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2 days ago
Current Event TheSpiritVideo games are an underrated art form
For those who believe in the distinction between high art and low, video games have long been near the bottom of the pile. Fortunately, that has not stopped some of the world’s great art museums from putting on exhibitions. The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, began acquiring games in 2012 and a year later invited visitors to play some of them in a show called “Applied Design”. The most recent video-games exhibition, “Videogames Design/Play/Disrupt”, takes place at an even grander in...
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4 days ago
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Salisbury novichok suspects say they were only visiting cathedral
The two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack have appeared on Russia’s state-funded TV station RT, claiming they visited the “wonderful” English city as tourists to see its cathedral. In their first interview since being charged in the UK with attempted murder, the men said they may have approached Sergei Skripal’s house by accident on 4 March, but denied that they were carrying any poison or that they had committed any crime.
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4 days ago
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California to NRA: Stop selling insurance for gun injuries
The state's insurance agency sent a cease-and-desist order, saying the NRA isn't licenced to sell the product
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10 days ago
I'll be joining you tonight!
Posted in: Hollywood star Burt Reynolds dies, 82
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10 days ago
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All the kings of the big screen are slowly leaving this world. Super sad with this news. RIP Burt Reynolds <3
Posted in: Hollywood star Burt Reynolds dies, 82
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12 days ago
Current Event TheSpirit
Google wants to get rid of URLs
We have seen google Chrome and even google itself develop so much in last few years. Google have changed our relationship with the internet with in just few years. When Google Chrome implemented Autofill, ad blocking, Saving passwords, alerts, extensions and web encryption. All of these things, which we now take for granted were ground breaking.
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2 weeks ago
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Fans thrown out of Hart gigs for using phones
Kevin Hart has split opinion as a "zero tolerance" mobile phone ban at his UK gigs left some people out of pocket. Fans were left frustrated with the US comedian's strict policy as some claimed they were removed from the venue for as little as sending a text. But others saw the funny side as they reported sightings of so-called "cell phone security" around the O2 Arena on Sunday.
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2 weeks ago
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Government inaction puts world on track for "catastrophic" climate change, U.N. warns
A senior United Nations (U.N.) official has warned that government inaction has put the world on track to a catastrophic climate change situation, in which the global community fails to keep temperature rises below the vital 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) cap. The warning comes ahead of climate-change discussions in Bangkok, Thailand, this week. Patricia Espinosa, who is head of the Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said nations have been ...
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2 weeks ago
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Christian Zealot Beheads Girlfriend Because She Refused To Repent
Christian terror: A Christian zealot in Washington state is under arrest after confessing to beheading his girlfriend because she refused to repent. Timothy Paul Hernandez, 32, of Mount Vernon, Washington, has been charged with first-degree murder for killing his girlfriend, Vanessa Cons.
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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Deadline for climate action – Act strongly before 2035 to keep warming below 2°C
If governments don’t act decisively by 2035 to fight climate change, humanity could cross a point of no return after which limiting global warming below 2°C in 2100 will be unlikely, according to a new study by scientists in the UK and the Netherlands. The research also shows the deadline to limit warming to 1.5°C has already passed, unless radical climate action is taken. The study is published today in the European Geosciences Union journal Earth System Dynamics.
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2 weeks ago
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Japan and North Korea held secret meeting as Shinzo Abe 'loses trust' in Donald Trump
Japan held a “secret” meeting with North Korea in Vietnam in July without informing the United States, according to media reports. Talks were reportedly held between Shigeru Kitamura, head of Japan’s Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, and Kim Song-hye, a senior North Korean official in charge of reunification. Japan’s decision not to inform the US government of the meeting, which was reported in the Washington Post, was said to have caused “irritation” among senior officials.
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2 weeks ago
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Spotify adds Showtime to its $5-a-month Hulu bundle for college students
Last September, Spotify announced a bundle with Hulu for students that costs $5 a month, which is an amazing deal for any college student. Now, nearly a year later, Spotify is dramatically improving on that deal, adding a Showtime subscription to the offering for no additional charge. College students in the US will have access to Spotify’s updated Premium for Students plan which includes Spotify Premium (regularly $10 a month), Hulu’s limited commercial plan ($8 a month)...
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3 weeks ago
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Bloomberg: Apple Watch Series 4 Models Compatible With Existing Bands, No New iPad Mini This Year
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Debby Wu today previewed details about Apple's widely rumored trio of 2018 iPhones. Towards the end of the report, there are also a few details about the Apple Watch and iPad that we've highlighted below. The first noteworthy tidbit is that Apple Watch Series 4 models will be compatible with existing bands, as they are said to have a similar physical size as Series 3 models and earlier. Gurman already said as much earlier this year, but there were some ...
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1 month ago
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'Oldest solid cheese ever found’ discovered in Egyptian jar
For thousands of years beneath Egypt’s desert sands a solidified whitish substance sat in a broken jar. Scientists now say it’s “probably the most ancient archaeological solid residue of cheese ever found.” Archaeologists came across the finding while cleaning the sands around a 19th-dynasty tomb at the vast Saqqara necropolis of the ancient city of Memphis. The tomb of Ptahmes, the mayor of ancient Memphis, was initially discovered in 1885 but had been swallowed by shifting sands until ...
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1 month ago
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Rare bird sighted after 111 years
An unexpected appearance of a dazzling visitor at a man-made forest in Negros Oriental province set hearts aflutter in the small but tightly knit birding community in the Philippines. On March 19, naturalist and conservationist Rene Vendiola spotted an unusual bird foraging on the leaf litter at a native tree plantation and wildlife sanctuary, called Liptong Woodland, in Bacong town, Negros Oriental.
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1 month ago
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10 Things Highly Authentic Creatives Do Differently
See key things highly authentic creatives do differently that makes them so attractive and excell.
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1 month ago
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Police officer jumps off overpass to save boy's life in daring New York rescue
Police officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo said she was on her way to work Friday afternoon when she saw a boy climb up over a guardrail and jump several feet from an overpass onto concrete below. "Everything happened so fast and I think my adrenaline was pumping so high," she said. "He just climbed up and jumped off."
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1 month ago
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Trump Says U.S. Now Has the Upper Hand on China in Tariff Battle
President Donald Trump defended his use of tariffs that have inflamed tensions with China and Europe, telling an audience of diehard supporters on Saturday that playing hardball on trade is “my thing.” “We have really rebuilt China, and it’s time that we rebuild our own country now,” Trump said Saturday during about an hour of free-wheeling remarks at a rally outside Columbus, Ohio. He added that Chinese stocks are down, weakening that nation’s bargaining power in the escalating trade war.