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McDonald's is revamping its Dollar Menu and renaming it Dollar Menu & More -- a move that will add pricier items to its value offering. The company's CEO Don Thompson said on its third-quarter earnings call Monday morning that the menu will be rolled out nationally and supported by national advertising dollars. He did ... |
After deleting the 10,000th Viagra offer from your inbox, you might wonder, does anyone actually make money off this crap? Chris Kanich and his colleagues at UC San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute wondered too—so they hijacked a botnet to find out. Kanich's team intentionally infected eight compu... |
NVIDIA plans on ramping up its efforts to help developers work with virtual reality. The company has been working on virtual reality for about 12 years, and when the company first started, it was mostly in the professional enterprise space, with large immersive display environments. Of course, with the recent boom of c... |
Chicago’s soon-to-be third-tallest skyscraper, Vista Tower, could get a new owner before the 98-story condominium and hotel tower even opens, a Chinese newspaper is reporting. Chinese firm Dalian Wanda Group is seeking a buyer willing to pay about $5 billion for five huge developments throughout the world, including th... |
Evolution aficionados, get excited. It’s time for the simulation smackdown of the century, as two up and coming biological games go head-to-head in a battle of truly Darwinian proportions. In the red corner – Thrive, an open-source project from Revolutionary Games aiming to show the player the wonders of life as they g... |
A suicide bomber disguised as a woman attacked a graduation ceremony in Somalia on Thursday, turning a rare reason to celebrate into carnage that killed at least 22 people — including medical students, doctors and three government ministers. A suicide bomber disguised as a woman attacked a graduation ceremony in Somali... |
Image caption The Digital Economy Act contains provisions to cut off websites that broke copyright law Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government. Business secretary Vince Cable announced the change following a review of the policy by telecoms regulator Ofcom. Web... |
Video game console manufacturer Coleco, the company behind the short-lived ColecoVision and Telstar systems that hit shelves in the 70s and 80s, is making a comeback. Working in tandem with Retro Video Game Systems - which previously failed to find funding for a VGS branded system - Coleco is set to release a new cartr... |
Sources close to Audi are saying a new concept serving as an A9 preview will be introduced in November at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Rumored to take the shape of a four-door coupe, the concept will be more than five meters long and will be based on the MLB platform. It will provide a first glimpse of Audi's new design ... |
I was working on the new Samsung Chromebook Pro, furiously putting together a post that needed to go up stat. The final touch was an image, but I needed to edit it, and I didn’t want to reach for my normal work machine. So I popped it open in the Adobe Lightroom Android app, flipped the screen around so the computer wa... |
Cardiff: Nasser Hussain said it was "disrespectful" to Pakistan to blame England's shock eight-wicket Champions Trophy semi-final defeat on a used Cardiff pitch. England, previously the only unbeaten team left in the eight-strong one-day international tournament and huge favourites to defeat Pakistan, were bowled out f... |
Just in case anyone needed confirmation that the DOL data is just a little, how should we say it, cooked, here comes Gallup with their March 15 undermployment number, which just hit a 2010, and series, high of 20%. This is obviously worse compared to both the beginning of the year (19.5%) and February (19.8%). Unlike t... |
The longtime Democratic lawmaker John Vasconcellos is resting in peace since his death in 2014, but the educational disaster he laid on California in the 1980s is far from gone. Indeed, its likeness thrives today across a broad swath of America’s K-12 schooling, supported by foundation grants, federal funding, and both... |
MONTREAL (Reuters) - World sport is facing an unprecedented drug crisis as yet another in a string of doping bombshells dropped at the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) foundation board meeting on Thursday, shocking officials. A gold medal manufactured for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, is seen on display at t... |
A member of the Alabama Public Service Commissions (PSC), the group that regulates the state’s power companies, who voted against net metering solar power recently sought an opinion from the same PSC as to whether or not a Community Solar Power plant, paying him approximately $250,000/year for 20 years on his family’s ... |
In Tesla Motors, Silicon Valley now has its very own car company. And in CEO Elon Musk, its very own colorful car mogul. A self-made billionaire, Musk is the type of maverick tech geek other geeks like to root for, and the perfect public persona for a startup automaker intent on disrupting the conventional car industry... |
