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5 days ago
Current Event grandsalamiMajor life insurer says it will require customers to wear health trackers
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday. The move by the 156-year-old insurer, owned by Canada's Manulife Financial Corp, marks a major shift for the company, which unveiled its first interactive life insurance policy in 2015. It is now applying the model acros...
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8 days ago
Current Event grandsalami
I Came of Age During the 2008 Financial Crisis. I’m Still Angry About It.
I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, in a house near a dead end, which my parents bought in 1992. They paid for it with a conventional mortgage that they had the misfortune of refinancing in January 2008. A series of disasters followed, all of which would have been previously unthinkable. Within a matter of months, investment banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapsed from having taken on too much risk, predominantly in the housing market, and by the fall of that year both of my parents ...
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2 weeks ago
Current Event grandsalami
Could the ban on killing whales end?
Few conservation issues generate as emotional a response as whaling. Are we now about to see countries killing whales for profit again? Commercial whaling has been effectively banned for more than 30 years, after some whales were driven almost to extinction. But the International Whaling Committee (IWC) is currently meeting in Brazil and next week will give its verdict on a proposal from Japan to end the ban.
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2 weeks ago
Expression grandsalami
Do Conservatives Know Much About Conservative History?
A historian writing in Politico says liberal historians ignorantly attribute too much racism to conservatives. Yet conservative historians ignore their movement's racism entirely.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event grandsalami
Trump says good relations with Japan 'will end when I tell them how much they have to pay:' WSJ
U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested to The Wall Street Journal that he will take on Japan next in his fight to cut trade deficits with U.S. trading partners, according to a column carried on the paper's online edition Thursday. Citing a phone call he received from Trump, James Freeman, a columnist for the paper, wrote that the president "described his good relations with the Japanese leadership, but then added: 'Of course that will end as soon as I tell them how much they ha...
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2 weeks ago
Video/Audio grandsalami
Narcos: Mexico | Date Announcement [HD]
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2 weeks ago
Current Event grandsalami
Paramedics grant dying man's sundae wish
Australian paramedics have been thanked for fulfilling a terminally ill man's desire for an ice cream sundae on his final trip to hospital. The gesture happened last week but has been shared publicly in a Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Facebook post. They said paramedics had acted after learning their patient, Ron McCartney, 72, had eaten little in previous days.
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3 weeks ago
Does the gay frog language work?
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3 weeks ago
Current Event grandsalami
Australia unveils starfish-killing robot to protect Barrier Reef
A robot submarine able to hunt and kill the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish devastating the Great Barrier Reef was unveiled by Australian researchers on Friday. Scientists at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said the robot, named the RangerBot and developed with a grant from Google, would serve as a "robo reef protector" for the vast World Heritage site off Australia's northeastern coast.
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3 weeks ago
Comment grandsalami
Daylight is sooooo overrated. Amirite?
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3 weeks ago
Analysis grandsalami
Using deep-learning techniques to locate potential human activities in videos
When a police officer begins to raise a hand in traffic, human drivers realize that the officer is about to signal them to stop. But computers find it harder to work out people's next likely actions based on their current behavior. Now, a team of A*STAR researchers and colleagues has developed a detector that can successfully pick out where human actions will occur in videos, in almost real-time.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
Here comes Harmony: AI sex robots with new 'X-Mode' ship in September
Last year, CNET traveled to San Marcos, California, for an early, behind-the-scenes look at a new generation of artificially intelligent sex robots from Abyss Creations, maker of the popular "RealDolls" line of customizable sex dolls. Now, customers can expect to start receiving those same sexbots within the next month.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change
As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
White farmers try to offload land in South Africa before it is seized
White farmers in South Africa are trying to flog their land as fears grow that the government is about to start a widespread campaign of seizures. Union bosses say a record number of properties are for sale but nobody is buying, making the properties effectively worthless. Agri SA union, which represents mainly white commercial farmers, has warned that such seizures will deter investment, cause job losses, and may rob South Africa of the ability to feed itself.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
Mystery Russian satellite raises US alarm
Official says "there is no way to verify" what object is and whether or not it may pose a danger.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
Egypt says it supports Saudi Arabia in rights row with Canada
Egypt said on Tuesday it supported Saudi Arabia in a political row with Canada, and stood in “solidarity” with the Gulf Arab kingdom against foreign interference in its domestic affairs. Cairo’s foreign ministry said on its Facebook page that it was “concerned by the crisis between Saudi Arabia and Canada, which is a result of the negative tendency by some international ... sides of meddling in the internal affairs of countries in the region,” without elaborating.
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1 month ago
Current Event grandsalami
Mexico's new leader: 'Nobody will threaten us' with wall
Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed Monday his country would not be threatened by a wall, in a thinly veiled rebuke to US President Donald Trump's jabs across the border. "Mexico is going to become a power -- and will change the balance of power. Nobody will threaten us that our borders will be closed or militarized," warned Lopez Obrador, who takes office December 1.
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1 month ago
Analysis grandsalami
Transgender people tend to be viewed as less attractive -- regardless of their actual appearance
People who are labeled as transgender are viewed as less attractive dating partners, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. The new study, which was conducted with heterosexual college students, indicates that gender identity affects perceptions of attractiveness.