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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai wildlife authorities found 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer in Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple on Wednesday as they removed live animals in response to international pressure over suspected trafficking and abuse.

The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok had become a tourist destination where visitors snapped selfies with bottle-fed cubs.

But the temple has been investigated for suspected links to wildlife trafficking and abuse. Читать дальше...

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Faraday Future and the city of Vallejo have just entered an agreement that could place the electric-car startup's second factory in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb.

The Vallejo city council voted Tuesday night to enter an exclusive agreement with Faraday Future — also known as FF for short.

The agreement sets in motion the negotiations between FF and the city for the car company to acquire 157 acres of land on Mare Island, a former Naval shipyard.

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UK fashion brand Jack Wills is known for filling its catalogs with posh-looking, often skimpily-dressed models to promote its preppy image.

However, this time, Jack Wills has gone too far, according to the UK ad regulator.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned two pages of the retailer's Spring catalog for featuring partially dressed models with suggestive captions.

The first page presented a mixed group of models dancing, drinking wine, sitting on a toilet... Читать дальше...

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The Washington Post has seen a dramatic decline in unique visitors across both desktop and mobile devices since its record-breaking high in December 2015, according to comScore data.

The Washington Post tallied just over 64.5 million unique visitors in April, the publisher's lowest showing since September. Last month's numbers also mark a 15%... Читать дальше...

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Automakers are increasingly connecting their new car models to meet growing consumer demand for in-car technology.

But automakers aren't the only players seeking opportunities in the connected car market.

BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a slide deck that highlights how tech companies are positioned to win the battle over the car's dashboard.

Today, it can be yours for free. As an added bonus, you will gain immediate access to the team’s exclusive FREE newsletter... Читать дальше...

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An English barbershop owner and his son have embarked on a massive David and Goliath battle to outbid Thai beer Chang as the front-of-jersey sponsor of their local football team.

In what they call the #OutbidChang campaign they started a crowd fund to stop Everton Football Club in the UK from using the beer as its sponsor.

Everton FC is the last soccer team in the English Premier League to be funded by an alcohol company.

The father and son... Читать дальше...

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Digital commerce fraud is on the rise.

The cost per dollar of e-commerce fraud grew 9% last year. Mobile commerce grew 12%. That's compared with just 3% for in-store fraud. To solve this problem, merchants are implementing additional fraud solutions like card and transaction verification, geolocation, browser tracking, and 3D secure, according to LexisNexis. Читать дальше...

China is preparing an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the South China Sea, two years after it announced a similar one in the East China Sea, according to sources close to the People’s Liberation Army and a defence report.

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Libya has been the big supply "wild card" this year.

Over one million barrels a day have been shut-in amid political and security challenges over the last 12 months, keeping production stagnated around 400,000 barrels a day.

But after the establishment of the UN-backed unity government in late December, some investors started gearing up for the return of a substantial number of Libyan barrels to the market.

However, analysts and geopolitical watchers... Читать дальше...

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Smoking bans have been introduced in numerous countries around the world, following the incontrovertible link that’s been made between smoking and cancer.

The World Health Organisation estimates that over 6m people a year will die from smoking related illnesses each year and thousands more suffer from the effects of secondhand smoke.

This has led to more than 170 countries signing the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control... Читать дальше...

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Apple Pay is “working rapidly” to expand and enter new markets across Europe and Asia, VP of Apple Pay Jennifer Bailey told TechCrunch.

Apple Pay is already available in six countries — Australia, Canada, China, Singapore, the U.K., and the U.S. — and plans to launch in Hong Kong and Spain soon. It’s been rumored that Brazil, France, and potentially India could be next, according to TechCrunch. Читать дальше...

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File this under "Yaassss."

Someone has finally made a theme park free of screaming children and filled with alcohol. La Cité du Vin, which translates to "the city of wine" and probably "heaven on Earth," is a full-blown wine theme park.

It's located in no other than Bordeaux, one of France's most famous wine-making regions, and will open in June, KTRK reported.

There are no roller coasters at this theme park — coasters and carafes aren't exactly the best combination ... Читать дальше...

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If you look on Amazon, you will find a bunch of different TV streaming devices for sale, like Roku, Playstation, and its own Fire TV. 

