| Trump’s executive order disappoints religious conservatives Posted: 04 May 2017 12:43 PM PDT  An executive order by President Trump meant to reward religious conservatives for their support fell short of what many hoped for and drew widespread criticism.
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| Lawrence: Comey's False Choice On Clinton Email Probe Posted: 03 May 2017 12:03 PM PDT  FBI Director James Comey defended his handling of the Clinton email investigation by saying it wasn't politically motivated, but Lawrence O'Donnell argues that every decision Comey made involved politics.
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| The Seven Key Consequences of GOP Health Care Posted: 04 May 2017 11:27 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow reviews what it would mean if the new House Republican health care bill were to become law.
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| Hero Sports Bar Customer Fatally Shoots Gunman Who'd Just Killed Employee: Cops Posted: 04 May 2017 06:23 AM PDT  The shocking scene unfolded in Texas.
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| Deadly unrest grips Venezuela as students rally Posted: 05 May 2017 01:47 AM PDT  A student leader was shot dead as protests raged on in the streets of Venezuela Thursday in the latest spasm of anger aimed at removing President Nicolas Maduro from power. The leftist Maduro's opponents accuse him of trying to strengthen his grip on power and delay elections by launching legal proceedings to overhaul the constitution. The latest toll provided by prosecutors on Thursday said 35 people have been killed in just over a month of protests against Maduro, whose opponents blame him for Venezuela's dire economic mess.
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| A Family With Young Children Is Kicked Off a Delta Air Lines Flight Posted: 03 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Official on board allegedly overheard telling the parents they risk jail and loss of children if they refused to cooperate after paying for seats.
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| Trump's healthcare bill allows rape to be a pre-existing condition Posted: 04 May 2017 01:57 PM PDT  When House Republicans passed the American Health Care Act on Thursday, many Americans likely thought of their family and friends living with cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. Before Obamacare, some insurance companies considered rape and domestic abuse pre-existing conditions. One woman, Jody Neal-Post, says she was turned away after telling a potential insurance that she was a domestic violence victim – despite otherwise being perfectly healthy.
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| Putin Has a New Secret Weapon in Syria: Chechens Posted: 04 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT  The quiet deployment of roughly 1,000 Muslim special forces from Russia's southern regions shows that Moscow is serious about upping its ground game in Syria.
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| Donald Trump's 'religious liberty' executive order rejected by 1,000 faith leaders Posted: 04 May 2017 04:00 AM PDT  More than 1,000 faith leaders have signed a letter condemning Donald Trump's anticipated executive order on "religious liberty". White House officials confirmed some of the contents of the draft to Politico this week. "Although it purports to strengthen religious freedom, what this order would actually do is misuse this freedom, turning it into a weapon to discriminate against broad swath[e]s of our nation, including LGBTQ people, women, and children in foster care," the letter says.
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| Wall Street: Don't Listen to Donald Trump! Posted: 03 May 2017 12:40 PM PDT  Early in Donald Trump's presidency, the stock markets would react to even a single tweet. Already, Wall Street is warning it doesn't take Trump literally anymore and is dismissing what he says and tweets.
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| Inside Marvel: The legacy of Captain America Posted: 05 May 2017 02:16 AM PDT  "Secret Empire" writer Nick Spencer and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso discuss Captain America as a symbol in the Marvel universe.
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| James Comey defends Clinton email decision but warns of threat from Russia Posted: 03 May 2017 11:52 AM PDT  FBI director James Comey on Wednesday described Russia as "the greatest threat" to US democracy, but defended his decision to keep secret an investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Moscow despite revealing details of an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified emails. Giving evidence to a hearing of the Senate judiciary committee, Comey offered his most extensive explanation to date of the thinking behind his different approaches to the two investigations.
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| China's homemade passenger jet aces first flight Posted: 05 May 2017 02:03 AM PDT  The first large made-in-China passenger plane successfully completed its maiden test flight Friday, marking a key milestone on the country's ambitious journey to compete with the world's leading aircraft makers. The narrow-body C919 jet -- white with green and blue stripes -- disappeared into the clouds after taking off from Pudong international airport in the commercial hub Shanghai as a crowd of thousands cheered, including top officials. Built by state-owned aerospace manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the plane represents nearly a decade of effort in a government-mandated drive to reduce dependence on European consortium Airbus and US aerospace giant Boeing.
