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Cameo’s Private Celeb Shout-out Videos Weren’t So Private After All

Cameo’s Private Celeb Shout-out Videos Weren’t So Private After All

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Cameo's Private Celeb Shout-out Videos Weren't So Private After All Cameo is a delightful app. You can pay D-list celebrities—the tier of folks you’d watch on The Masked Singer or some other ridiculous reality show—to record personalized videos for you and your friends. Prices per video depend on each celeb’s rates, but paying a Real Housewife to send a surprise birthday greeting to a…Read more... Go to Source
The Minimalist’s Guide to Skincare for Men

The Minimalist’s Guide to Skincare for Men

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The Minimalist's Guide to Skincare for Men As a woman in her thirties, I add steps to my skincare routine the way celebrities get face tattoos—with little consideration before committing to them forever. Oh, this glycolic resurfacing serum infused with protein-rich African meerkat droppings will help those fine lines settling in around my eyes, you say?…Read more... Go to Source
This 143-Slide Instruction Manual for the Nevada Democratic Caucus Makes It Real Simple

This 143-Slide Instruction Manual for the Nevada Democratic Caucus Makes It Real Simple

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This 143-Slide Instruction Manual for the Nevada Democratic Caucus Makes It Real Simple Following the Iowa caucus app mishap which fried the votes on computer and left us all confused about the official results, the Nevada State Democratic Party has planned for all eventualities and unleashed a 143-slide instruction manual for caucus volunteers. The party has ditched the Shadow app that spectacularly…Read more... Go to Source
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Unboxing: It’s Growing on Me!

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Unboxing: It’s Growing on Me!

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http://youtu.be/dPaHNTnN0eE Unboxing and switching to perhaps the most interesting phone in the world... Galaxy Z Flip leather case: https://geni.us/6PXHM MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Video Gear I use: http://kit.co/MKBHD/video-gear#recom... Tech I'm using right now: https://www.amazon.com/shop/MKBHD Intro Track: Jordyn Edmonds Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD
Swiss Court Finds That Clicking ‘Like’ to Spread Hateful or Defamatory Content May Be a Crime

Swiss Court Finds That Clicking ‘Like’ to Spread Hateful or Defamatory Content May Be a Crime

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Swiss Court Finds That Clicking 'Like' to Spread Hateful or Defamatory Content May Be a Crime Mashing the Facebook share or like buttons on defamatory content as well as anti-Semitic propaganda or other far-right drivel could amount to a crime in Switzerland as a result of a ruling in Swiss Federal Court this week.Read more... Go to Source
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Nintendo Has a Cloud Problem

Nintendo Has a Cloud Problem

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Nintendo Has a Cloud Problem Nintendo showed off its latest first-party title, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this morning, and the reception was mostly good. However, gameindustry.biz noted that there’s at least one big problem with the yet-to-be-released game: You’re pretty screwed if you lose your save.Read more... Go to Source
EU Warns Google Buying Fitbit Presents a Major Privacy Risk

EU Warns Google Buying Fitbit Presents a Major Privacy Risk

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EU Warns Google Buying Fitbit Presents a Major Privacy Risk It wasn’t too long ago that Google announced it had plunked down $2.1 billion to acquire Fitbit. While the news was welcomed by some, many others raised the question of what would happen with all that health data Fitbit had collected. You can count the European Data Protection Board among the latter. At its 18th…Read more... Go to Source
Independence Day 3? Roland Emmerich Has Had Serious Thoughts About Making It

Independence Day 3? Roland Emmerich Has Had Serious Thoughts About Making It

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Independence Day 3? Roland Emmerich Has Had Serious Thoughts About Making It Jurassic World 3 adds another mysterious castmember. Beth Schwartz clarifies the current state of the Green Arrow and the Canaries spinoff. Doctor Who teases the beginning of the end. Plus, somehow there’s still more Brahms: The Boy II footage to show off, what’s to come on The Magicians, and a new look at the next …Read more... Go to Source
Apple Might Let You Change Your Default Apps, Other Giants Could Finally Get a Fair Shake

Apple Might Let You Change Your Default Apps, Other Giants Could Finally Get a Fair Shake

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Apple Might Let You Change Your Default Apps, Other Giants Could Finally Get a Fair Shake Potentially yielding some bitterly-contested ground, Apple is thinking about allowing its users to replace their default essential apps like Safari, Mail, and Apple Music with third-party apps, Bloomberg reports. [Muted golf clap.] This comes less than a year after the Supreme Court paved the way for app-related…Read more... Go to Source
Please, For the Love of All Things Holy, Stop Pretending Natural Gas Is a ‘Transition Fuel’

Please, For the Love of All Things Holy, Stop Pretending Natural Gas Is a ‘Transition Fuel’

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Please, For the Love of All Things Holy, Stop Pretending Natural Gas Is a 'Transition Fuel' Look, the story of Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate is the very public evisceration of former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. But hey, some other stuff happened, too! Even some climate stuff, including letting Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Bloomberg’s mutilated corpse perpetuate one of the biggest myths in climate…Read more... Go to Source
The Next Planet of the Apes Movie Will Continue ‘Caesar’s Legacy’

The Next Planet of the Apes Movie Will Continue ‘Caesar’s Legacy’

