(CNN)This morning, more than 350 million people devoured a bowl of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. All told, more than 128 billion bowls of Corn Flakes are consumed each year. While perusing the cereal box, peering over the bowl and gripping a spoonful of the stuff, few of these sleepy diners know that two men created those famously crispy, golden flakes of corn. John Harvey Kellogg, one of America’s most famous physicians,…
The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting
Fifty years ago, a helicopter company called New York Airways whisked passengers from the rooftop of the iconic Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan to any city airport in just 10 minutes. Unlike most private charters nowadays, which can cost thousands of dollars per trip, the scheduled service was frequent and relatively affordable—as little as $40 in today’s dollars. The era of rooftop helicopter travel ended on May 16, 1977, however, when…
‘No Man’s Sky’ adds the most basic form of multiplayer, fans go wild
Image: hello games The latest update to No Man’s Sky contains the first hint at multiplayer the game has seen, and fans are losing their goddamn minds over it. No Man’s Sky, a game about space exploration, released just over a year ago. Many people were disappointed about the game’s lack of multiplayer features, which had been promised by developer Hello Games early in development. Today’s update brought a handful…
Pussy Riot wants YOU to become a Russian prisoner in a new theatre performance
Image: PUSSY RIOT/Jonas Akerlund You may remember that famous scene in House of Cards where Pussy Riot humiliate the fictional Russian President Viktor Petrov, a caricature of Vladimir Putin. That cameo was just the latest stepping stone in Pussy Riot’s rise to global notoriety as female icons of resistance. But in real life, the Russian feminist punk rock group have paid a heavy price for their dissident voice. Two members…
Facebook now has technology for manipulating live videos
Fake it.Image: facebook Fake news, it’s a big deal on Facebook, and we might just be getting more of it in the form of videos. Facebook recently bought a startup with an expertise in video manipulation, Deutsche Startups reported. The German-based startup Fayteq has software that is able to remove or add objects in videos, even live ones, and add effects to them. SEE ALSO: Facebook’s dumbest feature is coming…
Uber’s days without drama resets back to zero
Your scandal is arriving now.Image: ALTAFFER/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Remember #DeleteUber? So much has happened since people complained about Uber CEO … err rather … former CEO Travis Kalanick being on President Donald Trump’s advisory council and Uber stopping surge pricing during Trump’s travel ban. It’s like we can’t go a day without Uber-related drama. SEE ALSO: Uber at war: Major investor sues cofounder Travis Kalanick for fraud Case in point: On Friday,…
Mexico drug cartel violence hits tourist hotspots of Cancun and Los Cabos
In January, a lone gunman entered the trendy Blue Parrot nightclub in the upscale Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen and opened fire. Chaos ensued as the crowd scrambled for cover as the gunman traded shots with another man inside the club and security working the annual BPM music festival tried to suppress the melee. When the bullets stopped flying in what is believed to be a drug cartel-related…
Brutal talk is exactly what North Korea needs to hear
(CNN)The North Korea crisis is deadly serious and President Donald Trump is pursuing a dangerous path, escalating tensions with his “fire and fury” and “locked and loaded” comments. His unpredictable behavior is being met with predictable criticism from the left. Over decades, as the Cold War came to a close in 1989 and North Korea lost the security and economic support of the Soviet Union, the Kim regime has been…
The 39 most eyebrow-raising Donald Trump quotes today
(CNN)After largely avoiding the media since a solo press conference in mid-February, President Donald Trump held two extended press availabilities on Thursday at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. So, when Trump said Tuesday that “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States, …they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” the problem wasn’t that he went…
Susan Rice: Pre-emptive war with North Korea would be ‘catastrophic’
Washington (CNN)Former national security adviser Susan Rice said Thursday the United States should rule out a pre-emptive strike on North Korea, casting President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” comments as dangerous. She said the “hot rhetoric” coming from both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could move the nations closer to war.
Firing Mueller would be a catastrophic mistake
(CNN)On October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon executed the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” in which Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired and the special prosecutor’s office was shut down. President Trump said Thursday that he hasn’t given any thought to firing Robert Mueller, who is leading the Russia investigation that Trump has described as a “witch hunt.” Join us on Twitter and Facebook A firing of Mueller should lead…
UK could face Islamist threat for decades, former MI5 chief warns – BBC News
But now, with the rise of the so-called Islamic State militant group, he said the threat was unlikely to end soon. Lord Evans said: “There’s no doubt that we are still facing a severe terrorist threat but I think its also important to put this in a slightly longer context because right the way back from the 1990s we have been experiencing difficulties from Islamist terrorists of one sort or…
The last resort: How a US strike on North Korea could play out
Washington (CNN)It’s the no-win situation that can only be imagined by US military officials tasked with preparing for a worst-case scenario — conducting a preemptive strike on North Korea. Such an operation would consist of a swift and multi-dimensional attack, as the fight would be defined by the first minute of combat, according to Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and senior fellow at the Center for New American Security….
