Topic: DRUGS - on July 15, 2016 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Shedding light on the dark web
The drug trade is moving from the street to online cryptomarkets. Forced to compete on price and quality, sellers are upping their game LEAVING vacuum-sealed bags, digital scales and stashes of marijuana lying around was a mistake. So was getting T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with “Cali Connect”, under which name drugs were dealt online. Selling pot to an undercover officer was a further slip-up. All this is part of the prosecution evidence in an ongoing case against David Burchard in California. But the crucial piece of evidence, according to the police who arrested him in March, was that he had trademarked Cali Connect to protect his brand.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 15, 2016 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Biggest cosmic map will throw light on ‘dark energy’
An international team of astronomers has created the largest ever three-dimensional map of distant galaxies in a bid to help them understand one of the most mysterious forces in the universe. Scientists including a team led by Dr Florian Beutler at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation have spent a decade collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). This will allow them to make the most precise measurements to date of ‘dark energy’ – the force that is driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 15, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Hackers steal millions from ATMs without using a card
Taiwan is trying to figure out how hackers managed to trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions. Police said several people wearing masks attacked dozens of ATMs operated by Taiwan's First Bank on Sunday. They spent a few minutes at each of the machines before making off with the equivalent of $2 million stashed in a backpack. They didn't use bank cards but rather appeared to gain control of the machines with a "connected device," possibly a smartphone, the police said in a statement Thursday. Authorities are now hunting the thieves, who they say came from Russia and eastern Europe. The ATMs were made by German manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf (WNXDY). The company confirmed that several of its machines in Taiwan were hacked in a "premeditated attack."
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:59:00 PM CEST
David Bowie's personal art collection to be unveiled and auctioned off in £10 million sale
David Bowie's private art collection will go on show for the first time in an exhibition next week, before being auctioned off in a sale expected to reach in excess of £10 million. The musician was famously elusive, keeping even his battle with cancer a secret until his death in January, days after he had released his final album, Blackstar, on his 69th birthday. But when he did give interviews, he spoke about his passion for art, saying it was the "only thing [he] bought addictively".
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 14, 2016 at 4:46:00 PM CEST
Marijuana Man makes thousands a month by getting high and doing nothing
It can be hard to deal with the fact that Marijuana Man is a real person. Somewhere in the coniferous forests of British Columbia, there’s a compound covered in Bob Marley posters, tiki masks, and more concentrated weed paraphernalia and idolatry than any other place in the world. Every week, the guy who lives among this stuff offers video dispatches about absolutely nothing at all. You watch Marijuana Man—in a head-to-toe camouflage onesie— smoke and listen to The Cars.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 14, 2016 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
Sebastian Kurz
Good luck to new Chancellor @PHammondMP - it's been a privilege to work with you. Looking forward to coop with @BorisJohnson.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world
In case you have just emerged from a desert island or a long sleep: the UK has a new prime minister, Theresa May, who in turn has appointed a new foreign secretary. The man who will be representing Britain's interests abroad is Boris Johnson. Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU. It's an appointment that's been treated with some shock around the world - not least because he has been less than diplomatic about other countries and their leaders before. Some of his positions, often outlined in his newspaper columns, also risk clashing with his own government's official stance.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:09:00 PM CEST
100 Jahre Dada: Hugo Balls dadaistisches Manifest
100 Jahre nach Hugo Balls dadaistischem Manifest ist der Dadaismus in Zeiten von „Post-Truth-Politics“, dem Irrsinn um Donald Trump, Emoji, LULZ und den kalten Ideologie-Online-Kriegen so aktuell wie nie. Das Internet stellt, genau wie der Dadaismus, „die gesamte bisherige [Gesellschaft] in Frage, indem [es] ihre [angeblich gefestigten Wahrheiten] durch [Netzwerkeffekte und Memetik] zu reinen Unsinnsansammlungen machte“
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:07:00 PM CEST
100 years of Dada: today is the centenary of Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. it is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse.” In German it means “good-by,” “Get off my back,” “Be seeing you sometime.” In Romanian: “Yes, indeed, you are right, that’s it. But of course, yes, definitely, right.” And so forth.
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Topic: Religion - on July 14, 2016 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
Creationist Ken Ham offers public schools a massive discount to bring kids to his Ark museum
Attention, public schools! Do you want to make your students significantly more ignorant for a rock-bottom price? Well, you’re in luck: Creationist Ken Ham is offering public schools a big discount if they bring their kids to his new Ark Encounter museum on a field trip.
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Topic: ART - on July 14, 2016 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
91-Jährige löste Kreuzworträtsel in Museum: Es war ein Kunstwerk
Im Neuen Museum Nürnberg – Werk des Künstlers Arthur Köpcke ist mit 80.000 Euro versichert
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 14, 2016 at 4:02:00 PM CEST
Bub klemmte sich Kopf in Kinderklobrille ein
Einen ungewöhnlichen Einsatz hatte die Grazer Berufsfeuerwehr am Dienstag: Ein Dreijähriger hatte sich seinen Kopf in einer Kinderklobrille eingeklemmt.
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