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The Next Planet of the Apes Movie Will Continue 'Caesar’s Legacy' We learned late last year that the Planet of the Apes franchise would not end with 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, something that had actually been rumored since shortly after that acclaimed film’s release. And now, we know that the new Apes film won’t be another reboot, but rather a continuation of the saga.Read more... Go to Source
The Jim Henson Company Is Making an ‘Office Meets Harry Potter’ Fantasy Comedy With Christoph Waltz

The Jim Henson Company Is Making an ‘Office Meets Harry Potter’ Fantasy Comedy With Christoph Waltz

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The Jim Henson Company Is Making an 'Office Meets Harry Potter' Fantasy Comedy With Christoph Waltz A rudderless young man begins to suspect something’s a little off about the London firm where he’s just landed an entry-level gig—and he’s not wrong. For instance: one of the middle managers is secretly a shape-shifting goblin. That’s the set-up for The Portable Door, a book series set to become a movie with some very…Read more... Go to Source
Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them

Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them

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Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them The nation’s largest financial data broker, Yodlee, holds extensive and supposedly anonymized banking and credit card transaction histories on millions of Americans. Internal documents obtained by Motherboard, however, appear to indicate that Yodlee clients could potentially de-anonymize those records by simply…Read more... Go to Source
Here’s What Dave Filoni Had to Say About Ahsoka Tano’s Voice in The Rise of Skywalker

Here’s What Dave Filoni Had to Say About Ahsoka Tano’s Voice in The Rise of Skywalker

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Here's What Dave Filoni Had to Say About Ahsoka Tano's Voice in The Rise of Skywalker Just because Rey heard Ahsoka Tano’s voice mixed in with a bunch of dead Jedi in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, it doesn’t necessarily mean she’s dead. That’s the implication the character’s co-creator Dave Filoni gave io9 when we spoke to him this week.Read more... Go to Source
Julian Assange Says Trump Offered Him a Pardon to Deny Russia Hacked Democrats in 2016

Julian Assange Says Trump Offered Him a Pardon to Deny Russia Hacked Democrats in 2016

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Julian Assange Says Trump Offered Him a Pardon to Deny Russia Hacked Democrats in 2016 Lawyers for beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claim that Donald Trump offered him a pardon if he’d claim the 2016 hacks of Democratic Party email systems had nothing to do with Russia, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
This App Tells You When Nearby Smart Devices Are Snooping on You

This App Tells You When Nearby Smart Devices Are Snooping on You

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This App Tells You When Nearby Smart Devices Are Snooping on You The devices we use every day are increasingly voice-controlled or internet-connected, even if they probably shouldn’t be. If you’re also one of those folks that’s morbidly curious about which of these devices are hiding behind bullshit privacy policies to collect reams of data on you, there’s now a handy app for that.Read more... Go to Source
20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail

20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail

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20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail Around 20 million Americans have tried to raise money through crowdfunding websites to pay off their or someone else’s medical bills, a new survey out Wednesday estimates. Meanwhile, one in five Americans has donated to these campaigns at least once, a third of the time to complete strangers.Read more... Go to Source
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Jalopnik The Bugatti Sedan Was Axed At The Last Minute For Being Too Ugly  |Jezebel The Spooky, Loosely Regulated World of Online Therapy  |The Root We Calculated How Much We Pay Trump to Play Golf. It Turns Out, He's America's 10th Highest Paid Athlete  |The A.V. Club The Price Is Right shuts down after murder of Drew Carey’s ex-fiancé Amie Harwick  |Read more... Go to Source
Alamo Drafthouse Just Launched a Subscription Service and Please, Take My Money

Alamo Drafthouse Just Launched a Subscription Service and Please, Take My Money

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Alamo Drafthouse Just Launched a Subscription Service and Please, Take My Money My committed film enthusiasts: I have some incredible news to share. The long-awaited Alamo Drafthouse subscription service for all-you-can watch movies has arrived—and if you’re a frequent moviegoer (and can restrain yourself from going nuts on pricey snacks), it could save you a good chunk of change.Read more... Go to Source
24 Hours With the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Has Me Convinced of a Folding Future

24 Hours With the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Has Me Convinced of a Folding Future

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24 Hours With the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Has Me Convinced of a Folding Future Samsung’s newest flagship, the $1,380 Galaxy Z Flip, might actually be the first foldable phone worth buying. The company gave me a Flip to use for 24 hours, which isn’t long enough to fully review the device, but I used the Flip as my main phone for a full day to see how it stands up to my daily life.Read more... Go to Source
German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard

German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard

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German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that the rock, the remnant of a daytime bolide that impacted Earth with an energy of 0.48 kilotons of TNT (around this much), is a carbonaceous chondrite—the kind of meteor that contains material from the…Read more... Go to Source
Searching for Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip of Light at a Time

Searching for Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip of Light at a Time

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Searching for Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip of Light at a Time For decades, scientists have struggled to define the stuff that comprises a quarter of the universe: dark matter. As experiments continue to turn up empty-handed, one team hopes to find dark matter by incorporating the laws that govern subatomic particles—quantum mechanics—with a nascent kind of technology called a…Read more... Go to Source