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Some consumers aren't happy about Gillette's new ad, inspired by the #MeToo movement. This is how the popular razor brand responded.

The State Department on Thursday instructed all U.S. diplomats in Washington and elsewhere to return to work next week with pay, saying it had found money for their salaries at least temporarily.

A MODEL has revealed how she’s spent $500k (£385k) on transforming herself into Kim Kardashian. Jennifer Pamplona, 26, shot to fame after undergoing nine surgeries in 24 hours for a TV show – and has now changed almost every inch of her body. Jennifer says she began having cosmetic surgery as a “hobby”, but her motivation […]

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⚖️ #DohenyTakahashi@TjDoheny: 121.8lbsRyohei Takahashi: 121.8lbs□ IBF World Super-Bantamweight Title pic.twitter.com/cVXtfblwwR— Matchroom Boxing (@MatchroomBoxing) January 17, 2019Tomorrow we'll see  Japanese fighter Ryohei Takahashi (15-3-1, 6) [高橋竜平] take on current IBF Super Bantamweight champion TJ Doheny (20-0, 14) in New York, USA.Today the two men took part in their weigh in  for the contest and both men came in under the 122lb Super Ban [...]

Central Defender signs contract to the end of the season

Junior Adams has been named Washington’s new wide receivers coach. Adams, 39, served as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Western Kentucky for the past two seasons. Before … Click to Continue »

Do you ever have that feeling that we aren’t alone, that there must be other life out there? What if you had the opportunity not only to confirm other universes and life existed, but you were the one

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Microsoft has been calling for regulation of facial recognition tech after its arch rival Amazon landed in the hot seat.

• Amid Amazon's ongoing drama over its AWS Rekognition facial recognition service, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had some words of warning.
• The uses of facial recognition are "terrible" a "race to the bottom," he said, and the situation is not good for society.
• Microsoft has been vocal in calling for government regulation of the tech, after it spent its own turn on hot seat.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks that some technologies are so potentially dangerous... Читать дальше...

Earnings go up by ₹6 lakh per day

ATLANTA (AP) — The new president of Georgia Southern University has been named. News outlets report the Board of Regents named Kyle Marrero as president of Georgia Southern University on Thursday. He'll begin his new position effective April 1. Marrero currently serves as president of the University of West Georgia. A national search for the next president will be launched. University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley says Marrero's higher education experience, combined with his focus on... Читать дальше...

A new meme finds humor in a chintzy status symbol and a cross-cultural mashup.

COVINA, Calif. — A Covina woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing her young son to death last week, prosecutors told PIX11 sister station KTLA on Tuesday. In addition to the count of murder, Xa Dinh Ngo — also known as Michelle Ngo — faces a special circumstances allegation that she used a deadly and dangerous weapon in the child’s killing, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The weapon was identified as a knife. The […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to meet former North Korean spy chief Kim Yong Chol at a Washington hotel on Friday. The meeting will likely be followed by a Kim visit to the White House, where he could meet with Trump, according to two officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

From SABR member Bill Lucey at Daily News Gems on January 16, 2019:

The experiment failed.

No one was happier than a majority of fans (including scores of players) to see Major League Baseball return to a single-game format, beginning with the 1963 MLB All-Star game in Cleveland on July 9.

From 1959 through 1962, MLB launched an experiment, holding two All-Star games a year. In order to get the players' consent to revert back to the single game format, the owners agreed to put 95 per cent of the net receipts of $250,384.

Commercial controversy exposes guilt and fear masquerading as anger out there.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A local food bank is helping out federal workers who haven’t been paid for nearly a month. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has organized a mobile food distribution for federal employees and contract workers amid the government shutdown. “Our hardworking neighbors in the federal government should not have to worry about providing food for their families,” said Katie Fitzgerald, chief executive officer of the Regional Food Bank. “We stand ready to provide them relief from the […]

The opening of the new 'apartheid road' connecting Jerusalem with its northern settlements was met with silence. Right-wing politicians are no longer afraid of a response, they know the world will remain indifferent

1. Grimes and Azealia Banks Subpoenaed in Elon Musk Tesla Lawsuit  Pitchfork
2. Elon Musk does the math on another massive tunnel  Mashable
3. Elon Musk says Tesla is ending its customer referral program as it's costing too much  CNBC
4. Tesla ends controversial referral program that got some owners free cars  SlashGear
5. Boring Company Offers to Dig 30 Mile Tunnel Through Mountains in Australia  Next Big Future
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A Wisconsin town is in shock over the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs and the murder of her parents, who were targeted by stranger Jack Patterson, a man who had been planning the crime since watching the teen board a school bus last fall.