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  Google revealed Sunday on YouTube’s eighth birthday that the video sharing website has reached new uploading heights with around 100 hours of video uploaded every minute by users. A year ago today, 72 hours of video were uploaded every minute. The site also has reached record-breaking viewership with more than one billion people...
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  Oxbow has won the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race, ruining Kentucky Derby winner Orb’s bid to capture the Triple Crown. Orb finished fourth, ending the brown colt’s five-race winning streak. Since 1950, only two horses have won the middle jewel of the Triple Crown from the No. 1 post position. Photo: Oxbow, ridden...
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To the well-known photographer who shot them with a telephoto lens, the pictures of people going about their daily lives in the building across the street constitute art. nbc news
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Everyone’s favorite internet hero is back in the news today, but this time, the news isn’t quite so hilarious. New York’s ABC-7 is reporting that Kai The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker is wanted for the murder of New Jersey man Joseph Galfy, Jr. Kai, whose real name is Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, became an internet sensation earlier...
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Two earthquakes shook eastern Ontario and Quebec Friday morning, rattling buildings and nerves as far away as Barrie, Toronto and Waterloo. A 5.2 magnitude quake hit about 20 kilometres northeast of Shawville, Que., at 9:43 a.m., according to Earthquakes Canada. Although the data initially indicated a 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Braeside, Ont., 10 minutes...
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Steve Carell reprised his role of former Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott on Thursday’s series finale of the U.S. sitcom “The Office.” Michael served as the best man at Dwight and Angela’s Pennsylvania beet farm wedding in the last episode of the show’s ninth and final season. Rainn Wilson and Angela Kinsey play...
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Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer’s conference, kicks off today, with a keynote event taking place in San Francisco. We’re right here and ready to bring you all the news live, starting at 9 a.m. PT/noon ET, but for now, here’s what we expect. NBC News
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. – the undefeated boxer – has topped a list of the highest-paid US athletes. According to an annual list by Sports Illustrated he is projected to make $90 million in 2013. Miami Heat basketball player LeBron James is a distant second at $56.5 million. Sports Illustrated
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When the sun fired off a massive flare late on Sunday, it was the strongest solar eruption this year. That was until another, even stronger flare followed it a few hours later. Soon a third flare, almost twice as powerful as the first blasted out of the sun. “The was also associated...
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There’s still one more season to go on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, but the show started its final countdown on Monday night with the introduction of the now-famous “mother” after eight seasons and 184 episodes. Spoiler alert: she’s a totally new character, so all those Robin-Ted fans should start crying now. “The...
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The International Space Station has a radiator leak in its power system. The outpost’s commander calls the situation serious, but not life-threatening. The six-member crew on Thursday noticed white flakes of ammonia leaking out of the station. Ammonia runs through multiple radiator loops to cool the station’s power system. NASA said the leak is...
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After months of rumors, YouTube finally introduced a pilot program for paid channels on Thursday. YouTube will now let a few dozen of popular channels charge viewers a subscription fee of 99 cents or more per month, the company announced in a blog post. Each of these channels will offer two weeks of free...
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When Michael Gore stands, it’s a triumph of science and engineering. Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from the waist down in a workplace accident, yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full 6-foot-2 and walks across the room with help from a lightweight wearable robot. The technology has many nicknames. Besides “wearable...
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Charles Ramsey melodically recounts the day he helped rescue 3 kidnapped Cleveland women LYRICS: I knew somethin was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms dead giveaway, dead giveaway my neighbor got big testicles cause we see this dude everyday we eat ribs with this dude, but we...
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A 28-year-old woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon, Brazilian officials said Wednesday. The Rio de Janeiro State Health Department said in a statement that the woman’s husband was cleaning his spear gun when it went off, firing a harpoon that hit her cervical spine. Photo:...
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If any American has the power of persuasion over North Korea’s defiant young ruler, it might be eccentric ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman. So when Rodman digitally called for Kim Jong Un to release U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, he may have a shot at a response. “I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea...
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As Her Jury Deliberates, Jodi Arias Slams HLN’s Nancy Grace On Twitter As we’ve reported in the past, Jodi Arias has been operating a Twitter account, via a close friend, while facing trial for the 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. Her tweets have taunted both prosecutors and pundits alike, taking potshots at...
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The Grammy-nominated frontman of Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying has been arrested on suspicion of hiring an ex-policeman to kill his wife. Tim Lambesis, 32, was arrested at a shop in Oceanside, Southern California yesterday according to a statement released by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. He was detained on suspicion...
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The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other benefits to the survivors in the country’s deadliest industrial disaster. According to a control room at the scene, rescue workers recovered more bodies out of the wreckage of the eight-story Rana...
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Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. She has also been sentenced to three additional months of home confinement. Before the sentencing, her attorney said Hill had paid more than $970,000 to satisfy state and federal tax liabilities....
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