Jeff Bezo$ made out like Scrooge McDuck on Black Friday after rising Amazon share prices lifted his personal fortune to more than $100 billion.
That’s billion, with a “b.” His 78.9 million shares of Amazon got a boost thanks to investor optimis…
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Facebook’s Got a Controversial Plan for Your Nudes
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View More Facebook’s Got a Controversial Plan for Your NudesApple is offering gift cards worth up to $150 on Black Friday
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The award for the least surprising Black Friday event this year goes to Apple.
The company launched its Black Friday page early on Friday, offering gift cards worth up to $150 with select purchases of Apple gadgets.
If you buy an Apple Watch Series 1, you’ll get a $25 Apple Gift Card. Purchasing an iPhone SE, 6s or 7 will get you a gift card worth up to $50. Buying an iPad Pro, iPad or iPad mini 4 will net you a gift card worth up to $100. And finally, if you get a new Mac — including the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro, you’ll get a gift card worth up to $150. Read more…
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View More Apple is offering gift cards worth up to $150 on Black FridayHow three underdog cities are fighting for Amazon HQ2
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Chad Emerson, president and CEO of Downtown Huntsville, Inc., knows that the odds are stacked against the city of Huntsville, Alabama being selected as home of Amazon’s proposed second headquarters — but he takes a page from the city’s space race past when explaining why he believes anything is possible.
“The rockets and the rocketeers were all based here and that was called a ‘moon shot,'” Emerson told me. “A lot of people questioned whether it was possible or practical. Here in Huntsville, we didn’t question whether it was possible or practical, we just set to innovate and make it happen.” Read more…
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View More How three underdog cities are fighting for Amazon HQ2I am the CEO of Duolingo and if our passive aggressive push notifications don’t make you learn French, I don’t know what will
Hello. My name is Henry P. Twolingos and I am the CEO of Duolingo, and I’m here to discuss Duolingo’s questionable push notifications.
I understand that learning a language on your own can be difficult, and requires various forms of support from outs…
What not to buy this Black Friday
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Maybe it’s because consumers are finally more tech-savvy, but Black Friday Deals are finally getting better.
Every year, I peruse the reams of paper fliers that arrive at my home and the scads of online Black Friday deals for the real forehead-slappingly bad deals. You know the offers that are too good to be true or will lead you to eventual gadget dismay if you do buy them as gifts.
SEE ALSO: Black Friday 2017 deals from all over the internet, compiled just for you in one handy spreadsheet
There were, on balance, far fewer of them this year. I mean. I saw honest-to-goodness deals on tech toys I’d want to buy. Read more…
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Facebook still hasn’t fixed its discriminatory ad problems, despite many promises
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.
A year later, those efforts don’t seem to have amo…
Whoops, a major internet services company just went down
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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.
You may not be familiar with the name, but you have most certainly run across the work of the company that protects against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and prides itself on making “the Internet Work the Way It Should for Anything Online.”
“Anything,” apparently, failed to include Cloudflare itself on Tuesday — at least for a short period of time.
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View More Whoops, a major internet services company just went downFacebook briefly hid its ‘delete’ option on posts, and users panicked
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Facebook users who maybe posted some, um, interesting things in their formative years have always been able to take comfort in their ability to delete those posts when it comes time for a job interview or two.
But Facebook recently sent users into a panic after it changed its “delete” option on posts for some desktop users.
The change was reported by VentureBeat, who noticed confusion among some people using Facebook on their desktops.
Yo @facebook Why can’t we delete posts anymore? Those of us on our computers want to know?
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View More Facebook briefly hid its ‘delete’ option on posts, and users panickedUber is making it easier to give the gift of Uber
You can now add Uber to your list of holiday gift ideas.
The ride-hailing service just rolled out a set of updates that include the ability to request trips for friends and family members without Uber accounts, as well as new in-app gifting features,…
Why does Facebook suddenly have a page for the ‘Top 10 goat posts’?
Facebook is working to figure out how to show its users more stuff, especially stuff related to their interests from places that they might not follow.
This is how I stumbled upon the best Facebook page ever: https://www.facebook.com/look/goat
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Google Docs is down and oh man people are freaked
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A collective scream was heard across the internet Wednesday, as scores of people were faced with the same shocking truth: Google Docs was down.
Docs, part of a suite of Google products, appeared to experience outages Wednesday afternoon — with Down Detector reporting widespread problems with Google Drive across the U.S.
We reached out to Google for comment, and the company pointed us to a statement on its G Suite page.
“We’re aware of a problem with Google Docs affecting a significant subset of users,” reads the message. “The affected users are unable to access Google Docs. We will provide an update by 11/15/17, 2:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.” Read more…
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