Facebook Swears It Won't Fuck Up the Election This Time Around
There’s been a ton of pressure on Facebook to prevent the sorts of, uh, political shenanigans that ran rampant across its platform in the run-up to the 2016 election. The company’s latest tool in this fight is its long-awaited voter information center that’s set to roll out nationwide by the end of today. The online…Read more...
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Report: Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast
Facebook has boldly face-planted right into one of the few remaining types of fuckups it hasn’t before: quietly abandoning a pile of drilling equipment under the ocean.Read more...
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Covid-19 Testing Center Opens on Disney World Property [Updated]
The Most Magical Place on Earth might be open during a global pandemic, but at least its cast members now have a place nearby to see if it’s impacted them. Walt Disney World finally has a covid-19 testing center that can serve park employees and their families, following repeated demands from one of the park’s unions. Read more...
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AMC Will Reopen With 15 Cent Movies, But You'll Still Have to Pony Up for New Mutants
AMC will reopen more than 100 of its theaters next week, and to lure otherwise wary moviegoers to its cinemas, it’s offering promotional ticket pricing of just 15 cents. You’ll still have to cough up for new releases, though.Read more...
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This Week’s Derecho Screwed Iowa’s Farmers
Earlier this week, the Midwest got absolutely pummeled by a powerful derecho. But the impacts were most severe in Iowa where winds cranked to 112 mph and torrential rain fell. Now, it’s becoming clear it was a disaster for farmers’ corn and soy fields that were flattened by the destructive storm.Read more...
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Many 'Flu' Cases in Seattle This Winter Were Actually Covid-19, Study Finds
The start of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. may have been earlier and far larger than official records indicate, according to a new study. Researchers found that a substantial portion of people, including children, in Seattle who were suspected of having the flu this past winter likely had covid-19 instead. It also…Read more...
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Being John Malkovich Is Better Now Than It Was in 1999
Being John Malkovich—the brainchild of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze—is still one of the great modern American films. However, what it meant to me at the time of release is not what it means to me now. And looking at it in a macro sense, it represents a lot more than just a perfect collaboration.Read more...
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Padmé Is Darth Vader's Most Fascinating Phantom Menace
The last issue of Marvel’s Darth Vader gave us, arguably, the moment Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader—if not physically, spiritually. The Dark Lord gave into the lie the world told him and accepted that this new, villainous being killed the heroic knight of the Old Republic. But if Darth Vader is willing to let his…Read more...
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The Last of Us Head Wants to 'Decouple' the HBO Show From the Game Experience
There have been many attempts to turn video games into successful movies and TV shows, like Assassin’s Creed, Tomb Raider, and Super Mario Bros. Sony is still trying to make Uncharted happen. For the most part they’ve all fallen short. Craig Mazin, who’s working on HBO’s The Last of Us, shared his thoughts on the…Read more...
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FBI, USAF Investigating if Military Helicopter Shot at in Virginia Was Targeted or Hit by Random Gunfire
Someone opened fire on a U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter while it was flying in Virginia around noon on Monday, injuring one of the two pilots on board, an Air Force official told CNN on Wednesday.Read more...
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Facebook Will Now Tell You Where That Viral Covid-19 Story Came From
Back in June, Facebook rolled out a new feature that tells its mobile app users if an article they are about to share is more than three months old. While users aren’t prevented from sharing an older article, Facebook said at the time it was an attempt to get people to stop and think about what they were about to…Read more...
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National Review, Daily Caller Help Publicize Lies About Former Kamala Harris Staffer
According to leading conservative columnists, Twitter has hired Nick Pacilio, a former staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris, to decide which of President Trump’s tweets deserve to be fact-checked and which should be labeled for the public as “potentially misleading.” That’s news to Pacilio. Read more...
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Trump Kisses QAnon Right on Its Big Wet Mouth
Donald Trump went there on Wednesday morning and endorsed a crank conspiracy theorist who recently won the GOP primaries for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, calling her a “future Republican Star” and a “a real WINNER!”Read more...
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What the Fuck Is My Wifi Password?
I don’t really know how it happened, or why a thing with no moving parts suddenly fails catastrophically, but my modem shit the bed. Read more...
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This Is the Best Budget CPU
There was a time when compromising on hardware for your DIY PC build meant seriously compromising on performance. But with AMD able to shrink down its transistor size to 7nm on its Zen 2 architecture, and Intel able to squeeze more and more out of its 14nm process for several generations, even the most budget of…Read more...
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Fallout 76 Doesn't Totally Suck Anymore, Try it With All the DLC For $10
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Sweet-Smelling Locust Pheromone Could Be Key to Stopping Their Swarms
Scientists have identified the pheromone responsible for turning individual locusts into the swarming variety. They also found a way to “turn off” locusts’ ability to respond to this pheromone, in a breakthrough that could lead to new control strategies for preventing the spread of these voracious and extremely…Read more...
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Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Creators Just Left the Live-Action Netflix Adaptation
Leaves from the vine. Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have announced they will no longer be involved in the live-action adaptation due to a lack of support from Netflix. The series could still happen, but both creators said it would not represent the show they wanted…Read more...
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NJ Court Says the Fifth Amendment Doesn't Protect Your Phone From the Police
In a tale of an allegedly crooked sheriff caught abusing his power, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a suspect to unlock their iPhones doesn’t run afoul of the Fifth Amendment. Read more...
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Florida Sheriff Bans Masks As State's Covid-19 Death Toll Breaks New Daily Record
Billy Woods, the sheriff of central Florida’s Marion County, banned masks for all deputies and visitors to the sheriff’s office starting Tuesday, according to a new report from the Ocala Star Banner—a strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic that’s still wildly out of control.Read more...
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Disney Now Sells a Line of Wheelchair Covers and Adaptive Costumes for Kids
For years, makers, charities, and non-profits like Magic Wheelchair have been making holidays, conventions, and Halloween more inclusive by creating elaborate rolling costumes for fans who use wheelchairs. Disney is now following suit with kits that make it even easier to turn wheelchairs into fantasy rides, with…Read more...
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Watch the Agents of SHIELD Cast and Crew Say Goodbye Ahead of Tomorrow's Finale
September 2013. Comic book fans were still reeling over the fact that Marvel had done the impossible, linking multiple movies into an event film like no other, The Avengers, and starting a whole new story with Iron Man 3. Plus, it seemed like it was going to continue on TV with a new show called Agents of SHIELD.Read more...
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Report: TikTok Collected Persistent IDs From Android Phones in Apparent Violation of Google Policy
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that Donald Trump’s administration is incoherently threatening to ban from the U.S. and may be gearing up for a court fight in response, quietly collected persistent identifiers from Android devices for 15 months, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.Read more...
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Facebook Says Covid-19 Shutdowns Hurt Its Ability to Fight Suicide, Self-Injury, Child Exploitation Content
Facebook said Tuesday it can’t moderate its own site or its subsidiary Instagram as effectively as possible for certain categories of rule violations during the novel coronavirus pandemic, while almost nobody got the chance to appeal its moderators’ decisions in the second quarter of 2020.Read more...
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