| Trump reacts to Barcelona terror by touting (debunked) anti-Muslim war crime tale Posted: 17 Aug 2017 12:32 PM PDT  President Trump responded to the news of a terrorist attack in Spain by peddling a debunked legend about a general's harsh tactics more than a century ago.
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| Furor erupts over killing of teenager as Philippines drugs war escalates Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:09 AM PDT  By Erik De Castro and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines police came under pressure on Friday to explain the killing of a high-school student after the 17-year-old became one of at least 80 people shot dead this week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte's ruthless war on drugs. Television channels aired CCTV footage that showed Kian Loyd Delos Santos being carried by two men to the place where his body was later found, raising doubt about an official report that said he was shot because he fired at police officers first. Witnesses told the ABS-CBN channel that the teenager did not have a firearm and police officers at the scene handed him a gun, asked him to fire the weapon and run.
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| 'My life is over': Man who attended Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally forced to move away after being identified Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:17 AM PDT  A man who attended the white supremacist march in Charlottesville has told how his "life is over" after being publicly identified. Jarrod Kuhn was identified as a "nazi" after an anti-fascist group posted 250 fliers around the Honeoye Falls area of New York in the aftermath of the Virginia bloodshed that left three people dead. The flier claimed Mr Kuhn is a "leading figure with the Daily Stormer, an avowedly neo-Nazi website around which local groups have been organizing to promote anti-Semitism, white supremacy and violence against LGBTQ communities," according to the Livingston County news.
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| Natalee Holloway's Dad Leads Investigators In New Special as Authorities Dispute Discovery of Remains Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:12 PM PDT  Dave Holloway said he originally did not want her to go on the trip.
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| Hero police officer shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils and saved injured partner's life Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:56 AM PDT  An outnumbered police officer shot dead four of the five terrorists who attacked the seaside city of Cambrils last night, saving his injured partner's life, according to a dramatic account of the shootout. The officers were carrying out a routine check at a roundabout near the seafront of Cambrils when the terrorists launched their attack, which, it was confirmed today, killed one woman. Their white Audi A3, coming from the direction of the city, ploughed through four pedestrians before smashing into the police car and overturning. The crash left one officer with a broken tibia and an injured head. According to a report in the La Vanguardia newspaper, the five men got out of the overturned vehicle, armed with knives and axes, and wearing false explosives. The overturned car used in the attack in Cambrils Credit: LLUIS GENE/AFP The hero police office shot down four of the terrorists and the fifth fled in the direction of a nearby park, stabbing a pedestrian in the face with a knife. He was gunned down by a separate police officer. The chief of Mossa, the Catalan police force, confirmed that one officer had killed the four terrrorists. Josep Luis Trapero told reporters at a press conference: "To kill four people, even if you are a professional, is not easy to digest." Video footage has emerged of one of the terrorists taunting police before being shot down. A British tourist told how families and residents were ordered to take cover as bullets tore through the air in a scene he described as being like "watching a horror film". Terror in Spain: Dozens killed and injured in Barcelona and Cambrils A total of five civilians were injured in the attack with a sixth dying from her injuries in hospital. Cambrils is tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Earlier in Barcelona a van had sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. One tourist told how families and residents were ordered to take cover as bullets tore through the air in a scene he described as being like "watching a horror film". A terrorist heads towards police armed with a knife Credit: Sky News A total of five civilians were injured in the attack with a sixth dying from her injuries in hospital. Cambril is tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Earlier in Barcelona a van had sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Barcelona attack key articles
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| 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Juror Transcript Full Of Brutal Insults Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:52 PM PDT  It wasn't easy finding jurors who didn't automatically hate "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli's guts.
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| Erdogan tells Turks in Germany to vote against Merkel Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:55 AM PDT  By Bulent Usta ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats were enemies of Turkey and called on Turks in Germany to vote against major parties in next month's elections. The comments, some of Erdogan's harshest yet against Merkel, drew a furious response from Merkel, her government and some Turkish organisations in Germany, illustrating the widening divide between the NATO allies and major trade partners. "I am calling on all my countrymen in Germany: the Christian Democrats, SDP, the Green Party are all enemies of Turkey.
