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TheRepublic.com 

The Latest: Passenger call led to Vegas-area bus search

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on a bus stopped on a freeway near Las Vegas and evacuated after a report of a bomb threat (all times local): 2:35 p.m. A passenger’s cellphone call to his grandmother about a man threatening not to let people off a bus where the man said there was a bomb

BusinessInsider.com 

A new book will convince you the internet is a transformative work of art

Amazon.com

I very much doubt the supreme irony that Virginia Heffernan's excellent chronicle of the internet's self-contained artistic logic comes in book form is lost on its author.

Heffernan tells us in the opening pages of "Magic and Loss" that "the art of the Internet and its rules came into view all at once and fully formed."

The internet is very different from the physical world we are used to. The web's logic and conventions, very much like the size of the thing itself... Читать дальше...

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Syria activists say air strikes on Islamic State-held Raqqa kill 18

The strikes, which the activists blamed on Russian and Syrian warplanes, came after an advance toward the city by government forces stalled, with the extremists taking back large areas in the surrounding province. Syrian President Bashar Assad meanwhile designated a new prime minister to form a government following April’s parliamentary elections. Activists from the group known as Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, which relies on residents to smuggle news out of Islamic State-held territory... Читать дальше...

TheRepublic.com 

SolarCity and Bristol-Myers climb, Adobe and HP stumble

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: Adobe Systems Inc., down $5.71 to $94.01 The software maker announced a larger-than-expected quarterly profit, but Wall Street was less excited about its projections for the current quarter. FedEx Corp., down $7.44 to $156.51 The package delivery company’s profit and sales were better

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

SolarCity and Bristol-Myers climb, Adobe and HP stumble

The software maker announced a larger-than-expected quarterly profit, but Wall Street was less excited about its projections for the current quarter. The computer and printer maker announced some changes in its marketing strategy that one analyst called a "radical shift." Electric car maker Tesla offered to buy the solar panel maker for about $2.8 billion.

BusinessInsider.com 

We asked attendees at Trump’s speech to describe Clinton in one word. They all had the same response

REUTERS/Mike Segar

Donald Trump's speech on Wednesday was scripted, but the message he conveyed was largely similar to when he speaks off-the-cuff at rallies — that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is a liar who can't be trusted.

Many of his supporters have adopted this rhetoric.

In conversations with Business Insider, several attendees at Trump's Wednesday speech in New York characterized Clinton as dishonest.

They discussed how the presumptive Republican nominee's... Читать дальше...