| Gaza clashes grow uglier by the day
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 Israelis and Palestinians continued to exchange heavy fire on Tuesday, as a Palestinian truce offer is being considered by Israel. NBC News' Ayman Mohyeldin joins live from Gaza to discuss the latest. Read more
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| CIT-OneWest Deal Shows Value of Core Funding
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 CIT Group's deal for OneWest is further proof that buyers are increasingly eyeing deposits, not assets, as they prepare for an increase in loan demand and look to position themselves for rising interest rates.
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| Twitter's User Growth Picks Up
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 Twitter said its second-quarter revenue more than doubled and the company saw an uptick in user growth, signaling its efforts to make the short messaging service more appealing to the masses may be bearing fruit.
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| Six Ways Big Telecom Tries to Kill Community Broadband
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 The stranglehold that big telecom companies have managed to get on the nation's broadband infrastructure is no mistake—beyond merely staying out of each other's hair in many big cities, ISPs have managed to throw up legal, logistical, and financial roadblocks at every turn to prevent municipally owned fiber networks from taking hold in many parts of the country. By now, big telecom's competition-killing tactics have been integrated into its well-oiled machine, but the some of the strategies are insidious, under-the-radar, and don't even involve the well-reported lobbying money that flows from national corporations into political coffers (though that certainly helps). In many cases, locally owned fiber networks are cheaper, faster, have better customer service, and higher satisfaction rates than the so called "incumbents" (that's Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc). But still, community networks aren't common—which is often because of specific tactics used by telecom giants to make it difficult, illegal, or ...
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| Johnny Dronehunter Does Exactly That In This Insane Shotgun Silencer Ad
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 He keeps a big-ass shotgun by his side. He hates drones, and is here to protect your privacy rights from those noxious aerial robo spies. He will shoot one (or four) of the bastards right out of the sky if he has to. Why? Because he's Johnny Dronehunter, Defender of Privacy. That's him up there in a promotional trailer for the Salvo 12, a new shotgun suppressor line from Utah-based SilencerCo. "In the not too distant future," the video's description reads, "privacy is a thing of the past. Undeniable rights degrade like the paper they were written upon, and Big Brother has a constant eye on you and your family." At which point, only a "determined man and an unequaled weapon"—Johnny Dronehunter and the Salvo 12, I assume—can save you. It just might be the most extreme expression of so-called Drone Fear to date, and yet I still have so many questions. For starters, why Johnny Dronehunter, Defender of Privacy? The idea behind the character, SilencerCo CEO Josh Waldron said in an emailed statement to ...
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