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| Why Do Nazis Hate Jews? Posted: 17 Aug 2017 01:09 PM PDT  Other polls indicate a persistent suspicion and distaste for Jews as "pushy, clannish, unethical."
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| Remains Found In April Have Been Identified As Those Of Teen Missing Since 2007 Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:33 AM PDT  Kara Kopetsky hadn't been seen since leaving her Missouri high school in May 2007.
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| Neo-Nazis love media attention. But ignoring them isn't an option | Bob Garfield Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  There is a genuine conflict of two public interests: the collateral damage of publicity versus the right to know. First there was the violence Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where crowds of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists and assorted alt-right mouthbreathers were televised chanting racist and antisemitic slogans and roughing up counter-protesters, culminating in the death of one woman. Yep, some of the finest neo-Nazis this great country has to offer.
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| Saudi coalition killed hundreds of children in Yemen, confidential UN report claims Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:03 AM PDT  The Saudi military coalition – which receives logistical support, weapons and political backing from the US and UK – has been accused of killing hundreds of children in Yemen, according to a confidential UN report. The report, which has yet to be made public and could still be changed, says that 51 per cent of all child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year were the result of the Saudi-led military operation. Saudi Arabia has insisted it is operating within international law.
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| Second vehicle attack: five terror suspects 'wearing suicide vests' shot dead in Cambrils Posted: 17 Aug 2017 09:36 PM PDT  Residents of the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils fled in terror in the early hours of Friday after five terrorists wearing suicide vests launched the second ramming attack in the country in a matter of hours. At least six people were hurt when the attackers drove into pedestrians before being shot dead by security forces, just hours after a similar attack in nearby Barcelona. The Audi A3 car rammed into people on the seaside promenade of the tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Barcelona terror attack, in pictures Media reports said a car crashed into a police vehicle and nearby civilians and police shot the attackers, one brandishing a knife. Police did not immediately say how the attack was being carried out. A police officer and five civilians were injured and two were in serious condition. Police were working on the theory that the Cambrils and Barcelona attacks were connected, as well as a Wednesday night explosion in the town of Alcanar in which one person was killed.. "The alleged terrorists were in an Audi A3 and apparently knocked down several people before coming across a police patrol and a shoot-out ensued," said a spokesman for the regional government of Catalonia, where Cambrils is located in Spain's northeast. Spanish Policemen inspect a street in Cambrils Credit: EPA Markel Artabe, a 20-year-old restaurant worker, said he was on the seaside promenade when he heard what he initially thought were fireworks, but soon realised were gunshots. He said he saw someone lying on the ground "with a gunshot in the head". The victim's friends were crying out "help", he added. Joan Marc Serra Salinas, a 21-year-old waiter, said he heard many gunshots. "And shouting. And more shouting. I jumped onto the beach and didn't move," he said. Police said they were "working on the hypothesis that the terrorists shot dead in Cambrils could be linked to what happened in Barcelona". How the Barcelona terror attack unfolded 01:10 The attack in Cambrils happened as security forces hunted for the driver of the van used in the Barcelona rampage, who was seen escaping on foot. Police announced the arrest of two suspects over the Barcelona attack, identified as a Spaniard and a Moroccan, but said the driver was still on the run. "We're united in grief," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a televised address after rushing to Barcelona. "Above all we're united in the firm intention to defeat those who want to take our values and way of life from us."
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| Hundreds Line Up, Dozens Ask To Be Arrested For Destroying Confederate Statue Posted: 17 Aug 2017 01:24 PM PDT  Four people turned themselves in to authorities in Durham, North Carolina, on Thursday to face charges for their role in toppling a Confederate monument during a protest on Monday.
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| Bannon leaves White House -- but vows to fight on for Trump Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:23 PM PDT  Donald Trump parted ways with his controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday as the White House reels from the fallout over the president's response to a violent white supremacist rally. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Bannon made clear he remained fully committed to the nationalist-populist policies that carried Trump to power.
