovereignman.com - Last week we dove into a series about different ways to own gold. And I explained in that first article why it’s a great idea to own physical bullion– gold you can hold in your hand. With physical go…
WORLD
Newt Gingrich: 'Radical Left' Pressuring Pelosi to Shelve Trade Deal
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't advance the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement to a House vote because the pressure on her from the "radical left" is "very, very real" not to give President Donald T…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ writer says she is leaving because of pay disparity with white male co-writer
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www.washingtonpost.com - Screenwriter Adele Lim arrives at the “Crazy Rich Asians” premiere in Hollywood in 2018. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) By Rebecca Tan Rebecca Tan Local reporter Email Bio Follow September 4 at 7:27 PM…
SCIENCE
Biden's bloody eye: A new health problem for Dem frontrunner?
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Chris From WI
hotair.com - One would think that having a leading candidate spontaneously bleed out of an eye socket on live television would grab the media’s attention. One would think incorrectly, as it turns out, even when t…
LEISURE
Fire company shuttered for failing to address a volunteer's Proud Boys ties
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www.nbcnews.com - A Pennsylvania fire company was closed by town officials on Wednesday after the company's leadership refused to address that one its volunteer firefighters was affiliated with the extremist group the…
LEISURE
A man bought 100 generators to help the Bahamas. They're being delivered by boat
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www.cnn.com - "It's important that we help each other out. It's better than just sitting there," he said. "You see a need and you fill it." The world knows about this man's good deed because someone else was at th…
BUSINESS
Trump has never explained this mysterious $50 million loan. Is it evidence of tax fraud?
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www.motherjones.com - Donald Trump’s massive debts—he owes hundreds of millions of dollars—are the subject of continuous congressional and journalistic scrutiny. But for years, one Trump loan has been particularly mystify…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Local communities prepare for fifth annual Kaaboo
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www.encinitasadvocate.com - The stages will soon be set for the KAABOO music festival, returning to the Del Mar Fairgrounds Sept. 13-15 for its fifth year. Musical artists from multiple genres performing throughout the weekend …
WORLD
Taliban blast in Kabul kills 10, including U.S. and Romanian service members
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Siobhán O'Grady and Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow Sayed Salahuddin September 5 at 12:11 PM KABUL — Two NATO service members, including an American, were among 10 people kill…
SCIENCE
Trial of SAGE-217 in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. - PubMed - NCBI
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Altered neurotransmission of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of depression. Whether SAGE-217, an oral, positive allosteric modulator of GABA type A receptors, is ef…
SCIENCE
Inhaled GM-CSF for Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis. - PubMed - NCBI
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a disease characterized by abnormal accumulation of surfactant in the alveoli. Most cases are autoimmune and are associated with an autoantibody against granulocyte-…
LEISURE
Florida man parks Smart car in kitchen over fear Hurricane Dorian would blow it away
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www.nbcnews.com - A Florida man who was worried his Smart car may blow away in Hurricane Dorian's punishing winds parked it in his kitchen, his wife posted on Facebook. Jessica Eldridge said her husband Patrick was "a…
SCIENCE
Applying artificial intelligence for social good
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www.mckinsey.com - Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems. To analyze potential applications for social good, we compiled a library of about 1…
SCIENCE
Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler – Quote Investigator
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quoteinvestigator.com - Albert Einstein? Louis Zukofsky? Roger Sessions? William of Ockham? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The credibility of a quotation is increased substantially if it can be ascribed to a widely-rec…
SPORTS
Sources: Raiders to suspend AB after tiff with GM
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www.espn.com - Antonio Brown and Raiders general manager Mike Mayock got into a heated exchange Wednesday, and the team is now planning to suspend its star wide receiver, league sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter. T…
BUSINESS
What will the world of work look like in 2035? - RSA
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Gerd Leonhard
www.thersa.org - The RSA’s Future Work Centre has today released research that models four ‘futures of work’ by 2035 - and shows how our warring politicians are nowhere near up to speed on what’s going on. Most of us…
SCIENCE
Scientists Have Found Another Way To Safely Treat Peanut Allergies
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Kyani Team WA
www.mindbodygreen.com - Who remembers those dreaded immunotherapy shots you might have had to endure during elementary school? You know, the ones where you'd show up to school (perhaps teary-eyed) with an inflamed bicep, al…
SCIENCE
How To Detox Your Space & Body At The Same Time
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Kyani Team WA
www.mindbodygreen.com - And here are a few tips to clean up the inner environment of your body. Because you are what you eat, drink, breathe, touch, and that which you cannot eliminate. The basics. When I use the term "deto…
ADULT
This flawless $44 vibrator promises the most intense orgasm of your life in less than a minute
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www.wellandgood.com - The French refer to the brief loss of consciousness during an orgasm as la petite mort, or “the little death.” I wonder what chic name they’d have for the Tracy’s Dog Clitoral Sucking Vibrator ($44),…
LEISURE
These Falafel Bowls Will Satisfy Your Mediterranean Craving
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www.mindbodygreen.com - To make the falafel: Pour the dried chickpeas into a large bowl and add enough cold water until the chickpeas are just covered. Place a clean dish towel over the top of the bowl and let the chickpeas…
SCIENCE
The Latest On Why Certain Sounds Are Physically & Emotionally Healing
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www.mindbodygreen.com - Mark Leeds, D.O., a doctor in Florida who specializes in opioid addiction treatment, also recommends Sacred Acoustics to help his patients relax. When I talked to Leeds, he explained many of the reco…
SCIENCE
Is the 28-Day Cycle A Myth?
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www.mindbodygreen.com - If you're a woman, you've almost definitely been told that 28 days is the "normal" cycle length. But ladies, is your cycle actually 28 days? And if it's not, is that something to worry about? Accordi…
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