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Donald Trump does not like Amazon.
We were reminded once again this morning of our Commander in Chief's specific animosity toward the tech giant as we are so often reminded of things in Trump World: via tweet. And yet, as is par for the 45th Presidential course, he managed to mostly miss the point. 
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Trump lambasted Amazon for reportedly paying zero federal taxes last year on $5.6 billion in profits, using the United States Postal Serv

Look out, Apple. Subaru's coming. 
The Japanese automaker unveiled its new 2019 Subaru Forester at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday. It's largely similar to previous Foresters, but there's one major upgrade: It now has a facial recognition feature.
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Okay, so it's not quite as sophisticated as the iPhone X's Face ID, which has a 1-in-1 million false acceptance rate and opens the phone like a password. But Subaru

Sportswear brand Under Armour announced today that its subsidiary MyFitnessPal was affected in a significant data beach, compromising as many as 150 million accounts. Account information involved in the breach includes user names, email addresses, and hashed passwords, but no financial information like credit card numbers or government or identifiers like social security numbers.Under Armour acquired MyFitnessPal, a website and mobile app for tracking diet and exercise activity, in 2015 for $47

Apple's iMessage isn't just for talking to your friends, anymore.
Today Apple officially rolled out its new Business Chat feature as part of the iOS 11.3 update. First previewed during last year's WWDC, Business Chat allows people to message companies in iMessage much like the way Facebook users chat with businesses on Messenger.
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Though Apple's version of the feature is still in beta and only in the United States and Canda

We want to be as overjoyed as Julianna. 
Redditor u/TheFunnyWhore posted this video of their daughter's excited rant about her new My Little Pony movie rental. It's not just any movie — it's the mermaid version, and despite only being in kindergarten, Julianna has some serious reviews.
"But no! This! Is! The! Mermaid! My Little Pony one," she exclaims. 
"I even said the F-word, this is so awesome," Julianna said, "Oh my god, I get a donut and this Xbox movie!"
Julianna even made

Under Armour's digital security is out of shape.  
The athletic apparel company today announced a massive data breach affecting at least 150 million users of its food and nutrition app MyFitnessPal. 
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"On March 25, the MyFitnessPal team became aware that an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in late February 2018," reads a press release detailing the breach.

It's damn near impossible to find someone who hasn't been awe-struck at Hayley Willams' powerful voice on any one of Paramore's anthems and now, thankfully, we can confirm that Kenny G is amongst them.
The legendary saxophonist let his "Paramore stan" flag fly high with his latest tweet, giving us all the caption of our dreams and the proof we needed to confirm that he is legendary. 
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"I bet everybody here is fake happ

Denon has announced the next generation of its HEOS HomeCinema devices, following their initial debut in 2016, as reported by TechRadar. The HEOS HomeCinema HS2 line is comprised of a sound bar and woofer, with the new versions carrying additional features like support for high-resolution file playback and the promise of Alexa integration later this summer.
The sound bar has a pair of dual 2x5-inch drivers and a pair of 20mm tweeters. It also supports playing hi-res files via FLAC, ALAC, DSD, a

You may be surprised to hear this, but smartphone notches have been pretty controversial: some people hate them, other people... don’t have strong opinions on the matter. But no one loves the notch. So to find out how people are really feeling, LG has gone to Reddit and asked. As spotted by Android Police, LG’s support team posted in r/Android with the timeless, thought-provoking question: “What are your thoughts on ‘the Notch’?”
“We would love to gathe

Star Wars fans are the luckiest fans in the world. I mean, that merchandise selection is seriously infinite. While we have seen numerous Star Wars-themed Bluetooth speakers already, it's time that you forget those — because there's a shiny, new line of merch in the galaxy.
Say goopa (that's hello in Ewok) to the Star Wars Bluetooth Speakers by iHome. 
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Remember how Darth Vader's ship, the TIE Advanced x1,

A proposed State Department form would require all US visa applicants to disclose their social media handles, according to a Bloomberg report. The requirement is significantly broader than previous filings, which had made disclosure voluntary and applied to only a portion of visa applicants identified for extra scrutiny. The public has 60 days to comment on the proposal; comments can be sent to [email protected].
The new forms will list specific social media platforms and require app

A proposed State Department form would require all US visa applicants to disclose their social media handles, according to a Bloomberg report. The requirement is significantly broader than previous filings, which had made disclosure voluntary and applied to only a portion of visa applicants identified for extra scrutiny. The public has 60 days to comment on the proposal; comments can be sent to [email protected].
The new forms will list specific social media platforms and require app

Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of his high school sweetheart Hae Min Lee and gained national interest for being the subject of the podcast "Serial," was granted a new trial. 
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state's second highest court, upheld a judge's ruling on Thursday with a vote of two to one that Syed's attorney in the murder trial failed to provide evidence that could have "directly contradicted the State's theory of when Syed had the opportunity and did

We all need to rethink our approach to storing files. We have too much data and too many devices to manage it all on a single device.
What we all need is a platform-agnostic cloud service that stores all our files in the cloud and gives us access to them wherever and whenever we need. Is that so much to ask? Luckily, there's no shortage of cloud services that can do this. So why pCloud Premium Plus Cloud Storage?
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John Mulaney is making his triumphant return to Saturday Night Live, but this time he'll be hosting.
The comedian and former SNL writer announced on Twitter Thursday that he'll be hosting April 14's episode of Saturday Night Live along with musical guest Jack White. Oh boy pic.twitter.com/FBFRMy8rMq
— John Mulaney (@mulaney) March 29, 2018Mulaney started on SNL as a writer in 2008 and has occasionally appeared on Weekend Update segments, most recently appearing earlier this month alon

What does it take to get some peace and quiet around here? 
You know the drill: You're submerged in distracting office chatter at work, and once you get home, family members or roommates are suddenly the loudest people you know — or your neighbor is throwing a party on a Tuesday night. And when you're traveling, you're always seated within an ear-shot of the kid that won't stop crying.
Headphones are a great way to drown out the sound, but no matter how high you turn up the volum

Facebook is having a bad time after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and concerns over data privacy have entered public consciousness more than ever. Now, Apple is adding a feature to its devices to assure users it won’t use data without their permission. More specifically, it’ll try to do so transparently, rather than catching users off guard or sneaking details inthe  Terms of Service than nobody actually reads. iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.5 include a new privacy icon that will

Adnan Syed, the man at the center of Serial’s 2014 investigation into the murder of high schooler Hae Min Lee, will get a new trial, NBC Washington reports. Although Syed was initially granted a new trial in 2016, the state appealed the decision. Today, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided it would uphold that ruling, paving the way for Syed’s new case.In 2000, Syed was convicted for the first-degree murder of Lee, his ex-girlfriend. Lee’s body was found in 1999 in a

Would you wear a piece of hardware that could read your thoughts and send them to a computer? The answer to that question, in light of current events, may be different depending on who is making the product. It sounds pretty cool, in theory: you slide on some sort of headset device, lean back in your favorite recliner, think about sending a Facebook message, and it’s sent. Simple. Seconds later, you hear a chime, and think about reading a reply – which promptly pops up on the neares

In a year of epic superhero movie landmarks like Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, one superhero will likely stand on his own as a hilariously irreverent sidebar among 2018's film releases. Of course, we're talking about everyone's favorite "Merc with a Mouth": Deadpool 2 hits theaters May 18.
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When the first Deadpool movie was released in 2016, it broke several reco

With the triumphant return of Roseanne 21 years after its last episode, the world seems like it's primed and ready to take a look back to the past and reboot as many classic television shows as possible.
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The world is in luck; there are already so many beloved (albeit mostly white) TV shows that are well on their way to getting rebooted, from 1980s staples like Miami Vice to the short-lived but transcendent '60s c

Facebook's security and product leads have been acting globally in the company's effort to regain user trust and protect the integrity of elections worldwide. The world's largest social network cannot take back what occurred on its platform during the 2016 presidential election, but the team has been trying to prevent bad actors, like Russian trolls, from using Facebook to nefariously affect election results in the future. 
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Google has banned the term “Kodi” from its autocomplete feature, meaning those who look for information on the set-top box will have to type out the full term in order to search, as reported by TorrentFreak. Google has been increasing its anti-piracy efforts in recent years, banning terms from autocomplete and making changes to its search algorithms in order to demote copyright-infringing material.
While Kodi is a legal set-top box for streaming, it supports a myriad of third-party

iPhone users at more than 100 hospitals and clinics in the US can now access parts of their medical records through the Health app, Apple announced today. The Health Records section of the app debuted in January with the iOS 11.3 beta, and today’s update makes it available to everyone who updates their phone to the latest version.The medical information — such as allergies, medical conditions, vaccinations, lab tests, medical procedures, and vitals — will be available to iPhon