Some doctors closely involved with children suffering from severe spina bifida believe that the lives of those worst affected are so miserable that it is wrong to resort to surgery to keep them alive. Published descriptions of the lives of these children support the judgment that they will have lives filled with pain a... |
Beavers. Buc-ee's. Baytown.Yes, one of the largest Buc-ee's locations in the state is finally open in Baytown. Buc-ee's opened the doors to its Baytown location this morning off the East Freeway at John Martin.Like many things in Texas, this store is huge -- more than 60,000 square feet of space inside to be exact. Tha... |
Donald Trump was grilled about his inheritance, his fuzzy budget math and his mysterious off-the-record chat with The New York Times. | AP Photo 2016 The strangest attack on Trump Rubio and Cruz repeatedly press him on his poll standing, the one issue he can't stop talking about. On Thursday night, Donald Trump was for... |
The Scottish government has announced "urgent" action to help bakers and shortbread makers in the wake of a butter shortage. A feasibility study will be carried out to see if collective buying and storing of butter is an option that could help combat shortages and rising costs. The Scottish Agricultural Organisation So... |
Feb 2015: A lot’s happened since I wrote this post two years ago. Chrome forked WebKit and started Blink, Opera adopted Chromium, and node-webkit became nw.js. This post describes a complexity of defining WebKit that doesn’t exist much anymore; with Chrome’s departure the WebKit world is more simple and clear. WebKit i... |
Standings Updated: September 5, 2018 Originally Published: August 27, 2014 By Erik Pitzer with foreword by James Irwin Introduction | Regions | Simulated Standings I'm a realist. I know this will never happen. So does Erik Pitzer. The College Football Pyramid won't ever exist beyond a hypothetical for many reasons. Col... |
Readers also shared their tactics for dealing with the calls. “Sometimes I give the scammer a made up credit card number one digit short of the full complement, then keep changing the sequence when they read it back,” Bruce in Cleveland wrote. “I can still make dinner while I’m doing this on speaker phone.” Here is a s... |
WASHINGTON ― Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is no fan of gun control. He said in Wednesday’s debate that Chicago, Illinois, is a perfect example of why it doesn’t work anyway. “In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States ― probably you could say by far ― they have more gun violence th... |
Ken Ham, founder of the Creation Museum, is sporting a new look lately. No, he didn’t shave that beard. He’s not trying on skinny jeans for size. He hasn’t switched up his hair. He’s just sporting the ever trendy and fashionable anti-Christian persecution complex that’s so en vogue these days. Ken recently took to his ... |
Microsoft’s brave foray into the world of original content via its Xbox Entertainment Studios label basically ended before it even began, but it still survived long enough to produce a documentary about a bunch of video games that were dumped into a landfill. Well, technically it’s about the story behind legendary gami... |
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts will have to make their playoff push without star quarterback Ricky Ray. The Argos released their depth chart for Friday's game against the Ottawa Redblacks and Ray is out for the must-win home game against Ottawa after suffering a concussion in Sunday's 17-14 road loss to the Montreal A... |
G2 Esports' Richard "shox" Papillon and Kenny "kennyS" Schrub have won the HTC 2v2 Invitational after defeating North's Philip "aizy" Aistrup & René "cajunb" Borg in the final. The French duo got off on the wrong foot in Bucharest, losing out to Space Soldiers' Ismailcan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş and Buğra "Calyx" Arkın in... |
Citigroup's sub-prime losses so far are second only to those at UBS US banking giant Citigroup has said it wants to sell $400bn (£205bn) of assets over the next three years as part of its bid to return to profit. It has $500bn of "legacy assets" that it wants to reduce to $100bn. Since late 2007, Citigroup has raised m... |
Just hours before House Speaker Paul Ryan held a press conference to sell his health care overhaul legislation — using a PowerPoint presentation mocked for misrepresenting basic facts — he was doing something he’s much better at: fundraising. The two things were related. The Thursday morning breakfast fundraiser he att... |
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Lubbock Police arrested Shauna Lee Bennett, 42, for abandonment of a child after her 3-year-old daughter was found covered in filth and wandering alone in an apartment complex. (Wes Rapaport/ KAMC News) When police in Lubbock, Tex., were called to investigate a report of a 3-year-old girl wandering alone in an apartmen... |
Randolph Sheppard Vending Facility Program Purpose The Vending Facility program authorized by the Randolph-Sheppard Act provides persons who are blind with remunerative employment and self-support through the operation of vending facilities on federal and other property. The program, enacted into law in 1936, was inten... |
