Amazon Prime just added hundreds of Miramax titles in its instant video library, including award winners like Good Will Hunting and The English Patient, as well as cult favorites like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Trainspotting and Reservoir Dogs. It’s a good get for the streaming service, especially after having lost so many of its greatest hits
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Uh-oh, everybody: Bankers are warning that the U.S. economy could be in deep trouble. Not because bankers wrecked it again, like that last time, but because we are being mean to bankers.
Fortunately, these bankers are probably wrong.
Like they do, bank flaks have rushed to warn that the higher bank capital requirements proposed on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will slow down lending and economic growth, make U.S. banks less competitive against European competitors and be cruel to puppies and kittens.
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Peabody Award winning journalists Mariana Van Zeller and Darren Foster joined HuffPost Live host Jacob Soboroff in studio Tuesday to discuss their new series, “Inside: Secret America,” which goes undercover to expose worlds rarely seen by the public. In this clip, the pair successfully purchase an AK-47 assault rifle in a parking lot without submitting to a background check.
Van Zeller and Foster visited HuffPost Live’s Los Angeles studio one day ahead of the premier of “Inside: Secret America”, which airs at 10 p.m. Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel.
BEIJING — Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world’s oldest known primitive writing, dating back about 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some of the markings etched on broken axes resemble a modern Chinese character.
The inscriptions on artifacts found at a relic site south of Shanghai are about 1,400 years older than the oldest written Chinese language. Chinese scholars are divided over whether the markings are words or something simpler, but they say the finding will shed light on the origins of Chinese language and culture.
MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France (AP) — German rider Tony Martin won the 11th stage of the Tour de France and second-placed Chris Froome finished way ahead of his main rivals to significantly improve his overall lead on Wednesday.
As the two-time world time trial champion, Martin did not disappoint over the 20.5-mile route in Normandy from Avranches to the medieval walled city of Mont-Saint-Michel.
Froome was faster over the first two time splits but slowed down in the last section and rolled in 12 seconds slower than Martin, who won in just over 36 minutes.
It doesn’t come close to the suite of air gestures Samsung’s included in the Galaxy S 4, but Nokia’s pushing out an update to give Lumia owners a limited taste of that hands-free functionality. Bundled into a new version 1.6 bump for display + touch settings released today is a new Peek feature, which gives Lumia owners the ability to wake their phones and glance at notifications with a mere hand wave. Sadly, it’s only compatible with Lumia devices running the latest Amber update — currently set for a vague “summer” rollout — which makes this hover-to-wake function a 925-only affair for the time being.
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Source: Windows Phone Store
There’s a brand new collection of so-called “budget” iPhone colored backs, the lot of them showing up as especially vibrant tones as expected. It’s been expected that this lot would appear with connections to the recently enlivened aesthetics of iOS 7, an operating system given a boost by Apple’s Jony Ive himself. Here we see that the innards will, if these images prove true, match the outer bits as well.
The collection you’re seeing here matches – more or less – leaks that have appeared over the past couple of weeks. This iPhone will likely take on a display type not unlike the iPhone 5 at 4-inch diagonally, but will have a backside much closer to that of an iPod touch. Selecting between these five tones – yellow, green, blue, red, and white, will likely be the biggest deciding factor in a user either keeping their cash or laying down an extra bill on the iPhone 5S (or iPhone 6, or just the iPhone 5, as it were).
This machine has been leaked in green before, leading us to believe that either there’s one really tenacious lover of the electric tone giving peeks to multiple users across the days, or the creators of these backsides are really aiming to be a big name in the accessories market soon.
The iPhone 5S meanwhile has been suggested to be an incrementally updated device, bringing with it a display that’s the same as the iPhone 5 while the processor and camera technology surrounding it will get a bit of a boost. These iPhone “Light” models will end up taking the place of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, it’s been suggested, while Apple axes the smaller screen size altogether.
VIA: Apple Daily; C Tech; Engadget
iPhone color rush: “budget” plastic backs leaked is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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18-year-old Fanny Schlatter was at work, carrying her cellphone in her pocket when her Samsung Galaxy S3 reportedly exploded, Le Matin reports.
Schlatter, who lives in Switzerland, suffered severe burns on her leg and her pants had to be torn off . Samsung Switzerland is reportedly taking the incident “seriously.”
This is the third incident of an allegedly exploding Samsung product in the past two years. In 2012, a Dublin man said that his Galaxy S3 exploded in his car, and this past February a South Korean man alleged that his Galaxy Note’s battery (which was not attached to the phone at the time) caught fire.
What you’re looking at here is a mountain of Xbox One prototypes. The new console has been years in the making, so you had to figure the 30-person team behind its invisible design
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The president and CEO of the railway’s parent company says an employee failed to properly set the brakes of the train that crashed into a town in Quebec, killing at least 15 people.
Edward Burkhardt made the comments during a visit Wednesday to the town that was devastated by the runaway oil train four days ago.
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