| | | | | | | | | 2014-04-30 23:19:50 | Digg Top Stories | | | Deadly tornadoes have wreaked havoc in the South, leveling homes and claiming at least 28 lives in the past three days. And meteorologists say the threat of more tornadoes won't ease up till Wednesday. | | | | | | 2014-04-30 23:19:50 | Digg Top Stories | | | Melissa Jones is an average baby. Melissa T. Jones, though? That baby is a genius. Or at least, other people will think so. And really, isn't that what matters? | | | | | | 2014-04-30 23:19:50 | Digg Top Stories | | | A lot of famous and talented people have been banned from establishments for much less egregious offenses than what Donald Sterling did. | | | | | | 2014-04-30 23:19:50 | Digg Top Stories | | | Can a new approach to cervical cancer screening improve diagnosis, or will it jeopardize women's health? | | | | | | 2014-04-30 23:06:02 | Kurt Wagner | | | Facebook unveiled a slew of new products and initiatives at the company's F8 developer conference keynote on Wednesday, nearly all of them developer-related Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the event with a few remarks but left most of the talking to other Facebook execs who focused on topics like building apps, growing a mobile audience, and then monetizing that audience. There was an emphasis on helping app developers get off the ground and work alongside Facebook in the process See also: Goodbye, Hoodie: Facebook Grows Up Facebook has made great strides in mobile over the past 24 months, and the recent acquisition of Parse — along with its simple tools for helping new apps get off the ground fast — only deepened the company's commitment to growing with mobile Read more... More about Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , F8 , Tech , and Apps Software | | | | | | 2014-04-30 22:56:54 | Seth Fiegerman | | | Who would have thought a social network announcing that it had topped 250 million active users would be seen as such bad news? On Tuesday afternoon, Twitter revealed that it had 255 million monthly active users in the first three months of this year,... | | | | | | 2014-04-30 22:30:23 | Sam Laird | | | A viral campaign soccer stars sparked against racism this week wasn't as spontaneous as it looked Instead, it was carefully orchestrated — and even cooler than it initially appeared See also: Firsthand Proof That Brazil Is World Cup Soccer's True Home Brazil and FC Barcelona star Dani Alves drew worldwide acclaim on Sunday when he took a bite out of a banana that a fan threw on the field during an away match against Spanish team Villarreal. Racist taunts, including bananas and other references to monkeys, are an all-too-common way some European soccer fans harass opposing players, so Alves' banana bite was seen as a cheeky and powerful response Read more... More about Soccer , World Cup , Entertainment , and Sports | | | | | | 2014-04-30 22:27:43 | Colin Daileda | | | A botched execution in the state of Oklahoma on Tuesday has drawn criticism from the White House, infuriated the ACLU and — practically overnight — reignited the death penalty debate in America. Clayton Lockett, convicted of raping and murdering a 19-year-old girl, was due to be executed at the state penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., Tuesday night when things went shockingly awry. See also: Oklahoma Inmate Dies of Heart Attack After Botched Execution It began when Lockett was given a powerful anesthetic at 6:23 p.m. CDT, the New York Times reported , and was pronounced unconscious moments later. After a few minutes, Lockett reportedly tried to sit up in his chair, trembled, shook his foot, said "man, something's wrong" and gasped, before officials closed the curtains to the execution chamber. Read more... More about Execution , Drugs , Us World , Politics , and Us | | | | | | 2014-04-30 22:16:24 | Digg Top Stories | | | The Obama administration doesn't want to tell you. | | | | | | 2014-04-30 22:16:24 | Digg Top Stories | | | If you've not used it before, IFTTT allows you to build simple, easy scripts, called "recipes," to automate regular tasks across multiple apps and platforms. | | | | |
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