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The war for mobile messaging is on
SAN FRANCISCO -- WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the bu
thonline.com (21 hours ago)
Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
We have all heard the forlorn refrain: "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" This phrase has come to stand for the rueful reflection of an idiot, a sign of stupidity, but in fact we should appreciate it as a pillar of wisdom. Any being, any agent, who can truly say: "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
E. Nina Rothe: The Man Inside by Karim Goury: Imperfection as Inspiration
As a daughter of divorce, I'm painfully aware of how kids can be made pawns in the games their parents play. But what if out of that pain we managed to created another game of our own, this time as adults, recreating our parent's life? This concept is exactly what made Karim Goury's documentary The Man Inside a...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Investigation launched over German Green party's support for paedophiles in the 1980s
Germany’s Greens, Europe’s most influential environmentalist party, have been obliged to open a detailed investigation into past policy and practice amid revelations that in the 1980s, its members actively supported paedophile groups which campaigned to legalise sex with children.
independent.co.uk (1 day ago)
Christians aren't being persecuted in American schools | TF Charlton
Christians make up 78% of the American population, 90% of Congress, and 100% of presidents thus far. But to hear some conservative Christians tell it, they are a persecuted minority. Newt Gingrich recently claimed that LGBT rights have caused Catholic adoption services to be "outlawed" in Washington DC and...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Lucy Mangan: a little goes a long way
There's a new word out there, and if you haven't heard it yet, you soon will. (In the normal run of things, I mean, not just because I'm about to mention it here.) The word is "microaggressions". It was first coined in the 1970s to describe the kind of small, non-physical interactions that nevertheless help create...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
More steady Utah job growth, but worry looms
Unemployment fell again last month as job numbers increased - but a whiff of sequestration may have tempered what still was more evidence that Utah’s labor market is in a period of stable expansion. The statewide jobless rate fell to 4.7 percent from 4.9 percent in March as the number of unemployed people actively...
sltrib.com (2 days ago)
U.S. and La. rig counts unchanged
HOUSTON - Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. remains unchanged this week at 1,769. The Houston-based company said Friday in its weekly report that 1,408 rigs were...
theadvocate.com (2 days ago)
Alcoholics Who Smoke May Face Early Brain Aging
FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Alcoholics who smoke have more problems with memory, problem solving and quick thinking than those who are nonsmokers, researchers have found. This "early aging" of the brain gets worse over time, according to the study published online May 17 and in the October print issue of...
ivillage.com (2 days ago)
Late Night Host Applauds Obama’s IRS ‘Scandal’: ‘That’s That Black President We Wanted, Right?’
It's been hard to find too many people willing to genuinely defend the IRS' decision to actively target tea party groups for audits, but last night on his cable late night show Totally Biased, W. Kamau Bell did just that. After letting George Stephanopoulos read the news, Bell started slow-clapping, then shouted,...
mediaite.com (2 days ago)
US rig count is unchanged at 1,769
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. remains unchanged this week, at 1,769.
miamiherald.com (2 days ago)
Unemployment rate in Utah falls in April, job numbers on rise
Utah’s unemployment rate in April fell for the third consecutive month while year-over-year job growth continued at above the long-term average - signals that the labor market is in the midst of a “stable expansion,” the Department of Workforce Services said Friday. The statewide jobless rate fell to 4.7 percent in...
sltrib.com (2 days ago)
Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie Talks Lush New Album 'More Light'
In the 26 years that Primal Scream have been actively releasing full-length records, they've traversed tremendous ground. From the bleary house-indebted psychedelia that populated early efforts (namely their landmark 1991 album Screamadelica) to the more straightforward rock records they've made in recent years,...
spin.com (2 days ago)
Unemployment Falls in 40 U.S. States, Rises in 3
(WASHINGTON) - Solid hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 40 U.S. states last month, the most since November. The declines show the job market is improving throughout most of the country. The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates increased in only three states: Louisiana, Tennessee and North...
time.com (2 days ago)
Utah unemployment rate fell in April, job numbers increased
Utah’s unemployment rate in April fell for the third consecutive month while year-over-year job growth continued at above the long-term average - signals that the labor market is in the midst of a “stable expansion,” the state’s Department of Workforce Services said Friday. The statewide jobless rate fell to 4.7...
