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+10'They didn't look old enough': who filled a French art gallery with fakes?
Last year, a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him. How did they get there?
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+7Study: LA Is Leaking Talent Faster Than Every Other Top Tech Hub
72% of LA's software engineering grads on AngelList left the area for their first job, compared to just 34% of Bay Area grads. Here's how LA can recover.
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+19How New York’s Skyline Is Changing to Give the Wealthy a Better View
New Yorkers are witnessing a boom of luxury residential buildings, which some see as a sign of the city’s wealth gap.
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+6UK Porn Block Could be a Ticking 'Privacy Timebomb'
The Open Rights group claims that the BBFC's Age-verification Certificate Standard provides little safety assurance to people who watch porn in the UK.
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+22China 'harvesting organs from Falun Gong prisoners'
China is murdering members of the Falun Gong spiritual group and harvesting their organs for transplant, a panel of lawyers and experts found.
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+23Above NYC - Filmed in 12K
Phil Holland, Gotham Film Works
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+22Bored at work? Your brain is trying to tell you something.
We constantly seek new information to keep our minds sharp.
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+17The Poisons Released by Melting Arctic Ice
Toxic chemicals, anthrax - even nuclear waste - could be unleashed by global warming
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+10A bridge made of grass
The annual remaking of the last remaining Inca rope bridge at Q'eswachaka in Peru.
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+17Washington state takes step forward on missing Native American women
Native American women and girls disappear at twice the per-capita rate of white Americans. Many still do not have answers as to what happened to their mothers, aunts, sisters, daughters. Some said they felt failed by authorities; they had been made to wait days by police to report a loved one’s disappearance or had their pleas for help ignored altogether.
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+11The poisons released by melting Arctic ice
Toxic chemicals, anthrax - even nuclear waste - could be unleashed by global warming
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+24Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
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+11Drone Over Hong Kong Protests
Team Blacksheep
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+46People are sick of drinking. Investors are betting on the 'sober curious'
Getaway in Brooklyn was comfortably full for a Saturday night, when I came in to try my first "shrub" — an acidic beverage made from vinegar, fruit, sugar, club soda and zero alcohol.
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+13Ancient manuscripts bring Buddha one step closer
A team is restoring cigar-like ancient manuscripts that pre-date other Buddhist relics by more than a millennium.
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+26Hydrogen station explodes, Toyota halts sales of fuel cell cars, is this the end? - Electrek
A hydrogen refueling station exploded in Norway on Monday and the company operating the station has suspended operation at its other locations following the explosion. Now, Toyota and Hyundai are both halting sales of fuel cell vehicles in the country. Does this spell the end of fuel cell hydrogen vehicles as a “zero-emission” alternative? The …
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+21First on CNN Business: 600 companies including Walmart, Costco and Target warn Trump on tariffs
American retailers, manufacturers and tech companies warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that tariffs on China will damage the US economy, lead to job losses and harm millions of consumers.
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+7U.S. Cyber Has Hacked Russian Power Grid, Say Super-Secret Sources
The cyber cold war continues: Deep-throat sources claim the U.S. has implanted malware deep into Russia’s electricity grid. But hang on, something smells fishy.
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+1110 reasons why Finland's education system is the best
No standardized tests, no private schools, no stress. Finland's education system is consistently ranked best in the world. Why isn't America copying it?
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+13Why do millions of Indians defecate in the open?
Shannti Dinnoo reports from Delhi on why India faces a big problem of open defecation?