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Moslimleiders: go pray on temple mount
JERUSALEM – Moslimleiders in Jerusalem are believers Thursday called on again to go and pray on the temple mount, now the rest there as well as returned. Israel has all the extra safety features removed that had been installed at the temple mount in Jerusalem after an attack. Israeli media reported Thursday that the latest…
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Germany: turn off at terreurgevaar may
KARLSRUHE – Foreigners in Germany who have to estimate the security services have a terreurgevaar forms may be turned off, even if there is no criminal prosecution. That has the highest German court Thursday determined, report German media. It is going to be persons who in the German ’Gefährder’: people who are prepared and by…
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The moon is full of water. Left to produce it, scientists say
Scientists have long discussed the probability of presence of water on the moon. In previous studies, was discovered traces of water in covered shadow the icy regions of the poles of the satellite, however, the results of a new study conducted by experts at brown University, I propose to look deeper, indicating that a significant…
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Sad New Deep Sea Shark Reminds Us We Can’t All Be Great Whites
Scientists already knew about the blackbelly lanternshark, which lurks on the slopes of deep seamounts in Japan. There were records of similar sharks around the Hawaiian Islands at depths of about 1000 feet, but no confirmation that the sharks were actually the species people thought they were. On analyzing collected samples at the Bernice P.…
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The Bogus Rationale for Trump’s Trans Military Ban Is Some Bigoted Bullshit
That’s bullshit. You know it’s bullshit. Estimates show that there are between 1300 and 6000 active transgender service members, accounting for somewhere between 0.1 and 0.5 percent of active serving members. Transgender care would cost the military between 2.5 and 8.5 million dollars annually, according to a RAND corporation analysis published last year. That amounts to…
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Meet The Shell Company Uber Used to Acquire Otto
Illustration: Sam Woolley When General Motors acquired Cruise Automation in a deal worth more than $1 billion, Cruise transferred its patents directly to GM. When Google spun out its self-driving car experiment into a full-fledged company, it transferred its patents directly to its new subsidiary, Waymo. But when Uber acquired the self-driving truck startup Otto…
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Latest Disgraced Tech CEO Worked at a Damn HR Company
Image: Linkedin Kris Duggan looms large in Silicon Valley, serving as an adjunct professor at the Ray Kurzweil-founded Singularity University, and according to his Crunchbase profile, holds advisory positions with nine different companies including the secretive Palantir Technologies. Duggan is best known for co-founding BetterWorks in 2013, which has since sopped up a generous $35…
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RIP Google Instant Search, You Were Never Necessary
Photo: Getty In 2010, Google’s then-VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer called Instant Search a “fundamental shift in search,” and the media marveled at this new time-saving feat of engineering. Now that shit is dead, because technology has fundamentally shifted once again. What Is Google Instant? Google's just announced Google Instant! They say it's going…
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Is This Foxconn Factory the ‘Big, Big, Big’ Apple Plants Donald Trump Bragged About?
Photo: AP On Wednesday, top Republican leadership including President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan all appeared at the White House alongside Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou to announce a new LCD production line in Wisconsin. The $10 billion plant, which they said would create…
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Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs Under an Open Source License
Adobe co-founder John Warnock in 2001, when Flash was useful. Photo: AP While Adobe is finally mercy killing Flash, its multimedia software that helped power countless web applications like games and videos faced but widespread criticism for its rapid decline in usefulness and growing number of security vulnerabilities, some fans want to keep it alive…