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• The Goodyear Blimp Is Dead

  14-03-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Long live the semi-rigid dirigible.
  
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• Family in Hilarious BBC Interview Speak Out About Viral Experience

  14-03-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  “That never happened before, obviously,” Prof. Robert Kelly said when explaining the moment his daughter waltzed into his office, as he analyzed South Korean politics live on the BBC.
  
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• Marvel boss explains why Thor is flying solo without Natalie Portman's Jane Foster in Thor: Ragnarok

  14-03-2017 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The romances in Marvel Studios movies haven’t lasted very long, have they? Well, unfortunately there’s some bad news for fans of the relationship between Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster, and it’s a small spoiler for Thor: Ragnarok: in that film, the couple has broken up
  
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• Dutch support for far-right slips on election eve

  14-03-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Dutch politicians traded barbs late Tuesday in a televised debate just hours before keenly-watched elections, as final opinion polls hinted support for far-right leader Geert Wilders was slipping.Tuesday night's showdown, which followed Monday's head-to-head clash between Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his main rival Wilders, could prove crucial in swaying a large number of undecided voters in The Netherlands, which is embroiled in a bitter row with Turkey.Surveys released just hours before polli
  
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• North Korea Threatens ‘Merciless’ Attacks Over U.S. Military Drills

  14-03-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Just as Sec. of State Tillerson is set to arrive in Japan, joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have exacerbated tensions with North Korea.
  
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• Pictures emerge of Apple’s secret iPhone calibration machine

  14-03-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple is weirdly protective over the repair system that goes on at the Apple Store. You'd think that there aren't many secrets to do with replacing glass screens and fixing iPhones that have gone for a swim in the toilet, but in Apple's secret walled garden, everything is a trade secret.
  Motherboard's Jason Koebler has been reporting on the Apple Store's repair system for a while now, and he finally got his hands on the holy grail: pictures of Apple's secret repair machine, which allows Apple to
  
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• Official: Sanders shares blame for minors voting in primary

  14-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials on Tuesday blamed undertrained poll workers and Sen. Bernie Sanders' social media posts for dozens of instances in which 17-year-olds managed to vote in last year's state presidential primary.
  
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• Woman with Down's Syndrome presents weather on French television

  14-03-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Melanie Segard, a 21-year-old woman with Down's Syndrome, broke new ground for the disabled on Tuesday by presenting the weather forecast on French national TV.Segard provided a summary of the weekend weather on France 2, achieving a personal goal that she hopes will also boost awareness for people with Down's.France 2 heard of the buzz and gave her a chance.
  
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• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Brings Back Battle Mode Madness

  14-03-2017 23:29
  The biggest miss from 2014’s amazing Mario Kart 8 on Wii U was its low-effort take on battle mode. Instead of the tightly designed battle arenas from the now classic Mario Kart games, Nintendo opted to recycle the standard circuit tracks and basically just added three balloons. The result was one of the weakest battle modes in series history.
  While it’s mostly a redo of the Wii U game’s tracks and races, with some extra characters and vehicles like Bowser Jr. and Splatoon&rsquo
  
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• Veteran U.S. diplomat Patterson out of running for Pentagon post

  14-03-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Veteran U.S. diplomat Anne Patterson is out of the running to under secretary of defense for policy, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, depriving Defense Secretary Jim Mattis of his choice for his top policy adviser.Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials saidPatterson ran into resistance on Capitol Hill that might have made it hard for her to win confirmation by the U.S. Senate.The Washington Post first reported that Patterson, who had previously served as the top U.S. diplomat for the M
  
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• Dad Tells What Really Happened When His Kids Crashed His Live TV Interview

  14-03-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Dad explains how his kids managed to burst into his live TV appearance.
  
