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Facebook Is Testing If You’ll Pay Actual Money for Your Favorite Groups’ Premium Content
Image: Facebook As Facebook continues to look for ways to wring every last dollar out of its platform, the company announced today that it is rolling out a pilot program that allows Facebook group administrators the ability to offer paid monthly subscriptions. To start, subs will cost anywhere between $5 and $30; however, Facebook says…
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This Light-Up HAL 9000 USB Flash Drive Can’t Sing, But Probably Won’t Kill You Either
Master Replicas, makers of some of the finest lightsaber replicas in any galaxy, sadly closed its doors back in 2008. Last year, however, part of its original team opened Master Replicas Group, a new company that’s relaunching with a series of 2001: A Space Odyssey collectibles to start, including a flash drive based on one…
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Disney, Do You Really Want to Give Rupert Murdoch More Money Right Now?
Image: Getty/Gizmodo At a time when we’re seeing more and more companies attempting to avoid soiling themselves with the stench of the belching Trump machine, Disney is actively trying to give Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch more billions. It’s a gutsy move in the age of boycotts, and it shows how shallow Disney’s carefully crafted…
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California Lawmakers Accused of ‘Corruption’ After Gutting Net Neutrality Bill
Photo: AP The effort to pass a strong open internet law in California was killed off Wednesday morning by a handful of state legislators in a process described by many net neutrality advocates as corrupt and undemocratic. Members of California’s Communications and Conveyance Committee, led by Democratic Chairman Miguel Santiago, eviscerated the text of SB…
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Lawsuit: Detained Immigrant Children in Texas Forced to Take Antipsychotic Drugs
A June 1 protest in New York against the Trump administration’s policy to separate undocumented children from their parents at the border. Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) A series of heartbreaking investigative stories published Wednesday by Reveal and The Texas Tribune highlight the disturbing conditions many undocumented children have been allegedly forced to endure in privately…
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will change the interface for the first time since 2012
Valve installed it on a test server beta version of the new interface, Panorama UI for the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. According to the developers, this is the biggest update the appearance and functions of the game since its release in 2012. Changes in the update have affected the main menu, leaderboards, inventory, friends list,…
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Frameless Xiaomi Mi 3 seemed to Max on live photos
On the website of the Chinese center for certification of telecommunication equipment TENAA has published live photos of the new smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 Max, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. As you can see by the photo, the smartphone is, indeed, enclosed metal case and has a frameless design without the cut-out screen…
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Google launches web version of Android Messages
Google has announced the launch of a web client for messenger Android Messages (Android). It is available at messages.android.com. To web version to work, it is necessary to run Android Messages on your smartphone, go to the settings menu, select “Web version” Message and scan the QR code from the page to the web client…
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Figure of the day: How many Russians do not know what to do with viruses on your computer?
Figure of the day: 44% Russians don’t know what to do with the viruses on the computer. Analytical center for NAFI (National Agency for financial studies) conducted a study on the digital literacy of Russians. As shown by national population surveys, every fourth Russian has a high level of digital literacy. Under the digital literacy…
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A potential prototype of Samsung Galaxy S10 seemed in the photo
Appeared in Internet live photo, which, presumably, can be shown a prototype of the future flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S10. It was published quite a well-known Chinese insider under the nickname Ice Universe to your Twitter account. The source did not specify the exact names of the Galaxy S10, but hinted at it in a…