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• Why AMD's Latest Buy Could Be Critical to Its Growth

  29-04-2017 23:35 via feeds.foxbusiness.com
  VR headsets will go wireless, and AMD doesn't want to miss this gravy train.
  
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• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Shrugs Off Soft Q1 Sales

  29-04-2017 23:31 via feeds.foxbusiness.com
  Ericsson shares rose on Wednesday despite an admittedly weak first-quarter earnings report. Management sees better days ahead, and investors seem to agree.
  
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• Ubiquiti Earnings Preview: What Investors Need to Know

  29-04-2017 23:11 via feeds.foxbusiness.com
  Investors were greeted with a 25% decline last time around. What will the Wi-Fi rule-breaker do this time around?
  
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• 4 Oil Stocks Id Avoid at All Costs

  29-04-2017 23:00 via feeds.foxbusiness.com
  Despite the apparent stabilization of oil prices over the past year, these four companies could still sink under the weight of their debt.
  
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• ESPN Layoffs: Why Cord-Cutting Is To Blame, Why The Trend Will Continue

  29-04-2017 19:30 via ibtimes.com
  
  Earlier this week, the sports media space reeled from the news that ESPN is laying off an estimated 100 employees. This week’s layoffs weren’t the first for ESPN, but still affected a deep bench of on-air and online employees, including personalities like Trent Dilfer and staffers like NBA guru Marc Stein.
  
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• When Kids Eat At Restaurants, The Food Is Not As Healthy For Children As You Think

  29-04-2017 18:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  Chain restaurants are not known for serving up healthy kids’ meals. Most entrees on a kids’ menu are either fried, breaded or doused in cheese. Fresh fruits and vegetables are rare side dish options, and French fries abound.
  Looking at nutritional content alone, some drinks could easily be mistaken for candy. For example, one serving of “Sharks in the Water” – a blue raspberry soft drink sold at Friendly’s – has more than an entire day’s worth of a
  
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• ‘Dancing With The Stars 2017: Which Season 24 Pair Will Be Eliminated In Week 7?

  29-04-2017 18:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Dancing With the Stars” fans were in a state of complete and utter shock after Week 6, when Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Heather Morris were eliminated from the competition. Their exit proved just how unpredictable the competition can be.
  Following Team Maksimum Heat’s exit from “DWTS” Season 24, many are wondering who will be next. There are certainly teams that have underperformed in the last six weeks, but anyone could be sent packing. Fans are fearful that their fav
  
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• Watch The 16 Best ‘SNL’ Sketches From Season 42 So Far

  29-04-2017 17:20 via ibtimes.com
  
  Thanks to appearances from Alec Baldwin, Larry David, Melissa McCarthy, Tom Hanks and more, “Saturday Night Live” has enjoyed its best season in over 20 years. With tons of great episodes and skits during the season, here are the best sketches from Season 42.
  
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• Personal Data Protection: Consumers Don't Trust Companies To Guard Their Privacy, Survey Indicates

  29-04-2017 17:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  More than two-thirds of adults in the United States and United Kingdom worry consumer electronics makers are failing to take the proper steps to secure their data,aa survey published this week indicates.
  Gigya, a customer management platform, surveyed 2,000 adult consumers in the U.S. and 2,000 in the U.K. and found 68 percent of respondents don’t trust brands to handle personal data appropriately.
  
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• Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko: LIVE Round By Round Scorecard, Actual Start Time For Showtime Boxing Event

  29-04-2017 17:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  Preview: IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) faces Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 54 KOs) Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London. On the line is Joshua's IBF title, as well as the vacant WBA and IBO belts.
  Joshua, fighting in front of his home crowd, is a big favorite at -260, according to Bovada.lv. Klitschko's odds are at +200. 
  
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• Nintendo Switch Games: 5 Wii Ports We Want After ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’

  29-04-2017 17:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  Nintendo Switch games will likely be somewhat slow to arrive in the console’s opening months, but that drought of new content can be supplemented by awesome ports. Following therecent success of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, here are five ports we want to see.
  
