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http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/serious-car-crash-leads-to-snapchat-lawsuit/158395839

>Christal McGee's words say it all. "Lucky to be alive." The 18-year-old posted a Snapchat photo with those words after crashing her white Mercedes into another car.

>According to a lawsuit, she was barreling down a highway in Atlanta back in September trying to boast about her speed on Snapchat.

>The man McGee crashed into, Wentworth Maynard, is now suing her and Snapchat. His lawyer says the feature that allows you to post your speed is very dangerous.

>Maynard is suing McGee and Snapchat for ongoing medical fees. Attorney Erin Ehrlich believes he could have a case.

>"It does raise some questions about whether Snapchat could have legitimately and reasonably known that people would be using this feature while they are driving," she said.

>Snapchat released a statement saying, "We actively discourage our community from using the speed filter while driving, including by displaying a "Do NOT Snap and Drive" warning message in the app itself."

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>Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.

>According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job.

>That suggests the FBI paid the largest ever publicized amount for a hacking technique, given the most previously paid was $1 million by U.S. information security company Zerodium to break into phones.

>Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, Comey was asked by a moderator how much the FBI paid for the software that eventually broke into the iPhone.

>"A lot. More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months for sure," Comey said. "But it was, in my view, worth it."

>The Justice Department said in March it had unlocked the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone with the help of an unidentified third party and dropped its case against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), ending a high-stakes legal clash but leaving the broader fight over encryption unresolved.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-fbi-idUSKCN0XI2IB

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I always see people criticizing this source and calling them unreliable, but I've never read an article on it where the content didn't match what was reported by a "reputable" source.

Can someone give some specific examples of when The Daily Mail was wrong or reported false news?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

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After experimenting with barbed wire, surveillance cameras and even cowbells and camels, India has now reportedly introduced "laser walls" at its border with archenemy Pakistan.

One of the world's most dangerous nuclear flashpoints, the India-Pakistan border is also among the most militarized.

Both New Delhi and Islamabad deploy more than half of their 1 million and 600,000-strong armies, respectively, on the border.

India is setting up the laser walls to "plug the porous riverine and treacherous terrain and keep an effective vigil against intruders and terrorists" in Punjab state, the state-run Press Trust of India reported.

Earlier this year, peace talks were suspended when India accused Pakistan of allowing militants to cross over and attack an Indian air force base in Pathankot on Jan. 2.

According to the PTI report, around 45 laser walls will be installed in Punjab state.

Lasers beamed over rivers and hills will set off an alarm and alert the Indian Border Security Force if someone attempts to pass by, it added.

Pakistan has not taken India's buildups on the border lightly in the past.

In 2014, India and Pakistan exchanged artillery and sniper fire for months, leading to dozens of casualties on both sides.

Both countries possess nuclear weapons.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-installs-laser-walls-border-pakistan-n564051

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http://on.ft.com/1SZCPhd

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Saudi Arabia pledges economic overhaul to end 'addiction to oil'
-Kingdom unveils plan for $2tn listing of Aramco
-Move to bolster private sector

Simon Kerr — Riyadh
Anjli Raval — London

Saudi Arabia has unveiled a long-awaited plan for a radical transformation of its economy, pledging to end its "addiction to oil" and bolster its private sector in a shift that will see the planned $2tn listing of the state-owned Saudi Aramco.

Spurred by the collapse in oil prices, the kingdom has set out ambitious targets for economic and social reform under a "Vision 2030" plan that is the brainchild of Mohammed bin Salman, the 30-year-old deputy crown prince and the favoured son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The kingdom could end its reliance on oil within four years, the prince asserted in a television interview after the Saudi cabinet approved the plan yesterday morning. Saudi Arabia currently derives more than 90 per cent of its budget revenues from hydrocarbons.

"We have an addiction to oil ... this is dangerous," Prince Mohammed said in the interview on the state-owned al-Arabiya channel. "It has delayed development of other sectors."

