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Americans are having less sex than ever. And that change is impacting folks from all walks of life — married and single.

A new study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior draws on data from the General Social Survey, which has asked more then 26,000 people about their sexual habits since 1989. It shows a long term decline in the amount of sex Americans are having, with the steepest decline in the last decade and a half.

In 2002, the average American adult had sex about 64 times a year. Читать дальше...

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It's a tough time to be in the shopping mall business. 

Black Friday sales last year provided the latest proof of changing dynamics in the retail sector as consumers continued to move their shopping online. Online sales grew to $3.34 billion, up 22% compared to the previous year's figures, while sales at brick-and-mortar stores fell 5%.

The downturn in physical shopping has had ripple effects affecting malls. According to one analyst... Читать дальше...

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In just six years, Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) has become a major phenom in the data center hardware industry that has attracted an almost cult-like following among engineers.

And on Wednesday, Facebook upped the bar yet again.

Facebook announced that it was giving away four new designs for brand-new types of computer servers invented at Facebook.

Anyone can take these designs, modify them and use them, with contract manufacturers standing by to build them. Читать дальше...

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Breitbart, the website that has fervently supported President Donald Trump's campaign and nascent presidency, signaled this week that its brief ceasefire with the establishment wing of the administration may have come to an end.

The reliably pro-Trump website has been reluctant lately to skewer former Republican National Committee members who now work inside the Trump administration, such as chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer.

But that appeared to change on Tuesday... Читать дальше...

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The charter-school industry — consisting of schools that are funded partly by tax dollars but run independently — is rife with the same types of fraud and mismanagement that led to the Enron collapse, according to a study published by three education researchers.

The study, "Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?" examines the related-party transactions, or deals between entities that have preexisting relationships, in charter school relationships... Читать дальше...

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If you were watching any television in 2010, you might recall that the Affordable Care Act cut $500 billion from Medicare over a decade.

You probably learned that because House Republicans' campaign committee blanketed the country with ads attacking Democrats for cutting $500 billion from Medicare.

"Let's save Medicare," the NRCC urged, in one typical ad urging the election of a Republican majority.

Seven years later, Republicans are fully in charge in Washington... Читать дальше...

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Is the anti-Trump Grab Your Wallet boycott working? That depends how you look at it. 

Since October, the movement has gained steam encouraging people to stop spending money at dozens of companies that do business with the Trump family. In recent months, many large retailers, including Nordstrom, Sears, and Neiman Marcus have stopped selling Trump-brand items. 

The Ivanka Trump brand, however, maintains that business is better than ever. The brand's president, Abigail Klem... Читать дальше...

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Asia is full of opportunities for every kind of traveler — especially the adventurous traveler looking to go where most other travelers haven't been.

Luxury Asia tour operator Remote Lands provided us with some hidden gems across the continent that are still unknown to many tourists.

From an ancient tropical rainforest in Malaysia to a prehistoric city in South Korea, here are 12 must-see spots.

Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia

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Arguably, Netflix's fourth Marvel series, "Iron Fist," was the streaming company's most highly anticipated of the franchise. Under great scrutiny from critics and fans, the series definitely falls short of great promises made by both Netflix and Marvel.

"Iron Fist" follows Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who returns to New York City after having gone missing for 15 years. Believed dead after a plane accident that claimed his wealthy parents' lives, Danny actually... Читать дальше...

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Steve Smith Sr. officially retired from the NFL this year after 16 successful seasons catching touchdown passes and talking smack to his opponents. 

Now, just months into his retirement, Smith Sr. has suddenly become a bona fide NFL Insider — already with two big scoops under his belt. 

First, on Tuesday, Smith was the first to break the news that wide receiver Torrey Smith would be released by the San Francisco 49ers and become a free agent. ESPN... Читать дальше...

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If the book "The Travels of Marco Polo" can be believed, the famous Italian explorer and trader journeyed from the port of Hormuz in Persia overland via the Silk Road to the summer palace of Kublai Khan — in what was then-known as Xanadu (or Shangdu) — sometime in the late 13th century. Polo carried sacred lamp oil from Jerusalem and letters from the Pope to the Great Khan and founder of the Yuan Dynasty.

That route from the Persian Gulf to Inner Mongolia was just... Читать дальше...

In the late 1980s, a bizarre video game from Japan arrived in the United States and became a near-instant classic.

