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Taking care of your health may seem like a normal part of any daily routine, as drinking enough water, eating fruits and vegetables regularly, and taking your multivitamin are all habitual tasks we all seem to follow regularly. However, it’s important to note that there are lots of seemingly harmless health hacks out there that can actually be quite detrimental to our health, as nutrition experts suggest that habits, like drinking diet soda, consuming too many supplements... Читать дальше...

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Way out in Nevada, the secret base from Independence Day — yes, Area 51 — is hiring a pilot for the only airline that flies direct to the secluded destination. Janet Air — as in “Just Another Non Existent Terminal” — flies a nondescript red-striped fleet of 737s from Las Vegas to various sandy, high-security government outposts where, as in Vegas, what goes on there stays there.

The job posting in question is looking for a 3,000-hour pilot with... Читать дальше...

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• Heinz may be phasing out its classic ketchup packets.
• It's part of a larger sustainability push that Kraft Heinz is spearheading. 
• By 2025, the company aims to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable.

Heinz's classic ketchup packets could be going the way of the fax machine.

The condiment giant announced last week that it will aim to make 100% of its packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025. That includes its famous ketchup packets... Читать дальше...

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• Middle children tend to be peacemakers who can get along with many types of people.
• They form stronger bonds with siblings and friends than with parents.
• Last-born children make the best romantic partners for middle children.

What do Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and Jennifer Lopez have in common?

Aside from their enormous wealth, they're all middle children.

While the stereotypical "middle child syndrome" casts middle-borns as neglected and resentful... Читать дальше...

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Over the past decade, true crime has become more and more prevalent as a genre.

At first abashedly and then adamantly, fans began to voice their obsessions with unsolved murder cases, false convictions, and grisly crime scene details. TV shows like "Making a Murderer" and "The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey" as well as podcasts like "Serial" and "Sword and Scale" are all tapping into peoples' consumption of the macabre.

Celebrities have been outspoken about... Читать дальше...

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• Netflix's first original series, "Sacred Games," has been under legal pressure for an unflattering reference to an assassinated Indian Prime Minister.
• Netflix was reportedly in the process of changing a term in the subtitles of the show.
• But Netflix counsel told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that Netflix did not want to change the word. 

Netflix has been facing legal heat for its first original Indian series, "Sacred Games," because of the... Читать дальше...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That’s the strategy e-tailers will have to adopt if they want to compete with Amazon. To fight back against the e-commerce giant’s expanding dominance, other online retailers must understand exactly why and how customers are buying on Amazon — and which aspects of the Amazon shopping experience they can incorporate into their own strategic frameworks to win back customers.

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• Meghan Markle reportedly has to return most of the birthday gifts sent to her due to royal protocol.
• According to The Mirror, the royal family is not allowed to accept gifts that place them under any obligation to the donor.
• Markle is allowed to keep gifts from other members of the royal family, public bodies based in the UK, and small inexpensive gifts from fans.

Meghan Markle celebrated her 37th birthday on Saturday, marking... Читать дальше...

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• Leaders from the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to ask him to testify in a closed briefing with committee staff.
• Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, where he is wanted by the governments of other countries for a number of crimes.

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange... Читать дальше...

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Robots could kill off jobs in the future — but at least they come bearing pizza.

Founded in 2015, Zume Pizza uses robotics and artificial intelligence to make pizza more quickly. Machines press mounds of dough, squirt and spread sauce, and lift pizzas in and out of the oven, in a fraction of the time it would take human workers to do the same.

Now SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $750 million in Zume, Bloomberg reports. The cash infusion could help ramp up the pizza delivery company's side hustle... Читать дальше...

Man möchte meinen, Luft sei ein menschliches Überlebenselixier. Wer atmet, der haucht Leben ein, heißt es. Doch es gibt Fälle, da wird das, was in unsere Lunge gelangt, zur Gefahr. Zur Gefahr für unsere Gesundheit, zur Gefahr für unser Leben.

Yeon Mi Park escaped North Korea when she was 13 years old. And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape. This is Park's harrowing story. Following is a transcript of the story.

Stellen wir uns einmal vor, heute würden auf einen Mann 17 Frauen kommen. Das wäre ein ziemliches Ungleichgewicht.

Kaum hatte sich Angela Merkel in den Urlaub verabschiedet, tauchte sie schon wieder auf. Nicht etwa in den Südtiroler Bergen, sondern in einem Madrider Hotel, beim Parteitag der spanischen Konservativen zu Ehren des scheidenden Vorsitzenden Mariano Rajoy. Zugegeben: Merkel erschien nur auf der Leinwand und nur für ein paar Sekunden als Teil eines Abschiedsvideos. Sie lobte Rajoy ganz artig als „angenehmen Kollegen und wahren Freund“ und bedankte sich für die „gute Zusammenarbeit“. Dann war sie wieder weg. Читать дальше...

Für viele ist der Sommerurlaub das Highlight ihres Jahres. Für andere dagegen sind die Sommerurlauber der pure Horror: Und zwar vor allem für die, die in den Metropolen und Gegenden leben, in die es Millionen von Reisenden jedes Jahr zieht. 

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• Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt had their faces touched up in a promotional photo for "Once Upon a Time in America."
• Both had their chins tightened up and Pitt had some wrinkles removed.
• Sony Pictures said the actors hadn't requested them and take full responsibility for the changes.
• The editing was noticed because the wrong version of the image was uploaded to promotional sites.

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio both... Читать дальше...

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• Credit card debt is on the rise in the US, with the average American household carrying $5,700 in credit card debt, according to a new report by ValuePenguin.
• However, location accounts for differences in credit card debt across American households.
• ValuePenguin broke down the average credit card debt by state and Alaska comes out on top.

More Americans are using credit cards than ever before.

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• A herd of 16 cows helped cops nab a suspected car thief in Sanford, Florida on Sunday night.
• The Seminole County Sheriff's office released video that shows the herd chasing after suspect Jennifer Kaufman, 46, who was fleeing cops on foot through the pasture.
• The cows cornered Kaufman up against a fence, where cops were able to take her into custody.

A herd of 16 cows helped police officers in Florida corral a fleeing suspect who ran through their pasture on Sunday night.

Yazemeenah Rossi gehört zu jenen Menschen, die zugleich Neid und Bewunderung hervorrufen. Fit sieht sie aus, schön und schlank, sie hat den perfekten Modelkörper. 

Könnt ihr auch hin und wieder nicht richtig in Worte fassen, wie ihr euch eigentlich fühlt? Dann ist dieser Test etwas für euch. Mit ihm finden Psychotherapeuten heraus, was wirklich in euch vorgeht, auch wenn ihr es gerade vielleicht selbst nicht wisst.

Donald Trumps Drohung, Autoimporte mit einem Strafzoll von 25 Prozent zu belegen, schwebt wie ein Damoklesschwert über der Autobranche. Gerade erst haben sich die Vertreter von 46 Herstellern, darunter etwa auch BMW, mit dem US-Handelsministerium getroffen. Mit demütiger Unterwürfigkeit, aber auch nackten Fakten wollen sie den US-Präsidenten von den Zöllen abbringen. Da ziehen alle Autobauer an einem Strang. 

In Deutschland leben mittlerweile mehr übergewichtige als normalgewichtige Menschen. Besonders die Männer sind betroffen: mehr als jeder Zweite kämpft mit Übergewicht. Das zeigt das Ergebnis einer Studie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung. 

After $2.3 billion in funding from the likes of Google, JPMorgan, and Alibaba, and years of outlandish hype, Florida-based startup Magic Leap is finally peeling back the curtain on its mysterious, futuristic mixed reality device: Magic Leap One.

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• Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw was pulled over early Saturday morning after cops said they saw her speed 60 mph through a four-way stop.
• The 32-year-old took a breathalyzer test that showed she had more than two times the legal limit of alcohol in her system, according to authorities.
• Police say the woman told officers she shouldn't be arrested because she used to be a cheerleader and a sorority girl who attended a "high accredited university."
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