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Top Secret Spaceplane Lands in Florida After Spending Over 2 Years in Orbit
The U.S. Air Force’s top secret spaceplane, the Boeing X-37B, landed in Florida early Sunday after 780 days—over 2 years and one month—in orbit around the Earth. And we still have no idea what it was doing while it was up there. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) mission was the fifth time that the … Continued
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Adobe Gets Permission From U.S. to Continue Offering Services in Venezuela
Adobe has gained permission from the U.S. government to continue offering its Creative Cloud services, including Photoshop and Illustrator, to customers in Venezuela, according to a new announcement posted to Adobe’s website. The company had previously announced that it would be forced to delete the accounts of all users in Venezuela because of an executive … Continued
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Netflix and Spotify Might Be Required to Issue Emergency Alerts From the Government Just Like TV and Radio
Streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify might be required to issue emergency alerts from the government if U.S. lawmakers have their way. TV and radio stations operating in the U.S. are required by law to issue emergency warnings, like the infamous fake missile alert for Hawaii issued in early 2018, but lawmakers want to … Continued
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Tech NewsPolitics
Biden Forgot to Buy the Web Address For His Latinx Outreach Campaign and Now Trump Owns It
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced a new campaign yesterday called “Todos Con Biden” (Everyone With Biden) to help organize Latinx support for the former vice president. But there’s just one little problem: The Biden campaign forgot to register the web address, Facebook name, and Twitter handle for the new initiative, allowing the Trump reelection … Continued
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Tech News
Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force
Raytheon has announced that it delivered the first publicly acknowledged anti-drone laser weapon to the U.S. Air Force earlier this month. The military contractor said the Air Force will deploy the weapon in a year-long experiment overseas in order to train people how to use it and test its effectiveness out in the real world. … Continued
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Tech NewsPolitics
Did President Trump Flash His Middle Finger to Women Astronauts in This Viral Video?
Video of President Donald Trump flashing his middle finger went viral over the weekend. Did the president intentionally flip the bird to women astronauts who corrected one of his factual inaccuracies? That’s open to interpretation. But it’s at least the fourth time during his presidency that Trump appeared to give a sneaky middle finger to … Continued
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Huge Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy
Federal authorities in the U.S. have unsealed charges against the South Korean operator of a child porn ring that’s been billed as the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplace.” The child porn site, known as Welcome to Video, charged some users in Bitcoin and authorities say they successfully unmasked those Bitcoin transactions in order … Continued
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Huawei Reports Healthy Sales Growth Despite U.S. Export Ban
Huawei is reporting healthy sales growth, despite U.S. bans against the Chinese-based tech giant, according to a company statement released on Wednesday. Huawei saw revenue increase 24.4 percent for the last three quarters of the fiscal year, a financial success that is sure to frustrate the U.S. government. The U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei to … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Trump Campaign Running Facebook Ads with Racial Slur
President Donald Trump’s official Facebook page has been running a series of ads that feature an anti-Native American slur, according to the social media company’s archive of political ads. Trump can be heard referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren by the name “Pocahontas” in the ad, which started running on October 11. President Trump has repeatedly … Continued
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Tech NewsFakes
ABC News Broadcasts Fake Syria Bombing Video That’s Actually From a Kentucky Military Show in 2017
ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians. Turkey is indeed pushing into Syria and slaughtering Kurds along the way, but the video ABC News played last night is from a military gun demonstration in Kentucky that was published to YouTube … Continued
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Everything We Know About the Mass Shooting Video Screened at Trump’s Miami Resort
President Donald Trump’s resort in Miami hosted a conservative political conference this past weekend that included some violent parody videos, according to the New York Times. One of the viral videos, edited from a clip of the 2014 action movie Kingsman: The Secret Service, shows President Trump violently murdering political and media figures like Adam … Continued
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Tech NewsPolitics
President Trump’s Racist Bullshit Now Available on Twitch
President Donald Trump has joined Twitch, the social media platform for gamers, and already racked up 40,000 followers in less than 24 hours. The president, who’s very popular on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, appears to be expanding his social media footprint after recent complaints that Fox News doesn’t support him enough. Trump’s first livestream on … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple Sells Out Pro-Democracy Protesters in Hong Kong to Appease Chinese Government
Apple removed a smartphone app used by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong late Wednesday in the tech giant’s latest capitulation to China’s authoritarian government. The app, HKmap.live, allowed users to see Hong Kong police movements via crowdsourced information as cops in the region continue to brutalize the local population. Apple had previously banned the app, … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $8 Billion in Risperdal Case Involving Male Breast Growth
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $8 billion in punitive damages in a case involving the way that the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal was marketed. Some male patients have argued that the drug caused them to grow large breasts and that the company downplayed this side effect when marketing the drug to doctors. The … Continued
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Millionaire Fox News Host Says Twitter Has Made Some People Rich While Dividing America
Fox News host Tucker Carlson says that Twitter has harmed America by spreading hatred and division in the U.S., something that he insists wasn’t common 10 years ago. Carlson also says that Twitter is making people rich while dividing America. Seriously. “It’s hard to think of a company that’s hurt this country more than Twitter,” … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Know If Facebook Changed Ad Policies to Appease Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to know what President Donald Trump and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about during their Oval Office meeting last month. Warren, who’s leading the Democratic race along with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, even suggested in a series of tweets Monday night that Facebook may have changed one of … Continued
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Adobe Will Cancel All Subscriptions in Venezuela to Comply With U.S. Sanctions
Adobe users in Venezuela received an email yesterday notifying them that the company will soon suspend their subscriptions and delete their accounts. The move is a direct result of the Trump regime’s sanctions against the South American country, according to the email that users received on Monday. Adobe’s drastic action is an effort to comply … Continued
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Iran Releases Two Travel Bloggers Jailed for Flying Drone Without Permission
Two Australian travel bloggers who were jailed in Iran this summer for flying a drone without a license have been released and are reportedly back in Australia. The Australian government isn’t saying whether the two were swapped for an Iranian prisoner in Australia, but the timing of their release would suggest that’s precisely what happened. … Continued
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Someone ‘Highly Motivated’ Tried to Hack a 2020 Presidential Campaign, Microsoft Warns
Someone tried to hack at least one 2020 presidential campaign as well as journalists and government officials, according to a new warning from Microsoft. And that “someone” might be a group of hackers working for the Iranian government. That stunning news was shared by Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security & trust, … Continued
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Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group
LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other ridiculous things, to address the … Continued
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