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• 27 Game Of Thrones Questions Season 8 Needs To Answer

  19-03-2019 23:57 via gamespot.com
  
  Game of Thrones Season 8 is almost here.Say what you want about HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation--at least it's going to have an ending. Author George R.R. Martin's books remain in limbo, with two final novels still in progress as the TV show's last season approaches. With a premiere date on April 14, Game of Thrones Season 8 is almost here.The show was never going to be perfect, and we've had our fair share of gripes. Martin famously has said that he once considered the series unfilmable. The s
  
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• Trump Dismisses Democratic Push to Pack Supreme Court

  19-03-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Tuesday rejected the idea that has gained traction among Democrats of adding seats to the Supreme Court, saying it will "never happen.""I wouldn’t entertain that," the president said Tuesday at a press conference at the White House. "If they can’t catch up through the ballot box winning an election, they want to try a different way.""We would have no interest in that whatsoever. It will never happen." he added."“It won’t happen, I guarant
  
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• Guaido official defends Venezuelan consulate takeover

  19-03-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  As US President Donald Trump told a press conference with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that his administration could impose "a lot tougher" sanctions on Venezuela, Marcano showed journalists around the consulate.Some rooms were empty, but the building was dotted with art and pictures of former President Hugo Chavez -- Maduro's predecessor -- maps of Venezuela, piles of passport applications and a cabinet where shirts remained on hangers.
  
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• New figures reflect lack of diversity at elite New York City high schools

  19-03-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Only seven black students were offered admission to Stuyvesant High School's freshman class of 895 students.
  
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• NASA captures devastating Nebraska floods from high above

  19-03-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Many of NASA's satellites spend their entire lives pointed deep into the cosmos, but the space agency also had plenty of lenses pointed back down towards Earth. NASA tracks all kinds of things that happen here on our planet, including weather systems and natural disasters like the record-setting floods currently taking place in Nebraska.In a new series of images, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite shows how dramatically much of Nebraska has changed as flood waters turned otherwise calm waterways into la
  
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• Anthem Sales Open Strong In The US, Second-Biggest BioWare Release Ever For First Month

  19-03-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The NPD Group has released its US sales report for February, revealing the best-selling hardware and software for the month and providing an overall health update on the industry.Starting with game sales, BioWare's Anthem was the best-selling title of the month, beating out other new releases like Jump Force, Far Cry New Dawn, and Metro Exodus.Anthem enjoyed the second highest launch-month sales in BioWare's history, only behind 2012's Mass Effect 3. It is now 2019's second best-selling game, tr
  
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• Stephen Colbert postpones surprise trip to New Zealand after mosque attacks

  19-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephen Colbert was supposed to travel to New Zealand on Wednesday for a week of shows. After the mosque attacks, the trip has been postponed.
  
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• New Zealand attacks unite government on gun control. America stands divided.

  19-03-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Second Amendment, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, is 'not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever': Our view
  
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• Made In Abyss: Journey's Dawn Official English Trailer

  19-03-2019 23:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Made In Abyss: Journey's Dawn releases in select theaters in English subtitled on March 20 and English Dub on March 25.
  
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• Towns in need of fresh water after Nebraska flooding

  19-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Historic flooding in Nebraska has caused multiple water treatment plants to shut down.Peru, Nebraska has trucks full of water bottles, but with college students returning soon, they will need more.
  
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• W.Va. suit accuses diocese of knowingly employing pedophiles

  19-03-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Catholic diocese and its former bishop in West Virginia knowingly employed pedophiles and failed to conduct adequate background checks on camp and school workers, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the state attorney general.
  
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• Google's Stadia Controller Hides The Konami Code, Which Has Some New Tricks

  19-03-2019 22:35 via gamespot.com
  
  At Google's GDC 2019 keynote, company VP Phil Harrison revealed a new cloud gaming streaming service called Stadia. During the presentation, Harrison also unveiled a new controller specifically designed for Stadia. The floor model that's currently being displayed at the show, as confirmed by GameSpot' sister site CNET, has the Konami code engraved on it. You can see the engraving in the tweet below.According to Polygon, you can go to Stadia's website and actually input the Konami code with your
  
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• Hands On With Google Stadia: Doom 2016 Gameplay

  19-03-2019 22:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Google Stadia promises to let you stream games across multiple devices and even switch between them. See what that looks like in this off-screen gameplay from Doom and a special tech demo from Google's 2019 GCD Gaming Announcement. (No Gameplay Sound)
  
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• Colleges weigh fate of students with tainted applications

  19-03-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — In the wake of a massive college bribery scheme, the schools caught in the middle have been left facing a thorny question: What to do about the students who may have been admitted through fraud?
  
