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Paper Hearts - Tori Kelly (Cover) - YouTube

Paper Hearts - Tori Kelly (Cover) - YouTube Published on Aug 9, 2015 Hi everyone! It has been awhile since my last upload, and I apologize. I've been incredibly busy but I hope to post on a more frequent basis. Thank you for patiently waiting and for your support. :) Emma Robinson  is an 18-year-old singer with a remarkable voice. Her unique vocal technique sounds almost like Auto-Tune, but she’s just singing with raw, natural talent. Listen to her lovely cover of “Paper Hearts” by Tori Kelly.
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Robin Thicke Croons in Court for "Blurred Lines" Trial | Wondering Sound

Robin Thicke Croons in Court for "Blurred Lines" Trial | Wondering Sound : lesson. Thicke reportedly argued “Blurred Lines” uses only two chords, E-major and A-major, while eight chords exist in�“Got to Give It Up.” He sang the “I’m gonna take a good girl” hook from “Blurred Lines” and the “I used to go out to parties” bit from Gaye’s song. The piano medley was meant to convince jurors that songs can be similar without rising to the level of legal damages.
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Amazon Yanks “Man in the High Castle” Nazi Ads From NYC Subways | Re/code

Amazon Yanks “Man in the High Castle” Nazi Ads From NYC Subways | Re/code : An Amazon spokesperson said�on Wednesday that the company did not ask the MTA to take down the ads. Variety first reported that an MTA spokesperson told the magazine that “Amazon has just decided to pull the ads,” but then published a second article suggesting Amazon wasn’t behind the removal. We asked Amazon if the company still stands behind the promotion, and we’re waiting to hear back. Requests for comment from the MTA have not been returned, although a statement provided to CBS New York said Governor Andrew Cuomo was behind the takedown.
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A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic?

A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic? : If you really set the stage, or the podium, or the Twitterverse, on fire in 2013, there’s apparently only one way to celebrate: You drop the mic. This relatively new kind of celebration is everywhere. Earlier this month Mindy Kaling dropped the mic at a rap battle on The Mindy Project, and just last weekend people used mic drops to Tweet about everything from the Inauguration to the Sundance Film Festival. So who popularized the mic drop?
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Adele’s Vogue cover released: What do you think? - The Washington Post

Adele’s Vogue cover released: What do you think? - The Washington Post Publish Post
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Više od tisuću Boysa i građana okupiralo Ministarstvo sporta: "Iza pljačke i korupcije stoje vaše institucije" - Sport - Index.hr

Više od tisuću Boysa i građana okupiralo Ministarstvo sporta: "Iza pljačke i korupcije stoje vaše institucije" - Sport - Index.hr : "Ovo je samo početak", objavili su navijača preko megafona nakon što su na stup ispred Ministarstva zalijepili proglas naslova: "Za one koji rade sve da ne naprave ništa".
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Lady Gaga’s Longtime Manager, Troy Carter, Cultivates New Tech Talent | Re/code

Lady Gaga’s Longtime Manager, Troy Carter, Cultivates New Tech Talent | Re/code : “On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars,” Carter told Re/code. “So, on the entrepreneurs’ side, the idea of the labs was to be able to create this ecosystem to help them from the very beginning, to see them through from development and hopefully until they become large companies.” Carter is no novice when it comes to tech investing. His firm, Atom Factory, built a portfolio of 80 companies that includes stakes in Uber, Spotify, Lyft, Warby Parker and Dropbox.
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Prosecutor says alleged Paris ringleader returned to scene of attacks - CBS News

Prosecutor says alleged Paris ringleader returned to scene of attacks - CBS News : Jawad Bendaoud, the only person in France known to be facing potential terrorism charges directly linked to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, was handed over Tuesday morning to an anti-terrorism judge in Paris, according to a judicial official. Bendaoud was detained last week for providing lodging to the suspected mastermind of the attacks in an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
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Well before Super Bowl comes to California, host city bans drones over stadiums | Ars Technica

Well before Super Bowl comes to California, host city bans drones over stadiums | Ars Technica : Kickoff for Super Bowl 50 is not scheduled until February 7, 2016, but Santa Clara is getting ready now. The city has a new local law imposing a half-mile “no-fly zone” over Levi’s Stadium (home of the San Francisco 49ers), the Santa Clara University stadium, and “within or over any sporting and/or large venue special event.”
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Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger is NOT working in Europe, Australia, USA | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express

Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger is NOT working in Europe, Australia, USA | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express : ncing a serious outage. The hugely successful Microsoft messenger is not working for thousands of users across the globe. Microsoft has confirmed the outage across social media and via the Skype website. The full scale of the blackout is
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How BuzzFeed Discovered the Secret to Success on Social Media

How BuzzFeed Discovered the Secret to Success on Social Media : According to Peretti, they ask six distinct questions of their content: “Does it spread internationally?” “Does it work across multiple platforms?” “Does it help people improve their actual lives?” “Does it actually change government institutions?” “Does it help make the world more open and media more diverse?” “Does it help people connect with each other?”
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The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and process from The New York Times R&D Lab

The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and process from The New York Times R&D Lab In May of this year, Facebook announced Facebook Instant Articles, its foray into innovating the Facebook user experience around news reading. A month later, Apple introduced their own take with their Apple News app, which allows “stories to be specially formatted to look and feel like articles taken from publishers’ websites while still living inside Apple’s app”. There has been plenty of discussion about what these moves mean for the future of platforms and their relationship with publishers. But platform discussions aside, let’s examine a fundamental assumption being made here: both Facebook and Apple, who arguably have a huge amount of power to shape what the future of news looks like, have chosen to focus on a future that takes the shape of an article. The form and structure of how news is distributed hasn’t been questioned, even though that form was largely devel...
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nytlabs

nytlabs EDITOR (2015) Tagging and annotation have long been some of the most important tasks that a news organization undertakes. The tags that we attach to articles enable nearly everything that happens to that article after publication: how we recommend related content to readers, how search engines index our site, how ads are targeted and more. Currently, at The New York Times, those tags are applied at the article level. Yet when we look at an article we can see that it actually contains many smaller component parts, like a fact, a person, a recipe or an event. If we could begin to annotate and tag these components, it would enable us to do so much more with that information. New devices, especially those with smaller screens, could make use of smaller chunks of content. New products could be created by extracting components from their original article context and recombining them to create collections or new kinds of experiences. And rather than the archive being a file cabinet...
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DSCOVR::EPIC::Earth Polychromatic Camera

DSCOVR::EPIC::Earth Polychromatic Camera http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/epic-archive/png/epic_1b_20150630110134_00.png
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NASA (@NASA) | Twitter

NASA (@NASA) | Twitter
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