The coolest part about what happened at Nippert Stadium last night isn't that the atmosphere was awesome, or that the stands were packed. It wasn't that the local soccer team was given two-plus hours to shine in the national spotlight provided by ESPN during the game broadcast or in the shows that followed. It wasn't t... |
Whether you’re looking for boys’ birthday party ideas or Halloween decorations for the house, I’ve rounded up some great ways to use pool noodles with a Halloween theme. The light sabers make great Halloween or birthday party favors for both boys and girls. There’s also a target toss game, two different wreath ideas, w... |
In my efforts to teach myself Scala, I tried solving a problem I’ve tackled in various languages, 6510 assembly code (didn’t get far…), pl/sql, Java (with and without Drools) and Groovy among them. Usually I get bogged down in some detail of the language so I never get to reap any actual benefits of my efforts in daily... |
The Canadian National Exhibition has struck a deal with its landlord at Exhibition Place that will make it independent of the City of Toronto. The operators of the historic 18-day fair say they reached an agreement Friday with the Board of Governors of the city-owned lakefront property. The deal will see the CNE pay th... |
Sources at Doctor Who have confirmed that Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord will not have a temporary companion when he embarks on his Christmas adventure at the end of the year. Advertisement Instead, the “companion space” for the as-yet-untitled episode belongs to Matt Lucas’ Nardole, River Song’s former assistant who was pr... |
AP Photo • The Void, a company that makes "hyper-reality" VR experiences, is working with Lucasfilm and ILMxLab to open a new experience near Disney's parks, called "Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire" • The new experience will open near Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California, and near Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida ... |
Today, I discovered that the capacity of the software-limited "60"'s is 62.4 kWh usable, and unlocked to a full "75" becomes 72.6 kWh usable. So, pay for a 15 kWh upgrade, get 10. Seems a little fishy to me, and definitely misleading. Seems any time I call Tesla out on anything like this, everyone's argument for defend... |
If you can easily attribute the quote, "Hi! I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!" then you were likely one of the millions of kids who have caught, trained, and battled the mini-monsters of Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version. Since the games’ 1998 North American launch, the Pokémon series has racked... |
The EU may want to impose heavy taxes on scotch whisky and single malt after Brexit ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Trade specialists have raised doubts about the prime minister’s plan to “carry over” the EU’s trade deals with more than 50 countries, saying that many of them will use Brexit to push for extra concessions... |
Like in the 19th Century some British want to portray Irish as ignorant peasants British fury at the Republic over their disdain for Brexit is going nuclear. This week a pro-Brexit article that calls Ireland the “land of puppy farms, rain-soaked holidays, dingy bars, drugs mule celebs, verbal diarrhea and squeaky fiddl... |
In a CNN investigation published on Wednesday, Mark Halperin, an influential journalist and political analyst who co-authored the bestselling book Game Change, was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who worked with him while he was political director at ABC News. Halperin is currently an analysis for NBC Ne... |
As Armenia prepares for a parliamentary election on 2 April, the coming contest has already been marred by pronounced polarisation and deep division. With Armenia moving to a full parliamentary form of government, writes Richard Giragosian, the election will be particularly significant and could very well shape the fut... |
In an alternate universe, QBs In an alternate universe, QBs Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson would be wearing the opposite team's uniform. (John Leyba/Getty Images) JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The rumblings started soon after Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay announced Peyton Manning's release in a tearful press conference ... |
Abstract Importance Infantile colic, gastroesophageal reflux, and constipation are the most common functional gastrointestinal disorders that lead to referral to a pediatrician during the first 6 months of life and are often responsible for hospitalization, feeding changes, use of drugs, parental anxiety, and loss of p... |
Officers from Townsville Forensic unit were processing a scene at Alice River yesterday when one of the officers noticed a banana shaped Lego creation amongst items he was photographing. The forensic officer and keen Lego fan was able to identify the banana shaped Lego piece, as one of the art works stolen from the Str... |
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