The new MacBook Pro could feature a Touch ID sensor and an OLED mini screen

 Rumor has it that Apple is about to update the MacBook Pro with a retina display in the coming months. And according to well-informed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities and 9to5mac, it should be much more than a specification bump. The company wants to keep two screen sizes with a 13-inch model and a somewhat more powerful 15-inch model. But these laptops s Read More

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Cray's latest supercomputer runs OpenStack and open source big data tools

 Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads. What's more, it runs on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform and supports open source big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark. Cray recognizes that the computing world had evolved since Seymour Cray… Read More

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Obama Turns Attention to Rights in Vietnam After Lifting Embargo

A day after saying Vietnam had made enough progress on human rights to merit lifting a decades-old U.S. ban on arms sales, President Barack Obama pushed back against his host country over its human rights record.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

The Taliban: al Qaeda's ally; Hillary's peace partner

(Paul Mirengoff) I believe it's widely known, though also widely forgotten, that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton orchestrated "peace talks" with the Taliban. Clinton discussed her role in some detail in her book, Hard Choices. Robert Potts at the American Thinker provided a good summary of Clinton's involvement, as described by her, in this article. Clinton's goals were to "shatter the alliance between the Taliban and al Qaeda, end the insurgency, and

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Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in federal database

HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii could become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country.

Most people entered in the "Rap Back" database elsewhere in the U.S. are ...

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Southeast Asia financial comparison startup Jirnexu lands $3M to expand to digital banking services

 Malaysia-based fintech startup Saving Plus has closed a $3 million Series A round and renamed itself as Jirnexu. Read More

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New York City Lets You Choose From 31 Different Gender Identities

Individuals living in New York City can choose from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination of male or female identities. Businesses that don't respect and accommodate an individual's chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city's Commission on […]

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Utah State Senator Wants to Install Pornography Blockers On All Mobile Phones

"The average age of first exposure to hard-core pornography for boys is eleven years old."

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'That Is Tough to See': Scary Moment As Pirates Pitcher Is Hit in Face By Pitch, Carted Off Field

"Tough to watch."

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World Health Meeting Begins With Left-Wing Manifesto

UN Health Leader demands free healthcare, calls on governments to take aim on fossil fuels

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Can startups disrupt the $20 billion cyber insurance market?

 Over the past few years, cyber insurance markets have been growing at between 25-50 percent CAGR each year. According to The Betterley Report 2015, annual policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion. The ecosystem of insurance underwriters, intermediaries/brokers, analysts/management consultants and compilers of insurance market information is evolving rapidly, trying to make the most of… Read More

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Sanders Urges Californians to Vote in Favor of Legalizing Pot

"If I lived in your state I would vote in favor of that initiative," Bernie Sanders says at Calif. rally of a measure on the state's ballot that would legalize marijuana. NOTE: Calif., Nev., Mass., Mich. and Mont. are among states that may legalize marijuana in Nov.; a vote in Calif., where signatures are being collected on the initiative, would have a significant impact on whether other states move toward legalization, Bloomberg Intelligence reported Sanders, at a rally in Santa Monica attended

Source: Bloomberg Politics

We Are a Fish, Rotting From the Head

(John Hinderaker) Glenn Reynolds' current USA Today column addresses the rapid decline of the United States as a high-trust society, something that sociologists have found to be critical for economic development and security: [T]he CIA's "accident" was only the latest in a long rash of "accidental" losses of incriminating information in this administration. The IRS — whose Tea Party-targeting scandal is now over 1,100 days old without anyone being charged or sent

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Family asks for FBI investigation of 2013 police shooting

CHICAGO (AP) - The family of a teenager shot to death by Chicago police in 2013 is asking for an FBI investigation after seeing surveillance video that captured part of the incident.

Chantell Brooks went to police headquarters Monday to view the video, taken from a police observation camera. Her ...

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Senator: Obama Steals From Zika Victims To Fund UN Climate Programs

Obama gives $500 million in Zika funding to UN agency that recognizes the 'State of Palestine'

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'There Are Zero Facts': Megyn Kelly Repeatedly Presses DeRay Mckesson on What Acquitted Officer Did Wrong

"Don't you see the danger to the community if we start locking up cops for making a bad judgement call?"

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North Korean Official Responds to Trump's Remark About Speaking With Country's Dictator

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Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton matchup set to test 'size matters' election adage

Separated by at least 7 inches in height, presidential contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are set to test the adage that "size matters," according to researchers, who have found that voters, whether they acknowledge it or not, are often influenced by a candidate's physical stature and overall appearance.

Height ...

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Chilean Tries To Chill With Lions

Animals are dumb and I don't like them. If an animal tries to kill a human being, then the animal must be killed. That's all there is to it. Even if, um, the human being totally wants the animal to kill him. BBC News: A man stripped naked and jumped into a lion enclosure at […]

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Freddie Gray Family Lawyer Confronts Greta: Fox News Has 'Racist' Approach to Black Community

"[Y]our station was ripe with speculation…"

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