WTF?!?
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No Refunds From SXSW
Blaming “force majeur,” SXSW would not issue any refunds for the cancelled festival.
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Yes, Smart Speakers Are Spying on You
Smart speakers record you more often than you think, according to a new study.
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Creepy Medical Masks
A producer in Gandhinagar, India, has created a system that allows you to print the bottom half of your own face on to a mask – so when you wear it, it still looks like you.
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Google's Vanishing Keywords
Google has begun alerting advertisers that it will soon stop showing search queries that triggered their ads when there is not “significant” data.
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Facebook Couples App
The least private platform on the planet launched a “Private” app for couples. What could go wrong?
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Stalking Facebook
Facebook launched an Off Facebook Activity Tool that will show you the ways it stalks you, even when you turn off the app on your phone. Change these privacy settings right now!
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Atlas Scammed
The Ayn Rand Institute applied for and received a PPP loan.
The Ayn Rand Institute received a PPP loan of between $350K and $1 millionhttps://t.co/EOhMBQh40f
— Pat Fitzgerald (@PatFitzgerald23) July 6, 2020
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Apple Hijacking Search Traffic
Apple is redirecting search engine traffic away from publishers' sites to its own news app.
Woah, I wonder how many publishers in Apple News+ realize that the new iOS14 and MacOS Big Sur are by default intercepting traffic to their sites and sending it to the Apple News app instead. pic.twitter.com/k4PQG9mE7M
— Tony Haile (@arctictony) August 10, 2020
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Public Hair Branding
Canada’s Hell’s Basement and a shop in Wellington both thought the word ‘huruhuru’ meant ‘feather’ – they were wrong.
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We're Not OK
Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren’t pretty.
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YouTuber Attacked By Fondue
We shouldn’t laugh at his misfortune, but when this YouTuber recovered from flying fondue, he made the best of a bad situation.
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