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    Zuckerberg: Pledged $3bn to “cure, prevent or manage” all disease by the end of the century

    $3bn are a lot of money, but I don't think that even that amount of money would be enough to achieve that admireable goal.
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    The wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel’s vast, amoral binary options scam exposed

    The Manitoba Securities Commission (MSC) released alarming data. According to the regulator’s publication, only in the first four months of 2017, the number of complaints against binary options brokers was 17. One of the complainants reported to have lost CAD 130 000 to an offshore binary...
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    I CAN'T believe I fell for this! These scams are getting so sophisticated.

    It's incredible that they actually fell for it. Don't companies like this have teams who do research into such offers?
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    Top Advantages of Forex Trading

    For whom though? If you can't trade well, that big deposit you've invested in Forex will evaporate pretty quickly.
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    FaceApp: Experts have privacy concerns about popular face transformation app

    I'm just stunned how realistic the manipulated images look. You can't actually tell it's been automatically manipulated (rather than manipulated by a humam artist) at all.
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    Chinese is Island-Building in the Atlantic

    It's a grand project, but time will tell how profitable it will be.
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    I CAN'T believe I fell for this! These scams are getting so sophisticated.

    Do people actually fall for that? :D
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    Plus500 to pay €550 000 to FSMA in settlement, does not admit guilt

    Plus500, one of the major forex and CFD brokers, said it has reached a €550 000 settlement agreement with Belgium’s regulator, the Financial Services Markets Authority (FSMA). The settlement was reached in the context of the public offering of investment instruments, including CFDs, by Plus500...
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    Scientists Unveil A Plan To Drill Into The Earth's Mantle For The First Time

    I don't see what the harm could be? The hole itself will be tiny.
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    Nvidia identifies the top 5 AI startups for social impact

    These are all fascinating and if they come to fruition they could improve the lives of a lot of people.
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    Can you see it?

    I absolutely did not see it. Nature is a spectacular artist.
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    Borussia Dortmund bus bomb was no terrorist — just a greedy investor, investigators say

    That is truly despicable. Human greed knows no limits.
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    Elon Musk is Going to Build a Vast Network of Deep Underground Bases and Tunnels.

    I agree about the electric cars. As for going to space, his company certainly has made some great strides forward, but the projections about a manned mission to Mars in 2020 seems a little unrealistic for the moment. There are an awful lot of problems they'd need to solve before that.
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    Elon Musk is Going to Build a Vast Network of Deep Underground Bases and Tunnels.

    He's the guy with a lot of plans and ideas but just how many of them ever come to fruition?
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    Sequoia Hospital fined for mistakenly removing woman’s ovaries

    I doubt that's the case here. That poor woman, this will have long-term health consequences for her.
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    BaFin bans German OneCoin partner, could fine it €1.5 mln

    The German financial markets and services regulator BaFin said it has banned the local partner of the MLM fraud OneCoin – IMS International Marketing Services GmbH. In a statement on its site, the regulator said it has ordered IMS International Marketing Services GmbH to terminate the financial...
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    Scientists Unveil A Plan To Drill Into The Earth's Mantle For The First Time

    The problem with such deep drilling isn't just that the rock at such depths is semi-molten, it's also the enormous pressure. They drill a hole and then the pressure crushes the hole and the drill.
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    UK schoolboy corrects Nasa data error

    I come from a family of engineers and I concur. They work with cold, hard science. It's the only thing that matters to them, work-wise. Architects come up with a design, but engineers have to figure out how to actually build that.
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    Scientists Unveil A Plan To Drill Into The Earth's Mantle For The First Time

    There were previous attempts - by the Russians, I think - but they failed. I hope the Japanese succeed.
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    Little-known mattress startup practically a unicorn

    Exactly. There are very few shortcuts to success, usually what it takes is hard work over a long period of time.
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