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NexDock is a 'laptop' that's actually powered by your Windows or Android phone
PC World - 17 Feb 2016 00:02
Microsoft's Continuum technology for Windows 10 makes it possible for a Windows phone to serve as your computer. A new Indiegogo campaign for a product called the NexDock builds on this vision, promising to extend the pr...
Apple Promises iOS Update To Fix 1970 Bug Bricking iPhones
Tech Times - 17 Feb 2016 05:07
Do not set the date on any iPhone or iPad to any time between Jan. 1, 1970 and May 1970. Doing so will brick the phone, and though Apple says there is a coming patch to the bug, it's not yet known when that fix will arri...
Mom drove around with dead son in car for 10 years
New York Post - 17 Feb 2016 16:48
A Virginia woman was charged with murder after her son’s remains were found in her car more than 10 years after he was last seen alive, according to documents revealed Tuesday. Tonya Slaton, of Richmond, was indicted F...
South Africa: The Failed State Risk
Forbes - 17 Feb 2016 16:18
It seems like only a matter of time before a major emerging market becomes a failed state. Emerging markets are all suffering from the commodity drought, their currencies have been slaughtered, a few are already in reces...
Bombardier to cut 7,000 jobs
USA Today - 17 Feb 2016 15:43
Canadian airplane and train manufacturer Bombardier plans to cut 7,000 jobs over the next two years.
UN: 4 New Sex Abuse Allegations In the Central African Republic
Time - 17 Feb 2016 05:19
The allegations involved peacekeepers from Congo
U.N. to Deliver Humanitarian Aid To Besieged Parts of Syria
Time - 17 Feb 2016 05:26
The agreement comes days before a proposed temporary ceasefire in the country
Twitter reacts to Bush's gun tweet
CNN - 17 Feb 2016 04:37
On Tuesday, presidential hopeful and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tweeted out a photo of a gun with the caption "America." Personalities on Twitter almost immediately started tweeting responses and parody tweets as a res...
'Cruel and depraved' rapist jailed
BBC - 17 Feb 2016 15:05
A man who abducted and raped a 15-year-old girl during a 32-hour ordeal in Fife has been jailed and been given a lifelong restriction order.
Scientists are getting closer to 3D printing you a new ear if you lose one
Mashable - 17 Feb 2016 05:37
3D printing has helped us make plastic knick knacks, phone cases, action figures and braces for broken arms. And now it can help make you a new ear. Researchers from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine publis...
Star Wars Fans Leak Painstaking Restoration of 1977 Original Film
Time - 17 Feb 2016 04:36
It comes without the special editions' dialogue tweaks, visual polish, and Mos Eisley's added CGI creatures
S&P 500 out of correction as Dow gains 257
USA Today - 17 Feb 2016 23:06
The Dow is on track for its first three up days in a row since December.
Malcolm Gladwell explains how to get someone to make the right decision when they don't want to
Business Insider - 17 Feb 2016 21:38
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New Yorker We live in a world where big data is idolized. By analyzing the data, we’ll be able to find answers to just about every problem known to man, whether how to improve a pro ba...
Here Comes The Stimulus Cavalry
Forbes - 17 Feb 2016 16:22
It looks like the cavalry is on its way. Central bankers are now responding to deteriorating market conditions, and it appears we’re looking at a bounce. On Monday, while US markets were closed, Draghi grabbed a microp...
Does ExxonMobil Really Support a Carbon Tax?
The Huffington Post - 17 Feb 2016 16:17
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson (center) and Vice President of Public Affairs Kenneth Cohen (right) claim their company has supported a carbon tax since 2009. Before Kenneth Cohen retired from his post earlier this year as ...
Will Bernie Sanders End the Fed?
The Huffington Post - 17 Feb 2016 16:15
While Ron Paul made the Federal Reserve System a topic of conversation during the 2008 presidential cycle, there has not been much talk of the Fed in either the Democrats' or Republicans' debates. At one Democratic debat...
Winter heatwave hits the the US West Coast
Al Jazeera English - 17 Feb 2016 15:23
As the eastern seaboard recovers from a major winter storm, the west and southwest have seen record temperatures.
China 'puts surface-to-air missiles' on disputed island
Al Jazeera English - 17 Feb 2016 07:46
Satellite images show two batteries of eight missiles, Taiwan and US say, in move likely to strain relations.
Taste the rainbow with custom Snapchat colors
Cult of Mac - 17 Feb 2016 23:47
Doodling on a Snapchat is fun; it lets you customize just about any snap with the power of your own artistry, or lack thereof. If you’ve noticed, though, when you choose the color for said doodle, there’s no white or...
Juno Therapeutics Stock Looks Like a Buy
Barron's - 17 Feb 2016 20:18
Shares have dropped 27% year-to-date and the drug developer has a number of catalysts on the horizon.
Is the Solar Cycle Stoking ISIS?
Motherboard - 17 Feb 2016 17:00
Geomagnetic storms have lots of effects. Is mass murder one of them?
German Leader Hopes the U.K. Will Stay in the European Union
Time - 17 Feb 2016 15:09
Merkel's comments came ahead of a two-day summit in Brussels