Steinhoff: ‘One Guy Couldn’t Have Done It’ – A number of people must have been complicit in what happened. [mweb]
12 Thai Boys And Teacher Found Alive After Nine Days In Cave – National news has been dominated by updates on the search for 12 boys and their football coach. [ind]
Fox News Suddenly Questions Michael Cohen’s ‘Credibility’ – He was once a welcome and trusted Trump surrogate for Fox News, but now the network’s hosts are seemingly starting to turn on Michael Cohen after his ABC interview. [beast]
Justin Trudeau ‘Does Not Remember’ Groping Reporter At Festival – Canadian PM responds to allegation he groped journalist at event in 2000. [guardian]
Is Michael Cohen Turning On Donald Trump? – The most famous game-theory formula was developed in 1950, by two mathematicians, Melvin Dresher and Merrill Flood. But it was only later that another mathematician gave it the catchy name that made it famous: the Prisoner’s Dilemma. [newyorker]
Facebook Reveals It Gave 61 Companies Access To Widely Blocked User Data – Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information. [guardian]
Facebook Is Buying UK’s Bloomsbury AI To Ramp Up Natural Language Tech In London – Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot of the U.K.’s best talent in artificial intelligence, but now Facebook appears to be turning its eye to the country. [tc]
Archbishop Philip Wilson Sentenced For Concealing Child Sex Abuse – A Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. [bbc]
Kelly Slater Confirms He Will Retire From World Surf League Pro Tour In 2019 – Just hours after Australian Joel Parkinson announced his retirement, Kelly Slater has confirmed he won’t pursue a historic Olympic gold and plans to call time on his career in 2019. [newsau]
It Would Take The Richest South African 13 Minutes To Earn Your Annual Salary – People slog hard at the daily grind to get their well-earned paychecks. For these South African billionaires, it’s all in an hour’s work. [here]
Max Verstappen Dreams Of Title Glory After Red Bull’s Home Win – Austrian GP victor up to fifth in standings and has top scored across last three races; Horner praises Max’s “unbelievable” and “cute” performance. [sky]
New iPhones For 2018 May Come With This 18W USB-C Charger – Apple is expected to finally replace the old 5W charger. [tr]
Here’s What Elon Musk Wrote To Tesla Employees After Hitting Model 3 Goal – This is a reformatted version of an email sent that Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sent Sunday to employees after the automaker achieved a goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 electric cars in the final week of the quarter. [bloom]
UK’s Most Wanted Fraud Suspect Mark Acklom In Swiss Arrest – The 45-year-old, who had been on the run since 2012, tried to jump from a balcony before being wrestled to the ground. [sky]
Japan’s Princess Ayako Discards Royal Status With Shock Engagement To Shipping Worker – Japan’s Princess Ayako has discarded her royal status to marry a shipping worker who stole her heart after proposing to her in a restaurant. [express]
With His Move To Los Angeles, LeBron James Is Poised To Be The Next Big Hollywood Mogul – LeBron James sent shockwaves through the National Basketball Association July 1 when he revealed he was joining the Los Angeles Lakers. But for those who have closely followed the NBA superstar’s career trajectory, the move to Hollywood seemed inevitable. [qz]
When You Try Way Too Hard To Sound Knowledgeable About Wine – We all have that one friend who loves to show off their extensive wine knowledge, but watching someone flounder is far more enjoyable. [here]
Dell Will Soon Be A Public Company (Again) – Dell, which went private in one of the the largest leveraged buyouts in tech circa 2013, announced today that it will once again be going public through a relatively complex mechanism that will once again bring the company back onto the public markets with founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners largely in control. [tc]
Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump To Herpes: ‘You Always Show Up When We’re About To Get F*cked’ – In a segment about ‘civility,’ the comedian also referred to the president’s eldest daughter as ‘the prettiest tumor in a swiftly moving cancer.’ [beast]
10 Of The World’s Most Expensive Superyachts And Their Owners – Billionaires and industry magnates are known to splash their cash on huge, lavish superyachts — as status symbols, to entertain fellow moguls and to cruise the world in privacy. Here are 10 of today’s world’s most expensive superyachts and the identity of their uber-rich owners. [cnn]
Instagram Will Tell You When You’re ‘Caught Up’ So You Know When To Stop Scrolling – So much so that the company is now rolling out a feature to let you know when “you’re all caught up” on new posts from the last two days. [mash]
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