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paper candidate: Word of the day for November 2, 2016

paper candidate , n : An election candidate with little chance of winning, who is added to the ballot for publicity and to increase the number standing. Election Day for the United States presidential election, 2016, is on November 8.

The Horrifying Differences In International Car Safety Regulations, Visualized

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The Horrifying Differences In International Car Safety Regulations, Visualized The silver car is the least expensive Nissan model sold in the US. The red car is the least expensive model sold in Mexico. The difference between a crash's effect on each car is... frightening. November 1, 2016 at 04:26PM

Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank?

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Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank? This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.

Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank?

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Was a server registered to the Trump Organization communicating with Russia’s Alfa Bank?

The Horrifying Differences In International Car Safety Regulations, Visualized

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The Horrifying Differences In International Car Safety Regulations, Visualized

paper candidate: Word of the day for November 2, 2016

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Word of the day is paper candidate : An election candidate with little chance of winning, who is added to the ballot for publicity and to increase the number standing. Election Day for the United States presidential election, 2016, is on November 8.

Article of the day for November 2, 2016

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Article of the day is Mayfly. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Article of the day for November 2, 2016

The Article of the day for November 2, 2016 is Mayfly . Mayflies are an order (Ephemeroptera) of over 3,000 species of flying insects, related to dragonflies and damselflies. They are relatively primitive, with ancestral traits that were probably present in the first flying insects, such as long tails, and wings that do not fold flat over the abdomen. Their immature stages (nymphs) live in fresh water. Unique among insect orders, they have a fully winged adult stage that moults into a sexually mature adult. Often, all the mayflies in a population mature at the same time, emerging in the spring, summer or autumn in enormous numbers; some hatchings attract tourists. Mayflies are a favourite food of many fish, and fishing flies are often modelled to resemble them. The brief lives of mayfly adults—less than five minutes for the female Dolania americana, after the final moult—have been noted by naturalists and encyclopaedists since Aristotle and Pliny the Elder. The English poet George Cra

Picture of the day for November 2, 2016

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Picture of the day on November 2, 2016: Crypt of Altenburg Abbey, Lower Austria

Picture of the day for November 2, 2016

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Crypt of Altenburg Abbey, Lower Austria.

The first Google Tango phone delivers true augmented reality gaming

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The first Google Tango phone delivers true augmented reality gaming Lenovo and Google are trying to prove that AR can and should become an integral component of modern smartphones. Project Tango chief Johnny Lee thinks of Tango’s technology much like GPS, which transformed the utility of mobile phones and, years later, helped give birth to services like Uber.

The first Google Tango phone delivers true augmented reality gaming

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The first Google Tango phone delivers true augmented reality gaming