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| Former warlord Hekmatyar calls for peace with Afghan Taliban Posted: 04 May 2017 07:18 AM PDT  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul on Thursday after two decades in hiding, calling for peace with Taliban insurgents and criticizing the Western-backed government, which he said was not working. Hekmatyar's comments in a ceremony at the presidential palace highlighted the complications likely to face President Ashraf Ghani, who signed a peace deal with Hekmatyar last year that brought his Hizb-i-Islami party into the government fold. Calling his former allies in the Afghan Taliban "brothers", Hekmatyar, a charismatic speaker whose address was frequently interrupted by shouts of acclamation, portrayed himself as a mediator able to bring peace.
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| San Francisco police shoot, kill man on Market Street Posted: 03 May 2017 03:59 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police shot and killed a man who officers say was stabbing another man on the city's busy downtown Market Street on Wednesday.
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| George Will: Trump Has a 'dangerous Disability' Posted: 04 May 2017 12:35 PM PDT  Conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump's "dangerous" inability "to think and speak clearly" and what Americans must do about it.
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| Cassini Completes First Successful Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings Posted: 04 May 2017 04:32 AM PDT  NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back fascinating images of Saturn's atmosphere during its first dive between Saturn and its rings. It will complete its second dive this week.
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| US animal sanctuary kills all its animals including three tigers and three lions Posted: 04 May 2017 04:12 AM PDT  The owners of an American animal sanctuary have come under fire for killing all 11 of its exotic animals, despite other rescue centres offering to rehome the three tigers, three lions and five bears. The Lion's Gate Sanctuary in Colorado said it was forced to euthanise its animals last month after it was denied permission to relocate away from a site that had repeatedly flooded. Co-owners doctor Joan Laub and Peter Winney said in a statement they planned to build a new facility on 45 acres of empty land they owned, but were denied permission by commissioners who bowed to pressure from local residents in an "unfair" hearing.
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| Girl's tries to livestream suicide, but is saved by deputies Posted: 04 May 2017 11:26 AM PDT ![Girl's tries to livestream suicide, but is saved by deputies]( "Girl's tries to livestream suicide, but is saved by deputies") MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia teenager who took pills, placed a bag over her head and tried to livestream her suicide on Facebook Live was saved by deputies after viewers watching the haunting scene called 911.
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| Obamacare v the revised Republican healthcare bill: the key differences Posted: 04 May 2017 08:25 AM PDT  House Republicans voted on Thursday to repeal and replace Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. House Republicans are planning a vote on Thursday on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that if the ACA continued, the number of uninsured Americans – currently 28 million – would remain stable for the next decade.
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| Vertical Limit! Incredible pictures of Hong Kong from a never-seen-before angle Posted: 05 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Vertical Limit! Incredible pictures of Hong Kong from a never-seen-before angle]( "Vertical Limit! Incredible pictures of Hong Kong from a never-seen-before angle") Images from Hong Kong by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze present the city's towering buildings as geometric and kaleidoscopic forms.
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| Legendary Swiss climber cremated near Everest Posted: 04 May 2017 04:43 AM PDT  The body of legendary Swiss climber Ueli Steck, who died on Mount Everest, was cremated on Thursday at a Buddhist monastery that lies in the shadow of the world's highest peak. The adventurer's body was flown by helicopter on Thursday to the Tengboche Monastery that lies on the trail to the peaks that claimed his life. A number of climbers were expected to trek down from Everest base camp -- some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Tengboche -- to attend the cremation, according to Nimesh Karki of Seven Summits, a trekking company that helped Steck organise his Everest attempt.
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| Venezuela death toll rises as foes protest Maduro's power shakeup Posted: 03 May 2017 04:18 PM PDT  By Andrew Cawthorne and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces battled protesters who lit fires and hurled stones on Wednesday in rage at President Nicolas Maduro's decree to create an alternative congress, with another fatality taking the death toll to 34 during a month of unrest. In a familiar pattern in protests against the socialist government, thousands of opposition supporters rallied peacefully at first before being blocked, sparking fights around the city between masked youths and soldiers. One 17-year-old protester died in the melee from an object that hit him in the neck, said Gerardo Blyde, a district mayor for the opposition.
