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Why @Google paid $3.2B for @Nest, a thermostat company
from computerworld.com: Google is moving into your home. On Monday, the Internet company said it was acquiring Nest, a maker of smart smoke alarms and thermostats, in a move that gives Google a strong foothold in a hot new market known as the “connected home.” The idea behind the connected home is to connect heating…
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Ariel Sharon’s Death: The *yawn* End Is Near
from ghosttheory.com / disinfo.com: Does a note left by a venerated Orthodox Rabbi shortly before his death indicate that the Apocalypse and the ’1000 years of peace’ are just around the corner? Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri died in Israel in 2006 at the age of 108. At his funeral 24 hours later it is estimated that…
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Most children get food and beverage marketing at school, study says
from latimes.com: Most students are exposed in school to efforts by food and beverage companies to sell food or gain brand loyalty, despite a decline in some kinds of commercial enterprises, including in soda machine contracts, researchers reported Monday. High school students get the most exposure, and for almost 64% of elementary school students, the…
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Space fishing: Japan to test ‘magnetic net’ for space junk
from RT.com: Japan’s space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth’s communication networks. The mission is planned for 2019, with first tests scheduled for this February. Tokyo’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co, a company with…
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Satanist Murders Metal Singer Because He Wasn’t Really A Satanist
Fan kills black metal singer for not being Satanic enough from metalinjection.net: The Bangkok Post reports that Surrender of Divinity vocalist, Samong Traisattha, was murdered last Wednesday, January 8. He was 36 years old. He was murdered by a supposed fan of his music. Traisattha’s widow, Jaruvan Surapol says the fan, Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn (pictured), came…
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Food Stamps at Pot Shops Banned Under Colorado Bill
from abcnews.go.com: Food stamps for a pot brownie? It’s an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen. A bill proposed this week by several Republicans would add marijuana dispensaries to liquor stores, gun shops and casinos as places where recipients of public assistance payments and food stamps can’t…
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Could data collection have stopped 9/11? White House thinks so
from latimes.com: Many of President Obama’s closest advisors have embraced a controversial assessment of one of the National Security Agency’s major data collection programs — the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could have been prevented had government then possessed the sort of vast trove of Americans’ telephone records it holds now… In…
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Study Says Food Industry Cuts 6.4 Trillion Calories
from usatoday.com: Some of the nation’s largest food companies have cut daily calorie counts by an average of 78 per person, a new study says, more than four times the amount the industry pledged to slash by next year. The study sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that between 2007 and 2012, the…
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#Target says data breach bigger than previously thought
from cbsnews.com: The revelations about Target’s (TGT) data breach continue to get worse, with the retailer now estimating that at least 70 million customers have been impacted, almost twice as many as the 40 million it had earlier disclosed. And it may turn out even more people were affected. Target said that its forensics investigation…
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#Christie Scandal a Cautionary Tale About Technology
from usatoday.com: When e-mails became public Wednesday linking top aides of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, it was a stark reminder of one of the first rules of political handlers: electronic communications live forever, just waiting to be exposed. So think twice before hitting the send…
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West Virginia Governor Issues State of Emergency After Chemical Spill
from wsaz.com: West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has issued a state of emergency for nine counties after a chemical leak in Kanawha County Thursday morning. The state of emergency includes West Virginia American Water customers in Kanawha, Cabell, Boone, Putnam, Lincoln, Logan, Clay, Roane and Jackson counties… [West Virginia American Water] customers are told…
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Smartphones replace keys in smart door locks
Physical keys could increasingly become a thing of the past as technology catches up. from channelnewsasia.com: Las Vegas – Gabriel Bestard-Ribas got tired of his house keys scratching his smartphone in his pocket, so he combined them. The result was a Goji lock, which senses when a resident’s smartphone is near and not only unlocks…
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Ecuadorans Take To The Streets To Dance With The Devil
from latino.foxnews.com: Thousands of Ecuadorans in elaborate devil masks and red costumes danced wildly in the streets of this Andean town in the “La Diablada de Pillaro,” or the Devils of Pillaro festival. Neither the rain showers nor the highland sun could stop the days of revelry in Pillaro, located 100 kilometers (62 miles) south…
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New World Next Week: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?…