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8 years ago+12 12 0Fox News releases Bob Beckel over his 'personal issues'
Bob Beckel, a Fox News host who has struggled with prescription drug addiction, was let go Thursday in a move that a top executive blamed on Beckel's "personal issues." Beckel, a former Democratic consultant who had become the most pro ...
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8 years ago+12 12 0The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek
Since 2006, Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, has maintained a four-day workweek for his employees. “There’s no rule that you have to work 40 hours, you have to work more to be successful,” says Carson. “We’ve proven that you can take it from an exp ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0Microsoft Officially Launches Office For Android Phone
Microsoft this morning announced the official launch of Office for Android phone, five weeks after the company rolled out the suite of applications as a preview. Today’s release, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint designed for the Android smar ...
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8 years ago+14 14 0K-9 dies after being left in hot patrol car
A police department in Mobile, Alabama, confirmed the death of their community relations dog, Mason. Sgt. Jason Woodruff, of the Gulf Shores Police Department, said Mason was not used for enforcement purposes. According to an official release by the ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+17 17 0Why 'Buy' Buttons Will Pose Big Challenges for Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter
One year ago, the idea of shopping directly from Google, Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook was mostly unheard of. Today, these companies are hoping it becomes one of the hottest Internet trends over the next year. Within the last 11 months, all four of ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Mysterious 'lakes' on Saturn's moon Titan
Apart from Earth, Titan is the only body in the solar system known to possess surface lakes and seas, which have been observed by the Cassini spacecraft. But at Titan's frigid surface temperatures -- roughly minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1 ...
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Review
8 years ago+20 20 0 x 1Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm review – a dazzling history of the 16th-century Mediterranean
In the last year of the 16th century, an English craftsman named Thomas Dallam found himself at the heart of the Ottoman empire. Dallam had been commissioned to build an organ to be presented to the Sultan, and he travelled with his creation through ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+46 46 0 x 1How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about
Several industries have become notorious for the millions they spend on influencing legislation and getting friendly candidates into office: Big Oil, Big Pharma and the gun lobby among them. But one has managed to quickly build influence with compara ...
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Expression
8 years ago+20 20 0 x 1[Insert Game Title Here]
Many artists struggle with the seemingly simple task of assigning a title to their artwork. I've often been guilty of giving something an "Untitled" moniker, so as to leave the interpretation ambiguous and allow the viewer to decipher ...
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8 years ago+20 22 2 x 3A brief history of yarn in video games
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that he would rather take up knitting than review video games—as though the two were mutually exclusive. Lately, it seems like that couldn't be further from the truth. At E3 this week, Electronic Arts ...
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8 years ago+39 40 1 x 2Amazon Is Building An App To Let Normal People Deliver Packages For Pay
Amazon is apparently enlisting everyday humans in its network of endless online shopping delivery. The WSJ reports that the ecommerce giant is working on an app internally that would allow the average consumer to make a little cash by picking up Amaz ...
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8 years ago+25 27 2 x 1Microsoft just stunned us all by announcing backward compatibility for Xbox One
Wooow! No one really expected this, but Microsoft just announced backward compatibility for the Xbox One, meaning Xbox 360 games will finally start working on Microsoft’s latest-generation console. Microsoft’s E3 press conference is underway and the ...
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8 years ago+5 6 1Zoo animals on the loose in Georgia amid deadly floods
Eight dead and Tbilisi residents warned to stay indoors after tigers, lions, bears and a hippo escape from their pens.
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8 years ago+15 15 0Mysterious earthquake swarms in Alabama. What's going on?
Jim Sterling didn't know what had hit his 156-year-old antebellum home when an earthquake struck Alabama's old plantation region early one morning last November. Startled, he grabbed a gun and ran outdoors. In the pre-dawn chill, Sterling s ...
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8 years ago+14 14 0Same-sex marriage rally brings 20,000 onto streets of Belfast
An estimated 20,000 people have turned out in Belfast city centre to call for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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8 years ago+16 16 0Shaquille O'Neal outs himself as a 9/11 truther on his own website
Former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has called into question the established version of the events of 911. He posted the viral video of the second plane crashing, adding 'what do you think?'
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8 years ago+19 19 0Revenge of the nerds? ‘Magic: The Gathering’ thief caught in elaborate trap.
In the mythical world of “Magic: The Gathering,” a place ruled by goblins, dragons, wizards and spells, there is nothing more precious to a serious player than their “deck” — the 60 select playing cards wielded among competitors like swords in battle ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication
In the alpine grasslands of eastern Africa, Ethiopian wolves and gelada monkeys are giving peace a chance. The geladas – a type of baboon – tolerate wolves wandering right through the middle of their herds, while the wolves ignore potential meals of ...
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8 years ago+9 9 0The Untold Story of Microsoft's Surface Hub
Jeff Han's fingers are dancing across an expansive, wall-mounted touch screen. Planet Earth spins in front of him in computer-generated form; he grabs it with both hands and starts to zoom in. He keeps going—Western Hemisphere, North America, Un ...
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8 years ago+13 13 0Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked
One of the leading anti-virus software providers has revealed that its own systems were recently compromised by hackers. Kaspersky Lab said it believed the attack was designed to spy on its newest technologies. It said the intrusion involved up to th ...