Post Overview
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11 years ago+8 8 0Apple faces 5-year ban for e-book price rigging conspiracy
Apple should be banned from entering anti-competitive e-book distribution contracts for five years and should end its business ties with five publishers with which it conspired to raise e-book prices, federal and state regulators said on Friday.
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11 years ago+10 10 0Texas Is Running Out of Execution Drugs
Texas has just one month's supply remaining of pentobarbital, the drug used in the most active death penalty chambers in the country.
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11 years ago+9 9 0Here’s What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track You
Retailers are already able to track your movements and activities in the physical world like websites do on the Internet. Is that creepy Decide for...
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Analysis
11 years ago+9 9 0Self-cooling windows let in sunlight without the heat | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Microfluidic circulatory system embedded in windows may help reduce air-conditioning costs
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Analysis
11 years ago+10 10 0Software patents you say? Here’s the reason why economists hate them
Several economists, including two Nobel laureates, have argued that the software industry would be better off without patent protection.
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11 years ago+12 12 0Mexico's navy vice admiral killed in ambush
Gunmen ambushed and killed one of Mexico's highest ranking navy officials and the officer escorting him Sunday in the rough western state of Michoacan, authorities said. Two other people were injured in the shooting in an area where a fight betw ...
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11 years ago+16 16 0Zimbabwe president calls for the beheading of gays
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe stepped up his campaign against LGBT Zimbabweans during an election rally of his Zanu PF party supporters in Mutare this week, calling for the beheading of gays.
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11 years ago+23 23 0Singer, Songwriter J.J. Cale Dead From Heart Attack At 74
The musician, who wrote such hits as "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" for Eric Clapton, died of a heart attack on Friday in California.
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11 years ago+13 13 0Scientists discover what triggers allergic reactions to cats
Scientists have discovered how allergic reactions to cats are triggered, paving the way for developing preventative treatments.
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11 years ago+6 6 0Anonymous Plans Global Government Hacking Day For Fifth Of November
Anonymous is preparing for a Nov. 5 global day of hacking, global protests and acts of civil disobedience, calling on all people to prepare for what it is considering a day of widespread resilience in the face of global tyranny.
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11 years ago+7 7 0An Ohio Bank Foreclosed On The Wrong House, And Repossessed All The Owner's Stuff
A local Ohio bank foreclosed on a woman's home and took her possessions while she was on vacation.
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11 years ago+16 16 0Plan to defund NSA phone collection program defeated
Lawmakers voted 217 to 205 to defeat the proposal by an unlikely political pairing: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a 33-year-old libertarian who often bucks GOP leadership and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), an 84-year old liberal stalwart and the chamber ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said on Friday.
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Expression
11 years ago+13 13 0Netflix for Giant Arcade Consoles Is So Crazy It Just Might Work
Buying an old-school arcade console is a big investment. Ms. Pac-Man bragging rights don't just cost a lot of money—you pay the price in real estate. That whole corner of your living room gone for just one measly game. A new service called All Y ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0This woman discovered ancient Egyptian pyramids from her North Carolina home
Amateur archaeologist Angela Micol found the buried, ancient structures on Google Maps.
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11 years ago+7 7 0India bans captive dolphin shows, says dolphins should be seen as ‘non-human persons’
In a bold move to protect the well-being of dolphins, India has moved to ban dolphin shows -- a push that helps elevate their status from creatures of mere curiosity to one that borders more closely to the personhood we seem to share.
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Expression
11 years ago+7 8 1What Is Wrong with Florida Juries? The Zimmerman Acquittal Is Just the Latest Case of Strange Justice.
On Saturday night, a Florida jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty of any crime in the shooting death of a black teenager named Trayvon Martin. Not murder. Not even manslaughter. A lot of people are having a hard time accepting this ver ...
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Expression
11 years ago+6 7 115 Thought-Provoking and Mind-Bending Artworks
Daniel Stolle is a creative and very talented artist based out of Finland. Since starting out in illustration back in 2007, Daniel has worked mainly in editorial drawings, also doing artwork for book covers, stamps and animated films. He has contribu ...
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Expression
11 years ago+6 6 06 Things You Won't Believe Were Built by a Single Person
Sometimes unlimited imagination is paired with both inspiration and obsession, and this sexy three-way of abstract concepts gives us some truly awesome feats.
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Expression
11 years ago+8 9 15 Reasons Why Vincent van Gogh was Jack the Ripper
Author's discovery and research leads to remarkable evidence and shocking conclusion—Vincent van Gogh was Jack the Ripper!