Bradley Manning, Internet.org, and a Lego world record: 90 Seconds on The Verge
Bradley Manning, Internet.org, and a Lego world record: 90 Seconds on The Verge
2013-08-21
it's wednesday august twenty-first 2013
i'm ross million jokes on you NSA i use
incognito windows when i browse this is
90 seconds on the verge bradley manning
the wikileaks source responsible for
leaking nearly 700,000 government
documents has been sentenced to 35 years
in prison the judge also ordered a
reduction in Manning's rank to private a
forfeiture of all pain allowances and a
dishonorable discharge he will receive
credit for the time he has already
served and will be eligible for parole
in eight to nine years Manning's
attorney says he plans to petition
President Obama for a pardon Facebook is
teaming up with a host of technology
companies with the promise of bringing
internet access to everyone on earth the
Coalition is called internet.org and
we'll tak issues like data efficiency
affordability in infrastructure the goal
to bring the two-thirds of the globe
that don't have internet online in some
way Nokia opera Qualcomm and Samsung
among the other founding members
developing countries are a huge growth
opportunity for these tech companies but
internet.org frame fiscal differently
asking a connectivity is a basic human
right and finally a school district in
Delaware has set a new guinness world
record using Lego the red clay School
District built a Lego tower that reaches
112 feast 11.75 inches high it's about
11 stories and it beats the previous
record by over six feet the tower is
made up of five hundred thousand bricks
sections were assembled in classrooms
over a series of months but don't worry
no Lego Millennium Falcon's were harmed
in the making of this tower that's it
today's top stories will come to
tomorrow there is chaos in Gotham City
the culprit the carbon footprint the
Batmobiles leaving
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