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Make Your Loved One Swoon With NOAA’s Adorable Satellite-Themed Valentines

Make Your Loved One Swoon With NOAA’s Adorable Satellite-Themed Valentines

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Make Your Loved One Swoon With NOAA's Adorable Satellite-Themed Valentines Ever since I was a little girl, one of my favorite things about Valentine’s Day has been the cards. I would love to decorate my little shoebox every year and check out all the Valentines I would get from my classmates. The best ones were, of course, the ones that were not like the others. Thumbs up if they were both…Read more... Go to Source
Maryland Becomes First State in Country to Place a Tax on Big Tech’s Digital Advertising Revenue

Maryland Becomes First State in Country to Place a Tax on Big Tech’s Digital Advertising Revenue

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Maryland Becomes First State in Country to Place a Tax on Big Tech’s Digital Advertising Revenue Maryland decided to take a chunk of Big Tech’s advertising dollars on Friday, successfully passing legislation that would place a maximum tax of 10% on revenue from digital ads. Analysts estimate that the tax will generate about $250 million in its first year, money that the Maryland says will go to schools. Read more... Go to Source
Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Are Mr. and Mrs. Smith in a New Series for Amazon

Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Are Mr. and Mrs. Smith in a New Series for Amazon

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Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Are Mr. and Mrs. Smith in a New Series for Amazon In a move straight out of our fanfic dreams, Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Childish Gambino himself Donald Glover will executive produce and star in a new series based on the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs Smith for Amazon Prime. Read more... Go to Source
Bitcoin Burning a Hole in Your Pocket? Now You Can Spend It Using Apple Pay

Bitcoin Burning a Hole in Your Pocket? Now You Can Spend It Using Apple Pay

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Bitcoin Burning a Hole in Your Pocket? Now You Can Spend It Using Apple Pay In case you haven’t noticed, Bitcoin’s having a bit of a moment. The cryptocurrency’s value reached record heights in recent weeks, you’ll soon be able to buy a Tesla with it, and, as of Friday, you can now spend Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) via Apple Pay.Read more... Go to Source
Facebook’s Reportedly Working on a Smartwatch so It Can Hoover Up Your Health Data Too

Facebook’s Reportedly Working on a Smartwatch so It Can Hoover Up Your Health Data Too

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Facebook's Reportedly Working on a Smartwatch so It Can Hoover Up Your Health Data Too Apparently unsatiated by hoovering up users’ personal data on its platforms, Facebook’s hoping to get its mitts on their health data as well. The company’s reportedly building a smartwatch as its next foray into hardware, and the device could debut as soon as next year, according to a Friday report from the InformationRead more... Go to Source
Starlink vs. 5G: Which Could Be the Better Home Internet Service?

Starlink vs. 5G: Which Could Be the Better Home Internet Service?

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Starlink vs. 5G: Which Could Be the Better Home Internet Service? Reports indicate that Americans are clearly interested in both SpaceX’s Starlink and 5G broadband as potential home internet services. But so far it’s unclear which option has more appeal compared to traditional cable broadband. Some reports show Americans are more interested in Starlink, while others indicate most…Read more... Go to Source
Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, New Report Says

Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, New Report Says

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Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba 'Sonic Weapon' Attacks, New Report Says A newly released report says Rex Tillerson’s State Department responded in a slow, disorganized fashion to the “Havana syndrome”—the mysterious rash of neural disorders that has plagued U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Cuba and other locations since 2016. Read more... Go to Source
Spotify’s Employees Can Now Work Wherever They’d Like—No Office Required

Spotify’s Employees Can Now Work Wherever They’d Like—No Office Required

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Spotify's Employees Can Now Work Wherever They'd Like—No Office Required As the global pandemic rages on, we’ve been seeing a slew of tech companies consider making remote work an option for their employees even after covid. Now Spotify is on board: On Friday, the company announced the rollout of its Work From Anywhere program, which will give the thousands of Spotify employees around the…Read more... Go to Source
Good Lord, It’s Only February

