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8 years ago+26 26 0Apple waited too long to get into music streaming
By now, we’re used to Apple being late to the party. The company has a long standing reputation for taking a wait-and-see approach with new technologies before releasing its own version and touting it as the best. It took Apple over two years to make ...
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8 years ago+15 15 0Young 'to be poorer than parents at every stage of life'
Young people are on track to be poorer than their parents at every stage of their lives, according to a new report. The study, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), added that households actually grew richer during the financial crisis. But it s ...
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8 years ago+40 40 0 x 1A Thanksgiving Miracle
There's only one thing that can keep a family (Beck Bennett, Jay Pharoah, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Matthew McConaughey, Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer) from fighting at Thanksgiving: Adele.
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8 years ago+39 39 0 x 1Donald Trump: World would be '100%' better with Hussein, Gadhafi in power
Donald Trump believes the world would be much better off if ruthless dictators like Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi were still in power. "100%," Trump replied when asked that question in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that aire ...
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8 years ago+29 29 0World's first 'Golden Rice' ready for trial
Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world's first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick success ...
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8 years ago+29 29 0CRISPR and a Hypoallergenic Peanut
Anyone with a child in school is probably aware of the need for peanut free zones. You get a notice when your child returns from school on the first day stating that at least one child in their class has a peanut allergy, which means nothing with pea ...
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8 years ago+43 43 0 x 1Amazon Flex will pay you “$18-25 per hour” to deliver Prime Now packages
If you think there's not enough self-employed driving gigs in today's Uber-style economy, Amazon has some news for you. Starting Tuesday in the company's home base of Seattle, the online shopping giant will begin paying people "$1 ...
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8 years ago+27 27 0Wikipedia's Lawsuit Against NSA Internet Vacuum Has First Day in Court
A lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s dragnet interception of Internet communications had its first day in federal court Friday, with a diverse coalition of organizations asking a judge to rule against the Obama administration’s request th ...
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8 years ago+29 29 0If elected president, Jeb Bush will get rid of net neutrality rules
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush today pledged to "repeal or reform the most onerous Obama rules and regulations," and net neutrality would be one of the first things on his chopping block. "The Federal Communications Commiss ...
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8 years ago+31 31 0The Who cancel US tour after Roger Daltrey gets viral Meningitis
The Who have postponed all the dates on the US leg of their 50th anniversary tour, after Roger Daltrey was diagnosed with viral Meningitis. The veteran British rock band had already postponed four dates due to singer Daltrey's "mystery viru ...
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8 years ago+24 24 0In China, an Apple iPhone 6s is worth a sperm donation or a kidney
A man tried to sell one of his kidneys to pay for a new iPhone 6s earlier this week, but he might want to rethink that offer. A sperm bank affiliated with Shanghai Number 1 Hospital is offering the right candidates a new rose-gold iPhone 6s in return ...
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8 years ago+34 34 0 x 1Fifty drones controlled at once in record-breaking swarm
A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all piloted by a single person.
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8 years ago+48 48 0 x 1Code Red issued as cheetah escapes at Indianapolis Zoo
The Indianapolis Zoo issued a Code Red Sunday morning after a cheetah escaped from its enclosure. RTV6 sales rep Angela Knight was at the zoo with her family around 9:30 a.m. Sunday when she says the Code Red was issued and zoo staff told everyone to ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+22 22 0China loves the lingo of games
A few years ago, my mom called to ask for my advice on webcams. She explained (in the English-peppered Chinese that's the official language of our Chinese-American household) that some of her friends had started sharing videos of themselves sing ...
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8 years ago+35 37 2 x 1Ashley Madison client list includes Louisiana GOP executive director; he says it was for research
Louisiana GOP executive director Jason Doré said Thursday that his name is on a list of accounts released as part of the Ashley Madison cheating website hack because the site was used for "opposition research." The director of the statewide ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Did technology kill the book or give it new life?
Digital technology has certainly had a profound effect on the traditional book publishing and retailing industries, but has it also given the book a new lease of life? At one point it looked as if the rise of e-books at knock-down prices and e-reader ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Bitcoin Trends In The First Half Of 2015
It’s already past the halfway mark in 2015 and we thought it would be a good time to provide an overview of the trends that we’re seeing in Bitcoin this year. While the price of bitcoin is down 9% year-to-date, if you look below the surface it is cle ...
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8 years ago+15 15 0Hundreds of cabbies ticketed while praying in mosque
The NYPD went on a taxi ticketing blitz outside a mosque on the Upper West Side while drivers were inside reciting Ramadan prayers Friday, The Post learned. At least one officer handed out nearly 100 tickets on the streets surrounding the Islamic Cul ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0Lyme disease 'definitely spreading' in Canada, expert warns
Once found only in Ontario, Lyme-carrying ticks are now found in almost all the provinces. As they continue to spread, medical professionals are increasingly concerned about Canadians contracting the disease. "The distribution has changed," ...
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8 years ago+25 26 1 x 1Thousands march in Warsaw parade showing growing public support for gay rights
Thousands of activists have marched in scorching weather in Warsaw’s 15th yearly “Equality Parade,” confirming a growing public support for gay rights. The participants chanted in support of same sex marriage and the right for same-sex couples to ado ...