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| Here's a Preview of the Solar Eclipse Traffic Nightmare Posted: 17 Aug 2017 03:13 PM PDT  The backup in Oregon was between 20 and 30 miles long
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| Huge Confederate flag near Interstate is one man's mission Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:30 PM PDT  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Marion Lambert is unapologetic about the abundance of Confederate flags that surround him.
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| KKK leader threatens to 'burn' black Latina journalist and calls her a 'n*****' during interview Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:10 PM PDT  An Afro-Latina journalist conducting an interview with a member of the Ku Klux Klan has said he threatened her so violently that she was concerned for her safety. Ilia Calderón, a Univision journalist with both African and Colombian heritage, agreed to visit KKK leader Chris Barker on his wooded North Carolina property. Almost immediately, Mr Barker asked her why she didn't "go back" to her country of origin.
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| Poll: Most Republicans Back Trump’s Protest Responses Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:53 AM PDT  CBS poll shows sharp partisan divide over Trump's reaction to the violent alt-right rally.
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| How Will Animals React to the Solar Eclipse? Depends on How Smart They Are Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Here's what scientists have found about how animals respond to an eclipse
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| Five suspected terrorists shot dead by police in Cambrils, Spain Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:52 AM PDT ![Five suspected terrorists shot dead by police in Cambrils, Spain]( "Five suspected terrorists shot dead by police in Cambrils, Spain") Spanish police shot dead five would-be attackers after confronting them early on Friday in Cambrils, south of Barcelona where hours earlier a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds, killing 13 people.
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| Chinese traders furious after crackdown on N. Korean imports Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:06 AM PDT ![Chinese traders furious after crackdown on N. Korean imports]( "Chinese traders furious after crackdown on N. Korean imports") BEIJING (AP) — Furious Chinese businesspeople said Friday that Beijing's decision to enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korean seafood imports would hobble the economy of an entire northeastern city, sparking a rare public protest earlier this week after the surprise move suddenly choked off border trade.
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| White supremacist cries on camera as he describes 'terror' over arrest warrant Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:03 AM PDT  A white supremacist who helped organise the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has appeared on camera crying as he describes his fear of arrest. Chris Cantwell, a racist who previously claimed he and others would "f***ing kill" anti-fascist demonstrators for interfering with their right to express their views, sobs uncontrollably in the clip. The blogger was featured in a Vice News documentary filmed before, during and after the rally in Virginia turned violent.
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| Finland stabbings: Police 'do not rule out terrorism' after knife rampage leaves two dead Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:18 AM PDT  Finnish authorities stepped up security around the country after a stabbing rampage left two people dead and half a dozen wounded in a western city. One suspect was arrested after being shot by armed police and officers launched a search for other possible perpetrators following the attack in the city-centre of Turku on Friday. Press conference from Turku at Finnish Yle TV1 just started. Confirmed: 8 stabbed 2 dead. Perpetrator in custody. My heart breaks. #Turku— Elina Nikulainen (@ElinaNikulainen) August 18, 2017 But investigators said it was too early to attribute the attack to international terrorism or to link it to the attacks in Spain the previous day. "I emphasise that the identity and motive of the perpetrator are not yet known," Paula Rissiko, the interior minister, told reporters on Friday evening. A video grab taken from Instagram shows officials standing in a street next to a person lying on the ground in the Finnish city of Turku Credit: KIRSI KANERVA/AFP About half a dozen people were seen lying on the ground in the centre of Turku, a city of 180,000 in the southwest of the country, as the attack unfolded at 4 PM local time. The police is searching for possible more perpetrators in Turku. People are asked to leave and avoid the center of Turku.— L-S poliisi (@L_S_poliisi) August 18, 2017 Witnesses reported seeing seeing a woman with stroller being attacked by a man with a large knife. Video footage filmed shortly after the attack showed people running in a panic down one of the city's main streets. People flee stabbing attack in Turku, Finland 00:18 "Nothing is known about the motives ... or what precisely has happened in Turku," Seppo Kolehmainen, Finland's top police chief, told the country's YLE broadcaster. The suspect in custody, who was detained after police shot him, has not been named. Police announced Turku was "safe" again on Friday evening, suggesting their manhunt for other attackers had been called off. Armed police had reinforced security at Helsinki airport and train stations following the attack, which comes amid a heightened tensions following yesterday's terrorist attack in Barcelona. Armed policemen on duty at Helsinki airport after a stabbing attack in the city of Turku Credit: LEHTIKUVA/Reuters In 2012, Finland's then-prime minister Jyrki Katainen escaped a knife attack in Turku while campaigning for municipal elections. Finland's Security Intelligence Service (Supo) earlier said it had no indication that individuals in Finland were linked to the Barcelona attacks and that the country's threat assessment would remain unchanged, at an "elevated" level.
