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Saturday October 13, 2018. 01:01 AM
This is completely insane. Trump's ICE squads are sending separated under-5 children back to countries of origin without telling the kids' families. This week, U.S. Immigration officials sent a 4-year-old separated child from the U.S. to Guatemala City, an extremely...
Because of course they would. President Donald Trump's son Don Jr., along with pro-Trump extreme right wing media, are exploiting Washington Post contributing journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply that he supported Islamic terror, reports...
Friday October 12, 2018. 11:35 PM
The good news: Facebook downgrades the number of accounts hit in the breach they disclosed two weeks ago to 29 million, down from 50 million. The bad news: Uh, that's still a LOT. And if you were one of those 29 million Facebook users, A LOT of your intimate personal data...
The WWE has a self-created Saudi Arabia problem on its hands. Crown Jewel, a pay-per-view event scheduled to take place on November 2nd in Riyadh, is under heavy scrutiny as we learn more about the Saudi government's role in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And now, ...
Enjoy this delightful clip from Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color 'Disneyland Showtime' that aired on March 22, 1970. From the IMDB page: The Osmond Brothers, accompanied by Kurt Russell and E.J. Peaker, come to Disneyland to perform at a show being held there. But...
Sean Kayode, a homeless person hustling to make ends meet in San Francisco unsurprisingly received a lot of parking tickets, in San Francisco. Naturally, the best way for San Francisco to secure payment was to seize his method of earning money. A federal judge has ordered...
Stephen Hawking's final paper that he and his colleagues completed just days before his death has now been published. It's titled 'Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair,' co-authored with Sasha Haco, Malcolm J. Perry, and Andrew Strominger, about the black hole information...
Meet David Bradley, chief engineer of the IBM PC, who created Ctrl+Alt+Del. 'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' Bradley once said.
'Investors are bailing' from Facebook, writes CNN Money. The share price for the disgraced social media firm has dropped 30% since July. Facebook has had a hard time shaking its image as a firm that happily violates users' privacy, manipulates users emotional well-being,...
In an embarrassing video released today, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, Scott Wagner, thinks he's a tough guy when he threatens his opponent, Gov. Tom Wolf: 'Well, Governor Wolf, let me tell you what, between now and Nov. 6, you better put a catcher’s...
Science Alert claims this illusions mimics time travel in the brain. I think the illusion works, but I saw no dinosaurs. Via Science Alert: In the Illusory Rabbit, the middle flash never happens, but most people still think they saw three flashes to match three beeps. ...
A Russian hacker who calls himself 'Alexey' is infiltrating insecure networks and adding security patches to Latvian-made MikroTik routers so they 'can't be abused by cryptojackers, botnet herders, or other cyber-criminals,' reports ZDNet. Alexey claims to have secured over...
A great night for a Trump supporter in Brooklyn: hail a Lyft, demand the radio be put on, then harass the driver with the N-word while calling the police. Lyft driver Shawn Pepas Lettman of Brooklyn, N.Y., calmly filmed the 16-minute tirade by passenger Robert Ortiz and his ...
Kara Swisher is one of the best journalists working today, so it was fascinating to read about her experiences working for well-known editors as she rose through the ranks. My next boss after [Jack] Shafer was John McLaughlin, of the TV show The McLaughlin Group. I...
The new record for most eliminations in a single match by a squad is now 61. Watch Fortitude_Fqrbes, Nexjs, tactjc, and TTV NadeXC take down most of the lobby. There is a lot of swearing, as there should be.
When we spent 5 weeks in Japan this summer, we bought a lot of prepared meals from convenience stores. They were really good. In this video, we see how a family who moved from Canada to Japan makes great dinner spreads using frozen meals.
Trump aide Stephen Miller 'was a strange dude' and a 'loner' who ate glue as a child, according to his third grade teacher Nikki Fiske. The 72-year-old teacher, who taught Miller in 1993, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter and, among other things, had this to say about Miller: ...
I've been doing a lot of Raspberry Pi retrogaming lately, and have tried a lot of different gamepad controllers. The best controllers, in my estimation, are the ones made by 8BitDo. They've introduced a new model, the SN30 ($30), and it comes in colors matching the old Game...
A high-speed train going from Cologne to Munich carrying 510 passengers caught fire early this morning (local time). At least two cars burned, but amazingly no one was hurt. From Reuters: Mass-selling daily Bild said a policeman traveling on the ICE train smelled smoke and ...
Today I learned that by placing a teal pumpkin out on Halloween, you are signaling that you are offering non-food (read: non-allergen) treats to children. It's a secret code that you have safe goodies like stickers, stencils, and glow sticks to give out instead of candy....
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