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• Check out the 5 Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer maps you can play at launch

  14-03-2017 23:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mass Effect: Andromeda's multiplayer mode will launch with five maps
  
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• Somali pirates suspected of first attack since 2012

  14-03-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Suspected pirates boarded an oil tanker and forced its Sri Lankan crew to change course towards the northeastern Somali coast, in what could be the first such attack since 2012.The armed men then demanded a ransom for the ship's release, according to the EU Naval Force who established contact with the oil tanker.After sending a distress signal on Monday afternoon, the assailants boarded the Aris 13, taking its eight crew members hostage and forcing the vessel to change course.
  
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• The Latest: Dutch populist unleashes anti-Islam invective

  14-03-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The latest on the final day of campaigning for the Dutch elections (all times local):
  
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• Woman in 2001 Israel pizza shop bombing on FBI 'Most Wanted' list

  14-03-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation placed a Jordanian woman who assisted in the 2001 suicide bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlor on its "Most Wanted Terrorist" list on Tuesday.The Justice Department unveiled charges against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who was jailed in Israel for eight years in the attack that killed 15, before gaining release in an Israeli prisoner swap with Hamas in 2011.US authorities had hoped to have Tamimi extradited from Jordan but said they were frustrated by laws th
  
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• Erdogan angers Dutch with Srebrenica jibe

  14-03-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted a fresh outcry in The Netherlands on Tuesday with a jibe about the Srebrenica massacre, warning of retaliation in a spiralling diplomatic crisis.Keeping an uncompromising tone in a tumultuous dispute that risks wrecking the entire Ankara-Brussels relationship, Erdogan said a 'yes' vote in a April 16 referendum on expanding his powers would be the best response to Turkey's "enemies".Ankara had a day earlier announced it was suspending high-level rel
  
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• Man Allegedly Attacked Middle Eastern Restaurant Worker With a Pipe: 'Go Back To Your Country, Terrorist'

  14-03-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Jason Kendall allegedly attacked an employee at an Oregon eatery.
  
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• White House insists President Trump is ‘proud of’ the health care bill even though ‘it’s not his’

  14-03-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer distanced President Trump from the GOP health care bill in his daily briefing Tuesday while insisting the commander in chief is “proud of it.” The plan, which would replace Obamacare, has come under fire from Democrats and conservatives.While Trump and his administration have backed the bill, it is the brainchild of House Speaker Paul Ryan, and contradicts many of the health care promises Trump made during his presidential campaign.
  
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• NY AG says Tillerson used alias in emails on climate change

  14-03-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The New York attorney general says that while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO of Exxon he used an alias in emails to talk about climate change.
  
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• Key GOP senator: House may change bill after CBO projected hikes for seniors

  14-03-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump, flanked by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., at a White House meeting on health care March 10.WASHINGTON — House Republicans apparently told antsy senators in a closed-door meeting Tuesday they may try to amend their health care bill to address concerns that it would significantly increase costs for seniors.Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told reporters after the meeting that Reps. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairmen of the powerf
  
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• Tesla’s unannounced Model Y gets brought to life in new concept photo

  14-03-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  As Tesla has grown more successful with each passing year, the company's plans for EV domination has become far more ambitious. Initially, Tesla's plan consisted of releasing the Roadster to fund development of the Model S and to then use those Model S profits to fund the design and manufacturing process of the Model 3. The staggering and perhaps surprising success of the Model S, however, prompted Tesla to take a quick detour and roll out of the model X in late 2015.With Model 3 deliveries slat
  
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• Get Microsoft's PCs, Tablets, Xbox Games All On Sale For Pi Day

  14-03-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  For Pi Day Microsoft is offering some products at a 31.4 percent discount.
  
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• Razer BlackWidow X Ultimate Gaming Keyboard Review

  14-03-2017 21:22
  
  Editor's note: IGN is ramping tech and hardware reviews back up, one product category at a time. We're kicking off with deep dives into some of the best-of-the best headsets, GPUs, Mice, Monitors, and keyboards from the last few years.
  Razer is known for making quality gaming peripherals, but it's also known for exorbitant pricing too. Thus it’s exciting that its BlackWidow X series of keyboards (See it on Amazon) are designed to be the value lineup for the highly-acclaimed BlackWidow
  
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• Photos of the day - March 14, 2017

  14-03-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  A cow stands in pasture during a winter snowstorm in Salisbury, Pa.; children ride on swings in Kabul, Afghanistan; and Ahmed Moustafa is hugged by his parents after being released from Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt.
  
