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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a left-leaning Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. And a a pop culture icon.
• She has been on the Supreme Court for 25 years.
• Here's how she went from the daughter of an immigrant without a high school degree to one of the most important legal influences of her time. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent decades as a trailblazer in gender equality law before she became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court — and a pop culture icon. Читать дальше...

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• Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, called President Donald Trump "a racist" as he bashed his administration in an interview published Friday.
• Johnson said Trump has "demonstrated both in words and in deeds and in policy implementations racist tendencies."
• The NAACP president also slammed Trump for not addressing his organization, with which every single US president has met since 1947. 

Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP... Читать дальше...

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• Amazon wants to hire more than 200 employees across the US, Europe, and South America.
• Many of these openings are remote jobs that allow staff to work from home.
• There are open positions in several departments, from marketing to digital content development.
• Work from home employees are also eligible for benefits such as healthcare, 401K, maternity and paternity leave, and employee discounts.

Amazon fans, your dream job just became available. Читать дальше...

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During World War II, the US Navy and Coast Guard were tasked with ruining the days of any and every Nazi submarine they could find, but those underwater dongs of death were notorious for staying hidden until they spied a convoy of merchant ships and oil tankers moving on their own.

How were the big, bad naval services supposed to counter the insidious "wolf packs?" By dressing up as sheep until the wolves got close, and then revealing themselves to be sheepdog... Читать дальше...

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• A 30-year-old woman is living on disability in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Money is tight while her husband is in school with only enough time to work a part-time night job.
• Her financial situation doesn't stop her from making sure her children are involved in activities like ice skating. 

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend... Читать дальше...

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• Everyone takes their coffee differently, but certain tried-and-true methods will ensure you a great cup every time.
• The first step is ditching your machine and making your coffee manually.
• Controlling the water temperature and using fresh, high-quality beans are two other ways to make the best-tasting coffee possible.

Brewing the perfect cup of coffee is everybody's mission. Everyday, we wake up with the prospect of being productive all throughout the week. Читать дальше...

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• A former Google exec who worked in China has called Google's plan to build a censored search engine "stupid."
• Lokman Tsui, head of free expression for Asia, said he couldn't think of a scenario by which such a search engine didn't violate human-rights standards.
• Tsui said that Google no longer employs anyone with his former title, which was "head of free expression."

Lokman Tsui didn't mince words.

 The Intercept on Friday published an interview with Tsui... Читать дальше...

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• NASA just awarded six private companies a total of $44 million.
• The agency's "Tipping Point" program is intended to help the commercial space industry push next-generation technologies over the finish line.
• The projects awarded funding include new moon-landing systems and a method to recover expensive rocket engines.

NASA is doling out a total of $44 million in awards among six private companies, including Jeff Bezos' secretive rocket company, Blue Origin. Читать дальше...

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• Cryptocurrency mining chip maker Bitmain hopes to raise $18 billion for an IPO in the coming months, according to documents obtained by CoinDesk.
• If the company raised $18 billion at a market capitalization of $40 to $50 billion, that could make it the largest IPO in history.
• In June, Bloomberg reported that Bitmain was planning to go public to further its pursuits in producing hardware for artificial intelligence technology. 

The world's largest producer of cryptocurrency mining chips... Читать дальше...

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Digital disruption is affecting every aspect of the fintech industry.

Over the past five years, fintech has established itself as a fundamental part of the global financial services ecosystem.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• How fintechs are targeting small- and medium-sized businesses and pushing incumbents to fight back
• Fintech could be bigger than ATMs, PayPal, and Bitcoin combined
• How fintechs are upending... Читать дальше...

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• The oldest members of Generation Z, born in the late 1990s, are changing the way colleges teach their students.
• An Ohio State professor quoted in The New York Times uses Twitter, Slack, and Zoom for tasks like taking attendance and holding office hours.
• The changes reflect Generation Z's digital upbringing.

Generation Z is the most tech-savvy cohort in history.

Defined as those born after 1997, Generation Z is growing up in a world where smartphones... Читать дальше...

