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Hitler Bot Hijacks Coke's Twitter Campaign (Newser Daily Digest)

Hitler Bot Hijacks Coke's Twitter Campaign

(Newser) - It was almost inevitable that Coca-Cola's automated campaign to combat online negativity would be hijacked by pranksters—but the "Make It Happy" team probably wasn't expecting a Hitler bot. The campaign turned the words of negative tweets into happy ASCII cartoons, but after noticing that a white... More »

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Prof Discovers Ancient 'Mary' Gospel

(Newser) - Ancient Egyptians apparently used a tiny "gospel" believing it could tell their future—even though its oracles were rather vague, LiveScience reports. Princeton University professor Marie Luijendijk discovered the 1,500-year-old "Gospel of the Lots of Mary" and figured it would tell Jesus' life story or collect his... More »

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RadioShack Files for Chapter 11

(Newser) - Struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores. The Fort Worth, Texas company said today that it was also having discussions to sell all of its remaining assets . RadioShack Corp. introduced one of the first mass-market personal... More »

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Mystery Car Drives 'Apple Street View' Rumors

(Newser) - A minivan driving around San Francisco has fueled speculation that Apple may be creating its own "street view" for Apple Maps, the Guardian reports. Spotted by the Claycord News & Talk blog, the van had 12 cameras mounted along with a lidar sensor, which uses a spinning laser to... More »

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Barber Gives Naughty Kids 'Old Man' Haircuts

(Newser) - If you're a frustrated parent in Snellville, Ga., who doesn't know how to get your child to behave, there's a barber who thinks he knows how to cut that naughtiness off—by literally cutting your child's hair off. Three days a week, A-1 Kutz owner Russell... More »

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Anthem Hack Bears China's 'Fingerprints'

(Newser) - The Anthem hack that exposed 80 million Americans' data bears "fingerprints" of a nation-state, and investigators are chasing evidence that that nation-state is China, reports Bloomberg . And the attackers aren't necessarily after a credit-card shopping spree: Rather, security experts and government officials say that it appears to be... More »

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Scientists Create New 'Super Steel'

(Newser) - A group of South Korean scientists says it's finally come up with the perfect metallurgical cocktail to create a new form of steel that's flexible, lightweight, relatively inexpensive—and as strong as titanium, Popular Mechanics reports. The South Korean study published in Nature , which is being heralded by... More »

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Women Who Make More Still in Charge of Chores

(Newser) - It doesn't matter how much they work or how much they are paid—women still do the vast majority of the housework. This according to a study published in the journal Work, Employment and Society . It was a small one: 36 partnered women and 12 partnered men were interviewed;... More »

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Boy's Very Rare Condition: Fear of Aging

(Newser) - A 14-year-old boy in Mexico is possibly the first reported child in the world to have been diagnosed with gerascophobia, or an extreme fear of aging. His condition, described in Case Reports in Psychiatry in December and spotted by LiveScience , began two and a half years ago. It involves such... More »

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