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• Dreampad, A Pillow Designed To Help Children With Autism And Anxiety Sleep, Is Now Available For Everyone

  29-04-2017 17:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  Dreampad, a pillow which plays music through vibrations designed to help children with autism fall asleep, is now available to the public.
  The Dreampad was originally developed to help children with anxiety, autism and other disorders fall asleep at night -- and by popular demand, the pillow is now available to everyone.
  
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• What’s New On Crackle In May 2017? Top 9 Movies, TV Shows To Watch

  29-04-2017 16:20 via ibtimes.com
  
  A new month means there will be new content available for those who use Sony’s free streaming service, Crackle. Make sure to check out these TV shows and movies when they become available May 1—but remember, they’ll only be available for the month of May.
  1. “Can’t Hardly Wait” (1998): This comedy starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Peter Facinelli and Seth Green among  others, tackled the different agendas a group of high school seniors have
  
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• Rodney King Anniversary: Deferred Police Reform Has Cost Lives

  29-04-2017 16:17 via ibtimes.com
  
  On 29 April 1992 the beating of Rodney King and subsequent acquittal of four LAPD officers Los Angeles would be seen as the most notorious incident of police brutality in modern history. It affected people’s perceptions of police officers for generations, reinforced what critics had been saying for years, and forever changed the police institution. Citizen footage of police action has brought much needed transparency, but lasting police reform is yet to be achieved.
  
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• Doctors In The US: Medical Training Program Threatened By Funding In Washington

  29-04-2017 16:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  This article originally appeared on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
  In nearly two years as a medical resident in Meridian, Mississippi, Dr. John Thames has treated car-wreck victims, people with chest pains and malnourished infants. Patients have arrived with lacerations, with burns, or in a disoriented fog after discontinuing their psychiatric medications.
  
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• ‘Lucifer’ Season 2 Spoilers: Tom Ellis, Lauren German Tease Lucifer, Chloe’s Dynamic In Episode 14

  29-04-2017 15:32 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Lucifer” Season 2 stars Tom Ellis and Lauren German recently opened up about the upcoming 14th episode of the hit FOX TV series.
  
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• Top 10 Most Followed Celebrities On Instagram 2017: Kim Kardashian Loses 100,000 Fans

  29-04-2017 14:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  Kim Kardashian, who had close to 100 million followers on Instagram, lost around 100,000 of her fans on the photo sharing site after she posted airbrushed photos of her butt. Kardashian is the fifth most popular celebrity on Instagram.After Kardashian posted the photo of her in a bikini while she was on a holiday in Mexico with friends and her sister Kourtney, fans claimed that the photo was photoshopped. They accused the 36-year-old of photoshopping her Instagram i
  
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• Do The First 100 Days Matter For Trump? Executive Orders, Memoranda And Proclamations Reign Supreme

  29-04-2017 14:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  Since FDR, a president’s first 100 days offer an important – if arbitrary – measure for evaluating success. While it is unlikely any executive will again match the productivity of Roosevelt, most scholars of the presidency agree that this period still matters for advancing an administration’s agenda.
  
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• Hackers Leak 'Orange Is The New Black' Season 5 Premiere Online, Threaten Fox, ABC, IFC, Nat Geo

  29-04-2017 13:52 via ibtimes.com
  
  The season premiere of the hit T.V. series, "Orange is the New Black" was supposed to be launched in June, but a hacking group, which calls itself TheDarkOverlord, has leaked the episode online in a torrent.
  TheDarkOverlord says that it had asked Netflix for ransom and since it did not receive a reply, it leaked the series.
  Read: Amand Knox’s Orange Is The New Black? Essay Describes Italy Prison Lesbian Incident
  
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• People's Climate March 2017: How It's Different Than March For Science

  29-04-2017 13:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  Last weekend science enthusiasts worldwide took to the streets for the March for Science. It coincided with Earth Day and while people showed up for all kinds of science from medicine to space exploration,climate change seemed to be an overarching cause.
  
