Category: Headlines
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Colombia cops find World Cup made of cocaine BOGOTA, Colombia – AP: Fans worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everything from papier-mache to plastic. But a lawbreaker in Colombia gets top prize for most original material: cocaine. Airports anti-drug chief Col. Jose Piedrahita says that Colombian authorities found the unusual…
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Startups are a wonderful thing, but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment. Equally important is what comes after that mythical moment of creation in the garage, as technology goes from prototype to mass production. This is the phase where companies scale up. They work out design details, figure out how to make things affordably,…
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Happy Independence Day. Love,The Bear Community [via]
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And then there were four: Netherlands v. Uruguay on Tuesday and Germany v. Spain on Wednesday will give us our final two. (Photo Credit: Juan Mabromata/Getty Images)
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Hooray Patriotism! [via]
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Lindsay Lohan gets punched in the face during 24th birthday party celebration You know what they say: every time an idiot gets punched in the face on their birthday, an angel gets its wings.
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Dos Equis’s Most Interesting Man in the World has nothing on Diego Maradona. Go Argentina!
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Cupcakes by wildolive [via]
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Brazilian soccer fans watched in Cape Town, South Africa, as their team lost 2-1 to the Netherlands. The Netherlands rallied to upset the five-time champion and advance to the semifinals. (Photo: Andy Rain / EPA via the Wall St. Journal) [via]
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Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying…
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Didn’t. Done. [via]
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A big welcome to TiqIQ: Not only are they delivering a powerful new way to buy tickets, but they’re also putting together infographics that are quickly establishing them as the FiveThirtyEight of ticket prices.
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