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• The Remake Of Classic Horror Movie Jacob's Ladder Will Tackle PTSD, Writer Says

  19-03-2019 22:20 via gamespot.com
  
  The remake of the 1990 classic psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder was supposed to be released last month, until it was pushed back to an undisclosed date later this year. Adrian Lyne's film dealt with a haunted Vietnam War veteran who tries to discover a secret from his past by deciphering his own dreams, and over the years it has become a cult classic. This is mostly thanks to a twist near the end of the film that puts everything that came before it in a completely new light.GameSpot had
  
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• Google Stadia Hands-on Impressions From GDC 2019

  19-03-2019 22:19 via gamespot.com
  
  Google made a big splash at GDC 2019 with its announcement of Stadia, the cloud-based platform that streams games from a remote data center to nearly any device--laptops, phones, tablets, PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, and TVs with Chromecast. All graphics processing is relegated to off-site hardware, meaning there's little stress on your local hardware; all you need is a strong internet connection. It's a technologically impressive concept that has come to fruition, and we were one of the first to exp
  
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• Apex Legends Season 1 Battle Pass: All The Skins You Can Earn

  19-03-2019 22:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Apex Legends' first season has begun, and with it comes the game's first battle pass. As in similar games like Fortnite, the battle pass gives you a bunch of new cosmetics, plus the opportunity to earn a whole lot more as you play the game. There are new character skins and lines, frames, and weapon skins on offer, allowing you to spiff up your arsenal as you work on earning all 100 levels.The battle pass dishes out a few of the coolest things right out of the gate. Those are three character sk
  
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• Trump gets a U.S. Supreme Court victory on immigration detention

  19-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed the U.S. government's authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime - potentially even years - after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he pursues hardline immigration policies.The court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines, with its conservative justices in the majority and its liberal justices dissenting, that federal authorities could place such immigrants into indefinite deten
  
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• DOOM 2016 - Google Stadia Gameplay

  19-03-2019 22:06 via gamespot.com
  
  We got the chance to rip and tear all over again playing DOOM 2016 on Stadia, Google's new video game streaming platform, at GDC 2019.
  
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• Doom Eternal Gameplay Running On Google Stadia

  19-03-2019 21:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Watch brand-new, never-before-seen footage of Doom Eternal running on Stadia, Google's new video game streaming platform, at GDC 2019.
  
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• Artist creates 2-acre image of Beto O'Rourke

  19-03-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  An artist and Beto O'Rourke fan took his support for the Texas Democratic presidential candidate to a new level in creating a piece of artwork of O'Rourke's face in an Austin, Texas field. (March 19)
  
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• Trump administration plays favorites with faith-based media

  19-03-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  According to one account, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised that “people of all faiths will have ‘something to say’ about the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan the White House is expected to announce after Israel’s elections in two weeks.”
  
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• USC to deny students connected to cheating scheme class registration, transcripts as their status is frozen

  19-03-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  USC says it won't let students currently at the school who may be connected to the nation's college admissions bribery scandal to register for class.
  
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• What's New To Netflix This Week?

  19-03-2019 21:45 via gamespot.com
  
  If you're looking to unravel events from the past, then this week's new Netflix offerings will be right up your alley. While the streaming service is also known for its movie options, the majority of March's selections came out earlier this month.Coming out on March 22 is ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre. The documentary tells the tale of the murder of most of the members of the Miami Snowband who some called "The Irish Beatles" during the 1970s. Almost 40 years later, the documentary see
  
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• NASA's plan to scoop up dirt from asteroid hits a snag

  19-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — NASA's plan to scoop up dirt and gravel from an asteroid has hit a snag, but scientists say they can overcome it.
  
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• Netanyahu's main election rival sidesteps Palestinian statehood

  19-03-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest election rival, former army general Benny Gantz, said on Tuesday he would seek peace with the Palestinians but stopped short of endorsing their goal for statehood.Gantz, a centrist candidate, said in an interview with Hadashot TV news that Israel has a moral obligation to "strive for peace.""I will talk to anyone I can in order to advance a diplomatic solution," Gantz said.When asked whether the ultimate goal would be that of a Palestinian st
  
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• The BMW 3-series Gran Turismo Will Soon Be Gone for Good

  19-03-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  There will be no weird hatchback derivative of the new G20-generation 3-series.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke campaign: Bernie Sanders' supporters fuel misinformation about Texas Democrat's record-breaking fundraising haul

