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• How To Meditate With A Mantra

  07-06-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  If you’re short on time, you only need a few minutes to calm your mind and boost your mood through meditation. Watch this video for a quick two-minute meditation that will help you de-stress and feel calmer.
  
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• Elon Musk Oversold Solar Roof To Analysts Long Before Product Was Ready

  07-06-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Did Elon Musk bite off more than he can chew?
  
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• Mexican prison riot brought under control, 7 dead

  07-06-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — An hours-long rolling gunbattle at a northern Mexico prison left seven dead and 13 injured before control was re-established Wednesday morning, authorities said.
  
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• Sound Off: Readers react to Comey statement

  07-06-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  In his opening statement for his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Former FBI Director James Comey says that President Trump repeatedly asked him for loyalty, leading to an"awkward silence." What does that claim says about the Commander in Chief? Readers are divided.
  
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• Bill Cosby's defence attack accuser's credibility in cross-examination at trial

  07-06-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  On day three of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial, the comedian’s defence team attempted to paint his accuser as inconsistent, and their relationship as consensual – even romantic.Mr Cosby is accused of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, the former head of the women’s basketball program at Temple University, at his Pennsylvania home in 2004.Ms Constand is the only one of more than 50 of Mr Cosby's accusers who has secured a trial.
  
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• Mass Effect: Andromeda's animation problems attributed to Frostbite, understaffed departments, and last-minute changes

  07-06-2017 23:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mass Effect: Andromeda had a rough launch. This much is undeniable. And though patches have since ad ...
  
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• Hawaii to Trump: Sorry, we're sticking with the Paris Climate Agreement

  07-06-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. might be abandoning the Paris Climate Agreement, but that doesn't mean the states have to play along. Hawaii this week became the first state in the country to adopt legislation that upholds portions of the landmark climate treaty.  Gov. David Ige signed two bills, one of which expands strategies for reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions, and the other which expands "carbon-negative" agricultural practices on the island's farms. SEE ALSO: California's governor, not Trump, mee
  
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• Comey's bombshell recollections of Trump talks

  07-06-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Former FBI director James Comey gave damaging details Wednesday of a series of nine meetings or conversations he had with President Donald Trump before being sacked last month.Comey, who had been leading an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's US election, confirmed reports that Trump urged him to drop an investigation into former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn.Flynn, who quit after less than a month in his post after admitting misleading Vice President
  
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• US intelligence chiefs attacked for refusing to answer Trump-Russia questions: 'What you feel is irrelevant'

  07-06-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have attacked US intelligence officials for refusing to answer questions publicly about whether Donald Trump asked them to influence an investigation into whether the President's campaign advisers colluded with Russian officials.In a contentious Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and Mr Trump’s intelligence director Dan Coats said they did not feel that it was appropriate to comment in an open session on clas
  
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• House to act on VA accountability; Dems wary on private care

  07-06-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will vote next week on Senate-passed legislation to make firing employees easier for the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs, as the department sought to push forward on initiatives urged by President Donald Trump aimed at improving care and boosting accountability.
  
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• Republican Georgia candidate says she 'does not support a livable wage' during election debate

  07-06-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The district is holding a special runoff election between Ms Handel and Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Tom Price was appointed by Donald Trump to be the Secretary of Health and Human services.The opponents were asked to comment on the minimum wage in Georgia, which is currently $5.15 per hour.According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator, people working 40 hours a week in the sixth district should make a minimu
  
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• At WWDC 2017, Apple proved it hasn’t forgotten about its pro users

  07-06-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  One of the more interesting narratives to surround Apple in recent years holds that the company has either forgotten or simply doesn't care about pro users anymore. This narrative can arguably be traced back to the company's 2013 Mac Pro design and only picked up steam following the release of Apple's 2016 MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. As a quick refresher, Apple's flagship MacBook Pro was derided for being overpriced and under-powered, with many users lamenting the fact that Apple's pro-orien
  
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• Fantastic photography of insects and water droplets

  07-06-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Snapping something spectacular can be tricky in the wet but these stunning photos are an exception to the rule.
  
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• Video: Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley's postmortem of Civilization

  07-06-2017 22:46
  Game industry luminaries Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley take the stage at GDC 2017 to present a Classic Game Postmortem on Sid Meier's Civilization and share their stories of making an enduring classic. ...
  
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• Bill Cosby's Accuser Grilled in Her Second Day of Testimony in Sexual Assault Trial

  07-06-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Andrea Constand, entering her second day of testimony in the highly publicized trial in Pennsylvania, was questioned about inconsistencies in her account.
  
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• Court Hears Text Messages From Woman Accused of Urging Boyfriend to Kill Himself: 'It's Time, Babe'

  07-06-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Michelle Carter was a 17-year-old high school student when she allegedly encouraged Conrad Roy's suicide.
  
