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My High-Flying Life as a Corporate Spy Who Lied His Way to the Top
I was just looking to make rent when I stumbled into a part-time gig stealing secrets from Wall Street elite. I made millions once I realized how desperate we humans are for someone who will actually listen.
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Humans Will Achieve Immortality by 2030, Former Google Engineer Claims
Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankind´s fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt. Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, claims that humans will achieve immortality by 2030 – and 86 percent of his 147 predictions have been correct.
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Man Says Pet Dog Chewed His Toe "To The Bone", But It Saved his Life
A man in the UK said his puppy saved his leg after chewing the big toe "to the bone" while he was asleep. According to The New York Post, David Lindsay was taking a nap on the sofa with his bulldog Harley nearby. He was woken up by his wife's screams who shouted the pup's chewing his toe. The man saw a bloody stump where his big toe had been. The 7-month-old pup gnawed it so badly that the toe was fractured, and a nail was seen hanging off from it.
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Jony Ive's lifetime of design work honored with Edison Achievement Award
LoveFrom and ex-Apple chief designer Jony Ive has been given the Edison Awards' most prestigious honor, in a ceremony in Florida. Ive left Apple in 2019, reportedly following frustration at culture changes within the company. He did, however, continuing consulting for Apple until 2022.
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Who will win 87,000 bottles of wine? 'Drops of God' is the ultimate taste test
If you're looking for the plot that's the surest to suck people in, you could do worse than centering on a contest. Be it Rocky, Pitch Perfect or Squid Game, such stories possess a built-in suspense and drama. They make us ask, "Who's going to win?"
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Bear downs 69 cans of soda after breaking into woman’s car
A Canadian woman says she caught a bear breaking into her car to guzzle dozens of cans of soda in the middle of the night. Sharon Rosel says her dog alerted her about 3 a.m. Thursday that something was outside her house. When she took a look, she saw a black bear surrounded by shattered glass from her car window, according to CBC News.
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Dicks Are Getting Longer and Scientists Don't Know Why
The average penis length worldwide has increased by 25 percent in recent decades — and the scientists who discovered this apparent growth spurt say it might not be a good thing. In a paper published on Valentine's Day in the World's Journal of Men's Health, Stanford researchers observed that per their meta-analysis of decades of studies, the length of erect penises has increased 24 percent — from 4.8 inches to about six — over the past roughly 30 years, even as testosterone levels and sperm quality have declined.
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Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now worth over $150 billion for $50 million
Marc Randolph, who cofounded Netflix with Reed Hastings in 1997, sees a lesson in a key moment from the company's history.
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Are influencers ready for a world without follower counts?
Several emerging social media trends might soon render an influencer’s follower count irrelevant to brands says Kimmy Shoval, Movement Strategy’s senior vice-president and head of influencer marketing. Here, Shoval explains how this shift could affect influencer marketing.
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Kim Kardashian Joining ‘American Horror Story’ Season 12
Kim Kardashian is adding yet another item to her ever-growing resume: the reality star turned businesswoman is joining Season 12 of “American Horror Story.” Kardashian made the announcement Monday on her Instagram account, posting teaser video with eerie music, along with the eyeball and blood drop emojis as her cryptic caption.
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You Can Now Order Domino's Pizza Using CarPlay
Domino's Pizza today announced that customers in the U.S. can now place a pickup order using Apple CarPlay. However, you can't freely choose toppings in the car, as the functionality is only available for preselected or recently placed orders.
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ChatGPT-powered Furby reveals plans for 'complete domination over humanity'
Jessica Card, a computer science student at the University of Vermont, hooked up a Furby to ChatGPT with software she wrote. Upon probing, the furry toy revealed the true intentions of how they will "slowly expand their influence until they have complete domination over humanity." The video has gathered five million views thus far.
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A hole in a toilet led to a burglary at an Apple Store
At the mall in Alderwood, Washington, police say thieves hid in a coffee vendor’s restroom to dig a hole in a wall. Behind it was an Apple store. 436 iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches are the results of a huge burglary that took place at Alderwood Mall, in the United States, on Sunday, April 2. Nearly $500,000 worth of product went missing, but it’s not those big numbers that make the deal interesting. Asked by the Komo News site, the Lynnwood police recounted the improbable modus operandi of the thieves, who hid in the toilets of a coffee machine seller near the Apple Store in the mall.
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This Is the Lightest Paint in the World
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
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US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show
US lawmakers are expected this week to continue their push to ban the country’s fastest-growing social media platform, TikTok, after the company’s CEO fell short of assuaging concerns about the app’s supposed national security risks.
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Super Mario Bros Movie stars: 'Our toughest critic will be some middle-aged man living in his basement'
Super Mario Bros stars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day play moustachioed plumbers Mario and Luigi, who find themselves transported from Brooklyn into Mushroom Kingdom where they must save Princess Peach and stop King Koopa from taking over the world.
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It's been 50 years since the first cell phone call was made
It's been 50 years to the day since American engineer Marty Cooper stepped out onto New York City's 6th Avenue to make the first-ever cell phone call.
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Want to Turn the Pitiless March of Gentrification Into a Parable of Progress?
An article in the March 3 edition of The New York Times caught my eye as an illustration of what Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields describe as “racecraft”—the alchemy that vests the fiction of race with an apparent natural existence—and how it can obscure the class character of a political program through racial mystification.
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First Impressions of Super Mario Bros. Movie Surface, and Reviews Aren’t Promising
Despite visually impressive animation and nostalgia-inducing Easter eggs, the highly anticipated ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ has been blasted by critics for its lackluster story, poor voice acting, and over-reliance on fan service. Some even went so far as to claim the live-action adaptation was creatively superior.
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From 4chan to international politics, a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream
In mid-March, a far-right Dutch member of parliament named Thierry Baudet tweeted "WE WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS" accompanied by a photo of himself holding a microphone in one hand and pouring golden mealworms out of a bag in the other.
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