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Canadian Judge Finds Woman Guilty of Distracted Driving For Looking at Her Apple Watch

Make sure you keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road in Canada. According to the National Post, a Canadian woman was found guilty of distracted driving for looking at her Apple Watch, even though she claimed she was just checking the time. A judge in the Ontario Court of Justice determined…

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Fox News’ Answer to School Shootings Is This Giant Water Cannon

There’s been a boom in the bad ideas market, as experts look for idiotic ideas to address school shootings since stricter gun control is apparently off the table. Luckily, the folks at Fox News have a new idea for responding to active shooter situations: blast holes through the walls of schools with water cannons to…

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Sure Seems Like Trump’s DOJ Has No Interest In Blocking the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

T-Mobile and Sprint agreed to a merger earlier this year that would create a single, massive telecom company and would shrink the already-limited US marketplace for mobile carriers… and it looks like President Trump’s Department of Justice is just fine with that. The government’s top antitrust official hinted Friday that shrinking the market to just…

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A Hacker Hijacked the Buffalo Wild Wings Twitter Account and Revealed Its ‘Secret Recipe’

A hacker managed to take control of the official Twitter account of Buffalo Wild Wings Friday night and fired off a number of crude and racist tweets, including one that claimed to give out the “secret recipe” for the company’s wings which, as it turns out, is apparently “Tommy’s cum.” The hacker started their Twitter…

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Type ‘the1975..com’ Into Your Google App to See a Weird Bug in Action

If you’re an Android user, grab your phone, pull up Google’s Search app or Google Assistant, and type “the1975..com” into the search bar to see a bizarre and recently discovered bug that will show your most recent text messages. The glitch, which was first pointed out by a redditor posting on the Google Pixel subreddit,…

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A Day Later, Ticketfly Is Still Offline After Failing to Pay Bitcoin Ransom to Hacker [Updated]

After briefly being hijacked by a hacker Thursday, the website for event ticketing company Ticketfly has been offline for more than 24 hours as the company investigates a potentially serious data breach that compromised “some client and customer information.” The company offered the first update on the situation Friday, and things aren’t looking great. On…

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50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are Ready to Go on Strike Over Fears of Robots Taking Their Jobs

More than 50,000 union workers in Las Vegas are set to go on strike if new contracts are not settled by June 1, and at the top of the list of concerns for the Culinary and Bartenders Unions is protection against robot replacements. The hospitality employees—who work at 34 casinos throughout Las Vegas, including properties…

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Ecuador to Julian Assange: You Can Stay in Our Embassy But for the Love of God, Stop Tweeting

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and a noted internet edgelord, will be allowed to continue to live in the Ecuadorian embassy in London as he has for the past six years—provided he stops shitposting about politics on Twitter. Per the Guardian, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno said this week that Assange’s ongoing asylum status is…

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AT&T Drops Court Challenge That Kept FTC From Policing Net Neutrality

Four years ago, the Federal Trade Commission accused AT&T of throttling the speeds of unlimited data plans. On Thursday, Reuters reported AT&T finally dropped its legal challenge against that complaint—and more broadly, the FTC’s ability to protect net neutrality—and is in talks to settle with the agency. AT&T, the second-largest mobile service provider in the…

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Uber Plans IPO in 2019, Wants to Be ‘Amazon for Transportation’

Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced Wednesday that the ridesharing company that has been clouded in controversy for the last few years is finally ready to go public, and intends to do so in the second half of 2019. Khosrowshahi first mentioned the target timeframe for Uber’s planned initial public offering (IPO) while speaking to…

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Most Federal Agencies Are ‘At Risk’ or Worse, According to Damning Cybersecurity Report

The US Office of Management and Budget set out to investigate just how up to snuff the cybersecurity programs at federal agencies are and—surprise!—it’s bad. The recently released report shows that most agencies within the government fail to clear even the lowest bars when it comes to cybersecurity preparedness. The main takeaway of the report,…

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Google is Refining Its Anti-Boob Algorithm After a Woman Flashed Google Maps

A remote road in Pingtung County, Taiwan has suddenly become a highly-rated attraction on Google Maps for the thirstiest denizens of the internet thanks to a video uploaded by a tourist that shows her bare breast. According to the New York Post, which preserved the clip that has since been removed from the platform, the…

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Vermont Passes First-of-Its-Kind Law to Regulate Data Brokers

