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Saturday's Best Deals: 4K Smart TV, Philips Hue Bulbs, Breda Watches, and More 21 hours ago
Grab discounts on a 4K Smart TV, Philips Hue bulbs, Breda watches, and more of Saturday’s best deals. Read more...
How to Add a New LinkedIn Connection Via QR Code 15 hours ago
Whenever you meet someone at a networking event that you’d like to chat with again, the question arises: how?Read more...
How to Add Music to Your Instagram Stories 16 hours ago
This week Instagram made it a lot easier to add music to your Instagram stories. Read more...
Pesticide Action Network
Decades of deceit on glyphosate 3 days ago
It's been clear for years that the pesticide industry has too much influence on public officials and the policies they set. Veteran journalist Carey Gillam’s new book Whitewash...
We have work to do. 3 days ago
Last week, after an early morning call with international colleagues, I had a moment to chat with my friend Susan from PAN Germany. She asked what in the world is going on in the U.S. these...
Farm Bill: Will the Senate seize the opportunity to lead? 5 days ago
The widely criticized House version of the 2018 Farm Bill, HR2, narrowly passed in the House late last week. This version of the bill fails to invest in sustainable farming or rural...
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Recreational marijuana now legal in Vermont 7 hours ago
Recreational use of marijuana is legal now in Vermont -- within boundaries of some clear and not-so-clear rules
2018 NBA free agent tracker: Analysis, contract information, best players available 4 hours ago
NBA free agency is underway, with players like LeBron James, Paul George, Chris Paul and DeMarcus Cousins headlining the class.
401(k) limits: 7 answers to your top retirement plan questions 6 hours ago
401(k)s are great for saving for retirement. But they’re quirky. Even the most seasoned savers have questions. Here are seven that my firm’s 401(k) division gets asked regularly—...
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Techdirt.
Awesome Stuff: The Fidget Capsule 16 hours ago
It's been a while since we've done an "Awesome Stuff" post, but we were sent a prototype of a new fidget device called Fidget Capsule and couldn't resist writing it up. You may recall...
EU Copyright Proposal That Would Destroy Internet Memes Being Protested With Internet Memes a day ago
The EU is no stranger to bad laws, but its desire to "protect" copyright holders from the Wild West Internet™ is one of its worst. A proposed change -- known as Article 13 -- would force...
Stupid Patent of the Month: Alleged Cult Leader Wants to 'Improve Performance' 2 days ago
In April, Mexican federal police arrested Keith Raniere, taking him from the $10,000-per-week villa where he was staying and extraditing him to New York. According to the NY Daily...
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West Point military academy gets its first black superintendent in the school's 216-year history [Cool] an hour ago
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Massive fire in Britain upgraded from "What's all this then?" to "Major Incident" [Followup] 2 hours ago
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions
Canada’s Fossil-Fuelled Pensions 9 days ago
The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation is the steward of BC’s public pensions, but bankrolls companies whose current business models exceed the climate...
Imagine a Winnipeg...2018 Alternative Municipal Budget 13 days ago
Climate change; stagnant global economic growth; political polarization; growing inequality. Our city finds itself dealing with all these issues, and more at once. The 2018...
Why would a boom town need charity? Inequities in Saskatchewan’s oil boom and bust a month ago
When we think of a “boomtown,” we often imagine a formerly sleepy rural town suddenly awash in wealth and economic expansion. It might surprise some to learn that for many municipalities...
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Crowds gathered throughout the country to protest Trump's immigration policy. Here are top moments. 2 hours ago
They were defiant, outraged and determined. And they had a loud message for the world: Families belong together.
Striking photos from the protests 3 hours ago
The White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which prompted the separation of immigrant families at the US-Mexico Border, sparked outrage throughout the nation. Demonstrators...
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Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque - and Angry (Katrin Bennhold/New York Times) 2 hours ago
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times: Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry — MUNICH — All seems well in Bavaria. — The streets are clean, unemployment is practically...
