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23:58
AAP Updates Guidance on Infection Control in Pediatric Clinics
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Updated AAP policy statement on infection prevention, control in pediatric ambulatory settings stresses infection control in waiting rooms, isolation of patients with potentially infectious diseases.
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23:58
MFF får inte slarva med Franz Brorsson
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Svåra förutsättningar.
Då gjorde Magnus Pehrsson det enkelt för sig.
Det var klokt.
För även om det "bara" blev 0–0 så gjorde MFF verkligen ingen tokig match mot AIK.

23:55
Relentlessly witty 'Night in the Woods' comes to your phone in 2018
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If you haven't played Night in the Woods, you're frankly missing out. The made-partly-in-Michigan indie adventure melds witty (and often silly) dialogue with iconic visuals, varied gameplay and discussions of weighty subjects. It's a good thing tha...

23:54
Donald Trump added new merchandise to his website, and it's the scariest Halloween accessory yet
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Halloween is officially cancelled. Let's all thank President Donald Trump's merchandise.

Trump's official store is selling pumpkin-themed "Make America Great Again" hatsThe website describes the item as a treat. But it's really just one big trick to all of us.

The hat looks ordinary enough at a glance, with a jack-o'-lantern face in the front. Turn it around, however, and the "MAGA" slogan is embroidered on the back. Also terrifying: It costs a whopping $45. Yes, $45 for a baseball cap.

SEE ALSO: Please don't wear a Trump-related Halloween costume this year

Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump tweeted an image of herself in the hat, along with the caption, "#MakeHalloweenGreatAgain and order your pumpkin #MAGA hat today!" Read more...
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23:52
Illegal party drug ketamine eases the pain of migraines
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Ketamine, used illegally as a party drug, may be an effective treatment for those who fail to respond to other medications, claim experts at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.

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Exclusive: Terry Richardson banned from working with Vogue and other leading mags, leaked email shows
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Exclusive: Terry Richardson banned from working with Vogue and other leading mags, leaked email shows
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Exclusive: Terry Richardson banned from working with Vogue and other leading mags, leaked email shows
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23:50
Exclusive: Terry Richardson banned from working with Vogue and other leading mags, leaked email shows
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23:50
EU nationals 'will be allowed into Britain after Brexit'
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The new regime is being pushed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who wants to keep migration rules as simple as possible after the UK leaves the EU.

23:50
Samsung has plans to make its own advanced charging mat
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Samsung is following Apple deeper into the wireless charging mat game.

The site Patently Apple found Samsung's plans filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent application shows a mat similar to Apple's forthcoming AirPower technology, which Apple says will become available sometime in 2018.

SEE ALSO: Say hello to AirPower, Apple's new wireless charging pad

Samsung already offers wireless charging technologies (one is pictured above), but they can only charge one device at a time.

A new Samsung patent shows a wireless charging mat capable of charging multiple devices at once.
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23:50
Goodbye, meat. Leonardo DiCaprio says it's time for vegan burgers
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Leonardo DiCaprio announced his investment in Beyond Burger, a meatless burger made of plant protein. This burger has been engineered to look, cook, and taste like real meat. DiCaprio has also been a longtime advocate for plant-based diets, wildlife conservation, and environmental sustainability. Read more...
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23:47
Larm om hög smäll i Göteborg – polisen söker med helikopter
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Polisen har fått in ett flertal larm om en hög smäll i Lövgärdet, Göteborg.
- Vi har patruller på plats och har även sökt av området med helikopter utrustad med värmekamera, säger Johan Josarp, vakthavande befäl vid polisen i region väst

23:46
Android to add ‘DNS over TLS’ to keep ISPs from spying on you
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Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system, will soon enable a security protocol that helps keep internet service providers (ISPs) from spying on users. “DNS over TLS” adds a level of encryption to your DNS requests that are (mostly) inaccessible by your ISP. A DNS — or domain name server — translates a website address from a URL you enter in the address bar to the IP address the computer recognizes when serving the actual website. Web addresses (like thenextweb.com) are nothing more than window dressing for ease-of-use. When a user types in a URL, it’s converted behind the…

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23:45
Brant börsfall efter vinstvarningen
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Oscar Properties vinstvarnar. Enligt vd Oscar Engelbert måste man nu vara försiktig. Man byggstartar inte projekt där försäljningen av bostadsrätter varit otillräcklig. Aktien faller brant i börsöppningen, över 11 procent.

