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Apr. 4, 2018
Everything You Need to Know About YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam
The YouTube shooter made videos promoting veganism, but had recently begun filming videos claiming YouTube was censoring her.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 4, 2018
Apple Decides It’s Serious About AI Now
The Cupertino company poached one of Google’s most prominent executives.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 3, 2018
The Walmart Yodeler Is Here to Improve Your Shopping Experience
Mason Ramsey can belt wherever, whenever.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 3, 2018
YouTube Shooter Wounds 4, Kills Self
YouTube employees reported hearing shots and seeing blood as they evacuated the building.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 3, 2018
What App Did Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Use For Their Breakup Announcement?
The couple announced that they are separating after nearly nine years via a note with a purple-and-yellow gradient background.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 3, 2018
Villanova Won, But Crying Piccolo Girl Did Not Stage a Comeback Last Night
A fun but, unfortunately, faked screenshot.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 3, 2018
Snapchat Will Finally Let Users Tag Friends in Stories
The platform is rolling out a mentions feature to all users in the coming weeks.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 2, 2018
Logan Paul Caught Goofing Around in Wooded Area Once Again
He’s back at it.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 2, 2018
Billionaire Catfight Corner: Cook vs. Zuck
Finally, a good old-fashioned feud.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 2, 2018
‘The Condom Challenge’ Is the Latest Warmed-Over Viral Moral Panic
The hysteria surrounding the condom challenge appears to be unfounded.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 2, 2018
Grindr Shared Users’ HIV Status With Third Parties
Services used by the app also obtained whether users were HIV positive.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 2, 2018
Facebook Says It Will Delete Videos Users Thought They’d Already Deleted
The company is claiming a “bug” was the cause of the issue.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 2, 2018
Genius Partners With YouTube to Be More Like Snapchat
The platform is experimenting with “Song Stories.”
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 2, 2018
Gamemaster Anthony, Crossover Fanfic Legend, Reviews
Ready Player One
The fourth wall has shattered …
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 30, 2018
This Is What Robots Think Nudes Are
AI porn is awful, but AI nude portraits are nice!
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Kari Sonde
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Mar. 30, 2018
Damn, Just a Good Thread About a Lunch Thief
This thread has everything: office treachery, denial, shrimp fried rice.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 30, 2018
YouTube Denies Inevitable Jake Paul Talk Show
The site is just testing the waters.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 30, 2018
Snapchat Is Turning Its Map Into an Interactive Egg Hunt
The game is only available this weekend.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 29, 2018
Apple Releases Animoji, Battery Fix With iOS 11.3
You’ll also get enhanced privacy controls.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 29, 2018
When Facebook ‘Disrupts’ Journalism, It Degrades Our Democracy
Journalists don’t cover Facebook harshly because it threatens their jobs — they do so because it threatens our republic (and, also, their jobs).
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Eric Levitz
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Mar. 29, 2018
Facebook Shuts Down Third-party Ad Partnerships
It’ll slightly inconvenience anyone trying to target you.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 28, 2018
Ever Record a Video on Facebook? Facebook Still Has It.
Facebook quietly saved videos users filmed on the platform but never actually posted.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 28, 2018
Far Cry 5
Is a Toothless Vision of Rural America
The latest game in the hit series has little to say except for cheap jokes.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 28, 2018
Atlanta Government Services Have Been Crippled by a Cyberattack for Days
The ransomware attack is asking for roughly $50,000 in bitcoin.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 28, 2018
Facebook Delays Device That Is Always Listening to You for Unclear Reasons
Bafflingly, Facebook has decided to delay the announcement of an always-on, always-listening smart speaker.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 27, 2018
Report: Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Testify Before Congress
The Facebook CEO has finally relented.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 27, 2018
Apple Announces New iPad, Education Push
Apple wants to get its tech into the classroom.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 27, 2018
Zuck Wants to Send Deputies to Lie Down in Front of Government-Testimony Bus
The CEO once again argues that he doesn’t know anything about his own company.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 27, 2018
Arizona Governor Suspends Uber From Further Autonomous Vehicle Testing
The announcement comes after a pedestrian was killed by a driverless car earlier in March.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 26, 2018
What Do Facebook Permissions Really Mean?
Not even Facebook seems to know.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 26, 2018
If You’re Mocking Teens for Protesting With Memes, You’re Missing the Point
Teen protesters armed with
SpongeBob SquarePants
–inspired signs know exactly what they are doing.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 26, 2018
Tumblr Is, Almost by Accident, Our Best Glimpse of How Russian Trolls Work
The site’s mechanisms inadvertently archived tons of Russian activity.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 26, 2018
Tinder Helped Me Say No
Tinder made it okay to be mad when people overstep my boundaries.
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Kari Sonde
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Mar. 26, 2018
Chrissy Teigen Lists All the Reasons She’s Done With Snapchat
Teigen, like you, really doesn’t like the app’s redesign.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 23, 2018
How to Download the Giant File of Everything Facebook Knows About You
All your data in one place.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 23, 2018
How Did I End Up Rubbing Elbows With Russian Trolls on Tumblr?
Users like bellygangstaboo and feelmydragonballs infiltrated the network.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 23, 2018
Accessibility-Themed Emoji Could Be Coming Soon
Apple proposed several new emoji, including an ear with a hearing aid, a guide dog, and a person in a wheelchair.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 23, 2018
Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla
“What’s Facebook?”
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 23, 2018
Apple Rumored to Release Cheaper iPad
We won’t know for sure until Apple’s education event in Chicago next week.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 23, 2018
Craigslist’s Legendary Personals Section Shuts Down
A bill focused on sex-trafficking online left the site little choice.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 22, 2018
Why Should I Even Care About the Facebook Stuff?
It’s just data after all, and I see ads everywhere.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 22, 2018
Instagram Keeps Algorithm, But Promises to Show Newer Photos First
It is also testing a feature to let users manually refresh feeds.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 22, 2018
YouTube Bans Firearms Demos and Instructional Videos
A popular subgenre on the video site could be in trouble.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 21, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Actually Am Not Sure We Shouldn’t Be Regulated’
The CEO stumbled through his first TV interview since the scandal broke.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 21, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg Breaks Silence On Cambridge Analytica
Developers will be allowed to pull less data and unused apps will lose access.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 21, 2018
Travis Kalanick Is Back, and He’s Buying Distressed Real Estate
It’s for CloudKitchens.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 21, 2018
It’s Now Really Easy for Your Boss to Read Your Slack DMs
Slack announced some changes to its privacy policy.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 21, 2018
This Computer Scientist Thinks He’s Figured Out How to Talk to Aliens
Talking to Stephen Wolfram, author of Wolfram Alphra, a “universal” programming language that informed the alien communication in the movie
Arrival.
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Tim Urban
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Mar. 21, 2018
New Report Finds Twitter Violates Women’s Human Rights
Amnesty International published an eight-chapter study this week detailing the struggles of being a woman on Twitter.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 21, 2018
A Sociologist Unpacks Our Fixation With Aliens
Why do we imagine extraterrestrials as little gray abductors? Joseph O. Baker explains.
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Katie Heaney
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