Good Lord, It’s Only February

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Good Lord, It's Only February It’s called bipartisanship: Both major political parties have some bad ideas for reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the foundational internet law that shields websites from lawsuits over user-generated content or their moderation decisions.Read more... Go to Source
32 Comfort Movies We Watch When We’re Stressed

32 Comfort Movies We Watch When We’re Stressed

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32 Comfort Movies We Watch When We're Stressed This year was supposed to be better than last year, but apparently 2021 didn’t get the memo. The world is still just as tumultuous, and we’re all still just as frazzled by nerves, overwhelmed by the news, and as desperate to find some kind of escape. For the past year, we’ve had little else to do but retreat into…Read more... Go to Source
Miami May Start Paying City Employees in Bitcoin

Miami May Start Paying City Employees in Bitcoin

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Miami May Start Paying City Employees in Bitcoin Miami’s mayor, Francis Suarez, is champing at the bit to rebrand his city as a haven for tech entrepreneurs and the tax dollars that come in their wake. His latest branding effort involves a push to make the city offer its municipal workers the option to get paid in bitcoin, and he’d love it if citizens could pay…Read more... Go to Source

Slow-Mo Footage of an Old Movie Camera Reveals Why Film Strips Had All Those Holes

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Slow-Mo Footage of an Old Movie Camera Reveals Why Film Strips Had All Those Holes The pandemic has limited The Slow Mo Guys’ ability to film grand experiments with their high-speed cameras. But while safely staying home, they’ve found other fascinating things to shoot, including an old 16-millimeter movie camera that when torn apart finally reveals why film is punched full of holes.Read more... Go to Source
Send Your Love Across the Multiverse With io9’s Adorably Nerdy Valentines

Send Your Love Across the Multiverse With io9’s Adorably Nerdy Valentines

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Send Your Love Across the Multiverse With io9's Adorably Nerdy Valentines Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, and it wouldn’t be the year’s sweetest holiday without heart-shaped junk food, a viewing of My Bloody Valentine (1981 original only), and a big virtual pile of geeky io9 Valentines. This year’s batch comes to us from artist Elena Scotti, so scroll through and feel the love.Read more... Go to Source
Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar’s Military Government Following Coup

Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar’s Military Government Following Coup

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Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar's Military Government Following Coup Facebook has pledged to restrict the widespread distribution of content from Myanmar’s military regime following a successful coup that toppled the democratically elected government on Feb. 1. The pledge comes from a new blog post at Facebook’s website that seems to implicitly acknowledge the potential for…Read more... Go to Source
Microsoft Wants U.S. to Adopt Internet Rules From Australia That Google Hates

Microsoft Wants U.S. to Adopt Internet Rules From Australia That Google Hates

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Microsoft Wants U.S. to Adopt Internet Rules From Australia That Google Hates Microsoft would like the U.S. government to adopt media rules that would force big tech companies to share profits with newspapers when they link to news content, according to a new blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith. And the entire concept is controversial, to say the least.Read more... Go to Source
The Accellion Data Breach Seems to Be Getting Bigger

The Accellion Data Breach Seems to Be Getting Bigger

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The Accellion Data Breach Seems to Be Getting Bigger Data breaches have a tendency to grow past initially reported figures. Organizations don’t always know how screwed they are right away, investigations take time, and new victims are discovered amidst the wreckage. This is certainly proving to be the case with Accellion, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based cloud provider that…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State

Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State

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Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State Starting next week, you should start seeing new labels on more government-run Twitter accounts as well as the personal accounts of heads of state. It’s part of Twitter’s latest expansion of its policy on government-affiliated accounts, with the idea being that this additional context should help users “have a more…Read more... Go to Source
Apple’s Keeping Google’s Prying Eyes Out Of iOS 14

Apple’s Keeping Google’s Prying Eyes Out Of iOS 14

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Apple's Keeping Google's Prying Eyes Out Of iOS 14 If you regularly use Apple’s Safari browser, you’re probably familiar with its “Fraudulent Website Warning,” which gives you a heads up if the site you’re about to visit might be, say, an elaborate phishing scam. What you probably didn’t know is that until now, this safety feature relied on an obscure Google database…Read more... Go to Source
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