The planned flotation of a 5 per cent stake in Aramco would value the oil company at more than $2tn and mark a historic transformation of the kingdom's primary economic engine, boosting transparency around the state-owned company's finances, as well as granting Saudi Aramco more independence from government oil policy.

Saudi Aramco would be converted into a holding company and all financial information related to the company would be disclosed. Subsidiaries of the entity would also be listed and its board elected.

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> As humans prepare to blast off to Mars, there is still the question of what they’ll eat once they colonize the red planet. Scientists who have traveled here to the Peruvian desert say they have the answer. Potatoes.

> Researchers at the Lima-based International Potato Center and scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are studying which type of potato could be best suited for extraterrestrial farming to support a human settlement on Mars. If everything goes as planned, the Martian colonies could be munching on french fries, chips and mashed potatoes one day.

> “It’s got to be a Martian potato that tastes good,” Julio Valdivia-Silva, a Peruvian astrobiologist with NASA, said while surveying the reddish-brown desert on a trip to collect soil. “It’s a big challenge to take a living organism somewhere else. We’ve never done this before.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nasa-really-is-trying-to-grow-potatoes-on-mars-1460560325

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A young Detroit-area woman who gave birth in a cold garage and left the baby to die apologized Tuesday before a judge ordered a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

The body was discovered at a recycling center in January 2015 after being placed in a bin at a curb in Eastpointe, a Detroit suburb. Police soon learned more: The baby boy was born in a garage weeks earlier, just before Christmas, and was left there to die from exposure while Angela Alexie was inside the house.

"I didn't mean for it to happen," Alexie, 25, told a Macomb County judge. "I wish I could take it all back."

At trial, her lawyer said involuntary manslaughter was a more appropriate charge, but a Macomb County jury disagreed and convicted Alexie of child abuse and murder committed during another felony.

Outside court, county prosecutor Eric Smith said: "This case disgusts me."

"She had plenty of options, plenty of alternatives," he said. "No one leaves a newborn in a garage."

Judge James Biernat Jr. noted that Alexie's three other children had earlier been removed from her care. She acknowledged a long history of heroin and cocaine use.

The baby's death and discovery of the body shocked the community. More than 100 people attended a wake, and the boy was buried at a cemetery in Clinton Township. Morgue employees named him Henry Alexander Macomb.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-woman-whose-baby-died-garage-faces-sentencing-054023143.html

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https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/supreme-court-gives-fbi-more-hacking-power/

>Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power

>The Supreme Court on Thursday approved changes that would make it easier for the FBI to hack into computers, many of them belonging to victims of cybercrime. The changes will take immediate affect in December, unless Congress adopts competing legislation.

>Previously, under the federal rules on criminal procedures, a magistrate judge couldn’t approve a warrant request to search a computer remotely if the investigator didn’t know where the computer was—because it might be outside his or her jurisdiction.

>The rule change, sent in a letter to Congress on Thursday, would allow a magistrate judge to issue a warrant to search or seize an electronic device if the target is using anonymity software like Tor. Over a million people use Tor to browse popular websites like Facebook every month for perfectly legitimate reasons, in addition to criminals who use it to hide their locations.

>The changes, which would allow the FBI go hunting for anyone browsing the Internet anonymously in the U.S. with a single warrant, are already raising concerns among privacy advocates who have been closely following the issue.

>“Whatever euphemism the FBI uses to describe it—whether they call it a ‘remote access search’ or a ‘network investigative technique’—what we’re talking about is government hacking, and this obscure rule change would authorize a whole lot more of it,” Kevin Bankston, director of Open Technology Institute, said in a press release.

>Ahmed Ghappour, a visiting professor at University of California Hastings Law School, has described it as “possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception” because it could potentially allow the FBI to hack a large number of computers domestically and abroad.
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KINKY wrestling fans are splashing the cash on beautiful women... who are being paid to dominate them.

Unconventional London agency, Models Wrestling Management, promises to put the strongest and most attractive women in the ring with their male customers.

From £150 a session, punters have the option of choosing from a range of services, including bondage, being beat down, fantasy wrestling and competitive-style fighting.

