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Active Shooter Reported at Umpqua Community College
Preliminary information indicates multiple deaths and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, said Oregon State Police
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xkcd: Pluto
XKCD: 1551, July 14 2015
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A project to build a $200 DIY Wi-Fi router to help whistleblowers hide online just disappeared...
'ProxyHam' would have let users hide up to 2.5 miles away from it — but now it has mysteriously disappeared, and some suspect the government is at fault.
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Former Reddit CEO says Ellen Pao was framed
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong accuses co-founder Alexis Ohanian of setting Ellen Pao up for a fall.
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ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
http://www.shadyurl.com/ or should I say http://www.5z8.info/worm.exe_j6a0kc_how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf
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Which presidential candidate best matches your views?
This short quiz can tell exactly where you align.
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NASA’s New Horizons: A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it’s show time for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations is officially underway. In the early morning hours of July 8, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto—the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) from Pluto.
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British Lord Accused of Raping Boys Inside Parliament
New charges against a member of the House of Lords claim he violated and tortured children—even inside the highest government offices. Why isn’t he being prosecuted?
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Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years
A newly unearthed missive from Lenny Bernstein, a climate expert with the oil firm for 30 years, shows concerns over high presence of carbon dioxide in enormous gas field in south-east Asia factored into decision not to tap it
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Dismissed Reddit Figure Victoria Taylor Breaks Silence
In a post on the site, r/IAmA's Taylor thanked supporters. Her dismissal this month prompted an insurrection in which moderators shut down many of the site's most popular sections.
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The Real Value of $100 in Each State
This week’s map shows the real value of $100 in each state. Prices for the same goods are often much cheaper in states like Missouri or Ohio than they are in states like New York or California. As a result, the same amount of cash can buy you comparatively more in a low-price state than in a high-price state.
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Why Tesla's Model 3 May Fail
Tesla recently confirmed that its all-electric Model 3, which is expected to have a 200-mile range between charges, will begin production in 2017. Tesla Motors TSLA -4.3% has enjoyed huge success in the ultra-luxury car market with its Model S sedan. The company has steadily ramped up production of the pricey electric car, yet demand has always exceeded supply — even though Tesla does no advertising and never offers discounts.
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Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum
We are moderators for the website reddit.com, a place where, on a typical day, millions of users read and share content in self-contained communities called “subreddits.” We volunteer our time to help manage the subsection called IamA — a popular part of the site where thousands of interviews, known as “ask me anythings,” take place.
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Anonymous is building a site to kill Facebook
A new social network, backed by Anonymous, hopes to take on Facebook and the other social media giants with a commitment to privacy, security and transparency about how posts are promoted. The site, Minds.com, has the same basic options as any other social network: users send updates to their followers, who can comment or promote posts that they read. But unlike its competitors it doesn’t aim to make money from gathering data...
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