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Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dies aged 54
Drummer's life was marked by tragedy when he saw his brother and bandmate killed on stage.
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My Teenage Video Game Obsession Wasn't 'Gaming Disorder'
I was a gay teen in the 1980s, hiding from a terrifying world in an arcade. The WHO's push to uniquely pathologize gaming won't help people like me.
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How one man died so a whale might live
Humans have spent more than 10 centuries emptying the ocean of some of its most extraordinary animals. Today, a coalition of scientists and fishermen are trying to turn the tide – and learning that conservation is much harder than destruction
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Europe will hit US products with tariffs starting Friday
European Union tariffs on products from the United States will go into effect on Friday. The European Commission announced Wednesday that it had approved initial retaliatory tariffs on US exports worth €2.8 billion ($3.2 billion). The tariffs will hit American products including motorcycles, orange juice, bourbon, peanut butter, motor boats, cigarettes and denim. They are a response to the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum exports from Europe.
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Taste test: Burger robot startup Creator opens first restaurant
Creator’s transparent burger robot doesn’t grind your brisket and chuck steak into a gourmet patty until you order it. That’s just one way this startup, formerly known as Momentum Machines, wants to serve the world’s freshest cheeseburger for just $6.
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Facial Recognition Cameras Do Not Belong in Schools
Next year, students as young as 4 or 5 years old who attend public school in Western New York’s Lockport School District could be subject to surveillance from facial recognition technology.
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Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing
Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
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Why One Island Grows 80% of the World's Vanilla
Now, it's more valuable than silver.
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In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphone
The sharply divided justices ruled that police need a search warrant to obtain cellphone location data.
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Normalisation of 'plus-size' risks hidden danger of obesity, study finds
New research warns that the normalisation of 'plus-size' body shapes may be leading to an increasing number of people underestimating their weight - undermining efforts to tackle England's ever-growing obesity problem.
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Antarctica Is Melting Three Times as Fast as a Decade Ago
The continent’s rate of ice loss is speeding up, which is contributing even more to rising sea levels. By Kendra Pierre-Louis. (June 13, 2018)
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
The Gorilla Foundation said Koko, the beloved western lowland gorilla that befriended Robin Williams and others, died in her sleep in Northern California.
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IBM's AI can beat humans in an argument
It was convincing, funny, and only a tiny bit creepy.
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Melania Trump flew to Texas to visit detained immigrant children, wore a jacket that said 'I...
First lady Melania Trump faced extraordinary backlash last year when she traveled to visit victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas while wearing "black snakeskin stilettos." She's really outdone herself this time, though: On Thursday, the first lady was photographed traveling to visit immigrant children who have been separated from their parents at the border due to her husband's policies while apparently wearing a jacket that says "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?"
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Instagram launches IGTV video hub for creators
Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company is announcing it will begin allowing users to upload videos up to 1 hour in length, up from the previous 1 minute limit.
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George Takei: 'At Least During the Internment … I Was Not Taken from My Parents.'
The actor was sent to a camp at 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.
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Father saves son on the motorway
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'Disastrous' copyright bill vote approved
Critics call it a "dark day" as an EU committee adopts two controversial changes to copyright law.
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Trump reverses migrant separation policy
The order seeks to end the separation of migrant families by detaining parents and children together.
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The EU's bizarre war on memes is totally unwinnable
A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?
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Marijuana legalization Bill C-45 officially passes Senate vote, heading for royal assent
The Senate voted 52-29 to approve the government's newest version of Bill C-45 on Tuesday evening.
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How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee’s one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on Antioch, a quiet Nashville suburb, armed with iPads full of voter data and a fiery script. The group, the local chapter for Americans for Prosperity, which is financed by the oil billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch to advance conservative causes, fanned out and began strategically knocking on doors.
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YouTube's Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame.
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As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients
As the level of carbon dioxide in the air rises because of human activity, scientists are trying to pin down how plants are affected. There's evidence that it's changing many important plants we eat.
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The Last Days of Marc-André Leclerc
He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back, and a frantic nine-day search left more questions than answers.
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Don’t Be Scared of Being Repetitive.
Repetition is an inevitable part of creation.
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Ajit Pai Now Trying To Pretend That Everybody Supported Net Neutrality Repeal
By now it's abundantly clear that the Trump FCC's repeal of net neutrality was based largely on fluff and nonsense. From easily disproved claims that net neutrality protections stifled broadband investment, to claims that the rules would...
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Invasive plant found in Virginia: It 'makes poison ivy look like a walk in the park'
An invasive species of Asian plant that can cause blindness is turning up in Virginia, prompting warnings for people to be on the lookout for a 15-foot-tall herb topped with fluffy white flowers.
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U.S. top court mulls Apple's App Store commissions in antitrust case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Apple Inc's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing it of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and causing consumers to pay more than they should.
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How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
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