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The 19-year-old guy who made the chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines is now using it to help homeless people
The Guardian - 11 Aug 2016 13:00
Creator of DoNotPay, which overturned 160,000 tickets in London and New York, expands service to assist those dealing with housing problems in the UK The chatbot lawyer that overturned hundreds and thousands of parking t...
How to cook the perfect red velvet cake
The Guardian - 11 Aug 2016 09:45
This crimson cake should be showstoppingly gaudy - the baked equivalent of Dolly Parton. But should your colouring be artificial or natural? And what should you top it with? A southern American classic, the red velvet ha...
Twitter is not liable for ISIS activity on its service, judge rules
PC World - 11 Aug 2016 05:56
Twitter is not liable for providing material support to the Islamic State group, also referred to as the ISIS, by allowing its members to sign up and use accounts on its site, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesda...
9 cities that can't seem to recover from the housing crisis
Market Watch - 11 Aug 2016 06:05
Areas plagued by underwater mortgages
'Suicide Squad' Kills It With $165M Int'l, $326M+ Globally
Deadline - 11 Aug 2016 02:21
This morning we reported that Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad is crushing it domestically in midweek numbers, busting through Guardians of the Galaxy‘s grosses one after another. After opening to $133.3M in 57 markets thi...
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart Host New Cooking Show
Nerdist - 11 Aug 2016 04:00
Bring out the brownies. Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart just got a proper TV cooking show together. That’s not the only news worth passing around. David Lynch appears on Chrysta Bell’s new EP, Janelle Monae dropped an ...
The Pentagon won't say how many Americans are fighting ISIS
The Week - 11 Aug 2016 16:32
How many ground troops has the United States deployed against the Islamic State? No one knows, because the Pentagon won't say. What the Department of Defense will share is the "force management level," which counts only ...
Is HARLEY QUINN Really the 4th Most Popular DC Comics Character?
Nerdist - 11 Aug 2016 03:30
Welcome to your mid-week edition of Comics Relief, comic book fangirls and fanboys! Lots of news to cover in today’s roundup, starting with an interesting statement from DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee on just who is th...
Arianna Huffington Stepping Down as Huffington Post Editor in Chief
The New York Times - 11 Aug 2016 15:23
Ms. Huffington helped begin the media company, now owned by Verizon, in 2005 and will be focusing on her new venture, Thrive Global.
Donald Trump? He's the nightmare on your sofa | Emma Brockes
The Guardian - 11 Aug 2016 16:46
Clinton was unfairly derided as the wife men wish to forget. Then came Donald, the boorish sitcom husband any partner would truly dread It was Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, who first said of Hillary Clinton that ...
Russia's economy: 18 months of recession
CNN - 11 Aug 2016 16:38
Russian GDP slumped 0.6% in the second quarter compared to last year, marking 18 months of recession.
Egypt gets $12 billion bailout
CNN - 11 Aug 2016 16:26
The International Monetary Fund has thrown Egypt a $12 billion lifeline.
Secret Service spoke to Trump about 2nd Amendment remark
New York Post - 11 Aug 2016 04:53
The Secret Service has spoken to Donald Trump's campaign about his controversial "Second Amendment" comments, CNN reported Wednesday. "There has been more than one conversation," the network quoted one unnamed Secret S...
China will let yuan weaken further as dollar rises, analysts say
Market Watch - 11 Aug 2016 06:53
On the one-year anniversary of the big devaluation of the yuan, analysts see a stronger U.S. dollar leading to further gradual depreciation in the yuan.
The Trump campaign has been a disaster for the Trump brand
Washington Post - 11 Aug 2016 05:08
Campaigns often take a bruising toll on candidate's public image. This one's no different.
Isis ranks dwindle to 15,000 amid 'retreat on all fronts', claims Pentagon
The Guardian - 11 Aug 2016 03:34
Top commander says Islamic State thought to have lost 45,000 combatants in Iraq and Syria, with many of those remaining ill prepared for battle A top US commander has claimed the military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have...
Wall St. Opens Higher, Bolstered by Retail Earnings
The New York Times - 11 Aug 2016 16:02
The department store operator Macy's, which said it would close 100 stores, jumped 16 percent. Kohl's climbed 15 percent.
Venezuela Is Drowning In Its Own Oil
Forbes - 11 Aug 2016 15:00
Venezuela has oil everywhere but not a drop to sell. How did heavy oil from Venezuela's Orinoco Belt tar sands (plus socialism) sink Venezuela's economy?
Vietnam's Fast Economic Growth Is Quietly Slipping, But No One Cares
Forbes - 11 Aug 2016 04:30
In central Ho Chi Minh City, financial hub of the fast-growing Vietnamese economy, 20-somethings with designer hairdos jump out of polished black sedans to pack the coffeehouses on every block and fill restaurants servin...
Google, Facebook see ad revenue surge in second quarter
New York Post - 11 Aug 2016 03:11
The country's largest media companies saw ad revenue in the second quarter grow by 5.3 percent, or a total of $2.5 billion, from the year-ago period, according to a report out Wednesday. While impressive in a tough marke...
'Florence Foster Jenkins' proves bad singing makes a good movie
New York Post - 11 Aug 2016 21:28
"How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice!'' goes the old joke. But in Stephen Frears' delightful, semicomedic biopic "Florence Foster Jenkins,'' all the eccentric heiress/philanthropist of the title needed to do to mak...
Google Electrifies Medical Research
Forbes - 11 Aug 2016 16:03
GlaxoSmithKline and the Verily Life Sciences unit of Alphabet believe they can stand traditional medicine on its head with tiny implantable robots.