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10 years ago+11 11 0Eight U.S. states have policies similar to Russia’s ban on gay ‘propaganda’
Eight states limit speech about homosexuality in ways similar to, though not as far-reaching as, the Russian ban that has received international criticism ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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10 years ago+13 13 0The 7-Day Digital Diet
A Digital Detox Test: Unplug Twitter and Facebook. Put Off Email and Smartphone.
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10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1The botmaker who sees through the Internet
Darius Kazemi’s little creations are funny, poignant, popular—and a sly commentary on how the Web is organizing our lives
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10 years ago+13 14 1Here's how Netflix is thinking of changing subscription prices
For the past year, Netflix has been experimenting with different pricing schemes. Back in December, Netflix began offering a $6.99 plan that was standard-definition and only allowed streaming to one screen. This was $1 less than the more common $7.99 ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Li Hao executed in China for keeping female slaves
Chinese authorities have executed a man who held six women as sex slaves in his basement and murdered two of them. Li Hao, a 36-year-old former clerk, was put to death after being convicted of "murder, rape, illegal detention, organised prostitu ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0'Shipping Wars' star dead at 49
Roy Garber, star of the hugely successful A&E reality series, “Shipping Wars” has died from a massive heart attack at the age of 49. Garber owned and operated Arbie’s Team Transport in New Hampshire with his son Travis who he had raised by himsel ...
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10 years ago+14 15 1A Public Service That Aims To End Crappy Tourist Photos
Are you sick of Instagram feeds full of boring, bad quality vacation pics? Did your best friend try to shoot the Brooklyn Bridge and up with nothing but East River? Miami Ad school grads Mimi Chan and Utsavi Jhaveri decided to do the tourists of New ...
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10 years ago+16 16 0Japan to test 'magnetic net' that can fish out floating space junk
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) is teaming up with a company that manufactures fishing equipment to create a net that will sweep the heavens of the man-made debris orbiting our planet. The first test of the equipment is scheduled to sta ...
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10 years ago+25 25 0China Becomes the World’s Leading Trader
China became the biggest trader of goods in the world for the first time last year, overtaking the U.S. According to figures released by Beijing on Friday, the value of China’s imports and exports in 2013 reached $4.16 trillion. This will almost cert ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution
When, in November, the publisher Stewart Brand was asked about who carries the flag of counterculture today, he pointed to the maker movement. The maker era might not be upon us yet, but the maker movement has arrived. Many promoters of the maker mov ...
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10 years ago+26 26 0North Korea's Monstrous Murder Methods
According to a media report that surfaced late this week, Kim Jong Un had his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, stripped naked and thrown into a cage with 120 hunting dogs that had not been fed for three days. Five of Jang’s lieutenants were put to death at th ...
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10 years ago+22 22 0Louisiana's profitable prisons
Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs’ and police departments in the state of Louisiana — and keep the local economy going.
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10 years ago+13 13 0When Growth Hacking Goes Bad
Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called “growth hacking,” with its spammy SEO tactics disguised as an affiliate program. Called out, exposed and now punished by G ...
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10 years ago+5 5 04.6 million Snapchat phone numbers and usernames leaked
The phone numbers and usernames of more than 4.6 million North American Snapchat users have been leaked online. SnapchatDB, an unofficial site run by an anonymous individual or group, allows open access to two files — one an SQL dump, one CSV text — ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Surprise! It's Super Easy to Identify People From Metadata
When the NSA's phone tracking was revealed, the agency was quick to point out that it's not listening to phone conversations. But the agency is tracking who you call, when, and for how long - your metadata. Claims that metadata is anonymous ...
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10 years ago+6 7 1Uber's cancellation loophole
Lately, I haven’t had much luck using UberX, the ride-sharing company’s lower cost alternative, or its taxi service either. The last few times I’ve used the Uber app to order one, I’ve been informed a car would show up in around 10 minutes. Then the ...
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10 years ago+21 21 0Bionic exoskeleton enables paralysed people to walk again.
For the millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of paralysis, the only mobility option remains the same as it did centuries ago - a wheelchair. But in the US, engineers have developed a wearable robot which allows people with paralysis ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit against Electronic Arts, Inc.
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of Electronic Arts, Inc. common stock during the period be ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0 x 1Has a Vermeer Mystery Been Solved?
David Hockney and others have speculated—controversially—that a camera obscura could have helped the Dutch painter Vermeer achieve his photo-realistic effects in the 1600s. But no one understood exactly how such a device might actually have been used ...
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10 years ago+8 9 1New study explains why men's noses are bigger than women's
A new study from the University of Iowa concludes that men's noses are about 10 percent larger than female noses, on average, in populations of European descent. The size difference, the researchers believe, comes from the sexes' different ...
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