Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, citing difficulty of complying with new transparency rules
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Corning is working on truly foldable Gorilla Glass
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Q&A with one of the people who negotiated Article 13 on r/Europe
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Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a remarkably common password
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What would you want in a Stackoverflow/Quora competitor?
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features. Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple...
My friend was rambling about making his own Stackoverflow/quora clone, but with some random specific features.
Note that this project would probably compete directly with Quora, but have multiple subcomminties like Stackoverflow/Reddit. We think taking programming FAQs from SO is too uphill of a battle to focus on.
What are some great ideas?
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All Intel chips open to new Spoiler non-Spectre attack: Don't expect a quick fix
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Google pay study finds it underpaid men for some jobs
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15 non-obvious HPC experts to follow on Twitter
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Delete never: The digital hoarders who collect Tumblrs, medieval manuscripts, and terabytes of text files
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I stood up to Apple and fixed my own Mac
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Heat your house with a water brake windmill
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I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
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The Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked To Try
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Google employees uncover ongoing work on censored China search
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How to emulate ZX Spectrum on emulated Commodore 64 on emulated DOS on emulated Windows on Linux
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For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
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The life of a comment moderator for a right-wing website
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Status as a Service
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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Why the Galaxy Fold will be a huge success even at $2,000 -- "[...] Samsung has effectively turned into the new Apple. They are the innovators. They are ahead of the game."
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Canada has formally commenced the process to extradite Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei to the USA
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Amazon to launch new grocery-store business, distinct from Whole Foods
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Memes are our generation's protest art
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Inside Facebook’s war on hate speech: An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government
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Galaxy S10 Plus review
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Amazon announces "Project Zero", a program which will allow brands to directly remove counterfeit listings
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Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is a tour de force of technology and world building
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How blockchain is being applied to improve the world and its potential to solve major world problems
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EFF announces "Fix It Already" campaign to demand fixes for specific issues from nine major tech companies and platforms
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All Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
@ev: All @Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you're coming from Twitter.
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YouTube bans comments on videos of children
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Android is helping kill passwords on billions of devices
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What happened to broadband in Australia? NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet.
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Motorola will sell its first foldable smartphone this summer
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In-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive will shut down on March 8
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Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
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The small, small world of Facebook’s anti-vaxxers
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F(x)tec Pro 1 – A slider phone for QWERTY keyboard lovers?
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Reddit testing a new "tip" feature. Giving real money to other users.
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Spotify launches in India amidst legal battle with Warner
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Facebook's terms for its Patreon-like "Fan Subscriptions" feature include taking up to 30% of revenue, offering free trial subscriptions, and a perpetual license to all content
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YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation
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Nubia Alpha is both a smartwatch and a smartphone with a flexible screen
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DeathHacks
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A silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
@btaylor: Here's a silly Google Maps origin story about how "Satellite" was almost named "Bird Mode
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The history of Android
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RIP Culture War Thread - /r/slatestarcodex's regular thread for debating polarizing issues showed the difficulties and risks of hosting those conversations
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FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
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The trauma floor - The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
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Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information
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