San Francisco has edged towards becoming the first US city to ban sales of e-cigarettes, as well as the manufacturing and distribution of them on city property. A preliminary vote saw city supervisors unanimously approve a ban on e-cigarettes the Food and Drug Administration has yet to review. It hasn't assessed any yet...
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Noted: New Logos for Firefox by Ramotion and In-house
“What Does the Fox Say?”
"Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation."
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GitHub acquires Pull Panda and makes its code review tools available for free
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Pennsylvania Has Become a Hotbed of Bigfoot Sightings
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Nation’s only euthanasia laws start in Vic
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Before Computers: Notched Card Databases
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This Viral Hack for Peeling Garlic Is Taking Over Twitter
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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Destination Canada by Cossette
“I Heart Canada”
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Master Geolocation for Free with IP Geolocation API
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Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
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This man ate ‘expired’ food for a year. Here’s why expiration dates are practically meaningless.
“Sell by,” “use by” and “best by” dates can be really confusing, and that confusion leads to a lot of food waste.
Dogs evolved a special muscle that lets them make puppy dog eyes
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Grow Faster, Grow Stronger: Speed-Breeding Crops to Feed the Future
Plant breeders are fast-tracking genetic improvements in food crops to keep pace with global warming and a growing human population.
Pinterest broadens e-commerce capabilities with ‘Complete the Look’ tool
The visual search feature will recommend fashion and home decor products based on the context of an image.
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Cat filter derails Pakistani politician’s live-streamed press conference
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Germans can soon use their iPhones as virtual ID cards
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Noted: New Logos for Golden State Warriors
“Copperplate Under the Bridge”
(Est. 1971) "The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco, California. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. Founded in 1946 in...
Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year
Delivery company Nuro raised $940 million in February, also delivers for Kroger.
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The United States said it would dispatch an additional 1,000 troops to the region.
Someone wanted a Mariah Carey birthday cake. They got Marie Curie instead.
Mariah Carey or Marie Curie? A not-so-common mix-up, but one that saw quite the birthday blunder.
In a tweet, author Harriet Alida Lye explained that her cousin, Siobhan, told her colleagues in England she wanted a cake with singer Mariah Carey's face on it — a perfectly reasonable request for one's birthday.
You'd...
The tree thought to have inspired Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Lorax’ has fallen
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This Town Comes Alive Once a Year, as Thousands of Snakes Mate
More than 70,000 snakes slither out of dens to breed each spring at a Manitoba wildlife area, and thousands of people just can’t keep away from the writhing show. Just don’t call it an orgy.
Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the Universe
What happened before the Big Bang? And what happened before that? Stephen Hawking's answer—there was no beginning—is now the subject of intense debate.
U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities.
Man Accidentally Brings Snake In Backpack On Plane From Florida To Hawaii
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