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scintillate: Word of the day for May 21, 2016

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Word of the day is scintillate : (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow. (transitive) To throw off like sparks.

We Will Never Be As Excited About Anything As This Woman Is About Her Chewbacca Mask

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We Will Never Be As Excited About Anything As This Woman Is About Her Chewbacca Mask

Clink, the Restaurant Inside a High Security Prison

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Clink, the Restaurant Inside a High Security Prison

Picture of the day for May 21, 2016

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Picture of the day on May 21, 2016: Straw sculptures in Daldrup, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

scintillate: Word of the day for May 21, 2016

scintillate , v : (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow. (transitive) To throw off like sparks.

Clink, the Restaurant Inside a High Security Prison

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Clink, the Restaurant Inside a High Security Prison The hens are free range and the chefs locked up at the Clink, a restaurant in a high-security London jail.

We Will Never Be As Excited About Anything As This Woman Is About Her Chewbacca Mask

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We Will Never Be As Excited About Anything As This Woman Is About Her Chewbacca Mask She might have trouble pronouncing the world "confiscate" but, oh man, do we love this woman. May 20, 2016 at 02:36PM

Article of the day for May 21, 2016

The Article of the day for May 21, 2016 is 1987 Giro d'Italia . The 1987 Giro d'Italia was the 70th event in the series, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. It began on 21 May with a 4 km (2.5 mi) prologue in San Remo, and concluded on 13 June with a 32 km (19.9 mi) individual time trial in Saint-Vincent. A total of 180 riders from 20 teams entered the 22-stage, 3,915 km (2,433 mi) race. Defending champion Roberto Visentini of the Carrera Jeans–Vagabond team led the first stage, and Dutchman Erik Breukink led the second. Irishman Stephen Roche, Visentini's teammate, took the overall lead after his team won the stage three team time trial. Visentini regained the lead for two days, but Roche rode ahead of him in the fifteenth stage, against orders from the team management, and held onto the lead for the win. Second place was taken by British rider Robert Millar, and Breukink took third. It was the second time in the history of the Giro that there were no...

Picture of the day for May 21, 2016

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Straw sculptures in Daldrup, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Article of the day for May 21, 2016

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Article of the day is 1987 Giro d'Italia. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Google's Modular Smartphone Looks Awesome

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Google's Modular Smartphone Looks Awesome

Google's Modular Smartphone Looks Awesome

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Google's Modular Smartphone Looks Awesome It's always been the dream to be able to modify your smartphone as needed — a bigger battery for a long trip, a better camera for a big event — and Google's Project Ara looks like it might actually make it happen? We're excited.

Google’s New Chatbot Won’t Shut Up-And That’s a Good Thing

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Google’s New Chatbot Won’t Shut Up-And That’s a Good Thing

Google’s New Chatbot Won’t Shut Up-And That’s a Good Thing

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Google’s New Chatbot Won’t Shut Up-And That’s a Good Thing Conversational user interfaces aren’t a new idea, but users often have trouble figuring out what they can do. Google's assistant will look to fix this by, well, always telling you what it can do.