  19-03-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke's record-breaking fundraising haul has appeared to upset supporters of Bernie Sanders, who began spreading misinformation about how the Texas Democrat’s campaign managed to top that of the Vermont senator’s in its first 24 hours.A tweet claiming the former congressman’s 2020 campaign was part of a supposed financial kickback with the Texas Democratic Party went viral after Mr O'Rourke released his fundraising figures from his first day on the campaign trail
  
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• GDC: Google Forms First-Party Games Studio For Stadia

  19-03-2019 21:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Google has finally given the world its first look at its big video game initiative: Stadia, an ambitious cloud gaming platform that will allow players to stream games across smartphones, tablets, computers, and TVs. The company has already announced a handful of third-party titles coming to the platform, but it'll also be venturing into game development with its own internal studio.During its Game Developers Conference presentation, Google announced the formation of Stadia Games and Entertainmen
  
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• Former House Speaker Paul Ryan joins board of Fox News parent company Fox Corp.

  19-03-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was named Tuesday to the board of the new Fox Corp. as the stock was to begin trading as a stand-alone public company.
  
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• GDC 2019: Google Stadia Will Be "Complementary" To PCs And Consoles, Says Ubisoft CEO

  19-03-2019 21:11 via gamespot.com
  
  Google announced its cloud gaming platform, Stadia with an in-depth presentation detailing the tech and its features. The idea promises to open up high-fidelity gaming to everyone regardless of whether they can afford a gaming PC or console. Still, some areas of the US have low broadband penetration, which is why Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot says the platform is likely to be used alongside consoles and PCs, not as an outright replacement--at least for the time being."You have to look at Stadia as co
  
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• Destiny 2 Ascendant Challenge Week 5 Video Guide -- (March 19-26)

  19-03-2019 20:46 via gamespot.com
  
  Here's where to find the portal for the Ascendant Challenge and what to do while you're inside to land some Powerful gear.
  
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• All Of The Best PS4 Game Deals In The PlayStation Store This Week

  19-03-2019 20:45 via gamespot.com
  
  It's a great time to be a PS4 owner. Some of the best games in recent years--Bloodborne, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Marvel's Spider-Man, etc.--have been released as PS4 exclusives, and over in the PlayStation Store, there are always special sales going on in addition to the rotating weekly deals.This week is particularly loaded with deals, starting with the Great Indoors Sale, which has hundreds of games steeply discounted, like Horizon Zero Dawn ($17), Borderlands 2 ($5), The Last Guardian
  
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• Deadly floods in Midwest cause widespread damage

  19-03-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  More rain this week could worsen the already devastating floods in the Midwest that have killed at least four people, and inundated stretches of Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri River. Jillian Kitchener reports.
  
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• Destiny 2: Ascendant Challenge Week 5 Guide (March 19-26)

  19-03-2019 20:38 via gamespot.com
  
  We're deep into the Jokers Wild expansion of Destiny 2, with lots of new content for players to tackle. There are new Gambit activities, Gambit Prime and The Reckoning, which give out new loot. There's the allegiance quest, which comes complete with special rewards depending on if you choose to side with the Drifter or the Vanguard. And there's the quest to capture Thorn, the powerful Exotic hand cannon that's becoming a big part of the story of the Season of the Drifter. It even has a hidden st
  
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• GDC: Google Showcases One Of Stadia's Coolest Features

  19-03-2019 20:20 via gamespot.com
  
  Google pulled back the curtain on its video game plans during the Game Developers Conference, unveiling its ambitious Stadia cloud gaming platform. Through Stadia, players and developers will not only be able to stream video games across a variety of devices such as smartphones, tablets, and TVs, they'll even be able to share precise in-game moments with others.During the company's keynote address, veteran game designer Dylan Cuthbert took the stage to discuss Stadia's State Share technology. Us
  
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• Apex Legends: All Of Octane's Best Skins

  19-03-2019 20:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Apex Legends has a new character on its roster: Octane, an adrenaline junky of a character who can sacrifice his health to increase his speed. He comes along with the game's first battle pass and a bunch of new cosmetic items added to the game--both for all the other characters and weapons, and for Octane himself.Octane is a daredevil speed freak, and his skins lean on that identity. Among the Legendary versions, he has a couple that evoke a motocross daredevil look, and two more with a Japanes
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to sneaking aboard international flight

  19-03-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who's been dubbed a serial stowaway was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to sneaking past Chicago airport security last year, boarding a plane and flying to London without a ticket.
  
