News

• Idiot Picks Fight With Gay Couple And Proceeds To Get His Ass Kicked

Culture

• Is Britain falling out of love with tea?
• Dr. Dre right back on top of things with new album Compton

Toronto Star - 43m ago

Dr. Dre. 3.5 stars. Compton. If the years of blown-out Detox release dates hadn't already killed your hopes of ever hearing another new Dr.

• Two Novelists Double Down on Iraq WarDaily Beast - Aug 1, 2015 Poet and Army vet Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite discuss the pleasures and pains of collaborating on the highly praised novel War of the Encyclopaedists.
• I'm Not Mad. That's Just My RBFNew York Times - Aug 1, 2015 I didn't think much about it at the time: I was appearing in a short television segment and had quickly brushed my hair, then slapped on some concealer.

Science / Tech

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• Rolljam
• Facebook builds drones for internet access
• Google officially ends forced Google+ integration
• Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion
• 14 million computers now running Windows 10
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of humans with robots, production soars
• Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea
• Queen Bees Vaccinate All of Their Babies
• A parasitic beetle is able to infiltrate ant colonies by mimicking the sounds that the queen makes, and is then able to move around the colony at will, preying on ants, and "treated like royalty", according to a new study
• This Is The Date Apple Will Unveil New iPhones

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