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• Tesla releases Model Y teaser photo and sheds light on upcoming semi truck

  07-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Tesla currently has all hands on deck as it prepares to begin mass production on the Model 3, but Elon Musk and co. certainly aren't resting on their laurels. On the contrary, Tesla is planning to introduce a number of new vehicles in the coming years, including a revamped Roadster and a pickup truck. Also on the docket is a crossover version of the Model 3 dubbed the Model Y. Elon Musk initially confirmed that the Model Y was in the works about two years ago, even hinting that it may feature th
  
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• Gorilla Gives Birth in Emergency Delivery by Team of Vets at Zoo

  07-06-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Kira was in labor for as long as 24 hours.
  
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• Hawaii defies Trump and becomes first state to legally support Paris Agreement on climate change

  07-06-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Hawaii has become the first state in the US to formally codify its pledge to defy Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the Paris climate agreement.Governor David Ige signed two landmark laws that would require the island state to honour the “commitments and goals” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions laid out in the accord.Hawaii is joined by many other US states and localities to declare that the Paris agreement would be honoured, with many governors and mayors s
  
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• Child found in Illinois garage may have been killed in 2013

  07-06-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in Illinois believe the remains of a child found in the garage of a vacant home had been there four years and are investigating the death as a homicide.
  
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• More Evidence of Assassin's Creed 2017 Setting, Name Reportedly Leak Via Target

  07-06-2017 21:56
  
  A supposed preorder card from Target that has surfaced online lends more evidence to previous reports that the next Assassin's Creed will take place in Egypt, as well as other details, including the game's possible name.
  An image spotted by Reddit of a reported reservation card for the next Assassin's Creed bills the game's full title as Assassin's Creed Origins, with art featuring a sphinx, a pyramid, and more to suggest the previously reported Egyptian setting.
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• Hezbollah threatens to strike US in Syria over 'red lines'

  07-06-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government's allies will strike at American positions inside Syria if it crosses any "red lines," Hezbollah warned on Wednesday.
  
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• Get a job: Naughty Dog is hiring a Gameplay Programmer

  07-06-2017 21:33
  
  Naughty Dog is looking for a Gameplay Programmer to join its Santa Monica-based development studio. ...
  
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• Severed and Old Man's Journey among 2017 Apple Design Award recipients

  07-06-2017 21:25
  
  Apple has revealed the five games and seven apps that have been recognized for their design and innovation through this year's Apple Design Awards....
  
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• Appeals court expresses concern over woman's jail stay

  07-06-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Judges on a federal appeals court said Wednesday that they were concerned a Mississippi woman had been jailed for 96 days without seeing a judge or having a chance to make bail.
  
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• Putin Doesn’t Care If You Think He Was Rude to Megyn Kelly

  07-06-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  The Russian president's recent Western media blitz is aimed at winning over an audience of one: Donald Trump.
  
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• Trump asked FBI head for ‘loyalty’ and a halt to Flynn probe: 10 takeaways from Comey’s prepared testimony

  07-06-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey’s opening statement, prepared for the hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday, was released to the public Wednesday afternoon. Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., told NBC News that the testimony was released a day early because that’s what he and Comey had decided. In the testimony, Comey confirms a number of awkward, potentially improper conversations with Trump, who asked him for a loyalty pledge, to end the investigation of Michael Flynn a
  
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• James Comey confirms Trump tried to make him drop probe into Flynn's Russia ties and pledge loyalty

  07-06-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The former FBI Director James Comey will confirm reports that Donald Trump put pressure on him to drop enquiries related to an ongoing investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, according to a prepared testimony released a day before he is set to testify to Congress.Mr Comey's prepared testimony appears to confirm past reports based on memos that the former FBI director wrote following interactions with the President, including a January dinner between the two when Mr Trump asked
  
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• Maine's most mysterious catch

  07-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  At 1 a.m., Julie Keene tucked her red hair under a baseball cap, pulled waders over her cammies, and invaded the Union River to see if she had caught elvers.Adam Boutin, her partner of 23 years and a fellow fisherman, loped easily over the rocks and got to the net first.Keene is a veteran elver fisher, one of only 425 Mainers, aside from native tribes, who can legally harvest the mysterious juvenile eels.
  
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• Don't Miss: The unlikely creative relationship behind Minecraft: Story Mode

  07-06-2017 20:51
  
  With Season 2 now on its way, take a look back at how Telltale and Mojang took inspiration from the stories created by Minecraft players to turn the ultimate sandbox game into a narrative adventure. ...
  
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• Trump Quick to Spin Comey Senate Statement

  07-06-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Matt Miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department, talks with Rachel Maddow about how James Comey's opening statement to the Senate does not vindicate Donald Trump despite Trump's lawyer's claim to the contrary.
  
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• The Indie Megabooth has spun off into its own traveling series of events

  07-06-2017 20:37
  
  The Indie Megabooth has provided space for indie game developers to showcase their creations at major video conventions for half a decade, and now it plans to take that experience on the road....
  
