Snapchat employees abused data access, spied on users: report

Snapchat employees have been using internal tools — which offer them privileged access to user data — to spy on people’s pages, a report says.

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Female paralysis tick

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Turning aircon into a climate fighter; Open-source seeds; Otlet; and the truth about tiny houses

Hear about a plan to turn the air-conditioners of the world into a network of carbon-sucking fuel producers. Learn about a new licencing system for open-source seeds. Get the low down on who really lives in “tiny houses” and why.

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Facebook Says It Won't Take Down A Doctored Video Of Nancy Pelosi That They Know Is Fake

The video makes the House Speaker appear to slur her words.

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Baltimore mayor open to paying off hackers who paralyzed city, despite once likening it to 'rewarding bank robbers'

The mayor of Baltimore said this week that he’s open to paying off the hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer systems and are now demanding about $100,000 to restore the data, despite once likening the payoff as “rewarding bank robbers for robbing banks.”

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CrossFit quits Facebook, Instagram, accuses social media giant of censorship, being 'utopian socialists'

CrossFit, the branded workout regimen, accused Facebook of being “utopian socialists” and left the platform after the social network deleted a group dedicated to a diet.

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The real cost of cutting the cord: What streaming companies don't want you to know

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with cable. We like television. We love a handful of stations. But we don't need hundreds of useless channels, many of them boring, some of them in languages we don't understand. Month after month, we pay our cable bills, yet we use only a small fraction of what we pay for.

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