The Daily Populous

Tuesday August 29th, 2017 night edition

image for TIL That when the Cards Against Humanity team kept all of the money they raised by selling nothing (literally) for 5 Dollars on Black Friday, they split the $71,145 and one employee bought a 24 karat gold vibrator for over $3,000.

This year we offered our customers the ultimate Black Friday experience - the ability to buy nothing from us for $5.

We took our entire store offline, and put up a simple payment form where people could give us $5.

11,248 people gave us $5, and 1,199 people gave us more than $5 by filling out the form more than once.

In the end, we made a windfall profit of $71,145.

We even started a $500,000 full-ride scholarship for women getting degrees in science.

There's been a lot of speculation about how we would spend the money from Black Friday, and we're happy to announce that this time, we kept it all.

- Max, Ben, Josh, Eli, David, Daniel, and David. »

Electric car emissions slashed by two thirds as electricity generation goes green

Authored by electrek.co
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Now a new study in the UK shows just how significant of an impact greener electricity generation can have on electric car emissions in a specific region.

The Electric Insights report, produced by researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with Drax, looked at electricity generation data from April to June this year and compared it to previous periods to show the impact on electric vehicles.

“The carbon intensity of Britain’s electricity now regularly dips below 100 g/kWh, showing that deep decarbonisation is already plausible. »

Chile legalises gay marriage and allows LGBT couples to adopt as historic new bill signed

Authored by independent.co.uk
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She said the measure seeks to expand the definition of marriage between a man and a woman and would also expand rights for gay couples, allowing them to adopt children.

Chile approved civil unions for same-sex couples in 2015 and decriminalised gay sex in 1999.

Civil unions have been recognised in several South American countries, though only Argentina and Uruguay have codified same-sex marriage. »

Google removes 300 Android apps that secretly hijacked phones for DDoS attacks

Authored by theverge.com

Around 300 apps have been withdrawn from Google’s Play Store after they were found to be secretly hijacking Android devices to supply traffic for wide-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, as noted by Gizmodo.

Google removed apps that offered services like ringtones and storage managers after security researchers uncovered the “WireX” botnet was behind the ploy.

Malware was hidden inside the affected apps, and as long as the device remained switched on it was used in DDoS attacks. »