Earlier this week, Vermont became the first state in the nation to enact a law that will regulate data brokers that buy and sell personal information in an attempt to add a new layer of accountability to the massive, data-trading companies that often operate without much oversight. As TechCrunch noted, under the guidelines of the…

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Elon Musk’s Idea of ‘Excellent’ Journalism Comes From an Alleged Sex Cult

Elon Musk, in the midst of a crusade against traditional media, offered up an example of an “excellent” analysis that could serve as an example of what good journalism should look like. Just one problem: as Slate pointed out, the publication seems to have ties to a cult. In a since-deleted tweet, Musk linked to…

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Against All Odds, ISPs Have Managed to Become Even Less Popular

Americans like their internet service providers even less than they did last year, which is quite the accomplishment since the companies weren’t all that popular then, either. The American Customer Satisfaction Index’s report on telecommunications companies found ISPs hit an all-time low this year. Not one single ISP saw an improvement in customer satisfaction over…

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Astronaut Alan Bean, the Fourth Man to Walk on the Moon, Has Died at 86

Alan Bean, the fourth of just 12 people to walk on the moon and one of the first Americans to spend an extended period living on a space station, died Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was 86. “Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew. He was the love of my life…

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French Teens Arrested for Hacking Vevo, Defacing Despacito Music Video

Last month, a handful of extremely popular music videos on YouTube were defaced. Now two 18-year-old French citizens are in police custody and have been charged with crimes related to the hack of Vevo YouTube accounts. Per Variety, the teens were taken in by law enforcement officers in Paris. The 18-year-olds, identified as “Nassim B.”…

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Tesla Agrees to Settle Class Action Suit Over ‘Essentially Unusable’ Autopilot Feature [Updated]

Telsa agreed this week to a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against the company by buyers of Tesla vehicles who alleged the company semi-autonomous, assisted driving feature was “essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.” The terms of the agreement, which have yet to be approved by US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman, will require…

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Trump Announces Plan to Save ZTE After His Administration Basically Killed It

President Donald Trump announced Friday a deal to save Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE despite opposition from lawmakers in both parties, marking the latest in a bizarre and basically incoherent stretch of policymaking from the current administration. In a short series of tweets fired off late Friday afternoon, Trump said that he will allow ZTE to…

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Apple Will Start Disclosing App Takedown Requests From Governments

Apple dropped its bi-annual transparency report Friday and offered a new pledge to its customers going forward. Starting with its end of year report for 2018, the company will disclose government requests to remove apps from the App Store. Here’s the promise from Apple, filed under the header “Matters of note for future reports” at…

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Canadian Judge Finds Woman Guilty of Distracted Driving For Looking at Her Apple Watch

Fox News’ Answer to School Shootings Is This Giant Water Cannon

Sure Seems Like Trump’s DOJ Has No Interest In Blocking the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

A Hacker Hijacked the Buffalo Wild Wings Twitter Account and Revealed Its ‘Secret Recipe’

Type ‘the1975..com’ Into Your Google App to See a Weird Bug in Action

A Day Later, Ticketfly Is Still Offline After Failing to Pay Bitcoin Ransom to Hacker [Updated]

50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are Ready to Go on Strike Over Fears of Robots Taking Their Jobs

Ecuador to Julian Assange: You Can Stay in Our Embassy But for the Love of God, Stop Tweeting

AT&T Drops Court Challenge That Kept FTC From Policing Net Neutrality

Uber Plans IPO in 2019, Wants to Be ‘Amazon for Transportation’

Most Federal Agencies Are ‘At Risk’ or Worse, According to Damning Cybersecurity Report

Google is Refining Its Anti-Boob Algorithm After a Woman Flashed Google Maps

Vermont Passes First-of-Its-Kind Law to Regulate Data Brokers

Elon Musk’s Idea of ‘Excellent’ Journalism Comes From an Alleged Sex Cult

Against All Odds, ISPs Have Managed to Become Even Less Popular

Astronaut Alan Bean, the Fourth Man to Walk on the Moon, Has Died at 86

French Teens Arrested for Hacking Vevo, Defacing Despacito Music Video

Tesla Agrees to Settle Class Action Suit Over ‘Essentially Unusable’ Autopilot Feature [Updated]

Trump Announces Plan to Save ZTE After His Administration Basically Killed It

Apple Will Start Disclosing App Takedown Requests From Governments

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets