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Feidin Santana, who filmed the police killing of Walter Scott, is interviewed on NBC Nightly News. Photograph: NBC Walter Scott and police officer Michael Slager were struggling on the ground in the seconds before Slager shot Scott dead, the man who recorded video footage of the killing in South Carolina said on Wednesday evening. In…
Age of Empires II is so old it was released in the 20th century. And 15 years into the 21st-century, it’s getting a new expansion. It’s for the HD version of the game released on Steam a few years back, and will actually be the second expansion for the refreshed title; another, The Forgotten, originally…
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night. The nondescript building has…
I was painfully shy growing up. I’d flush when I had to get up in front of the class, and shook in fear of getting called on by the teacher. As I grew up, the anxiety subsided, somewhat. Echosmith’s glamorous frontwoman Sydney Sierota seems like the last person who would deal with isolation. But at…
It stands to reason that as revenge porn is cracked down upon, certain men will have to find other ingenious avenues for non-consensually sexualizing women. Well, meet DoppelBangHer, one of the most creative approaches I can possibly imagine. It’s a Reddit community where dudes go to crowdsource a very important question: How do I find…
The New York Daily News is reporting tonight that Hillary Clinton will announce her candidacy for President on Sunday. Business Insider politics editor Hunter Walker, who ran a similar report earlier today, joins Hardball with the scoop. Reports: Clinton to announce on Sunday | MSNBC.
With the release of Marvel’s Ant-Man drawing nearer, we finally know what one of the movie’s main characters looks like. On Thursday, Entertainment Weekly debuted a look at the supervillain Yellow Jacket, played by Corey Stoll. He’s, er, very shiny. For comparison, here’s how the original costume looked in the comic: Although the photo may not look like much,…
When Billy Rios needed emergency surgery last summer after cerebral spinal fluid began leaking through his nose, he was only partly focused on his life-threatening condition. That’s because Rios was distracted by the computerized drug-infusion pumps Stanford Medical Center used to administer medication to him and other patients. As a security researcher, Rios realized he’d…
Despite what the recent Apple Watch hype would have you believe, the next great technological frontier isn’t your wrist. It’s your home. Specifically, it’s getting all of your connected devices—the Wi-Fi equipped lights, outlets, crockpots, whatever—to communicate both with you and with each other. It’s an area that both Apple and Google have poked at…
.headline_area WOLF HALL HENRY VIII: who let all these dang wolves in my hall WOLF IN TUDOR HAT: aaroo *** THOMAS CROMWELL: Thomas More you stand at risk of losing your head do you or do you not affirm the Act of Succession, the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and the king’s right to annul his…