Post Overview
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9 years ago+18 18 0Amazon’s Fire sale: Phone is now just $199 unlocked
Amazon has cut the price for its unlocked Fire smartphone by 69% just four months after the phone first went on sale. The company also just deleted thousands of negative online customer reviews of the smartphone on its website. The latest discount fi ...
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9 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Surfing at 1000 frames per second
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9 years ago+3 3 0A War Survival Videogame That Shows You the Real Horrors of Fighting
Marko abandoned us. Emilia committed suicide. Katia died after being wounded in a raid. Roman’s not as sick today, but he won’t budge after hearing about Emilia, so we’ll have to keep an eye on him. These are the survivors—my survivors—hunkered in th ...
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9 years ago+1 2 1The disabled children locked up in cages
Disabled people in Greece are often stigmatized and can struggle to get the support they need. Some disabled children who live in a state-run home are locked up in cages - staff say they want to improve conditions but money is short. Nine-year-old Je ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0Nobody counts police killings in the U.S.
Federal, state and local agencies license police officers to kill, if necessary, but nobody counts all the bodies or tracks what, if any, consequences might follow. The numbers that do exist are hardly complete. The nation’s approximately 18,000 poli ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Cosby’s massive social media fail
Just as with #Imametsfanbecause back in September, yet another social media campaign backfired spectacularly today. Bill Cosby posted a photo of himself on Twitter Monday afternoon inviting the Internet to meme him. The entire thing was eventually de ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0Monty Python turn down $32 million offer for world tour including Australia
Monty Python have turned down a $32 million offer to do a world tour that would have included Australian dates, a London newspaper has reported. According to the Sunday Mirror, the iconic comedy group were approached by promoters offering a multi-mil ...
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Analysis
9 years ago+20 20 0The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
On December 3, 2013, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced yet again that American students were doing terribly when tested, in comparison to students in sixty-one other countries and a few cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong. Duncan presided o ...
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9 years ago+26 26 0 x 1No drugs in Robin Williams suicide
the time of his suicide, authorities in California have revealed. The actor, 63, was found dead in his California home on 11 August in what authorities soon ruled a suicide. A Marin County coroner's report released on Friday found Williams died ...
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9 years ago+16 16 0North Koreans working as ‘state-sponsored slaves’ in Qatar
Defectors claim Pyongyang regime pockets 90% or more of earnings made by migrants working on construction sites in Qatar, where preparations are under way for 2022 World Cup
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9 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Forget Apple Pay. The Master of Mobile Payments Is Starbucks
Days after Apple Pay’s debut at checkout counters across the US, Apple CEO Tim Cook bragged it was already more successful than all other mobile payment services combined. Maybe he meant services offered by companies strictly in the mobile payments b ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Qatar 2022 World Cup set for switch to start or end of year
FIFA has announced that two options have emerged as the most likely dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar - and both are in the winter.
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9 years ago+17 17 0Halloween Candy Has Gotten Cheaper
The world has changed beyond recognition in the last several decades, but much of the candy that will be given out to trick-or-treaters this Halloween is the same as it was 50 years ago.
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Analysis
9 years ago+20 20 0Detroit's Stupid Plan to Kill Tesla
In watching the illicit attempts of dealers and U.S. auto companies to try to kill Tesla, I have to think they are all wrongheaded. I don't drive a Tesla, but this kind of thing makes me really mad because it is so incredibly stupid. Tesla is as ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Japanese scientists warn that volcano near a nuclear power plant is ready to erupt
Japan has been warned have been warned that a volcano on on the southwest island, Kyushu could erupt. A serious issue for the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is that the Sendai nuclear plant is only 40 miles away from the dormant volcano, Mount Io ...
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9 years ago+3 6 3Oil price will fall to $70 US a barrel in 2015, Goldman Sachs says
One of the world's leading investment banks says the price of the North American oil benchmark is going to fall even further, to $70 US a barrel by next spring.
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9 years ago+15 15 0Italy plans to boost economy, tourism with free WiFi
Italy is a country known for delicious food and amazing sights, but not so much for decent broadband internet access. The nation's government recognizes this, and a group of lawmakers have proposed a $6.3 million project that would install free, ...
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9 years ago+4 5 1Stop going cuckoo for coconuts
We've entered the age of the coconut. While the lactose intolerant quaff Starbucks' new coconut milk lattes, the gluten averse are busy baking with coconut flour. The number of coconut oil products—for both cooking and skin moisturizing—gre ...
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9 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Montreal teacher, 73, loses job over film nudity more than 40 years ago
Normally, a career as a movie actress wouldn’t be a liability for a drama teacher. But a 73-year-old instructor at an elite Montreal private school has lost her job after it was discovered she appeared nude in several films in Europe more than 40 yea ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0 x 1Obama says Ebola travel ban could make things worse
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to avoid hysteria over Ebola, and played down the idea of travel bans from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, explaining that restrictions could