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• Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko: Live Streaming Info, TV Channel, Start Time For Heavyweight Title Fight

  29-04-2017 13:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  A heavyweight championship fight in London means an early start in the United States for viewers. In front of a sell-out crowd of 90,000 Saturday at Wembley Stadium, Anthony Joshua faces Wladimir Klitschko for Joshua’s IBF World Championship and the vacant IBO and WBA World Championships live on Showtime Sports at 4:15 p.m. ET.
  HBO will air a same-day replay at 10:45 p.m. in all U.S. time zones. The fight is expected to begin at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• Apple, Tesla Write Letter To Persuade California State To Change Proposed Self-Driving Rules

  29-04-2017 13:04 via ibtimes.com
  
  California is the favorite destination for technology and automotive companies to test out their self-driving technology — around 27 companies are testing their self-driving vehicles in the state. Keeping in mind the scale of the technology in the state, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) proposed some regulations governing the use of the technology on the state roads in March.
  
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• Chris Soules Net Worth: How Much 'Bachelor' Star Could Lose After Felony Charges In Deadly Iowa Crash

  29-04-2017 12:04 via ibtimes.com
  
  Former "The Bachelor" star Chris Soules has been charged with a felony for leaving the scene of a fatal car accident earlier this week. The reality TV star, whose net worth is estimated to be more than $1.5 million, is at the risk of losing major endorsements following the legal issues, E! News reported Friday.
  
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• The People’s Climate March And 5 Ways To Raise Concern Over Global Warming And Carbon Emissions

  29-04-2017 12:00 via ibtimes.com
  
  Following closely on last week’s March for Science, activists are preparing for the People’s Climate March on Saturday, April 29. This event will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, and comes as the Trump administration is debating whether the United States should continue to participate in the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting global carbon emissions.
  
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• ‘Modern Family’ Season 8, Episode 21 Synopsis Released Amid Finale Date Announcement

  29-04-2017 11:47 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Modern Family” Season 8, episode 21 will see Jay (Ed O’Neill) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) surprisingly bonding with each other.
  
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• Trump's First 100 Days In The White House: List Of Major Events As 45th President Of The US

  29-04-2017 11:10 via ibtimes.com
  
  President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 and since then he has made a lot of changes to government policies and governed in his own way. He has signed several executive orders and made changes to a lot policies and frameworks designed by the former administration. Trump will also become the first president since Ronald Reagan to skip the  White House Correspondents' Dinner on  April 29 . He also gained one of his major political victories when his pick Neil Gorsuch was selected to
  
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• Rodney King And The L.A. Riots, 25 Years Later: The Video That Changed Everything — And Nothing

  29-04-2017 11:01 via ibtimes.com
  
  Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot in a Cleveland Park because police thought he had a gun, his death caught on surveillance video. Eric Garner, killed by police who held him down while he gasped “I can’t breathe,” in Staten Island, New York, while a bystander nearby captured his last moments. Walter Scott, pulled over during a traffic stop and shot by police in South Carolina as an eyewitness recorded video.
  
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• 'Not for the faint of heart': Why getting a marijuana producer licence is a long shot

  29-04-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The regulatory gates to Canada's legal marijuana regime are open, but only a crack. Health Canada has received 1,630 applications for licences to grow or sell medical cannabis as of March 31. Only 43 licences have been approved so far, representing just 2.6 per cent of the total applications.
  
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• Everything you need to know about Home Capital's woes and the impact on the housing market

  29-04-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's housing market is always a hot topic, but this week it was a heretofore little-known mortgage lender called Home Capital that made headlines as clients withdrew hundreds of millions in savings in a matter of days.
  
