Put A Chip And Pin In It

Paying With A Credit Card Is Harder Than It Needs To Be And Other Facts

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Paying With A Credit Card Is Harder Than It Needs To Be And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: chip cards are a pain in the butt, we're all burnt out and the physics of catcher's knees. WHAT'S HAPPENING Watch Hillary Clinton's Historic Acceptance Speech At The DNC Father Of Fallen Muslim Soldier Rebukes Trump At DNC: 'You Have Sacrificed Nothing' Tesla Employees Say They Were Nervous About Autopilot Before Deadly Crash Uber Has Yet To Reduce Drunk Driving Deaths, Study Says ENERGY WE DIGG This Company Just Gave Everyone Access To Clean Energy, For Free arcadiapower.com Arcadia Power lets you access clean energy for your home or apartment in all 50 states. It only takes three minutes to set up and is completely free. For those interested in supporting renewable energy, this is a no-brainer. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? WHEN DO WE FREAK OUT? What That Election Probability Means flowingdata.com As of this writing, the Upshot estimates a 68% probability for Clinton and 32% for Donald Trump. FiveThirtyEight estimates 52% and 48% for Clinton and Trump. What do those numbers mean, really? BRB, INVESTING IN BUG SPRAY STOCK Sorry, Mosquito Season Is Getting Longer — Here's How Much More Suffering That Means For You digg.com No matter how much you love summer, there's no getting around the fact that mosquitoes are the worst. Unfortunately, they're hanging around longer and longer these days in the US — this interactive tells you how mosquito season has changed where you live. IT'S SPORTS TIME HATERS GONNA SAY IT'S EDITED The Best Fictional Basketball Shots Ever theringer.com From "Space Jam" to "Prometheus," rating the greatest movie and TV buckets. PLANNING FOR GOLD Meet Team USA si.com From swimming and archery to cycling and wheelchair basketball, athletes explain in their own words what it's like to represent their country at the 2016 Rio Olympics. GAME CHANGER WATCH: Nzingha Prescod Might Just Be The First African-American Woman To Medal In The Olympics For Fencing digg.com Meet Nzhingha Prescod, the currently ranked #2 women's foil fencer in the US. She could make history in Rio at the 2016 Summer Olympics. THE WEIRD WIDE WEB MOM IS VAC The Mom Who Moderates Her Daughter's Rowdy Twitch Chat kotaku.com Anisa Jomha was a so-called "boobie streamer" until last March. Her sizable Twitch following includes ardent fans, horny dudes, toxic trolls, and an unusual chat moderator: her mother. YOUR ONLY CHANCE AT CATCHING 'EM ALL The Guys Who Cracked 'Pokémon Go' Wide Open gizmodo.com Dronpes and Moots7 are both tall, stubbly white guys in their late 20s — the right age to have fond memories of the first generation Pokémon games. Six months ago they embarked on creating The Silph Road, a project that has become the "Pokémon Go" player's bible. BEFORE YOU GO 'THIS IS NOT GOING THE WAY I WANTED IT TO' Poor Old Man Makes The Terrible Decision To Combine Two Jars Of Contact Cement digg.com Mr. Magoo, is that you? You're almost to the weekend — just don't get stuck in the office. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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