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Google yanked a Chrome extension that white supremacists have been using to track Jews

Edit Business Insider 04 Jun 2016
Members of a white supremacy group give the fascist salute during a gathering in West Allis, Wisconsin, Sept ... The Chrome plugin, innocuously dubbed “Coincidence Detector,” drew on a user-generated list of supposedly Jewish names to highlight with a bracketed construction called an “echo,” stylized (((echo))), which is used in anti-Semitic circles online....

A worry for Congress and BJP?

Edit Indian Express 04 Jun 2016
The past few years have seen incessant sniping between the factions in the Congress—the one led by the Jogis, the other by PCC chief Bhupesh Baghel and Congress leader of the Opposition in the house TS Singhdeo ... Amit Jogi had at the time refused to confirm or deny the move but had said that the idea of a regional Chhattisgarh party “was one whose time has come.” The time, it seems is now....

Complete work on 83 roads in a week

Edit Indian Express 04 Jun 2016
EVEN AFTER extending the deadline by 10 days, the BMC still has to achieve an unlikely target of completing work on 83 roads within seven days, before monsoon hits the city ... After the revised calculations, work on 135 roads, out of a total 376 which the BMC had intended to complete before the monsoon, has been postponed. Work on a total of 792 roads and at least 120 junctions will now be taken up only from October onwards....

20 amazing things you can do with Pebble's new $70 device

Edit Business Insider 04 Jun 2016
When Pebble announced its new Core fitness device, we immediately recognized it could be one of the best products of the year so far....

The bacon emoji is coming to iOS 10 (Apple Byte Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 40) ...

Edit CNET 04 Jun 2016
There will be no 5K Thunderbolt display with a GPU at WWDC, and Apple's working on its own version of the Amazon Echo ... ....

Attack on Dhadrianwale echoes at Bluestar event

Edit The Times of India 04 Jun 2016
Attack on Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale and role of Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh Dhumma in the entire episode echoed here at the observance of the 32nd anniversary of the Army attack on the Golden Temple on June 6, 1984 ... The disagreement over the two scriptures had become the bone of contention leading to such extreme reactions, some scholars observed. "There are ways of settling this debate too ... More from The Times of India....

Suicides, addictions cut life-expectancy gains for whites

Edit Springfield News-Sun 04 Jun 2016
The findings echo a string of similar academic and foundation reports over the last couple of years. In terms of life spans. ... The report does not explain the long life span of Hispanics ... “In fact, for the first time in over 20 years, life expectancy declined by 0.1 years for the non-Hispanic white population between 2013 and 2014,” the authors of the CDC/NCHS study wrote....

Day admits Olympic concerns

Edit Sporting Life 04 Jun 2016
Charl Schwartzel revealed that concerns over the virus directly led to his decision to pull out of the tournament, echoing the reasons given by Marc Leishman when he followed fellow Australian Adam Scott in announcing he would not be travelling to Brazil ... I don't want to have to bring anything back and have the possibility of that happening to us ... But if you put yourself down there, there's a chance of you getting it....

MLAs knew about sting, were amusing themselves

Edit Indian Express 04 Jun 2016
TV channels Times Now and India Today Thursday broadcast separate sting operations where JD(S), Congress and Independent MLAs were caught on camera discussing the various considerations of MLAs while casting votes in Rajya Sabha polls, which is scheduled for June 11 ... The JD(S), on the other hand, is learnt to be banking on the attraction of the ......

The Joke That Broke The Country’s Back

Edit Indian Express 04 Jun 2016
Like the rest of the world, they fear that the djinns inside the idiot box are bathing their families with an unhealthy glow and brainwashing their children with inappropriate ideas ... The New York Times prolonged the drama by referring to Lata Mangeshkar as a “so-called playback singer” ... We now have a battery of satellite news channels happy to echo blah in unison, without deviating from the script to raise uncomfortable questions....

Memory and Desire by Val Mulkerns review: the way we lived then

Edit The Irish Times 04 Jun 2016
So it was with a peculiar sense of deja vu that I returned to the stories as an adult reader and recognised, for the first time, how good they are. Special Category, the first piece in this collection, echoes the life of her father, Jimmy Mulkerns, who was imprisoned in Knutsford jail and then Frongoch after fighting in the Four Courts during 1916....

A number of familiar vintage titles receive Blu-ray upgrades this week

Edit Deseret News 04 Jun 2016
A much older Elizabeth Taylor and her husband at the time, Richard Burton, star in this rough-and-tumble adaptation of Edward Albee’s play about a middle-aged couple’s volatile marriage, which erupts in front of a naive young married couple (Sandy Dennis and George Segal) ... of a wide variety of women who treat him with hostility....

China Risks ‘Great Wall of Self-Isolation,’ Says U.S.’s Carter

Edit Bloomberg 04 Jun 2016
China risks erecting a “Great Wall of self-isolation” in Asia over its actions in the disputed South China Sea, U.S ... “There is growing anxiety in this region, and in this room, about China’s activities on the seas, in cyberspace, and in the region’s airspace,” Carter said on Saturday in a speech to the Shangri-La security dialogue, echoing his warnings to the forum a year ago....
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