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Reddit found this dude's stolen car in a matter of hours
Getting your car stolen is one of the worst things, but finding it can be MUCH easier than it was a decade ago. Over Thanksgiving week, Sebastiaan de With, a freelance designer and photographer, got his Land Rover Defender stolen in the San Francisco Bay Area, after just having purchased it a little over a year ago.
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Teacher Whose Son Has Leukaemia Fights Back Tears After His Students Buy Him A Switch
"You know I just walk by the Switches at Target every time I'm there?"
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A bitcoin booster got $1.5 million after being “bitshamed” for being poor
Andreas Antonopoulos received more than 150 bitcoins in donations after being mocked on Twitter by a man known as "Bitcoin Jesus."
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Baby has heart put back inside chest
A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived after surgery at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who has no breastbone, was delivered three weeks ago by Caesarean section. She has had three operations to place her heart back in her chest. The condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare with only a few cases per million births, of which most are stillborn.
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Man spots himself in fiancee's childhood photo
A man discovers he crossed paths with his fiancee years ago after spotting himself in the background of one of her childhood vacation photos.
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Alabamian with diabetes built her own artificial pancreas, gives away plan for free
Dana Lewis is a good name to remember the next time you hear somebody say Alabama's mostly good for football and barbecue. Lewis, a University of Alabama graduate who grew up in Huntsville, used social media, computer skills and mail-order parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes. Along with co-inventor and husband Scott Leibrand, she's now giving her discovery away.
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Engineers create plants that glow
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk. MIT engineers have taken a critical first step toward making that vision a reality. By embedding specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of a watercress plant, they induced the plants to give off dim light for nearly four hours. They believe that, with further optimization, such plants will one day be bright enough to illuminate a workspace.
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Student Whose 3DS Was Stolen Is Given A Replacement By His Schoolmates
Losing something precious is never a pleasant thing, but losing it at Christmas is especially heartbreaking, and that's what happened to Antioch High School student Shawn Hawkins. His beloved 3DS XL was stolen, and he wrote messages on the school's notice board begging for it to be returned. Trouble by his obvious distress, one of his fellow schoolmates decided to raise the cash to replace the lost console...
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Cyclist 'draws' 88-mile virtual snowman
A cyclist has "drawn" an 88-mile (141km) virtual snowman across London. Anthony Hoyte, from Cheltenham, spent 10 hours cycling the streets of the city, using the exercise and route sharing app Strava to "draw" the giant festive artwork. The cyclist has created several virtual doodles including Fowl Play in Bristol, which took first prize in the city's Strava art competition in September.
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Nothing to See Here, Just a Functional Knife Made of Fish
That was a fish, once. Tuna specifically. Katsuobushi—repeatedly smoked, fermented fish—holds the record as the hardest food on earth, bearing more in common by the end of its processing to petrified wood than to sealife.
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A woman put 50m stolen articles online so you can read them for free
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Elbakyan has kept herself beyond the reach of a federal judge who late last year issued an injunction against her site, noting that damages could total $150,000 per article...
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LG has made a 4K TV you can roll up like a sheet of paper
A couple of years ago, LG Display showed off an intensely futuristic 18-inch OLED display that could be bent and rolled up just like a newspaper. Today, that prototype has grown to 65 inches in size, with the company announcing that it’s managed to scale up the tech to the dimensions of a large TV. At CES 2018, LG Display will be demonstrating the new 65-inch rollable OLED prototype, which also happens to have UHD (aka 4K) resolution.
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Cryptocurrency mining to restore Alpine village’s goldrush fever
A new kind of mine is providing hope for a Swiss mountain village that has seen its share of misfortune over the years. Gondo, with 40 inhabitants, is no longer mining for gold, but for cryptocurrencies. On the face of it, Gondo - an isolated community on the Swiss-Italian border - is hardly the most likely location for such a cutting-edge, disruptive and divisive technology. It has nevertheless been chosen as the venue for a cryptocurrency mine by start-up Alpine Mining.
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1969 Dodge Charger 500 Hemi Vintage Road Test.
Watch this amazing vintage road test of 1969 Dodge Charger 500 Hemi. Is it different from the standard charger? How Hot is the Hemi? Will the suspension system handle all the power? Well, these are a few of the questions that our road test crew asked the day they wheeled the Charger 500 on to our test track.
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Girl all smiles in viral photo after teacher shows up with identical hairdo
A photo of a Texas teacher and her young student has gone viral after the woman kept her word last week and showed up at school with a hairdo identical to the girl’s. Leigh Bishop, a pre-K teacher at Lakeview Elementary in Sugar Land, is being called “teacher of the year” across social media platforms after a photo of her with her student, who she identified only by the first name August, went viral. Bishop posted on Facebook Jan. 30 about an exchange she and August had the day before.
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A waitress takes time to cut elderly diner’s ham. Kind act wins her a college scholarship
Waitress Evoni Williams worked the hectic morning shift at the Waffle House in La Marque, Texas, saving up for college. Amid clanking plates, a sizzling grill and customers on the go, an elderly man timidly asked Williams to cut his ham. She did. Someone snapped a photo that spread across social media. Now Williams has a college scholarship.
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Make-A-Wish Kid Now A Doctor In The Hospital That Treated Her
Make-A-Wish kids like Ella grow up to change lives, like Jen Pratt. Doctors diagnosed her with bone cancer more than 20 years ago, and now she’s back in the very place that saved her life. She still has a scrap book chronicling her battle with cancer. “I had about a year of chemotherapy and surgery to remove a tumor in my leg, and during that experience I was introduced to Make-A-Wish,” she said.
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36-year-old accountant forced into NHL goal crease, plays 14 perfect minutes
Scott Foster thought it was going to be just another night. Then the 36-year-old accountant signed a contract, put on his goaltender gear and waited in Chicago's locker room. Then he got into the game. Then, it was his night. Foster was pressed into action when Chicago lost Anton Forsberg and Collin Delia to injuries, and the former college goalie stopped all seven shots he faced over the final 14 minutes of the Blackhawks' 6-2 victory over the playoff-bound Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.
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He applied to 20 of the best colleges and got a full ride to all of them
Micheal Brown stared at the acceptance letter in front of him: It said yes. So did the next one. And the one after that. The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every single one with a full ride and $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. "It's something I'm proud of because I see my hard work paying off, determination paying off, sacrifices paying off," the student told CNN.
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Paralysed man to walk London Marathon
A paralysed man is hoping to become the first paraplegic male to walk the London Marathon. Simon Kindleysides, 34, from Norwich, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013 which left him paralysed from the waist down. It will take the father-of-three 37 hours to complete the course wearing an exoskeleton suit.
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