Washington Post : Everything you need to know about Fortnite and why it’s so popular
Tuesday, 03 April 2018 11:00
When the University of Maryland-Baltimore County basketball team pulled off the greatest upset in NCAA history, player Nolan Gerrity had the perfect metaphor for what he was feeling. “It’s like your first Fortnite victory, honestly,” he told reporters. For those out of the know, it was a…
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Washington Post : Spotify is set to go public, but its unusual approach comes with some risks
Monday, 02 April 2018 23:24
Spotify will make its highly anticipated Wall Street debut on Tuesday, potentially raising billions for company employees and existing investors, and luring some Silicon Valley heavy weights to follow them onto the public markets. Spotify's market debut, however, will be unusual. The streaming service, which will trade under the symbol SPOT,…
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Liberty Blitzkrieg: Liberty Links 4/1/18 – Madman John Bolton Advocated for Iran Regime Change in 2017 Speech
Sunday, 01 April 2018 14:54
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Washington Post : ‘Maybe someone dies’: Facebook VP justified bullying, terrorism as costs of network’s ‘growth’
Friday, 30 March 2018 16:11
In a 2016 employee memo that was leaked this week, a Facebook executive defended the company's questionable data mining practices and championed the growth of social media at any cost — apparently even death. “Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies,” company vice president Andrew Bosworth wrote in the memo, according to BuzzFeed…
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Washington Post : SpaceX gains official approval to launch high-speed satellite Internet service
Thursday, 29 March 2018 22:42
SpaceX has received official permission from the U.S. government to launch a fleet of satellites designed to beam high-speed Internet signals down to earth. The decision marks a major milestone for chief executive Elon Musk as he pursues a dream of putting 12,000 small satellites into low-earth…
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Washington Post : Under Armour announces data breach, affecting 150 million MyFitnessPal app accounts
Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:23
The athletic wear company disclosed Thursday that data tied to its fitness app was breached earlier this year, affecting 150 million user accounts. The stolen information included usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords, the company said. Under Armour said that the breach occurred in February and that…
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Washington Post : Facebook, longtime friend of data brokers, becomes their stiffest competition
Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:32
Facebook was for years a best friend to the data brokers who make hundreds of millions of dollars a year gathering and selling Americans' personal information. Now, the world's largest social network is souring that relationship — a sign that the company believes it has overshadowed their data-gathering machine. Facebook…
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Washington Post : The government’s case against AT&T-Time Warner may hinge on this online survey
Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:59
Federal officials sought to lay the groundwork Thursday for a key argument in its historic antitrust case against AT&T and Time Warner, attempting to show how the $85 billion megamerger could lead to sharp subscriber declines among AT&T's rivals in the TV business. Cable companies and other TV providers…
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Washington Post : Facebook makes its privacy controls simpler as company faces data reckoning
Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:35
Facebook is making it simpler for people to control how their data is used after a massive privacy scandal has shaken the company and caused its stock price to drop 15 percent. In the coming months, privacy controls that are now in 20 places on Facebook’s app…
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Washington Post : Facebook’s discussions with Congress signal Mark Zuckerberg will testify amid data-privacy scandal
Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:57
Facebook has signaled that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress by discussing the details of the appearance with lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the conversations. Three congressional committees have invited Zuckerberg to testify, including the Senate Judiciary Committee at an April 10 meeting about…
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