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‘We could be gone tomorrow’: Life in North Korea’s crosshairs
Hagata, Guam (CNN)With rough, calloused hands, Guam local Marco Martinez steadily trims his fishing line. “If it does happen, OK, it happens, but I just try not to really think about it,” Martinez told CNN. Martinez was born and raised on this small island of 160,000 or so people. They’re used to living with intimidation from North Korea, including in 2013 when Pyongyang warned that the island was within its…
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Get ready for a more militant and ‘woke’ NAACP
(CNN) The NAACP has described itself as the “oldest and boldest” civil rights group in America, but it may soon tack on another word to its billing: “woke.” But something changed when a local NAACP official recently found a way to catapult the group back into the national spotlight. He issued a travel advisory for the state of Missouri, urging “extreme CAUTION” for any person of color traveling there. The…
Serbia has a new lesbian prime minster but LGBTQ life there is still terrible
Serbia's inside-out relationship with its LGBTQ communityImage: Vicky leta/MASHABLE “If I came out, I would lose my job.” Ivan is a primary school teacher in a village outside Serbia’s capital Belgrade. His sexual identity would not be accepted by his colleagues or the parents of his pupils. This is a troubling sign of the everyday discrimination LGBTQ people face every day, especially considering that the country’s new leader is a…
‘Firestick that s–t’ is how illegal TV, movie streaming went mainstream
Image: Ambar Del Moral, mashable Firestick that shit. It’s a phrase I picked up last year, but I’d assumed it was just another passing internet colloquialism related to using Amazon’s Fire TV Stick. Oh how naive. Over time, I quickly began to glean that this was in fact the new slang for using a Fire TV Stick to somehow pirate movies and TV. But I’ve run across scores of piracy…
Texas abortion bill criticized for ‘forcing’ women to buy ‘rape insurance’
The Texas House passed this week a GOP-backed bill which requires women to pay for a separate health insurance supplement for non-emergent abortions. The legislation, which passed with a final vote of 92 to 46 Wednesday, bars insurance plans from covering elected abortions. Should a woman want insurance to help alleviate the costs from a non-emergent abortion, she would need to purchase an additional insurance supplement. The bill does not…
Can ice cream vans stage a comeback? – BBC News
Image copyright Max Ramsay Image caption An ice cream van keeps selling despite the rain on Clapham Common, South London “But there are less and less over the years, because people can buy ice cream cheaply in supermarkets and everybody has got a freezer in their house.” Britain’s ice cream market is worth about 1bn each year, according to trade group the Ice Cream Alliance, but there is no concrete…
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BBC MediaCityUK had ‘negligible’ economic boost, study claims – BBC News
The Centre for Cities (CFC) released its findings as several UK cities, including Liverpool, consider bidding to be the new home of Channel 4. As well as the BBC, MediaCityUK is home to ITV, the University of Salford and several bar and restaurant chains. But the CFC report said many jobs had come from displacement of businesses from other parts of Greater Manchester.
From Chicago to Sydney, how New York ignited a global High Line craze
(CNN)The creators of the New York High Line are, in many ways, the Steve Jobs of the urban planning world. Paris, in fact, created the first elevated walkway on a disused rail line — aka high line — back in 1993. The Promenade Plante tracks the former Vincennes railway, which was constructed in 1859 and last saw a working train in 1969.
‘Sex and the City’ star could run for NY governor
(CNN)“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon appears to be considering a run for governor of New York. On the “Today” show on Tuesday, she said she was being encouraged to throw her hat in the ring, but declined to say whether she would do so. Nixon has been a longtime political advocate, particularly on education issues, and served on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s advisory board for the Mayor’s Fund…
UK and Scottish ministers in Brexit powers talks – BBC News
Under the UK government’s Repeal Bill, EU law repatriated from Brussels would go to Westminster in the first instance. Ahead of Wednesday’s talks, Mr Green said a common UK-wide approach would be necessary in some areas.