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Brant börsfall efter vinstvarningen
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Oscar Properties vinstvarnar. Enligt vd Oscar Engelbert måste man nu vara försiktig. Man byggstartar inte projekt där försäljningen av bostadsrätter varit otillräcklig. Aktien faller brant i börsöppningen, över 11 procent.

23:45
Original Xbox games are coming to Xbox One, and you can use old discs to play them
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Star Wars, Prince of Persia, and Ninja Gaiden — along with 10 other games — are all coming to Xbox One on Tuesday.

None of them are new games, but they're all old enough at this point that they should feel new to most. The 13 games are all new additions to Xbox One's backward compatibility library, an unearthed treasure trove of classic titles from the Original Xbox era.

SEE ALSO: Xbox One X preview: is it worth the money?

You're here for the list, so here's the list, via Xbox Wire:
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23:41
E6 avstängd vid Flädie efter olycka med lastbil
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Vid 23.20 inträffade en trafikolycka på E6, norr om trafikplats Flädie. Trafikverket skriver på sin hemsida att vägen är avstängd..

23:40
The FBI has a 'huge' problem with your smartphone
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation really, really wants to be able to access the contents of your smartphone. So much so, in fact, that the agency's director just threw a small fit over what he described as a significant problem obscuring the view of his digital panopticon: Your phone's encryption.

SEE ALSO: FBI director says 'there is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.' Welp.

In an October 22 speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference, director Christopher Wray bemoaned the FBI's inability to access the data of approximately 6,900 mobile devices this fiscal year. According to the Associated Press, which reported on Wray's comments, this number represents over half of all the devices the agency attempted to access during that time. Read more...
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23:39
Latest Bill O’Reilly Case Is ‘Jaw-Dropping,’ Megyn Kelly Says
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Needing a ratings boost, the host of “Megyn Kelly Today” targets what she calls a culture of sexual harassment at her former employer.

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Latest Bill O’Reilly Case Is ‘Jaw-Dropping,’ Megyn Kelly Says
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Needing a ratings boost, the host of “Megyn Kelly Today” targets what she calls a culture of sexual harassment at her former employer.

23:39
Här får du böter – om du stirrar ner i mobilen
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23:37
Amazon Wine is shutting down
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Amazon Wine is shutting down at the end of this year, the retailer has just alerted sellers via email. The issue at hand has to do with the existing laws surrounding alcohol sales, which Amazon has unsuccessfully tried to change by working with regulators. The existing laws make it difficult for Amazon to sell alcohol as a retailer and operate a marketplace. Read More

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The New Yorker's latest Trump cover is a spooky nightmare
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The New Yorker has thrown shade at Donald Trump before, but this week's offering is something else entirely.

The magazine gave us a preview of the cover of its final issue of the month - entitled "October Surprise" - Monday and it's a scary one.

SEE ALSO: Trumps offends family of another fallen soldier, and this time a $25,000 check was involved

Artist Carter Goodrich's cover art depicts the president as a "dangerous clown," complete with a frilly, striped outfit, clown makeup, over-sized red shoes, small hands, and an evil grin. Goodrich explained in a tweet that he struggled to parody Trump in a cartoon because he is already a "walking, talking cartoon of himself." Read more...
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23:35
Snapchat for iOS Gains Link Sharing From Third-Party Apps and New 'Ghost Mode'
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Snapchat for iOS received a somewhat significant update today that's designed to allow users to share links or photos from third-party apps with friends and to set a specific timer for location sharing.

Starting today, iOS users can use the Share Sheet in an app like Twitter or Safari to share links to content in a direct Snapchat message. The update makes sharing content simpler, as there's no need to copy and paste a link from an app.

Snapchat has also added a "Ghost Mode" that lets users temporarily disable location sharing for three or 24 hours, a feature that's been introduced as an alternative to permanently disabling location sharing features.