Potential punters can browse the online catalogue of models available, gleaning information such as their height, waist and bra size.

Founder of MWM and ex-model, dancer and boxer, Cam, told The Sun that their clients trend to be “men in high powered jobs and positions.

“They are well mannered and well kept. Although being extremely and confident they do tend to be a little shy on arrival to their sessions.”

Depending on how brave customers are, they can choose from a wide range of classes.

Timid wrestling fans can book ‘cat fight’ sessions where they have the opportunity to “relax and enjoy watching two wrestlers go at it all just for you”.

More meek men might opt for a semi-competitive class, which carefully balances “being sexy and aggressive”.

Hardcore guests may want to try out ‘bondage wrestling’, where they will be placed completely in the control of the model.

For kinky visitors, the ‘fantasy wrestling’ style allows clients to try out their most bizarre fantasies.

The website promises: “The wrestler may dress up and perform as the character of your choice, for example as a sexy nurse, wonder woman, police woman, etc.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/7114595/Mixed-wrestling-is-not-as-good-as-sex-its-miles-better-Men-are-now-paying-women-to-BEAT-THEM-UP.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/science/driving-texting-safety-textalyzer.html

Over 3000 were killed and nearly half a million were injured due to distracted driving in the US in 2014. The trends are getting more dire annually and younger drivers are the worst. In response there have been many add campaigns with poor results. New York is now considering fielding a device that could be connected to a stopped vehicle owner's phone to detect illegal phone use. It is dubed a "textalyzer".

Assuming the tech would work properly, and do nothing else, I hope this is adopted.

More figures by the gov:
http://www.distraction.gov/stats-research-laws/facts-and-statistics.html

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A German tourist was the latest visitor to feel the wrath of the sex workers when he was clubbed around the head with a rock and had his money and valuables stolen in the party town of Pattaya, south of Bangkok.

Lutz Mohler told police he had been attacked when he refused the advances of a group of the transgender sex workers, adding: "When I refused, they hit me with a rock and rode off on a motorbike.”

His attackers were arrested just hours later after leaving their victim in hospital with a broken nose.

It was just the latest in a string of vicious assaults that Thai police are trying to quell as the ladyboys increasingly target Westerners visiting the south-east Asian country.

In December a gang of four were arrested in the town of Pattaya after Naami Keyghobadi, from Leeds, plunged from a nightclub's fourth-floor window.

It is alleged the 28-year-old had been in an argument with the 'ladyboys' over a payment only minutes earlier.

Thai police have now admitted they are struggling to keep in check a growing number of aggressive sex workers attacking foreign tourists.

"The ladyboys are not only aggressively attacking tourists to rob them, they are also severely harassing them for sex. It makes the streets very dangerous late at night.

"There’s a 1000 baht (£20) fine for sexual harassment, with possible imprisonment for causing serious injury, but that hasn’t cut down the problems.

"We can only advise tourists to be very careful about who they speak to late at night and avoid being out and about alone at that time."

Police confirmed several other attacks on tourists within hours of the vicious assault on Mr Mohler.

A Chinese man, 26, was earlier robbed of jewellery as a gang of ladyboys harassed him for sex.

While an Indian tourist was targeted for a neck chain only 30 minutes later.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7107785/Violent-gang-of-ladyboys-mugging-tourists-warn-Thai-police-after-German-man-was-attacked-in-girlie-resort-town.html

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab6ce3ec-0ca0-11e6-b41f-0beb7e589515.html

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FED CONCERNS EASE OVER STATE OF GLOBAL ECONOMY
>>Central bank holds rates at 0.25-0.5%
>>Door open to further rise this year

