Topic: DRUGS - on September 10, 2013 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Afghanistan's cannabis production rises
The amount of Afghan farmland planted with cannabis fell by nearly a fifth last year after one province launched a fierce eradication campaign, but a bumper crop meant that actual production rose compared with 2011, according to the UN.
Officials in southern Uruzgan province, which borders Kandahar and Helmand, largely stamped out farming of the drug because of worries it was financing the Taliban. In 2011 there were over 1,000 hectares of the crop there, but last year under 100 hectares were sown.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 10, 2013 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Elvis Costello & the Roots – Wise Up Ghost: Exclusive album stream
Fans of pop trivia will know that Elvis Costello's first-ever claim to fame was that he contributed backing vocals to Secret Lemonade Drinker, the song his dad, Ross MacManus, performed for an R White's Lemonade TV advert in the 70s. Several decades later, ?uestlove of the Roots used this knowledge to woo Costello – covering the song when the latter walked on stage as a guest on the Jimmy Fallon show on US TV, where the group are installed as the in-house band.
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Einer flog über den Moskauer Kreml
(22 Fotos)
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Topic: LEGO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
LEGO: Can You Explain It?
Here are three impossible #LEGO constructions for you to solve. Can you explain them?
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Topic: GFX - on September 10, 2013 at 2:38:00 PM CEST
Manipulating objects in photos in 3D
This is a bit of a mindblower...this software presented at SIGGRAPH Asia lets you pluck objects out of photos and edit them as if they were in 3D.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 10, 2013 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests
Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the number of data requests it receives per year from the spy agency.
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