Tag: breaking news

19 Yazidi girls burned alive for refusing to have sex with their ISIS captors :

Nineteen Iraqi Yazidi girls who refused to have sex with their Islamic State captors were placed in iron cages and burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds in Mosul on Thursday, activists and witnesses say.
“The 19 girls were burned to death, while hundreds of people were watching,” a witness told ARA News. “Nobody could do anything to save them from the brutal punishment.”
ISIS took the girls – and thousands of others — as sex slaves after overtaking a northern Iraqi region they called home in August 2014.
“They were punished for refusing to have sex with ISIS militants,” local activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News.

Last known surviving 9/11 search and rescue dog laid to rest :

Time is flying..
This story hit me hard..

Walmart is developing a drone:

The drone technology will be replacing the jobs of inventory quality assurance employees, cutting inventory checks across massive distribution centers (the one in Bentonville is 1.2 million square feet) from one month down to a single day.

People need to realize how quickly robotics and androids are going to replace people in the service economy..
The issues are huge.
And not one presidential candidate is speaking about the 5-10 year job market prospects in the post-android revolution..

First baby born with Zika-linked microcephaly in New York tri-state area :

Fear and loathing in he Garden State..
Each mosquito bite this year comes with extra scares..

On the note of the New Jersey baby, reports acquired say this:

“The mother, who is 31 but whose name was not disclosed, contracted the Zika virus while in Honduras and was admitted to the emergency room at Hackensack on Friday while vacationing in the United States. Tuesday, doctors delivered her baby girl, who was born also with intestinal and visual issues. Reports indicate she is the first child born with Zika-linked complications in the New York tri-state area.”

MySpace and Tumblr hit by ‘mega breach’ as millions of passwords end up for sale on the dark web:

The BBC reports it this way:

Hundreds of millions of hacked account details from social networks MySpace and Tumblr have been advertised for sale online.

In both cases, the logins appear to have been stolen several years ago but only recently came to light.

The incident comes the same month it emerged that a four-year-old database containing more than 167 million LinkedIn IDs had been traded online.

One expert said it was “intriguing” all had emerged in such a short period.

Only days ago it was revealed how massive the data breach was–perhaps there were hints that the password would be showing up on the Dark Web, forcing Tumblr into the uncomfortable position of teasing us with the high numbers..

The socials are abuzz.
The millennials got robbed.
Passwords abound.
An IP static fuzz..

Megan Fox dishes: Turning 30 to ancient aliens :

There’s more to Megan Fox than a few thumbs and sex symbol status.. Judging from the latest information in this interview she may as well be reading my site.

She just turned 30.

She speaks in tongues like her family did when she was younger–not often, just occasionally.

And she is researching ancient aliens.
Maybe she’ll stop by here and say hi.

Mystery of Forest Grove, Oregon, Noise May Never Be Solved – NBC News:

This from Nbc News:

A piercing noise that plagued an Oregon city earlier this year, drawing comparisons to “Satan’s teakettle” and hypothesized to be everything from a defective water valve to aliens or a signal for the end of times, stopped as suddenly as it started. In the silence left behind, it appears the mystery may live on forever.

The town of 22,000 or so was put on the map this year because of the now famous noise. A noise gay suddenly has vanished from the ears..

Originally there were allegations that teenagers were playing pranks. Other world explanations soon became linked to the sounds.

With all the explanations rendered, no one could ever explain fully what was being heard.

And now maybe no one will.
The noise suddenly ceases…

I smell a future in Hollywood for the Forest Grove mystery..

Facebook’s director of product design on why websites may be a dying business:

That’s different than the work we were doing in the mid-2000s. We were trying everything — this is the Myspace era — we were just going crazy. I think we had to go through that phase and I think we’re going to go through that phase with [virtual reality]. There’s going to be a bunch of things we’re going to try that will turn out not be the thing we end up with.

When it comes to web and mobile, we’ve passed through that and we’re in a phase where it’s about standardisation. It’s about creating consistent experience.

Standardized experiences.. Isn’t that a little scary though? Or at least vacant individuality and expression?

There’s a vast number of younger people on Tumblr and WordPress who may say otherwise. Some of their sites look as horrid as Geocities sites from the 90s–but they express who they are without worry to the reader’s eyes. I appreciate that.

I know the trend is Facebook. Zuckerberg’s empire watches your every movie and predicts the next. And we seem fine with that. Fully accepting of the limitless amount of surveillance that comes with the Information Age.
Facebook forced us to ditch anonymity in favor of reckless online endeavors where our names and faces are forever associated with asinine comments or unfunny joke memes brewed up on 4Chan.

And standardized.
Every site looks so similar that the similarity is killing websites. Destruction at the hands of cookie cutter designs.
Standardized and bastardized for The future to download.

Modern modern readers, but give me MySpace any day.

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Don’t be too shocked by what they are.. You may actually realize they match what makes a good STORY or movie in general.

Nonetheless, Jakarta Post figured it was breaking news worthy enough of posting a link.. and I will share too since it has to do with James Wan.

The list, as follows:

Characters that people care about.
The cases should be relatable to the audience.
The sound design. (Just like IT FOLLOWS, one of the best.)
Atmosphere.
And good story.

Think of your favorite films or TV shows. They all have the above. Even comedies.