Sem Fleming – Washington


>The Federal Reserve yesterday signaled that its concerns about global economic and financial hazards had eased since its meeting in March, leaving the door open to a second increase in interest rates later this year.
>The central bank held rates at 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent yesterday, as expected, noting a slowdown in US economic growth and more sluggish household spending.
>The Federal Open Market Committee struck out a reference in its last statement to international risks to the US economy due to an improvement in financial market sentiment and lessened concerns over Chinese policy.
>That suggested a short-term rates increase in the coming months, even if the timing remains uncertain.
>However the Fed also suggested that it remained on guard for another adverse turn of events abroad. "The Committee continues to closely monitor inflation indicators and global economic and financial developments," it said.
>Having pushed through a landmark rise in short-term interest rates in December, Fed chair Janet Yellen has since spelt out a cautious approach to monetary poilicy amid concerns about Chinese growth and low US inflation expectations.
>Uncertainty about the path of policy has been heightened by the UK referendum on its membership of the European Union a week after the Fed's June meeting; many investors argue a Fed move so soon to a potential market destabilising event would be hazardous.
>The median expectation from Fed policymakers' interest rate forecasts suggests the official rate will be lifted twice this year, with some analysts looking to June or July for the first of these moves and December for the second.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/28/after-20-years-in-legal-limbo-9000-year-old-kennewick-man-set-to-receive-native-american-burial/

>Beer in hand, 21-year-old Will Thomas bent down in the middle of the Columbia River to grab what he thought was a rock.

>“Look, Dave,” he reportedly told his friend Dave Deacy. It was 1996, and the college students were trying to sneak into a boat race near Kennewick, a small city in the southeast corner of Washington. Their master plan, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, was to check out girls. “I found a head,” he joked.

>It wasn’t until after he lifted the skull out of the water that Thomas realized his jest wasn’t factually incorrect.

>The duo tucked the cranium on dry land and moseyed over to the race. Afterward, they flagged a police officer, handing off the head in the bottom of a 5-gallon bucket. The skull and a few other bones then passed from the sheriff’s office to the coroner to a local forensic anthropologist, James Chatters, until someone carbon dated a finger and realized the remains were about 9,000 years old — making them among the oldest remains in North America.

>The Kennewick Man, nine millennia after his death, was born.

>Thomas and Deacy believed they had found a victim of murder or suicide. They had, in fact, found a victim — but the assault occurred long before Egyptians got around to building the pyramids. Chatters scoured the site on the Columbia River, finding an almost complete skeleton in freshly-eroded mud. While he was alive, the Kennewick Man had had a rough existence: One arm was withered, as though crushed, and he had been stabbed in the hip with a rock spear with the serrated tip embedding itself in his pelvic bone. It’s believed he survived the initial attack but not the infection.
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>A huge explosion has rocked Kabul close to the US embassy and several Afghan government ministries and security agencies. According to local media, over 100 people have been injured in the attack.

>Reports of the number of injured vary. According to Pajhwok Afghan News, at least 100 people were wounded in the attack. Tolo news cited officials from Afghan Health Ministry who confirmed that at least 161 people were injured in the Kabul suicide bombing.

>Ghani slammed the attack “in the strongest possible terms,” adding that the offices of Afghanistan's main security agency were the target.

>Photos have emerged showing plumes of smoke rising over the city center. According to Afghan Tolo news, a suicide bomber detonated explosive-laden vehicle outside Afghan Secret Service unit. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the militant group said, as cited by AP.

>At least eight Afghan soldiers suffered minor injuries in the blast, a spokesman for an emergency hospital in Kabul said, Reuters reported.

>The blast took place in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, one of the most affluent districts in the Afghan capital, a few hundred meters from the presidential palace, known as Arg. Also major Afghan security agencies, including the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force and the Defense Ministry, are located in the area.

>Eyewitnesses told the news agency they heard gunfire over half an hour after the explosion. The gunfire was also confirmed by police.

>The US embassy and NATO headquarters said they were not affected by the blast.

https://www.rt.com/news/340139-kabul-center-blast-afghanistan

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OJ Simpson wants to date Kris Jenner when he's released from prison. Will settle for Caitlyn Jenner if Kris isn't interested.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/o-simpson-date-kris-caitlyn-jenner-prison-article-1.2609742