Pixacao is native to Brazil and similar in method to tagging. It's characterised by distinctive large letters painted in a cryptic style
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From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack A Florida Teens Troubled Online Path
The teenage mastermind of the recent Twitter breach, who had a difficult family life, poured his energy into video games and cryptocurrency. Read more...
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Dies After Cabinet Meeting
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In recent years a huge enthusiasm has sprung up for them. The Tate exhibition Pre-Raphaelites Victorian Avant-Garde, featuring some of their most striking and impressive paintings, is a certain crowd-puller. Read more...
A New Sticker Aims to Signal Safe Dining in the Pandemic
For a fee, the nonprofit Safe Eats will help restaurants with health guidelines and reassure customers. But so far, theres no guarantee that members will follow the rules. Read more...
Robert Battle Keeps Going With Sarah Vaughan and Homegrown Tomatoes
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Amazon's bestselling smart speaker 3rd Gen Echo Dot under 30
Amazon's bestselling and most popular smart speaker, the 3rd Gen Echo Dot with Alexa voice control is currently enjoying a 40 per cent discount. Read more...
Sydney Woman plunges to her death from the Queen Victoria Building
Emergency services were called to the Queen Victoria Building at 2.30pm on Wednesday following reports someone had fallen from the upper levels. Read more...
Lookalike mother and daughter Dawn Hubsher (60) and Cher Hubsher (30) stun
Authors, Dawn Hubsher, 60, and Cher Hubsher, 30, from Florida and New York respectively, may look like twin sisters, however the two are in fact mother and daughter. Read more...
Salman Rushdie warns that Left-wing 'cancel culture' is a threat to literature and freedom of speech
Responding to the idea that authors should write only 'what they know' or risk being 'cancelled', the Booker Prize winner said he could not accept that 'there are areas in which censorship is acceptable'. Read more...
Why Students Lie, and Why We Fall for It
All kids lie, the writer Maria Konnikova says. Its a part of growing up, testing limits and adjusting to social expectations and norms. Read more...
What we know about the Beirut blast
A massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday left 100 dead and thousands injured. Here's what we know so far. Read more...
What if the Meat We Ate Was Human?
Agustina Bazterricas dystopian second novel, Tender Is the Flesh, uses cannibalism to highlight the inhumanity of factory farming. Read more...
A Brief History of Karen
In 1965, it was the third-most-popular baby name in the United States. In 2018, it was the 635th and today its even less popular. How did Karens fall so far? Read more...
Kiwi mum and son are killed in horror landslides and flash flooding in South Korea
A New Zealand mother has died alongside her daughter and grandchild in a mudslide caused by South Korea's longest monsoon in seven years. Read more...