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Rebel Developers Are Trying to Cure Our Smartphone Addiction, With an App
Increasingly, the rebel developers are using fire to fight fire - creating apps that try to put users back in control.
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Rebel Developers Are Trying To Cure Smartphone Addiction - With An App
To understand why it's so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner's pigeons.
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How Emoji Can Kill: As Gangs Move Online, Social Media Fuels Violence
Social media has profoundly changed gang activity in the United States, according to a new report by a Chicago nonprofit. Of particular concern, researchers say, is how social media often appears to amplify and speed up the cycle of aggression and violence.
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Trump, Fast-Food Lover And Exercise Hater, Takes A 'Swing' On Fitness Day
It's Sports and Fitness Day at the White House. That meant President Donald Trump - a man who has spoken out on the dangers of exercising and devours McDonald's, KFC chicken, chocolate cake and double scoops of vanilla ice cream - spent his afternoon lecturing the nation on the importance of staying fit.
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Thirdhand Smoke Is Widespread And May Be Dangerous, Mounting Evidence Shows
Thirdhand smoke is referred to residual chemicals left on indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. Research has shown such potentially hazardous residue can be ingested and inhaled months and even years after the smoke has dissipated.
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Why Didn't The Officer Rush Into Florida's Parkland School Mass Shooting?
The sheriff deputy was armed and in uniform, standing outside the Florida school where a gunman was methodically killing students, authorities said Thursday night. And yet he did nothing.
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17 Killed In Shooting At South Florida High School
A heavily armed 19-year-old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.
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The Harvey Weinsteins Of The World: What Makes Some Men Predators?
What causes some men to harass and not others?
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One Of Earliest Slave Remains Found: Skull Shows How Much He Was Abused
The blow to the head of the man in grave 10 was so severe that it chipped off a bone near his right eyebrow, fractured part of his face, and probably helped to kill him.
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Mums-To-Be, Sleeping On Your Back May Increase Risk Of Stillbirth!
The research, published on Monday in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the largest of its kind and the clearest evidence yet that sleeping conditions during pregnancy could have significant effects on the fetus.
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New Details Emerge About Girlfriend Of Las Vegas Shooter
Marilou Danley, the longtime girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman, returned to the United States Tuesday night and was met at the Los Angeles airport by FBI agents, according to the Associated Press.
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Vegas Gunman Was A High-Stakes Gambler, Owned Homes In 4 States
He liked to bet big, wagering tens of thousands of dollars in a sitting. He owned homes in four states but preferred staying in casino hotels, sometimes for weeks at a time, as he worked the gambling machines.
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Las Vegas Gunman Liked To Gamble, Listened To Country Music, Lived Quiet Retired Life Before Massacre
Before he opened fire late Sunday - killing at least 50 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip - the gunman Stephen Paddock lived a quiet life for years in a small town outside Las Vegas.
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The Solar Eclipse Transformed America, At Least For A Few Moments
Millions of Americans gasped and groaned Monday as the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years zoomed across the country, dazzling many but disappointing some whose view was obscured by clouds.
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Many People Can't Tell When Photos Are Fake. Can You?
During the terrorism attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015, a Canadian Sikh was falsely accused of being one of the attackers after a photo went viral, doctored to make him look like he was wearing a suicide bomb vest. A Spanish newspaper published the picture on its front page and later apologized. Less than a year later, the photo start...
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Rebel Developers Are Trying to Cure Our Smartphone Addiction, With an App
Increasingly, the rebel developers are using fire to fight fire - creating apps that try to put users back in control.
-
Rebel Developers Are Trying To Cure Smartphone Addiction - With An App
To understand why it's so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner's pigeons.
-
How Emoji Can Kill: As Gangs Move Online, Social Media Fuels Violence
Social media has profoundly changed gang activity in the United States, according to a new report by a Chicago nonprofit. Of particular concern, researchers say, is how social media often appears to amplify and speed up the cycle of aggression and violence.
-
Trump, Fast-Food Lover And Exercise Hater, Takes A 'Swing' On Fitness Day
It's Sports and Fitness Day at the White House. That meant President Donald Trump - a man who has spoken out on the dangers of exercising and devours McDonald's, KFC chicken, chocolate cake and double scoops of vanilla ice cream - spent his afternoon lecturing the nation on the importance of staying fit.
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Thirdhand Smoke Is Widespread And May Be Dangerous, Mounting Evidence Shows
Thirdhand smoke is referred to residual chemicals left on indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. Research has shown such potentially hazardous residue can be ingested and inhaled months and even years after the smoke has dissipated.
-
Why Didn't The Officer Rush Into Florida's Parkland School Mass Shooting?
The sheriff deputy was armed and in uniform, standing outside the Florida school where a gunman was methodically killing students, authorities said Thursday night. And yet he did nothing.
-
17 Killed In Shooting At South Florida High School
A heavily armed 19-year-old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.
-
The Harvey Weinsteins Of The World: What Makes Some Men Predators?
What causes some men to harass and not others?
-
One Of Earliest Slave Remains Found: Skull Shows How Much He Was Abused
The blow to the head of the man in grave 10 was so severe that it chipped off a bone near his right eyebrow, fractured part of his face, and probably helped to kill him.
-
Mums-To-Be, Sleeping On Your Back May Increase Risk Of Stillbirth!
The research, published on Monday in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the largest of its kind and the clearest evidence yet that sleeping conditions during pregnancy could have significant effects on the fetus.
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New Details Emerge About Girlfriend Of Las Vegas Shooter
Marilou Danley, the longtime girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman, returned to the United States Tuesday night and was met at the Los Angeles airport by FBI agents, according to the Associated Press.
-
Vegas Gunman Was A High-Stakes Gambler, Owned Homes In 4 States
He liked to bet big, wagering tens of thousands of dollars in a sitting. He owned homes in four states but preferred staying in casino hotels, sometimes for weeks at a time, as he worked the gambling machines.
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Las Vegas Gunman Liked To Gamble, Listened To Country Music, Lived Quiet Retired Life Before Massacre
Before he opened fire late Sunday - killing at least 50 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip - the gunman Stephen Paddock lived a quiet life for years in a small town outside Las Vegas.
-
The Solar Eclipse Transformed America, At Least For A Few Moments
Millions of Americans gasped and groaned Monday as the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years zoomed across the country, dazzling many but disappointing some whose view was obscured by clouds.
-
Many People Can't Tell When Photos Are Fake. Can You?
During the terrorism attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015, a Canadian Sikh was falsely accused of being one of the attackers after a photo went viral, doctored to make him look like he was wearing a suicide bomb vest. A Spanish newspaper published the picture on its front page and later apologized. Less than a year later, the photo start...