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• Apple just launched new iMacs with faster Intel processors and AMD Vega GPUs

  19-03-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  After launching new iPad Air and iPad mini tablets on Monday, both featuring specs that are basically on par with the more expensive iPad Pro, Apple on Tuesday unveiled updates for the iMac -- its iconic all-in-one desktop that was last upgraded nearly two years ago. As expected, we're not looking at a massive redesign for the 2019 iMac models. Instead, we're getting faster processors and better graphics cards across the board.Both the 4K and 5K iMacs get the new 8-core Intel 9th-generation proc
  
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• Surveillance Appears to Show Person Carrying Rifle Wandering California Elementary School

  19-03-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators say a northern California elementary school staff member called police after watching surveillance footage of an armed person scoping out the school.
  
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• How Google Stadia Pricing Could Work, According To Ubisoft's CEO

  19-03-2019 20:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Google's Stadia announcement shared an in-depth look at the streaming platform, technology, features, and more. One conspicuously missing component was price, either for the first-party controller or for games. Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot, whose company partnered with Google for the Project Stream test last year, shared some thoughts in an interview. Project Stream was a free test of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, but how will we pay for future games offered through Stadia?"I think we will have a multit
  
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• Trump Emoluments Challengers Face Skeptical Appeals Court Panel

  19-03-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition to the president might actually help drive up business at other local hotels because his detractors wouldn’t want to stay in an establishment bearing his name, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Dennis Shedd said at a sometimes contentious two-hour hearing in Richmond, Virginia.The judges, all appointees of Republican presidents, repeatedly pressed and interrupted lawyers representing the District of Columbia and Maryland, who claim the president is violating the emoluments clauses of the
  
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• Lithuanian leader mulls moving embassy to Jerusalem

  19-03-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Centrist Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said Tuesday he would consider moving Lithuania's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem, should he win May's presidential elections.Skvernelis said that moving the mission could lead to closer ties with Israel and the United States, which Lithuania sees as a key security buffer againstRussia.
  
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• Losses from US Midwest flooding seen above $1 bn

  19-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Waters began to recede Tuesday in the US Midwest after historic flooding that claimed at least three lives and caused losses estimated at more than $1 billion.Hundreds of homes and businesses were inundated, roadways damaged, and bridges washed away in several states, with much of Nebraska and parts of Iowa hardest hit.Officials also were concerned about crop and livestock losses at farms.
  
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• Trump: Expanding US Supreme Court will 'never happen'

  19-03-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped down ambitious proposals being circulated by some Democratic White House candidates to expand the number of justices on the US Supreme Court, dismissing it as election sour grapes.Trump said Democrats were seeking to rebalance the nine-member court or draw it once again to a more liberal lean after the high court shifted to the right with the president managing to place two of his nominees -- Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh -- on the bench."So if the
  
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• Castle Crashers Releases For PS4 And Switch Soon

  19-03-2019 19:49 via gamespot.com
  
  It's nearing four years since Castle Crashers made the jump to current gen with a remaster on Xbox One. It's been even longer since San Diego-based developers, The Behemoth, launched the side-scrolling beat-em-up on last generation's hardware. Now, in celebration of the game's 10th--going on 11th--year on the market, the studio has announced that Castle Crashers is re-re-releasing, this time for Nintendo Switch and PS4.In a Twitter post, The Behemoth stated Castle Crashers Remastered, the versio
  
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• 'Trump of the Tropics': Five things you should know about the Brazilian president's visit with Trump

  19-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's controversial new president and Donald Trump admirer, visits the White House to talk trade, Venezuela and other issues.
  
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• 7 Reasons the Tesla Model Y Disappoints Investors

  19-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla (ticker: TSLA) investors didn't get the reaction they wanted from the market following the highly anticipated unveiling of the Model Y, Tesla's new SUV starting at $39,000.Tesla stock finished Monday's session under $270, its lowest closing price this year.The stock is down 22.3 percent in the past three months, and it seems Wall Street isn't expecting much help from TSLA's Model Y. Several analysts and experts, including former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, sa
  
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• GDC: Google's Confirmed Stadia Games Include Doom Eternal

  19-03-2019 19:39 via gamespot.com
  
  During the Google GDC 2019 keynote, company VP Phil Harrison revealed a new cloud gaming streaming service called Stadia. Following its use in the Project Stream test last year, Assassin's Creed Odyssey was featured prominently during the event, but it wasn't the only triple-A game promised to run on the hardware. At a later point in the presentation, id Software executive producer Marty Stratton took the stage to announce Doom Eternal would be one of the games coming to Stadia.Stratton said tha
  
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• Trump says 'something must be done' about big tech alleged anti-conservative bias - while spending $3.5m in Facebook political ads

  19-03-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has accused major technology firms such as Facebook and Google of “radical left” bias – even as he is spending millions of dollars in political adverts on the platforms.In a post on Twitter – which he also included in his accusation – the president repeated a claim he and many on the right have made before, namely that big tech companies reduce or minimise access to conservative content.“Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Med
  
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