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8 years ago+35 35 0Cable TV bill rate hikes slow amid cord cutting and mergers
The average monthly cable television bill hit a record $99 this year after rising 8% a year since 2010, but the outlook for next year is looking better for consumers. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, (CMCSA) announced that the rate for its ...
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8 years ago+9 10 1The Corrupt System That Killed Laquan McDonald
A Chicago cop now faces murder charges—but will anyone hold his colleagues, his superiors, and elected officials accountable for their failures? Thanks to clear video evidence, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged this week with first-de ...
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8 years ago+46 46 0 x 1Politician suggests Planned Parenthood should apologise as their clinic held under siege by shooter
An American congressman has attacked Planned Parenthood on live TV as a gunman engaged in an hour-long standoff with authorities at one of the women's health care clinics in Colorado. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican member of the US House of Repres ...
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8 years ago+35 35 0 x 2Doctors use virtual reality imaging to treat blocked coronary artery
Doctors in Poland used a virtual reality system combining a custom mobile application and Google Glass to clear a blocked coronary artery, one of the first uses of the technology to assist with surgery. The imaging system was used with a patient who ...
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8 years ago+19 19 0A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
There's no evidence the plotters of the Paris terrorist attacks used encrypted communications, but debates about whether the technology should have a "back door" for intelligence services are heating up again. The debate, however, prob ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 1Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
The Moroccan city of Ouarzazate is used to big productions. On the edge of the Sahara desert and the centre of the north African country’s “Ouallywood” film industry it has played host to big-budget location shots in Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy, Th ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 1Back to the Future writer: bad guy Biff was based on Donald Trump
Back to the Future writer Bob Gale has revealed that the trilogy’s villain Biff Tannen is based on Donald Trump, putting an end to fan speculation. In the second film, which was celebrated this week as part of Back to the Future day, Tannen becomes a ...
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8 years ago+30 30 0Canada’s new prime minister really doesn’t like the F-35
Canada’s Justin Trudeau says he’ll cancel plans to buy the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government may not be the only casualty in Monday’s electoral upset in Canada. Justin Trudeau, the leader of Canada’s victori ...
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8 years ago+49 49 0 x 1Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) told a U.S. judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be "impossible" with devices using its latest operating system, but the company has the "technical ability" to help law enforcement unlock ol ...
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8 years ago+45 45 0 x 2Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare?
A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6, 2009 (by local calendars and clocks). The launch came from the third planet out from a G-type star, 25,000 light-years ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 2Inside the Intense, Insular World of AOL Disc Collecting
Most people threw out all those "50 Hours Free!" CD-ROMs that were everywhere in the 90s, but a select few collectors made it their mission to hoard hundreds or thousands of the discs.
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8 years ago+42 42 0 x 1The Man Behind the Victoria’s Secret Angels Wings Wants to Make a Sexier Spacesuit
The days of getting dressed up to fly are gone. But the days of getting dressed up for space travel—well, they’re on their way. When you think of an astronaut spacewalking, you probably envision the iconic, white spacesuit of Apollo fame. These multi ...
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9 years ago+25 25 0Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe shouts 'We are not gays' during UN address
Zimbabwe's infamously outspoken President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the country for over three decades, went on a tirade against extended human rights to gay people in his country during a speech at the UN General Assembly on Monday. "We ...
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9 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Big banks close to $1.9B settlement in price-fixing case
Twelve major banks have tentatively agreed to pay $1.87 billion to settle allegations that they colluded to fix prices and lock out competitors in the market for insurance-like products widely traded before the financial crisis, according to a lawyer ...
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9 years ago+40 40 0 x 1FBI agents admit to spying on the Burning Man festival
The FBI has admitted to gathering secret intelligence about the annual Burning Man festival since 2010. In response to a request under the 2012 Freedom of Information Act, the security service said its Special Events Management unit has kept files on ...
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9 years ago+45 45 0 x 1Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites That Use Annoying App Install Ads
There’s nothing wrong with app install ads, but too often now, you click on a mobile search result, and when the site loads, a giant app install interstitial pops up that prompts you to install that site’s app. Those ads typically block all the conte ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0Fun Korea Restaurant for Singles
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9 years ago+17 17 0Ashley Madison's $19 'full delete' option made the company millions
Ashley Madison's hackers have already claimed that the site's "delete everything" service, which charged its affair-seeking users $19 to remove any trace of their presence on the site, wasn't entirely effective.
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9 years ago+23 23 0First trailer for 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' shows a bold, brilliant, brutal Apple founder
Steve Jobs never compromised, nor did he pull punches. Neither does Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney. Jobs' life, influence and legacy get Gibney's full journalistic treatment in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the first ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0Crossovers: "Vulture's Secret History of Television" Episode 3
Are two shows (or three, or four, or five) better than one? Since at least the 1960s, TV studios have experimented with crossovers between series. In this week's episode of "Vulture's Secret History of Television," we look at the ...