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Why Oprah Winfrey’s New Shows Are Working for OWN
By Allison Samuels Just this week OWN, the cable network founded by talk show icon Oprah Winfrey, announced the renewal of three of its top reality shows: Iyanla: Fix My Life, starring Iyanla Vanzant; Life with La Toya, starring La Toya … Continue reading
Dexter Final Season Scoop: Does Dexter Have to Die?
By Natalie Abrams It’s the beginning of the end. When Dexter kicks off its final season (Sunday, June 30 at 9/8c on Showtime), expect a huge shift in the relationships we’ve come to know and love over the years. Sure, Deb (Jennifer … Continue reading
Yahoo to free up IDs of dormant email accounts
Yahoo is trying to breathe new life into inactive email accounts by giving away the identifications beginning next month. The program announced Wednesday will give Web surfers an opportunity to claim a new handle that had previously been unavailable. It … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Google, Marissa Mayer, technology, World Wide Web, Yahoo
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Don’t Want to Be Spied On? Think About Encryption
By Fahmida Y. Rashid The twin disclosures last week about the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance program accomplished something that no amount of SecurityWatch posts could ever have accomplished: It got regular Internet users talking about encryption. Right after the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryptography, Encryption, National Security Agency, NSA, PRISM, privacy, security, Verizon, Washington Post
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Supreme Court OKs patenting of human DNA if synthetic
In a first of its kind ruling on human genes, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday decided that synthetically produced genetic material can be patented but naturally occurring DNA extracted from the human body cannot. The nine justices handed … Continue reading
How Bad 3rd Grade Math Legitimizes Injustice
By Imara Jones The fight for economic justice passed a grim milestone this week. On June 1 sequestration—the automatic spending cuts passed by Congress and implemented by the president—marked a second month of pain for tens of millions, with no … Continue reading
You Wouldn’t Believe Bank of America’s Latest Scam
By Thom Hartmann The American banking industry is back and more dangerous than ever before. According to the FDIC, U.S. banks posted a record $40.3 billion profit in the first three months of the year. This staggering profit tops the … Continue reading
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Housing Crisis: Widespread Discrimination; Little Taste for Enforcement
By Nikole Hannah-Jones The results of Tuesday’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development national study on the persistence of housing discrimination are unlikely to shock: Racial and ethnic minorities continue to find themselves locked out of many housing opportunities. … Continue reading
‘Dynamite’ daughter plays detective, hunts down dad’s killer 26 years later
By Kerry Burke , Rocco Parascandola & Bill Hutchinson An actress with the silky voice of an angel showed the doggedness of a seasoned detective, tracking down the man accused of shooting her hardworking father to death 26 years ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronx, Daily News, Joselyn Martinez, justice, law, life, murder, New York
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