It started with 28,000. NASA just narrowed it down to one. The next Mars rover, which has been going by Mars 2020, has a name: Perseverance. (We’re officially giving it the nickname “Percy.”) The space agency announced the winning name Thursday during a livestreamed event...
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March 5, 2020 albert
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Four senators, including Ted Cruz (R-TX), have asserted that, as a consequence of sanctions placed on Iran, Twitter must cease providing its services to Ayatollah Khamenei and other leaders in the country. “The Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights,” he...
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February 7, 2020 albert
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Khamosh Pathak Twitter has a new Bookmarks feature that lets you privately save tweets for later. If you’ve been using the Like feature as a workaround for saving tweets, here’s why you should start bookmarking. Why Switch from Liking to Bookmarking? Over the past couple...
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September 13, 2019 albert
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Pity the remote reporter who has no control when the feed goes live and catches him or her in a vulnerable moment. This happened to NBC’s Matt Bradley who was broadcasting a live spot from Syria about the fight against ISIS. When the feed switched...
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March 23, 2019 albert
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Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they’re doing in realtime. In a tweet, Twitter said that that the new feature will include breaking news, personalities and sports....
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September 16, 2018 albert
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Aside from being blessed with some of the greatest facial hair we’ve seen this millennium, Rob Delaney is also a very funny guy. Anyone who’s seen Catastrophe will know this. He doesn’t just confine his jokes to his TV show or his standup: he also...
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April 21, 2018 albert
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It’s a Christmas miracle of sorts. Julian Assange’s Twitter account disappeared from the site, returned, and now there’s a bouncing baby Corgi up top. The account appears to have gone offline around 7:00/8:00PM ET on Christmas Eve, a silent night for the Wikileaks founder. Attempts...
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December 25, 2017 albert
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“By touching this glowing orb, you hereby swear your eternal allegiance to the international Legion of Doom, got it?” That’s just one of the many theories that began swirling around social media on Sunday when Donald Trump appeared in photos clutching a mysterious, illuminated globe...
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May 22, 2017 albert
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Kellyanne Conway has had a wild day on Twitter. After getting into some trouble for retweeting a white nationalist Twitter account, people began speculating that Conway was on the outs with the Trump administration, using flimsy evidence that Trump had unfollowed her as proof. But...
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February 15, 2017 albert
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You know how some people are really addicted to cocaine? The actor James Woods is just like that, only instead of being addicted to cocaine he’s addicted to Twitter. Read more… Gizmodo
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