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| Theft Was Not The Motive In Murder Of Retired Marine and Girlfriend, Belize Cops Say Posted: 05 May 2017 06:07 AM PDT  Authorities in the tiny Central American country have ruled the deaths of Drew DeVoursney and Francesca Matus as murders, but have no motive.
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| 4 Alexa speakers that aren’t made by Amazon Posted: 05 May 2017 05:20 AM PDT 
The Amazon Echo is the speaker that started it all, and the Echo Dot is Amazon's latest and greatest Alexa speaker. They're both still fine options, as is the Amazon Tap, but Amazon's not the only game in town anymore when it comes to Alexa-enabled speakers. In this post, you'll find four other options that give you access to all the same Alexa skills as Amazon's speakers, but they sport different designs and different features as well. Jam Voice Portable Wifi and Bluetooth Speaker - Alexa Voice Service lets you ask questions, check the weather, and more
- Tap and ask Alexa to stream music from services like TuneIn and iHeartRadio, or stream from Spotify and Tidal through the free JAM Wi-Fi app
- Connect with Bluetooth for music on the go
- Pair multiple speakers and stream from room to room over Wi-Fi
- Free JAM App controls your speakers and music
iLuv Aud Click Portable Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Speaker - Plastic and other materials
- JUST CLICK AND ASK ALEXA: The Aud Click is a Portable WiFi & Bluetooth Speaker with Amazon Alexa. Ask Alexa to answer questions, play music, read the news, get weather and traffic reports, control your smart home, and more. The Aud Click can also use Alexa skills such as ordering a pizza from Dominoes and calling for an Uber. You can find how to use video here: https://youtu.be/dbDvMnzhUeU
- PLAY MUSIC FROM YOUR FAVORITE SOURCES: Simply click and ask Alexa to play your favorite songs. The Aud Click works with major services and stations, including Amazon Music, Tunein, iHeartRadio, and more. You can also play music from playlists on your phone. Even when you do not have WiFi access, you can still play music through Bluetooth connection.
- BRING IT WITH YOU ANYWHERE: The Aud Click is fully portable, so you can bring it with you and use it on the go. The extremely small size and impressively long battery life make the Aud Click the perfect companion for your next picnic in the park, walk to the beach, or even for the times you want to simply walk around the neighborhood. Anywhere that you want to go, bring the Aud Click with you and have your music by your side.
- SUPERIOR SOUND WITH 360 DEGREE OMNI-DIRECTIONAL AUDIO: The Aud Click uses a unique open-ended speaker that can project further than most speakers of the same size. This impressive new technology allows the sound waves to expand further out, providing clean and crisp acoustics.
- MULTI-ROOM LISTENING EXPERIENCE: Using the WiFi, you can connect multiple Aud Click speakers together throughout your home. Through the app you can control the music in each room. Whether you want to play the same song throughout your house, or provide a different atmosphere in each room, the Aud Click will meet your music playing needs. You can also have one set of multiple speakers to left mode and the other set to right mode as stereo.
FABRIQ Portable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Smart Speaker - FABRIQ is an interactive voice and touch controlled multiroom speaker that uses Amazon Alexa Voice Service to play music, control smart home devices, set alarms and much more. Just tap on the mic button and ask Alexa. FABRIQ is a standalone Alexa device and does not require an Echo or Dot.
- Small speaker, big sound. The 2" precision active driver along with 5W of power provide crisp sound at any volume.
- Using Wi-Fi, you can connect up to 10 FABRIQ speakers for a multiroom sound experience. You can play music synchronously through your home or chose different songs for different rooms.
- With Alexa, you can play music from Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and TuneIn and access your books from Audible.
- Bluetooth capability allows you to bring your portable FABRIQ speaker anywhere you go.
Omaker WoW Handsfree Smart Speaker - Hands-free Wi-Fi speaker to be certified for Amazon hands-free recognition, Music and AVS; can hear your voice requests even when music is playing or in a noisy environment.
