Post Overview
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Current Event
10 years ago+12 12 0JP Morgan files for anonymous online payment system
US bank JP Morgan Chase has filed for a patent in the US to develop a payment system using "virtual cash", similar to the emerging online currency, Bitcoin. JP Morgan said that, like Bitcoin, the features of the electronic system would let ...
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Current Event
10 years ago+16 16 0Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA
A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the U.S. National Security Agency.
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Analysis
10 years ago+8 8 0India to push for freeing Internet from U.S. control
India has decided to challenge the U.S. government’s control over the Internet and ensure that the trio of the U.S., Russia and China does not ignore India’s concerns while developing an international regime for Internet governance.
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Analysis
10 years ago+19 19 0 x 1Body piercing controls wheelchair
Body piercings have been used to control wheelchairs and computers in a move scientists believe could transform the way people interact with the world after paralysis.
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Current Event
10 years ago+16 16 0'Pretty Woman' Producer Admits He Was an Israeli Spy
Arnon Milchan, an Israeli-born businessman responsible for the greatest prostitution love story of our time and movies like Fight Club and L.A. Confidential, told prime-time Israeli television on Monday that he was a spy for the country and among oth ...
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Expression
10 years ago+12 12 0How Did Racism Get to Be So Popular?
And what are all these white people doing in this new era of racially conscious films?
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Analysis
10 years ago+20 20 0Google Music Arrives On iOS, Includes A Free Month Of “All Access” Radio
Google Play Music arrived on iOS today, following reports from earlier this week stating that a launch was “imminent.” The app, which will compete with Apple’s iTunes Radio and other streaming music options like Pandora, Spotify and Rdio, offers a st ...
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Video/Audio
10 years ago+16 16 0This is What 6 Tons of Crushed Ivory Looks Like
On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted a historic crush of the nation’s six tons of confiscated ivory. At the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Repository near Denver, a stone crusher pulverized the artifacts, whic ...
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Analysis
10 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Inside the World of Competitive Laughing
Sam Riches went to the Canadian competitive laughing championship. He met a 103-year-old man, a one-eyed person named Eyeborg, and a bunch of people trying to elevate the pursuit of joy into a sport.
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Analysis
10 years ago+7 8 1Meet The People Behind The 'Brosurance' Obamacare Ads That Are Making The Internet Cringe
Keg stands, birth control, and Ryan Gosling. That's how a pair of Colorado non-profits are trying to promote Obamacare.
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Current Event
10 years ago+16 16 0London’s Islamic Vigilantes Plead Guilty
Three men have pleaded guilty to charges related to confronting and threatening to kill non-believers in order to enforce sharia law in the capital.
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Current Event
10 years ago+8 8 0Whoa, Nelly: Cornell Found Guilty of Destroying $200K Worth Of Horse Semen
Staff at the University’s College of Veterinary Medicine will undoubtedly be checking on their refrigerators and freezers frequently now that they have been found liable for destroying more than $212,000 worth of horse semen from a New York horse-bre ...
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Current Event
10 years ago+16 16 0Top EU court ruling backs gay African asylum bids
The EU's top court has ruled that homosexuals from Sierra Leone, Uganda and Senegal who fear imprisonment in their home country have grounds for asylum in EU member states. The Netherlands had asked the court for advice about three gay citizens ...
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Current Event
10 years ago+21 21 0McDonalds ponders in-store 3D printing for Happy Meal toys
McDonalds is considering installing 3D printers in its stores to produce the pocket-sized toys which are a key part of their Happy Meals.
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Analysis
10 years ago+11 11 0Here Are The States That Are Still Addicted To Smoking
If you or someone you love smokes, there's no better time than the present to quit -- especially considering November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and Nov. 21 is the Great American Smokeout. But who's still smoking, anyway?
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Analysis
10 years ago+16 16 0King Tut Was Killed In A Gruesome Chariot Accident, Says Science
Tutankhamen was the most famous of all the Egyptian Pharaohs, but it's always been a bit of a mystery how he died. He passed at only 19, and he seemed to have pretty bad injuries at his death, but there was no record of an assassination. Thanks ...
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Review
10 years ago+10 10 0 x 1Samsung W2014 is world's first Snapdragon 800 flip phone, costs over $1,640
China Telecom's obsession with Samsung's luxury clamshells isn't dwindling any time soon. In fact, the two companies have just launched a new model, the SCH-W2014, at their annual "Heart Of The World" charity concert in Nanji ...
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Analysis
10 years ago+25 25 0 x 4How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
It's been 25 years since Robert Morris created the first major Internet malware. This is his story.
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Expression
10 years ago+11 11 0We Asked Three World-Class Architects to Go Crazy With Legos
We sent the new Lego Architecture Studio set to three leading firms and asked them to go wild.
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Analysis
10 years ago+12 12 0Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer
No one knows what Columbus was wearing when he set foot in the New World, but on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” onto the Moon, he was clad in this custom-made spacesuit, model A7L, serial number 056. Its cost, estimated ...