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1. Hit those fitness goals at home with these virtual trainers
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... and recipes made by certified nutritionists. A lifetime subscription to all of this through Live Streaming Fitness is now $99.99. Fitterclub Personal Training For a more traditional touch, Fitterclub ...

2. Sling TV adds personalized recommendations, starting on Apple TV
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Sling TV is introducing an arguably overdue feature for insatiable viewers: personalized recommendations. As of January 17th, Apple TV users will receive custom-tailored suggestions for live and on-demand ...

3. Facebook might be facing a hefty fine from the FTC
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Since reports revealed last March that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the personal information of 87 million of its users, there's been a fair amount of fallout. CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

4. Tim Cook chiede leggi severissime sulla privacy
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Tim Cook chiede al Congresso USA delle leggi severe sulla privacy, poiché troppe società rivendono senza consenso i dati personali degli utenti. The post Tim Cook chiede leggi severissime sulla privacy ...

5. Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about The Moscow Tower Project
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Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin. “Make it happen,” Trump said of the Putin meeting. Read all  ...

6. Diablo 4 in arrivo? Blizzard cerca personale
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Un recente annuncio lavorativo di Blizzard sembra suggerire che la software house sia alla ricerca di personale per Diablo 4. The post Diablo 4 in arrivo? Blizzard cerca personale appeared first on Webnews. ...

7. Most Facebook users don't know their interests are tracked for ad targeting, Pew study finds
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... in the study did not know that Facebook tracks their interests and various personal traits so they can be more efficiently targeted with ads. Those users only discovered this when the researchers directed ...

8. A list of Steve King's worst remarks: Racist, shocking, and just plain stupid
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... immigrants to animals In July of 2006 King went to the House floor to display the model of a wall the Kiron Republican said he personally designed for the U.S. border with Mexico and likened illegal border ...

9. Marco Rubio proposes a totally uninspiring data privacy bill
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced Wednesday a new privacy bill aimed at protecting personal data of American consumers from being sucked up indiscriminately by tech giants, according to Axios. The American ...

10. Bug in reservation system used by 140+ international airlines exposes passenger data and allows for manipulation
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... "Passenger Name Record" in El Al's system, allowing him to "make changes, claim frequent flyer miles to a personal account, assign seats and meals, and update the customer’s email and phone number, which ...

11. New Ted Bundy documentary based on deeply creepy unheard jailhouse recordings
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... of Bundy in voiceover. “I’m not an animal, I’m not crazy, I don’t have a split personality,” Bundy said in one recording. “I mean I’m just a normal individual.” "Conversations With a Killer: The Ted ...

12. Douglas Bader became Britain's top flying ace in World War II despite losing his legs
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... ace in World War II. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review Bader's inspiring story and the personal philosophy underlay it. We'll also revisit the year 536 and puzzle over ...

13. ESPN+ adds personalized recommendations and offline viewing
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ESPN is making some welcome (and arguably overdue) improvements to its ESPN+ service that could change how and where you watch. Its updated app now includes personalized recommendations for ESPN+, starting ...

14. Hungry Like The Wolf on a Solton Ketron Programmer 24
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... the 1980s as if Giorgio Moroder was personally responsible for all of it. Read the rest Read all  ...

15. Tactikey is a close-at-hand self-defense device
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NEWS – Some of the main principles of self-defense are vigilance, self-awareness, and readiness, and having a personal protection device close at hand helps facilitate this readiness.  Tactikey was developed ...

16. Kwilt2 personal cloud hub device review
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... and access anywhere in the world. I really enjoyed it and jumped at the chance I received to test … Kwilt2 personal cloud hub device review Read More Read all  ...

17. Teen Vogue counsels taping over your webcam to resist FBI (and other) surveillance
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... is that you should be much more concerned about your personal data than your webcam or your phone’s front-facing camera (which no one covers with a sticker)." Wave Goodbye to the FBI: Why You Should ...

18. Did the ‘National Enquirer’ finally get one right with its sensational exposé of Bezos’s affair?
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... for their flagrant disregard of facts, their rampant dishonesty, flights of fantasy and mean-spirited personal attacks, but one thing they undeniably do well is stalk celebrities. And while it’s highly ...

19. Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that's so stupid, it's a whole new kind of wrong
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... out the motherboard, and turn it into a personal scooter, untethered from the Bird company. In response, Bird sent us a legal threat of such absurdity that we are publishing it in full, along with a ...

20. Spotify on the importance of podcasts, personalization and partnerships
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AI plays a huge role in how Spotify delivers personalized playlists to users, so it's somewhat fitting that the company's new partnership with Microsoft is focused on messages about ...

21. Ring reportedly gave employees access to customer video feeds
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Ring's privacy practices have come under scrutiny in recent months and the latest report from The Intercept details just how lax the company has been when it comes to users' personal video feeds. ...

22. Catholic church allowed celebrity priest to minister after groping woman
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... interview on Tuesday night, Armenio said he knew in 2005 that there was a sexual misconduct allegation against McCloskey and that he had a “severe problem with alcohol.” He said he told George personally ...

23. DJI drones can fly over crowds, if they pack a parachute
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Most of the time, commercial and personal drones are not allowed to fly over groups of people. For safety, obviously. Indemnis' drone parachute changes that. The company's product was just certified ...

24. Federal workers must show up and can't strike even when not paid in Trump's Shutdown
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... paycheck will come. Like the leaders of virtually every federal-employee union during the past three weeks, he has condemned the shutdown and its toll on innocent workers as “unconscionable.” “My personal ...

25. Bell Canada asks Canadians for permission to harvest and sell their browsing, location, viewing and other data
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... a good job of explaining what it wants to do. But Scassa says Bell customers who opt into Bell's new program could be giving away commercially valuable personal information with little to no compensation ...