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• Jordanian woman charged in US with 2001 Jerusalem bombing

  14-03-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Jordanian woman has been charged in connection with a 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizza restaurant that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others.
  
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• Who wins, who loses in US Republican health care plan

  14-03-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  
  The Republican plan to ditch "Obamacare" and implement new reforms to the US health care system would leave millions of Americans without insurance.Under the new plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the number of uninsured will grow by 14 million in 2018, and by 2026 to 24 million more than the number projected to be living without insurance under the current Affordable Care Act."In the academic community, people were surprised at how high the figures were," Colleen Carey, a
  
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• White House: Kellyanne Conway was joking when she talked about microwave surveillance

  14-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  With White House counselor Kellyanne Conway sitting nearby in the briefing room, press secretary Sean Spicer insisted she was joking when she made her infamous comment about microwave surveillance.Spicer was attempting to play off comments Conway had made in a Sunday interview with the Record, a New Jersey newspaper.
  
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• Baby Jaguar Found Paralyzed After Being Shot 18 Times Makes a Full Recovery

  14-03-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Veterinarians guessed she had been shot by cattle farmer looking to protect their herd, and dashed into a wooded area looking for shelter.
  
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• Overwatch Director Reveals Upcoming Changes During 'AMA'

  14-03-2017 20:51
  Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan took to Reddit last night to answer a commendable number of questions from the community about the state of Overwatch, the direction it's headed, working at Blizzard, and even fielded personal questions about his journey to game development, life in general, and just getting by in this crazy, crazy world.
  We've assembled some of the choicest answers below, but you can pick through the whole AMA on Reddit.
  "I am looking forward to seeing how the barrier changes
  
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• GOP Rep. Barton tells man to ‘shut up’ in testy town hall

  14-03-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  A Texas congressman told a constituent to “shut up” in a heated moment caught on video.Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, was holding a town hall last weekend in the city of Frost, the Dallas Morning News reported, when a man confronted him about his voting record pertaining to violence against women.“Given your voting record opposing protecting women from violence, will you make a commitment to us today — make a promise — that you will reach out to Congresswoman Jackie Spei
  
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• Israel briefly detains Palestinian mapper of settler growth

  14-03-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Tuesday burst into the offices of a Palestinian cartographer who tracks Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and detained him for several hours, accusing him of illegally working for the Palestinian Authority.
  
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• White House: Microwave is 'not a sound way of surveilling someone'

  14-03-2017 20:38 via yahoo.com
  
  During Tuesday's White House press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said that a microwave is "not a sound way of surveilling someone" and that previous comment made by the White House suggesting otherwise was made "in jest."
  
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• Trump team opens defense of new immigration limits

  14-03-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Making the first defense in court of President Trump’s revised executive order limiting immigration from Mideast nations, the Administration’s lawyers have argued that they have met all of the legal objections to the policy and so should be allowed to put it into full effect nationwide after midnight Wednesday.
  
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• Donald Trump's 2005 Tax Return, Why Now?

  14-03-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Lawrence O'Donnell speaks with Rachel Maddow and David Cay Johnston on the two-page summary of Donald Trump's 2005 tax return, which were mailed to David Cay Johnston, and what that says about his tax status.
  
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• Arctic Sea Ice Is Rapidly Melting, But Some Of It May Be Normal

  14-03-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Researchers have found that 30-50 percent of sea ice melt is natural.
  