The app is also being updated with a new feature that lets you tap and hold on a person's name anywhere in Snapchat to access their Stories.
What's New in Version 10.20.0.0
- Press and hold on a friend's name to watch their Story, send them a Snap, and more.
- Tap the share button in another app to send links or photos to friends on Snapchat. If Snapchat doesn't appear in the share menu, tap (...) to add it!
- Choose how long you'd like to remain in Ghost Mode on the Snap Map.
In other related Snapchat news, a report today from The Information suggests Snapchat parent company Snap overestimated demand for its $130 camera-equipped Spectacles and is now left with hundreds of thousands of Spectacles and Spectacles components that are sitting in warehouses.

Earlier this month, Snap CEO Evan Speigel said Snap had sold more than 150,000 Spectacles. According to The Information, Snap now has a 150-person hardware team, but what's in development is not clear.

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23:35
In Puerto Rico, Surgery by Flashlight Is Just the Beginning
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On Friday, former Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro García Padilla tweeted a photo from inside a hospital, in which scrubbed-up doctors leaned over an operating table performing surgery lit only by a flashlight. “This is what POTUS calls a 10!” García Padilla wrote in the English version of his post. “Surgery performed with cellphones as flashlights in Puerto Rico today.”

The image quickly made the rounds on the internet; it currently has almost 9,000 retweets. That’s probably because this blurry picture feels like it’s worth a good deal more than 1,000 words. Closely cropped and the dictionary definition of “bleak,” it illuminates just a small sliver of the public health crisis Puerto Rico is currently facing.

Some 33 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, only 23 percent of residents have electricity, according to Status.pr, which provides daily updates on basic services on the island. While there are other, somewhat unrelated problems at play—gas stations have been slow to reopen, and roads are badly damaged—the power grid’s utter annihilation in the category 4 winds is not just a temporary inconvenience. A month later, the ways that lack of electricity can set off a cascade of other crises is becoming increasingly clear.

First, there’s the issue of clean water. Many wastewater disposal and clean water delivery systems are dependent on electricity. Without energy to power the systems, pumps don’t work, allowing sewage to build up on site instead of draining away to treatment plants. On the other end, drinking water cannot be delivered to residents without electricity either because those pumps and filters are also offline. Obviously, a lack of access to freshwater is a big problem— people are at risk of dehydration or, if they turn to lower-quality water sources, infection. In countries without modern plumbing and wastewater management, water-borne diseases such as leptospirosis thrive. But when a strong enough hurricane hits, even wealthy nations are at risk, as evidenced by the rivers of toxic waters stirred by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida.

Electricity is also crucial for communication. And clear communication is essential for relief and recovery efforts. Last month, I wrote for Slate that Puerto Rico was receiving short-term aid in the form of oil, water, and food delivery and that representatives of the territory were satisfied with initial relief efforts. But the past few weeks have shown that the recovery was too small in scale. Delivering supplies is irrelevant when people don’t know where or how to get them. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal wrote:

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said that some of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities weren’t aware that food and water provided by FEMA were available at distribution centers—but that local officials needed to retrieve the supplies. Only when island and federal authorities were able to personally visit the towns could they relay vital information.

Even the relief efforts that have been attempted have likely provided little comfort to many residents—such little comfort, in fact, that they can come across almost as a mockery. A giant government-owned hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, arrived in Puerto Rico weeks ago to help out, but no one has figured out how to use it. The ship has extensive space and equipment for trauma care and a large staff, but CNN reported that as of Tuesday, only 33 of 250 beds were full. Many people don’t know about the ship (remember, without electricity, most cellphone towers are down). Even if they do, they can’t get to the port, as many of the island’s roads are impassable, doubly so without oil to power a car.

If this all sounds preposterous, it’s because it is. In the digital age, it’s difficult to imagine life-saving information like this being delivered Paul Revere–style, from one end of the island to the other. But until the electricity comes back through well-oiled generators or repaired electricity grids, the health of 3.4 million Puerto Ricans remains precarious and the vast potential of technology rendered moot. For now, cellphones will remain reduced to fancy flashlights, shining thin rays of light into a darkness that seemingly knows no end.

