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Facebook's been promising to fix discrimination problems with its ads platform ever since a Pro Publica report last fall found that its targeting tools had the potential to violate civil rights laws.

An oldie, but a goodie. Well, perhaps a goodie with bad implications given our current state of affairs. 

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The open internet's worst nightmare is about to become a reality: the FCC has announced its plans to end net neutrality.

Adept is a self-navigating robot, designed to move things in challenging places. It processes a digital map of the room to navigate around objects. It also features onboard lasers to prevent collisions. Adept  is rechargeable and can run up to 19 hours per day. Read more...

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You can always count on death, taxes and sequels. But while some sequels, threequels and prequels can be disappointing, they come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes another chapter is just what a good story needs. These are the top 5 sequels of all time.

'Tis the season to drop $45.00 on one more festively red Donald Trump hat. Haven't you heard?

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Facebook just made Messenger a much better place to share photos.

The messaging app will now support photo-sharing at 4k resolutions, meaning high resolution photos sent within the app will look much sharper than before.

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With the change, photos up to 4096 x 4096 pixels will appear in full fidelity or, according to Facebook, "the highest quality many smartphones support." Previously, Messenger compressed very high resolution photos... Читать дальше...

LaVar Ball's interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN Monday was a hell of a thing.

Back in 2011, NASA scientists announced they had spotted compelling evidence that water sometimes still flowed on Mars. Now, researchers are backpedaling on these watery conclusions. 

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Doom — the original Doom, from 1993 — never had loot boxes. Now it doesThis is why we can't have nice things.

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A major player in keeping the internet running smoothly appeared to experience some problems of its own on Tuesday, with reports emerging that Cloudflare went down across parts of the U.S. 

If turkey is the attractive-but-boring star of the rom-com that is Thanksgiving Dinner, mashed potatoes are the funny best friend everyone low-key likes more than the protagonist. 

The U.S. government is about to take its biggest step yet in handing control of the internet to giant corporations. 

CBS News has officially cut ties with longtime television host Charlie Rose after The Washington Post reported eight women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Apple has confirmed with Mashable that some high school interns at the iPhone-producing Foxconn plant in China worked overtime to produce iPhones.

We're living in a cultural moment that finally takes accusations of sexual harassment and abuse seriously, and as such, we've been reading a lot of public apologies lately. 

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Jay-Z usually doles out his advice and thoughts in his lyrics or op-eds for New York Times, but one lucky fan was on the receiving end of his counsel in the middle of a concert in Cleveland, Ohio this week. 

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