The Daily Populous

Tuesday August 8th, 2017 day edition

image for Woman wins $1 million trying to teach husband a lesson about lotteries

Story highlights Glenda Blackwell was tired of her husband wasting money.

(CNN) A North Carolina woman set out to teach her husband a lesson about the lottery.

Glenda Blackwell of Leicester was tired of her husband wasting money on lottery tickets.

Glenda Blackwell will happily eat her words on how buying lottery tickets is a waste of money.

"I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch off to show him they didn't hit," Blackwell told CNN affiliate WLOS .

"Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, 'You're just wasting your money.'".

That scratch-off ticket she bought out of spite was a $1 million winner. »

Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences

Authored by bloomberg.com
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company’s diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley.

The imbroglio at Google is the latest in a long string of incidents concerning gender bias and diversity in the tech enclave.

In her initial response to the memo, Brown, who joined from Intel Corp. in June, suggested that Google was open to all hosting “difficult political views,” including those in the memo. »

Eminem’s next album ‘will be released this autumn’

Authored by nme.com
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The rap icon, who previously released The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013, will release his latest album this autumn, according to industry insiders HITS Daily Double.

Last year, he claimed that he was working on an album as he dropped ‘Campaign Speech’, an anti-Trump freestyle released during the run-up to the U.S. election.

“Don’t worry, I’m working on an album”, he reassured fans. »

Karl Urban Says He’s Open to Returning for ‘Judge Dredd: Mega City One’ TV Series

Authored by collider.com
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It’s since taken on something of a cult status, especially with regards to Urban’s performance, and while Dredd never spawned a sequel, IM Global and Rebellion did put into motion a TV series called Judge Dredd: Mega City One.

IM Global produced Dredd, and in speaking with TrekMovie, Urban revealed that he’s had discussions with the producers about starring in the Judge Dredd TV series:.

There should (hopefully) be news on the Judge Dredd TV series front sometime in the near future. »

Brexit caused by low levels of education, study finds

Authored by independent.co.uk
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Income and number of immigrants in an area were not found to be a significant factor in how people voted.

Much of this debate was informed by simple data analysis examining individual factors, in isolation, and using opinion polling data.

13/26 Many farmers across the country are voicing concerns that Brexit could be a dangerous step into the unknown for the farming industry Getty. »