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• BlizzCon 2017 Location and Ticket Sales Dates Announced

  14-03-2017 19:57
  BlizzCon 2017 will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 3 and 4.
  Tickets will go on sale next month for $200. Blizzard announced that people can purchase them April 5 and 8.
  "BlizzCon will be here again before we know it, and we’re looking forward to catching up with the community, taking in the awesome eSports action, and showing everyone what we’ve been working on,” Blizzard CEO and cofounder Mike Morhaime said in a statement.
  BlizzCon attendees can look fo
  
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• Presidential Historian On Significance of Trump Tax Return Leak

  14-03-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Presidential historian Michael Beschloss talks to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the historic significance of the leak of the 1040 summary pages of Donald Trump's 2005 tax return.
  
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• Hoping for a Game of Thrones spinoff? The series showrunner thinks HBO "might well" do one

  14-03-2017 19:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  We have another nod to a potential Game of Thrones spinoff from showrunner David Benioff, as well as another glum reminder that he and co-runner D
  
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• Hoping for a Game of Thrones spin-off? This showrunner thinks HBO "might well" do one

  14-03-2017 19:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  We have another nod to a potential Game of Thrones spin-off from showrunner David Benioff, as well as another glum reminder that he and co-runner D
  
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• Police chasing 1,000s of tips in killing of 2 Indiana teens

  14-03-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A month after two teenage girls were found slain after vanishing during a northern Indiana hiking trip, investigators said Tuesday they continue following up on thousands of tips that have led officers to interview more 300 people for possible involvement in the case.
  
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• 2-Year-Old Left Brain Dead After Alleged Brutal Beating From 17-Year-Old Babysitter

  14-03-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Police said more charges are forthcoming.
  
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• Drug Kingpin 'El Chapo' Wants Out of Solitary Confinement, Complains of Being Cold and Alone

  14-03-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman wants out of solitary confinement.
  
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• Opioid impact shown at a West Virginia town hall with Bernie Sanders

  14-03-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  
  At an MSNBC town hall held in West Virginia with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., anchor Chris Hayes asked the crowd if they knew anyone affected by opioids. He got a startling response, with many raising their hands. As of 2015, West Virginia had the highest drug overdose death rate in the United States.
  
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• How To Send And Recieve Money Using The Gmail App On Android Devices

  14-03-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Google updated the Gmail app on Android devices on Tuesday. Here's how easily to send and receive money using the app.
  
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• 9 Celebs on Their Struggle With Endometriosis

  14-03-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Endometriosis, a sometimes painful condition when uterine tissue grows in other parts of the body, affects around 5.5 million American women. Watch the video to see the celebrities that have come forward to bring awareness to this common condition.
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Mass Effect: Andromeda

  14-03-2017 19:25
  The last few months have seen a steadily increasing amount of news about BioWare’s forthcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda, but it’s easy to forget that we’ve known about the space-faring sequel for a long time — nearly five years to be exact.
  So, now that we’re so close to Mass Effect: Andromeda's release date, let’s take a look back at all the rumors, news, and reveals for the next entry in gaming’s biggest space opera.
  Just as Mass Effect 3 was preparing t
  
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• Israel closes Palestinian map bureau, arrests head

  14-03-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Israeli police on Tuesday closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services.The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said.Israeli officials accused its head Khalil Tafakji of working with the Palestinian Authority to monitor the sale of land by Palestinians to Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem.
  
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• White nationalist group's tax-exempt status revoked by US

  14-03-2017 19:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. government has revoked the tax-exempt status of a group run by prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer for its failure to file tax returns.
  
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• Trump meets top Saudi prince as Yemen war rages

  14-03-2017 18:58 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Arabia's powerful Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House Tuesday, for talks expected to focus on the economy and rolling back Iranian influence.Trump welcomed the young prince to the Oval Office, as both countries expect to improve ties that were frequently strained under Barack Obama's administration.Saudi Arabia is likely to welcome Trump's harder line on its arch-rival Iran and there is likely to be less friction over Riyadh's war aga
  
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• Police Shoot Man With Hose, Then Gun

  14-03-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Police in California shot and killed a man after forcing him from his vehicle by flooding it with a fire hose.
  
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