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YouTube Unveils Broader Anti-Harassment Policies for Threats and Insults About Race, Sex, and Gender
YouTube has announced that it will now remove videos that insult people based on "protected attributes" such as race, gender expression or sexual orientation.
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"Surprised," Says Amazon As Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Deal To Microsoft
The Pentagon awarded its controversial $10 billion cloud computing business to Microsoft Friday evening, spurning a bid from Amazon, which had been expected to win the contract. President Donald Trump had expressed opposition to giving the lucrative award to a company led by Jeff Bezos, a regular target of his ire.
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How Did Clapping On Planes Become A Reason For Public Shaming?
Why did clapping on planes - an activity viewed either as an expression of relief, gratitude or plain old joy - become a reason for public shaming?
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She Wore Tuxedo For Her School Portrait. Then Yearbook Left Her Photo Out
Springville High School became the latest school to come under fire for censoring portraits over dress codes that many argue are arbitrary and archaic, keep students from expressing themselves or reinforce gender stereotypes.
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US Government Questions Tech Companies on Ways to Predict Shootings From Social Media
Top officials in the Trump administration expressed interest in tools that might anticipate mass shootings or predict attackers by scanning social media posts, photos and videos during a meeting Friday with tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter.
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US YouTube Celebrity Said "Walls Closing Around Me" On Video, Found Dead
The YouTube star Etika, who had recently turned his gaming channel into a venue for rants and confrontations with police officers, was found dead in New York's East River this week after posting a video expressing suicidal thoughts, though the cause of death has not yet been released.
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Scientists Think They Know Why Dogs Have Eyes That Tug At Our Hearts
The mournful, pleading, eyebrows-up expression dogs make is so familiar that we have made it into an idiom: puppy-dog eyes. A new study suggests it's yet another example of dogs' ability to communicate with people, one that evolved as the animals were domesticated from ancient wolves at least 15,000 years ago.
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Netanyahu Inaugurates 'Trump Heights', Israel's Newest Town On Golan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his first steps Sunday to express his gratitude to President Donald Trump, unveiling, at a specially convened cabinet meeting, a plaque marking the spot where Israel's newest town - "Trump Heights" - will sit.
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Trump Tweets 138 Million People Died In Sri Lanka Blasts. Then Deletes it
Early Sunday morning, before his tweets about Easter and the Mueller report, President Donald Trump expressed condolences to families of the victims of the Sri Lanka explosions - and grossly overstated the death toll.
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Facebook, Google to Be Quizzed by US Congress on White Nationalism and Political Bias
For years, Silicon Valley has struggled to strike the right balance between allowing users to express themselves and preventing the viral spread of objectionable content.
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Starwood Data Breach: Marriott Will Pay for New Passports 'If Fraud Has Taken Place'
Experts and government officials have expressed concern that the passport numbers, in concert with the other personal data compromised by the hack, could pose serious risks of identity theft.
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From Saudi Royal Insider To Open Critic: Khashoggi, Man Of Contradictions
A complex man of contradictions, journalist Jamal Khashoggi went from being a Saudi royal family insider to an outspoken critic of the ultra-conservative kingdom's government, and was ultimately killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. In his final column for The Washington Post, Khashoggi perhaps presciently pleaded for greater freedom of expressi...
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What Is Heart-Rate Training? Is It Good For You? Know More About It
Heart-rate training entails keeping your heart rate - the number of times your heart beats in a minute - within a set range during a workout. The range is expressed as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, which is the greatest number of times your heart can beat in a minute.
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Indian Plane Flew Into Brick Wall - And Just Kept Going: Foreign Media
An Air India pilot flew a Boeing 737 through a brick wall Friday. Incredibly, that marked the beginning of its journey and not the end.
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Crown Prince Ordered Op To Lure Khashoggi To Saudi, Detain Him: US Intel
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan.
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YouTube Unveils Broader Anti-Harassment Policies for Threats and Insults About Race, Sex, and Gender
YouTube has announced that it will now remove videos that insult people based on "protected attributes" such as race, gender expression or sexual orientation.
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"Surprised," Says Amazon As Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Deal To Microsoft
The Pentagon awarded its controversial $10 billion cloud computing business to Microsoft Friday evening, spurning a bid from Amazon, which had been expected to win the contract. President Donald Trump had expressed opposition to giving the lucrative award to a company led by Jeff Bezos, a regular target of his ire.
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How Did Clapping On Planes Become A Reason For Public Shaming?
Why did clapping on planes - an activity viewed either as an expression of relief, gratitude or plain old joy - become a reason for public shaming?
-
She Wore Tuxedo For Her School Portrait. Then Yearbook Left Her Photo Out
Springville High School became the latest school to come under fire for censoring portraits over dress codes that many argue are arbitrary and archaic, keep students from expressing themselves or reinforce gender stereotypes.
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US Government Questions Tech Companies on Ways to Predict Shootings From Social Media
Top officials in the Trump administration expressed interest in tools that might anticipate mass shootings or predict attackers by scanning social media posts, photos and videos during a meeting Friday with tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter.
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US YouTube Celebrity Said "Walls Closing Around Me" On Video, Found Dead
The YouTube star Etika, who had recently turned his gaming channel into a venue for rants and confrontations with police officers, was found dead in New York's East River this week after posting a video expressing suicidal thoughts, though the cause of death has not yet been released.
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Scientists Think They Know Why Dogs Have Eyes That Tug At Our Hearts
The mournful, pleading, eyebrows-up expression dogs make is so familiar that we have made it into an idiom: puppy-dog eyes. A new study suggests it's yet another example of dogs' ability to communicate with people, one that evolved as the animals were domesticated from ancient wolves at least 15,000 years ago.
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Netanyahu Inaugurates 'Trump Heights', Israel's Newest Town On Golan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his first steps Sunday to express his gratitude to President Donald Trump, unveiling, at a specially convened cabinet meeting, a plaque marking the spot where Israel's newest town - "Trump Heights" - will sit.
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Trump Tweets 138 Million People Died In Sri Lanka Blasts. Then Deletes it
Early Sunday morning, before his tweets about Easter and the Mueller report, President Donald Trump expressed condolences to families of the victims of the Sri Lanka explosions - and grossly overstated the death toll.
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Facebook, Google to Be Quizzed by US Congress on White Nationalism and Political Bias
For years, Silicon Valley has struggled to strike the right balance between allowing users to express themselves and preventing the viral spread of objectionable content.
-
Starwood Data Breach: Marriott Will Pay for New Passports 'If Fraud Has Taken Place'
Experts and government officials have expressed concern that the passport numbers, in concert with the other personal data compromised by the hack, could pose serious risks of identity theft.
-
From Saudi Royal Insider To Open Critic: Khashoggi, Man Of Contradictions
A complex man of contradictions, journalist Jamal Khashoggi went from being a Saudi royal family insider to an outspoken critic of the ultra-conservative kingdom's government, and was ultimately killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. In his final column for The Washington Post, Khashoggi perhaps presciently pleaded for greater freedom of expressi...
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What Is Heart-Rate Training? Is It Good For You? Know More About It
Heart-rate training entails keeping your heart rate - the number of times your heart beats in a minute - within a set range during a workout. The range is expressed as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, which is the greatest number of times your heart can beat in a minute.
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Indian Plane Flew Into Brick Wall - And Just Kept Going: Foreign Media
An Air India pilot flew a Boeing 737 through a brick wall Friday. Incredibly, that marked the beginning of its journey and not the end.
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Crown Prince Ordered Op To Lure Khashoggi To Saudi, Detain Him: US Intel
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan.
