Dec. 12, 2016
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pizzagate? “This is a problem that’s not going to be solved, probably, by the law,” one expert says.
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Mar. 7, 2016
Could Cops Use Facebook Reactions to Target Criminals? The fraught relationship between law enforcement and social media will only be further complicated by Facebook’s new feature.
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Mar. 4, 2016
How China’s Biggest Social Network Works With the Government According to a whistle-blowing former censorship employee of Weibo, China’s largest social-networking platform with some 222 million active users, the Chinese government dictates exactly which posts can be published, or not, if they include “sensitive” words.
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Mar. 4, 2016
DA: Shooter’s Phone Contains ‘Cyber Pathogen’ Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone may have been “used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen,” DA claims.
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Mar. 4, 2016
Talking With Twinks4Trump, the Best Pro-Trump Twitter Account A conversation with the creator of the one bright spot in this election season.
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Mar. 4, 2016
The Internet’s New Celebrity Cat Is a Coconut-Oil Addict Called ‘Goal Kitty’ You may have seen the tragic pictures floating around the internet: a black cat with a white splotch on her front, her paws awkwardly splayed up and out.
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Mar. 3, 2016
Amazon Is Removing Encryption From Its Tablets Amazon has quietly removed enterprise-level encryption from its Amazon Fire tablets, which run its proprietary operating system Fire OS.
Mar. 3, 2016
Some Doctors Tweeting About Drugs Aren’t Disclosing Payments Like the rest of the internet, Doctor Twitter is becoming overrun with sponsored content.
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Mar. 3, 2016
Headlines From the Future: What If the FBI Beats Apple in Court? Based on conversations with experts, we’ve imagined a set of hypothetical future news stories describing scenarios that could come to pass if the FBI wins.
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Mar. 2, 2016
France to Parents: No More Kid Pics on Facebook! “You can all be proud moms and dads to your magnificent children, but be careful,” someone, presumably a police officer, wrote.
Mar. 2, 2016
Congress Grills FBI Chief Over Apple Showdown If this is the debate we’re having over encryption and security, we’re screwed.
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Mar. 2, 2016
Kanye West Got Caught Torrenting From Pirate Bay PSA: Don’t tweet out screenshots when you have illicit websites open in your tabs.
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Mar. 1, 2016
Spot the Bot: Watch Google Robot Play With a Dog See Spot Run. See Spot Bark at Terrifying Robot Google Dog.
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Mar. 1, 2016
Another Fired Yelp Employee Pens Open Letter Another week, another open letter on Medium written by a recently fired, low-level Yelp employee detailing mistreatment and a disturbing lack of empathy from Yelp managers.
Feb. 29, 2016
Google’s Self-Driving Car Hit a Bus (and Is Still a Better Driver Than You) According to a report filed with the California DMV, the Google car was attempting to avoid sandbags in the road.
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Feb. 29, 2016
Did You Know Facebook Is Probably Tracking Your Sleep Habits? Sleep Tight! Facebook isn’t watching you sleep. It just knows when you go to bed and when you get up!
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Feb. 26, 2016
Florida Voters: Ted Cruz Might Be the Zodiac Nearly 40 percent of Florida voters say they believe it’s within the realm of possibility that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.
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Feb. 26, 2016
Americans Broadly Back FBI in Apple Case The majority of Americans believe that Apple should unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s phone — and that it would worsen device security.
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Feb. 25, 2016
Nice, 69 Cock Lane Is for Sale The rudest address in Britain.
Feb. 25, 2016
Sam Pepper Apologizes for His Apology The crux of what he says in the video is that really, he’s a great guy who just made some dumb videos and lost his massive fanbase.
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Feb. 24, 2016
‘Damn’ Daniel Lara Back at It Again With a Lifetime Supply of Vans Daniel Lara and Josh Holz, the two teenagers responsible for “Damn, Daniel!,” were on Ellen Tuesday, because that is how memes work in 2016.
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Feb. 24, 2016
Terry Crews’s Anti-Masturbation Facebook Crusade “You cannot accept any pornography in your man’s life,” he instructs. “Terry Crews! I’m ridin’ around in L.A. with the top down! Woo-hoo!” he yells about a minute later.
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Feb. 24, 2016
Report: Apple Labor Practices Still Fall Short A labor report found that workers at one Apple supplier were working over 60 hours a week, above Apple’s stated cap.
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Feb. 24, 2016
Happy Wednesday, Meet Your Doom As Facebook deploys fun new buttons, Google is building a terrifying robot .
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Feb. 23, 2016
Fired Yelp Employee Criticized for Generally Pleasant Instagram You don’t get to challenge the assumptions of an entire industry without facing some criticism, after all!
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Feb. 23, 2016
Unknown Meme Terrorists SWATed Josh Holz, the Creator of ‘Damn, Daniel’ “Ever since their video has gone out there, they’ve received a number of what they call strange phone calls and emails,” Riverside police lieutenant Kevin Townsend told KABC.
Feb. 23, 2016
Feds Want Apple to Break In to at Least 12 Other Phones Prosecutors in all of the cases the DOJ is requesting Apple assist authorities with used the same broad 18th-century law, the All Writs Act.