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Wars and Rumors
Terrorist and Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar killed in Israeli airstrike near Damascus… In 1979 killed 4 Israelis, including a 4-year old child by smashing her head against rocks with his rifle butt.…
6:39am CST Sun 2015 Dec 20 :MW
Digital Privacy Threat
Hello Barbie," the world's first artificial intelligence-enabled Barbie doll, has become both the subject of delight for little girls and fear for some parents, worried their children's privacy could be at stake.…
Isn't intelligent Barbie a contradiction in terms? Remember the pull-string version? "Math is haaard!"sn't intelligent Barbie a contradiction in terms? Remember the pull-string version? "Math is haaard!"
6:31am CST Sun 2015 Dec 20 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
In a poll of its readers, the British newspaper The Daily Express found that respondents would prefer Vladimir Putin to be Prime Minister rather than David Cameron. Mr. Putin garnered 78% of the votes, while Mr. Cameron received only 22%.
In other news, French authorities are beefing up security at churches over Christmas, out of concern that they may be attacked by kinetic activists. …
News headline links and summaries
9:39pm CST Sun 2015 Dec 20 :MW
…On this day in 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life was first released in New York City.
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5:47am CST Sun 2015 Dec 20 :MW