Trump tweets at "dishonest media" in Star of David kerfuffle

 Happy American Independence Day, TechCrunchers. Today those of us in the U.S. celebrate the original Brexit with hot dogs, potato salad, and fireworks. Americans are also in the middle of a very weird presidential election, as you may know, and Republican presumptive nominee Donald J. Trump has taken to Twitter once again today to explain why he's not a racist – or anti-Semite,… Read More

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Covering Minor League Baseball Is So Boring, Robot Reporters Do It Now

The new American way: use robots, not humans

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Wyoming delegation has differing takes on gun ruling

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning all domestic violence offenders from owning guns has drawn differing responses from Wyoming's congressional delegation.

Rep. Cynthia Lummis opposed the ruling in a statement from her office, saying the lifetime gun ban isn't a punishment that fits the crime in ...

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Naval Academy Signals Readiness To Accept New Pentagon Transgender Policies

'We've won. The war is over. Now it's the peace treaties we're working on'

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Zore X is a smart gun lock that raised almost $250K on Indiegogo

 An unlocked gun can ruin more than one life. In fact, the Trace reports that toddlers shot an average of one person per week for the 2015 year, often injuring or killing themselves, because they were able to get on their hands on a gun. Zore, like many new products on the market, aims to change all that. Zore is a Jerusalem-based startup that has built a smart gun lock. Through a connection to… Read More

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It depends on the meaning of "grandchildren"

(Scott Johnson) The PoliticalXray.com website claims to have obtained proving that when Bill Clinton boarded Attorney General Loretta Lynch's jet on the tarmac at Phoenix Internation Airport on June 27, 2016 and spoke for 30 minutes, he only spoke about his grandchildren. If so, the video reveals that Lynch has told the truth, Clinton style. I'm filing this under Laughter is the Best Medicine, but we should probably create an It Only

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Get Trashed Like The Founding Fathers This 4th Of July

George Washington spent 7% of his income on alcohol alone.

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You're doing DevOps wrong

 Gone are the days of the quarterly product release cycle. To meet the evolving expectations of today's end user, software must continuously adapt. As a result, hyper-automation of the software development process has become the thing on which companies, regardless of industry, compete. From fledgling startups to enterprise heavyweights, business leaders are realizing that they need to… Read More

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A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials

The Detroit News. June 28, 2016

State should close dying districts.

All eyes have been on Detroit Public Schools and its glaring debt problems. But the state's largest school district, which just received a $617 million bailout from the state, is far from the only district that faces financial troubles. ...

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Report: Hillary Is Considering Keeping Loretta Lynch As Attorney General

Report: Hillary Wants To Keep Loretta Lynch On As Attorney General

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Arizona Teen Arrested For Terrorism Conspiracy Lives In FANCYPANTS GATED COMMUNITY

Swimming pools galore! Iron gates! Even a security guard post!

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Novelist Eliot Peper talks about fiction as a foreign country

 This week on the Technotopia podcast I talked to Eliot Peper, the author of the cyberpunk novel Cumulus. Peper talked about the value of science fiction as travel for the mind. He has been an entrepreneur and VC and finds that those industries are often more about checking off boxes in a spreadsheet rather than true exploration. By writing – and reading – speculative fiction… Read More

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The eternal meaning of Independence Day (2)

(Scott Johnson) President Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1926, with a speech providing a magisterial review of the history and thought underlying the Declaration. His speech on the occasion deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. The following paragraph, however, is particularly relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the variants of the progressive dogma that pass themselves off today

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Network Locum bags $7M to grow its doctor staffing platform

 London-based healthcare startup Network Locum, which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the UK's National Health Service (NHS), has closed a £5.3 million ($7M) Series B funding round, led by UK fund BGF Ventures. Read More

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Echobox raises $3.4M to let publishers intelligently share content to Twitter and Facebook

 Now calling itself an Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for the online publishing industry — because, why not? — Echobox, which has developed tech to help publishers share content on the likes of Twitter and Facebook in a more intelligent way, has closed $3.4 million in new funding Read More

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To Draw A Line

From June 27 to July 10 the world of tennis goes retro. Players don their tennis whites, step out onto freshly cut lawn courts, and turn the clock way, way back to 1877. Back to when Wimbledon, the first major tennis tournament, started.

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AP Interview: Jordan eager to reach nuke deal with US

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan is eager to reach a nuclear cooperation deal with the United States after a long impasse over uranium enrichment and both sides appear ready to compromise, the kingdom's nuclear chief said.

An agreement would give Jordan access to U.S. technology, including small modular reactors that ...

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Brexit: The latest example of Obama's cluelessness

(Paul Mirengoff) President Obama and his foreign policy team are perpetually surprised by the world. The rise of ISIS, the fall of Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood leader who succeeded him, the chaos in Libya, Putin's aggression, Netanyahu's reelection — all of these key developments (and others) wrong-footed the president and his advisers. You might almost think they don't understand the world at all. Brexit is the latest manifestation of Team Obama's

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Apps for planning your vacation

 It's 4th of July weekend, and if you're not off traveling somewhere, hopefully you're taking a summer trip soon. From Kayak to Tripadvisor, there are plenty of apps that want to help you maximize your vacation planning. We've found some others that are worth a mention, too. TechCrunch tested out dozens of travel apps and these are our favorites right now. Hopper… Read More

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