What you won't find, however, is Apple TV or Google's Chromecast streaming device, which Amazon stopped selling last year because it didn't "interact well" with Amazon's own video-streaming service, Prime Video.

However, it would be technically possible to build a version of Amazon Prime Video on either device. So, what's the problem? Читать дальше...

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Jeff Bezos says that Donald Trump needs to embrace media scrutiny.

When asked for his thoughts on Trump, Bezos highlighted Trump's antagonistic relationship with the press.

"One thing that I think is not appropriate that Donald Trump is doing is working to freeze or chill the media that are examining him," Bezos said on stage at Vox Media's Code Conference in Los Angeles.

"It's just a fact that we live in a world where half the population on this planet... Читать дальше...

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks that we're at the "beginning of a golden era" when it comes to machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

"It’s hard to overstate how much of an impact it’s going to have over the next 20 years," he said on stage at Vox's Media's Code Conference on Tuesday night. 

But it's still really early. 

Not only is it the first inning, "it might even be the first guy up at bat," he laughed.  

Amazon... Читать дальше...

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In a ruling with potentially huge adverse financial implications for state Medicaid programs across the country, a federal judge in Seattle held late last week that Washington state’s Medicaid system must end a year-old policy allowing only patients with the most severe cases of hepatitis C infections access to new but very expensive treatments.

As many as three fifths of state Medicaid programs in the past year have imposed tough restrictions on millions of low-income... Читать дальше...

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Retailers in the UK are hesitating to open up e-commerce shops over concerns related to handling shipping costs — particularly for returns, according to a report from Barclaycard cited by InternetRetailing.

In fact, 22% of retailers actively choose not to sell online because of the delivery and returns process, despite the rise in e-commerce sales in the UK. Читать дальше...

China’s manufacturing sector expanded for the third month in a row in May, albeit at a marginal pace of growth.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that doing interesting things means you're going to have critics.

On stage at Vox Media's Code Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Bezos was asked for his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Peter Thiel and Gawker Media, and how Thiel recently revealed that he'd been funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the publication.

Although Bezos was careful to say that he didn't want to comment specifically on Thiel or Gawker's case, he had some strong words. Читать дальше...

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Graduation season is typically a time of celebration — of first-generation college students and their parents, beaming with pride, of students who beat unbeatable odds to walk across the graduation stage, of mothers who didn't give up and of any student who worked tirelessly for four (or more) years to earn their degree. 

But amid the pomp and circumstance, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence is honoring those who never made it to their commencement... Читать дальше...

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The Australian economy is humming.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 1.1% in Q1 in seasonally adjusted chain volume terms, seeing the year-on-year growth rate accelerate to 3.1%, the fastest pace seen since the September quarter 2012.

The market had been expecting year-on-year growth at 2.8%.

It has now been 99 quarters since the Australian economy has experienced a technical recession — defined as two quarters of negative real GDP ... Читать дальше...

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Samsung is reportedly considering launching a new app, called Samsung Pay Mini, for online and mobile web transactions, according to sources who spoke to ET News.

The app, which will initially be available in South Korea, could launch as early as June and would work on both iOS and non-Samsung Android devices as well as with Samsung phones, according to Reuters. Читать дальше...

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When the notorious Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan last week, Pentagon officials were triumphant.

President Barack Obama described his death as an "important milestone in our longstanding effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan."

The "we got him" rhetoric quickly overshadowed the fact that Mansour's taxi driver, who had unwittingly picked him up at a border crossing between Pakistan and Iran, was also killed in the drone strike. Читать дальше...

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The future is here.

Science fiction is morphing into the realm of reality each day, as companies develop Hyperloops, autonomous cars, and devices that work using just the sound of your voice.

If you've been dying to say "illuminate" to turn on the lights in a room, or have your favorite song play right as you wake up, you don't need to wait anymore.

Here's how.

As technology progresses, we're actually now at a point where your favorite science fiction... Читать дальше...

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Fintech is upending processes throughout the financial services industry.

These transformations are presenting new opportunities for fintech startups and legacy financial institutions.

BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a slide deck that highlights five unstoppable transformations driven by fintech disruption.

Today, it can be yours for free. As an added bonus, you will gain immediate access to the team’s exclusive FREE newsletter, BI Intelligence Daily. Читать дальше...