A week of celeb nudes could pay for a month of reddit’s servers, says mod
r/TheFappening was shut down, but after it was allowed to linger and earn for a week.
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Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy
"I think all the sleeper cells are hard at work."
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fare thee well
iPod classic is dead, and the 30-pin connector along with it
This marks a complete transition to Lightning connectors, in just two years.
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amazon + android
Amazon brings its video app to the Android platform
Amazon has stopped holding out on the platform powering its Kindle Fire.
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get posting
Facebook’s “privacy checkup” aims to make users comfortable again
Research shows you'll post more if you know your audience.
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Men in Black
FBI offers help to game developers suffering harassment, death threats
There's been a swell of online harassment, and the authorities have noticed.
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Samsung reveals virtual reality headset powered by a smartphone
Samsung partners with Oculus for a headset of its own.
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keep your cup locked down
Rival may have roasted Keurig’s coffee-pod DRM
Keurig's attempt to lock out third-party pods may not be going well.
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The death of the “gamers” and the women who “killed” them
Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian prove points a certain gamer-type refuses to hear.
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One apartment’s Wi-Fi dead zones, mapped with a physics equation
A doctoral student does the math on where his Wi-Fi is, and isn't.
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message amplification
ISIS co-opts Twitter hashtags to spread threats, propaganda
Jihadi activists employ a ruthless and deft social media strategy.
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Jawbone opens a window to our humanity-tracking future
Fitness tracker logs of an earthquake are a taste of data aggregation to come.
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we can dream, can't we?
HBO could clear $600 million per year with online streaming
A set of streaming plans that allegedly wouldn't anger the cable giants.
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China censorship filters are hamstringing posts that help their cause
Pro-government content gets caught as much as anti-government posts.
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youtube music key
YouTube subscription plan leaks: Offline play, no ads, 20 million songs
Music, concerts, and remixes, plus a free Google Music sub.
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Roku becomes the brains for a new kind of smart TV
Roku is a welcome dose of dumb to a product that often tries to get too clever.
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Facebook’s route to becoming a reassurance machine
The vapid viral content might die. And its death might not be good.
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Chinatown tales of an $85 iPhone screen replacement
On undoing your mistakes by risking new ones.
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never shop alone when shopping online
Facebook knows when you see a product on your phone, buy it on a PC
Advertisers can see when you finally buy their stuff, even a month later.
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u mad?
Alleged phone thief calls 911 because victim won’t leave her alone
Woman was arrested after police saw another phone in her pocket.
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Siri, what's a good place to...
Murder suspect’s phone held screenshot of “hide my roommate” Siri query [Updated]
Incidentally, Siri doesn't give out that advice anymore.
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putting the "uber" in "subterfuge"
Lyft: Uber scheduled, canceled 5,000 rides to hassle us [Updated]
Uber says it's just trying to recruit more drivers.
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a new agency has your e-mail
Amtrak employee sold customer data to DEA for two decades
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent to circumvent official channels.
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Amazon to publishers: You think too small about cheap e-books
In the war for cheap e-books, Amazon tries to take shots at its opponent—and fails.
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getting personal
900 authors to run a $104,000 full-page anti-Amazon ad in New York Times
Led by one thriller writer, authors pile on in the Amazon-Hachette conflict.