Saudi king said will boost oil output if needed: White House (Reuters) 5 hours ago
Reuters: Saudi king said will boost oil output if needed: White House — WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) - The leader of Saudi Arabia promised President Donald Trump that he can...
As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks (New York Times) 8 hours ago
New York Times: As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks — WASHINGTON — The pitched battle looming over the Supreme Court, along with a...
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Ask the State Dept: If My Family Is Rather Tan, Will They Be Mistaken For the Brown Criminal Infestaton Your President Fears, and Can They Choose the Size of Their Cage? 11 days ago
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Broken Children In Cages Are Sobbing For Mommy and Daddy, and Mobsters Are Governing America 13 days ago
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
ForceChange
Stop ICE Destruction of Immigrant Records 13 hours ago
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has approached the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about proper protocol in destroying records pertaining to immigration...
Save Social Security and Medicare from the Chopping Block 13 hours ago
In the latest reverse-Robin Hood effect, congressional lawmakers want to take essential finances from average Americans to fund their tax cuts and diminish their self-created...
Shut Down Whale and Dolphin Meat Market 13 hours ago
Despite a drop in the consumption of dolphin and whale meat in some countries, several still hunt and kill these poor creatures for their meat. Not only is this a major reason for the...
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SPACE.com
The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time! a day ago
Asteroids are important building blocks of our solar system. When spacecraft study these small worlds, we learn more about how our neighborhood was formed — moons, planets and...
New Telescope Will Scan The Skies for Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth a day ago
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer Michael Lund explains how a new telescope under construction in Chile will become a vital tool for detecting...
June 30, 1908: Space Rock Explosion Over Tunguska, Siberia a day ago
On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of forest, and the exact cause is a bit of a mystery. See how it...
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One dead in Iraq's Kirkuk in suicide bombing near ballot box store, days before recount 16 minutes ago
One person was killed in Iraq’s Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May national election...
Google Cloud Platform Blog
New GitHub repo: Using Firebase to add cloud-based features to games built on Unity 2 days ago
By Dane Zeke Liergaard A while back, a group of us Google Cloud Platform Developer Programs Engineers teamed up with gaming fans in Firebase Engineering to work on an interesting project...
Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons 3 days ago
By Adrian Hilton, Alec Warner and Alex Bramley In previous CRE Life Lessons blog posts, the Google Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team has spent a lot of time talking about...
Good housekeeping for error budgets - part two - CRE life lessons 3 days ago
By Adrian Hilton, Alec Warner and Alex Bramley In part one of this CRE Life Lessons post, we talked about the error budget for a service and the information it tells you about how...
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Watch Canada Day celebrations live from Parliament Hill 3 hours ago
Concerts and fireworks planned for Canada's 151st birthday on Parliament Hill could take place on the hottest July 1 in Ottawa since before the country even celebrated Canada Day...
Ketchup wars: Heinz defends its image as tariffs kick in on U.S.-made condiment 3 hours ago
Kraft Heinz isn’t feeling the love from Canada these days — especially when it comes to its U.S.-made ketchup which now faces Canadian tariffs. As a result, the U.S. food company...
Reporting for duty in London: Royal Canadian Air Force guards the Queen 3 hours ago
For years, military forces throughout the Commonwealth have been invited to serve public duties in the U.K. for the Queen. The Royal Canadian Air Force is having its turn until July...
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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie
Man seriously injured after motorcycle crash in Dublin 7 minutes ago
A man in his 30s has been seriously injured after his motorcycle crashed in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.
Road crash in Tyrone leaves three people seriously injured an hour ago
The victims are being treated in Craigavon Area Hospital after the incident near Moy yesterday.
Taoiseach and Tánaiste to launch UN council bid in New York an hour ago
Ireland's bid to gain a seat on the United Nations Security Council will get off to a rocking start tonight as over 190 ambassadors were guests of Ireland at U2's sold-out show at Madison...
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