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Kickstarter fraud: Washington files first consumer protection lawsuit involving crowdfunding
If you raise money via Kickstarter and don’t deliver products you promised backers, the government will come after you. In what is the first consumer protection lawsuit involving crowdfunding, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a suit against Ed Nash and his Nashville, Tenn.-based company, Altius Management.
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Health officials confirm first case of Mers virus in US
American who works as healthcare worker in Saudi Arabia has been hospitalized with the disease in Indiana
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North Korea releases list of U.S. ‘human rights abuses’: ‘The U.S. is a living hell’
In February, the United Nations released a remarkably comprehensive report on North Korea's human rights abuses. The report interviewed 320 people, including a number of survivors from the notorious secret political system, and concluded that the country was committing human rights violations “without any parallel in the contemporary world.” So how did North Korea respond?
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Ukraine reinstates conscription as crisis deepens
Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country.
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Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy
“Do Not Track” has largely been a failure.
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New Zealanders to vote on changing national flag
New Zealanders will soon get to vote on whether to change their national flag, which many view as a relic from a colonial past.
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The weird, weird world of North Korean elections
If you’re a North Korean citizen trying to make an (underground) living in China, there’s one event that will certainly bring you back home: election day in the DRPK, when many flood back into the country to have their votes counted whenever they are called. Why? According to defector Mina Yoon, who left North Korea in 2011, elections function mainly as a means for the state to keep track of its population’s whereabouts and to keep track of defectors.
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Vladimir Danchev: The broadcaster who defied Moscow
Broadcasters at a Russian television station protested this week about the country's actions in Crimea, echoing what a Soviet radio announcer did 30 years ago. Two US-based presenters on Russia's English-language TV station Russia Today (RT) caused a stir recently by denouncing Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine.
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George Takei’s Recollections of The US Concentration Camps For The Japanese
It's a part of US history that's not talked about much.…
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Ukainian President Yanukovych was planning bigger bloodbath
The top law enforcement official for ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who is now a fugitive fleeing mass murder charges, had planned an even greater bloodbath to suppress the EuroMaidan anti-government protests, according to Batkivshchyna Party lawmaker Hennadii Moskal, who said he has documents to prove his allegations.
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Cracking the Code: The Rising Popularity of Computer Programming
The rising popularity of coding and computer programming is amazing.
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Bring on the Drones (Infographic)
Drones are invading our skies, they're in the news, and if some retailers get their way, they'll soon be on our front steps.
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The real “King and I”
“In 1862, 31-year-old Anna Leonowens accepted an offer to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, King of Siam.
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NSFW Protesters being shot by snipers in Kiev
The protests are turning more deadly every day. This is a video from yesterday where protesters were being shot by police with sniper rifles. 28 confirmed dead yesterday alone.
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The Day We Fight Back: can an internet protest stop the NSA?
On January 18th, 2012, the world’s free encyclopedia went dark. "Imagine a world without free knowledge," said a black splash page, warning users of a bill that could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and urging them to contact Congress. The bill was SOPA, a widely reviled piece of anti-piracy legislation, and Wikipedia wasn’t alone: Reddit, Google, and other huge sites either disabled access or hosted banners in protest. What happened next has become a touchstone for internet activist
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CBC Sochi 2014 Olympics Coverage Attracts Frustrated NBC Viewers
Bashing Olympics coverage in the United States seems to have become a sport in itself for fans seeking live coverage south of the border, with a groundswell of NBC-targeted rage emerging in the Winter Games' opening weekend.
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2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi
The Opening Ceremony kicked off the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia today. The torch was light after a dazzling display of performance and fireworks.
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McDonald's brings Big Mac to Vietnam
Fast-food giant McDonald's - often seen as a symbol of American capitalism - has opened its first restaurant in communist-controlled Vietnam.
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Alleged Olympic vote-swapping deal would keep Canada from gold
French magazine L'Equipe alleges the U.S. and Russia have struck a deal to help each other out at Sochi Winter Olympic figure skating events, which would keep Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from the gold.
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Copenhagen Zoo kills giraffe, Marius, to prevent inbreeding
Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a two-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal. Marius, a healthy male, was put down Sunday using a bolt pistol, said zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was then skinned and fed to the lions.
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985
In 1985, Steve Jobs and company ran a TV ad called Lemmings, which you can watch above. The ad once again painted the IBM crowd as drone-like humans under a godawful spell, and it aimed to ramp up interest in Apple’s latest brainstorm: the Macintosh Office. The only trouble is the ad actually turned people off, not on — and the product it pitched wouldn’t be ready for years.
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Tweens Go Social: How Kids are Using Social Media
Remember back in the day when you thought it was absurd that kids had cell phones at age 15? Well, today, 48% of girls between the ages of 6 and 12 have a cell phone — and 51% of those have a smartphone!
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The final confessions of a Silk Road kingpin
By our third phone call, Steven Lloyd Sadler was a fugitive. Facing federal charges for drug trafficking and distribution, Sadler decided he'd rather skip the trial and jail sentence altogether. He was pulling away from Seattle, where he was charged, and we talked for hours. He began that particular conversation on speakerphone, attempting to circumvent the state’s law prohibiting the use of cellphones while driving, but noisy interference forced him to pick up the call.
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California drought emergency declared by Gov. Jerry Brown
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared that California is in a drought emergency, as the state struggled with the lowest-levels of rainfall in its 153-year history, reservoirs were at low levels and firefighters remained on high alert.
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Silk Road forfeits $28m in Bitcoins
he clandestine online marketplace, Silk Road, has forfeited Bitcoins worth $28m (£18m), US prosecutors have said. Prosecutors had seized the Bitcoins - a virtual currency - as they shut the website, which allowed users to trade in illegal drugs, last year.
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Reddit hosting firearm sales, even licensing logo for assault rifles
Users of the online forum Reddit took advantage of a community page to purchase at least 150 firearms, including semi-automatic rifles, since June, highlighting the potential to exploit a common loophole in federal gun law online.
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Time Lost To Slow Computers May Be Health Barrier
Study Reveals Time Lost To Slow Computers May Be A Barrier To Better Health
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Kindle Führer: “Mein Kampf” Tops Amazon Charts
E-book versions of Hitler's opus are rising in the rankings on Amazon and iTunes. What gives? You won’t see Adolf Hitler peering back at you from the featured display tables at Barnes & Noble any time soon. But browse the most popular e-book stores these days and Der Führer’s mug is seemingly unavoidable.
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40 maps that will help you make sense of the world
If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and info graphics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. A few are important to know, some interpret and display data in a beautiful or creative way, and a few may even make you chuckle or shake your head.
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Why did the AK-47 become so popular?
The gun is nothing special. Its controls are unsophisticated; it is not even particularly accurate. But this simplicity is a reason for its success.
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