Family is not just something you cheat on your career with. A career is not just something you do for dollars even though it robs you of your family. Our families and our careers are both parts of who we are.
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It starts with one domino. It branches off into different lines. It ends with 272,297 dominos being toppled over. It sounds like a cross between a snake hissing and an annoying morning alarm. It’s mesmerizing. It’s hypnotic. It’s 10 minutes long. It’s worth watching over and over. It’s world record breaking for dominos toppled in a spiral. It’s made by Sinners Domino Entertainment in Germany. It’s insane. [Sinners Domino Entertainment via The Awesomer]
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Notwithstanding the Nobel Peace Prize handed to President Barack Obama for not being George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, the posture emerging from the U.S. of late suggests the judgment in White House precincts is more the former than the latter.
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Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he arrives at his summer residence in Castelgandolfo, Italy, on Monday.
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If you’re Christian, you might believe the keys to salvation are faith and good works. But a little Twitter might help get you to the Pearly Gates too.
You can now reduce the time your everlasting soul has to spend in purgatory by following tweets from Pope Francis and Catholic World Youth Day, an event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that the pontiff will attend later this month.
The policy is a form of indulgence, a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic Church in which the temporal punishment for absolved sins is relieved. Since it’s a plenary indulgence, a believer gets total remission of sins and relief from penitence.
But that doesn’t mean you just click on “follow” and sin at will, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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Since the NRA believes guns make their owners and others around them safer, I’m sure we can count on the group throwing the bulk of its effort into making sure young black males are carrying guns, ASAP.
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During this past weekend, the weather in LA was hot and humid – just the way I hate it. And still, in spite of all this, I travelled downtown – and not once, but twice. You want to ask me why? Have I lost my mind? Well, I’ll let you be the judge.
Yesterday, AT&T revealed its Next plan, which allows for monthly device payments on a new smartphone or tablet annually, with monthly prices falling between $15 and $50. If the first thing that popped in your mind was “T-Mobile” when the plan was announced, you’re not the only one, and now the latter carrier has stepped forward with some biting things to say about AT&T Next.
Under AT&T’s new plan, new and current customers will be able to grab a new tablet or smartphone every year, doing so without a down payment or fees. Instead, the cost of the device will be spread over the course of 12 months or 20 months, depending on what the subscribers chooses. The program requires at least 12 months of device payments after which point the device can be traded in or kept.
If kept, the subscriber will have to make payments on it for another 8 months, bringing the total number of payments to 20. The monthly device charge will depend on the device that is selected, with the Samsung GALAXY S 4 costing users $32 per month. As such, the total cost of the device under the program would be $640 if the subscriber chose to keep it.
Such device payments are on top of the regular monthly plan payments, and work out to higher device rates than what you’d get by taking on a full 24-month contract and gaining the subsidization that comes with that. Today we spoke with a T-Mobile spokesperson who has responded to AT&T Next, saying that “while imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, AT&T has gotten it all wrong. Their offering is a terrible deal for consumers.”
“AT&T has separated the cost of the phone and the rate plan, but they forgot to pass on the monthly service plan savings to the customer. Instead, customers are paying the same high monthly service bill, but with no device subsidy. That means customers in this program will essentially pay for their phone twice!”
To put it simply, when a customer receives a subsidization on the price of a device, that discounted rate is reflected in the price of the monthly plan fee. If that subsidization is not in place, then the cost of the monthly plan should be lower, which is the approach T-Mobile took. This isn’t the case with AT&T Next, however, with subscribers paying the same monthly prices they normally would, but also shelling out the full price for the phone.
T-Mobile lambastes AT&T Next with claim that it is “all wrong” is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Impact investing has emerged as one the most important new instruments for creating social value at the disposal of governments. The London Principles have arrived at a time of unprecedented energy and experimentation.
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A classic Larry Page through-the-looking-glass pose. Not, sadly, at a wedding.
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Google’s senior executives are becoming fine mannequins for the company’s products.
Only the other day, Eric Schmidt was seen discreetly using the very exciting new Moto X phone.
Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin have made everywhere a catwalk, by donning their Google Glass and, perhaps, taking out extra insurance.
Who can forget the touching attempt at normality of Brin on the New York subway?
Yet now word reaches me of an even dizzier display of a Google executive and their nose-balanced toy. For Larry Page wore his Google Glass on Friday while performing the role of groomsman at a wedding.
The Daily Mail breathlessly reveals pictures of Page taken in Motovun, Croatia, where his brother-in-law McLain Southworth married Yasemin Denari.
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