2015年2月19日 星期四

2015-02-20 U.S. Spotlight


Telegraph.co.uk
   
How Silicon Valley is trying to cure ageing   
Telegraph.co.uk
Humanity has long been in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth, from Alexander the Great to knights of the Crusades. But now Silicon Valley scientists believe they are on the cusp of discovering the cause of ageing, which will help them achieve the ...


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New York Times
   
How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life   
New York Times
As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the indignities of travel.

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Fortune
   
President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry's backyard   
Fortune
It may be Friday the 13th, but the White House is hoping a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection will bring a bit of much-needed luck to the gloomy cyberthreat landscape. The summit kicked off Friday morning at Stanford University in Palo Alto, ...


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Daily Mail
   
Woman who couldn't have sex is cured thanks to pioneering surgery using PIG ...   
Daily Mail
A woman whose vagina was so narrow she could no longer have sex has undergone successful surgery to have it reconstructed - using a pig's intestine. The woman had been sent for treatment after her gynaecologist found she was so narrow it was not even ...


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New York Post
   
Meet the most decorated detective in NYPD history   
New York Post
It was the bad old days of 1974, the South Bronx, and NYPD Detective Ralph Friedman and his partner, Robert De Matas, were working undercover, posing as cab drivers. They watched a group of teens ask a man, Joaquin Castro, 37, for money. Castro ...


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Fox News
   
Why adults like Disney Cruises   
Fox News
The family friendly line has plenty of activities for the 18 and over crowd. (Disney Cruise Line). It's easy to see why children love Disney Cruises, but I was surprised to see how happy the grown-ups were on my last sailing. There even were plenty of older ...


   


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Do Google Adwords really work?   
Sydney Morning Herald
For three months Elisha Casagrande tried Google AdWords to launch her new fashion website, Repeat Offender. She hired a search engine marketing agency that specialised in Google Adwords to help her with a campaign and budgeted $1500 a month, ...


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Don't Be Google   
TechCrunch
Dear Google: what happened? Android sales are falling. Chrome has become a bloated hog. Analysts are calling you the new Microsoft, or, much worse, “the new Yahoo!” And most damning of all: you have squandered our trust. You used to be special, ...


   


Fifty Shades of Grey is brilliantly hilarious. But it's not clear if this was intentional.   
Vox
Fifty Shades of Grey might be the greatest bait-and-switch ever perpetrated on Americans. Since 2011, when the first book in E.L. James's trilogy was released, we have endlessly heard about how readers (primarily women) were consuming James's novels, ...


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40 reasons why 'Saturday Night Live' is still awesome at 40   
CNN
It wasn't called "Saturday Night Live" then. It was "NBC's Saturday Night," because there was another "Saturday Night Live," hosted by Howard Cosell, over on ABC. And its Not Ready for Prime Time Players -- seven youthful comic veterans of theatrical and ...


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