23:32
Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers
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“We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

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Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers
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“We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

23:32
This interactive map shows where self-driving cars are being tested around the world
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Self-driving car development is one of the biggest trends in the automotive world today — but the companies that are working on autonomous vehicle (AV) systems can't just test their technology on any public road.

Local governments first need to give self-driving pilots permission to operate — which is why, for example, Uber decided to test its self-driving taxis in Arizona rather than its hometown of San Francisco following a very public regulatory dispute with the California DMV.

Now, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute has released the Global Atlas of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) in Cities that shows where all self-driving car development projects are being tested around the world. The guide is specifically focused on urban areas where the local governments are "playing a substantial role" in the work, with the goal of organizing information about the various projects to help cities learn from the other efforts currently underway. Read more...
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23:32
Affirm’s app lends you money to buy things online
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Paypal co-founder Max Levchin launched Affirm back in 2012 to extend credit for folks to buy things online. Today, his company has extended that feature to a mobile app, functionally creating a virtual credit card for anyone who wants to trust a tech...

23:31
Stockholm-Köpenhamn, Star Alliance
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Blir utkörd hemifrån i mellandagarna och ska samtidigt upp till Stockholm för den traditionsenliga Annandagssupen. Detta borgar för en intressant hemresa.
- Varifrån vill du börja din resa? Stockholm
- Var är din destination? Köpenhamn
- När vill/behöver du resa ut? 27-dec
- När vill/behöver du komma hem? 29-dec
- Hur länge vill du vara borta? 1/2 nätter
- Hur många personer som skall resa? 1 vuxen
- I vilken kabinklass?...
Stockholm-Köpenhamn, Star Alliance

23:30
Austria's new leader tells EU to 'take a back seat'
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Austrian Sebastian Kurz, who at 31 is set to become the youngest leader in the world, said he wants to make the European Union 'more subsidiary and more collaborative'.

23:30
Visselblåsarnas reaktioner efter Macchiarini-intervjun: ”Han undviker viktiga frågor"
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Läkarna Matthias Corbascio och Oscar Simonsson var med och avslöjade den fuskande kirurgen Paolo Macchiarini vid Karolinska Institutet. Hör deras reaktioner efter TV4 Nyheternas exklusiva intervju med Paolo Macchiarini.

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Exclusive: Drug cheats will not face time in jail, rules review
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23:28
Traffic warden 'illegally' parks on double yellow lines
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The official had placed his white van in the restricted area despite numerous other spaces apparently being available. A passerby warns the warden that he is 'not immune from the law'.

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An Apple alum is helping people land secret gigs on the 'hidden job market'
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- Job openings for senior roles are often not advertised.
- Apple and AOL alum Joe Meyer has established a "clearinghouse" type site to help experienced employees find new opportunities.
- "You enter this odd, weird world that everyone knows about, but no one really talks about, of jobs that are never listed, never published and you have to find out about them via word of mouth and or through a recruiter calling you or reaching out to you," he told Business Insider.
There's an entire shadow job market out there.

According to Forbes, only about half of all jobs are ever advertised. And most of those "hidden" roles are senior positions — directors, managers, and vice presidents. You won't be reading about those kind of gigs on job boards. If anything, you'll likely only be hearing about them directly from recruiters.

Either way, the more you advance in your career, the harder it can become to actively scope out your next dream job.

Joe Meyer has tangled with this secret job market before. He worked at Apple for two years, after his company HopStop was acquired for an estimated $1 billion in 2013, according to Fortune. Meyer said he loved his time at Apple, but he began thinking about his next steps and actively seeking out new opportunities.

But the process proved frustrating.

"You enter this odd, weird world that everyone knows about, but no one really talks about, of jobs that are never listed, never published and you have to find out about them via word of mouth and or through a recruiter calling you or reaching out to you," he told Business Insider.

Meyer would consistently receive offers from recruiters every month, but they were for gigs more akin to his past work, not the "hardcore, hands on, roll your sleeves up operational roles" he was looking for.

"The opportunities that were being sent to me by these recruiters were great opportunities and I could see why they were sending them to me based on what I've done in the past," he said. " But not everyone wants to be the same thing year after year after year forever."

His experience prompted him to found ExecThread, an online network of executives who can use the platform to pool senior-level job opportunities. Users anonymously submit recruiting leads they've received, and get back opportunities in return. The site has already expanded to around 20,000 users, and has raised $6.5 million in funding.

