Meet the Olympic swimmer, and Syrian refugee, who saved 20 refugees from drowning
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Yusra Mardini swam for her life, and now she's swimming for gold. The 18-year-old athlete saved 20 people when the boat they were traveling in while fleeing Syria began to sink in the Aegean Sea. Mardini was traveling from Turkey to Greece b...
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Yusra Mardini swam for her life, and now she's swimming for gold. The 18-year-old athlete saved 20 people when the boat they were traveling in while fleeing Syria began to sink in the Aegean Sea. Mardini was traveling from Turkey to Greece b...
Another world from George R.R. Martin might be coming to television
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Game of Thrones might be coming to a close in 2018, but another world created by George R.R.R Martin could be appearing on television soon. According to Martin, Universal Cable Productions has acquired the rights to adapt his superhero series, Wild Card...
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Game of Thrones might be coming to a close in 2018, but another world created by George R.R.R Martin could be appearing on television soon. According to Martin, Universal Cable Productions has acquired the rights to adapt his superhero series, Wild Card...
Sony’s portable laser projector is everything I loved about the old Sony
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Joel Johnson used to be a gadget blogger for places like Gizmodo, Wired, and Boing Boing, but now is trying to buy a farm. The Sony that made delightful metal hexahedrons that did amazing things with at least one glaring mistake that made the whole ende...
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Joel Johnson used to be a gadget blogger for places like Gizmodo, Wired, and Boing Boing, but now is trying to buy a farm. The Sony that made delightful metal hexahedrons that did amazing things with at least one glaring mistake that made the whole ende...
Pelican in a cop car wants you to know this isn't what it looks like
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Please believe this pelican: he is not under arrest. The California Highway Patrol responded to a call reporting an injured bird near Truckee on Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee reports. Sure enough, patrolmen came upon a poor hurt pelican. SEE ALSO: Long-le...
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Please believe this pelican: he is not under arrest. The California Highway Patrol responded to a call reporting an injured bird near Truckee on Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee reports. Sure enough, patrolmen came upon a poor hurt pelican. SEE ALSO: Long-le...
Facebook just ruined Instagram
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About two weeks ago, while I was busy Snapchatting all the people at the park playing Pokémon Go, I wondered for a hot second why Instagram doesn't let you add text, drawings and emoji to your posts. Then I chuckled at what a stupid idea that wou...
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About two weeks ago, while I was busy Snapchatting all the people at the park playing Pokémon Go, I wondered for a hot second why Instagram doesn't let you add text, drawings and emoji to your posts. Then I chuckled at what a stupid idea that wou...
Today is the 25th anniversary of the internet | Tech | Lifestyle | The Independent
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It has changed the lives of millions of people around the world - and today, the internet marks 25 years as a publicly available service. It was British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave birth to the idea while working at a Swiss physics l...
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It has changed the lives of millions of people around the world - and today, the internet marks 25 years as a publicly available service. It was British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave birth to the idea while working at a Swiss physics l...
Brains of overweight people look ten years older than those of lean peers | Science | The Guardian
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Scans show greater shrinkage in volume of white matter in overweight and obese people, although it does not appear to affect cognitive performance
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Scans show greater shrinkage in volume of white matter in overweight and obese people, although it does not appear to affect cognitive performance
Researchers have built the first reprogrammable quantum computer - ScienceAlert
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Woo!
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Woo!
Apple acquires Turi, a machine learning company
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Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists.” We reached out to Apple for confirmation, and sure enough &...
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Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists.” We reached out to Apple for confirmation, and sure enough &...
Edward Snowden tweeted gibberish and people are trying to figure out what it all means
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If you're a fan of puzzles, Edward Snowden may have just ruined your Friday. The former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower tweeted out a string of letters and numbers, which was either the result of him sitting on his phone o...
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If you're a fan of puzzles, Edward Snowden may have just ruined your Friday. The former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower tweeted out a string of letters and numbers, which was either the result of him sitting on his phone o...
Refugee team receives incredible welcome at the Olympics Opening Ceremony
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They've come a long way and the Olympics crowd knows it. Five months after the creation of the Refugee Olympic Team — a group made up entirely of refugees without the opportunity to compete for a specific country — they made their entr...
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They've come a long way and the Olympics crowd knows it. Five months after the creation of the Refugee Olympic Team — a group made up entirely of refugees without the opportunity to compete for a specific country — they made their entr...
The NBC Olympics coverage is a total, commercial-filled nightmare
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It was never going to be pretty: an Olympic opening ceremony with no GIFs, hours of commercials, a massive delay and overbearing anchors. Welcome to NBC's 2016 Rio Olympic coverage. The network filled its primetime coverage of the opening ceremony...
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It was never going to be pretty: an Olympic opening ceremony with no GIFs, hours of commercials, a massive delay and overbearing anchors. Welcome to NBC's 2016 Rio Olympic coverage. The network filled its primetime coverage of the opening ceremony...
The Olympics' oiliest man shines in opening ceremony
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Everyone wants to shine at the Olympics. But instead of a medal, all you need is a bottle of baby oil. All of the competing countries made their grand entrance into the Maracanã Stadium for the opening ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and while...
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Everyone wants to shine at the Olympics. But instead of a medal, all you need is a bottle of baby oil. All of the competing countries made their grand entrance into the Maracanã Stadium for the opening ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and while...