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When Snapchat parent company Snap filed for its blockbuster $33 billion IPO, it was revealed that the young social network had also signed a huge $400 million-per-year deal with Google for cloud computing services.

On stage at Wednesday's Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt called Snap "the strongest IPO in tech in a long time," and explained how Google played a key role in Snapchat's growth from its early days.

Amid Snapchat's meteoric rise to fame... Читать дальше...

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An aging population and its negative implications for the global economy has been a worry among economists for some time now.

A shrinking working-age population, coupled with longer life spans and retirements, means there will be fewer working people around to carry the burden of supporting a larger non-working population.

The world population above 65 years old will soon be larger than the population under five years old, according to the US Census Bureau. Читать дальше...

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54 years after the the United States passed the Equal Pay Act, women in the US still face a substantial gender wage gap across the spectrum. 

Today, on average, a woman earns 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, and women’s median annual earnings are $10,800 less than men’s, according to a report released by the Senate Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff last April.

While progress has been made towards pay parity between the sexes, the Institute... Читать дальше...

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Kristy Shen knows how to save money.

Shen, who runs the blog Millennial Revolution and who retired at age 31 with $1 million in the bank, says many people are making the same mistake when it comes to spending their money: They aren't keeping track of where it goes.

"I feel like people are not tracking the money," Shen told host Farnoosh Torabi on the podcast So Money. "And it's not because people they don't know what they're doing, or they're dumb, or anything like that. Читать дальше...

The Force Awakens

Warning: Mild spoilers below for "The Last Jedi" if you want to go into it completely ignorant.

We're still impatiently awaiting the arrival of the first trailer for "The Last Jedi," the next movie in the main "Star Wars" saga following "The Force Awakens," but now we likely have an idea of what to expect from the first scene.

That trailer should drop next month at the Star Wars Celebration, but Disney shareholders had the opportunity to see the first public footage from the film on Wednesday. Читать дальше...

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WikiLeaks dumped thousands of documents on Tuesday that it said detailed the hacking tools and techniques used by the CIA for foreign espionage in what appears to be the largest leak of CIA documents in history.

The documents, which experts widely believe to be authentic, describe how the agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence develops malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, and other tools to hack devices like iPhones, Android phones, and Samsung smart TVs. Читать дальше...

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Life happens.

Sometimes, you end up quitting your job in a hurry after only a few months. Other times, you get laid off.

Regardless, when you're on the hunt for a new job, you have to be able to tell recruiters why you haven't worked in a while.

Liz Wessel, whose startup WayUp connects college students and recent grads with job opportunities, has some suggestions on how to explain that gap on your résumé.

In a recent Facebook Live interview with Business Insider... Читать дальше...

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Pinterest announced that it has acquired Jelly, the question and answer service produced by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Stone will become a “special advisor” to Pinterest chief product officer Evan Sharp while Jelly’s chief technology officer Ben Finkel joins the growth product team.

The addition of Jelly’s team could benefit Pinterest through its expertise in image recognition and building networks across products and machine learning. Читать дальше...

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The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, is one of the most prestigious colleges in the nation.

In addition to its top-20 ranking by the US News and World Report, it enjoys an esteemed reputation for educating and preparing for service top-ranking members of the US military and intelligence communities, not to mention former US presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It's also incredibly difficult to gain access into. Читать дальше...

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On March 8 — in celebration of International Women's Day and in defiance of the Trump administration — women and gender non-conforming people around the country are going on strike for A Day Without a Woman.

The strike was planned by the same organizers as the Women's March, a worldwide protest in January that had millions of participants around the world.

The organizers say women who can't miss work but still want to participate can wear red in solidarity... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON/BERLIN - U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they have been aware since the end of last year of a security breach at the CIA that led to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks publishing agency documents on its hacking tools.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that they believed that the documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday were authentic.

Investigators were focusing on CIA contractors as the... Читать дальше...

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• SpaceX is launching a NASA experiment called the Cold Atom Laboratory.
• The device will use lasers and a "knife" of radio waves to cool gases into superfluids.
• The superfluids will be just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
• A zero-gravity environment will help scientists better study superfluids and mysteries surrounding gravity and the expansion of the universe.

The void of space is cold — very, very cold. With a... Читать дальше...