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Pinned to Pic of The Day on Pinterest

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Windows Defender to start removing “optimizer” scareware

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Facebook Usage falls in the U.S. as it begins to Tinker with News Feed

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Wikipedia picture of the day on February 1, 2018: Facade of...

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Washington State AG Warns Consumers of Sneaky Comcast Fees

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Amazon overtakes Apple and Google to be named world’s most valuable brand

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Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices

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Harley Davidson announces first electric motorcycle is on its way

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You could soon be eating meat grown by plants

Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian

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Samsung topples Intel to become the world’s largest chipmaker.

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The FCC Hopes its Empty Dedication to Rural Broadband Will Make You Forget it Killed Net Neutrality

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LibreOffice 6.0 is now available

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Nintendo Printing Money, Profits Up 261 Percent

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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60% of waste in Dubai will supply power to 120,000 homes: “World’s largest waste-to-energy plant” to supply 185MW of electricity daily by 2020

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Google Removed Over 700,000 Bad Apps, 100,000 Developers From Play Store in 2017

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Minnesota Supreme Court Says Unlocking A Phone With A Fingerprint Isn't A Fifth Amendment - “When it comes to the Fifth Amendment, you're better off with a password or PIN securing your device, rather than your fingerprint.“

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Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies — including bitcoin and ICOs

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 31, 2018: Loxura...

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Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked

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T-Mobile commits to 100 percent renewable electricity

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California Senate defies FCC, approves net neutrality law

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Utility CEO: new renewables will be cheaper than existing coal plants by the early 2020s

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BP becomes latest oil giant to invest in electric vehicle charging

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Reforestation drones plant 100K trees an hour by firing agri-bullets containing seeds into the ground.

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Rob Bliss has been biking in front of the FCC for days to create "slow lanes" of traffic while trying to sell them "priority access passes" to the street

Community digest; Wikipedians around the world celebrate Wikipedia’s 17th anniversary

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Amateur Astronomer Finds NASA Satellite Long Given Up For Dead

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Japan to lift ban on creating human organs in animals

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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Unsolved 600-Year-Old Manuscript Mystery

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Teenagers turned off by Facebook as it becomes internet's grey area

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Intel's Never-Ending Spectre Saga Continues to Be a Hot Mess

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Elon Musk’s flamethrower has already made well over $3.5 million

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Study: Cord Cutters Save $115 Per Month on Average

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These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day

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Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014

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Net neutrality activist ‘throttles’ street outside FCC building

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 30, 2018: 2 US Navy E-2C...

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Verizon, Apple Continue to Lobby Against Your 'Right to Repair'

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The Trump Administration said it has no plans to build a 5G wireless network. The memo from the National Security Council that suggested otherwise is outdated.

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A startup, Birch, raises $1 million to help you reap the best credit card rewards

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Alaska the Latest to Propose its Own Net Neutrality Rules

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Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons

From the life of Wikidata

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Last week, AT&T ran a series of ads and tweets claiming to support net neutrality. This was really an attempt to gain support for bad net neutrality legislation that offers very few of the protections we had under Title II. We need your help exposing this astroturfing effort. Details in the thread.

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Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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The NSA literally deleted 'trust' and 'honesty' from its core values

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Britain's first Bitcoin heist as trader forced at gunpoint to transfer cyber currency

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China’s latest energy megaproject shows that coal really is on the way out - The Chinese province of Anhui built a massive floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine. An even larger floating solar plant will come online by May 2018.