Snapchat’s premise is that it deletes snaps, something that has been foiled in various ways since the service found itself thrust into the popularity spotlight. Still, the notion that snaps are deleted might give users a wrong impression of their data’s security and level of privacy, something the company recently covered in a blog post. […]
A sizable contingent of more moderate Republicans have watched with alarm as their party has been commandeered by tea party members and right-wing activists trying to kill Obamacare at all costs.
The absurdity struck home for Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) Tuesday as the prominent conservative organizations Heritage Action, Red State and FreedomWorks all came out against a last-second GOP leadership plan to avert a crisis that Democrats had warned was too far to the right.
“This party is going nuts,” King told HuffPost. “So many people I run into who are normal people — and I hate to use that term — they just can’t understand what’s going on.”
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans withdrew their ill-starred proposal to keep the government open Tuesday night after conservative groups objected, leaving in limbo any plan to reopen the government or prevent the nation from defaulting on its debt.
The Treasury Department has warned that America is in danger of defaulting starting Thursday, risking economic calamity.
House leaders had set a 5:40 p.m. rules hearing to move ahead, but canceled it after the Heritage Foundation, Red State and FreedomWorks all slammed the proposal as unacceptable. Democrats earlier hammered the plan as out of bounds.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, according to people familiar with the matter.
Greenwald, who is based in Brazil and was among the first to report information provided by one-time U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that he was presented with a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” that he could not pass up.
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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — After 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick committed suicide last month, one of her tormenters continued to make comments about her online, even bragging about the bullying, a sheriff said Tuesday.
The especially callous remark hastened the arrest of a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl who were primarily responsible for bullying Rebecca, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. They were charged with stalking and released to their parents.
In the Spanish literary classic, “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha,” the protagonist Don Quixote was made iconic for ’tilting at windmills’ i.e. attacking imaginary enemies.
Well, this video below from Funnycatsandnicefish is just like that… except with cute kittens and a handmade fort instead.
Alright, maybe it’s not too similar. Just watch it already and enjoy the adorable GIF we created.
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The Q3 earnings report for Yahoo is in, and even with earnings down 91 percent year over year (due to an infusion of cash last year when it sold part of its share in Alibaba Group) it held few surprises. Revenue dropped 1 percent to $1.08 billion, while ad sales also dropped slightly, down 7 percent …
While the lights were out at Comerica Park on Tuesday afternoon, Tigers manager Jim Leyland apparently decided to light up a cigarette. FOX Sports reporter Erin Andrews let viewers of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series know that he fit in a quick smoke during the 17-minute delay.
[Vine via The Big Lead]
Andrew mistakenly referred to the 68-year-old skipper as “Joe” but corrected herself.
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Earlier this year, a round of layoffs hit Valve. Included in the fallout were hardware developer Jeri Ellsworth and software developer Rick Johnson, and apparently, this is a match made in gaming heaven.
The pair, you see, had been developing a top-secret project that Valve allowed them to take with them — an augmented-reality system that displays 3D images right before your eyes that they are calling castAR.
castAR consists of a pair of active-shutter glasses mounted with a pair of micro projectors and a retro-reflective surface, made out of the same kind of material you see used in high-visibility safety clothing and road markings, and embedded with infrared ID markers that allow it to track your head position and orientation.
Each projector casts a stereoscopic 3D image on to the surface, which then appears to the wearer as an object in the real world — and thanks to the infrared markers, it stays in place as you move around.
“It began with one of those ‘Eureka’ moments,” the team said. “Around May of 2012, Jeri was (as usual) working in Valve Software’s hardware lab late at night. She was doing some experiments with a projector and saw an unexpected flash of ligh… [Read more]
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Truckee, Calif. just had its own, inverse version of “The Three Bears.”
The Lake Tahoe area town has had three reported incidences of bears locking themselves in cars this past week, Captain Robert Leftwich of the Truckee Police Department told the Huffington Post.
“It’s been a very dry season and the food source is scarce, so bears are getting a bit more courageous,” he said. “Bears have so much strength that if they smell something in the car, they can usually get that door open, but when they jump inside it sometimes closes behind them.”
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