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    World Dude Who Tried to Shake Down Mark Zuckerberg Caught in Ecuador After Three Years on the Run – Gizmodo

    A few years ago, a man named Paul Ceglia filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the two signed a software development contract in 2003 with provisions conveniently giving Ceglia retroactive co-ownership of … Read more via Gizmodo –...
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    World Facebook Pulls Its Data-Harvesting Onavo VPN From App Store After Apple Says It Violates Rules – Gizmodo News

    Facebook has yanked its vampiric Onavo Protect service—which purports to be a privacy-enhancing Virtual Private Network … Read more via Gizmodo – https://ift.tt/2w0X0dF Get more World News
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    World Twitter’s One Step Closer to Figuring Out Why It Sucks – Gizmodo

    Twitter, a social network known for its perpetual feed of virulence and targeted harassment, is turning to academia to answer the decade-old question: Why is it so bad? The social network announced on Monday that it has chosen two partners to help it “measure the health of public conversation...
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    Metro Can You Get Sick From Air Conditioning? – Gizmodo news

    At the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes, air-conditioning can seem almost too good to be true. It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent … Read more via Lifehacker –...
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    The Russia-Linked Firm That Paid Michael Cohen $500,000 Also Registered Alt-Right Websites - Gizmodo

    Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen is starting to take heat from the big guy himself over a brewing scandal involving a shady front company that bears every outward appearance of a thinly veiled pay-to-play scheme peddling whatever influence Cohen had on the president. Reports have...
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    Facebook Already Spent $3.3 Million Lobbying this Year – Gizmodo

    Facebook spent $3.3 million on lobbying in the United States during the first quarter of 2018, disclosures filed with the government Friday showed. The multi-million dollar effort marks the largest tab the company has ever racked up on lobbying in a single quarter. According to the documents...
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    Flies Love to Ejaculate, Experiment Finds – Gizmodo

    If there’s one thing I know about human males, it’s that they love ejaculating. It can sometimes seem like their entire existence is motivated by a need to shoot sperm and seminal fluid from their genitalia. But have you ever wondered from where they acquired such a desire? A team of...
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    World How to Watch President Trump’s State of the Union Speech on YouTube, Facebook, in VR, and...

    Photo: Getty Tonight, President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union speech to the American people at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific, 5am Moscow time). And if you don’t have TV, there are plenty of ways to watch on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. You can even watch in VR. … via...
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    World Stunning Fossil Discovery Pushes First Human Migration Out of Africa Back 50,000 Years – Gizmodo

    The Misilya-1 jaw. (Image: Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna) Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered the partial jawbone from what appears to be a modern human. Dated to between 175,000 to 200,000 years old, the fossil is 50,000 years older than any other human fossil found in the region...
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    Metro Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens – Gizmodo

    Image by Jim Cooke Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought about using it. In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each …...
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    World Cancer Is Killing Fewer Americans, But a Racial Gap Endures – Gizmodo

    A close-up look of cervical cancer. Photo: American Cancer Society/Getty Images Here’s some good news, courtesy of the American Cancer Society’s annual Facts & Figures report: Fewer Americans are getting and dying from cancer, at least as of 2015, continuing a long decline seen since the...
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