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  • 9 years ago
    Current Event hyfi

    T-Mobile CEO lashes out against 'data thieves'

    T-Mobile CEO John Legere says a small fraction of his customers are "stealing data," and he is putting his foot down -- hard. In an open letter to T-Mobile customers with an unusually furious tone, Legere said that some customers are using special software to skirt past T-Mobile's data limits. He said if they continue to abuse the network, they'll be kicked off T-Mobile's unlimited data plans.

  • 9 years ago
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    Midnight Express

    Published 50/50 expression snaps! Congratulations hyfi on this achievement!

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  • 9 years ago
    Expression hyfi

    The Top 5 Technologies That Have Changed Sports

    Athletes today use increasingly complex technologies to enhance performance. We have seen considerable leaps forward in sporting performance as a direct result of technology either used during competition or in training. The big question is which technology has had the biggest impact on its respective sport?

  • 9 years ago
    Expression hyfi

    Stephen Colbert on Making The Late Show His Own

    Since last winter, after laying to rest the blowhard host of The Colbert Report and inheriting Letterman’s seat on The Late Show, the most inventive comic of his generation has been consumed with one very large question: Who will he be now? Stephen Colbert—the real one—gives a sneak peek. And in revealing his truest self (and boy, does he go deep), he shows us how he might just reinvent late-night, too.

  • 9 years ago
    Current Event hyfi

    New Zealand to be coal-free by 2018, 90% renewable by 2025

    It appears that New Zealand is finally ready to throw their domestic coal habit into Mount Doom — by 2018, the country will cease to use coal as a source of domestic energy production. “Historically coal has played an important role in ensuring the security of New Zealand’s electricity supply, particularly in dry years where our hydro-lake levels are low,” Simon Bridges, New Zealand’s Energy and Resources Minister, said in a statement.

  • 9 years ago
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    Trend Setter

    Have 10/10 snaps reach the maximum grid size on the front page grid view! Congratulations hyfi on this achievement!

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  • 9 years ago
    Analysis hyfi

    This 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb, and no one knew until 2001

    Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, estimated at almost a foot and a half in diameter. And then there was the abundance of spindly leaves, a healthy head of hair for a botanical relic 390 years old.

  • 9 years ago
    Current Event hyfi

    Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits

    Over the weekend, Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits. The changes are designed to limit the ability for customers to share Amazon Prime subscriptions with those who are not actually members of their immediate family, it appears.

  • 9 years ago
    Analysis hyfi

    Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

    Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass.