May 26, 2016

Sony's PlayStation 4 races past 40M sales

20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 DualShock PS button. Sony continues to impress with the PS4 after the games console passed 40 million sales to date. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Is a Trump-Sanders Debate Possible? Trump Agreed, Bernie Says, 'Game on!'

"Are you prepared to debate the major issues facing our largest state and the country before the California primary, yes or no?"

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"Minnesota men" go to trial (17)

(Scott Johnson) Well, I went to the trial yesterday and a fight broke out. Waiting in the hallway to enter the courtroom at the appointed hour, The hallway was thick with those of us waiting to be admitted to the courtroom. I stood directly behind a young Somali lady wearing a hijab. As she started pushing and shoving, she repeatedly dropped the F-bomb at maximum volume within shouting distance of the jury.

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Brzezinski: It Feels Like Hillary Clinton is 'Lying Straight Out' About Her Emails

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Donald Trump campaign parts ways with political director

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has parted ways with his campaign's political director, Rick Wiley, about six weeks after bringing Mr. Wiley on board.

"Rick Wiley was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam," the Trump campaign said in a statement ...

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GoDaddy made an app for entrepreneurs to get feedback on their startup ideas

GoDaddy, Location: Sunnyvale, CA, Architect: DES Architects While most associate GoDaddy with domains, the company has become an integral part of supporting small businesses around the world. Whether this is by providing email hosting, website creation, or SEO services, the site is often the first stop for someone thinking about starting a small business online. And interestingly enough, the company even said that customers will frequently… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Human smuggler fined, faces deportation after prison

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A Mexican national found smuggling 10 immigrants into the United States has been fined $5,000 and faces deportation after serving prison time.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1U980Yc) 41-year-old Roberto Esquivel-Alonso received a 27-month prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Judge Sul Ozerden ...

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Running Through Walls: Grand Rounds CEO on healthcare startups and hiring

Owen Tripp_1400x1400 In this episode of Running Through Walls, I caught up with Grand Rounds CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp, one of the first successful technology entrepreneur crossovers to the fight against complexity and confusion in healthcare. Prior to Grand Rounds, Owen co-founded Reputation.com and grew the company into the worldwide leader in online reputation and privacy management. We talked about… Read More

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'For the Record': Hillary Clinton's History of Issues With the Inspector General

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Reaganomics Band Gets Back Together to Advise Trump

Donald Trump the real estate developer owes much of his fame to the 1980s. Now Donald Trump the presidential candidate is going back to that decade to call on President Ronald Reagan's economic team.

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Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round; leaked pitch deck reveals revenues, user numbers

snapchat-still Earlier this week, we reported that the messaging app startup Snapchat was raising more money. Now we have more updates for you. An SEC filing is coming through today with information about Snapchat's latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion. Separately, we've also obtained a leaked pitch deck, revealing Snapchat's revenue and forecasts. The Los… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

DuPont, Dow Getting What They Asked For: Tougher EPA Oversight

Congress is about to send President Barack Obama the biggest overhaul of rules governing chemicals in four decades, a change sought by an industry that has faced a hodgepodge of retailer bans, consumer boycotts and state regulations.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Transportation Security Opportunism

The union representing TSA workers entered negotiations with the agency that are more focused on allowing workers to wear shorts than the staffing levels it now claims are responsible for wait times that have caused thousands of passengers to miss their flights.

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Pro-Trump Hispanics face ridicule from friends and family

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Hispanic voters in Florida, New Mexico and California have waved Mexican flags and bashed Donald Trump piƱatas - clashing with police, at times - to protest the Republican presidential contender's hard line approach to immigration.

Yet far from the protests, an increasingly vocal Hispanic minority is ...

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New fantasy sports app SportsHero raises $2.4M ahead of planned Australia IPO

sportshero soccer football SportsHero is a new app that lets sports fans dabble in match predictions and show their skills off against friends and other game-watchers. The app is made by the team behind Singapore-based TradeHero, a virtual trading app backed by more than $10 million from investors, and it launched officially this week. Read More

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Nuclear-free aspirations of Obama, Abe conflict with reality

TOBA, Japan (AP) - There is the soaring rhetoric. And then there's the messy reality.

When U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe make a historic visit to Hiroshima - the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the site of the first atomic bomb attack ...

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HP unveils a bunch of new Omen gaming hardware

HP Omen To be fair, an omen isn't necessarily a portent of negative things. If it was, we wouldn't feel obligated to qualify it using words like "bad." Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones, surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering around a young antichrist. And if HP is attempting to leave things open to interpretation… Read More

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Peter Thiel: The Hero We Need Right Now

About eight-and-a-half years ago, the folks at Gawker made a big to-do about outing a libertarian tech billionaire named Peter Thiel. According to Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, Thiel "was so paranoid that, when I was looking into the story, a year ago, I got a series of messages relaying the destruction that would rain down on me, and various innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, if a story ever ran."

Yesterday we learned the form of the destructor that Thiel chose: Hulk Hogan.

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Here's Trump's Response When Asked What's the 'Right Thing' To Do About Transgender Bathrooms

"What I support is…"

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Police: 1 Dead, 3 Wounded Ahead of Rapper T.I.'s Concert in New York City

No arrests were made.

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Sanders Says 'I Look Forward' to Debating Trump in California

"Game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary," Bernie Sanders says in Twitter post. NOTE: Trump Tells Kimmel He'd be Willing to Debate Sanders for Charity: CBS NOTE: Earlier, Sanders Says If Elected, He'll Make Democratic Party 'Wide Open'

Source: Bloomberg Politics

These Scandalous Women Will Make Anybody A Boxing Fan [SLIDESHOW]

These photos are scandalous

Via: The Daily Caller

Judge Nap Says There's Now 'Ample Evidence' to Indict Clinton Over Her Email Scandal

"This shows intent."

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'We Are Praying for An Early Monsoon': It's So Hot in India, The Streets Are Melting

"There's absolutely no water."

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Report: Hillary Clinton Met Terry McAuliffe's Mysterious Chinese Donor At Her New York Home

Clinton and Wang shook hands at fundraiser!

Via: The Daily Caller

Sherpa, a Spanish-language AI-based personal assistant, raises $6.5M

We've seen a big rise of apps and bots, and a lot of them have something in common besides being based on artificial intelligence and machine learning: they are written for English-speaking users. Now one of the more interesting personal assistant apps written primarily for Spanish speakers is announcing funding. Sherpa, a personal assistant app based out of Spain, has raised $6.5… Read More

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Trump: Jeb Bush Will Get a 'Burst of Energy' and Endorse Me

"I appreciate that many of the people I competed against have now endorsed me."

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