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Consumers Demanding Online Privacy in Light of Snowden Leaks

RIA Novosti  

Technology users now have an unprecedented right to privacy thanks to Edward Snowden’s revelations on how US and UK agencies use the Internet to spy on them, political activist and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda told the RT news channel.



The "Game Of Thrones" Actor Who Plays Hodor Has Spoken About His Big Twist

BuzzFeed 

Contains spoilers!

This post contains spoilers – proceed at your own peril.

HBO

"The Door" has to be one of the most devastating Game of Thrones episodes of all time, thanks to the scene that gave it its name.

Hodor died a hero, holding that damn door for dear life, and broke literally all our hearts in the process.

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Music to Forget Yourself With

The New Yorker 

In 2013, the Pennsylvania-born songwriter Steve Gunn released “Time Off,” his fifth solo record. Two months earlier, Kurt Vile, a contemporary of Gunn’s, put out “Wakin on a Pretty Daze,” a collection of slack, unspooling guitar songs. A barely legible blip on the cultural radar, maybe, but here were two new records, both beautiful, that embodied a not quite indifferent but assuredly unbothered ethos: “Chill out.” It’s a point of view that was pervasive throughout the nineteen-nineties—a decade... Читать дальше...

Sorry, but you’re out of last chances

News Herald Sun 

KELLY Webb is due to be sent back to the UK after running up an appalling rap sheet here. It’s tough but she has had enough chances to change, writes Rita Panahi.

5 Facts About the Trickiness of Weather Forecasting

Mental Floss 

Meteorologists get a bad rap. They’re right up there with doctors as the most visible scientists in society, but their work is routinely badmouthed and unappreciated by so many people who benefit from it every day. “They get paid for being wrong half the time!” is a common insult, and it couldn’t be farther from the truth. The vast majority of forecasts are very accurate these days—a three-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast was during the waning years of the Cold War—but some predictions can still go awry. Читать дальше...





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