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1. A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers
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... creation and marketing." But Ads, Inc was a huge con, a sophisticated and elaborate Facebook hustle that combined ever trick in the Republican-affiliated grift playbook: it was a pyramid scheme recruiting ...

2. Watch this guy restore a totally trashed MacBook Pro he bought for $100
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Hugh Jeffreys bought a wrecked MacBook Pro for $100. The hinge was broken, the case was bent, dented, and scratched, and two of the bottom feet had fallen off which allowed the inside to become filled ...

3. Trump's "China muse" advisor has been citing a made-up economist for years
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... because he is, in fact, Navarro, as the Chronicle uncovered: Navarro has quoted Vara a dozen or so times in six books, usually as an epigraph before a chapter. In Death by China, published in 2011, Vara ...

4. Facebook will remove advertisements that are visually misleading, but not advertisements containing false statements
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Facebook has announced that it will not remove political advertisements on the grounds that the ads contain false statements: "we do not submit speech by politicians to our independent fact-checkers, and ...

5. David Bowie could have played Rorschach in Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen" adaptation
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... time, it's part of Paperback Writers: Graphic Content, a new BBC series where comic book writers discuss their musical influences. Moore is surprisingly delightful over the course of the two-hour interview-slash-DJ-session, ...

6. Facebook expands its reward program for data abuse reports
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Facebook is broadening its data abuse bounty program to reward more security sleuths. As of today, researchers can earn at least $500 when they find Facebook data vulnerabilities in third-party apps and ...

7. Logitech unveils its first mouse and keyboard built for Chrome OS
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Now that the Pixelbook Go is here, you might want a mouse and keyboard to go with it. Logitech, unsurprisingly, is happy to oblige -- the company has unveiled its first Made for Google devices, the M355 ...

8. Here's everything Google announced at the Pixel 4 event
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Pixelbook Go Despite all of the leaks ahead of Google's Pixel 4 hardware event today, the company still had plenty to share. Of course, we got our first official look at the Pixelbook Go and ...

9. Google Pixelbook Go, un Chromebook economico
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Il Google Pixelbook Go ha uno schermo touch full HD o 4K da 13,3 pollici, processori Intel Core m3/i5/i7, 8/16 GB di RAM, SSD da 64/128/256 GB e Chrome OS. The post Google Pixelbook Go, un Chromebook ...

10. The far right is dominating the information wars through "keyword signaling"
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... the refs at Facebook, the right understands that making their fringe ideology seem central requires the successful domination of the information sphere. Read the rest Read all  ...

11. Medallion Status: comparison is the thief of joy, and John Hodgman is the thief-taker
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John Hodgman's last book, Vacationland, was a kind of absurdist memoir of a weird kid who'd grown up to the kind of self-aware grownup who really wanted to dig into how he got to where he was, with bone-dry ...

12. Facebook Libra non sarà pronta per il 2020
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Si sfila anche Booking Holdings da Facebook Libra, che nel frattempo potrebbe non essere pronta per il 2020. The post Facebook Libra non sarà pronta per il 2020 appeared first on Webnews. Read all  ...

13. What's on TV this week: 'Watchmen'
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This week YouTube kicks off its book club series with a Malcolm Gladwell roundtable interview on Booktube. The MLB playoffs continue, and Netflix has a slew of new series. Movie fans can stream Hobbs & ...

14. 'MURDER' — Aaron Dean, former Fort Worth TX police officer, charged with murder for fatal shooting of black woman
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... this weekend while she was playing a video game with her nephew, resigned hours before he was going to be fired. Dean was charged with murder on Monday and booked into jail without bond, per Tarrant County ...

15. Facebook's Libra loses one more member as its council becomes official
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Facebook couldn't avoid losing another Libra Association member before it formalized the cryptocurrency's council. Booking Holding, the company behind Booking.com, Kayak and Priceline, has withdrawn ...

16. Kickstarting a deluxe "Dracula" edition in a suitcase full of "primary source materials" from the novel
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... clippings, even an actual phonograph record from Dr. Seward. It comes in a suitcase. Or a wooden casket or stone crypt, depending on the edition." Josh is from Beehive Books, who've produced some of ...

17. Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials
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... giants, who fear that upsetting the Chinese state could result in a blockade of all their offerings (China permanently blocked Apple's Ibooks and Itunes Movies in 2016 over similar concerns). These ...

18. Politico: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held secret meetings with conservative pundits and politicians
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted "secretive talks" and off-the-record dinners with conservative figures in recent months, reports Politico's Daniel Lippman. Among the delights were discussions of "free ...

19. Man pranks his friends and family at his own funeral
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... Andrea Bradley, posted the video to Facebook...Kiernan said that Bradley was concerned about scaring the younger ones, so his grandchildren and his wife were in on the joke. "Everyone else was shocked ...

20. Fox Sports is creating exclusive, interactive shows for Facebook Watch
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ESPN isn't the only big broadcaster committing to exclusive sports shows on Facebook Watch. Fox Sports is teaming up with Facebook to create unique interactive shows for Watch viewers, including ...

21. Razer Blade 15, notebook con tastiera ottica
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Il Razer Blade 15 Advanced è il primo notebook al mondo con tastiera ottica che permette di incrementare la velocità durante le sessioni di gioco. The post Razer Blade 15, notebook con tastiera ottica ...

22. Arcade Game Typography: beautiful book of pixel fonts
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Arcade Game Typography [Amazon] is a forthcoming book by Toshi Omagari that "definitively surveys" the pixelated fonts of arcade games from the 1970s to the 1990s. It's full of gorgeous-looking full-color ...

23. Razer's Blade 15 Advanced gets an optical mechanical keyboard
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We've seen gaming laptops with mechanical keyboards before, but Razer is taking things to a new level with the latest Blade 15 Advanced. It's the first notebook to feature an optical mechanical ...

24. Adobe Flash was good, actually
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... a new visual-heavy book from author Rob Ford and editor Julius Wiedemann that does something that hasn’t been done on the broader internet in quite a long time: It praises the use of Flash as a creative ...

25. Facebook Libra perde anche Visa, Mastercard, eBay
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Dopo PayPal abbandonano la nave di Facebook Libra anche le società di carte di credito Visa e Mastercard, oltre al popolare ecommerce eBay. The post Facebook Libra perde anche Visa, Mastercard, eBay appeared ...