En viadukt har rasade under torsdagskvällen, svensk tid, samman i brasilianska Belo Horizonte, en av värdstäderna för fotbolls-VM. Minst två personer omkom.

Talibanrebeller sköt raketer mot flygplatsen i Afghanistans huvudstad Kabul på torsdagen och sprängde president Hamid Karzais helikopter som stod parkerad, uppger den afghanska militären. Tre andra helikoptrar tilltygades i attacken - men ingen människa skadades.

This is an interview with Duolingo engineer Franklin Ditzler. He's not a smooth marketing guy getting all rah-rah about the company and what it does, just a coder who enjoys his job and seems to like where he works and what he's doing. Note that Duolingo is a free language teaching tool, and they seem determined to keep it free for language students by selling crowdsourced translation services to companies like CNN and BuzzFeed. Duolingo founder and CEO Luis von Ahn is an associate professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department, and was one of the original developers behind reCAPTCHA. Google acquired ReCAPTCHA in 2009 for "an undisclosed sum," a bit of history that led TechCrunch to speculate back in 2011 that Google would buy Duolingo within six months -- which didn't happen. But don't despair. It's still possible that Google (or another big company) might absorb Duolingo. We'll just have to wait and see -- and possibly improve our foreign language skills while we wait. (Alternate Video Link)

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This is an interview with Duolingo engineer Franklin Ditzler. He's not a smooth marketing guy getting all rah-rah about the company and what it does, just a coder who enjoys his job and seems to like where he works and what he's doing. Note that Duolingo is a free language teaching tool, and they seem determined to keep it free for language students by selling crowdsourced translation services to companies like CNN and BuzzFeed. Duolingo founder and CEO Luis von Ahn is an associate professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department, and was one of the original developers behind reCAPTCHA. Google acquired ReCAPTCHA in 2009 for "an undisclosed sum," a bit of history that led TechCrunch to speculate back in 2011 that Google would buy Duolingo within six months -- which didn't happen. But don't despair. It's still possible that Google (or another big company) might absorb Duolingo. We'll just have to wait and see -- and possibly improve our foreign language skills while we wait. (Alternate Video Link)

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New defence chief plans to build an army which would deter anybody "from planning aggression" against nation.

New defence chief plans to build an army which would deter anybody "from planning aggression" against nation.

Här kommer ännu ett larm om akrylamid i maten: EU:s livsmedelsmyndighet Efsa har analyserat 43 419 matvaror och funnit höga halter av det giftiga och cancerframkallande ämnet i chips, pommes frites, kaffe, bröd och spannmålsbaserad barnmat som sålts inom EU, rapporterar Svenska Dagbladet.

Här kommer ännu ett larm om akrylamid i maten: EU:s livsmedelsmyndighet Efsa har analyserat 43 419 matvaror och funnit höga halter av det giftiga och cancerframkallande ämnet i chips, pommes frites, kaffe, bröd och spannmålsbaserad barnmat som sålts inom EU, rapporterar Svenska Dagbladet.

realized (2472730) writes "In nine cases in 2013, state police were unable to break the encryption used by criminal suspects they were investigating, according to an annual report on law enforcement eavesdropping released by the U.S. court system on Wednesday. That's more than twice as many cases as in 2012, when police said that they'd been stymied by crypto in four cases—and that was the first year they'd ever reported encryption preventing them from successfully surveilling a criminal suspect. Before then, the number stood at zero."

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realized (2472730) writes "In nine cases in 2013, state police were unable to break the encryption used by criminal suspects they were investigating, according to an annual report on law enforcement eavesdropping released by the U.S. court system on Wednesday. That's more than twice as many cases as in 2012, when police said that they'd been stymied by crypto in four cases—and that was the first year they'd ever reported encryption preventing them from successfully surveilling a criminal suspect. Before then, the number stood at zero."

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Morsi supporters remain defiant in the face of mass trials, imprisonment and death sentences.

Morsi supporters remain defiant in the face of mass trials, imprisonment and death sentences.