Here's The Report A Vice Reporter Was Filming Right Before He Got Detained...
Last week, armed gunman detained VICE Journalist Simon Ostrovsky for three nights and three days in eastern Ukraine.An hour before he was "blindfolded, beaten, and tied up with tape," Ostrovsky filmed...
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E-COMMERCE AND THE FUTURE OF RETAIL: 2014 [SLIDE DECK]
The retail industry is undergoing a dramatic shift: E-commerce is capturing a larger share of sales than ever before. We've created a slideshow highlighting the retail categories where e-commerce is...
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17 Emerging Energy Technologies That Will Change The World
Policy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are...
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Nissan Has Made A Self-Cleaning Car
Now that Nissan has revolutionized the rearview mirror, it has moved on to another problem: It is developing a self-cleaning car.The European arm of the automaker isn't changing anything about the car...
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What Brazil's Brand-New Soccer Stadiums Look Like 50 Days Before The World Cup
With 50 days to go before the first game of the World Cup, Brazil is rushing to finish the last of its brand-new stadiums.The Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo is the most worrisome venue. Construction...
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Here Are The Outrageous 'Lady Body Maintenance' Rules For Buffalo Bills...
Five ex-Buffalo Jills cheerleaders are suing the Buffalo Bills and two production companies that managed the team over alleged minimum-wage violations, among other complaints.They are the third set of...
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The Weekend Is Over And Markets Are Lower
The weekend is over and Asian markets are starting the week lower.Japan’s Nikkei is down 1.0%.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is down 0.1%.Korea’s KOSPI is up a modest 0.05%. Data out on Monday showed that...
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Samsung Breaks Into A New Product Category: Premium Headphones And Audio Devices
Samsung is getting into the premium audio business.The company announced Sunday night a new line of headphones along with a wireless Bluetooth speaker called Level. Level products will launch globally...
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More Than A Hundred Tornadoes Could Hit The Midwest And South This Week
Severe weather and storms, including more than a hundred tornadoes, could hit the Midwest this week due to a big, spinning upper-low front traveling across the U.S. currently, according to the Weather...
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America Admits It Has No Idea What Kim Jong-un Is Doing
Almost all of the conventional wisdom from American intelligence agencies about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been wrong, Peter Sanger of The New York Times reports.When Kim became supreme leader...
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Here's How Technology Is Ruining Your Sleep
Our addiction to technology can be affecting us in ways we might not have previously realized.Many people watch TV as they fall asleep or text while they lie in bed at night, but these habits could...
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Here's An Easy Way Of Seeing What Added To And Subtracted From GDP
U.S. GDP grew at a measly 0.1% rate in Q1.Personal consumption grew by 3.0%, adding 2 percentage points of growth to GDP.Meanwhile exports fell 7.6% taking a full percentage point of growth from...
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Twitter Will Never Be Mainstream (TWTR)
Twitter is still dealing with the same problem it's had since its inception. It's not a mainstream social network like Facebook, but a niche product for plugged-in folks obsessed with media, tech, and...
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This Is The Personality Trait That Most Often Predicts Success
The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness. "It's emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan," Paul Tough...
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Anthony Bourdain Just Did A Hilarious, Impromptu Q&A On Twitter
Anthony Bourdain was tweeting while waiting for his plane to Shanghai to take off today, and wound up answering some pressing fan questions on Twitter.It started when the "No Reservations" host...
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The Conservative Case For Taking On The Copyright Lobby
Today, R Street Institute released a report (PDF) on copyright duration titled "Guarding Against Abuse: Restoring Constitutional Copyright."In recent decades, a number of special interests called the...
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Stephen Colbert Hates The New 'Star Wars' Cast, Says J.J. Abrams Is 'Blowing It'
Stephen Colbert is a big "Star Wars" fan and in his final season on "The Colbert Report," he wants to make sure you know it."I am a huge fan of 'Star Wars,' I saw the original movie when I was...
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3 Optimistic Takes On Today's Ugly GDP Report
The pace of U.S. GDP growth decelerated sharply to just 0.1% in Q1 from 2.6% in Q4. This was much lower than the 1.2% expected by economists.There are obviously a lot of moving parts to the GDP report...
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Here's Why The Words 'Love' And 'Hate' Should Be Banned From Your Office
You send your boss an email outlining a new marketing strategy for your firm. She responds with three simple words: "I love it!"You're ecstatic. But you shouldn't be, says Nancy Lublin, chief executive...
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