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If you have 50TB of data that you'd like to put on the S3 cloud, Amazon is releasing Snowball. 

 It's basically a large grey box full of hard drives that Amazon will mail to you. 

Simply upload your files and mail it back — they will upload it for you. 

For $200 + shipping, it's at a pretty reasonable price point if you're tired of hosting your data and want to try and push that to AWS.

 ("Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -Tanenbaum, Andrew S.)

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Young Girls Carry Their Phones In Their Butt Pockets Increasing 911 Calls

 
Android users have long complained publicly that it's way too easy to accidentally dial 911.

 So it's pretty astonishing that it took a team of Google Researchers and San Francisco Department of Emergency Management government employees to figure out that butt-dialing was increasing the number of 911 calls. 

The Google 9-1-1 Team presented its results in How Googlers helped San Francisco Use Data Science to Understand a Surge in 911 Calls, a Google-sponsored presentation at the Code for America Summit, and in San Francisco's 9-1-1 Call Volume Increase, an accompanying 26-page paper.

Girl says iPhone caught fire in her butt pocket couldn't call 911

Butt 911 call actually saves teen 

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A new report has concluded that the ocean has half the fish it contained in 1970.

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Is NSA evil?

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Colors from opposite sides of the color wheel compliment each other

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Carlos Castaneda. If you recognize the name, you will enjoy the story about...

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Look out Apple, Microsoft's first laptop looks like a MacBook Pro killer

An insider view into Microsoft
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How can you control people's free access to the net and each other? 
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The newest burger joint taking over the nation started in New York. 
This unorthodox burger chain was just named hottest in America
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Netflix has confirmed the price hike now costs $9.99 to us with an official statement:

To continue adding more TV shows and movies including many Netflix original titles, we are modestly raising the price for some new members in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. As a thank you to existing Netflix members — who aren’t already benefiting from a previous price guarantee — we will maintain their current price for a year.

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 Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row
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So glad I don't work next to this dude!
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  Majestic. And then there's this guy.
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Breaking News:
 Active shooter at NAU

 1 dead, 3 wounded in campus shooting at Northern Arizona University
 
http://shekinahfellowship.blogspot.com/2015/10/is-it-guns-or-is-it-psychotropic-drugs.html
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This game has one player try to defuse a bomb while the other players ('experts') read the bomb's manual and tell the defuser what to do. Watch as this player talks to multiple experts at the same time in one of the tensest moments I have ever seen.
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  "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific", Kauai, Hawaii [OC] [3264x2448]
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 Manoj Bhargava, creator of the 5-hour Energy drink, demonstrates his Free Electric bike. By pedaling for one hour, he says, a person can power a home's lights and basic appliances for an entire day.
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 20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story
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  Just so you know the first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot. It was for people to avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128x128 greyscale image of it.
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 New study finds children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere

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 TIL in 1998, a Georgia high school student was suspended from school after wearing a Pepsi t-shirt on Coke Day. Upon hearing the news, a Pepsi spokesperson said, "Without knowing all the details, it sounds like (he's) obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes."
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 Desert Trip Special Mercedes Unimog Off Road Vehicle
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 Crazy woman does donuts in intersection, flips her car down a hill