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• Global markets were in turmoil on Friday, with a historic plunge in the Turkish lira at the center of the chaos.
• The lira's decline capped a week of political news that unnerved investors, as the US ramped up sanctions on Turkey and Russia and as the United Kingdom fretted over a so-called no-deal Brexit.
• US investors shifted focus from strong corporate earnings to the rout in Europe, sending the major stock-market indexes lower.
• Watch the lira trade in real time here. Читать дальше...

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• The Environmental Protection Agency announced in August a plan to freeze fuel economy standards and revoke the ability of California to set more stringent rules than the national ones.
• These standards were originally set in place by the EPA so carmakers would be legally bound to innovate more efficiency into their vehicles. 
• Recently however, the Trump administration has argued that such regulations may be "too stringent," and is fighting... Читать дальше...

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• "Despacito" rapper Daddy Yankee was allegedly robbed of $2 million in jewelry in Spain this week by a man who impersonated him to gain access to the safe in his hotel room.
• His representatives confirmed the robbery in a tweet on Thursday. 

"Despacito" rapper Daddy Yankee was robbed of $2 million in jewelry in Spain this week, his representatives said on Thursday. 

The Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, was out of... Читать дальше...

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• The Pentagon has been reorienting its forces for what it sees as emerging great-power competition with Russia and China.
• For the Marine Corps, that likely means shifting away from the Middle East and refocusing on Europe and the Pacific.
• To keep preparing for conditions in those places, Marines may soon find themselves spending more time in Alaska.

The US military has been shifting its focus to preparing for a potential great-power conflict... Читать дальше...

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• While evidence suggests probiotics can be beneficial to your health, they may also have serious side effects.
• A new study found probiotics can cause bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine and symptoms of disorienting brain fogginess.
• Most symptoms are temporary — for patients who replaced probiotics with antibiotics, most symptoms of brain fogginess and bloating were alleviated.
• The lead researcher of the study said probiotics should be "treated as a drug," rather than a food supplement. Читать дальше...

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Naming your new best friend is easily one of the best benefits of owning a pet. Whether their name is inspired after a favorite singer, landmark or superhero villain, dog names allow their human owners to exercise another level of creativity.

From the most popular breeds and names coast to coast, HomeAdvisor rounded up a comprehensive list for readers looking for inspiration behind naming their newest furry family member. Not sure if your pup "looks like" a particular name you have in mind? Читать дальше...

Die Türkei hat nach neuen Strafzöllen der USA gegen die Türkei inmitten einer massiven Krise der Landeswährung Lira Vergeltung angekündigt. In einer Stellungnahme aus dem Außenministerium betonte Sprecher Hami Aksoy am späten Freitagabend, die USA sollten wissen, dass sie Kooperation nicht mit Sanktionen und Unterdrückung erreichen könnten. Sie schadeten der Beziehung zwischen der Türkei und den USA. Es werde auf alle Schritte gegen die Türkei eine Antwort geben, hieß es in dem Schreiben weiter.

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At the end of the day, celebrities really are just like us, at least in some ways. When they’re not busy being fabulous, they spend their time doing the same things that we do. They eat, they sleep, and they even have hobbies to do in their spare time.

While some of our hobbies are as simple as scrapbooking and knitting, these celebs are into the more adventurous side-hustles of life — think tattooing, lion taming, and much more. We rounded up some celebrities... Читать дальше...

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• This ramen-noodle factory runs 24 hours a day

Aldi Nord versucht derzeit, bei den über 36.000 Mitarbeitern neue Arbeitsverträge und Betriebsvereinbarungen durchzusetzen. Um das zu erreichen, versprach der Konzern den Angestellten, die lang geforderte elektronische Zeiterfassung einzuführen, wenn 90 Prozent der Mitarbeiter unterschreiben.

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• Ben & Jerry's released a low-calorie ice cream line in early 2018. 
• The low-calorie Ben & Jerry's ice cream competes directly with Halo Top, a trendy ice cream company that sells low-calorie flavors and was the top-selling ice cream brand in American grocery stores last year.
• We tried a pint of low-calorie ice cream from each brand and found that one was clearly better than the other.

Halo Top offering low-calorie... Читать дальше...