Meyer said the goal is to help people navigate the often-murky senior-level job market in a more intentional, proactive way.

"I want to gain access to the jobs that are coming across the desks of my peers and I bet they would want to see the jobs coming across my desk," Meyer said. "You could do all the networking in the world, but having a bunch of one on one conversations is really inefficient."

And if you find yourself trying to break into the hidden job market, Meyer said it's crucial to understand your own goals, lest you get stuck going for the same old roles again and again.

"Know your own intent," he said.
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23:25
United värvar från LFK
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Elias Lindell byter ut Lidköpings FK mot Lidköping United. Ja, i futsal alltså. – Är ett bra drag runt United så detta ska bli riktigt kul, säger 23-årige Elias.

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4 buteljer Dom i Thais förstaklass
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Till att börja med - om ni vill läsa en av de i mina ögon mest underhållande reserapporterna någonsin, läs [https:]] . Det är förstås därifrån jag fått inspirationen till titeln (men jag kan ju redan nu meddela att min Dom-konsumtion skedde under något mer måttliga former än Macabus').

Denna resa skedde i somras men sedan ska man ju ha tid att skriva också. Det är min och frugans andra bonusresa i F - den...

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23:23
Two devices connected
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Kortfilm med annorlunda story

Two devices connected är en kortfilmsskräckis med lite annorlunda story.

Läs vidare och kommentera:
http://feber.se/video/art/372680/two_devices_connected/

23:22
Helsingborgs IF nära att värva isländsk skyttekung
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Helsingborgs IF har tidigare haft lycka med isländska värvningar.
Nu kan en ny vara på gång.
Enligt Fotbollskanalen som i sin tur hänvisar till isländska fotbolti.net ska den isländska ligans skyttekung Andri Runar Bjarnason vara nära klubben.

23:22
Stephen Hawkings berömda avhandling lades ut på nätet – då kraschade universitetets sajt
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Suget efter att läsa den världsberömde fysikern Stephen Hawkings tidiga doktorsavhandling visade sig vara stort. Så stort att Cambridge-universitetets sajt kraschat upprepade gånger sedan det tillgängliggjordes för fri nedladdning för omkring ett dygn sedan..

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Stephen Hawkings berömda avhandling lades ut på nätet – då kraschade universitetets sajt
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Suget efter att läsa den världsberömde fysikern Stephen Hawkings tidiga doktorsavhandling visade sig vara stort. Så stort att Cambridge-universitetets sajt kraschat upprepade gånger sedan det tillgängliggjordes för fri nedladdning för omkring ett dygn sedan..

23:22
Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name
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“That’s what hurt me the most,” Myeshia Johnson said of a condolence call President Trump made after her husband was killed in an ambush in Niger.

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Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name
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“That’s what hurt me the most,” Myeshia Johnson said of a condolence call President Trump made after her husband was killed in an ambush in Niger.

23:18
New Job: Self-Reflection and Change
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The technology industry comes with many promises. Executives like to think they’re building a better world—one where people can come together, learn, and make tons of money free from the confines and outdated thinking of the old, stodgy institutions holding innovation back. But just because there’s a path for a guy without a college degree to become a billionaire doesn’t mean that trajectory is open to everyone.

One thing the tech industry definitely promises if you’re a woman is that you’re almost certainly going to be sexually harassed, assaulted, or treated worse than men. This is a sad fact of life for many women in tech. But this year some of these women started going public, in large part thanks to the brave work of Susan Fowler, who in February came forward about her experiences as an engineer at Uber, where a workplace culture of sexism and harassment was pervasive. Fowler’s story opened the floodgates, and ever since there’s been a steady stream of allegations from women in tech detailing their stories of harassment, discrimination, or even flat-out assault.

Those reports have lead some powerful men to step down from their posts, including Justin Caldbeck, the co-founder of Binary Capital, who was accused of making unwanted advances toward half a dozen women in a report from the Information. Caldbeck left his post as managing partner in June after apologizing to the women he “made feel uncomfortable in any way, at any time.”

