Topic: SECURITY - on December 18, 2013 at 5:44:00 PM CET
Brazil will not grant Snowden asylum: report
Brazil has no plans to grant asylum to Edward Snowden even after the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor offered on Tuesday to help investigate revelations of spying on Brazilians and their president, a local newspaper reported.
The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, citing unnamed government officials, said the Brazilian government has no interest in investigating the mass Internet surveillance programs Snowden revealed in June and does not intend to give him asylum.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 18, 2013 at 5:43:00 PM CET
Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross Ulbricht.
The seizure sparked an ongoing public discussion about the future of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, but it had an unforeseen side-effect: It made the FBI the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 18, 2013 at 5:41:00 PM CET
Bee portraits like you’ve never seen before
Most of us freak out at the mere sight of a bug — let alone a photo! But there’s something about biologist Sam Droege’s pictures of insects that has hundreds of thousands of people marveling at them. Sam’s photostream offers viewers a detailed and rare look at bees; comparing these little, hairy creatures to mesmerizing works of art.
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Topic: FUN - on December 18, 2013 at 5:38:00 PM CET
Warum Astronauten keine Bohnen essen sollten
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