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The Trump Administration Is About To Enter The Space Race. Everyone Wants To Know How They’ll Deal With The Billionaires Building Their Own Rockets.
Donald Trump’s first space council meeting happens on Thursday. It may pick a winner in the billionaire-backed race for the moon and Mars.
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Google's New Pixel 2 Phones Ditch The Headphone Jack, Can Take Photos In Portrait Mode
The second-generation Pixels can be squeezed to activate Google Assistant, and are finally water- and dust-resistant. But RIP to the headphone jack.
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To Stay Relevant, Wireless Speaker Company Sonos Teams Up With Its Competitors. All Of Them.
Sonos, the home wireless speaker company, was once a trailblazer — before voice-activated home speakers became all the rage. Now, it's unveiling its strategy to stay relevant: if you can't beat em, join em.
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The Pixelbook Is A Fancy, Schmancy New Chromebook
The tablet-laptop hybrid has Google Assistant built in and works with a new stylus. Oh, and a brand-new, custom-built laptop version of Snapchat.
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Google Unveils Its $399 Home Max And $49 Home Mini Smart Speakers
Google's Echo competitors are powered by Google Assistant, a virtual, voice-activated bot.
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Uber Searches For Harmony After Board Limits The Power Of Its Former CEO
Uber’s board, including former CEO Travis Kalanick, voted to limit the power of early shareholders in a vote that paves the way for a multi-billion dollar investment deal with SoftBank.
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If You Had A Yahoo Account In 2013, You Were Hacked
Previously, the company said only 1 billion accounts were affected.
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Researchers Are Upset That Twitter Is Dismissing Their Work On Election Interference
“I think it's dangerous that companies like Twitter are discrediting academic studies in the reckless way they are,” professor David Carroll told BuzzFeed News.
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Snapchat Use Is Down 34% Among Top Influencers
Data on top influencers shows they’ve been posting less and less on Snapchat in the last six months.
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Instagram Stories Adds A Polling Feature
IT'S POLL TIME, BABY!
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Uber's Internal Investigation Into Allegedly Stolen Trade Secrets Was Just Made Public
When Uber acquired a former Google engineer’s self-driving startup, it hired a law firm to investigate whether he stole any intellectual property.
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Facebook Does More Explaining Ahead Of Its Date With Washington
Facebook says 10 million people saw ads a Russia-linked entity bought in an effort to disrupt US politics.
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The Big Tech Platforms Still Suck During Breaking News
Facebook, Google, and Twitter always promise to do better. Why can't they?
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This Guy Used A Simple Trick To Figure Out Snapchat's Big Announcement A Day Early
Tomorrow's big announcement... today?
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Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Unilaterally Appoints Two New Board Members
“The appointments of Ms. Burns and Mr. Thain to Uber’s Board of Directors came as a complete surprise to Uber and its Board."
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Square Wants To Be A Bank, And Real Banks Are Pissed
Square — the payment processor behind that cute white cell phone dongle — and the student loan refinancer SoFi want to become banks, and Actual Banks are fighting back.
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Here’s Why Content Creators Got So Mad At YouTube Today
Content creators got mad online today when they thought YouTube was forcing them to run ads on their content, but YouTube says that’s not the case.
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The FCC Chairman Wants Apple To Activate iPhone Radio Chips In Disaster Zones, But Apple Says No
Apple said in response that its newer iPhone models do not have FM radio chips, but did not comment on its other devices.
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Twitter Tells Congress It Found 200 Russian Accounts That Overlapped With Facebook
And that the Russian news organization RT spent $274,100 on US ads in targeted markets in 2016.
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Welcome To The Age Of Cheap Overseas Information
Thanks to the rise of platforms like Facebook and Google, a growing amount of information being created for Americans is coming from overseas.
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Facebook Users Are Fighting Government Search Warrants For Their Account Information
The American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia is challenging search warrants related to the investigation into alleged rioting in Washington during President Trump’s inauguration.
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Against Trump Attack
"Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like."
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Facebook, Google, And Twitter Have Been Asked To Testify Publicly In The Senate’s Russia Investigation
The planned hearing comes as the Senate Intelligence Committee has increased its scrutiny of social media and search sites, following Facebook's disclosure that a Russian troll farm purchased $100,000 in ads on the site during the 2016 election.
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Emails Show How An Ivy League Prof Tried To Do Damage Control For His Bogus Food Science
Brian Wansink of Cornell University publishes headline-friendly studies about food psychology and oversees a $22 million federally funded program that uses his research to promote “smarter lunchrooms” in nearly 30,000 schools. Emails obtained by BuzzFeed News show how he scrambled to spin allegations that dozens of his studies are all just bologna.
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Japan Has Had Longer Tweets Since Day One. It's Fine!
Thanks to the nature of the Japanese language, we've always been able to cram a lot more words into every tweet.
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Twitter Tests Doubling Its Character Limit To 280
Get ready for twice the characters on Twitter, pending test results.
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Facebook Can't Say For Sure Whether Russians Bought Election Ads In France And Germany
A company official said so far "we have found no significant coordination of ad buys" in Germany, but did not have an update on France.
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