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It's been a wild 24 hours at Facebook HQ, and employees are not handling it well. 

TikTok is on the rise two years after Vine's tragic demise, but don't expect it to fill the void that Vine left. That's OK! The absolute chaos that TikTok embodies is exactly what we need in 2019. 

Facebook isn't the only company side-stepping Apple's developer policies in order to conduct paid "research" on people's browsing habits.

Hanson Robotics, the people who presented the world with the human-like robot Sophia have added a new member to their family. She's called "Little Sophia," and is a 14-inch robot meant to get kids hyped on STEM, coding and AI. Read more...

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Xbox One consoles around the world have stopped working.

Xbox One owners are reporting major problems with their consoles online with displays being stuck on black screens at startup, games not loading, and errors when trying to login to Xbox Live.

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Microsoft is aware of the situation and has promised to give more information when they have it.

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Facebook and Apple are butting heads again thanks to the social network’s shady “Research” app.

The barrage of bad news for the iPhone keeps coming.

Reuters has published a semi-worrisome report about how a team of former U.S. intelligence agents working for the UAE used a cyber tool called Karma to spy on iPhones used by "activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders" simply by "uploading phone numbers or email accounts into an automated targeting system."

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Wow, it's almost like Trump made a promise the real world can't support.

An Arizona high school freshman who was just trying to squad up ended up at the forefront of a big FaceTime bug issue. The teen realized he could listen in on his buddies even if they weren't officially in the call with him. Read more...

Parts of the Midwest are experiencing the coldest temperatures in 20 years this week as the polar vortex takes hold. 

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Windshield wipers have nothing on small, excited humans. 

When faced with a snow covered car, a resourceful man in Ohio decided to keep the snow scraper in the garage, opting instead for a more lively option: his kid. In order to make sure his son was up to the task, the man wrapped duct tape around his ankles, wrists, and waist to insure no snow would get in.

Watch as the father-son duo laugh their way through this snowy mission.   Read more...

All across the Midwest this week, people are extremely cold — extremely cold and extremely bored.

It seems like almost everyday there’s a new story about how Facebook betrayed the public trust on a new, unforeseen user privacy issue. Now, Facebook looks to finally reckon with this growing problem by bringing onboard three of the top names in privacy law.

Not all tattoos turn out as expected. Ariana Grande knows this to be true, as the singer just experienced a pretty hilarious tattoo fail firsthand.

Data Privacy Day has only just been and gone, so you really have no excuse to not have data protection and cyber security at the forefront of your mind.

Looking to "spark joy" in your home, as if Marie Kondo was standing next to you? 

One of the reasons Pete Davidson's tumultuous 2018 was so surprising is that, well, we're not used to Pete Davidson being surprising. Even on Saturday Night Live, a show that delights in pushing its actors into ever-stranger scenarios, he tends to play variations on a type: the young slacker who meets all of life's complications with an indifferent shrug and an oblivious smile.

That was fast. 

A few days after the discovery of a particularly nasty bug in Apple's FaceTime video chat app — one that allowed for a user to listen and even see the person on the other end of the line before they've answered the call — Apple is already getting slammed by lawsuits.

Houston attorney Larry D. Williams II filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming the bug allowed for someone to eavesdrop on a private deposition he had with a client, Courthouse News reported Tuesday. 

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You know how you hate vacuuming? You know you don't need to do that ever again, right?

You'd be surprised just how little some men know about women's bodies. 

There are many reasons to purchase a new TV, and sometimes it's a case of desperately needing to replace a tired old set. Quite often it's not about that, though. Your current TV might be working just fine, but that doesn't mean your head won't get turned by something new and exciting.