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9 years ago+18 18 0Angry Birds maker Rovio lays off 130 staff and tries to 'reignite growth'
Layoffs affect 16% of Finnish firm’s workforce as it focuses on its games, media and consumer products businesses. By Stuart Dredge
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9 years ago+15 15 0A Year After Death of Silk Road, Darknet Markets Are Booming
They're not safe, they're full of scams, and they're entirely fractured—but online places to buy drugs and weapons aren't going away any time soon.
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9 years ago+17 17 0Uber Rider Might Lose An Eye From Driver's Hammer Attack. Could Uber Be Held Liable?
Roberto Chicas, a 35-year-old San Francisco bartender, climbed into an UberX car around 2 a.m. last week and expected to get home safely. Instead, he landed in the hospital after his driver allegedly bashed in his face with a hammer after a dispute o ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0The Mythology of Dog Years
For years, we've been inundated with the "fact" that one human year is equal to seven "dog years." There's just one problem: It's a crock of shit.
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9 years ago+18 18 0America’s Advanced Stealth Jet Flies on 1990s Tech
The Pentagon is counting on the F-22 Raptor for missions over Syria—and maybe, one day, against Russia, too. Too bad so much of its hardware is so retro.
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9 years ago+15 15 0A Double Agent App Targets Hong Kong’s Protesters
A mobile app marketed as a tool for activists is actually a spying program, protesters have discovered.
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9 years ago+17 17 031 Films, 31 Countries, One Halloween
They say that the genre is the real star of any horror film; that the characters and setting are secondary to the effect of hiding beneath a blanket in a dark room. Filmmakers around the world bank on this, using the horror genre as a way to tell sto ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0MythBuster Adam Savage Reveals Why He’s Obsessed With Recreating Movie Props
In 1981, a young Adam Savage was dead set on seeing the movie Excalibur. John Boorman’s tale of King Arthur and his knights was what Savage describes as a “hard ‘R’” movie. “It was bloody and there were guts and crows eating eyeballs and skeletons an ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0Tracy Morgan incredulous Wal-Mart blames him for accident injuries
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Tracy Morgan, who was injured in a road accident that caused the death of his friend, was incredulous on Tuesday that retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc blamed him and others in
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9 years ago+15 15 0Beijing/Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Cities as Demonstrations Continue
As China’s independence day arrives, the massive protests in Hong Kong unsettle the Beijing leadership and underscore the territory’s hopes for political freedom.
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9 years ago+16 16 0Move fast and break things
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9 years ago+18 18 0GoPro HERO4: The Adventure of Life in 4K
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9 years ago+17 17 0 x 1Taboola: The internet firm at the forefront of 'click-bait'
You may not have heard of a company called Taboola, but what it does may annoy you greatly.
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9 years ago+22 22 0 x 1Every Single Horror Film on TV This October: A Calendar
A scary-vast calendar for a vast, scary genre
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9 years ago+22 22 0Flying over Tisno bridge
A woman jumps her car over a half open bridge
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9 years ago+9 9 0Hong Kong Has Split Into Two Worlds
Behind the barricades, everyone knows each other and works together.
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9 years ago+17 17 0The case for being average
People often read what I have to say and then write asking for my advice. But even though I write about lots of things I am expert in only one thing: programming in a computer language called APL. I owe all my financial success and a good deal of per ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0Occupy Hong Kong Hangs On
As Independence Day approaches, more and more people pour into the island’s streets. But it’s less and less clear what they can achieve.
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9 years ago+15 15 0Ferguson officials charging “exorbitant” fees to provide e-mails to press
AP says the tactic keeps public-interest documents from seeing the light of day.
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9 years ago+33 34 1 x 1Guinea's artisanal gold miners
Outside the dusty, one-road town of Kouremale on the border of Guinea and Mali, underground gold deposits have attracted thousands of young men looking to make a living from artisanal mining.