Now, months after taking his leave of absence, Caldbeck recently went on LinkedIn to update his professional network about his new line of work—as Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, noted on Twitter. Only Caldbeck didn’t list a company or a new academic pursuit. Instead, he notes that he’s taken a position as “Head of Self-Reflection, Accountability & Change,” where he is “focused on acknowledging my mistakes, making amends and making change.” As of Monday, Caldbeck’s LinkedIn profile still read that he was working as a “Head of Self-Reflection.”

Caldbeck has company, including Dave McClure, who founded 500 Startups, a well-known early-stage venture capital fund. According to a report in the New York Times this summer, McClure made inappropriate advances toward a female company founder, Sarah Kunst, whose conversations ended with 500 Startups after she discussed Caldbeck’s behavior with one of his co-workers. Like Caldbeck, McClure apologized and left his post. But also like Caldbeck, according to Hamilton’s tweet, McClure also described his new work with a satirical update on LinkedIn, which read that McClure is now working as a “janitor” at “DMC,” likely his initials. The jokey job status has since been removed from his LinkedIn page.

Since nothing on the internet is as ephemeral as we’d sometimes prefer, the screenshot lives on as a testament to what looks like a man who not only appears to lack any humility, but doesn’t seem to take seriously the impact of unwanted advances on women in the tech industry. Feeling like you have to bow to people in power to advance your career is real and common, and the fact that men in power take advantage of that dynamic is real, too. And it can all have real consequences for women’s senses of self-worth: How could they not ask themselves if their career advancements had been premised on sexual expectations or a superior’s sexual interest?

In the case of both updates, it’s easy to glean an intention on the part of the executives to return to their old worlds—that this is a hiatus. Maybe Caldbeck really will conduct some honest soul-searching and come to a more nuanced understanding of how his power and privilege, especially when abused, can undermine the power of others. That he’s cracking wise, unfortunately, suggests he might not yet understand how discouraging being hit on in a professional setting—especially one where you’re trying to strike a deal for venture capital—really is. Sexual harassment in tech isn’t something that will only pass with time. It needs more than a timeout. Changing the dynamics that allow men to objectify women in the workplace will take a lot of work, especially from men like Caldbeck who are in power, already make lots of money, and probably don’t want to do anything different than what they’ve done until now.

Joking or not, at least Caldbeck said he was engaged in “accountability & change.” McClure went with “Janitor”—as if he’s cleaning up other people’s messes and not his own.

23:16
ESPN cancels show because of its association with Barstool Sports
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ESPN walked into another PR quagmire on Monday, announcing it was canceling the show Barstool Van Talk after just one week.

SEE ALSO: ESPN is now the frontline of the American political-culture war

The show, hosted by Dan Katz (aka Barstool Big Cat) of Barstool Sports and long-celebrated satire personality PFT Commenter, was an extension of the pair's very popular sports podcast, Pardon My Take.

The show's cancelation was more about its brand association with the controversial Barstool Sports website than the content of the show. ESPN president John Skipper said as much in his statement announcing the show's cancelation. Read more...
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23:15
Team Rocket Is Now Recruiting Members in Real-Life, So Get Ready To Join
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If you grew up watching Pokémon, that means you probably also watched a lot of Team Rocket’s exploits. The Pokémon crime syndicate played an important role in the anime series and video games […]

The post Team Rocket Is Now Recruiting Members in Real-Life, So Get Ready To Join appeared first on Geek.com.

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Tax Cuts Are Coming. So Are the Fights About Paying for Them.
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Cutting taxes isn’t hard. Paying for them is. Republicans are running into a math problem as they try to change longstanding tax preferences in their $1.5 trillion tax rewrite.

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Tax Cuts Are Coming. So Are the Fights About Paying for Them.
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Cutting taxes isn’t hard. Paying for them is. Republicans are running into a math problem as they try to change longstanding tax preferences in their $1.5 trillion tax rewrite.

