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www.cnn.com | yesterday

Oklahoma City tornado: What we know

abcnews.go.com | 18 hours ago

Oklahoma Tornado: How to Help

Paul Hellstern/The Oklahoman/AP PhotoAt least 51 people are dead after a massive tornado touched down in the Oklahoma city metropolitan area on Monday. Among the dead were children from one of two elementary schools in Moore, Okla., that were ...

news.sky.com | 11 hours ago

Tornado Survivor Finds Dog During TV Interview

Miraculous stories of survival emerge after one of the strongest tornadoes in history tore through an Oklahoma suburb.

usnews.nbcnews.com | 22 hours ago

How to help Oklahoma tornado victims

By Suzanne Choney, Contributing Writer, NBC NewsThe loss of life and stunning devastation left in Oklahoma City suburbs after a monster tornado ripped through the area is heart-wrenching. But within hours, relief organizations were getting out the ...

www.huffingtonpost.com | 7 hours ago

Right-Wing Church Blames Tornado Devastation On Support For Gay Player

A prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church is drawing a link between the Oklahoma tornado's devastation and a local team's support for openly gay...

abcnews.go.com | yesterday

Live Updates: Tornado Hits Oklahoma

Watch live coverage of Tornado Damage in Oklahoma on ABCNews.com 7 p.m. Oklahoma Lt. Gov Todd Lamb tells ABC Radio: “It’s devastating in Moore, Oklahoma. It is absolutely devastating, this is horrific. The ferocity of the tornado…we’re going to have ...

www.businessinsider.com | 9 hours ago

Airbnb Is Declared Illegal In New York City

An administrative law judge has found Airbnb to be illegal in New York City, reports Fast Company . Airbnb, the site that lets you rent out your apartment or house like a bed-and-breakfast, violates the New York City hotel law that prevents you from ...

www.cnn.com | yesterday

The Doors' Ray Manzarek dies at 74

bits.blogs.nytimes.com | 9 hours ago

Live Blog: Apple and Corporate Taxes

A Senate panel is set to examine how Apple sidestepped tens of billions of dollars in taxes around the world. Live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m.

www.whitehouse.gov | 7 hours ago

Resources and Information for Those Affected by Oklahoma Tornadoes

Ed. Note: You can help people affected by the recent tornadoes through American Red Cross Disaster Relief . If you are in the affected areas, you can also register as "Safe and Well" to let your friends and family know you are okay. Check back here ...

techcrunch.com | 10 hours ago

Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS And Android Developers

The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS and Android has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile platforms. Unity CEO David Helgason announced the changed terms today during the Unite Nordic ...

blog.hubspot.com | yesterday

Your Designers Are Not Artists, and You Need to Stop Thinking That Way

As head of HubSpot’s creative and design team, I spend nearly every day acting as the translator between my designers and the rest of the company, particularly executives, marketers, and salespeople, (i.e. those folks whose jobs are often held to more ...

www.cnn.com | 10 hours ago

More tornadoes could strike today

The system that spawned Monday's massive, deadly tornado in Oklahoma isn't over yet. Fifty-three million Americans could face severe weather Tuesday.

blogs.hbr.org | 9 hours ago

Why Your Company Should Use the Kiskstarter Model to Innovate

Watch the silos disappear.

www.usatoday.com | 19 hours ago

How to help Oklahoma tornado victims

Want to help victim's of this week's devastating tornadoes? Here's how.

thinkprogress.org | 23 hours ago

7 Very Wrong Things About Climate Science And Energy In House Science Chair Lamar Smith’s WashPost Op-Ed

Rep. Lamar Smith, the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that contains several misrepresentations of fact. He argued for increased fossil fuel production, against the scientific consensus ...

thinkprogress.org | 4 hours ago

California Police Beat Man Nearly To Death For Asking To Read His Ticket

A Berkeley truck driver is suing the California High Patrol for a brutal assault that brought him to the brink of death — provoked, according to a report by the local NBC affiliate, only by the man’s request to read the ticket he was being given ...

thinkprogress.org | 8 hours ago

GOP Aides Mock House Republicans’ ‘Crazy’ Benghazi Witch-Hunt

GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year, arguing that the Party should focus more on substantive issues, ...

www.businessinsider.com | 2 hours ago

Teens Are Ditching Facebook For Twitter To Avoid Boring Adults And Drama (FB)

Poll says teens sharing more on social media sites, trending more to Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook , according to a new study ...

www.usatoday.com | 18 hours ago

20 children among the dead in Oklahoma

A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph killed at least 51 people Monday afternoon.

thinkprogress.org | 3 hours ago

In Colorado, Blacks Make Up 4 Percent Of The Population And 100 Percent Of Death Row

In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto. A few months later, Colorado’s death penalty is still firmly ...

www.forbes.com | 18 hours ago

IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon

IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now ...

techland.time.com | yesterday

What Is Tumblr?

Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book ...

blogs.rollcall.com | 20 hours ago

Coburn Wants Tornado Disaster Aid to Be Offset

The tornado damage near Oklahoma City is still being assessed and the death toll is expected to rise, but already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.

arstechnica.com | 8 hours ago

Gimme the cache! memcached turns 10 years old today

Little key-value store still works great, keeps most of the WWW running.

science.nbcnews.com | 18 hours ago

Curse or coincidence? Scientists study Tornado Alley's past and future

Do tornadoes follow well-worn tracks? Where do the deadliest twisters hit? Will climate change make such storms worse? Monday's devastating tornado in Oklahoma raises some questions for which scientists have ready answers, and others that could puzzle ...

www.politico.com | 18 hours ago

New woes for House immigration bill

House Democratic leadership expresses private concern about language regarding health care.

www.theatlantic.com | 8 hours ago

Life Lessons in Fighting the Culture of Bullshit

What politics taught me that current graduates need to know.

swampland.time.com | 13 hours ago

Gay Boy Scouts Employee: I Can’t Live A Lie Any Longer

I am a full-time paid professional employee of the Boy Scouts of America. I am also gay. I spend 14-hour days and 80-hour workweeks promoting the Scouting program and providing the best possible services to building and retaining membership. I do this ...

www.washingtonpost.com | 12 hours ago

The White House claim of ‘doctored e-mails... to smear the president’

“ That’s a very serious offense that happened where Republicans on the Hill, we voluntarily provided these e-mails to, took one of them, doctored it and gave it to ABC News in an attempt to smear the president.” Read full article

gizmodo.com | 15 hours ago

PSA: Your Skype Messages Aren't As Private as You Think They Are

Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that's far from the case—and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications. Read ...

techcrunch.com | 2 hours ago

Xbox One Makes The Console Gaming Experience Less Lonely

Gaming has evolved from single-player to head-to-head to massively multiplayer, but also retreated from public arcades to isolated homes. Today's launch of the Xbox One makes the whole console experience social, not just the gaming itself. You'll ...

blogs.hbr.org | 8 hours ago

Gain Competitive Advantage—by Questioning Old Habits

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gigaom.com | yesterday

Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office

More news from Yahoo on Monday: The company is revamping photo-sharing service Flickr and is also opening a New York office.

www.foxnews.com | 8 hours ago

State Department official says he was scapegoated by bosses over Benghazi

A mid-level State Department official sidelined in the aftermath of the Benghazi terror attack is speaking out, publicly accusing his bosses of scapegoating him for the security lapses in eastern Libya.

abcnews.go.com | 12 hours ago

How to Stay Safe at Summer Concerts

Miguel's Billboard Music Awards accident a reminder to stay safe at concerts.

www.foxnews.com | 12 hours ago

Syria says it destroys Israeli vehicle accused of crossing ceasefire line

The Israeli military said earlier Tuesday that gunfire from Syria hit an Israeli patrol on the Golan Heights overnight, damaging a vehicle and prompting the troops to fire back.

www.cnn.com | 17 hours ago

Arias to speak to the jury deciding whether she lives or dies

dailycaller.com | 16 hours ago

Democrats defeat GOP immigration-reform amendments

Several amendment including one denying amnesty to 'serious criminals' and 'child abusers' too much for Dems

news.cnet.com | yesterday

U.S. Navy dolphins find antique torpedo

A Howell torpedo on display at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum. (Credit: The Naval War College Museum) Unlike Acoustic Kitty , the U.S. military's dolphin program, active since the 1960s, has had quite a bit of success. Dolphins, you see, are capable ...

dailycaller.com | 8 hours ago

Brit Hume: Obama, Holder contradict themselves on press freedom with Rosen investigation

Fox News analyst calls into question the Justice Department investigation of 'leakee' versus the leaker

www.fastcodesign.com | 22 hours ago

Rural Modernism: A Charming Off-Grid Home Planted In A Cornfield

The House on Limekiln Line offers a modern take on the local agricultural vernacular--plus a bunch of energy-conscious features. Deep in the rural heart of Ontario’s Huron County, an asymmetrical A-frame silhouette can be seen above the surrounding ...

usnews.nbcnews.com | 23 hours ago

What you're seeing: Videos, images from the ground

www.theatlantic.com | 11 hours ago

What the Establishment's Case for Spying on AP Ignores

A press that's able to ferret out government secrets is more important than a government that can keep secrets.

news.cnet.com | 18 hours ago

Customers not as happy with iPhone as they were last year

The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple remains on top, but it's declining while Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are rising.

thinkprogress.org | 7 hours ago

Before Deadly Tornado Hit, Oklahoma Senators Worked To Undermine Disaster Relief

Oklahoma residents will now turn to government assistance for emergency disaster aid after a tornado ripped through the state on Monday, leaving dozens dead and tearing apart hundreds of buildings. But the same night that many residents lost their ...

news.cnet.com | 8 hours ago

Lawmakers lambaste Apple's tax strategy as "an absurdity"

As CEO Tim Cook prepares to testify before a congressional subcommittee, Senators portray Apple has having exploited tax loopholes to escape paying its fair share.

blogs.hbr.org | 8 hours ago

How to Assess an Ad's Creativity

This test can help you better target your ad investments.

www.engadget.com | 19 hours ago

Samsung's Wallet app launches in Korea

Samsung showed off its Wallet app to developers earlier this year , and now Korean customers can download it onto compatible Android devices from the company's own app market. Currently it only appears to collect credit card info, which customers can ...

www.cbsnews.com | 13 hours ago

Toby Keith: Moore, Oklahoma "will persevere" post-tornado

Country star grew up in area savaged by enormous, deadly twister

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