Post Overview
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Current Event
11 years ago
+5 5 0It's Official: AMC Picks Up Channel 4 Series ‘Humans’
AMC has closed a co-production/distribution deal with UK production company Kudos and Channel 4 for their sci-fi drama Humans. The eight-episode series, an adaptation of Swedish series Real Humans, was announced in April as a co-production between C ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+15 15 0Mexico investigates army shootout that killed 22 suspected gang members
Mexico is investigating a June shootout between the army and alleged gang members that killed 22 of the suspects, the attorney general's office said in a statement on Friday. The gunfight took place on June 30 in Tlatlaya on the southern fringes ...
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0 x 1Astronomers Found a Star Inside a Star, 40 Years After It Was First Theorized
The universe is massive, and we can’t see nearly all of it. That's the most exciting thing about space: The potential to find something completely unknown, something that brings fiction into fact, is ever-present. Case in point: A rather strange ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+27 27 0 x 1500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup
Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+24 24 0 x 1The NSA has a plan to map the entire Internet. It's called 'Treasure Map'
Newly exposed Snowden documents reveal the NSA’s in-depth plan to “map the entire Internet — any device, anywhere, all the time.” According to a report published today by German news publication Der Spiegel, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+25 25 0 x 1Pope Francis warns on 'piecemeal World War III'
A "piecemeal" World War III may have already begun with the current spate of crimes, massacres and destruction, Pope Francis has warned. He was speaking during a visit to Italy's largest military cemetery, where he was commemorating th ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+15 15 0California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are told to halt any carpool features. The California Public Utilities Commission confirms it sent two copies of a warning letter to all three peer-to-peer car services.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+17 17 0Square raises $100 million
Square raises another $100 million, and it isn’t done yet.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+11 11 0Kevin Rose’s New App Tiiny Lets You Share Little Photos That Disappear In 24 Hours
Digg, Milk, and Revision3 founder Kevin Rose recently left Google Ventures to start a new mobile development house called North, and now we have some details..
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Current Event
11 years ago
+31 31 0 x 1Gates Foundation commits $50 million to fight Ebola in West Africa
With Ebola's spread reaching a crisis stage in West Africa, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is committing $50 million to support the emergency response.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+12 12 0Putin underlines need for nuclear deterrence as missile tested
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence because of what he said were a growing number of possible security threats. With ties between Moscow and the West tense over the crisis in Ukraine, Putin signed a ...
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Expression
11 years ago
+8 8 0Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes
After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways. Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searchi ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+20 20 0The Lebanese ice bucket challenge has morphed into burning Islamic State flags
Last weekend, several Lebanese activists started a trend which has since gained prominence under the hashtag #BurnISISFlagChallenge or #BurnISIS. The protesters burned an Islamic State flag in retaliation to the presumed beheading of a Lebanese offic ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+19 19 0Court rules against Wisconsin’s, Indiana’s gay marriage bans
The federal court of appeals upheld lower court decisions in Madison and Indiana and helps set up an eventual ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the historic question.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+18 18 0IS militants vow to 'de-throne' Putin over Syria support
Islamic State militants have issued a threat to President Vladimir Putin, vowing to oust him and "liberate" the volatile North Caucasus over his support of the Syrian regime. The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia demanded that acce ...
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Expression
11 years ago
+15 15 0The Celebrity Photo Hacks Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time for Apple
The message to the world is that if it's that easy to hack Jennifer Lawrence's iCloud account, it's probably that easy to hack mine, too.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+6 6 0Google 'discourages' old browser use
Google has started showing old versions of its search page to people using out-of-date versions of some web browsers. At the weekend, many people reported in a Google forum they were seeing 2013 versions of the Google and image search homepages when ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+17 17 0Ukraine crisis: Britain wants Russia stripped of right to host World Cup 2018
Diplomats reveal David Cameron wants threat of new sanctions to persuade Russia to pull back from Ukraine
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Current Event
11 years ago
+23 23 0Coolest Cooler breaks record for raising Kickstarter funds
Crowdfunding for high-tech cooler hits $11 million and counting, topping the previous Kickstarter record
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Analysis
11 years ago
+24 24 0Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
A researcher who works through painting tells her story.




















