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What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalization,” “kind of a boring place”—he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck…Read more...
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Logitech’s New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Logitech's New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Last fall, Logitech released its flagship MX Master 3 mouse, which featured a super smooth scroll wheel that immediately put everything else on the market to shame. And now with the new MX Anywhere 3, Logitech is about to do the same in a smaller and more portable package.Read more...
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Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
Twitter's Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has been…Read more...
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Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
If you know Janina Gavankar, chances are, it’s from her turn on True Blood or as the protagonist in the singleplayer campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, where she played the (fantastic) Iden Versio. Now the actress and writer is getting to work on a rad monster movie based on Hindu mythology. Read more...
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The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren’t So Tragic
The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren't So Tragic
The United States is ceding its position as a world technological power. For decades, the world’s brightest landed here to build. They chose the U.S. for a few simple reasons, among them access to world-class equipment and education, the ability to take high-paying tech jobs, and a business climate that rewarded the…Read more...
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Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Yesterday was the day commonly celebrated by nerds everywhere (yes, that includes us) as Batman Day. If you didn’t spend any time brooding over the Dark Knight yesterday, today we’ve got just the thing. Read more...
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Amazon’s Fall Hardware Debut Is Set for Sept. 24
Amazon's Fall Hardware Debut Is Set for Sept. 24
September has been chock-full of tech launches and announcements so far (mostly virtual, naturally, since these are still covid times, after all). But the month’s not over yet: Amazon has revealed that it’s debuting its fall product line on Thursday, Sept. 24.Read more...
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Archer Returns to Ruining Spy Missions in This New Episode Promo
Archer Returns to Ruining Spy Missions in This New Episode Promo
I’m glad Archer is back. Like, real Archer, without weird fantasy coma worlds or film noir or whatever. Just spy hijinks, dysfunctional characters, and the slow, painful possibility of growth. Read more...
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Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain
Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain
Giancarlo Esposito is a well respected actor. He played Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. He filled up the screen as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian. But that pales in comparison to the challenge before him now: playing a cartoon villain on DuckTales. Read more...
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Up Your Zoom Game With This Highly-Rated 2K Rotating Webcam For Only $20 With Promo Code
Up Your Zoom Game With This Highly-Rated 2K Rotating Webcam For Only $20 With Promo Code
DYY 1440P HD Webcam | $20 | Amazon | Promo Code 50WDW2CVRead more...
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There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s ‘Blessing,’ Delaying Ban
There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s 'Blessing,' Delaying Ban
Talk about TikTok whiplash, although that’s normal thing these days. Hours before a new ban was supposed to be put in place to block new downloads and updates of the popular video-sharing app, President Donald Trump has come out to say there is a deal, and it has his “blessing.”Read more...
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First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital
First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital
It sounds like something out of a tragic Black Mirror episode: A woman seeking urgent care died this week after an apparently bungled ransomware attack took down a major hospital in Germany, thus forcing paramedics to rush her to another city for treatment, according to several outlets.Read more...
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win an Emmy for Watchmen, Coming One Step Closer to the Broodiest EGOT Ever
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win an Emmy for Watchmen, Coming One Step Closer to the Broodiest EGOT Ever
The most prestigious award combination in entertainment, the EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony—is an incredible accomplishment for any musician/actor/creator. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are a little closer. Read more...
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TikTok Files Complaint Against Trump Administration to Prevent Impending Ban
TikTok Files Complaint Against Trump Administration to Prevent Impending Ban
Although the clock is ticking, pardon the pun, TikTok is not going down without a fight.Read more...
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The Ms. Marvel Series for Disney Plus Has a Directing Team, Including Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The Ms. Marvel Series for Disney Plus Has a Directing Team, Including Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Kamala Khan’s TV debut is in the works, and Disney has assembled a marvelous (ahem) directorial team. Read more...
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How to Buy Everything Apple Announced This Week: Apple Watch Series 6, SE, iPad Air 4, and More
How to Buy Everything Apple Announced This Week: Apple Watch Series 6, SE, iPad Air 4, and More
Apple’s September event concluded earlier today, where they announced updates to the iPad Air and standard iPad, alongside the Apple Watch Series 6, the Apple Watch SE, and the ‘Apple One’ streaming bundle. Here’s the lowdown on what was announced, and where you can purchase the devices.Read more...
