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15 hours ago
Level Up sjvnLevel 44
sjvn is now level 44 with 12,297,035 XP.
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15 hours ago
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Video streaming beats cable subscriptions for the first time
By the Motion Picture Association of America's count, more people are now subscribing to online video streaming services than cable television.
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16 hours ago
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Who Was the First Named Human?
Not surprisingly, the record of the first humans identified by a personal name goes back to before the dawn of history itself. Through his artistic "Love...
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3 days ago
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Opinion | This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile
Overcoming life’s basic truth: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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3 days ago
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World's LARGEST NERF GUN!!
The headline says it all.
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3 days ago
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Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms
“I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.”
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5 days ago
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Ransomware Fighter Lives in Fear for his Life
Ransomware cracker Fabian Wosar lives in hiding because of the threats and abuse he receives from those whose code he cracks.
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7 days ago
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Photo captures standoff between bald eagle and squirrel
The photographer tells CBS News the squirrel was a mother defending its babies – and she persevered
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12 days ago
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How Software Can Make an Airplane Crash
NEWS ANALYSIS: As is the case where software controls hardware, there are ways things can go wrong either because something happened that wasn’t anticipated, or because the response was wrong.
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12 days ago
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The Web turns 30: Dream or nightmare?
Thirty years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee first proposed what would become the web, and the world would never be the same.
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13 days ago
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What’s the difference between containers and virtual machines?
No, containers are not small virtual machines. So, what are they? Well, let me tell you.
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13 days ago
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Works for me!
Posted in: The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
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2 weeks ago
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Nearly-discarded book sold for $1,250 by library
A Tennessee library book that nearly ended up in the trash was sold for a whopping $1,250 when it was found to be a first edition.
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2 weeks ago
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PureOS: One Linux for both PCs and smartphones
One operating system for two platforms? It's an old idea, which has never worked out, but the Linux laptop and smartphone company Purism is giving it another try.
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2 weeks ago
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Retiree to Spend Rest of Life at Holiday Inn, Since It's Cheaper Than a Senior Home
64-year-old Terry Robison is a working-class retiree trying to make his money last throughout the rest of his life. And Holiday Inn is the clear winner.
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2 weeks ago
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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.
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2 weeks ago
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The Geography of Partisan Prejudice
A guide to the most—and least—politically open-minded counties in America
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2 weeks ago
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Linux 5.0: A major milestone with minor improvements
It's not like Linus Torvalds didn't warn us. Linux 5.0 is out, but there's no big updates to be found here.
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2 weeks ago
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We visited the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant to see how the cleanup is progressing
Eight years after the meltdown, there's still a long, long way to go.
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3 weeks ago
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The end of Blu-ray
Thanks to the rise of streaming, Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That's lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies.
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3 weeks ago
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What Linus Torvalds really thinks about ARM processors
In a recent post, Torvalds shared some thoughts about ARM processors and servers, and people thought he was dismissing ARM's future on servers and the cloud. Here's what he really meant.
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1 month ago
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Dem chairman: Trump the 'greatest threat' to US democracy 'since the Civil War'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in an interview airing Sunday called President Trump the "greatest threat" to U.S. democracy since "the Civil War."
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1 month ago
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Firefighters Rescue German Shepherd, Tortoise From Hole in Fontana
Firefighters had an unusual rescue on their hands this week when a 70-pound tortoise and a German shepherd dog got themselves wedged in a tunnel the tortoise had dug under a backyard wall. The incident unfolded about noon Wednesday in the 8000 block of Regal Court, Capt. Jeremy Kern of the San Bernardino County Fire Department said in a written statement.
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1 month ago
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SpaceShipTwo flies to the edge of space again
SpaceShipTwo successfully flew to the edge of space for the second time Feb. 22 as Virgin Galactic moved closer to beginning commercial operations.
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1 month ago
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An Arizona cop threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist. She wasn’t backing down.
“I don’t want to hear about any of that freedom of the press stuff," the officer reportedly told Hilde Lysiak.