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Ms. Clinton said she would step down from the $600,000-a-year position to focus on philanthropic work at her family’s foundation.

It turns out that James Cameron is far from the only wealthy individual who likes exploring the oceans. For the past 18 years, a company called DeepFlight has specialized in creating high-end, recreational submarines for well-off aquatic adventurers. As the company proudly notes on its website: "DeepFlight personal submarines are ideal toys for superyachts, resorts, and tour operators because of their capability to open up the undersea world in three dimensions."

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Ramen burger creator Keizo Shimamoto ditched a six-figure income to study ramen making in Japan. Now, his Ramen.Co is pulling in $5,000 a day, and there may be many more of them in the future, he tells Crain's NY. "The goal is to really introduce the many different types of ramen that you can find in japan and then open a couple more stores and possibly even franchise it in the future." [Crain's NY]

Brian Barrett, writing for Gizmodo:

Apple has just sent out its invitations to an event on September 9th. You can expect at least one iPhone, and possibly an iWatch as well. And hey… we’ll be there!

Some subtle changes so far in the post-Katie Cotton era. Gizmodo hasn’t been invited to an Apple event since the unpleasantness back in 2010. They’re holding the event at The Flint Center, a big venue the company hasn’t used in over a decade. And they sent the invitations out a week earlier than usual.

A group representing giants in the cable industry is trying to shut down two municipalities' proposals to expand their public broadband networks, arguing that public broadband has a "mixed record" and can be harmful to taxpayers, despite these two networks already being successful where they're already operational. Laws in 20 states prevent municipalities from creating their own broadband networks — much to the pleasure of private cable companies, which have shown an impressive dedication to avoiding any competition and any suggestion that their service is merely a utility. Municipalities have on occasion created their own public networks to make up for shortcomings from local internet providers, and it's easy to see why private...

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That didn't take long. The $300 Grand Cru Slam, which one could only think of as a shameless publicity stunt, appears to have been taken seriously by at least one Manhattan couple who ordered it at the city's first Denny's. The meal includes two "Grand Slam" breakfasts (eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancakes) and a bottle of 2004 Dom Perignon champaign. Drinking the Champagne first probably helps it taste a little better. [NYDN]
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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, though, let's say it's worth millions and millions of internet connections. Thanks to John Matherly, founder of Shodan, a search engine which focuses on helping companies locate...

Scary stuff.

Justin Gau and Kyle Page, two Long Island volunteer EMTs, had hardly even sat down to get some riblets at their local Applebee's in Hauppauge before the carbon monoxide detector they were carrying "went crazy" with a reading that registered twice the safe limit. In slight disbelief, they reset it twice to make sure it wasn't the kind of glitch that might "screw up everyone's evening," and it turned out that an errant hot water heater was filling the place up with odorless and lethal gas. Thanks to Gau and Page, the more than 100 customers and staff got out just fine. Six months ago, a defective water heater at a nearby Legal Seafoods leaked carbon monoxide, killing the restaurant's general manager and sickening 27 others. [ABC 7]

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Filed Under: well done, applebee's, long island, the chain gang

The people at VR Coaster had a great idea: Create a 3D ride synchronized to a real world rollercoaster, put someone on the seat with an Oculus Rift headset, and let them freak the hell out as they fly through a fantastic landscape full of dragons and lava giants. Apparently, people say it's an amazing experience.

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News of a shiny new 3DS upgrade- -along with a Xenoblade port—came as a pleasant surprise to many Nintendo fans this morning, but don't expect to see the New 3DS in North America or Europe this holiday.

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With the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. just two weeks out from its release in Japan, Nintendo is holding little back. Today, they've tossed up five minutes of mostly in-game footage for us to look at. If you have any nostalgia for Nintendo, you'll enjoy this.

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Aston Martin, Middle East, Luxury

Over the past 67 years since Aston Martin acquired the Lagonda marque, the name has come and gone, but now it's back again. After an aborted attempt at reviving the brand with a much-criticized SUV concept at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, Aston is building a new high-end sedan exclusively for the Middle Eastern market, and this is our best look at it yet.

We first caught glimpse of the upcoming new Lagonda a few months ago when it was spotted undergoing testing, and Aston released preliminary details and a couple of teaser images just last month. But now it's shipping the first example for testing to the Sultanate of Oman on the Persian Gulf coast, and it has evidently allowed Oman Air and the Aston Martin Oman dealership to release a handful of photos.

What we can see is a pretty handsome sedan that borrows stylistically from the original Aston Martin Zagato sedan that shocked the world in the mid-'70s, not to mention cues from the Zagato Centennial concepts revealed last year. It's possible this is Aston's new design direction, a bid to finally take it away from the gorgeous but overfamiliar styling of its current crop. The fresh look is more squared off, with narrower head- and taillights. It's also possible, of course, that this new look will remain specific to future Zagato-branded vehicles. Look close enough and you'll notice that the handsome sedan is wearing the Lagonda badge, not those of Aston Martin.

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Corporations are finding ways to legally avoid paying federal taxes, causing business income tax revenue to be stagnant.

Janko Roettgers at GigaOM writing about LG's failure to capitalize on webOS:

Sources told me that LG had a policy in place to reward managers with bonuses or even promotions if their features were part of the final product. The result was a constant feature bloat, as everyone tried to add on one more thing.

