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Tokyo: Yakuza Used Facebook to Track Down Target in ¥1 Million Extortion

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested an organized crime member and three others over the alleged attempted extortion of a man whose location was found via Facebook, reports TV Asahi (Feb. 6). In March of last year, gang member [...]

Media group: 81 Reporters Died, Threats Soared in 2017

BRUSSELS (AP) — At least 81 reporters were killed doing their jobs this year, while violence and harassment against media staff has skyrocketed, the world’s biggest journalists’ organization says. In its annual “Kill Report,” seen by The [...]

Pyongyang's favourite newsreader Ri Chun-Hee announces North Korea's possession of a hydrogen bomb (AFP Photo/Handout)

[VIDEO] NORK Newsreader Ri Chun-Hee Goes Cuckoo for Coconuts Announcing North Korea’s H-Bomb Success

Pyongyang’s favourite newsreader – a woman in her 70s — returned to the airwaves Sunday to declare its proud possession of a hydrogen bomb. Ri Chun-Hee has previously told her loyal viewers of the deaths of the country’s [...]

[VIDEO] Diving into 1000 Mousetraps in 4K Slow Motion

via The Slow Mo Guys – [...]

[VIDEO] Museum of Fabulous Japanese Advertising: Scarlett Johansson Lux Shampoo Commercial

ユニリーバ・ジャパンのヘアケアブランド「LUX（ラックス）」は8月24日、 [...]

Marvel Comics to Abandon Social Justice Storylines?

The customers seem to have gotten through. Tom Knighton writes: For a lot of comics fans, Marvel just isn’t what it used to be. While the comic line that gave us Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, and the X-Men has often been tinged with a bit [...]

Moral Relativist Slams Murder As ‘Highly Undesirable’

KANSAS CITY, MO—Self-described agnostic and moral relativist Carl Horton has issued a scathing critique of the concept of murder, claiming the practice is “highly undesirable” and “not what I’d choose for myself,” sources confirmed [...]

[VIDEO] Advanced Robotic Bat Can Fly Like the Real Thing

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Captain America vs Adolf Hitler

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In Era of Journalism Cutbacks, a Chinese ‘Robot Reporter’

More Chinese newsrooms are starting to use so-called “robot reporters,” but developers say their capabilities remain limited. Te-Ping Chen reports: China has found itself in the midst of a full-blown robot obsession in recent years, [...]

[VIDEO] Why does Iron Man Support Government Oversight in ‘Civil War’?

Tony Stark‘s support of government oversight for the Avengers Team can be traced to the grieving mother, Miriam. After a speech at M.I.T., Stark met Miriam who lost her son in the Sokovia. Miriam puts a face to collateral damage the Avengers [...]

With Trump Presidency, Will Mickey Mouse Clock Move Closer to Midnight?

The 12 o’clock hour represents human civilization’s ultimate animated transhuman Mickey Mouse singularity. A panel of scientists and scholars announced a change to the Mickey Mouse Clock Thursday morning, which shows how close we may be [...]

Classic Cover by Jim Mooney and Jack Burnley from Batman #43, DC Comics, 1947

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Japan: ‘City & Design’ Magazine, Cover Illustration by Isamu Kurita, 1966

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Popeye the Sailor Man was Originally Popeye the Coast Guardsman

Blake Stilwell writes: This may seem like blasphemy to some, but Popeye started his professional career as a civilian mariner and then Coast Guardsman. The famous sailor did join the Navy, but as of 1937, Popeye was firmly in the Coast Guard. A [...]

[VIDEO] President Camacho’s State of the Union

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho‘s State of the Union. United States of America’s Near-Future Hyperbolic! [...]

HELP! #6, January 1961: Original sketch by Harvey Kurtzman & Final Photo Cover by Ron Harris

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[VIDEO] Tokyo Comic Con 2016 変態東京コミコン「グラビアポーズしてください！」

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Forgotten masterpiece: Original hand-colored printer’s proofs of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ from Panic #1

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[VIDEO] iSpace: One Giant Leap for Japan

Japan is leaping into space resources, agreeing to work with a robotic-exploration company to create a blueprint for an industry to extract resources from the moon that would enable more extensive space exploration. [...]

[VIDEO] Scientists Work to Perfect Robotic Arm Controlled by Thought

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New journal Science Robotics is Established to Chronicle the Rise of the Robots

Devin Coldewey reports: Robots have been a major focus in the technology world for decades and decades, but they and basic science, and for that matter everyday life, have largely been non-overlapping magisteria. That’s changed over the last few [...]