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15 hours ago
Current Event bradd‘November Rain’ becomes the first rock song to pass one billion YouTube views
26 years ago, Guns N’ Roses released a suitably epic (and eye-wateringly expensive) video clip for the nine-minute ‘November Rain’, a single plucked from the previous year’s Use Your Illusion I album. The clip has just ticked over one-billion YouTube views, marking the first type a rock song has achieved this feat. In addition, the song is also the first ’90s video clip to do so. The closest to this latter stats are Zombie by The Cranberries, (739 million) and Smells Like Teen Spirit...
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3 days ago
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Survival of the Richest
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.” I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest techn...
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4 days ago
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is $50 billion richer than any other person alive
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is now $50 billion richer than any other person alive. Bezos is currently worth $143.3 billion, according to Forbes, which is just over $50 billion more than the next richest person alive, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who is currently worth over $93 billion. In the context of other billionaires, that $50 billion difference is nearly equal to Google co-founder Sergey Brin's entire fortune (currently $52 billion) or 13.5 times Mark Cuban's net worth (currently ...
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6 days ago
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Canadian cannabis workers targeted by U.S. border guards for lifetime bans
As tensions between Canada and the U.S. have risen in recent months, a quieter, slower-burning conflict has been developing along the border: Canadians associated with the cannabis industry — even if they have never used the drug — can be banned for life from America. Despite Washington State legalizing cannabis within state boundaries, the border is under federal jurisdiction. And since cannabis, along with drugs such as heroin and cocaine, is a Schedule I substance, past or current associa...
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6 days ago
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Texas toddler fatally shoots himself
A two-year-old boy in Houston has died after shooting himself in the head with an unsecured gun that he found inside his home, according to Texas police. The parents of the child - Christopher Williams Jr - were home at the time of the afternoon shooting, police say. Police believe a 9mm handgun found at the scene is owned by the boy's father. It was unclear if the parents will face charges.
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10 days ago
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Nintendo 64 Games Have Been Successfully Emulated On Switch | NintendoSoup
Hackers and those in the homebrew community have found a way to successfully emulate Nintendo 64 games on Nintendo Switch. Unlike GameCube games, Nintendo 64 games run at full speed. Twitter user Mizumi has tested a few games, which you can check them out in action below...
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2 weeks ago
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Chernobyl's Radioactive 'Wildlife Preserve' Spawns Growing Wolf Population
Gray wolves from the radioactive forbidden zone around the nuclear disaster site of Chernobyl are now roaming out into the rest of the world, raising the possibility they'll spread mutant genes that they may carryfar and wide, a new study finds. The wolves are prospering not due to any mutant superpower, but because the radioactive zone now acts like a wildlife preserve, researchers added.
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2 weeks ago
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Iraqi PM orders immediate execution of 'all convicted terrorists'
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted "terrorists" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, on death row, in swift retaliation for the group's execution of eight captives. Abadi "ordered the immediate execution of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passed the decisive stage", his office said, referring to convicts whose appeals have been exhausted.
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2 weeks ago
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Guardians from Hell
At 92 years old, Virginia “Jean” Wahab hadn’t lost any of the vitality and health she maintained throughout her life. She raised two daughters as a single mom and made a home for them in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, Michigan. Wahab worked on her feet and didn’t retire from her job at a local family restaurant until she was 88.
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2 weeks ago
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Recycling: Senate inquiry recommends all single-use plastics be banned
A Senate inquiry into Australia’s recycling crisis has recommended that all single-use plastics – which could potentially include takeaway containers, chip packets and coffee cups with plastic linings – be banned by 2023. The wide-ranging report also recommends the establishment of a national container deposit scheme as a response to an unfolding crisis in Australian recycling that forced some councils to tip their recycling into landfill.
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3 weeks ago
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I can't even. These people are fucked up.
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3 weeks ago
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No hormones, no plastic straws and now no meat: A&W ‘goes beyond’ burgers
This is a serious game-changer in the fast food nation: A&W Canada has announced they will be offering an innovative plant-based burger to their menu, and it will be available at every location from coast to coast. The Beyond Meat burger, packed with plant-derived protein from pulses like peas and mung beans, will be an option at all of A&W’s more than 925 locations Canada-wide starting July 9, 2018.
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3 weeks ago
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Pentagon says it's 'suspended all planning' for exercise with South Korea
The Pentagon has "suspended all planning" as expected for August joint military exercises with South Korea and several allies in the region, to comply with President Donald Trump's desire to pull back on so-called "war games," according to a statement from Dana White, chief Pentagon spokesperson. "Consistent with President Trump's commitment and in concert with our Republic of Korea ally, the United States military has suspended all planning for...
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1 month ago
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Canada's rape-shield law can't be used to prevent an accused from mounting defence, Ont. court rules
Canada's so-called rape-shield law, which aims to protect sexual-assault complainants from unfair and irrelevant scrutiny of their sex lives, cannot be used to prevent an accused from mounting a reasonable defence, Ontario's top court ruled on Wednesday. As a result, the court quashed the sexual-assault conviction of a man whose lawyer was barred from cross-examining a woman on her pregnancy and ordered a new trial.
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1 month ago
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First black female mayor for San Francisco
San Francisco is to have its first-ever female black mayor - at a time when African-Americans are becoming increasingly scarce in the US city. London Breed, a long-time community activist who grew up in public housing, was declared the winner after her rival admitted defeat a week after city voters cast their ballots. Winning with just over 50% of votes, the 43-year-old said she felt humbled.
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1 month ago
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Good boy!
Posted in: He Gave Him Half His Cookie
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1 month ago
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The days are getting longer – but very, very slowly
As the moon pulls away from the Earth, our planet’s rotation is slowing, making our days 1/75,000 second longer each year.
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1 month ago
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Kim Jong Un Impersonator Gets Detained at Singapore Airport
If Singapore’s reputation for tight security was one reason the real Kim Jong Un agreed to hold his summit with Donald Trump in the city-state, the fake Kim Jong Un now knows why.A Hong Kong-based entertainer who impersonates the North Korean leader said he was detained at Changi Airport after returning to Singapore ahead of the summit on Tuesday. The impersonator, who would give only his stage name Howard X, said he was held by immigration authorities for two hours before being released and t...
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1 month ago
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B.C. company says it is sucking carbon from air, making fuel
It sounds like spinning straw into gold: suck carbon dioxide from the air where it's contributing to climate change and turn it into fuel for cars, trucks and jets. A British Columbia company says in newly published research that it's doing just that — and for less than one-third the cost of other companies working on the same technology. "This isn't a PowerPoint presentation," said Steve Oldham of Carbon Engineering. "It's real."
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1 month ago
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'We apologize' says Delta after booting family from plane
Delta Airline posted a tweet Friday saying it was "sorry" for kicking off a family of four from a flight to California last month. The post was in response to another tweet criticizing the airline's handling of the incident which was captured on video that went viral a day earlier.