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Led Zeppelin’s attorneys on Friday brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the only similarity between Taurus and Stairway to Heaven was a “descending chromatic minor line progression”. Ferrara said that musical element was used 300 years ago, as well as in many pop songs since then. Related: Jimmy Page testifies Stairway to…
Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Florida Democrat running for Senate in the Sunshine State, is calling out Republican Sen. Marco RubioMarco RubioGrayson not scared of ‘attack puppy’ Rubio Florida Dem: Rubio ‘most homophobic senator’ in country Crist seeks donations after Jolly re-enters House race MORE for using the mass shooting in Orlando to reconsider his political…
This past weekend, I found myself in the British borough of Luton, pondering a British exit from the European Union. “How did you find yourself in Luton?” you will ask, and I will reply, “That is a long story, and alas, a very dull one, so let’s just proceed upon the assumption that I was…
Over the past few years, more and more couples have begun to speak publicly about their decision not to have children—and the joy this lifestyle has brought them. Who needs kids, they explain, when their lives are wonderful as they are? These folks will likely be glad to know that a new report from the…
America faces an epidemic of mass shootings. It’s up to you to stop them… with the power of your thoughts and prayers. Thoughts & Prayers: The Game. Source: Thoughts & Prayers: The Game
In the mid ‘90s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the news and our cultural consciousness. The obsession for all things O.J. has returned in recent months, thanks to FX’s “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson” and ESPN’s epic five-part documentary “O.J.: Made in America.” There’s so much to say about Simpson that it’s…
Booking photo of Brock Turner, June 2, 2016 in the Santa Clara Police Department. (Santa Clara Police Department) The six-month jail sentence for Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman after a fraternity party in 2015, ignited a national debate about how U.S. courts handle such cases….
The Atlanta Braves are moving to a new ballpark next spring, and … and really, that’s it as far as the good news goes. The latest debacle to emerge from the team’s abrupt decision to abandon their 20-year-old downtown stadium and head for the ‘burbs occurred last weekend when it was reported that the…
Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start buying ads with more precision and frequency, according to multiple sources. The messaging platform reached out to ad technology companies and agencies about its API, asking them what they would need from such software,…
We just lived through the nightmare scenario we were worried about as we called for a moratorium on The DAO: someone exploited a weakness in the code of The DAO to empty out more than 2M ($40M USD) ether. The exploit seems to have targeted the reentrancy problem in the ‘splitDAO’ function. The reentrancy problem…