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Facebook, which has long relied on other people to provide it with content, is going to start paying for its own stuff, too. Facebook is starting to talk to TV studios and other video producers about licensing shows, with the hope of boosting the social network’s video efforts. The talks, which include discussions for scripted…
The Russians aren’t the only ones watching you.Lyrics:Now if you’re black, watch your back cuz you never aloneThey take the data that you own and they don’t have to condoneWe go through episodes too like Attack of The ClonesExcept even Darth Vader wasn’t hacking our phones.To get byJust to get byJust to get by, just…
Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers, giving a desperate team on the ground around Detroit some hope. They started prepping meals and organizing hotel rooms. Story Continued Below SEIU…
Wanted: Columnists to say nice things about Donald Trump. Must be able to make cogent arguments in favor of the president-elect’s policies, appointees and statements. Experience preferred but not required. It’s not an actual want ad, but it might as well be one. As they discovered during the long campaign season, the nation’s newspapers and…
Overwatch’s holiday event, Winter Wonderland, started yesterday, and with it came new character skins and emotes. Widowmaker’s addition is a highlight intro in which she holds mistletoe over her head, then punches the viewer in the throat and steps on them. The fandom is having a moment with this. Widowmaker is a character based around…
Evernote just posted an update to its Privacy Policy that details how the company will make use of some new machine learning tools. In order for those tools to work, Evernote will need to allow a human review of your notes, and that’s not the only reason an employee would look at your notes. In…
A Yahoo conference last year. The company said it discovered a 2013 attack after analyzing files provided by law enforcement. Credit Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than…
The media needs to commit to its despised role more than ever. /samchills It was pretty much obvious at the outset of Liz Spayd’s tenure as New York Times public editor that the paper had elevated a dangerous simpleton into a position of influence. And now, with Spayd’s tone-deaf chiding of Times reporters for mostly…
California regulators ordered Uber to remove its self-driving vehicles from the road on the same day that the company’s vehicles were caught running red lights – violations the company immediately blamed on “human error”. “It is essential that Uber takes appropriate measures to ensure safety of the public,” the California department of motor vehicles (DMV)…
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Dec 14, 2016 Keywords for Search Engine Optimization of the week: Reach Up and Touch the Sky Because Mikey is Already Up There Dropping His Saltiest Shit Yet Opening titles: Set it Free…