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    Entertainment

    How Ant-Man’s Director Made Sure Civil War Got Ant-Man Right

    Peyton Reed might have only been working on Ant-Man for just over a year, but he grew very protective of the character throughout his time on the film. In fact, when the Russo brothers arrived in the Ant-Man editing suite to check over some footage and told Reed about their plans for the diminutive hero, the director couldn’t help but feel territorial. Peyton Reed made this revelation during his chat with ET Online, where he also admitted that he became a little bit envious when Paul Rudd went to shoot scenes as Ant-Man for Captain America: Civil War. But he made sure to showcase his supremacy when the blockbuster’s directors Anthony and ...
    On July 2, 2015 / By
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    Technology

    Samsung’s New Graphene Technology Will Double Life Of Your Lithium-Ion Battery

    Samsung claims to be developing a new technology that can extend the life of a lithium-ion battery to double its current capacity on a single charge. Battery life has always been a prickly issue for most smartphone users. While we have seen phenomenal advances in processors, displays and security, battery life remains a mediocre one day on average. Samsung says it might have found the solution by replacing the graphite anode, the part through which energy enters the battery, with graphene-coated silicon to make batteries with an energy density as much as 1.8 times more than current batteries. This is not the first time technology companies ha...
    On June 29, 2015 / By
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    Marketing

    14 Interesting Digital Marketing Stats From the Past Week Airbnb continues its ride toward big revenues

    The past week has been filled with great data points. Here are 14 of the more intriguing numbers we came across: 1. Airbnb is on track to make $900 million this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. That’s more than triple what it made in 2013 ($250 million). Internally, the sharing-economy juggernaut expects revenue to skyrocket to $10 billion by 2020, according to The Journal, which also reported that Airbnb is about ready to close on $1 billion in new funding. That would make its $24 billion valuation higher than 88-year-old global hotel brand Marriott ($21 billion). The times, they are a-changing. 2. With Facebook so often tweakin...
    On June 22, 2015 / By
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    Finance

    Trade deficit narrows to 3-mth low, exports contract

    India’s trade deficit narrowed to a three-month low in May, helped by lower gold imports, bolstering the outlook for its current account balance. But in a worrying sign, weak global demand as well as persistent domestic bottlenecks led to a sixth straight annual fall in merchandise exports. Exports account for about a fifth of India’s $2 trillion economy. The trade deficit shrank to $10.41 billion last month, its lowest since February, from $10.99 billion in April, data released by the trade ministry showed on Tuesday. The data comes days after India’s current account deficit, the broadest measure of its trade with the rest ...
    On June 16, 2015 / By
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    Social

    McKinney police officer resigns in wake of pool party video

    DALLAS — McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley condemned as “indefensible” the actions of Eric Casebolt, an officer who resigned Tuesday after a video showing him physically confronting teenagers at a pool party went viral, attracting national attention. Chief Conley said at a news conference late Tuesday that Mr. Casebolt, 41, resigned “on his own will” while under investigation and will get to keep his pension and benefits. “Our policies, our training and our practice do not support his actions,” the chief said. “He came into the call out of control and, as the video shows, was out of control during the incident. “I had 12 off...
    On June 10, 2015 / By
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    Technology

    China suspected in massive breach of federal personnel data

    WASHINGTON (AP) – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American officials said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been compromised. “The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the statement said. The hackers were believed to be based in China, said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican. Collins, a member of the Senate intelligen...
    On June 5, 2015 / By
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    Real Estate

    Woman fired for rejecting real estate big shot’s come-ons: suit

    The married owner of a powerhouse real estate firm that caters to Brooklyn hipsters tried to create his own harem using female staffers, a new lawsuit charges. Guy Hochman of MySpace NYC abruptly canned longtime worker Dena Kology after she refused to become one of his conquests, the woman said in her Brooklyn federal court suit. “There’s nobody more that I love than you,” Hochman allegedly simpered to Kology during one taped conversation between the pair. “And it goes even behind the business, emotionally to levels that you can’t even imagine,’’ Hochman insisted, according to the suit. “I don’t share half the things I think...
    On June 1, 2015 / By
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    Finance

    Auto Enrollment Has Solved Only Part of the Retirement Income Gap Issue

    NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Despite the advent of automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans, Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers are still not saving enough money for retirement. Companies need to adopt more aggressive enrollment default rates or mandate automatic increases. While automatic enrollment has accomplished its initial goal of getting employees to save for their future, this option has never become a game changer for 401(k) plans. What’s lacking is a stronger push to get people to increase the percentage of their salary that they contribute for retirement, said Jamie Hopkins, associate director of the New York Life Center for Retirement Incom...
    On May 27, 2015 / By
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    Health

    Go green at America’s best vegetable-forward restaurants

    On the day before the recent James Beard Awards ceremony (held in Chicago — its first foray outside New York since its 1990 inception — on May 4), a handful of talented chefs sat down at Kendall College for a chat with culinary éminence grise Rick Bayless and food journalist Steve Dolinsky (both multi-year JBF Award winners). Each of the panelists — Mark Ladner of Del Posto, Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen, Erik Bruner-Yang of Toki Underground, Beverly Kim of Parachute, Renee Erickson of The Whale Wins, and Ari Taymor of Alma — had been nominated for the prestigious honor, often called the Oscar of food. (Ladner and...
    On May 26, 2015 / By
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    Technology

    Your Boss Is Now Tracking You at Home

    Myrna Arias knew that her professional life was monitored by her boss. As part of her sales job at Intermex, a wire transfer service, she had to install an app called Xora that uses GPS to keep tabs on her whereabouts as she drove around California’s Central Valley. The tracking appears to have continued even when Arias was off the clock. A recently filed lawsuit alleges that her manager “admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty.” Arias claims her decision to uninstall the app resulted in her firing, and her wrongful-termination lawsuit seeks more than $500,000 in damages for lost wages and breach of privacy...
    On May 18, 2015 / By