Seizure Warrant Issued For Warren Jeffs-FLDS Ranch

In the most significant action Texas has taken against the property of convicted Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints leader Warren Jeffs since a Child Protective Services raid in 2008, the state filed papers Wednesday to seize the sect’s isolated ranch. The main temple at the YFZ Ranch, home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus...

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Won’t Someone Take iTunes Out Back And Shoot It?

iTunes 11 did not arrive on time. Apple originally promised to deliver the next version of its ubiquitous music-management program in October. Last month, though, the company announced that the release would slip to November, because the company needed “a little extra time to get...

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Serious Google Security Glitch Gives Access To Previously Revoked Accounts

Earlier tonight, reports began rolling in of a serious breach in Google accounts security. Some sort  of glitch has granted access to Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and perhaps even more tools to users who previously had access, but then had that access revoked. This means that ex-employees or contractors which formerly had access...

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Beyond The Iron Dome

An Iron Dome battery in Ashdod, Israel fires an interceptor at a rocket headed for Ashdod from Gaza, Nov. 17. Photo: Flickr/Israel Defense Forces Israel just proved that its new Iron Dome system can repel Hamas’ short-range rockets and missiles. The bad news: Those weapons are nothing compared to the more advanced missiles that...

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The World's Biggest Works Of Art

Perhaps you heard that Christo recently revived his plan to build the biggest artwork of all time? Before the passing of his partner in love and art Jeanne-Claude, the duo began to scheme about a work of massive magnitude. Constructed from 410,000 variously-hued oil barrels, the proposed beast would tower around...

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Facebook HQ Begging Employees To Test Android

“In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google’s OS. Now the company’s headquarters is plastered with these eye-popping posters asking Facebookers to “switch today”,...

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I Set the World Record on This Game (And It Only Cost Me $25)

I’m the top-ranked player globally in this pretty iPhone game, and it only cost me $25. On Nov. 21, Electronic Arts subsidiary Chillingo published its 338th iPhone game, a racer with a minimalist visual style called Endless Road. It challenges you to outrun an earthquake that is causing the road behind you to collapse. The farther...

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An Escape From Sex Slavery

She remembers a home that looked fancy on the outside but ominous on the inside, a dark maze of bare chambers. She remembers the parade of men, one after the other, day by day, forcing her to have sex. She remembers contemplating death. She wasn’t yet 10 years old. A former sex slave finds solace at a center run by the Somaly Mam Foundation....

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Implant Lets The Blind Read Braille With Their Eyes

Blind people could soon be able to read street signs using an implant that translates the alphabet into Braille and beams an image of the Braille directly to visual neurons at the back of the eye. ...

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Chris Brown Tells Female Comedy Writer That He Wants To Fart On Her

!-- 55,802 Total Views 1.6X Social Lift Stats Johnson, who has regularly tweeted jokes about Brown's attack on Rihanna, was the recipient of a vulgar series of tweets from the hit-maker this afternoon. Brown's account was deleted Sunday night. (NSFW language ahead.) posted about 6 hours ago ...

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