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10 years ago+7 7 0The Classic Scary Movies You Need to Watch (Even If They're Not Scary Anymore)
Works like Nosferatu may have lost some of their fright factor over the years, but they still fascinatingly show the birth of a genre.
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10 years ago+16 16 0The foreign exchange scandal that could finally send Wall Street bankers to jail
Traders from different banks were teaming up illegally to rip off institutional customers.
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10 years ago+14 14 0US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants
Feds say it would have been "reasonable" for FBI to hack into Silk Road servers.
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10 years ago+17 17 0Huge Data Leak at Largest U.S. Bond Insurer
On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity notified MBIA Inc. — the nation’s largest bond insurer — that a misconfiguration in a company Web server had exposed countless customer account numbers, balances and other sensitive data. Much of the information had been in ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light ...
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10 years ago+10 10 0Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping
The latest truck concept from Mercedes-Benz doesn’t look like anything crazy. Its design is a bit unusual, and it’s loaded up with LEDs instead of headlights and cameras instead of side mirrors. But those modest tweaks to conventional design hide the ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Jazz ink 5-year-old with leukemia to contract
The Utah Jazz signed a 5-year-old, free-agent guard to a one-day contract for a special scrimmage Monday night.
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10 years ago+25 25 0 x 1The Honeymoon Murder Trial of British Millionaire Shrien Dewani Begins
Shrien Dewani looked like a broken man after the November 2010 carjacking that left his new bride dead. But South African prosecutors say he arranged it all to cover up a secret life.
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10 years ago+18 18 0Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone—how bad could it be?
Review: A masochistic journey into the world of the Intex Cloud FX.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Our cities' water systems are becoming obsolete. What will replace them?
Population growth and global warming are stressing our water supplies. Here's how we'll adapt.
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10 years ago+13 13 0The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins
His atheism is its own kind of narrow religion.
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10 years ago+16 16 0The Man Who Smuggles Traders Joe’s into Canada
Michael "Pirate Joe" Hallatt and his unmarked white van are Canada's number-one supplier of Trader Joe's items. And, so far, Trader Joe's hasn't been able to stop him.
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10 years ago+13 13 0Why are wind farms killing so many bats?
Infrared video reveals bats get up close and personal with spinning blades.
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10 years ago+17 17 0 x 1"Out of Many, One"
Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's six-acre sand and soil "facescape" stretches across the JFK Hockey Field on the north side of the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2014. Titled &q ...
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10 years ago+16 16 0Violent clashes break out in Hong Kong after counter-protesters storm sit-in
About 1,000 people opposed to pro-democracy movement fight 100 demonstrators after Leung Chun-ying’s talks offer
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10 years ago+14 14 0How Joe Biden made raves more dangerous
In many ways, the RAVE Act is a metaphor for the entire war on drugs.
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10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1A new golden age of horror movies - the 31 best movies of the last 15 years
Last year Tom and I spent the month of October covering 30 years of horror movies, from the first red blood in a Hammer film on through to the dusty desert vampires of Near Dark. We covered the rise of the genre into the modern era and mainstream acc ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story
New court documents released this week by the U.S. government in its case against the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road online black market and drug bazaar suggest that the feds may have some ‘splaining to do.
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10 years ago+15 15 0Diet firm allegedly fakes endorsement from Fresh Prince’s Carlton
As Roca Labs sues an online reviews site, '90s actor disagrees with ad being used.
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10 years ago+13 13 0Patronising the 'pretty' fighter jet pilot
Fighter jet pilot Mariam al-Mansouri is the UAE's poster girl for the ISIL campaign - as much as she is for the US.