November 3, 2015

Twitter Found Love In A Fave-Less Place

twitter-bird-space1 It's a function of Twitter's largely unfiltered feed. It zips by so quickly that even great content can get lost. Your closest friends and sparring partners might easily miss your tweets. And unless you have some level of offline celebrity or an online soapbox, you might never gain enough followers to get your tweets seen before they're pushed down the timeline. The result… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Veterans Unable to Pay College Tuition Because Of VA Computer "Hiccups"

Around 50 veterans were cut off from tuition funding Tuesday because of technical difficulties at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to KSNT. The vets are participants in the VA's Vocational Rehabilitation program, which aims to help injured veterans adjust to civilian life by providing them with job training, tuition funding, and housing assistance. The VA ...

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Lawmakers Agree To $5 Billion In Defense Cuts, Leave Military Blimp JLENS Totally Untouched

'Now is the perfect time to get rid of a 'zombie program' that provides no strategic value'

Via: The Daily Caller

Pastor Warns That America Is a 'Nation Without a Mission Statement' and Reveals the Tough Choice Christians Must Now Face

"We're not what we once were. We're not sure what we're becoming."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Vicious In-School Assault on 12-Year-Old Caught on Video — and It Seems to Have Been Planned

"My child should feel protected."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Trump: 'Highly Political' Janet Yellen Should Have Raised Rates

"A lot of bad things" will happen, or potentially will happen, when Fed raises rates, and Janet Yellen has been protecting President Obama by not taking action, Donald Trump says at news conference at Trump Tower. Trump says he doesn't care too much about debates, wants to make sure they are staged "properly," and that wounded warriors and veterans should get "enormous profits" from the debates Says he is meeting with Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels later today and that protests of his upco

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Slack Improves Slash Commands So You Can Call A Lyft And More From Inside Slack

Header 2.0 Slack just unveiled a new way for app developers to create slash commands, letting users interface with their apps from within Slack channels. After being turned on via the "Add to Slack button", these commands will allow users to do things like call a Lyft or ask FourSquare for lunch recommendations, all from within a channel or private message. For example, a user could type… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Donald Trump Nails Impression of CNBC Moderator John Harwood

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Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

Houston Chronicle. Oct. 30, 2015.

Voting rights: A system to automatically register people to vote is exactly what we need in Texas

For those of us who have grown accustomed to the red-versus-blue wars about the act of voting in recent years, it may come as a surprise to realize ...

Source: www.washingtontimes.com stories: Politics

NHL Team Pulls Terrifying Prank On Rookies To Let Them Know They Made The Team [VIDEO]

One player almost cried

Via: The Daily Caller

Donald Trump Gives an Improvised Response When Reporter Asks Him to Do His Jeb Bush Impression

"My Jeb impression?"

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Poll: Most Americans Accept Global Warming Is Happening but Many Aren't Too Worried About It

"On my list of things that worry me today, global warming is kind of low."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Republicans Trust Carson, Trump Most on Nuclear Weapons: Poll

More GOP voters would trust Ben Carson with control of nuclear weapons, followed closely by Donald Trump, than the rest of the party's presidential primary field, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll. 39% of the people surveyed said they most trusted Carson with nuclear weapons, followed by Donald Trump at 34%; 27% said they trusted Marco Rubio Reuters/Ipsos poll was taken online Oct. 23-Nov. 2, with a credibility interval of =/- 4.4 ppts

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Audio-Beacon Startup LISNR Raises $10 Million Series B Round Led By Intel Capital

Rodney Williams Smart tone startup LISNR just raised a $10 million series B round led by Intel Capital to further advance the product as "a true protocol to connect devices across a number of different verticals," LISNR co-founder and CEO Rodney Williams told TechCrunch. LISNR's technology is an audio-based platform for communicating data across devices. Any brand or device that wants to use… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Soros, Hollywood Among Latest Big Backers of Feingold in Wisconsin

The Soros family and Hollywood bigwigs are among the latest individuals to pump tens of thousands of dollars into the Wisconsin Senate campaign of Democratic hopeful Russ Feingold.

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The Latest: Hungary parliament rejects EU migrant quota plan

SID, Serbia (AP) - The latest as people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local.

5:00 p.m.

Hungary's parliament has approved a resolution that rejects the European Union's plan to introduce a quota system to share refugees among member nations.

The approval Tuesday by lawmakers ...

Source: www.washingtontimes.com stories: Politics

Kendall Jenner Turns 20 In Her Birthday Suit

No cake here

Via: The Daily Caller

School Security Officer Accused of 'Purely Unacceptable' Force While Breaking Up Violent Brawl — but Here's What the Video Shows

"Who would do somebody's child like this?"

