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  1. Weekend Reading - Wall Street to rein in banks, Apple Watch, FBI admits, Rube Goldberg as a laugh machine, and more

    by , 04-26-2015 at 05:28 PM
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    1. How Wall Street captured Washington’s effort to rein in banks (Reuters) see also Can Bankers Behave?Government regulators begin to question whether financial institutions can be reformed at all. (The Atlantic)
    2. Apple Watch: An Overnight Multi-Billion Dollar Business (Carl Howe)
    3. Payday at the mill: How sophisticated financiers used a Maine investment program they devised to wring millions of dollars in risk-free returns at taxpayer expense
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  2. Wordless Ads Speak Volumes In 'Unbranded' Images Of Women

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    Come out of the Bone Age, darling....1955
    Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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    Good thing he kept his head, 1962

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    In 2008, Thomas put on a similar exhibit that focused on images of African-Americans. His new exhibit is focused on white women — but American attitudes towards other races appear in works like ...
  3. EA shows off Star Wars Battlefront footage at fan convention

    by , 04-25-2015 at 04:30 PM


    Nearly ten years after the series went dormant with Star Wars: Battlefront 2, a new shooter set in the Star Wars universe game series is set to hit the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on November 17.

    At the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, members of the DICE development team showed off a pre-alpha trailer for the Frostbite engine-powered game, which is simply being called Star Wars: Battlefront. While the footage didn't show ...
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  4. Smooth Jazz - Brian Simpson - What 'Cha Gonna Do?

    by , 04-25-2015 at 11:11 AM
    Brian Simpson-What 'Cha Gonna Do?

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  5. Minecraft exploit that made it easy to crash servers gets patched - This vulnerability exists on almost all previous and current minecraft versions

    by , 04-25-2015 at 03:48 AM

    It turns out that for the past two years, you could crash a Minecraft server pretty easily. A security researcher published the exploit Thursday and said he*first discovered it*in version 1.6.2 back in July 2013, which is almost two years ago. He claims Mojang ignored him and did nothing to fix the problem, despite his repeated attempts at following standard protocol ...