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| Assad advisor says Syria war nearing its end Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:14 AM PDT  An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American. Bouthaina Shaaban said the fact that Syria was staging the Damascus International Fair for the first time in the war "sends a message that the war has ended ... and we are at the start of the path towards reconstruction." With the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Damascus has shored up its rule over much of the country's populated west. The war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, has reached its "penultimate stage" as foreign powers that backed rebels change their policies, Shaaban said in comments to Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV carried on Syrian state news agency SANA on Thursday.
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| Mexico City fishermen fight to save Aztec floating gardens Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:43 AM PDT  Roberto Altamirano has the lake to himself as he casts his glistening net onto the still water in a perfect circle, lets it sink, then slowly pulls it in. It comes back bearing a large haul of tilapia and carp -- and that is exactly the problem. Altamirano is one of just 20 or so fishermen who remain in the floating gardens of Xochimilco, an idyllic network of lakes, canals and artificial islands improbably tucked into the urban sprawl of Mexico City.
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| Steve Bannon Gives Bizarre Interview Amid Departure Rumors Posted: 17 Aug 2017 03:22 AM PDT  White House chief strategist Steve Bannon gave a strange interview with a progressive publication amid rumors that he's on the outs with President Donald Trump.
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| A Leading Elephant Conservationist Has Been Murdered in Tanzania Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:18 AM PDT  Wayne Lotter had received numerous death threats in connection with his work
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| Canada's forests are on fire, and the smoke is so thick it's breaking records Posted: 17 Aug 2017 09:45 AM PDT  Forests in Canada are ablaze, with 2.2 million acres going up in flames so far this year in British Columbia alone. These fires, and others in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, have been belching smoke into the air, in some cases up to 8 miles high. Once in the atmosphere, weather patterns are causing the wildfire smoke to converge into a blanket so thick it's blotting out the sun across northern Canada. This smoke is working its way to the high Arctic, where it could speed up the melting of sea and land ice. According to NASA, the smoke has set a record for its thickness, and has been especially dense across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut provinces. SEE ALSO: Summer on steroids: Fires, devilish heat waves, and floods Never mind the upcoming total solar eclipse — in some places, the smoke is so thick it could turn day into night, according to Mike Fromm of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. "There's that much aerosol in the air," Fromm said, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. Aerosols are small particles, such as soot or volcanic ash, that reflect incoming sunlight. Aerosol index across Canada during the past several days.Image: NASA Earth Observatory images/Colin Seftor.According to Colin Seftor, an atmospheric researcher for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, on August 15, the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) on the Suomi NPP satellite recorded aerosol index values as high as 49.7. This was more than 15 points higher than the previous record, which was set in 2006 by fires in Australia. Aerosol index records were also set on August 13 and 14, NASA reported. Although the Suomi NPP satellite is quite new, the satellite aerosol index dates back to the Nimbus-7 satellite in 1978, giving scientists a longer data set. According to NASA, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured particularly heavy smoke obscuring a wide swath of northern Canada as of August 15, 2017. Another satellite image, this time from the Aqua satellite, shows smoke billowing north from areas near Lake Athabasca. The fires in British Columbia were intense enough to produce numerous pyrocumulus clouds, which are essentially firestorms that tower into the sky, resembling thunderstorms. Such clouds can vault smoke high into the atmosphere, all the way to the stratosphere, where it can linger for days or longer. The Canadian fires are important for several reasons. First, they signal the transition to a more combustible future in the Far North, as climate change makes conditions more conducive to large wildfires. Smoke forecast with rectangle showing the area of smoke transport into the Arctic.Image: copernicus/ECMWFSecond, they are ideally located to directly feed smoke toward vulnerable Arctic sea ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet. In addition to altering the heat balance of the atmosphere, the smoke can deposit dark soot particles on the ice, which hastens melting by lowering the reflectivity of the ice and causing it to absorb more incoming sunlight. Studies have tied the increasing number of large fires in parts of Canada and the U.S. to global warming. In fact, the level of fire activity across the boreal forests, which stretch from Alaska to Canada and around the top of the world to Scandinavia and Russia, is unprecedented in the past 10,000 years, according to a study published in 2013. WATCH: Here's how many people in the U.S. will possibly see the eclipse
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| Arkansas has new supply of lethal drug; execution to be set Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:11 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has a new supply of a controversial lethal injection drug months after the state put four men to death over an eight-day period, officials said Thursday, as the state prepared to set an execution date for an inmate.
