All Stories from August 6, 2016 (Change date)
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Meet the man who made Pokemon an international phenomenonAug 09, 2016 6:09 am - You probably don't know him, but Al Kahn is likely to have had an enormous influence on your life. As a licensing executive, Kahn has spent more than 30 years distributi...
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The one thing not to do in your online dating profileAug 09, 2016 6:13 am - Online dating has made potential partners much more readily available than ever before - and yet also, somehow, disposable. The other day I was sitting on a train with a...
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Programmers trying to teach driverless cars to do what's rightAug 06, 2016 7:20 am - What policies should govern a self-driving car when it's faced with an imminent crash - and should it prioritize the lives of the passengers sitting inside, or the many ...
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How Margot Robbie became Harley Quinn for 'Suicide Squad'Aug 08, 2016 9:38 am - Margot Robbie was almost where she needed to be. Prior to beginning filming on “Suicide Squad,” the Australian actress had just about completed her transformation into H...
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Emojis: The one place where gun control seems to be winningAug 06, 2016 7:15 am - Gun control measures have stalled in the legislature repeatedly. But there does appear to be one place where gun control is catching on: the ever-more-political world of...
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MoonEx launching first private mission to the moonAug 07, 2016 7:39 am - For years, the only entities with the power and resources to visit the moon were governments, such as the United States, China and India. But that's all about to change:...
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Why Pokemon Go players are revolting against the game's makerAug 08, 2016 9:38 am - For a few glorious weeks, it seemed as if the makers of Pokemon Go could do no wrong. Sure, players were getting in trouble - for trespassing and taking out the game at ...
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NBC started early on those Olympic athlete videosAug 08, 2016 9:38 am - The Olympics, perhaps more than any other sporting spectacle, are all about emotion. How else do you get viewers to remain glued to a screen and root wholeheartedly for ...
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Activist who beat Facebook isn't satisfied by new privacy rulesAug 07, 2016 7:39 am - A new U.S.-European Union data-privacy accord could have been a reason to celebrate for Max Schrems, the 28-year-old whose successful landmark lawsuit against Facebook l...
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The most compelling reason to never talk politics on FacebookAug 08, 2016 6:18 am - There has never been a worse time to declare your politics publicly, according to a new and nationally representative online poll conducted by the Rad Campaign, Craig Co...