sltrib.com (2 days ago)
Chinese Profitability Squeezed Further By Third Year Of Double-Digit Wage Gains
For the third year in a row (since the crisis) average pay at private companies in China surge by greater than double digits - far outstripping GDP growth. 2012 saw a 17.1% nominal rise in average wages for private companies to Yuan 28,752 per annum (still 9% after inflation) but dispersion remains high with...
zerohedge.com (2 days ago)
Kevin De Bruyne's transfer choice holds up Chelsea chase for André Schürrle
Chelsea's protracted pursuit of the Germany winger André Schürrle from Bayer Leverkusen is effectively on hold while the Bundesliga club actively seek to secure a replacement with their first-choice, the Londoners' Kevin De Bruyne, keen instead to join Borussia Dortmund. Schürrle was expected to complete the...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Student Interns: Inexpensive Startup Labor Or A Waste Of Time?
With summer around the corner -- and thousands of job-seeking college students actively looking for work already -- it’s tempting to think about whether or not bringing on one of these motivated young workers as an intern or hourly employee could be the solution to tackling your ever-growing to-do list.
forbes.com (2 days ago)
Eight ways in which social sector organisations can improve
Social sector organisations are aware of the need for continued development and taking on new ways of doing things to ensure we continue to deliver the high standards our beneficiaries deserve. Over the past six months I've been leading a government review into social sector skills and how charities and social...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Sheriff on SAFE Act: ‘I won’t enforce it’
It’s no secret Sheriff Timothy B. Howard is opposed to New York’s new gun-control law.But Howard, who is running for re-election this year, is now ratcheting up his opposition by filing a friend of the court brief in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the SAFE Act and, even more important perhaps, by suggesting the law...
buffalonews.com (2 days ago)
Do The White House Emails And Other Breaking Revelations Point To Critical CIA Secrets In Benghazi?
With the release yesterday of the 100 pages of emails discussing the ‘talking points’ that have become the focus of Rep. Darrell Issa’s campaign to expose a White House cover up of the Benghazi affair, there are a few things that have now become starkly clear- It was the CIA-not the State Department or the White...
forbes.com (3 days ago)
Singapore's Ser Miang Ng bids for IOC top job
(Reuters) - Singapore's Ser Miang Ng officially launched his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, saying he wanted youth to play a central role in the movement and to see IOC members more actively involved.
reuters.com (3 days ago)
The Android Hangouts Video Chat App Doesn't Work on AT&T Cellular
If you try and use Google's new Hangouts app for Android on AT&T's cellular network, don't expect to video chat-because you can't. Slashgear reports that the video chat capability in the new Hangouts app doesn't work on AT&T's cellular networks, throwing up a message that reads "you must be on a Wi-Fi...
gizmodo.com (3 days ago)
Timeline of the IRS scandal
February 25, 2010 An undisclosed email is the earliest evidence in the case identified by the U.S. Treasury inspector general. March-August 2010 The Cincinnati-based IRS Determination Unit is directed to actively hunt for tax-exemptions requests involving “Tea Party,” Patriots,” and “political-sounding names.”...
bostonherald.com (4 days ago)
Bill Cunningham And Hannity Get In Shouting Match With Dem Guest: IRS Was Actively Working To...
Sean Hannity and conservative panelist Bill Cunningham got into a shouting match tonight with Democrat Joe Trippi over just how incentivized the Obama administration was to crush Republicans in 2012. Cunningham claimed that the IRS targeting Tea Party groups halted their get out the vote efforts and giving Obama the...
mediaite.com (4 days ago)
Letters: No plans for new investment in coal
Your article (European energy chief puts forward case for funding coal, 12 May) says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has "hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments". This suggestion is wrong....
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
Listening to happy music really CAN make you happier, find researchers
Researchers from the University of Missouri have found that listening to upbeat music can improve your overall feeling of happiness - but only if you're actively seeking happiness.
dailymail.co.uk (4 days ago)
Another win for Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson's comic reputation has received a boost, after the novelist became the first writer to take the UK's only prize for comic fiction for a second time. Jacobson was named winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic writing today for his novel Zoo Time, the story of Guy Ableman, a writer...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
Temple shooter used Internet to further beliefs
Federal court documents show the man who killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was actively using the Internet to become increasingly radical in his white supremacist beliefs in the months before the shooting.
postcrescent.com (4 days ago)
Temple shooter used Internet to further beliefs
Federal court documents show the man who killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was actively using the Internet to become increasingly radical in his white supremacist beliefs in the months before the shooting.
htrnews.com (4 days ago)
