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Trump Regime Threatens 100 Percent Tariffs on French Goods to Retaliate Against Tax on Big Tech

Posted: 03 Dec 2019 04:40 AM PST

The Trump regime is threatening to slap tariffs on over $2.4 billion worth of French goods imported into the United States as retaliation for a new digital services tax recently instituted in France. The French tax of 3 percent is applied on the revenues of about 30 Big Tech companies, most of which are based in the…

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Walmart's Exclusive Nintendo Switch With Red Joy-Con Bundle Is Too Sweet to Skip

Posted: 03 Dec 2019 04:00 AM PST

Russia Blocks Shutterstock Website Over Photos of Russian Flag in Dogshit

Posted: 03 Dec 2019 03:35 AM PST

The Russian government has blocked the stock photography website Shutterstock, according to the English-language news site Meduza. Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, explained that Shutterstock was blocked for "insulting state symbols" a likely reference to photos on the site showing miniature Russian flags…

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Titans' Season 2 Finale Was a Travesty of Epic Proportions

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:15 PM PST

If the world were a better place, Titans' second season finale would have been an excellent culmination to a heartfelt story that made you care about its characters and the journeys we've seen them embark upon. But the world kind of sucks and Titans' most recent episode is an absolute mess.

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Donald Trump to Freak Out About Political Ads on Google in 3, 2, 1

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 04:00 PM PST

Donald Trump clearly doesn't watch CBS, because if he did, he'd be standing on a tarmac in front of a chopper, screaming about yesterday's 60 Minutes report. For an interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, the program found that Google and YouTube collected the Trump campaign's money for more than 300 video ads…

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Why Does My Laptop Shut Down Instead of Going to Sleep?

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 07:00 AM PST

One of the most frustrating issues you can encounter with a device, usually your computer, is when it starts doing something it never did before. Typically, this is something you didn't want it to do: It takes 15 more seconds to boot, it's emitting some strange noise, or it is unable to launch the application you've…

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Lock In a a Year of Adobe's Creative Cloud for $30/Month, Get $10 Amazon Credit Free

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 02:45 PM PST

You'd Be Surprised How Often Doctors Prescribe Placebos

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 03:25 PM PST

Doctors in Australia commonly give their patients a placebo treatment intended mainly to ease their minds, according to a new study out Monday. But it's not just an Australian practice—other research has found the same is true of doctors across the world.

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Cybertruck Is a Cop Now

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 03:15 PM PST

The Cybertruck had a good run. Since Elon Musk introduced Tesla's dystopian play-tank last week, the vehicle has likely garnered more publicity than virtually any car announced in the last decade—and even the trove of critics dunking on the Minecraftian block-wagon seem at least a little bit intrigued by what it will…

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Pablo Escobar's Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an 'Unbreakable' Foldable Phone?

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 03:00 PM PST

If the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Huawei Mate X, or that new Razr phone are too rich for your blood, consider the $350 Pablo Escobar Fold 1. Yes, you read correctly.

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Watch the Making of Ad Astra's Most Shocking Scene

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 11:45 AM PST

In Ad Astra, there's a scene in which Brad Pitt's character and his crew find a seemingly abandoned ship floating off into space. Obviously, the ship is hiding a secret—and how that secret was realized on-set is almost as shocking as the secret itself.

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Spain's Biggest Polluter is Sponsoring the Latest UN Climate Talks

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 02:11 PM PST

Endesa is the largest electric utility provider in Spain and the country's biggest corporate greenhouse gas polluter, emitting some 60 million tons of carbon each year. It's also a sponsor of the United Nations' international climate conference (known as COP25) that began in Spain on Monday.

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Homeland Security Wants To Scan Your Face Before Entering And Leaving The Country

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:45 PM PST

We live in a free country. We have so much freedom I sometimes can't get enough of all the freedom. It's such an overdose of freedom here, in the Free States of Freemerica, I almost wonder if we have too much freedom, you know?

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Time to Get Comfy As Hell, Save Up to 35% Off On All Comfy Products

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 12:10 PM PST

Intel's Officially Out of the Smartphone Modem Biz Following $1 Billion Deal with Apple

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:50 PM PST

After first announcing a deal back in July, Intel is now finally getting out of the smartphone modem business thanks to some help from Apple.

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Evacuation Slide Mysteriously Falls Off of a Boeing Plane in Flight and Lands in Family's Yard

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 01:20 PM PST

If you're keeping a running list of all the things that could potentially go wrong with Boeing's planes, you can add "mysteriously ejects its own emergency inflatable evacuation slide" to the list, as a Milton, Massachusetts, family discovered yesterday afternoon.

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'Horrific' 220-Pound Ball of Plastic Found in the Stomach of a Dead Sperm Whale

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 12:53 PM PST

A recently deceased sperm whale found was found with a tightly wound ball of marine debris in its stomach, including an alarming assortment of plastics.

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Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima's Masterpiece Walking Simulator, Gets Its First Sale For $51

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 06:33 AM PST

Death Stranding PS4 | $51 | Amazon | $9 savings at checkout
Death Stranding Collector's Edition PS4 | $170 | Amazon | $30 savings at checkout

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This Cat Is Dead

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 12:04 PM PST

Lil Bub, the internet cat famous for challenging and redefining the world's ideals of feline beauty, has died. She was eight.

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Amazon Officially Enters the Quantum Computing Race

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 12:25 PM PST

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 conference on Monday, Amazon announced the launch of a quantum cloud computing platform.

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In The Expanse Season 4, Bobbie Embraces a New and Dangerous Life

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 10:00 AM PST

The Expanse is a show that loves to surprise people. And the only reason the series still exists is because Amazon Prime surprised the world with a renewal after Syfy's cancellation. But through all the twists, turns, and ring gates, there's been one constant: Bobbie Draper, the steadfast Martian Marine who would…

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This Millenium Falcon Funko Is As Cute as Baby Yoda, And Cheaper Than Ever

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 09:30 AM PST

Congressional Democrats Arrive at Madrid Climate Talks, Announce They Still Don't Have a Climate Plan

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 10:20 AM PST

International climate talks kicked off on Monday in Madrid, and a delegation of House Democrats showed up to tell the world how much they care about climate change. But they actually revealed, uh, how little action they've actually taken to appropriately address the severity of the crisis.

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The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants, and It Wants You to Brush Your Teeth

Posted: 02 Dec 2019 10:40 AM PST

Part of avoiding heart disease might involve brushing your teeth, suggests a study published this week. Researchers in Korea have found a clear link between good oral health and a lower chance of heart irregularities and serious heart failure.

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