Month: December 2013
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Ecigarette Row Could Block New EU Tobacco Rules
from reuters.com: Disagreement over how to regulate the booming market for electronic cigarettes is holding up a deal on strict new rules governing tobacco products in the European Union, diplomats said on Monday. In talks aimed at finalizing the legislative proposals by the end of the year, the European Parliament has pushed for a light…
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Twitter Working on New Feature to Allow Users to Edit Tweets
from foxnews.com: Twitter is working on a new feature which will allow users to edit their tweets, the The Desk reported. Three sources who identified themselves as Twitter employees, revealed exclusively to The Desk that the social networking site has been working on a project that will allow users to make “slight changes” to the…
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Make Your Garden Bloom By Blasting Them With #FlowerShells
from digitaltrends.com: Still toiling away with trowels and rakes to tend your unruly garden? Skip the hands-and-knees routine and show your soil who’s boss with Flower Shells. What’s a Flower Shell you ask? It’s exactly what it sounds like: a shotgun shell loaded with flower seeds. And no, just to clarify, you don’t stuff these…
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Deacon Claims Satan Made Him Sexually Abuse 12-Year-Old
from idahostatesman.com: A deacon with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Nampa was arrested Tuesday after a girl told investigators with the Nampa Police Department he had touched her inappropriately inside a church storage room. Alexander Gonzalez Garcia was charged with lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16. The preteen told investigators that…
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Bots now account for 61% of web traffic
from bbc.co.uk: If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research. A study by Incapsula suggests 61.5% of all website traffic is now generated by bots. The security firm said that was a 21% rise on last year’s figure of 51%. Some of these…
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China bans US shellfish imports
from Press TV: China has forbidden US shellfish imports after inspectors discovered a recent shipment containing high levels of a deadly chemical agent, a media report says. The Chinese government imposed the ban after recent shipments of geoduck clams from Northwest waters in the US were found to contain high levels of arsenic and a…
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Video: Origins & Aims of GMO
from fairdinkumradio.com: F. William Engdahl joins Leon Pittard to discuss the origins and aims of GMO. Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than thirty years. His most recent works trace the strategies and events that…
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Video: A Growing Concern – Portland Water PUD Initiative
Program features an interview with Travis Williams, Executive Director of Willamette Riverkeeper regarding an Initiative attempt to take the Portland Water Bureau and Bureau of Environmental Services away from the City Council and put it in the hands of a Public Utility District. Signatures are currently being gathered for a May 2014 election. Willamette Riverkeeper,…
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Lostprophets Paedophile Earns £100,000 as Record Sales Soar Since Arrest
from ibtimes.co.uk: Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins is expected to have earned an estimated £100,000 in royalties since he was arrested for a number of sex crimes. According to the Performing Rights Society, record sales for the Welsh rock band have soared since the frontman was arrested and charged with a string of sex offences, including…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode089 – We Are Explorers
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode089 – We Are Explorers which features brand new sounds from Painted Palms, Anna Calvi, Tim Easton, Cut Copy, Destroyer, Drangar, So So Glos, Pretty Lights, Arborea, Moth and The Flame, Lord Echo, Bubblegum Lemonade, Counterfactuals, Kwes and Math and Physics Club… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode088 -…
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#Google ‘Accidentally’ Removes Vital #Privacy Feature From #Android Devices
from EFF.org: Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book. After we published the post, several people contacted us to say that…
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Hubble Detects Water Vapor Over Europa’s South Pole
from scitechdaily.com: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources already point to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy crust. Researchers are not…
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Chinese spacecraft lands on the moon
from euronews.com: China has reportedly landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday. The Chang’e 3, a probe named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, is carrying a buggy called Yutu or Jade Rabbit. It will dig and conduct geological surveys. The country’s official news service reported that the spacecraft had touched…
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Google Buys DARPA-funded Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics
from truthstreammedia.com: Google has announced that it has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering firm which has produced all those creepy dystopian future robots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), such as the Big Dog (a dog robot that can throw cinder blocks with an arm coming out of its head), Cheetah (the world’s…
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Chinese scientists accused of trying to steal US seed samples
from theguardian.co.uk: Two agricultural scientists from China have been accused of conspiring to take seeds from a research facility in Kansas and pass them to a Chinese delegation visiting the United States. At a detention hearing in Arkansas on Friday, a judge ordered one of the scientists, Wengui Yan, to remain in custody. The other…