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  • It Turns Out Selling Ugly $50,000 Smartphones Is Actually a Bad Business Model

    Image: Vertu Despite selling $50,000 Android cellphones to rich and famous stars like Quincy Jones and Seal, the England-based company Vertu appears to be struggling with paying its bills and employees. What a shocking development. According to a juicy new report in the Telegraph, employees are worried about the future of the company after noticing that…

  • Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

    Image: FaceLab/Liverpool John Moores University/Lusacrosscity Researchers at Liverpool John Moore’s University have reconstructed the face of a man who lived in Dublin some 500 years ago. Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this are providing archaeologists with new way of studying the past—while also allowing them to visualize some of the most forgotten figures in history. Known…

  • The Era of Chaos-Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It’s Scary as Hell

    Image: Ukraine government / Facebook This is the batshit-crazy future of cyber attacks. As more sophisticated weapons make it out into the wild, it’s becoming easier and easier for blackhats to deploy malware and shut down computers all over the globe in exchange for a few bitcoins. But by proxy, it’s also easier for hackers…

  • Uber Reveals $120 Million Bonus Dispute Between Fired Engineer and Google

    Photo: Getty Uber laid out new details in a court filing today about how it learned the former lead of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski, took documents from Google, his former employer. The ride-hailing company has long maintained that it didn’t know Levandowski had allegedly downloaded 14,000 documents from Google’s autonomous vehicle unit before…

  • Kentucky Wildlife Officials Assure Citizens That Alleged Lake Shark Threat Isn’t Real

    Image: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons It’s hard work being online these days. What with all of the “fake news” and “viral posts” corrupting the World Wide Web. So how are you supposed to know what’s real and what’s bullcrap, or rather, bull shark crap? When it comes to hoax stories about inland shark sightings, at least,…

  • Tinder Keeps Swiping Right on New Ways to Take Your Money

    Image: Tinder Summer’s here, the weather’s hot and sticky. What did you expect Tinder to do? It has needs… …It needs your money to stay afloat! In the infamous app’s latest scheme to get you to pay for the ability to swipe right on your future excruciatingly awkward first date, Tinder’s offering to let you…

  • Researchers Think They Can Use Twitter to Spot Riots Before Police

    Researchers in the UK used machine learning algorithms to analyze 1.6 million tweets in London during the infamous 2011 riots, which resulted in widespread looting, property destruction and over 3,000 arrests. According to the researchers, analyzing Twitter data to map out where violence occurred in London boroughs was faster and more accurate than relying on…

  • Trump brings 14 July visit to Paris

    PARIS – The American president Donald Trump is traveling next month to France for the celebration of the national holiday on July 14. Trump has an invitation accepted of his French colleague Emmanuel Macron, reported the French and American governments. The planned visit is seen as a sign that the countries with the tires want…

  • Confusion about entry Trump

    WASHINGTON – Airlines in the Middle East from the United States have no guidelines receive for the entry of president Donald Trump. That said, sources within the aviation industry Wednesday against Reuters news agency. The temporary re-entry ban for travelers from Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya and Iran, and refugees may, according to the American…

  • Image of the ten commandments within a day, destroyed

    LITTLE ROCK – Less than 24 hours after it was unveiled Wednesday in the U.s. city of Little Rock a controversial image with the text of the ten commandments by a vandal destroyed. The likely culprit, Michael Tate Reed. Photo: AFP According to local media is the likely culprit Michael Tate Reed (32). He drove…