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Scottish Highland rescue after pensioner's SOS signal picked up in Texas
A man who fell ill at his remote Highlands cabin was rescued after the signal from his distress beacon was picked up in the US.
The man, who is in his 70s and lives "off-grid", uses the device in its "check-in" mode every week to let his family and friends know he is well.
On Sunday he triggered an SOS, which was automatically sent to a response centre in Houston, Texas.
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Samsung finally decides partnering with a Supreme counterfeiter is a bad idea
Widespread ridicule forces Samsung to terminate its "Supreme Italia" partnership.
Back in December, Samsung took the stage at one of its Chinese product launches and announced it was partnering with "Supreme," the popular skateboard fashion brand. The announcement was made with all the usual tech launch pomp and circumstance, with the CEO of "Supreme" coming on Samsung's stage to talk about the collaboration. The only problem: this was a Supreme counterfeiter called "Supreme Italia."
The announcement was met with widespread ridicule online, as "Samsung the Apple copycat" had teamed up with a Supreme copycat. Samsung initially defended the deal, but after seeing the online reaction, the company started "reconsidering" its counterfeit collaboration. Now, two months after announcing the deal, Samsung is walking away, according to a translation from Engadget China.
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Colorado runner kills cougar in self-defence after attack
A man running on a popular park trail in the mountains of northern Colorado killed a mountain lion after it pounced on him from behind.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials say the man sustained serious injuries after he was bitten on his face and wrist by the young male lion.
The man, who has not been named, turned after hearing a noise behind him, just as the lion lunged, officials say.
The cat died from suffocation, state wildlife officials have determined.
Monday afternoon's attack occurred on the West Ridge Trail at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near the city of Fort Collins - about 66 miles (106km) from Denver.
The victim "described hearing something behind him on the trail and was attacked by a mountain lion as he turned around to investigate," according to an official statement.
"The lion lunged at the runner, biting his face and wrist. He was able to fight and break free from the lion, killing the lion in self-defence."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The cat died from suffocation, state wildlife officials have determined.
the dude literally choked a mountain lion to death. Talk about manly. Most dudes can only choke a chicken.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The cat died from suffocation, state wildlife officials have determined.
the dude literally choked a mountain lion to death. Talk about manly. Most dudes can only choke a chicken.
I know. that guys gets some kind of award. I want him to do the new animal planet show!
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The cat died from suffocation, state wildlife officials have determined.
the dude literally choked a mountain lion to death. Talk about manly. Most dudes can only choke a chicken.
I know. that guys gets some kind of award. I want him to do the new animal planet show!
Do you know what it means to choke the chicken?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The cat died from suffocation, state wildlife officials have determined.
the dude literally choked a mountain lion to death. Talk about manly. Most dudes can only choke a chicken.
I know. that guys gets some kind of award. I want him to do the new animal planet show!
Do you know what it means to choke the chicken?
Please, no cougar jokes here.
Oh wait.
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Saudi Arabia, UAE gave US arms to al-Qaeda-linked groups: Report
CNN says Saudi Arabia and UAE transferred US-made weapons to militias designated by the US as terrorist groups.
Saudi Arabia and its coalition partner in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) transferred US-made weapons to al-Qaeda-linked groups and a Salafi militia whose commander who once "served with" the Yemeni branch of ISIL, a CNN investigation has found.
Corroborating an earlier report by Al Jazeera, the CNN investigation said that the weapons had also made their way into the hands of Houthi rebels who are battling against the coalition for control of the country.
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Exploding e-cigarette kills 24-year-old Texas man
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47136678 -
Drug overdose killed HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll
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@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow, I can't even...
He's wishing that he couldn't even.
Haha
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And now his parents are wishing that they had never.
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@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow, I can't even...
His mom response should be...
I brought you in this world, and I can take you out! -
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wow, I can't even...
He's wishing that he couldn't even.
Haha
Lol, it is so weird.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
And now his parents are wishing that they had never.
You mean they're wishing that they hadn't even.
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Why GM is laying off more workers amid healthy profits
GM says layoffs are needed to prepare for big industry changes.
GM is laying off another 4,000 workers, the company acknowledged on Monday. The cuts are on top of thousands of job cuts the company announced last November.
Those earlier cuts were concentrated on the factory floor, with GM shuttering five manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada. The new cuts, by contrast, are to salaried white-collar jobs. Individual workers will be notified over the next two weeks, the company said.
GM has reported billions of dollars of profits over the last three quarters. But CEO Mary Barra argues that GM still needs to cut its costs to prepare for the dramatic changes facing the automotive industry in the coming years.
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NASA “still working toward” 2020 launch of massive SLS rocket
Multiple concerns remain: cost, schedule, management, delayed upper stage.
NASA has continued to make progress with the development of its large Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as work continued on its critical core stage throughout the partial government shutdown, and the agency is nearing critical hardware tests. However, it now seems all but certain that NASA will miss its latest launch date for the first flight of the rocket, June 2020.
Multiple sources have told Ars that while NASA is still targeting sometime later in 2020 for a test launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, known as Exploration Mission-1, this flight is likely to slip into 2021.
This week, in response to a query about potential delays, a spokeswoman for the agency's exploration program, Kathryn Hambleton, said the agency is not ready to discuss a new schedule yet. "NASA is still assessing impacts as a result of the shutdown, but we are still working toward a launch in 2020," she told Ars.
