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Greece may apply for BRICS bank, but not discussed officially – Putin's aide

Published time: July 07, 2015 07:00 Reuters/Yannis Behrakis Although there are speculations in the media about Greece applying to join the BRICS bank, the issue hasn’t been discussed at an official level, one of President Putin’s top aides told RT, VGTRK and Ria in an interview. Rumors about Greece possibly joining the bank emerged ahead of the leaders of Russia, China, Brazil, India and South…

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#BRICS #Greece #major #percent #President Putin #Russia #system

New Leaked TPP Chapter Shows Countries Converging on Anti-User Copyright Takedown Rules

A draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership‘s “Intellectual Property” chapter from May 11, 2015 has recently been leaked to journalists. This is the fourth leak of the chapter following earlier drafts of October 2014, August 2013, and February 2011. The latest leak is not available online and we don’t have a copy of it—but we have been briefed on its contents. In most respects the chapter follows…

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#case #copyright #freedom #leak #text #TPP #Whither Canada

Ghost rider in the sky: Scientists use lasers to project movie onto clouds (VIDEO)

Published time: July 06, 2015 21:35 Screenshot from YouTube.com video A green ghost rider appeared in the sky over the British city of Nottingham when scientists started testing a newly developed projecting device which allows the beaming of moving images directly onto clouds for the first time ever. The image of a galloping horse rider was projected onto the clouds from a distance of 50 meters…

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#aircraft #Dave Lynch #device #Project Nimbus #research #result #system

Varoufakis resigns as Greek finance minister 'to aid deal'

Published time: July 06, 2015 05:42Edited time: July 06, 2015 06:14 Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.(Reuters / Alkis Konstantinidis) After securing a ‘no’ vote at Greek referendum on bailout, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis resigned, saying it would help Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras negotiate a better deal with foreign creditors. “Soon after the announcement of the referendum results,…

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#aid #bailout #Germany #Greece #plan #referendum #vote

Assange’s open letter was not ‘explicit’ application for French asylum - WikiLeaks

Assange’s open letter was not ‘explicit’ application for French asylum – WikiLeaks

Published time: July 03, 2015 22:47 General view of the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris (Reuters / Christian Hartmann) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s open letter to the French president was not an asylum application to France, the whistleblower platform says. Paris had rejected a possible request before the clarification from WikiLeaks was released. Media note: Assange did not submit…

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#application #France #French Justice Minister #julian assange #letter #Paris #request

EFF Launches Badge Hacking Contest for DEF CON 23

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is proud to present the DEF CON 23 Badge Hack Pageant (1337 skills required, swimsuit optional). Now is the time to bring out your sweetest hacks and sickest mods in a no-holds-barred battle for hardware supremacy. You are free to excel in practicality, absurdity, devastating good looks, or all three. Break out your hacker con badge collection and have at it. An…

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#Coders Rights Project #court #EFF #hacker #panel #today #victory

EFF Is Turning 25 and We Want to Celebrate With You

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and we’re thrilled to be celebrating a quarter-century of fighting for digital rights. We’re kicking off this milestone in two ways: a membership drive and a party and minicon in San Francisco on July 16. We’re asking people to donate and become members because we fight passionately for the rights of individuals—and in turn, rely deeply on individuals to…

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#Anniversary Activities #EFF #fighting #industry #people #privacy #world

Pilot in wing suit makes 'craziest base jump ever' through tiny mountain hole (VIDEO)

Published time: July 02, 2015 06:25 Screenshot from YouTube.com video by GoProCamera An Italian pilot has made what has been hailed as the most incredible, and dangerous base jump ever. Uli Emanuele put on his wing suit, fixed his GoPro camera and managed to dive through a two-meter wide crevasse in a mountain. Emanuele has been dreaming about a sensational base jump for several years, looking…

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#FB #record #turn #Uli Emanuele #Vincenzo Base #Wesley Wieslaw #world

Greek PM: We aim to seal deal with creditors after referendum

Published time: July 01, 2015 14:41 Screenshot from APTN video Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has said any statements about expelling Greece from the Eurozone should Sunday’s referendum result in a “No” vote are a bluff – and he made assurances that Greece aims to strike a new bailout deal after the plebiscite. A defiant Tsipras addressed his fellow Greeks in a live televised speech on Wednesday. He…