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| Venezuela's constituent assembly assumes power to legislate Posted: 18 Aug 2017 03:19 PM PDT  By Brian Ellsworth and Corina Pons CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's new legislative superbody on Friday gave itself the power to pass laws, superseding the opposition-led congress and fueling criticism by government adversaries that socialist President Nicolas Maduro is consolidating a dictatorship. The Socialist-dominated Supreme Court has stripped power from the congress and shot down nearly every law it has approved since it was taken over by the opposition in 2016. Delcy Rodriguez, a Maduro ally and president of the constituent assembly, insisted the move did not imply a dissolution of the congress.
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| The Oldest Ice Core Ever Discovered Reveals CO2 Levels Of Millions Of Years Ago Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:45 PM PDT  Oldest ice core ever reveals CO2 levels were far lower 2.7 million years ago than they are today.
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| Trump's Quick Response To Barcelona Attack Makes His Charlottesville Reactions Look Even Worse Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:30 AM PDT  President Donald Trump issued an explosive statement against "Radical Islamic Terror" just hours after an attack in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday left at least 13 people dead.
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| See what happens when you ask Siri 'what's zero divided by zero?' Posted: 17 Aug 2017 08:04 PM PDT  Zero divided by zero sounds like a simple maths problem, but when you ask Siri you might not get the answer you were expecting. Many people who use Apple's built in personal assistant are used to receiving sassy answers from him. But this time, it seems Siri has gone too far and many Twitter users can't believe the response. EVERYBODY GO ASK SIRI WHAT ZERO DEVIDED BY ZERO IS BC IVE NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD AT SOMETHING SIRI HAS SAID— ️ (@5THOFFEB) June 30, 2015 Siri replies: "Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn't make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends." Read more: The best of Siri: 11 funny responses from the iPhone's virtual assistant It's quite harsh. just asked siri what zero devided by zero and she said i have no friends pic.twitter.com/pFYmBJVz9b— Farhan (@FefKun) June 30, 2015 Many Twitter users are tweeted about Siri, including Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul. Ask Siri "what is zero divided by zero?" RIGHT. NOW.— Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) June 30, 2015 Some people loved the response. Ask Siri what is zero divided by zero and get sass in return— Nicola Heaney (@nics265) June 30, 2015 Ask Siri, "what is 0 divided by 0" The answer is hilarious.— Bailey Seal (@bailey_seal) June 30, 2015 Read more: The voice behind Siri breaks his silence Others, not so much. When you ask Siri what's 0 divided by 0 and she violates your whole life pic.twitter.com/SvYfi0q8wP— Emmanuel Matos (@emmvnuelmvtos) June 30, 2015 Ask Siri what 0 divided by 0 is and listen to her roast your life in 15 seconds— Garrett Cox (@GarrettJCox) June 30, 2015 When you ask Siri what 0 divided by 0 is pic.twitter.com/AW5in1HGsO— Just Bait Posts (@JustBaitPosts) June 30, 2015 For a round-up of technology news and analysis, sign up to our weekly Tech Briefing here.
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