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Month: January 2020

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The Way This Guy is Fishing is Fascinating

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The video just kept going and I just kept watching. Goat for scale. I wasn’t able to track down the original source and the reddit post was vague on additional information. However it appears to be somewhere in Mongolia. If I’m lost in the wilderness I want this guy (and his goat sidekick) with me! If the video above isn’t working, try the embedded one below. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/guy-goes-ice-fishing-with-goat-and-spear/

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Is U.S. Embassy Attack in Baghdad Part of an Iran Trap?

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JERUSALEMIf Irans grand plan in the Middle East is to push the Americans out and squeeze Israel into a corner, the first time that Israel has attacked Iranian-backed groups there. Two days after Kochavis speech, 32 targeting Kataib Hezbollah. The two incidents now bring into view both Israeli and American red lines trying to contain Irans role in the region. strong and sovereign Iraq, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And the U.S. military is in Iraq at the more than 1,000 airstrikes on as many as 250 Iranian…

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R.I.P. Goofy Times

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A strange new sensation has settled across the tech industry, one so foreign, so alien, it’s almost hard to recognize. A sense that some great expectations are being radically revised downwards; that someone has turned down a previously unquenchable money spigot; that unit economics can matter even when you’re in growth mode. Could it be … thrift? Well, OK, let’s not go that crazy. But we are witnessing a remarkable confluence of (relatively) parsimonious events. Last year’s high-profile tech IPOs are far from high-fliers: Uber, Lyft, Slack, Pinterest, and Peloton…

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Healthcare startup Lyfebin exposed medical images

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Healthcare startup Lyfebin exposed thousands of medical imaging files, such as X-rays, MRI scans and ultrasounds. The Los Angeles-based healthcare startup allows doctors and medical staff to store medical images in its “secure environment,” per its website, allowing patients and doctors access from anywhere. But the files were found stored in an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket, without a password, allowing anyone who knew the easy-to-guess web address access to the data. The files were dated between September 2018 to October 2019. After we reached out to warn…

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Storm cuts power to 1,000 homes and affects travel

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionStorm Brendan: What is causing the stormy weather? More than 1,000 properties were left without power as high winds swept across Wales, felling trees and causing disruption on the roads Western Power Distribution (WPD) said homes in Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan in Ceredigion had been affected Gusts reached 79mph on Mumbles head in Swansea and the windy weather was due to continue late into the night. A school closed due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and…

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