Jay-Z Sued for 5 Billion…

In the claim, Mr. Campbell said that Mr. Ratner and Jay-Z worked “in concert” with Barclays, and “profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”

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WTF!!! The U.S Lost Eight Nuclear Weapons…

During the Cold War the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls “broken arrows.”

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Crashproof, Fireproof, Warproof DataCenter…

A portable datacenter may seem like pie in the sky, but in fact, Sun Microsystems has already constructed it. Whether Project Blackbox, which Sun calls the first virtualized datacenter, catches on remains to be seen, but for some, the concept is compelling.

Take a 20-foot shipping container; provide it with integrated cooling, networking, and power distribution; add external hookups for hot and cold water, 208-volt three-phase AC power, and Ethernet networking; integrate sensors, alarms, and GPS; fill its eight 19-inch shock-tolerant racks with servers — either 120 Sun Fire T2000 servers or 250 Sun Fire T1000 systems — and you’ve got one or two thousand processor cores, 7TB of memory, and more than 2PB of storage. Connect them all as a grid, for simplicity.

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Blog Recommendation Site Outbrain Launches…

Funding Monday continues. NY/Israeli startup Outbrain is announcing a $5 million series A financing, led by Gemini Israeli Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners. GlenRock Israel also put money into the round. The company was founded by Yaron Galai, a co-founder of Quigo (recently sold to AOL for $340 million), and Ori Lahav, previously a technologist at Shopping.com. It raised a $1 million seed round last year from Lightspeed’s and Gemini’s joint Internet lab in Israel, LGiLab, which is managed by TechCrunch France editor Ouriel Ohayon.

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George W. Bush Is President Of Africa…

George W. Bush has been having so much fun in Africa that he took up the Africans’ offer that he remain forever, as their President King. Here’s the former U.S. chief executive at his new “executive mansion in Monrovia, Liberia.” Join us for an AP Photo Tour of Bush’s crazy African vacation.

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Ugly Mexican Man Richest In World…

The son of a Mexico City Shopkeeper has built a staggering $59 billion fortune. Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta tells the story of how he made it to the top.

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Ballin’ Out of Control: Complex Interview With Andre 3000 and Will Ferrell…

WILL FERRELL WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF, ANDRE 3000 WILL MAKE YOU SHAKE IT LIKE A POLAROID PICTURE. THE STARS OF THE ABA FLICK SEMI-PRO SIT DOWN FOR THE MOST COMPLEX MOMENT IN COMEDIC HISTORY. LOOKS LIKE WE GOT ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP RING…

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