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

University of Michigan Coach on the Best 'Natural' Steroids: They Include Sleep, Whole Milk, Water and Steak

"It goes with everything."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

O'Malley Releases Plan for Executive Actions on Gun Control

Maryland Democrat Martin O'Malley proposes a 7-point plan for executive actions to combat gun violence outlining actions he'd take if he's elected president in 2016. Proposals are a challenge to party frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who has sought to own the issue and also released an ad about it today One proposal is to halt implementation of a 2005 law that protects gun makers, dealers from lawsuits if their firearms are used criminally, a measure contender Sen. Bernie Sanders voted for but has r

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Tectonic, CoreOS's Kubernetes-Based Container Platform, Hits General Availability

Container A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS considers Tectonic to be out of beta. As CoreOS CEO and co-founder Alex Polvi told me, the team worked with hundreds of customers during the beta and found (and fixed) all kinds of issues. Now, however, the… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

The Climate Iceman Cometh

(Steven Hayward) We hear a lot about melting glaciers and ice loss in Greenland and the Arctic (which may also be "pausing" at the moment), but less about Antarctica, perhaps because the news is less convenient to The Narrative. This from NASA three days ago: NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years

Source: Power Line

Pro-Cruz super PAC radio ads playing up Boehner beef

A pro-Ted Cruz super PAC is running a radio ad touting how the Texas Republican routinely got under the skin of former House Speaker John Boehner.

The radio spot is part of a $1 million ad buy from the Keep the Promise I political action committee, which is backing Mr. ...

Source: www.washingtontimes.com stories: Politics

TransCanada Wants To Pull Keystone XL's Permit Application

Keystone XL No More?

Via: The Daily Caller

Women and Men Paraded Around Syrian Town in Cages as Human Shields Against Bombing

"If you want to kill my mother, you will kill them too."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

'How Do You Feel About White People?': Megyn Kelly's Tense Exchange With Woman in Viral 'Open Season on Crackers' Video

"When I use the word cracker, now I become a terrorist?"

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Livefyre Launches New Platform To Help Marketers Harness User Content

livefyre engagement cloud There's been a big push from startups promising to help marketers and publishers take advantage of all the user-generated content that's posted to social media, but Livefyre CEO Jordan Kretchmer suggested that one area has been relatively neglected — pushing UGC to a brand's own website. Kretchmer is announcing a new product today called the Livefyre Engagement… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

TransCanada Pause Means GOP Win in 2016 Needed for Keystone: BI

TransCanada's request to pause State Department review of Keystone XL oil pipeline may help it sidestep President Barack Obama's likely rejection of project, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Rob Barnett writes. "If a Democrat takes the White House in 2016, the oil pipeline will almost certainly be rejected. A Republican victory is probably the best hope for approving the transport project that is critical to Canada's oil-sands development," he writes Related news: TransCanada Keystone Pause Seen G

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Texas Man Solves Burglary Problem By Shooting Robber In The Groin

He'll survive, but the wound is 'serious'

Via: The Daily Caller

Confrontation Turns Deadly After Rancher Shows Up to Accident Scene With a Rifle Just as Officers Were Preparing to Put Down His Bull

"It's just a sad deal for everybody involved." 

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

350 of 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's Personal Effects Will Be Sold at Auction

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Omni Is Cloud Storage For Your Physical Stuff

Omni-iPhone-App_Main-View_inhand--about-to-tap-checkin-button Omni is trying to find a solution for the problem of shrinking apartments and rising rent in urban areas. The company launched their iOS app in the Apple App Store today, the first full release of a product that has been in the works for a while. Omni has been operating in the San Francisco area for several months now, working with a limited user base and distributing its mobile product on a… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Clinton Releases Ad Focusing on Gun Control

Democratic presidential candidiate Hillary Clinton in new 30-second ad calls for action against "epidimic' of gun violence. ''How many people have to die before we actually act?" Commerical to air in N.H., Iowa as part of prevously announced ad-buy, campaign says NOTE: Clinton's Democratic rival Bernie Sanders performed poorly on gun issues in Bloomberg Politics poll; 60 pct of those surveyed said they'd be less likely to support him because of his past votes on gun issues

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Quirky new book covers science, history of standing in line

NEW YORK (AP) - To queue or not to queue? And why is the queue you're not standing in always the best?

David Andrews went in search of answers and unearthed a world of science, history and cultural norms about the often stressful, sometimes nonexistent and usually time-consuming act of ...

Source: www.washingtontimes.com stories: Politics

Report Reveals What Is Now the Largest Single Religious Group Among Democrats and Democratic-Leaning Americans — and It's Stunning

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Taurid Meteor 'Swarm' Delivers a Mesmerizing Blue-Green Fireball

"More active than usual."

Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories

Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.'s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding

Code Club The not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, makers of the wildly popular $35 Raspberry Pi microprocessor, and the U.K.-based volunteer-led charitable organization Code Club, which runs after school programs to get kids coding, are merging — with the grand aim of getting a coding club in every community in the world. Read More

Source: TechCrunch