Instagram was very quick to remove GIFs from Stories after it was discovered that Giphy — the company responsible for overseeing the GIF library — had let a racist image slip through. (Snapchat also removed GIFs as a result of the incident.) But now the ability to add GIFs to your Instagram Stories is being restored, according to TechCrunch.Giphy removed the racist GIF sticker immediately after being alerted of its presence. “After investigation, a bug was found in our content

Portions of the Cambridge Analytica data on as many as 50 million Facebook users may still be out in the wild, according to a report yesterday from the UK’s Channel 4 News. The news organization says it has seen a cache of data dating back to the 2014 survey results Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan collected with his app “thisisyourdigitallife.” Kogan later sold that data to Cambridge Analytica, which had connections to the Trump campaign and may have used it to

If you've ever had concerns about your iPhone's battery, you're going to want to download the latest iOS update.
Apple just released iOS 11.3, which adds the new "battery health" feature that allows you to check whether your iPhone's battery has degraded. It also lets you see if Apple is throttling your device due to a bad battery. 
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The update is available now in Settings —> General —> Software Update.
Once

Facebook has a four-part plan to protect its platform from malicious attacks during the 2018 US midterm elections, company executives said today. In a conference call with reporters, representatives from Facebook’s security, product, and advertising teams laid out their strategy for preventing the kinds of problems that plagued it during the 2016 campaign. While most bad actors are motivated by profits, executives said, state-sponsored attackers continue in their efforts to manipulate pub

An update to Microsoft’s Services Agreement, to roll out on May 1, penalizes offensive language across Microsoft products, including Xbox and Skype. It raises a few questions about what the company considers offensive and how deeply into your communications they can delve in order to investigate. Originally spotted by law student Jonathan Corbett, the changes to the Service Agreement seem to focus on Xbox Live specifically: In the Code of Conduct section, we’ve clarified that use of

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is trying to stymie the gun control fight the best way she knows how — by bullying teenage survivors.
Ingraham shared an article on Twitter yesterday revealing Parkland survivor David Hogg's rejection from four separate colleges. Folks on Twitter immediately pounced on the pundit for this non-bit-of-news, before Hogg jumped in and launched a boycott himself, enjoining advertisers to withdraw from her show.
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German automation company Festo has a history of making kooky robotic versions of wildlife. It has previously constructed a kangaroo, an elephant trunk, and ants, and now, it has come up with a walking, rolling robot spider as well as a robotic flying fox, as spotted by IEEE Spectrum.
If the idea of a rolling spider seems terrible, let me cement your fears and assure you this robot is based on the very real flic-flac spider, which lives in the Sahara and escapes predators with cartwheels and fl

Uber’s self-driving cars do not use Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle computing platform, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang clarified on Wednesday. The computer graphics cards maker continues to distance itself from what is considered the first fatal accident involving a self-driving car.“Uber develops their own sensing and driving technology,” Huang said during a Q&A session with the press at Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose.“Uber d

Finally, Cadillac has an SUV to rival popular small luxury rivals such as the BMW X1 and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque. Based on the fact that SUVs are about the only Cadillacs anyone is buying these days, the 2019 XT4 should help get more foot traffic in showrooms. There’s just one thing: you can’t get the XT4 with Cadillac’s excellent Super Cruise driver assistance system.
Super Cruise debuted last year on the flagship CT6 and we found it set Cadillac apart from every other

The U.S. IPO market had its best quarter by proceeds in three years, according to the IPO research company Renaissance Capital.
That kind of momentum has seemingly set the stage for some big names in tech to march onto the public market in the second quarter.
Forty-three companies raised a collective $15.6 billion through their IPOs, says Renaissance, though not all were tech deals. One was the IPO of security company ADT, which had been taken private in early 2016 in a $6.9 billion leverag

After beta testing the update since January, Apple today is rolling out iOS 11.3 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The new version has a slew of additions, including new Animoji characters for the iPhone X, improved ARKit for more advanced augmented reality, and the ability to turn off processor throttling for iPhones with aging batteries inside.That last feature is the result of a hailstorm of criticism and bad press that Apple faced when it was discovered that iOS automatically slows down

Twitter is introducing a feature called Timestamps that will allow anyone to tweet a live video or replay that starts at the exact moment they want it to. Twitter said it decided to introduce the feature after seeing users tweet live videos along with a specific time in the video they wanted to talk about.
To use Timestamps, you just tap to share a live video. The video will then pop up, and you can use the scroll bar to select the time you want your followers to start watching. Then, you can a