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10 years ago+11 11 0Google Glass Sex App Lets You Watch, Record Yourself In The Act
It was only a matter of time before the voyeuristic world of Google Glass collided with sex. “Sex with Google Glass,” a new app for the wearable technology, lets you watch - and record - yourself having sex from all angles and even “see what your par ...
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10 years ago+22 22 0Giant Rats Race to Eliminate Landmines From Mozambique
A small army of landmine-detecting rats is to be redeployed in Mozambique in a push to meet a deadline to have the country declared free of mines this year. Belgian non-governmental organisation APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out th ...
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10 years ago+16 16 0Police 'like' wanted Pa. suspect's Facebook post
Police in one northeastern Pennsylvania town really "liked" this Facebook post. Officers in Freeland arrested 35-year-old Anthony Lescowitch on Monday night, less than two hours after he shared a wanted photo of himself and taunted police f ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0End the contest early. This chubby Indian kid's dancing is the winner.
Akshat Singh, an 8-year-old boy, wows the judges of India’s Got Talent by dancing to a medley of hit songs from Bollywood movies of Indian superstar Salman Khan.
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10 years ago+19 19 0Federal judge asks: Why haven’t any top executives been prosecuted for financial crisis?
As the five-year statute of limitations nears for crimes that led to the Great Recession, a federal judge wants to know why no high-level executives have been prosecuted. U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff said he could not be sure whether intentio ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0China to open high speed rail link to North Korean border in 2015
China will open a high-speed rail line to the North Korean border next year, state media said on Thursday, in a sign that China remains committed to boosting trade and economic ties with the isolated, nuclear-armed state. The line, under construction ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0The Year Megaplatforms Ruled The Internet
On the web we lost, the web we deserve, and the web we want.
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10 years ago+20 20 0Google Wants To Build The Ultimate Personal Assistant
Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at the LeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huff ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0Nirvana, Kiss will join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Calling Dr. Love! Kiss is set to join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside other new inductees Nirvana, Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens. The 29th annual induction ceremony will take place at the Barclays Center in ...
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Expression
10 years ago+10 10 0 x 110 things Canada does better than anywhere else
Who wouldn't expect great things from the world's second largest land mass? This is a nation hoarding enough prosperity, natural beauty and curling talent to serve a population a hundred times its size. But Canada is more than elbow room, g ...
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10 years ago+7 8 1Cyclist charges Lance Armstrong bribed him with $100,000 to throw race
Here's a new wrinkle to the ongoing Lance Armstrong fall from grace: an Italian cyclist is now claiming that Armstrong paid him $100,000 to throw a critical race in 1993. Roberto Gaggioli told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra that prio ...
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10 years ago0 2 2Hubble Space Telescope Sees Evidence of Water Vapor Venting off Jupiter Moon
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon's surface.
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10 years ago+11 11 0Atheists face death in 13 Muslim countries
In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday. And beyond the Islamic nations, even ...