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North Carolina and the Gay-Rights Backlash
The New Yorker - 28 Mar 2016 20:02
Last December, the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York's leading L.G.B.T.-rights organization, did something almost unheard of. After twenty-five years of work, it declared victory and closed. "We ran out of causes, and ...
Are Russia And The U.S. Starting To See Eye-To-Eye?
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 00:39
An image no Putin-hater wants to see. A smiley U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speak together following a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 25, 2016 follo...
Should Europe abandon Turkey?
CNN - 28 Mar 2016 05:46
Turkey is facing the largest wave of terror attacks in its history -- in the past six months alone, the country has been hit by five deadly attacks.
Oracle wants $9.3 billion in damages from Google
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 21:06
AP Photo/Eric Risberg The next round of Oracle's ongoing copyright lawsuit against Google over Android will begin on May 9. And Oracle is going to try to convince the jury that Google owes it $9.3 billion, reports Jame...
A woman who quit a job earning over $200,000 a year explains why she's happier earning less than a quarter as much
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 18:06
Courtesy of Sonia Thompson In 2012, Sonia Thompson had it all. Working in marketing for Johnson & Johnson, she was earning over $200,000 a year, living alone in a three-bedroom townhouse outside of Philadelphia. Things w...
A Startup Environment's Influence on Performance
The Huffington Post - 28 Mar 2016 06:48Man arrested for 'foiled France attack'
CNN - 28 Mar 2016 05:10
The arrest of a 32-year-old French citizen in the Netherlands on Sunday is tied to the arrest of another man, Reda Kriket, who was described as being in the advanced stages of planning a terror attack on France, accordin...
Saudi Company Looks for Water in Drought-Stricken West
NBC News - 28 Mar 2016 16:14
The purchases totaling about 14,000 acres have rekindled debate over whether a patchwork of laws and court rulings favors farmers too heavily.
Pakistan vows to hunt 'non-humans' behind Easter bombing that killed 70
Chicago Tribune - 28 Mar 2016 14:43Google's life science startup Verily has seen an exodus of top talent -- and many are blaming its CEO
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 18:19
YouTube screenshot MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s brash attempt to revolutionize medicine as it did the Internet is facing turbulence, and many leaders who launched its life sciences startup have quit, STAT has fou...
The Los Angeles mountain lion who's gone viral reveals something far more disturbing about wildlife today
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 18:00
Reuters P-22, the mountain lion that rose to stardom after gracing the covers of National Geographic in December 2013 while prowling in front of Los Angeles' infamous Hollywood sign, has once again made headlines, but as...
Tensions are mounting between Russia, China, and Japan in the Pacific
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 17:43
REUTERS/Kyodo Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, drawing an angry resp...
RAF Tornado fighter nearly hits microlight plane after map error
The Guardian - 28 Mar 2016 14:25
Military maps redrawn after it emerges that site of civilian airfield in Nottinghamshire was marked in the wrong spot An RAF fighter pilot left "little margin for error" after a near miss with a microlight that was comin...
If your name is 'Null,' you may have problems doing anything online
Digital Trends - 28 Mar 2016 05:01
Names such as "Null," which is also a programming term, may cause problems in online computing systems. The problems are also caused by names that are unusually long, or those that consist of just one character. The post...
It Might Be Illegal To Text And Walk Soon
Ubergizmo - 28 Mar 2016 04:11
Texting and walking never go down well together, but this does not mean that nothing should be done about it. There has been research that texting while moving around can be dangerous, and another study also pointed to t...
Watch: 'Game of Thrones' Teaser Debuts New Season 6 Footage
Variety - 28 Mar 2016 00:50
As season six of “Game of Thrones” fast approaches, a new teaser debuted this weekend, and with it, a bit of new footage. And one thing is for certain: there will be death. The teaser skips ruminating and goes head-f...
This chart shows how far away virtual reality still is from reaching the mass-market
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 23:55
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset launched on Monday, but many game developers believe it could take as much as 15 more years before the gadgets are widely adopted by mainstream consumers. According to a survey ...
Why Is It So Hard for Us to Admit Our Mistakes?
The Huffington Post - 28 Mar 2016 23:30
Advice for how to gracefully handle mistakes often emphasizes 1) taking responsibility for the error, 2) presenting a plan for the remedy, and then 3) fixing what was wrong. Although these directions sound simple, they c...
Putin is dismissing an international report on his corruption as a 'media falsehood'
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 23:26
REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin The Kremlin on Monday took the unusual step of issuing a sort of “pre-buttal” in advance of the publication of an international group of investigative journalists’ rep...
Over 1,000 drone sightings were reported last year. Have we passed peak 'drone hysteria'?
Market Watch - 28 Mar 2016 23:05
In the wake of reports of increased drone sightings, should you be worried about safety?
Vanilla Shortage Might Ruin Your Summer Ice Cream Plans
NBC News - 28 Mar 2016 19:52
A price surge could be coming to a freezer near you.Following a poor harvest in Madagascar last year, the cost of vanilla beans has surged.
Scientists may have discovered the fossilized skull of a 'Siberian unicorn'
Business Insider - 28 Mar 2016 18:43
Heinrich Harder/Wikimedia For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn — a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse — died out some 350,000 years ago, but a beaut...