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AWS and Nokia team up to make cloud migration easier
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AWS and Nokia are joining forces on a new partnership deal aiming to make cloud migration easier, and SD-WAN services for enterprises better overall. On top of that, the two technology giants will also work together on developing 5G and IoT use cases, combining their expertise to push forward future development. There are four major areas of collaboration between the two companies: first, they will be building a new 5G and edge cloud strategies and guidance, which includes reference architectures; second, they will be looking to commercialize IoT use cases using AWS Greengrass, Amazon Machine Learning, Nokia Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and the… [Continue Reading]

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Sadiq Khan renews his pledge to restrict wood burners
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan suggested that his efforts to curb vehicle pollution needed to be matched by extra powers to tackle other sources of emissions, including wood-burning stoves.
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Boxer punches his opponent out of the ring in Scotland
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In shocking footage of the bout at the 2017 Novice Championship in Motherwell, Scotland, the fighter plunges four feet to the ground while seemingly unconscious.

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Lego pulls the plug on future 'Dimensions' toys
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Chalk up another casualty in the decline of collectible-based video games: Lego, Warner Bros. and TT Games have stopped producing new expansions for Lego Dimensions. They'll continue to sell existing expansion packs, and servers will continue to run...

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Pixel 2 voice call clicking (and how you can fix it)
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A smartphone is a hugely advance piece of technology, and considering all that's happening within its circuits on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis, it's a small miracle that things tend to work as well as they do. Still, while we expect to run into glitches here and there when experiencing advanced new technology, working with things like augmented reality, advanced biometrics, or Google's world-scanning Tango system, by this point we largely take it for granted that all the basics are running like a well-oiled machine.

Unfortunately, that's not always the case, and recently we've ...

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Catalonia's far-left calls for 'mass civil disobedience'
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The CUP, a key ally in the regional parliament to the minority ruling separatist coalition, said on Monday that the civil disobedience would be presented as a form of non-violent resistance.

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Macchiarini fortsätter att försvara ingreppen
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Tre personer dog efter att ha blivit opererade i Sverige av kirurgen Paolo Macchiarini.
Nyligen lades brottsutredningarna mot honom ner.
– I efterhand är det alltid lätt att kritisera och göra andra bedömningar, säger han i en intervju med TV4 Nyheterna.

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Sprint offers a $350 discount on the iPhone X if you trade in your old smartphone
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Apple's iPhone X will be available for pre-order starting this Friday, but some carriers will probably jump the gun and announce their special deals on the flagship a few days earlier – just like Sprint did today.

Since the iPhone X's price starts at $999, any discounts would help make it a better deal. Sprint announced today its iPhone X promotional deal, which allows customers to save up to $350 when they buy Apple's upcoming flagship.

The deal is only available through Sprint Flex leasing and implies customers to trade in their old smartphone for the iPhone ...

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How drug companies make you buy more medicine than you need
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It all adds to America’s $765 billion in wasted spending on health care.

If you’ve ever put in an eyedrop, some of it has almost certainly spilled onto your eyelid or cheek. You probably thought you were doing it wrong, but according to ProPublica’s latest investigation, these drops — and many other liquid medications — are wasted by design.

The typical drop, whether in pricey glaucoma drugs or in an inexpensive bottle of Visine, is simply too large for the human eye to hold. And it’s one part of a much bigger problem: The US health care industry wastes $765 billion per year. From eyedrops to expensive vials of cancer drugs that are often much larger than what’s needed for an individual patient, drug companies are delivering more medication than we can possibly use. And patients are paying the price.

Wasted medicine is one of the reasons American health care is the most expensive in the world. Often, large swaths of the medical and pharmaceutical communities know about this waste and the solutions to it, but do nothing.

Watch the video above to see how the health care industry prioritizes profits over patients. This is the first installment in Vox’s collaboration with ProPublica. For their in-depth reporting, check out the full story here.

You can find this video and all of Vox's videos on YouTube. Subscribe and stay tuned for more from our ProPublica partnership coming soon.

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Klubbat i Hallsberg för Vätternvatten AB
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Nu har kommunfullmäktige beslutat att Hallsberg går med i bolagsbildningen av Vätternvatten AB. Magnus Andersson (S) och Torbjörn Appelqvist (M) valdes att ingå i bolagets styrelse. .

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Guldlaget MFF hyllades av publiken – och AIK
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SM-guldvinnaren Malmö FF hyllades av såväl hemmapublik som motståndaren AIK.

Allra mest glänste reservmålvakten Fredrik Andersson.

