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The average temperature in June soared to its highest level on record, and experts predict that July could follow the same pattern.  Several reports released this week confirmed that June was the hottest month on record.  Climate experts have predicted that based on the data, July could also break global heat records.  On Thursday, the US National Weather Service issued a national advisory warning that dangerous heat and humidity was to be expected across the country.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The average temperature in June soared to its highest level on record, and experts predict that July could follow the same pattern.  Global land and sea temperatures were 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average of 59.9 degrees Fahrenheit, and they were the warmest ever recorded in June since records began in the 1800s, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a report on Thursday....

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Your original photos are uploaded to FaceApps servers–and no one knows what the company does with them. If you’ve been anywhere near social media for the last few weeks you’ve probably seen people posting photos of themselves, but aged to make them look 60, 70, or older. Those photos come from an app called FaceApp, which uses artificial intelligence to age people. The app has actually been around for a few years but only recently gotten attention from the internet at large. Read Full Story

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On Fisherman’s Wharf, there’s one restaurant after another. Is that a smart place to open a business, right next to all the others? At the bookstore, there are tens of thousands of books, each competing to find a reader. The thing is, books are impossible to sell when there aren’t a lot of books around. They don’t sell many books at Macy’s. The biggest competitor most marketers face is “none.” Inaction always has the biggest market share of all. The surprising solution is to be surrounded by competition. Because that changes the question from, “if?” to “which?”

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Nick Ciarelli and Brad Evans are writer-performers whose comedy dissects and satirizes digital culture. Now they’re moving beyond internet videos to make their comedy go viral offline. The apartment Nick Ciarelli and Brad Evans share smells unmistakably like urinal cakes at the moment. Read Full Story