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• ‘Charmed’ Alum Shannen Doherty Announces She’s In Remission After 2-Year Battle With Breast Cancer

  29-04-2017 10:57 via ibtimes.com
  
  Shannen Doherty recently announced to her 900,000 followers on Instagram that she is finally in remission from her beast cancer.
  On Friday, the actress posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor, with her back against the wall. She’s wearing an all-black ensemble, which she complemented with gray and pink shoes. Doherty’s head is bowed down so her face cannot be seen in the snap, but it is evident that the “Charmed” alum is already growing back her beautiful blac
  
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• ‘Supergirl’ Season 2 Spoilers: Chyler Leigh Teases ‘Badass’ Alex Moments In Episode 19

  29-04-2017 10:49 via ibtimes.com
  
  As Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Maggie (Floriana Lima) try to figure out the safest way to save Alex (Chyler Leigh) from being kidnapped in Season 2, episode 19 of “Supergirl,” the abducted DEO agent won’t just be waiting around to be rescued.
  
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• ‘The Catch’ Season 2 Ratings Go Up; Will Mireille Enos Return For Season 3?

  29-04-2017 10:45 via ibtimes.com
  
  “The Catch” Season 2 saw an improvement in terms of its ratings on Thursday night.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S8+ 6GB RAM, AT&T, T-Mobile Compatible Version Will Be Available In Hong Kong

  29-04-2017 10:43 via ibtimes.com
  
   The Samsung Galaxy S8 is a powerful device as it comes with 4GB RAM. But there is an even more powerful version with 6GB RAM and 128GB onboard storage.  
  Read: 5G Capable AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8 Will Have The Fastest Mobile Internet Speeds
  
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• ‘The Mindy Project’ Alum Chris Messina Wants To Return As Danny Amid Season 6 Renewal On Hulu

  29-04-2017 10:38 via ibtimes.com
  
  “The Mindy Project” has been renewed by Hulu for a sixth and final season, but it is still unclear whether or not the upcoming episodes will feature Chris Messina’s Danny Castellano.
  
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• ‘Big Bang Theory’ Stars Mayim Bialik, Melissa Rauch Contracts For Seasons 11 And 12 Finalized

  29-04-2017 10:38 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Big Bang Theory” stars Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch recently inked new deals for Seasons 11 and 12 of the CBS series.
  
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• Can North Korea Missiles Hit Washington? Kim Jong Un Regime's Latest Ballistic Missile Test Fails

  29-04-2017 09:59 via ibtimes.com
  
  North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile from a site in South Pyeongan province north of Pyongyang early Saturday, South Korean and U.S. military officials said. The launch came just hours after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson led a ministerial meeting of the United Nations Security Council Friday where he spoke about Pyongyang’s advancing nuclear and missile programs.
  
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• ‘Shades Of Blue’ Season 2: Will Wozniak’s Son Nate Be Killed Off In Episode 9?

  29-04-2017 09:39 via ibtimes.com
  
  Wozniak’s (Ray Liotta) son, Nate (Cameron Scoggins), will be in great danger in “Shades of Blue” Season 2, episode 9.
  
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• ‘Scandal’ Canceled? Why Season 7 Could Be The Last For Kerry Washington-Starrer

  29-04-2017 08:56 via ibtimes.com
  
  ABC recently renewed “Scandal” for a seventh season, but despite the happy news, there are speculations suggesting that Season 7 could be the last for the hit TV series.
  
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• ‘Elementary’ Season 5 Spoilers: Marcus Attacks Roy In Episode 21 Sneak Peek

  29-04-2017 08:48 via ibtimes.com
  
  Marcus (Jon Michael Hill) is not letting Roy (Robert Christopher Riley) get near Chantal (Chasten Harmon) in Season 5, episode 21 of “Elementary.”
  
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• Are Your Tinder Selfies Safe? Someone Just Harvested 40,000 For 'Research'

  29-04-2017 08:43 via ibtimes.com
  
  Your Tinder selfies may not be as secure as you believe. You might have uploaded your best photos to the dating site, but they could be used for almost any other purpose, without your permission, as highlighted in a TechCrunch report Friday.
  
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• ‘Sweet/Vicious’ Creator, Cast React To MTV’s Cancellation Of The Series

  29-04-2017 06:34 via ibtimes.com
  
  “Sweet/Vicious” creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and series star Eliza Bennett are devastated after news broke that MTV has canceled the sexual assault-focused series after one season.
  
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