There’s enough slang within the English language to make up a whole new language. If you need to do some research for an English assignment, or you’re just into linguistics, this online dictionary is your best bet. Read more…
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Explore Over 500 Years of English Slang With This Online Dictionary
Under the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, but according to one group of federal prosecutors, just being in the wrong house at the wrong time is cause enough to make every single person inside provide their fingerprints and unlock their phones . Read more…
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Feds Claim They Can Enter a House and Demand Fingerprints to Unlock Everyone’s Phones
The hard-working developers behind Raspbian OS, the custom-made Linux distro tweaked for the Pi, have announced a major update called Pixel (short for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight, if you’re wondering). It’s now the default OS offered for download by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and here’s why you should give it a try. Read more…
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Why You Should Upgrade Your Raspberry Pi
Using the Hubble Space telescope and other observatories, astronomers have completed the most accurate census of galaxies in the observable universe to date. In terms of the actual number, let’s just say we were way the hell off. Read more…
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We Were Very Wrong About the Number of Galaxies in the Universe
Do not be alarmed by this heavily armed, parasitic wasp that bears no close relationship to any other organism, and is such a badass that it apparently traded flying for leaping like a grasshopper. Mercifully, Aptenoperissus burmanicus went extinct a long time ago. Read more…
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Ancient Nightmare Wasp Is Like No Other Insect on Earth
Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor , Amazon Music Unlimited. Like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Deezer, Amazon Music Unlimited offers on-demand access to tens of millions of songs. And like those services, it also offers “thousands” of “hand curated playlists” and personalized stations. Read more…
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Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew. Read more…
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina
Are you one of the millions of people who signed up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov? If your health insurance company is pulling out of Obamacare, you might want to head over to the site before the start of the new year. If you don’t switch your health insurance provider by January, the government will switch it for you. And you might not like their choice. Read more…
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HealthCare.gov Warns It Might Just Change Your Coverage For You By January
Netflix has released the first trailer for Dreamworks Trollhunters , a children’s animated series directed by the same guy whose idea of a fairy tale includes rebel torture and child murder. It’s Guillermo del Toro… for kids! Read more…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Looks Really Damn Fun
An NSA contractor was arrested in secret by the FBI and investigated for possibly stealing secrets, the New York Times reported . Read more…
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NSA Contractor Arrested in Probe of Stolen ‘Source Code’: Report