- Omaker WoW works as a Amazon certified hands-free voice-enabled speaker that serves you. Just ask Alexa to play music, check the weather, hear the news, control smart home devices, order a pizza, and more…
- Streams high resolution audio (192khz/24bit; 44.1KHz/16bit) through dual 4W speakers, bringing you a feast for the ears.
- Features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and dual built-in batteries making Omaker WoW a wireless portable speaker you can take anywhere.
- Pair multiple WoW speakers together through the Omaker App and be free to switch from one to another or just let them play at the same time, filling the whole house with amazing sound. (Search "eomaker alexa"or "wow alexa" in Google Play Store to download Omaker APP, if you have any question, just contact us for inquiry.)
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| Fidget Spinners: the Newest Toy to Twirl Into Americans’ Lives Posted: 04 May 2017 08:52 AM PDT  These spinning toys are so popular, they're dominating Amazon's best-seller list and are being kept behind the counter at some toy stores.
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| Student sex assault reports and how they vary by state Posted: 05 May 2017 07:30 AM PDT  Unlike colleges and universities, U.S. elementary and secondary schools are not subject to national requirements for tracking student sexual assaults. But 32 states and the District of Columbia do maintain information, though it is inconsistent and sometimes incomplete, The Associated Press found.
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| Members of Congress 'holding secret conversations about removing Donald Trump from office' Posted: 04 May 2017 03:46 AM PDT  Members of the US Congress are holding "private conversations" about whether Donald Trump should be removed from office, reports suggest. The New Yorker this week published a lengthy analysis of the two ways the Republican could be removed from office: either through impeachment by Congress or via the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, which allows for a president to be removed if he is considered to be mentally unfit. Evan Osnos, the author of the article, said he had been told that members of Congress were already holding conversations on the issue.
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| Woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions hearing convicted for being 'disorderly' Posted: 04 May 2017 09:28 AM PDT  Desiree Fairooz, an activist with Code Pink, found guilty of 'disorderly or disruptive conduct' with intent to disrupt congressional proceedings Desiree Fairooz confronts Condoleeza Rice in 2007. Fairooz has been convicted after laughing during a confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters
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| Ukraine: A forgotten war in Europe Posted: 04 May 2017 07:39 AM PDT ![Ukraine: A forgotten war in Europe]( "Ukraine: A forgotten war in Europe") Photos from the frontline between the Ukrainian army and Russia-backed rebels from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.
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| Army photographer captures own death in explosion Posted: 04 May 2017 04:59 AM PDT  The U.S. Army has published the last photo of a combat photographer who captured on camera the blast that killed her, an Afghan photographer and three Afghan soldiers in an accidental mortar explosion in Afghanistan nearly four years ago.
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| Royals Announce That Prince Philip, 95, Will Retire Posted: 04 May 2017 08:42 AM PDT  The Duke of Edinburgh has been standing beside the Queen for seven decades, but the palace is announcing that he'll retire from joining many official occasions in September.
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| Cat Chased Up a Tree by Dog, Rescued 3 Days Later Posted: 04 May 2017 03:04 PM PDT  The 15-year-old cat was too afraid to come down.
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| Police: 2 dead in suspected murder-suicide at Texas college Posted: 03 May 2017 08:40 PM PDT  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Two people died Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at a Texas community college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves in rooms. It was the second deadly attack on a Texas campus this week.
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| Hillary Clinton should 'take responsibility' for losing to Donald Trump and 'move on', says David Axelrod Posted: 04 May 2017 03:34 AM PDT  Barack Obama's former campaign manager has told Hillary Clinton to "move on" and suggested she should take more responsibility for her defeat to Donald Trump. David Axelrod, who ran Mr Obama's 2008 campaign and later served as his senior adviser, said Ms Clinton was wrong to not put campaign resources into key states such as Wisconsin and Michigan that were eventually won by Donald Trump. "It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump," Mr Axelrod told CNN.
