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Bills Quarterback Tells Locker Room He’s Going To A Meeting, Retires And Never Comes Back
Kyle Orton had a tremendously average NFL career. He spent most of his 10 season as a backup quarterback in Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, and Buffalo. When he did get on the field he was completely competent. He started 82 games and went 42-40. He made $30 million in his career, and somewhere along …
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Amazon added 10M new Prime subscribers over the holidays, could make up to $1B in annual revenue
Correction: Updated 7:05 a.m. PT to clarify that the company could make as much as $990 million. Amazon today announced that over 10 million people “tried Prime for the first time” — the company’s $99 annual subscription to all things Amazon — over the holidays this year. If you do the math, Amazon could make as much as $990 million from new […] …
Microsoft is finally shutting down MSN Messenger
Microsoft has finally decided to shut down its MSN Messenger service, an instant messenger client launched in an era of the Internet when AOL’s AIM still mattered. The company previously stated that it planned to end support for MSN Messenger last year, choosing instead to focus on its much more popular Skype service. That makes sense […] …
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Florida judge strikes down voter-approved same-sex marriage ban – Reuters
WJXT Jacksonville Florida judge strikes down voter-approved same-sex marriage banReutersMIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida judge on Thursday struck down the state’s gay marriage ban, the latest in a string of court rulings across the United States voiding state laws that restrict the right to marry. Circuit Judge Luis Garcia, whose jurisdiction includes the …Florida judge rules …
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How Becoming a Father Changes Your Brain
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
Whether you find it exhilarating or terrifying (or both), progress in robotics and related fields like AI is raising new ethical quandaries and challenging legal codes that were created for a world in which a sharp line separates man from machine. Last week, roboticists, legal scholars, and other experts met at the University of California, …
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Ruling allows same-sex marriages for Florida Keys – USA TODAY
Ruling allows same-sex marriages for Florida KeysUSA TODAYMIAMI (AP) — A judge in the Florida Keys overturned the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on Thursday after a legal challenge by gay couples said it effectively made them second-class citizens. The ruling by Circuit Judge Luis M. Garcia … from Top Stories – Google News https://ift.tt/1nBogQV
Scientists Have Recreated The Core Of Jupiter On Earth
Planets and stars form as gravitational forces pull material together. We know that the pressure within these celestial bodies must be very great, but until now, scientists didn’t know what happened to materials at those pressures. July 16, scientists announced they had successfully compressed a diamond, "the least compressible material" we know of, up to …
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