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If the Democrats’ net neutrality bill were to pass through Congress, it’s likely that President Donald Trump would veto it, according to a new statement from the White House today.It’s not surprising that Trump is expected to veto the Democrat-led net neutrality initiative, but Monday’s statement is one of the first direct comments from the White House on the legislation that is expected to easily pass through the House of Representatives on Tuesday.The Save the Internet

Donald Trump's main policy initiative involves building a pointless wall across miles of empty desert. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that one local chapter of his administration has proposed doing the same at the annual arts and culture gathering known as Burning Man.
The Nevada branch of the Bureau of Land Management, which administers the Black Rock desert where Burning Man has been held since 1990, released in March a wildly unusual proposal calling for major changes to the event's

Google’s Home Hub smart display usually costs $149, but Rakuten is where you’ll be able to find it for far less. The Japanese e-commerce site is selling the Home Hub at a steep discount for $89.94, and with the offer code SAVE15 used at checkout, you can save an additional $13 and change. This brings the total down to $76.53 before tax.
This is the best deal that we’ve seen yet for the company’s smart display. It’s worth picking this up if you’re thinking abo

Last week, Amazon announced that Alexa-enabled devices are now able to handle patient information. It’s an exciting update that could make aspects of health care more accessible, but questions remain around privacy and how Amazon will (or won’t) be able to use the data it now has access to.Typically, health care workers can only share a patient’s health information with the patient and others in the health care system, according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accounta

Another app has abused the iOS enterprise certificate in order to bypass Apple’s App Store rules, security researchers at Lookout announced on Monday. The app is called Assistenza SIM and it could steal a user’s contacts, videos, photos, and real-time location data, as reported by TechCrunch. It could also tap people’s phone calls remotely.After researchers contacted Apple, the company revoked the app’s enterprise certificate, making it impossible to install it on an iOS

The Dunder Mifflin crew has made it to the Billboard charts, thanks to 17-year-old singer, Billie Eilish.
For those who have yet to hear Eilish's recently released debut LP, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, a track titled "my strange addiction" samples audio straight from the NBC comedy.
Specifically, the song references Michael Scott's action movie, Threat Level Midnight, which fans will recall tells the story of Michael Scarn, a secret agent portrayed by Scott himself.
One scene in th

FAFSA has everyone scouring their social media accounts. 
If you've attended college, you've probably had to fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or a FAFSA, which is basically a set of documents asking the government for funds to help out with tuition. Because you need to "prove" your need for financial aid, "I'm telling FAFSA" became a meme to respond to people flexing on Instagram and Twitter. 
When high schooler @worldwideliz_ tweeted an insanely well-produced prom

Warm weather and the spring season are giving us a seriously inspiring vibe — getting those tax returns back helps, too.
Whether you're moving homes, starting a new job, or simply have a fire under your ass to get your act together, there are a few purchases you can make to up your productivity levels. 
SEE ALSO: Best cheap laptops: 10 options for under $500
One of those must-haves is a new laptop. If you're in the market for something that's not a MacBook, you may find your companion

Twitter knows it has a spam problem. 
The social media platform famous for Russian bots and harassment announced on April 8 that it has finally had it up to *here* with spammers and is going to take a small step to partially rectify the situation. That's right, as of now you can only follow 400 accounts per day.  
SEE ALSO: Twitter suspends spammy follow/unfollow social media companies
"Follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow," Tweeted the Twitter Safety account. "Who does that? Spammers. S

I'm no math whiz, but I know a calculator when I see one. 
Twitter users have started drawing a cute little calculator out of numbers and dashes, and there's a small chunk of space for several words. It's the perfect place to express your hot take, so of course it's become a meme.
The tweets begin with "According to my calculations" and then feature the calculator, usually bearing some sort of juicy quip.
Let's take a look and see how they all add up. 
1. Is hating Disney a personality

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has struck a deal with Tesla to count the Silicon Valley automaker’s cars as part of its fleet in the European Union, lowering FCA’s average emissions output ahead of strict new EU regulations coming in 2021. Tesla will make “hundreds of millions of euros” from the sale of these emissions credits, according to the Financial Times.The scheme resembles the way regulatory credits can be bought and sold in the United States, which has been a s