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| The best new Android feature might finally launch soon Posted: 03 May 2017 08:04 PM PDT 
When Google demoed Android Nougat for the first time almost a year ago at Google I/O 2016, Instant Apps was one of the features that stood out, as a trick the iPhone didn't have at the time and still doesn't have now. But as hot as it may be, the feature wasn't ready for public consumption when Google released the final Nougat build last year. However, things might change soon, as Google is apparently getting ready to enable it on devices running Android 7 as well as phones and tablets running older Android versions.
Instant Apps will let users enjoy instant app experiences on their smartphones without actually downloading a particular app for. Assuming it works as described, the feature will solve a bunch of problems. First of all, it'll help save storage on the phone, as you won't have to keep an app installed just because you might have to use it every now and then. Secondly, you won't have to buy an app to try it since developers will be able to offer a portion of an app to test for free. Finally, the Instant Apps features will work on most Android devices out there, not just Nougat-based ones, as it's built on Google Play Services. Looking at the code in the latest version of Google Play Store, 9to5Google discovered that Google might be getting ready to roll out Instant Apps. The code reveals that users will be able to enable or disable the feature and choose which Google account to use with an app. Here's Google's demo of Instant Apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oaaecd7NpI 9to5Google also mentions several new features in the Google Play Store 7.8 update, including a Google Play app discovery service, a pre-registration rewards features for apps, and a new security branding for Verify Apps — that's Play Protect.
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| US allows 'El Chapo' to write to wife from behind bars Posted: 04 May 2017 02:56 PM PDT  A US judge on Thursday relaxed slightly the stringent custody conditions of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, allowing him to correspond with his beauty queen wife. The 60-year-old kingpin, accused of running one of the world's biggest drug empires, has been held in solitary confinement since being extradited to New York on January 19. Federal Judge Brian Cogan ruled that Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals, could send written messages to his wife -- provided they were pre-screened by federal agencies -- but denied him family visits and phone calls.
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| AP Explains: Venezuela's 'anti-capitalist' constitution Posted: 04 May 2017 10:42 AM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets daily and international pressure mounting, embattled President Nicolas Maduro is doing something that once seemed unthinkable: Tearing up the constitution written by his beloved political godfather, the late President Hugo Chavez.
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| Iraq forces launch new push on IS in west Mosul Posted: 04 May 2017 02:27 AM PDT  Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north on Thursday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old offensive to dislodge the Islamic State group from the country's second city. The assault is aimed at sealing the siege of the Old City, where die-hard jihadists holding huge numbers of civilians hostage are preparing for a bloody last stand. Forces from the army, the interior ministry and the police "began breaching the western side from the north," the Joint Operations Command (JOC) coordinating the war against IS said in a statement.
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| Guess Who Just Beat Whole Foods For America's Favorite Grocery Store? Posted: 04 May 2017 10:53 AM PDT  We didn't see this one coming.
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| Holy crap, there's a backspace function on the iPhone calculator Posted: 03 May 2017 10:03 AM PDT  Friends, there are times when you stumble upon a tip so good that you must immediately share it with all in your vicinity. That tip — courtesy of Twitter user @censoreddialogue — goes as follows: The iPhone calculator app has a backspace function. Rather than restarting a calculation after pressing a wrong number, swiping over an unwanted digit removes it. SEE ALSO: Don't hold your breath for a new iPhone 8 this year PSA: you can backspace on the iPhone calculator pic.twitter.com/sBJMlANDNJ — CENSORED dialogue (@censoredialogue) May 3, 2017 Now maybe you, smug reader, already knew this. A quick Google search pulls up a Lifehacker post about the function — based off a Quora post — from 2014. But judging from the more than 7,000 retweets on this video — and the subsequent viral account pickups — it feels safe to assume that many of us were in the dark. Now that we've seen the light, gone are the days when one wrong move sends us rage spiraling over Apple's perceived user experience oversight. Go on, offer to tabulate that lengthy restaurant bill. You've got this. WATCH: This night light goes inside your toilet bowl because why not
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| Tests Show SUV Tires Can Smartly Balance Car Ride and Truck Grip Posted: 04 May 2017 12:05 PM PDT  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Choosing tires has become more confusing over time for many consumers. Tires traditionally have been distinguished as ei...
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