ZERVOS: 'Markets Are Reacting To Good Fortune As If Someone Threw A Baby Ruth...
Google ImagesDavid Zervos, chief markets strategist at Jefferies, is a little surprised by the market reaction to recent news. On Friday, we learned that the U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July....
View ArticleThis Ex-NASA Engineer Wants To Build A Huge Robot That Can Juggle Cars
ScreenshotIf all goes according to plan, former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineer Dan Granett will soon build a 70-foot-tall diesel-powered robot that can use its robo-hands to juggle cars...
View ArticleSomeone Stole $50,000 Worth Of Pot From A Medical Marijuana Dispensary In...
Joe Weisenthal, Business InsiderThieves were able to steal $50,000 worth of pot from a medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle by cutting a huge hole in the wall of the facility, The Seattle Times...
View ArticleThis Isn't The First Time Sunni Extremists Have Massacred Iraq's Yazidis
On August 15, 2007, Iraq's Yazidi community was the victim of the worst terrorist attack anywhere in the world since September, 11, 2001, and the second-worst in modern history. Four simultaneous...
View ArticleA Misguided Fraternity Movement Is Revealing The Worst Aspects Of Frat Boy...
A self-propelled "movement" from male interest website Total Frat Move is stirring up debate over the nature of Greek life, bringing out both the worst and best elements of fraternity culture.As TFM...
View ArticleRECORD WITHDRAWALS FROM HIGH-YIELD BOND FUNDS
High yield bond funds have posted $7.1 billion in outflows according to Lipper data, the largest outflows on record.There's already been a huge rush of money from high-yield bond funds in recent weeks,...
View ArticleRussia And Iran Reportedly Signed A Huge Oil Deal — But No One Knows The Details
Iran and Russia may have just signed a major $20 billion oil deal, as reported by Russia's Itar-Tass, Iran's Fars News, and the Telegraph on Wednesday.The deal would allow Iran to circumvent western...
View ArticlePentagon Denies Report US Is Bombing ISIS Targets In Iraq
The Pentagon moved swiftly to shoot down a New York Times report Thursday afternoon that American military forces had bombed at least two places in northern Iraq targeting fighters from the Islamic...
View ArticleFor Lease: Up To 10,000SF In Beautiful Silicon Alley Office
Business Insider just leased another floor in our headquarters at 150 5th, and we're looking to sub-lease up to half of it to another fast-growing company. We're making up to 10,000 square feet...
View ArticleMore Photos Of The iPhone 6 Just Leaked, Possibly Showing Its Camera, Home...
A new leak claims to show the rear shell of Apple's iPhone 6, providing yet another look at what could be the iPhone's redesigned body.The new images published by Feld & Volk, a company that adds...
View ArticleExperts Say This Dodge Supercar Is Almost Unhackable
Chrysler got some bad news and some good news this week, as far as cybersecurity in cars is concerned.First the bad: A research report concluded that the 2014 Jeep Cherokee is among the "most hackable"...
View ArticleStartups Now Have To Worry About The Weirdest Things
Silicon Valley’s “arms race for talent” has been going on for some time now. In order to attract the best employees, startups have been offering all kinds of crazy perks, from insane intern salaries to...
View ArticleA Comedian Is Writing An Entire Novel In Yelp Reviews
If you're looking up businesses in the Philadelphia area on Yelp, you might be in for a surprise.Comedian Gregg Gethard has taken to Yelp with the username Kyle G. and is writing a hilarious novel...
View ArticleTHE BEACONS FAQ: It's Time To Set The Story Straight About Beacons And...
Beacons are a new type of device that could change the way people shop in stores and revolutionize how retailers collect consumer data and interact with shoppers. Retailers can use beacons to trigger...
View ArticleAirbnb Is Trying To Change San Francisco Laws About Temporary Housing
Last week protestors gathered in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood to lament Airbnb and companies that encourage property owners to piece out their homes in short-term rentals. They said that...
View ArticleThis Crazy Video Makes 'The Matrix' Sound Like An Old Nintendo Game
You've never seen "The Matrix" like this.The action movie got a sound makeover from Phillip Raupach last year, when he submitted it to an arts competition at San Francisco State University.Raupach's...
View ArticleThe Number Of Children Caught Trying To Cross The Border Absolutely Plummeted...
The number of unaccompanied children apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border plummeted in July by more than half the previous month, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.Federal border...
View ArticleThis Is Microsoft's Very First Web Page ... Back In 1994
Twenty years ago in 1994, the modern World Wide Web was born. That was the year the first Netscape browser was officially released (Mosaic Netscape 0.9), the year that Tim Berners-Lee founded the World...
View Article8 People Who Implanted Tech Gadgets Directly Into Their Bodies
There will come a day when most humans don't just use technology, or wear it on their heads and wrists, they inject it into their bodies to improve themselves.That's the vision of both sci-fi writers...
View ArticleFacebook Is Scanning Your Photos For Explicit Images Of Children, Too (FB)
Just like Microsoft and Google, Facebook is actively looking for explicit photos of children.Facebook scans your pictures for this content when you upload a photo to Facebook or Instagram, using the...
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