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Over the past year, prodded by the government, cell phones have added tools to counteract unwanted “robocalls.” The Federal Communications Commission has proposed letting phone companies block more spam and is hoping to deter scammers with big fines. The federal and state “Do Not Call” lists are supposed to protect people from unwanted calls from telemarketers. [...] spam callers have tricky technology that makes a phone’s caller ID display a local or important-looking caller, like the IRS. Cracking... Читать дальше...

The trailer for Season 3 of USA’s “Mr. Robot” is here, and it features a creepy, disembodied voice reciting lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy.” “It’s coming from the sorrow in the street, the holy places where the races meet,” the raspy voice says, as pictures of masked f-society members roam New York City, seemingly wreaking havoc. “Democracy is comin’ to the USA,” the raspy voice concludes, as the shot pans down on Elliott standing in front of the entrance of the E Corporation.

1 Flooding: A Southern California desert community cleaned up Friday after thunderstorms unleashed muddy torrents through streets, threatened a commuter rail line and forced rescues of trapped motorists. Rushing water damaged tracks used by the regional Metrolink commuter train service. 2 Train derailment: A propane fire caused when at least 32 freight cars derailed in Hyndman, Pa., burned itself out overnight, CSX spokesman Rob Doolittle said Friday. Federal officials said Friday that they agree... Читать дальше...

After nearly 60 years on display, it's expected for heads to have some wear and tear, especially those used during the 1962 inmate escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. To preserve these relics of Bay Area history, the FBI and National Park Service (NPS) are turning to contemporary technology – 3-D scanning.

Jay-Z Drops Star-Studded, ‘Friends’-Themed ‘Moonlight’ Video Rapper Jay-Z just dropped the music video for his song “Moonlight,” off his latest album, 4:44 –and there’s some familiar-looking characters in it. Tracks like “Smile” and “Kill Jay-Z” provide a vignette into the rapper’s personal life. Read original story Jay-Z Drops Star-Studded, ‘Friends’-Themed ‘Moonlight’ Video At TheWrap

(AP) — Marshawn Lynch plowed through the line, dreadlocks swaying on a rare cool summer morning in Napa then juggled the football to the delight of hundreds cheering from nearby bleachers.

A’s acquire backup catcher Dustin Garneau Garneau, 29, opened the season with Colorado and hit .206 with a home run and six RBIs in 22 games, and he was batting .281 with 10 homers, 26 RBIs and a .617 slugging percentage in 36 games with Triple-A Albuquerque. Garneau is a right-handed hitter, so would provide platoon help for primary catcher Bruce Maxwell while Josh Phegley is on the disabled list with an oblique strain.

The Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, a group of prosecutors and federal law enforcement officials, has come up with no new policy recommendations to advance the attorney general's aggressively anti-marijuana views. Some advocates and members of Congress had feared the task force's recommendations would give Sessions the green light to begin dismantling what has become a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pot industry that helps fund schools, educational programs and law enforcement. Читать дальше...

KIGALI, Rwanda — Preliminary results show Rwanda’s longtime president with a strong lead in Friday’s presidential election, getting more than 95 percent support in many rural districts. Provisional results will be announced Saturday afternoon, the electoral commission said late Friday. Kagame was running against Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda — the only permitted opposition party — and independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana. The electoral commission vetted candidates’ campaign messages... Читать дальше...

1 Taliban attacks: A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy, killing a NATO soldier from Georgia and two Afghan civilians in an attack north of the Afghan capital, the U.S. military said Friday. Stepped up Taliban attacks this week have focused mostly on the country’s south, but there was also a deadly bombing in the western city of Herat, where 32 people died in a militant assault on a Shiite mosque. The day before, a suicide attacker hit... Читать дальше...

The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed against the Walt Disney Company and others by Amanda Rushing and her child — identified only as “L.L.”  — alleges that Disney’s gaming apps are embedded with code that tracks children’s data, which is ultimately used for “behavioral advertising to children whose profile fits a set of demographic and behavioral traits.” “Most consumers, including parents of children consumers, do not know that apps created for children are engineered to surreptitiously... Читать дальше...

The film’s director James Gunn announced on Friday that a music video for the song, featuring Hasselhoff, the cast of “Guardians” and Gunn himself, is on the way soon. The disco-infused track played at the end credits of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” sequel along with other post-credits footage. [...] Read: 'Baby Driver' v 'Guardians of the Galaxy': Which Has Best Soundtrack of Music That Mom Liked?

RALEIGH, N.C. — Carloads of tourists rolled in, stores stocked seafood counters and kitchen workers chopped vegetables Friday as two North Carolina islands reopened to visitors after a weeklong power failure at the height of vacation season. Power was cut to the two islands July 27 when workers building a new bridge drove a steel casing into underground transmission lines. An estimated 50,000 tourists were ordered to leave during a make-or-break period for seasonal businesses, many of which close during the cold-weather months. Читать дальше...

Bay Area political events:town halls, trivia Political events in the Bay Area Town halls: Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, holds town halls at 10 a.m. at Granada High School, 400 Wall St., Livermore, and at 2 p.m. at Mark Green Sports Center, 31224 Union City Blvd., Union City. Helena, holds a town hall at 6 p.m. at Rancho Cotate High School, 5450 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. Nuclear weapons march: A rally and march to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nonviolent... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Police in California stumbled across a trash-strewn industrial building crammed with more than 1,000 snakes, parrots, chickens and other animals — many of them dead — when they arrived to serve an arrest warrant on a man who rented the property. Police originally arrived at the industrial building in Montclair, 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, to make an arrest unrelated to the animals. A search warrant was served and authorities entered to find more than a thousand chickens... Читать дальше...

Chicago police say a Northwestern University professor who fled after a man was found fatally stabbed in his apartment has been sending videos to friends calling the stabbing, "the biggest mistake of my life." Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the U.S. Marshals Service has interviewed several family and friends who received the video from Wyndham Lathem. Investigators believe that a Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford staffer wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Chicago... Читать дальше...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Federal marshals have arrested a North Carolina college student in connection with a shooting death in April. A news release from the Greensboro Police Department said 20-year-old Samad Rahim Dawson, a sophomore at North Carolina A&T State University, was arrested Friday at his home in Philadelphia and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Kimeko Dejuan James.