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#APTN #country #Greece #international #result #speech #strike

Penis peppers: Erotically-shaped fruit, veggie ‘rude seeds’ grip Barcelona

Published time: July 01, 2015 06:55 Image from wikipedia.org A new, saucier way to attract tourists has appeared in Barcelona, with erotically-shaped fruit and vegetable seeds now sold on the local flower stalls. Penis peppers, “vulva flowers,” and breast-shaped melons (with nipples) are currently on offer. “People stop a lot to look at them and take photos with them,” a stallholder told Catalan…

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#Ancient Romans #cost #La Vanguardia #local #offer #photo #twitter

100 yrs of Russian beauty in 1 min: New video shows century of women’s looks

Published time: June 30, 2015 21:21 Screenshot from YouTube video by Cut Video A lively new video, which is part of the viral ‘100 years of beauty’ series, explores how women’s beauty trends have evolved over the past century in Russia, taking a visual journey from Art Nouveau’s elegance to bold lines and famous fur Kubankas. The video stars model Anya Zaytseva who, with the help of hair and…

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#beginning #century #Cut Video #decade #look #Russian #women

As Diego Stands Trial, Show Your Support for Open Access

“Access to knowledge is a global right.” These are the words of student Diego Gomez, who begins his trial in Colombia today, and faces eight years in prison for posting a scientific paper online to share with his colleagues. Diego’s plight highlights three important issues: (1) stringent copyright regimes around the world are being abused to stifle access to knowledge; (2) those regimes are in…

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#access #Colombia #copyright #criminal #laws #research #world

Almost one-third of Brits, Germans and French want EU army instead of NATO forces

Published time: June 30, 2015 13:45 Soldiers at the multinational NATO exercise Saber Strike in Adazi, Latvia (Reuters / Ints Kalnins) A new poll shows almost one in three citizens of the UK, Germany and France want the EU to have its own armed forces which would replace its reliance on NATO troops. The poll was conducted by ICM Research exclusively for Sputnik news agency. It surveyed some 4,000…

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#defense #European Commission #French #Germany #Nato #percent #Ukrainian

At least 30 killed as military plane crashes in residential area of Medan, Indonesia

Published time: June 30, 2015 05:51Edited time: June 30, 2015 06:56 An Hercules C-130 (Reuters / Yves Herman) A military plane has crashed into a hotel in Medan, Indonesia, killing at least 30 people, according to a local official. “The latest information we have is that 30 have died…. The number could go up,” Hisar Turnip, a spokesman for Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told Reuters.…

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#crash #Info Keindonesiaan #June #plane #site #social media #twitter

French terror attack suspect denies Islamist motivation

Published time: June 29, 2015 21:53 The suspect held over an attack against a gas company site is escorted by police officers during investigations in Saint-Priest, near Lyon, France, June 28, 2015. (Reuters/Emmanuel Foudrot) A man under investigation for allegedly beheading his boss and trying to blow up a gas factory in France claimed that his actions were not religiously motivated, a source…

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#attack #France #gas #incident #June #suspect #war

Bad News: Supreme Court Refuses to Review Oracle v. Google API Copyright Decision

Sadly, today the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google. Oracle claims a copyright on the Java Application Programming Interface (API), and that Google infringed that copyright by using certain Java APIs in the Android OS. The Federal Circuit had ruled in Oracle’s favor, reversing a well-reasoned district court opinion holding that the…

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#copyright #decision #defense #Federal Circuit #opinion #review #trial

‘Spaceflight isn’t easy’: Rocket scientists despondent after latest ISS mission failure

Published time: June 28, 2015 21:59 An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. (Reuters/Mike Brown) Following two failed supply missions to the ISS in recent months, space engineers have been left searching for answers and solutions, after the generally reliable SpaceX Falcon 9 disintegrated in a fountain of fireworks just seconds after…

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#data #Elon Musk #International Space Station #ISS #June #NASA #problem

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