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Melania Trump has threatened to sue The Daily Mail, Politico and at least eight other news outlets for defamation, her lawyer says. Trump, the wife of the Republican presidential nominee, has placed The Daily Mail and other news organizations “on notice… for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an ‘escort’ in…
Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and the security of government and corporate computers. A cache of hacking tools with code names such as Epicbanana, Buzzdirection…
An excessively tanned person with an elaborate hairstyle stood onstage, waving his hands with exaggerated theatrics. Donald Trump had arrived at a key moment in his performance during a July 25 event in Roanoke, Virginia: a show of catty humor to mock people he does not like. “Why did Hillary get rid of her middle name?” He asked with a smirk, wobbling his hand back and…
People wait for the reopening of the security check at JFK Airport on August 15, 2016. Photo: Xinhua/Wang Ying When the first stampede began, my plane had just landed. It started, apparently, with a group of passengers awaiting departure in John F. Kennedy Airport Terminal 8 cheering Usain Bolt’s superhuman 100-meter dash. The applause sounded…
inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160816/RETAIL_APPAREL/160819898/ceo-ouster-forces-barnes-noble-founder-leonard-riggio-to-postpone-a-retirement-scheduled-for-next-month-while-the-company-conducts-a-search-for-a-new-ceo&template=rwd& morning10: Barnes & Noble Inc. ousted Chief Executive Officer Ron Boire after less than a year on the job, saying he wasn’t a good fit for the organization and handing his duties over to founder Leonard Riggio and other executives. Riggio, 75, will postpone his retirement, which had been scheduled for next month,…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Mario Andrada paced through the Olympic press center Monday afternoon, explaining why he has no time to talk just now. “There is an expression we have in Brazil,” he said. “ ‘When you have a hard job, you kill a lion a day.’ I have two lions to kill.” This month, Andrada…
Hey there fans and followers, I wanted to shed some light on this topic of “local blogging” and why 97% of local businesses fail to increase conversions from it and I want to share my action plan for The #1 Reason Local Blogging Fails And How You Can Increase Website Conversions Alternatively | Marshall Adler…
Some relatively minor tweaks aside, Overwatch’s cyborg ninja dragon blender Genji hasn’t changed much since launch. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve come across dozens of threads begging Blizzard to nerf Genji so hard he starts throwing rubber ducks instead of ninja stars. What happened? In hero-based games like Overwatch, there’s always a “nerf…
10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money I hope everyone had a good summer. It’s hard to believe it’s over, yet here we are. Still feeling the summer breeze of warm ocean wind. Still smelling the sunscreen, the taste of cotton candy, the mind still wandering…
In October of last year, Twitter made the hard decision to remove the tweet count data the way it was presented at the time, without replacing it. I would say they simply removed the API access, but that’s not strictly true, because there was no real API for that data. They announced the news in…