There are a lot of unpopular opinions out there. Some are polarizing (I will go to my grave defending the honor of pineapple on pizza), while some takes aren't actually that controversial. 
But every so often there is one opinion so devious, so purely evil, that it rises above the rest. I'm talking, of course, about eating cereal with water. 
Redditor u/DubitablyIndubitable shared their beliefs on how this breakfast food should be eaten with a post that has since become the top of all

Zoom,the only profitable unicorn in line to go public, priced its initial public offering at between $28 and $32 per share Monday morning. The video conferencing business plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM.”
Zoom, valued at $1 billion in 2017, initially filed to go public in March. According to its amended IPO filing, the company will raise up to $348.1 million by selling 10.9 million Class A shares. The offering will grant Zoom a fully diluted market value of $

Nine trillion metric tons. 
That's how much ice Earth's glaciers lost in the 55 years between 1961 and 2016. An international team of scientists used satellite and direct field observations to conclude that Earth's glaciers have melted such a profound sum of ice in the last half-century. They published their report Monday in the journal Nature.  
If one were to assume an average weight of 735,000 pounds for a 747 airliner (not the colossal Alaskan bear), that comes out to around 27 bil

Microsoft just released preview versions of its Chromium-powered Edge browser today. If you’ve downloaded it to test it, you’ve probably noticed it’s very stable and performs surprisingly well. It even performs better than Google’s own Chrome browser on Windows 10, despite being built on the same Chromium open-source project. While it’s early days for Microsoft’s new Edge, the company has revealed all of the Google services it has replaced or removed from its

You know how every tech expert in your life told you how crucially important it was to safely eject a flash drive before ripping it out of your PC? Have you been that tech expert yourself?Well, Microsoft is confirming once and for all that — in Windows 10 — it’s no longer a thing you need to worry about. Windows 10 has a feature called “quick removal” that lets you yank a drive at any moment you like, and it’s now the default setting for each new drive you pl

Snap has finally released its new, rebuilt Snapchat Android app, which the company has been rewriting from the ground up since the beginning of 2018 to bring performance for the Android version up to par with the iOS app.While there are virtually no changes to the actual UI or navigation for Snapchat, the new app should be faster, less laggy, and less buggy than the old version.To @Android. Love, Snapchat.#SnapForAndroid pic.twitter.com/MGOFQYa9Cj— Snapchat (@Snapchat) April 8, 2019As And

Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2019 Update to Release Preview ring testers today. This update is the next major release of Windows 10, and will be available to Release Preview ring testers ahead of a broader rollout next month. Microsoft is being more careful with its last-minute testing, after the previous October 2018 Update hit some file deletion issues.
Microsoft’s final build, 18362.30, is now available to download through Windows Update if you’ve opted into the Rele

Bang & Olufsen has debuted its new Beovision Harmony television, sporting mechanical, rotating panel speakers that are meant to turn the TV into a sculptural object. When the screen is not in use, the TV sits low to the floor, partially obscured by the speakers. Then, when the TV is turned on, the screen lifts and the speakers fan out and down, “like a butterfly opening its wings.”
The television itself is a 77-inch LG C9 OLED screen — the same that LG sells for $6,999, al

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones premieres on Sunday, April 14th, and HBO has been in full marketing swing to remind viewers of the years-long journey to get here: Iron Thrones have been hidden around the world, and the network has been producing endless trailers and teasers and spinoff products from custom sneakers to branded Oreos, all centered on one message: #ForTheThrone. But eight years in, Game of Thrones’ title has never been less accurate. As the sweeping stakes of

The Walking Dead’s ratings are lower than ever, and yet it looks like the series about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse will never die. AMC is back with an as-yet-untitled third Walking Dead series, and this time, it’s focused on two young women growing up with the undead. Filming of the first 10 episodes is set to begin in Virginia this summer, and the show is scheduled to premiere on AMC in 2020.
“We believe in the underlying vitality of The Walking Dead universe,”

