- Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million
And so does Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who claimed to have invented email,a nd Gawker debunked his claim. As part of the deal, the 'offending' article will also be removed. Ayyadurai will get $750,000.
A slashdot commen…
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- The Five Minute Office Workout
We all know by how how harmful sitting can be for our long-term health prospects. Here's a useful inforgraphic that gives us some options of keeping fit in the office:
Via: Llyods Pharmacy
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- Annals of Pseudo-Science: People Who Use Facebook Live Longer
Five things that are wrong with this pro-business, peudo-science study such as this:
1. This study sounds more like an advertisement for Facebook than an actual scientific experiment.
2. An actual experiment such a…
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- British Court Rules That Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Businesses
At least in Britain for now, Uber cannot claim that its drivers are businesses and not regular employees, and thus it will have to pay the driver all the benefits that regular employees get - minimum wage, holiday pay, s…
Topic: Law, Sharing economy | Read more
- New Exemption To The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Means Now You Can Hack Your Devices
Earlier, it used to be that companies such as Apple or car makers invoked copyright protection clauses in the old DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and forbidding buyers from tinkering with the devices they bought.…
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- Middle Class America: A Comparison of Net Worth in 15 Years
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- Standing Rock Pipeline Protest: Another Example of How Useless Facebook Trending Stories Are
Techcrunch reported that terms such as “Standing Rock,” “Native Americans,” “pipeline,” “Missouri River,” etc. didn’t show up as Facebook Trends to any users until long after the check-in protest began over the pre-Hallo…
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- 20 mobiles for a house: Or, How To Really Use Your Friend Network For Good
From the BBC, about a woman who really used her social network for good:
Xiaoli (not her real name), a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, asked each of her 20 current boyfriends to buy her a newly la…
Topic: Social media, Trending | Read more
- Top Three Healthy Living Alternatives To Whole Foods
1. A pitcher of lemon water: For a balanced pH, vitamin C and hydrating for your body.
2. Drinking an apple cider vinegar tonic at the end of the day
3. Take deep, cleansing breaths.
More useful affordable healthy…
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- Two Things That Would Have Made Facebook Marketplace Any Good
1. Payments feature: Otherwise, many users would end up abandoning their choices.
2. Flag / Review feature: This is the bedrock of any solid community marketplace. This is why Craigslist is still the best marketplace …
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- How Hillary Beats Trump On Twitter
At first glance, Trump beats Hillary (on Twitter): 12.7 million followers vs Hilalry's 10 million, and 34000 times retweets vs Hillary's 9700 times.
However, whereas Trump uses his social media presence as a mega…
Topic: Social media, Us general elections 2016 | Read more
- The #1 Sad Reason Why Twitter Shut Down Vine
It wasn't that Instagram's video feature offered more video time, 15 seconds vs Vine's 6 seconds. It was bacause Twitter couldn't just increase the video duration limit back in 2013 (when Instagram launched Videos featur…
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- Why Black Mirror Is Really Awesome
Black Mirror is the best depiction of technology and society on TV till date - far better and incisive (and interesting) than 'Mr Robot' or 'Person of Interest'.
Black Mirror is awesome because it just doesn't go aft…
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- Two Reasons Why Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson's New Film) Is Inspiring
1. Tells the story of World War II hero Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor for bravery in battle. Doss, a medic,didn't like his story be told, and his story could only be told af…
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- Post-Diwali Air Pollution In Delhi 30 Times Acceptable Limits
The Central Pollution Control Board says that levels of tiny particulate matter (PM 2.5 in short), which reaches deep into your lungs, increased by more than 200% the next day after Diwali, India's most expensive festiva…
Topic: Pollution, India | Read more
- How The Democrats's Anger Over FBI Director's Actions Is Justified
From Undernews
Hillary Clinton's emails that have produced to date no indication of any criminal or dangerous behavior on her part (other than having an improper private server) Donald Trump's refusal to release his…
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- ASCI calls out ECommerce companies in India for false advertising
Medianama reports that the Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) has upheld complaints against 109 out of 155 advertisements brought to it in May 2016 alone. Exampels of false…
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- Who will fund journalism that matters?
Investigative journalism costs time and money. Consider this recent news fact: Prison investigation by Mother Jones journalist Shane Bauer took over 18 months and cost about $350K; banner ads that ran on the article brou…
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- The end of private prisons in the United States?
A news report quotes the US Justice department planning to stop using private prisons after having realized that private prisons are less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than prisons runs by th…
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- There are 50 walls between countries today, none of them work
This new 'world of walls' disrupts connections between cross-border communities, increases environmental destruction (all those fortifications), hinders international trade, and pisses off the locals. Donald Trump and Is…
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