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A DNA Test Giveaway at a Baltimore Ravens Game Turned Into a Fiasco
Image: Orig3n You may have never wondered what’s in the DNA of a football fan, but the Baltimore Ravens planned to find out. As part of a bizarre game-day promotion on Sunday, the Ravens partnered with consumer genetic testing company Orig3n to give away free DNA test kits to 55,000 fans as they entered the…
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Amazon: Hello, Customer, You Appear to Be Making a Bomb
Image: Amazon Let’s say you’re some sort of weird dickhead who wants to hurt people by setting off a homemade explosive, but you don’t exactly know what ingredients you’ll need in order to instill a feeling of lifelong terror in the people you don’t kill outright. Amazon—the place where you buy bulk toilet paper and…
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You Can Now Download iOS 11
Photo: Apple Apple teased us with the next version of iOS in June, revealing a bunch of new features at WWDC that wouldn’t be ready until today—unless of course you love the thrill of a potentially buggy public beta, which has been available since the end of June. But if you like to play it…
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Waters Exposed By Massive Antarctic Iceberg Now a Protected Area
A gorgeous natural color image of A68 captured on September 11, 2017. (Image: Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE)). Two months ago, an iceberg half the size of Jamaica tore itself loose from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. As it slowly drifts north, this massive berg is…
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Here Are The First Concrete Numbers Showing How Rarely Twitter Takes Action On Abusive Behavior Reports
Photo: Getty Twitter has struggled to rein in harassment on its platform for years, but in January, the company pledged to finally get serious about the problem. “We didn’t move fast enough last year; now we’re thinking about progress in days and hours not weeks and months,” Ed Ho, Twitter’s general manager of consumer product…
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Hopeful Martians Emerge From 8-Month Experiment To Find Earth Horrific As Ever
Image: Hi-SEAS Before Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other space enthusiasts can ship humans to Mars as easily as an Amazon Prime delivery, we need to figure out they’ll fare on a foreign planet. Luckily, NASA and the University of Hawaii have been all over this, funding several successful iterations of an experiment called Hawaii…
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Thunderstorm Turns Into a Nuclear Reactor and Blasts Radiation Everywhere
Image: Ricardo Faria/Flickr Thunderclouds rolled into the Japanese beach town of Uchinada early one December morning in 2015. The scientists expected the storms; they’d staked out the location specifically for studying something normally only seen by satellites. Sometime after 5am, a flash of lightning struck a wind turbine. And along came a more perplexing weather…
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British schoolboy (16) after a week suspended for ecstasy use
Edinburgh – The career of a 16-year-old British student in an expensive private school if but a week. The boy was sent away because he schuimbekkend under the influence of xtc city travel at the Sunday service. The boy kept except for a final suspension, nothing on the incident. The boy was still but a…
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To raise the Alarm about suspicious matters London
LONDON/MILTON KEYNES – The British police has Tuesday, a historic market and tourist attraction, the Leadenhall Market in the heart of London, some time cordoned off for investigation. There was a suspicious package found. It proved to be a false alarm, reported to the police a short time later. Tuesday, there was also a false…
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Belgian overheidswinkel sold ecstasy-wine
GEMBLOERS – A bottle of wine which three Belgians this past weekend and seek medical advice were contained large quantities of MDMA, better known as the party drug ecstasy. They had the bottle bought in a shop of the Belgian ministry of Finance in the Walloon place Gembloers. Two of the three were suffering from…