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8 years ago+35 35 0 x 1City of San Francisco says it's illegal to live in a box
Last month, the story of a 25-year-old man who's living inside a plywood box parked in his friend's living room became the latest installment in San Francisco's crazy housing market. In a city where the average rent for a one-bedroom a ...
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8 years ago+25 25 0Yahoo to Stream Live Hockey Games
Yahoo, which has been losing money on most of its high-profile online video efforts, said it reached a deal to stream live NHL hockey games for free. The games are in addition to NHL games currently offered on Yahoo through its partnership with NBC S ...
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8 years ago+39 39 0Maria Sharapova failed drugs test at Australian Open
Former world number one Maria Sharapova has revealed she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open. The Russian, 28, tested positive for meldonium, a substance she has been taking since 2006 for health issues. Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champ ...
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8 years ago+42 42 0 x 1Depression is more than a mental disorder: It affects the whole organism
An international team of researchers lead by the University of Granada has scientifically proven, for the first time, that depression is associated with important alterations of the oxidative stress, so it should be considered a systemic disease. An ...
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8 years ago+21 21 0The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Anot ...
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8 years ago+38 38 0 x 1The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work
The bitcoin community can’t even agree on whether it’s breaking up. Last month, Mike Hearn—an ex-Googler and one of the biggest names working on the software underpinning bitcoin—made more than a few headlines when he called the digital currency “a f ...
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8 years ago+40 40 0Silicon Valley: Season 3 Tease (HBO)
Silicon Valley Season 3 premieres Sunday, April 24.
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8 years ago+43 43 0 x 1What Ever Happened To Waterbeds?
For kids and adults alike, waterbeds used to be the coolest—until suddenly they weren’t. After a heyday in the late 1980s in which nearly one out of every four mattresses sold was a waterbed mattress, the industry dried up in the 1990s, leaving behin ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0Wired debuts ad-free website to appease ad blockers
More than 1 in 5 people who visit Wired Magazine's website use ad-blocking software. Starting in the next few weeks, the magazine will give those readers a choice: stop blocking ads, pay to look at a version of the site that is unsullied by adve ...
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8 years ago+27 27 0Former Columbia high school track star charged with abduction and murder of Virginia teen
A Virginia Tech student from Columbia has been charged in Virginia with the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl who had been missing since last week, Blacksburg police said.
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8 years ago+51 51 0 x 1Kenya to destroy largest ever ivory stockpile
Kenya will set ablaze 120 tonnes of ivory worth $270 million, the biggest to be burned by any country in one go, in April this year. The event will be attended by Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman along with several other celebriti ...
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8 years ago+2 4 2Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies
“He’s only 17, how can he be dead?” For once, Big Gay Mick wasn’t saying much. “I don’t know. We just seen his stepdad getting out of a taxi at the top of the street and he told us.” There was no getting any other details out of him; he was in shock ...
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8 years ago+56 56 0 x 1Netflix to spend $6 billion on content this year. Six. Billion.
Netflix has waded into the “Too Much TV” debate. The streaming company’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos tackled the issue during the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Pasadena on Sunday morning. “Is there too much TV?” Sarandos asked ...
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8 years ago+38 38 0People Evolved to Over-Eat in the Winter
New research explains why we enjoy eating so much over the winter holidays and our New Year's weight-loss resolution usually fails. Humans have evolved to subconsciously over-eat in the winter, but have not evolved to avoid becoming obese. In th ...
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8 years ago+30 30 0Netflix, DreamWorks Animation Expand Streaming Deal
Netflix is planning to launch several new DWA series in 2016, including a reimagining of 1980s sci-fi cartoon 'Voltron' and 'Trollhunters,' a fantasy series from Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro. Netflix has expanded it ...
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8 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Latin America is home to thousands of modern-day slaves, new report says
According to the latest figures from the Global Slavery Index 35.8 million people are estimated to be held under slave conditions. While Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar and India round out the top 5 countries with the most people trapped in slav ...
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8 years ago-1 2 3The Storm That Will Unfreeze the North Pole
The sun has not risen above the North Pole since mid-September. The sea ice—flat, landlike, windswept, and stretching as far as the eye can see—has been bathed in darkness for months. But later this week, something extraordinary will happen: Air temp ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0NASA's 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Roars Into Action
NASA's been working on 3D-printing new rocket engines for years. In that time, a whole bunch of different pieces have been tested successfully, but NASA's newest trial run has more of them working together than ever before. In a series of t ...
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8 years ago+37 37 0Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification
China has gamified being an obedient citizen with the creation of Sesame Credit. The game links to your social network and gives you a score for doing things that the government approves of, but it also reduces that score for doing things the governm ...
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8 years ago+4 5 1Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests
Evidence of quarrying for Stonehenge’s bluestones is among the dramatic discoveries leading archaeologists to theorise that England’s greatest prehistoric monument may have first been erected in Wales. It has long been known that the bluestones that ...