– Det var helt magiskt, säger 28-åringen efter 0–0 mot Solnaklubben.

23:05
Amazon Counts Its Suitors: 238 Want to Be Home for 2nd Headquarters
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The bidders came from 43 U.S. states, as well as Canada and Mexico. Amazon says the project will create 50,000 jobs, and that the winner will be announced next year.

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Amazon Counts Its Suitors: 238 Want to Be Home for 2nd Headquarters
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The bidders came from 43 U.S. states, as well as Canada and Mexico. Amazon says the project will create 50,000 jobs, and that the winner will be announced next year.

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Nasal gel to restore a man's flagging libido
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Researchers in Brazil are testing whether the gel, which contains testosterone, can treat men with a hormone deficiency.

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Uber’s sexual harassment problem will be the subject of an upcoming film
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Susan Fowler’s viral 2017 blog post about sexual harassment at Uber will be the inspiration for a potential film adaptation, Variety reports. The as-yet-unnamed project will be a joint effort from Fowler, a former Uber engineer, the production company Good Universe, and Hidden Figures screenwriter Allison Schroeder.

Fowler’s blog post “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber” described a tense work environment where sexual harassment and professional undermining were pervasive problems for women. She claimed that after she reported her manager for sending her sexually explicit chats at work, little action was taken by Uber’s human resources department. Her request to transfer teams within the company was denied, and her performance review scores began to suffer.

She wrote that this culture of suppression led to an exodus of women at the company:

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another eng organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit. There were two major reasons for this: there was the organizational chaos, and there was also the sexism within the organization. When I asked our director at an org all-hands about what was being done about the dwindling numbers of women in the org compared to the rest of the company, his reply was, in a nutshell, that the women of Uber just needed to step up and be better engineers.

Multiple women corroborated Fowler’s claims, and her blog post set off a chain reaction of events within the company. An investigation into the allegations of harassment at Uber led to 20 firings, though there were more than 200 reports of misconduct. Several executives were fired or left the company of their own accord, and CEO Travis Kalanick was forced to step down after a series of missteps and scandals.

This past summer, The Verge’s Sarah Jeong argued that Fowler’s post was just the first step in a battle against sexual harassment in Silicon Valley. “The snowball effect from Fowler’s blogpost continues,” she wrote, “toppling CEOs and venture capital firms, launching legislation — whistleblowers inspiring more whistleblowers, each successive disruption forcing change on an industry that, despite all its talk about moving fast and breaking things, has resisted change thus far.”

That Fowler’s story is being developed for a film adaptation is yet another marker in what has become an ever-expanding cultural moment. Recently, widespread allegations of sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood have come to the surface, too. More than 40 women have alleged decades of unchecked abuse from producer Harvey Weinstein, and a new Los Angeles Times report details dozens of stories of sexual harassment from director James Toback. A publicly circulated spreadsheet called Shitty Media Men named and accused men in media of varying levels of harassment and assault.

The door has been cautiously opened yet again, as it was in the weeks following Fowler’s blog post, for women to come forward with stories of harassment. Her story may have knocked over the first domino in Silicon Valley, but now it’s part of an even bigger story as those dominos keep falling in every industry.

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Arvtagerskans pappa beredd att betala minst 12 miljoner till offren
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Arvtagerskans pappa beredd att betala minst 12 miljoner till offren

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Snapchat adds new link sharing & ‘Ghost Mode’ features as report claims ‘hundreds of thousands’ of unsold Spectacles
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Snapchat today has released a notable update to its iOS app, while a new report offers a look at the company’s reportedly ill-fated hardware efforts. First off, TechCrunch notes Snapchat’s latest iOS update with support for more linking features and some changes to Snap Map location sharing…

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ASK THE DOCTOR: Is my mother too old for the flu vaccine?
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One reader asks: 'My 89-year-old mother has dementia and I wonder if this, as well as her age, makes the flu vaccine inadvisable. Would the vaccine itself make her ill?'
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YouTube stars test durability of case by dunking an iPhone
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The duo behind the YouTube sensation TeamFlightBrothers in Naples, Florida, teamed up with tech21 to see how well the company's new cases protect iPhones when dunked.

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