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An activist from the Marshall Islands wrote this poem for her young daughter, who may outlive her own country. 

The Marshall Islands has been hit hard by rising sea levels due to climate change. Read more about the Marshall Islands in our three-part multimedia series, here. Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the final chapter of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

Even outside the factory gates, the smell of poultry is inescapable. In Springdale, Arkansas, never-ending truck convoys carry live chickens and turkeys by the thousands into factories to be plucked, butchered, and packaged for consumers nationwide. In one of those factories, Ferdinand Muller hangs the live birds by their feet onto a conveyor belt — one by one, 40 panicking pounds at a time, 400 times every 15 minutes, for 10 hours every day except Sunday. Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

It takes three days on the open sea to journey from the Marshall Islands capital to Enewetak Atoll. You can’t see the atoll until you’re just miles away as it’s only feet above sea level. As you get closer, the sun fades behind clouds and the islands are shrouded in mist. Beaches are fringed not by coconut palms but Australian pines, trees praised for soaking up salt-spray and airborne radionuclides Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

Leaving Majuro was no easy decision, but Mona Jetnil had been ready for months. Here, in the capital of the Marshall Islands, just about everyone seems to be planning to leave. Read more...

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Silicon Valley is no stranger to cannabis culture, so it's no surprise that tech companies are driving innovation in the pot world. And guess what? They've got some seriously impressive products.

When the state of Colorado passed Amendment 64 in 2012, legalizing recreational marijuana for adults in January of 2014, they opened up a world of possibilities. Legalization created countless new industries in which companies could openly innovate without fear of being shut down for working with an illegal substance.  Read more...

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It was a very Apple-like moment for Huawei: At the company's press briefing in Barcelona, a rep held out the MateBook X Pro, a 13.9-inch laptop with crazy-thin bezels, and asked the journalists where the camera was. No one had any idea, and then the man pressed on a key lodged in the middle of the function keys row, and out popped the camera. 

It's the sort of clever solution we've grown accustomed to seeing from Apple, and Huawei managed to get a collective gasp for its engineering smarts, even though the jury is still out on whether this solution is actually any good in real-life use.  Read more...

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You can have the best content out there, but if your site is not search engine optimized, you can pretty much forget about anyone seeing it. The top five results on Google get 75% of the clicks, the top three get 60%, and even paying for your site to be up there in the results won’t help much — 70-80% of users ignore paid ads in favor of organic results. That’s tough if you own your own business, whether it’s a consumer product, an e-commerce site, a brick and mortar store, or even a porn site. Read more...

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We get it: You want all the convenience and technological wonder of a smartwatch, but still want to attend grown-up parties without looking like an extra from Back to the Future Part II. All you wanted to do is count your steps in peace, but you reach for a glass of champagne, pulling back your sleeve, and all of a sudden your friends and co-workers are all “Hey, is that a smartwatch? Make it do a trick for me.” Read more...

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This Mobile World Congress, LG is laying low. 

The company held a press conference on Saturday, insisting that it wasn't a press conference. The people who showed up were able to try a pre-production model of the upcoming LG V30s ThinQ — but it's just a slightly upgraded version of the company's current flagship, the LG V30. 

So is there anything interesting about the new phone worth mentioning? Well, sort of. The LG V30s ThinQ has exactly the same hardware as its predecessor, but it comes with more RAM (6GB vs 4GB), and can be had with more storage memory, 128GB or 256GB. It also comes in two new colors: Moroccan Blue and Platinum Gray.  Read more...

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John Oliver's legal tussle with a man he once called a "geriatric Dr. Evil" is over and the HBO late night host has every reason to be happy.

West Virginia judge Jeffrey Cramer has dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed against Oliver by Robert Murray, the coal baron behind Murray Energy Corp.

Murray, along with his company, had sued HBO in June over a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment which focused on American coal mining, and took a particularly close look at Murray's role within that industry.

The (rather hilarious) lawsuit did not come as a surprise to HBO. In that same segment, Oliver revealed that Murray had already sent him a cease-and-desist just for investigating. "I know you are probably going to sue me, but you know what, I stand by everything I said," he said, addressing Murray through his show. Read more...

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Over a decade before Wonder Woman, before Black Panther was even a twinkle in Kevin Feige's eye, there was Catwoman – to this day, still the only Marvel or DC live-action movie led by a woman of color.

The problem was, it was terrible. So terrible, even its writer can't resist the opportunity to drag it on social media.

It started when someone asked an inane question about why Catwoman hasn't enjoyed the level of support that Black Panther has. If you think the answer should be pretty obvious to anyone who's even faintly familiar with these movies, well, so does John Rogers. Read more...

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While we don't condone violence, plenty of people out there on the internet would love to see someone punch disgraced YouTuber Logan Paul in the face. Well, that opportunity may have just presented itself.

Back in February, British YouTuber Olajide Olatunji, better known on the internet as KSI, fought fellow vlogger Joe Weller in a boxing match, because apparently that's how we're settling petty drama on the internet nowadays. Anyway, KSI won the match, and while accepting his victory belt, he challenged Jake and Logan Paul. Actually, he challenged "any of the Pauls."

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Apple is preparing for a big change at the end of the month: Henceforth, iCloud data belonging to users based in China will have to be stored there, in the company's new Chinese data center.

That means text message, emails, and other data stored in the cloud will be physically housed on Chinese soil. Importantly, it also means that the cryptographic keys required to unlock an iCloud account will live in China as well.

Previously, as Reuters points out, those keys had been stored in the United States. Whenever Chinese authorities have sought access to a user's account in the past for one reason or another, they'd have to go through the processes set forth in the U.S. legal system. Read more...

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An Apple repair and refurbishment center called 911 about 1,600 times over the past four months. But not because they're plagued with emergencies.

Rather, the calls are all accidents, as reported by CBS13 in Sacramento (via The Washington Post). 

The facility in question is the Apple repair center in Elk Grove, Calif., and the calls are usually fielded by the Elk Grove police station. The Sacramento County sheriff's department has also received these calls – about 47 since the beginning of the year. 

Typically, there is no one on the other line. Sometimes, dispatchers hear what sound like Apple technicians working in the background.  Read more...

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A squirrel with a death wish was nearly run over during the parallel giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Saturday.

Austrian snowboarder Daniela Ulbing was in the middle of her run when a squirrel suddenly ran onto the slope just inches in front of her snowboard.

In typical squirrel fashion, the rodent came face-to-face with the moment of impact before deciding the slalom course was a bad place to be. It turned around only after nearly colliding with Ulbing.  Read more...

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Despite the insane odds, Team USA is bringing home a gold medal for a beloved sport which confuses many: curling.  

It's the sort of story that prompts a cinematic retelling years later. After losing to Norway less than a week ago, the U.S. men's curling team was put into the tough spot of being one loss away from elimination.

John Shuster, along with teammates Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, and alternate Joe Polo then went on to win five consecutive matches while their home country was asleep on Saturday. The team's final win against Sweden with a 10-7 victory made Olympic history as the first gold medal the U.S. team has ever won in the sport.  Read more...

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HBO has released the first trailer for Paterno, starring Al Pacino as the disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno.

The promo cycles through a lot of the major beats you'll remember from 2011: Paterno being confronted with the fact that his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, abused children for years; the public's growing realization that Paterno had known for years but did nothing; the outcry against the coach as well as the demonstrations in defense of him.

It feels like we're revisiting the case in a different context now, what with the #MeToo movement in full swing. So much of this feels familiar – not just because we lived through it a few years ago, but also because it echoes similar cases from Hollywood to Olympic-level athletics. Read more...

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