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9 years ago+24 24 0 x 1FBI Seizes Domain Names, Then Forgets To Renew Them Before They Were Reclaimed
The FBI has seized a lot of domain names over the past few years. Some of them have been rather high profile sites, while others you probably haven’t heard of. But many of these web domains seized by the FBI were reclaimed this week when the feds for ...
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9 years ago+21 21 0 x 1Macedonian police killed in clashes with 'terrorists'
The death toll now stands at 22, after fighting between police forces and members of a terrorist group continued for a second day in the Northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo. According to local authorities, eight police officers and 14 members of an ...
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9 years ago-1 2 3Oh, Nothing, Just LeBron James Hitting A One-Handed Full-Court Shot
Try enough times, and you can probably hit a cute half-court shot. But try as many times as you want, and you will still not hit a full-court shot. Because you are not LeBron James.
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9 years ago+7 8 1The Only Place in the World That Makes Perfume Out of Rain
In India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, the village of Kannauj lies a dusty four-hour drive east of the Taj Mahal, the white-marbled wonder built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third and favorite wife. Empress Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0 x 1Dad uses drone to follow his 8-year-old daughter to school
Need a new way to keep tabs on your child? A father in Tennessee may have the answer. Chris Early uses an eye in the sky to watch his young daughter. Early is a techie who owns a video production company in Knoxville, Tennessee. At 8 years old, it wa ...
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9 years ago+16 16 0Boy armed with crossbow kills teacher in Barcelona
Thirteen-year-old kills teacher and wounds three others at secondary school in La Sagrera neighbourhood in north of the city.
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9 years ago+12 12 0Hacked French network exposed its own passwords during TV interview
While French authorities continued investigating how the TV5Monde network had 11 of its stations' signals interrupted the night before, one of its staffers proved just how likely a basic password theft might have led to the incident. In an inter ...
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9 years ago+13 13 0Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
Many of us, particularly those who prefer to eat our cake and look like we have not done so, have a love-hate relationship with artificial sweeteners. These seemingly magical molecules deliver a dulcet taste without its customary caloric punch. We gu ...
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9 years ago+28 28 0 x 1CD Shattering at 170,000FPS!
Gav and Dan present the SLOWEST EVER episode of the slow mo guys by spinning a disc at 23,000RPM and filming it shatter at a whopping 170,000 frames per second.
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9 years ago+3 3 0Ryanair abandons US flight plans
Budget airline Ryanair has abandoned plans to operate transatlantic flights, just days after it said its board had approved the measure. In a statement, Ryanair said it "has not considered or approved any transatlantic project and does not inten ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Why The U.S. Won’t Let the U.N. Look Inside Its Prisons
After a half-decade and a mandate by the U.N. to investigate solitary confinement practices, U.N. torture rapporteur Juan Mendez had to find a backdoor into an American jail. Today, his findings are released in a report. In 2010, Juan Mendez was appo ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Tech for the rich and frivolous: The New York Luxury Technology Show
Lusting after a $280,000 Lamborghini? Loving the idea of a $10,000 encrypted gold iPhone? Or maybe you just want a $6,000 phone with the name Lamborghini on it?
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9 years ago+14 14 0Spouses of U.S Immigrant Workers to Get Work Permits
The immigration reform will take effect at the end of May. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a major immigration reform on Tuesday, allowing spouses of individuals on the H-1B visa (known as H-4 dependent spouses) to apply for work p ...
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9 years ago+7 7 0Item Abuse 3: The Finale
The Hardest Super Mario World Level In Existence.
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9 years ago+14 14 0Court jails 'nut rage' Korean Air heiress for one year
A South Korean court has sentenced the daughter of the chairman of Korean Air to one year in prison for breaking aviation law in the so-called nut rage case. Heather Cho, daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho and the former head of in-flight se ...
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9 years ago+4 4 0Chinese man forced to wear sign apologizing for not handing all his wages to his wife
An apologetic husband was made to kneel outside partially naked with a sign round his neck after pocketing some of his wages instead of giving them all to his wife. In China, the man traditionally hands over his entire wage packet each month to the w ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0TV's Old Product-Placement Era Could Be Nearing Its End
When the CW drama “Gossip Girl” launched in the fall of 2007, advertiser interest in the show’s trendy young characters was so intense that AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint clawed each other for the right to get phones and gadgets into ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Twin 90-year-old Illinois sisters die two hours apart on Christmas Day
Two Illinois women came into the world together more than 90 years ago. They left it two hours apart, according to KPLR in St. Louis. Martha Dixon and her sister, Mary Dickson, both 90 years old, died on Christmas Day. They lived together at their ho ...
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9 years ago+8 8 0Miss World competition bans bikinis
The Miss World organisation is rocking the pageant world.Julia Morley, the Miss World chairwoman, has announced that it is dropping the swimsuit segment from the competition, reports ABC News.And Chris Wilmer, national director of Miss world America/ ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Sunburn, NASA Scientists Say
According to a new study led by Dr Kevin Baines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the reddish color of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter is likely a product of chemicals being broken apart by solar ultraviolet (UV) light in the planet’s up ...