Who should end up on the Iron Throne? We've got some ideas. Jon Snow is the true heir to the Iron Throne.
If he’s left standing at the end of Game of Thrones, which I believe will happen, Jon is the only worthy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. Let’s get the most obvious reason out of the way first. The overarching title of the books, A Song of Ice and Fire, literally refers to him. The Season 7 finale confirmed the long-assumed theory that Jon is actually Aegon Targaryen, the true b

After the launch of four separate Galaxy S10 phones with different sized screens, maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Samsung is considering more than one display size for the upcoming Galaxy Note 10. ETNews reports that the Note 10 will be offered at two different sizes — both with LTE — and that there will also be a version with 5G.According to the report, the Note 10 will come in 6.28-inch and 6.75-inch sizes. That might not sound like a huge difference, but it sugge

If, by some chance, you’re still in the market for a RED Hydrogen One phone — despite the scathing reviews, the fact that one of its coolest features is now very much in question, the promise that a better version is on the way, and the opportunity to be an early adopter is long gone — then you can now buy the titanium body version of the original phone for $1,595 directly from RED’s website.
The good news is that if you were an early adopter who preordered the pricey ti

"So let's get [the Infinity Stones], use them to bring everyone back," Captain Marvel says.
Yeah, that's pretty much what we've all been thinking since Thanos snapped half the population into dust in Avengers: Infinity War. With Captain America in agreement, and Thor's support of Captain Marvel, it looks like we've a three-act movie brewing. The only problem is getting the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos's big purple hand.
There's a bit of a divide in the group of surviving Avengers, but they'll

Pinterest has set the pricing of its initial public offering slightly below its last  private-market valuation from two years ago.
The social media website updated its IPO filing with the SEC on Monday, stating that it would sell 75 million shares at a range between $15 and $17 per share when the company goes public later this year. The company plans to raise about $1.5 billion in its initial offering of shares.
The announcement puts Pinterest’s valuation at a maximum of about  &

A whopping 60 percent of people in a new poll say they don’t trust Facebook to protect their data.
The poll comes courtesy of NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, which also found that more than half of Americans view aspects of Facebook and social media in general in a negative light. 
SEE ALSO: Facebook's plans for a 'high quality news tab' sure sound like a swipe at Apple News+
That's perfectly understandable, given Facebook's reputation over the past couple of years. Privacy scan

There's nothing the internet loves more than a good visual illusion combined with some mildly interesting conspiracy theories. 
Maybe that's not entirely true, but K-pop Twitter was certainly hyped up earlier this morning trying to uncover the mystery behind a new teaser video from BTS. In the short clip for their upcoming song "Boy With Luv" featuring Halsey, a short part of the single plays while the boys simultaneously take a turn. SEE ALSO: Mattel unveils new BTS doll collection
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Out of the 40 million Americans who move homes each year, around 80 percent of those moves happen between April and September. And if you're one of those people moving in the next few weeks, you're probably freaking out right now.
Peak moving season brings a mountain of stress over lease signing and security deposits, but it also brings something awesome: Deals.
Mattresses, vacuums, and TVs are at the top of the "must purchase" list for new renters and homeowners. Today, we're focusing on TVs: W

The European Union today published a set of guidelines on how companies and governments should develop ethical applications of artificial intelligence.These rules aren’t like Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” They don’t offer a snappy, moral framework that will help us control murderous robots. Instead, they address the murky and diffuse problems that will affect society as we integrate AI into sectors like health care, education, and consumer technology.
So

We're sorry to bring up this painful memory, but as a reminder, at this very moment Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther character, T'Challa, is dead.
The Black Panther was one of many people (half the world's population, to be exact) killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, and ahead of Avengers: Endgame, Boseman's decided to keep his mouth shut during press interviews to avoid spoilers.
In a recent red carpet interview with Access, when asked about Boseman's future with Marvel, he simply said,

If fitness tracking is at the top of your list when it comes to desired smartwatch functions, the Apple Watch Nike+ is the ideal wrist accessory. 
Normally the Apple Watch Nike+ Series 3 costs $409, but you can snag it for $269 at B&H. Most other places have the watch on sale for $329, so you’re saving an additional $60 when you buy from B&H.
This model is equipped with GPS and cellular and allows you to launch the Nike Run Club app directly from the watch face. No need to car