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You Can Link Switches Together In Nintendo’s Next Big Party Game
Screenshot: Nintendo (YouTube)
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Facebook Filibustered the Shit Out of Congress With a 450-Page Response to Its Questions
Photo: Getty It’s been two months since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hours testifying before Congress, and the company has finally provided answers to the Senate portion of the hearing. The 450-page document mostly does a lawyer-dance around uncomfortable topics. But there are some revealing tidbits of information as well. When Zuckerberg took questions from…
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Intel Says Its GPUs to Rival AMD and Nvidia Will Be Here By 2020
Intel’s joint CPU/GPU built in collaboration with rival AMD.Image: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Intel has stopped dancing around the issue and confirmed in a tweet, as noted by Engadget, that it will be making discrete GPUs and that they will be here by 2020. This means the company known for making the most popular computer processors…
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A Mix-Up Meant Malware Could Have Posed as Apple Software, and Nobody Noticed for Over 10 Years
Photo: Getty Security researchers on Tuesday unveiled a method that could’ve allowed hackers to bypass a wide range of commercial products designed to protect Apple devices from malware. While there’s no evidence the bypass was ever used maliciously, the issue went unnoticed for over a decade. The vulnerability is in how vendors such as Google…
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American Christians’ Vision of God Looks Suspiciously Like Elon Musk
God’s face and anti-face.Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The study found conservatives imagined God as a “more masculine, older, more powerful, and wealthier” Elon Musk, while liberals envisioned a “more African American and more loving” Elon Musk. Older participants also saw an older Elon Musk, and participants who self-reported as attractive saw…
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Apple Will Punish Apps That Misuse Your Address Book Data
Photo: AP Apple quietly rolled out a new set of rules for developers last week, adding restrictions for apps that suck up the address books of iPhone users, Bloomberg reports. Developers could, for example, sell the databases filled with your friends’ contact information to boost their bottom lines. No more. Address book requests are fairly…
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DOJ Blows Its Chance to Stop Disastrous Merger of AT&T and Time Warner
Photo: AT&T On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that AT&T has the all clear to merge with Time Warner, paving the way for a media-gobbling merger frenzy. It didn’t have to be this way, but bizarre circumstances and inadequate arguments from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division have, yet again, given corporations more power. U.S.…
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Someone Please Save the Raccoon [Update: It’s Climbing Down]
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Apple’s New Privacy Guidelines May Get Facebook’s Awful Onavo VPN Off the App Store
Photo: AP Apple’s new App Store privacy guidelines restricting apps that collect data on users’ friends—specifically, the address books of iPhone users—already seemed to be in large part a response to Facebook’s sprawling Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But the company could also be targeting Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN service, which poses as a way to…
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Trial Begins for Two Men, One a Pastor, Accused of Making Millions Off Hacked Press Releases
The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC.Photo: AP The trial of two men who allegedly made $20 million in an insider trading scheme involving hackers who stole corporate press releases before they were public began in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Reuters reported, with prosecutors telling jurors they had “electronic communications, trading records and testimony from…