Famed Swiss climber Ueli Steck dies in Everest training accident

Swiss climber Ueli Steck was killed Sunday in an accident near Mount Everest, Nepal’s tourism department said.

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Famed Swiss climber Ueli Steck dies in Everest training accident

Swiss climber Ueli Steck was killed Sunday in an accident near Mount Everest, Nepal’s tourism department said.

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Elon Musk says we're only 2 years from being able to nap in self-driving cars

Multi-company tech mogul Elon Musk recently laid out plans for his traffic-defeating Boring company during a talk at the TED conference, but now, we finally have the full video of his appearance. And he delivers a few more interesting comments. 

Answering a question regarding how long it will be before we can hop in our self-driving car, give it directions, and then take a nap until we’ve reached out destination, Musk says he thinks we’re about two years away.

If true, that could truly change the landscape of our cities; from how human-controlled cars operate to the number of taxi drivers who may be put out of work. Read more…

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Elon Musk says we're only 2 years from being able to nap in self-driving cars

Multi-company tech mogul Elon Musk recently laid out plans for his traffic-defeating Boring company during a talk at the TED conference, but now, we finally have the full video of his appearance. And he delivers a few more interesting comments. 

Answering a question regarding how long it will be before we can hop in our self-driving car, give it directions, and then take a nap until we’ve reached out destination, Musk says he thinks we’re about two years away.

If true, that could truly change the landscape of our cities; from how human-controlled cars operate to the number of taxi drivers who may be put out of work. Read more…

More about Trump, Boring Company, Mars, Tesla, and Spacex

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/elon-musk-says-were-only-2-years-from-being-able-to-nap-in-self-driving-cars/

Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke faces protests Monday

Thousands are expected to take to the streets of Wisconsin on Monday to demand that the governor remove controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a tough-talking firebrand who wants to use his deputies and correction officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

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Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke faces protests Monday

Thousands are expected to take to the streets of Wisconsin on Monday to demand that the governor remove controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a tough-talking firebrand who wants to use his deputies and correction officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

http://blog.webhits.io/controversial-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-faces-protests-monday/
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Trump’s war on the media is straight out of a dystopian dictator’s handbook

President Donald Trump was a distracting entertainment from the moment he launched his campaign in June of 2015 — until he wasn’t.

His opening speech, in which he called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and told the world he would be the best jobs president “God ever created,” was looked at as the ravings of a man whose outsized ego was too big to be anything but hilarious. 

News outlets such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC carried his run-on sentences and gesticulations seemingly every time he got behind a podiumThe Huffington Post for a time only wrote about Trump in its entertainment section. 

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk just endorsed Trump’s secretary of state pick, and it makes no sense Read more…

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Congressional negotiators reach deal on government funding through September

Bipartisan congressional negotiators reached a critical agreement late Sunday on a massive spending bill that if approved by the House and Senate would fund the government through the end of September, senior aides from both parties told CNN.

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Twitter news video will appear 24/7, thanks to Bloomberg

Twitter is now a 24/7 streaming video service, beginning with financial news. 

Bloomberg, the finance news site with a wealth of funds from terminals, has agreed to produce exclusive video content for Twitter that will play 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. 

The announcement comes just ahead of Twitter’s first-ever NewFronts, where the tech company will pitch advertisers on a slate of original programming they can advertise within for the upcoming year. 

SEE ALSO: Twitter goes Lite for developing markets

The deal also landed just after a quarterly earnings report delighted investors and analysts because of its surprise surpassing of expectations. Twitter had added 9 million monthly active users, while analysts had expected only 2 million, for example.  Read more…

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Ed Sheeran drops details about his 'Game of Thrones' cameo and it includes Arya

Red-headed scamp Ed Sheeran is making the rounds promoting his new album, Divide, and he seems to have let slip a little bit about his much-anticipated cameo on the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. 

SEE ALSO: Ed Sheeran walked into an Irish pub and things escalated quickly

We already know that Sheeran’s character doesn’t die, but, as The A.V. Club noted, he elaborated a bit on the role during a laid back game of beer pong with The Hits Radio’s Tom Green. 

“I just do a seen with Maise [Williams],” Sheeran reveals, “I don’t really know what I’m allowed to say.”

He adds, “I sing a song and then she [Arya] goes, ‘Oh, that’s a nice song,’ and I go, ‘It’s a new one’ and then there’s other lines.” Read more…

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Trump’s war on the media is straight out of a dystopian dictator’s handbook

President Donald Trump was a distracting entertainment from the moment he launched his campaign in June of 2015 — until he wasn’t.

His opening speech, in which he called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and told the world he would be the best jobs president “God ever created,” was looked at as the ravings of a man whose outsized ego was too big to be anything but hilarious. 

News outlets such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC carried his run-on sentences and gesticulations seemingly every time he got behind a podiumThe Huffington Post for a time only wrote about Trump in its entertainment section. 

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk just endorsed Trump’s secretary of state pick, and it makes no sense Read more…

More about Media, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Brave New World, and 1984

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/trumps-war-on-the-media-is-straight-out-of-a-dystopian-dictators-handbook/

Congressional negotiators reach deal on government funding through September

Bipartisan congressional negotiators reached a critical agreement late Sunday on a massive spending bill that if approved by the House and Senate would fund the government through the end of September, senior aides from both parties told CNN.

from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/congressional-negotiators-reach-deal-on-government-funding-through-september/