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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Unboxing: It’s Growing on Me!
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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
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...
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Nintendo Has a Cloud Problem
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...
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EU Warns Google Buying Fitbit Presents a Major Privacy Risk
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...
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Thursday’s Best Deals: Dryer Balls, Logitech Gaming Headset, Bird Electric Scooter, and More
Thursday's Best Deals: Dryer Balls, Logitech Gaming Headset, Bird Electric Scooter, and More
A six-pack of dryer balls, a $25 Logitech gaming headset, and a refurbed Bird electric scooter lead off Thursday’s premiere deals of the day.Read more...
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Twitter Update Makes It Easier to Continue One of Your Awful Threads
Twitter Update Makes It Easier to Continue One of Your Awful Threads
A new Twitter update makes it easier for users to follow up their dumb, old tweets via a “Continue thread” menu, allowing users to continue a thread without actually having to navigate to the tweet in question.Read more...
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Delete Those Scooter Apps and Just Buy an Electric Scooter For $290
Delete Those Scooter Apps and Just Buy an Electric Scooter For $290
Refurb Bird ES1-300 Electric Scooter | $290 | Amazon Read more...
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Independence Day 3? Roland Emmerich Has Had Serious Thoughts About Making It
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...
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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
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...
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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'
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...
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The Next Planet of the Apes Movie Will Continue ‘Caesar’s Legacy’
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...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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This App Tells You When Nearby Smart Devices Are Snooping on You
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...
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20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail
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...
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Alamo Drafthouse Just Launched a Subscription Service and Please, Take My Money
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...
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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
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...
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German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard
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...
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Europe Made A Name On Wrangling Big Tech. Now, It Wants To Profit From It
Europe Made A Name On Wrangling Big Tech. Now, It Wants To Profit From It
While the European Commission might be better known as a force that cracks down on some of the egregious practices of stateside companies, today the folks across the pond laid out an ambitious plan to bolster their own tech prowess—ethically.Read more...
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Mulan Will Be Disney’s First PG-13 Live-Action Remake
Mulan Will Be Disney's First PG-13 Live-Action Remake
She’s as swift as the coursing river, with all the force (and violence) of a great typhoon. Disney’s Mulan has become the first live-action remake to receive a PG-13 rating, making it the latest film in Disney’s rarest collection.Read more...
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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
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...
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Wednesday’s Best Deals: Marshall Speakers, Anker Gold Box, Asus Vivobook 15, Nivea Body Wash, and More
Wednesday's Best Deals: Marshall Speakers, Anker Gold Box, Asus Vivobook 15, Nivea Body Wash, and More
A Marshall Speaker, a pair of Tactronics Earbuds, an Anker Gold Box, a G2 Keychain, Asus Vivobook 15, and a Crocs sale are some of Wednesday’s deals of the day.Read more...
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Put a Fork in It: Blue Apron Could Be Cooking Up a Sale Amid Dire Quarterly Results
Put a Fork in It: Blue Apron Could Be Cooking Up a Sale Amid Dire Quarterly Results
Meal kit delivery service Blue Apron is “evaluating a broad range of strategic options”—phrasing that usually indicates a company is instead running out of said options—after posting dismal Q4 2019 results on Tuesday that came in below investor estimates, CNN Business reported.Read more...
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The Return of The Walking Dead Looks More Like an Ending
The Return of The Walking Dead Looks More Like an Ending
When last we left some of the biggest characters on The Walking Dead, they were pretty much screwed. It appears not much will have changed when the second half of season 10 picks up this weekend. In fact, things are only getting worse.Read more...
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Global Death Toll from COVID-19 Surpasses 2,000, Though China Maintains Outbreak Slowing Down
Global Death Toll from COVID-19 Surpasses 2,000, Though China Maintains Outbreak Slowing Down
More than 2,000 people have died from the ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing the latest figures including an updated tally from China’s National Health Comission.Read more...
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