Oct 16, 2013

Oregon bartender gets $17,500 tip

Aurora Kephart
Customer Jerry Arnett, left, congratulates Aurora Kephart, a bartender in Springfield, Ore., on Friday Oct. 4, 2013 after learning that she received a $17,500 tip when one of her customers happened to give her a winning lottery ticket this week. The Oregon Lottery reported that one of Kephart's regular customers at Conway’s Restaurant gave her a couple Keno tickets on Tuesday, and when she checked one was a big winner. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch)

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Indian sage dreams of gold to save economy, government starts digging

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government is digging for treasure after a civic-minded Hindu village sage dreamt that 1,000 tons of gold was buried under a ruined palace, and wrote to tell the central bank about it.
The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They are due to start digging on Friday, Praveen Kumar Mishra, the head archaeologist in the state, told Reuters.

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Projection mapping illusion video - A must-see

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Google Video: Early Days of Quantum AI Lab

Watch a video from Google showing a peek at the early days of the Quantum AI Lab: a partnership between NASA, Google, and a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer. 


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Apparently Apple's iPhone 5c Is A Failure Already

This is what the Daily Mail tells us at least, that the sales of the iPhone 5c have been “disappointing” and that production has been slashed as a result. They even ask if the 5c should be regarded as a “failure”.
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Full article here.

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