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  • ‘American Idol’ Fifth Judge: Katy Perry Brings Contestant to Tears with Hollywood Week Prank

    by gulaiym

    Only Katy Perry thought it was funny to tell a group of girls one of them needed to volunteer to leave the competition. For the next few episodes, we find ourselves in the oft-chaotic “Hollywood Week” portion of “American Idol.” It’s the most intense and serious part of the entire season, which means the contestants and the […]

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  • Does Google Know Everything About You? Short Answer: Yes.

    by gulaiym

    GREENSBORO, NC– Check out this email from a 2 Wants To Know viewer. Conni writes: Google is constantly gathering information about where you have been. I get notifications asking me if I want to save a restaurant or a store to my timeline. Who gets the information from this timeline? Can I opt out of […]

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  • Archaeologists discover 81 ancient settlements in the Amazon

    by gulaiym

    The settlement looked like little more than 11 mounds of earth surrounded by a sunken ditch. But if Jonas Gregorio de Souza closed his eyes, he could imagine the Boa Vista site as it would have appeared 800 years ago. Perhaps, the archaeologist said, those mounds were houses circling a central square. Outside the defensive […]

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  • Whilst Crypto Giants Battle Through Stormy Weather, London Based Lendo Sails Through With Ease

    by gulaiym

    The controversial debate with blockchain and cryptocurrency has been affecting this new market for the good, the bad and the ugly. More than ever, crypto giants including Bitcoin, have been fighting their way through stormy weather cringing from the blows. Yet a newcomer on the block, Lendo, a London based fintech start-up, has been sailing through with […]

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  • U.S. markets close sharply lower as tech stocks lead late sell-off

    by gulaiym

    Banks also weighed on the market as bond yields declined. A steep, late-afternoon sell-off in technology companies pulled U.S. stocks sharply lower Tuesday, knocking 344 points off the Dow Jones industrial average. The market slide erased modest gains from earlier in the day and much of a powerful rally from the day before. Banks also […]

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  • The search for the designer of the Dubai Expo 2020 UK Pavilion begins

    by gulaiym

      design competition has been launched to find the designer for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and the anticipation is already rising. Past pavilions have been created to wide acclaim by architects, artists and designers such as Thomas Heatherwick, Asif Khan and Wolfgang Buttress – all of which have have gone on to win multiple awards for […]

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  • Local breweries collide for beer culture course

    by gulaiym

    The Michael A. Leven School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality offers a class on the classic American beverage — beer. Additionally, the class holds panels where various brew masters from different breweries come and talk about all facets of the business and taste samples with students. From March 20-22, students taking CHS 4640, Beer Culture, […]

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  • Nike Helped Create Sneaker Culture. Now it’s Catering to Female ‘Sneakerheads’

    by gulaiym

    In the 1980s, Nike helped launch “sneaker culture” with the release of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordans. “Sneakerheads,” people who collect and obsess over kicks, were born and today help fuel a $1 billion sneaker resale market. But women have been historically left out. The athletic brand is hoping to fix that with Unlaced, a curated destination for female sneaker lovers that will launch […]

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  • Beauty Pie delivers directly to you

    by gulaiym

    As for adventuring, I’d rate myself medium-high on the risk scale. I once travelled to Africa not knowing a soul, and I’ve trudged shin-deep in mud through cow-filled fields in Scotland to get to a music festival. Those were good times – the kind where youth, possibility and the absence of fear of running mascara […]

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  • EU says summit with Turkey provides no answers to concerns

    by gulaiym

    VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) – European Union leaders said talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday offered no answers to a long list of concerns including over Turkey’s intervention in Syria and the jailing of journalists at home. At a summit that host Bulgaria described as “charged with great tension”, the bloc vowed to keep […]

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