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Establishing a worldwide caliphate has proved to be a rather expensive endeavor. Subscribe Receive daily email updates: Subscribe to Defense One Today. Be the first to receive updates. Author The so-called Islamic State is feeling the economic toll of waging wars on a number of fronts as more countries join the fight against it. ISIL,…
You’re telling your own story: You graduated college and you’re a grown-ass woman now. Tina Fey is your spirit animal; Beyoncé, your preacher. You know how to take care of you. You’ve learned self-defense. If any man ever hit you, you’d rip his eyes out. You’ve seen Mad Men, and if anyone ever sexually harassed…
All about asteroids All about asteroids – Asteroid Day, a day organized by a group of notable scientists, astronauts and citizens, was held in June and aims to educate the global community on the potential threat of asteroids. Click through the gallery to learn more about these Near-Earth Objects. All about asteroids All about asteroids…
cxenseparse_start An Amazon Prime employee pushes a cart of items for customers while passing CD’s by Adele at the company’s urban fulfillment facility, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 in New York.(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP) Amazon is powering up its already formidable Amazon Prime subscription service with 20% savings on new video game releases. The etailing giant…
IT IS hard to identify the moment when podcasting took off, because it keeps having them. In June last year Barack Obama showed up at a Californian man’s garage to tape a podcast (“WTF with Marc Maron”), while “Serial”, a podcast series about disputed real-life stories that was launched in 2014, has surpassed 100m downloads….
Information company’s gauge of online buzz for TV shows expands beyond just Twitter to include the world’s biggest social network Soon, your Facebook friends won’t be the only ones paying attention to the TV show rants in your News Feed. Television ratings giant Nielsen is expanding how it measures social chatter around TV shows to include Facebook, expanding it…
Devoted fans of Quentin Tarantino’s body of work have noted for years that all of his characters seem to be connected in one way or another. For example, Vic Vega from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction just so happen to be brothers. This led people to believe that Tarantino’s movies were connected,…
This past week has brought the shape of the Democratic primary into sharper focus. As we head into the start of voting, anyone paying attention to the arguments being made among voters, political professionals and opinion columnists should be able to recognize that the nomination fight is a battle between Hillary Clinton’s continuation of the…
To say that 2015 was hot is an understatement. The average recorded temperature across the surface of the planet was so far above normal that it set a record for setting records. The year was more than a quarter of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than the last global heat record—set all the way back in 2014—according…
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