Bean Bird never stood a chance.

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Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. The software maker originally announced its plans to shift users over to Skype last year, but Microsoft kept the service running in China. After October 31st Chinese Messenger users will need to use Skype, bringing an end to 15 years of the service.

MSN Messenger started off life in 1999 as a rival to AOL’s AIM service. Both companies battled over chat dominance, and Microsoft...

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Nintendo announced 'new' models of the 3DS and 3DS XL during this morning's Direct stream for Japan. The new versions feature a small "C-stick" analog pad on the right hand side above SNES-like colored face buttons. During the presentation, Nintendo...

It's called the New Nintendo 3DS. It's faster with bigger screens and better battery life. It also has a new analog pad called the "C-stick." Wow! This sounds great.

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 Just about every Mac you’d see in operation nowadays has a 64-bit CPU tucked inside. Apple started making the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit nearly a decade ago, after all. And yet, Chrome has always stubbornly insisted on running at 32-bit on OS X. That’ll change soon. Read More

They also sell bottomless tubs of popcorn, if that's more your style.

Just in time for football season, here's the "Chessie," which is about to join the concessions lineup at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. Officially, it consists of an enormous "24-ounce hot soft pretzel smothered in back fin crab dip and melted cheddar cheese, then topped with a dusting of Old Bay." Unofficially, it no doubt consists of some ancient, Tolkien-esque primordial force that can be used for good or evil. It serves four, in either case, and at $17.50 — $4.38 a person! — that's a steal, at least for a sports venue. [Washington Post via Foodspin]

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Maybe getting past Keurig's DRM-protected brewing system won't be so challenging after all. Keurig Green Mountain incensed many third-party coffee pod makers with its decision to lock down the Keurig 2.0 system with the coffee equivalent of DRM earlier this year. The move was widely viewed as a desperate attempt by Green Mountain, which purchased Keurig in 2006, to protect its profits and stop other companies from putting out imitation K-Cups at much cheaper prices. That was the troubling trend that began when several of Keurig's key patents expired in 2012, opening up the coffee pod market to all comers. To avoid that whole "competition" thing, Keurig designed a sophisticated anti-counterfeiting system for its latest brewer that scans...

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When Keuring Green Mountain announced that it would cut out third-party pods for the next-generation of its popular single-serve machines, other coffee outfits were up in arms. One particular company, TreeHouse Foods, claimed that it would take a...

Forget about wasting all that valuable space underneath a kitchen island by filling it with pots, pans, and other bakeware. Designer Robert Kolenik has a much better idea: turn it into a gigantic saltwater aquarium that seemingly doubles as the perfect place to toss food scraps.

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Hmm, this is interesting. Recent studies suggest that food allergies may be caused by the absense of certain intestinal bacteria...in part due to increased use of antibiotics in very young children.

Food allergies have increased about 50% in children since 1997. There are various theories explaining why. One is that the 21st century lifestyle, which includes a diet very different from our ancestors', lots of antibiotic use, and even a rise in cesarean section deliveries, has profoundly changed the makeup of microbes in the gut of many people in developed countries. For example, the average child in the United States has taken three courses of antibiotics by the time he or she is 2 years old, says Martin Blaser, an infectious disease specialist and microbiologist at New York University in New York City. (See here for more on the reach of microbiome research these days.)

Cathryn Nagler, an immunologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has spent years probing links between the immune system, intestinal bacteria, and the onset of allergies. Back in 2004, she and her colleagues reported that wiping out gut bacteria in mice led to food allergies. Since then, Nagler has continued trying to understand which bacteria offer allergy protection and how they accomplish that.

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A group of 12 top rappers, including Diddy, Rick Ross, and 2 Chainz, have come together to record a song in memory of Michael Brown, the black teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson earlier this month. The six-minute track is called "Don't Shoot" and features a verse from nearly every rapper, all talking about Brown's shooting, discrimination, and the need for change. It's a seriously good song, and the artists' expression of sorrow and their feeling of helplessness makes this a hard one to stomach. The track is available to buy on iTunes, and all profits are headed to a GoFundMe campaign for Brown.

The recording of "Don't Shoot" was organized by The Game, who tells Rolling Stone that he had an easy time getting...

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BPA worries scientists for a number of reasons, but evidence is gathering for one concern in particular: infertility.

If you compare a map of the Louisiana coastline in the 1920s to today, the difference is striking. About 1,883 square miles of land has just disappeared — swallowed into the Gulf of Mexico. And each year Louisiana loses more. In fact, roughly a football field's worth of land is lost every hour.

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Titanfall's latest update will add a new mode that gives players the option of fighting without those pesky giant robots getting in the way.

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The prevailing argument among media types is that Apple's $3 billion purchase of Beats makes sense if Apple is trying to transform from primarily a technology company to a fashion brand, perhaps akin to Yves St. Laurent and Burberry (both companies from which Apple hired big name executives). But what if the trend is moving in the opposite direction? A New York Times piece on the back-to-school shopping habits of the coveted teen demographic reveals that, in fact, technology is quickly becoming more of a status symbol than fashion. As the Times quotes one teen:

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Because I am the kind of person who looks at actual subway posters as though they were works of art, last week I picked up a game called Mini Metro, which is basically a puzzle/sim game where you build your own subway system.

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