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What science can reveal about the psychological profiles of terrorists

What science can reveal about the psychological profiles of terrorists : The biggest difference between the terrorists and the other group was seen in moral cognition – they found that terrorists are guided by an abnormal over-reliance on outcomes. The authors argue that this distorted moral reasoning – that the ends justify the means – is the “hallmark” of a terrorist mindset
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Top 23 Torrent Sites

The Best Torrent Sites: May 2017 Below is a big list of torrent sites, more or less in the order that we prefer to search from. If you're new to torrents, don't forget that you'll need a torrent client to get these files! We have a list of the Best Torrent Downloader Software if you're interested. Note: All torrent sites in this table are working , as least as of the last update to this page. Let us know if we need to add or subtract a listing. Torrent Site What We Like The Pirate Bay This site is a classic! TPB It has been around in one incarnation or another for a long time and the torrents are, and have always been, trusted here. BARBG This torrent site is for P2P enthusiasts. It's full of quality, high-resolution torrents. It's about quality here, not quantity. 1337X If you're after older or more obscure torrents, 1337X might be for you. Their torrent database isn't nearly as large as some others, but it might have just what you...
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Do Man Utd really have 659m supporters? - BBC News

Do Man Utd really have 659m supporters? - BBC News : Of the 659 million figure, Kantar says roughly half (325 million) live in the Asia Pacific region, 173 million in the Middle East and Africa, 90 million in Europe and 71 million in the Americas. "I would back my figures and argue [they are accurate] to within a 1% margin of error," says Kantar director Richard Brinkman. "We work for a number of the largest companies around the world… it's in our interest to use our knowledge to produce an accurate figure, not the biggest figure. We need to have more credibility than that."
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Meet The Man Who Makes Facebook’s Machines Think

Meet The Man Who Makes Facebook’s Machines Think : Nearly 3,000 miles away from Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, in an old, beige office building in downtown Manhattan, a group of company employees is working on projects that seem better suited for science fiction than social networking. The team, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research — known internally as FAIR — is focused on a singular goal: to create computers with intelligence on par with humans. While still far from its finish line, the group is making the sort of progress few believed possible at the turn of the decade. Its AI programs are drawing pictures almost indistinguishable from those by human artists and taking quizzes on subject matter culled from Wikipedia. They’re playing advanced video games like Starcraft. Slowly, they’re getting smarter. And someday, they could change Facebook from something that facilitates interaction between friends into something that could be your friend.
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Sharp drop in TV set viewing

Sharp drop in TV set viewing : The most-recent findings, summarized in a new Accenture report Winning Experiences in the New Video World, show that only one in five consumers (19%) now prefer to watch sports games on their TVs, down from 38% in the prior-year survey.
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Citi: The seven companies Apple could buy

Citi: The seven companies Apple could buy : "We identified a handful of potential M&A targets. Three are media firms: Netflix, Disney and Hulu. Three are video game developers: Activision, Electronic Arts and Take-Two. And, one is an auto maker: Tesla. Each target confers some strategic benefit to Apple," Suva said. He has a buy rating on Apple.
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results - Apple

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results - Apple : The Board has approved a 10.5% increase to the Company’s quarterly dividend, and has declared a dividend of $0.63 per share of the Company’s common stock, payable on May 18, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2017.
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