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• In Nod to China, South Korea Halts Deployment of THAAD Missile Defense

  07-06-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The new government in Seoul moves quickly to stymie a signature part of the U.S. security shield in northeast Asia.
  
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• Twitch Affiliates will now get a cut of game and IAP sales

  07-06-2017 20:24
  
  Starting today, Twitch Affiliate program members will be able to earn revenue from the sale of games and in-game items. ...
  
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• Four Key Points in Comey's Opening Statement

  07-06-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reviews some of the key points in former FBI Director James Comey's opening statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee before his testimony Thursday.
  
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• Tensions build in feud between Qatar and its neighbors

  07-06-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  A senior Emirati official insisted on Wednesday that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha, as tensions built in a bitter feud between Qatar and its neighbors. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain announced on Monday they were cutting diplomatic ties and closing air, sea and land links with Qatar, giving Qataris within their borders two weeks to leave.
  
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• The 'obsession' that changed human history

  07-06-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  An "obsession" with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to the discovery of a lifetime.It was in 1961 that mining activity at the site called Jebel Irhoud, not far from Marrakesh, first brought an ancient human skull to the surface, followed by more fragments over subsequent years of excavation.At the time, the notion that humans originated in Africa did not exist, so the remains were not in t
  
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• 'Dreamer' faces new threat of deportation under Trump

  07-06-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  She was once the face of the heated debate on immigration, the child of Mexicans who entered the United States illegally yet went on to became a promising student before a minor run-in with the police.With immigration once again at the center of US politics, 28-year-old Jessica Colotyl is now facing deportation to a country she knew only as a small child.Colotyl had spent most of her life in the United States when she was arrested seven years ago for the minor offense of driving without a licens
  
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• Magic: The Gathering RPG Announced

  07-06-2017 19:54
  A AAA Magic: The Gathering RPG is currently in development, Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today.
  The game is being "built from the ground up" for console and PC, with Cryptic Studios (Neverwinter) handling development, according to the announcement. The companies didn't share further details about the game, only saying "additional details and the game’s official title will be revealed at a later date." (Update: Cryptic Studios officially describes the game on it
  
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• Dissidia Final Fantasy NT announced for PS4, and… look, you really need to watch the trailer

  07-06-2017 19:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Final Fantasy is no stranger to spin-offs. Even so, the Dissidia series is a unique bunch, turning...
  
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• Defense grills accuser at Cosby sex assault trial

  07-06-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The main accuser in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial was subject to vigorous cross-examination by the defense Wednesday, exposing inconsistencies in her account surrounding the encounter more than 13 years ago.Andrea Constand, 44, was grilled by Cosby's team on the third day of the trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania after she was questioned for nearly four hours on Tuesday in her first public account of the alleged assault in January 2004.The Canadian-born Constand says the pioneering black come
  
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• Recapping today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing

  07-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Pierre Thomas and Josh Haskell break down the Senate hearing, where top intel officials testified.
  
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• NYC subway riders will get their dogs on board no matter what anyone says

  07-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  A new NYC transit rule went into effect last October, which bans dogs from riding the subway — unless they fit inside a "container." What the powers that be didn't realize, though, is just how many dogs fit inside containers. In fact, judging by these photos ... it seems likemost dogs fit inside bags. SEE ALSO: Dogs, rankedhere's my dog-in-bag on subway photo pic.twitter.com/yXPfPPk6iu — Hanksy (@HanksyNYC) June 7, 2017 Not just a dog-in-a-bag. It's a pibble-in-a-bag. Not an easy fea
  
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• Blog: Using 'engines of play' to understand player motivation

  07-06-2017 19:36
  
  Relic Entertainment has been using the Engines of Play, a method of identifying your audience's motivation described at GDC 2016. Here's what they learned....
  
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• What you need to know today: Trump nominates former Justice official as new FBI director

  07-06-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Amna Nawaz breaks down what you need to know today about the Russia probe.
  
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• 'Top grossing' category noticeably absent from Apple's App Store redesign

  07-06-2017 19:26
  
  The iPhone's digital app storefront is getting a fresh coat of paint in iOS 11, but that rework doesn't seem to include the 'top grossing' category...
  
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• How Prey succeeds in giving players space to tell their own stories

  07-06-2017 19:19
  
  Or Beat, Prey, Love: How Arkane combines holistic level design and dynamic enemies to great effect in Prey....
  
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• WARNING: More Than 22,000 Pounds Of Beef Have Been Recalled

  07-06-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Check your fridge ASAP.
  
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• This is us: Earliest fossils of our species found in Morocco

  07-06-2017 19:09 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — How long has our species been around? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back by about 100,000 years.
  
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• Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon: Theories on the New Legendary Forms

  07-06-2017 19:05
  
  Today's Pokemon Direct announced Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon, to be released for Nintendo 3DS on November 17 this year. During the short trailer, we got a brief look at the new games and new versions of the two headline Legendary Pokemon, Solgaleo and Lunala. This promotional image of the two Legendary Pokemon was also released with the announcement.
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