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Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year
Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year
Earlier this week, PS5 pre-orders started up at various retailers around the world at different times and with little warning. This created a giant mess and now Sony has officially apologized for the clusterfuck.Read more...
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David Harbour Says Hopper Is Going Through a Major Transformation in Stranger Things Season 4
David Harbour Says Hopper Is Going Through a Major Transformation in Stranger Things Season 4
Think of it less
like a return than a resurrection. Read more...
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Saturday’s Best Deals: Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier, Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro Headphones, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, USDA Certified Organic CBD Oil, IT Brush Bath, and More
Saturday's Best Deals: Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier, Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro Headphones, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, USDA Certified Organic CBD Oil, IT Brush Bath, and More
A Dyson HP01 Pure Hot + Cool desk purifier, sets of Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro headphones, a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, a Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner, a 2-pack of hand sanitizer bottles, some organic USDA certified CBD oil, and IT Brush Bath purifying makeup brush cleaner lead…Read more...
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Lego’s New Batman 1989 Batwing Is a Work of Art You Can Actually Hang on Your Wall
Lego's New Batman 1989 Batwing Is a Work of Art You Can Actually Hang on Your Wall
Almost a year after it was first revealed, the Lego 1989 Tim Burton Batmobile remains my favorite Lego set of all time. The model is gigantic, packed with fun details, and a beautiful recreation of an iconic vehicle. So I’m glad to see that Lego has given another one of Batman’s wonderful toys the brick treatment with…Read more...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 Is Proof That You Should Skip First-Gen Tech
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 Is Proof That You Should Skip First-Gen Tech
The original Galaxy Fold was the most important phone of 2019. It showed how flexible display tech could create a totally new type of device with the portability of a phone and the big screen and improved multitasking experience of a tablet. However, like a lot of first-gen products—especially something that…Read more...
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John James Audubon Was Never Good
John James Audubon Was Never Good
The most famous name in American ornithology is that of a slave owner, grave robber, and fraud who invented birds and falsified scientific results. Birders and ornithologists are grappling with John James Audubon’s legacy today, but problematic behavior doesn’t stop at a single 19th-century naturalist. Some in the…Read more...
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Amazon: Hope You Weren’t Expecting Your Pre-Ordered PS5 to Ship on Time
Amazon: Hope You Weren't Expecting Your Pre-Ordered PS5 to Ship on Time
With retailers royally jumping the gun on PlayStation 5 pre-orders, count yourself lucky if you managed to snag one before they sold out everywhere. Unless you got yours on Amazon. In which case, you might still be screwed.Read more...
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In Ironic Twist, Founder of Cyber Fraud Prevention Startup Gets Arrested on Fraud Charges
In Ironic Twist, Founder of Cyber Fraud Prevention Startup Gets Arrested on Fraud Charges
That headline sounds like the set-up to a joke, I know, but 2020 has proven time and time again that you can’t make this shit up anymore. Read more...
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In continuing with this impossibly horrific year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality and women’s rights, has died due to complications from cancer, NPR reports. She was 87 years old. Read more...
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Through the Ghosts of Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader Finds a Semblance of Peace
Through the Ghosts of Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader Finds a Semblance of Peace
The third run of Darth Vader at Marvel Comics has done a grand job building on its predecessor’s examinations of the titular Dark Lord. It’s looked at him both as the fascinating figure of power we’ve admired across Star Wars’ long history, but also as the equally intriguing bridge between Star Wars’ original and…Read more...
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This $300 AI-Powered Toothbrush Left Me With That Post-Dentist, Just-Got-Robbed Kind of Feeling
This $300 AI-Powered Toothbrush Left Me With That Post-Dentist, Just-Got-Robbed Kind of Feeling
When I purchased my first electric toothbrush about a year and a half ago, a Quip, it felt like an outrageous indulgence. Fifty-five dollars seemed far too steep for something so silly, but I wanted to make a long-term investment in healthy teeth, and I was able to justify the expense—at least at the time—because the…Read more...
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Hurricane Season Breaks Records, Map
Hurricane Season Breaks Records, Map
Take a quick glance at the map above and you may think there are only two named storms and a tropical depression in the Atlantic. But look closer, my friends.Read more...
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Step on a Eufy Smart Scale C1 for $25
Step on a Eufy Smart Scale C1 for $25
Eufy Smart Scale C1 | $25 | AmazonRead more...
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