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1. White supremacy, minus gerrymandering: California GOP reduced to "third party status"
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... party has moved to defend rape, pollution, climate denial, the elimination of health services for all but the super-wealthy, blanket bans on abortion, and naked hatred of every kind of brown person: Latinx ...

2. Italian law requires domestic movies hit theaters before they stream
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France isn't the only country particularly wary of streaming services. Italian Culture and Tourism Minister Alberto Bonisoli recently unveiled a law that would require all Italian-made movies to show ...

3. YouTube quietly offers free, ad-supported movies
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YouTube is borrowing a page from Vudu's playbook, in a manner of speaking. AdAge has confirmed that the Google video service quietly started adding free, ad-supported movies to its "Movies & ...

4. Classic film streaming service FilmStruck rises from the dead...sort of
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When it was announced last month that FilmStruck, a streaming service dedicated to dishing up the greatest films of all time, would be shut down at the end of November, movie geeks, like yours truly, ...

5. Kentucky Kroger shooting suspect to face hate crime charges
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... — a predominantly African-American congregation — during a service but locked doors prevented him from entering. So, in addition to being a bigot, Bush was also a coward: he decided to take out his hate ...

6. Exec who oversaw Google's failed babykiller projects and cozied up to Saudis quits after employee uprising
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Diane Greene was the CEO of Google's cloud business, and it was she who tried to convince Googlers to back her bid to sell AI services to the Pentagon's drone program, as a warmup for bidding on JEDI, ...

7. Criterion will launch its own classic film streaming service in 2019
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Criterion won't kill its streaming channel after FilmStruck shuts down on November 29th -- in fact, it'll live on as an independent service slated for launch in spring 2019. The video distribution ...

8. Sports streaming service DAZN adds baseball with MLB deal
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DAZN might have only arrived in the US a couple of months ago, but the sports streaming service is already making strides in expanding its portfolio to cater to all types of sports fans. The latest move ...

9. A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure
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... with an easily queried search front end that would allow attackers to watch as SMSes with one-time login codes streamed through the service. It's a timely reminder that SMS sucks. It is not secure, and ...

10. Our homes are designed for stuff, making them unsuitable for people
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... pianos). This comes at the expense of structure, skin, and services. The structure becomes wildly convoluted, having to accommodate both ceilings of towering heights and others half that size, often within ...

11. Ford's future includes self-driving deliveries and taxi services
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Ford CEO Sherif Marakby has posted a detailed overview of the automaker's self-driving strategy, perhaps in an effort to show that the company will push through with its plans under his leadership. ...

12. Tidal music streaming is now available on Amazon's Echo speakers
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Amazon's Echo speakers have been gradually improving in quality, and it looks like Tidal wants to seize on that opportunity. The streaming service is now available on all Echo devices in the US through ...

13. Engadget giveaway: Win a DiskStation DS718+ courtesy of Synology!
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Cloud data storage services are ubiquitous nowadays, but imagine the savings, security and ownership benefits of hosting your own server. Synology's DS718+ 2-bay unit is a good jump off point if you ...

14. Gilded Age watch: America's firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1%
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... policies on about 1,000 of California's priciest homes. Public firefighting has been part of America since its inception, a repudiation of the English custom of firefighting services provided on the ...

15. One year later: kids smart-watches are still a privacy and security dumpster fire
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... this by using a online "prank call" service that fools receiving devices into showing another person's caller ID number. Consumer Advice: Kids GPS tracker watch security [Pen Test Partners] MiSafes' ...

16. HDHomeRun gets into the streaming TV business with $35 Premium service
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... service: HDHomeRun Premium TV. The $35 per month... Read all  ...

17. If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases
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... for one of these junk science services, your stupid cousins have. That's the conclusion of a group of computer science, computational biology, genomics, and public health researchers from Columbia, and ...

18. Netflix nabs eco-drama 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'
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... will be available on the streaming service worldwide -... Read all  ...

19. Coalition of small cable operators calls for antitrust investigation into Comcast (Trump agrees)
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... video service, which competes with traditional cable. The ACA’s letter also raises concerns involving Hulu, suggesting that Comcast could effectively hold the service hostage. “We have heard from ACA ...

20. Netflix is testing a cheaper mobile-only plan in Malaysia
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Earlier this week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told Bloomberg that the company was planning to test a cheaper version of its streaming service, and now we're beginning to see what those lower cost options ...

21. Pocket Casts' new features make it arguably the best podcast app
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Even with a number of serviceable free options for listening to podcasts, Pocket Casts is a popular option for episodic audio. Indeed, it does cost you a few dollars, but the app is well-designed and offers ...

22. Nigerian telco says it accidentally routed Google traffic through China
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... border gateway protocol filters have caused multiple outages to date, including cases where traffic from U.S. internet and financial services firms was routed through Russia, China and Belarus. Yuval ...

23. Lime launches its first car-sharing service in Seattle
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It's true: after a long time focusing on scooters, Lime is ready to delve into four-wheeled transportation. The startup is launching a car-sharing service, LimePod, that will be available in Seattle ...

24. LDAP Authentication In Linux
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HowToForge: This howto will show you how to store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. Read all  ...

25. You can watch CBS All Access' upcoming true crime series in any order
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CBS All Access is notorious for releasing weekly episodes for its shows instead of dropping them all at once. Star Trek Discovery, for instance, debuted on the service in September 2017 and streamed weekly ...