Seventy-five percent of an app’s energy consumption was used to power advertisements in one case
From DailyTech Main News Feed: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Passes NASA Crew Trial, CEO Responds to Criticism from Neil Armstrong
Musk said he’s sad that American space heroes like Armstrong and Gene Cernan don’t approve of his work
From Autoblog: Video: Lada emergency is no mere fire drill
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Russia
We imagine that many a Russian Lada has been compared to a ticking time bomb – which is not to say that there aren’t any good Ladas out in the wild, of course – but the example you’ll see in the video pasted below takes the cake. It is, quite literally, an Improvised Explosive Device.
If an exploding Lada alone isn’t enough reason for you to watch, perhaps the reaction of the passengers is more of a draw. Their reaction to the impending doom is so quick that it’s almost as if the two occupants were just waiting for the engine of this poor machine to reach its glorious and destructive demise.
See what we’re talking about in the video pasted below.
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from Autoblog
From Morning Edition: Chances Are Pink Slime Is In Grocery Store Beef, Too
Ewww………… be careful what you buy from now on… “meat” may not be really meat…Â >.<
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An estimated 70 percent of the ground beef supply contains these lean bits of meat derived from muscle and connective tissue. The industry calls the trimmings Lean Finely Textured Beef.
from Morning Edition
From Morning Edition: UC Irvine Students Call For Chehabi’s Resignation
How do things like this happen?! That people directly linked terrible dictators are allowed to be chairman of our educational insitutions?! >.<
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The student government at the University of California, Irvine voted Thursday night to call for the resignation of Dr. Hazem Chehabi, who is the chairman of its school’s foundation. He also serves as the Syrian consul general in California. He is a personal friend of Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad.
from Morning Edition
