How Facebook made money dividing the US into adversarial political subgroups

Earlier this month Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos threw a twittertantrum over accusations that Facebook's algorithms promoted fake news in its users' feeds: "I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman

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Read Albert Einstein's Advice For a Happy Life

In 1921, Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics. He went on a lecture tour of Japan shortly after, where he decided that he would start tipping people with bits of advice rather than cash, Quartz reports.

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Immune System

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Albert Einstein Proven Right on His Life Advice Being Worth More Than a Cash Tip

Physicist Albert Einstein, one of history’s greatest minds, has been proven right in the long term about a lot of things, like the continued success of his theory of general relativity to aspects of that theory which eluded detection for decades, like the existence of gravitational waves.

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Ballistic Mini Golf Early Access

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Find Out Which Cognitive Biases Alter Your Perspective

Cognitive biases can change the way you see everything, and often in a bad way. Fortunately, just becoming aware of your biases can help you overcome them. The “Know Thyself” poster, from Jesse Richardson at the website yourbias.

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Crackpot Arizona Congressman suggests Charlottesville was a left-wing orchestrated false flag operation

Imagine having a mind so poorly developed that it tags all bias-challenging information as a false flag operation. VICE News: In fairness, antifa is in the news because of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

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Ears

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LIGO’s gravitational wave detection takes home a Nobel

From almost the moment their discovery was announced, everyone agreed that the first sighting of gravitational waves was going to win a Nobel Prize. The only questions were when and who would receive the honor. Both of those questions have now been answered.

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Latest Federal Reserve figures show widening wealth inequality, and it's much worse if you're not white

The Federal Reserve's just-published 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances reveals that income inequality is rising in the USA, with the top decile now controlling 77.

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Everything you need to know about the Apple vs Qualcomm battle

The Apple vs. Samsung legal battle was one of the most important patent-based wars in mobile tech until last year when Apple helped ignite what looks like a crusade against Qualcomm.

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Alexa voice control comes to Sonos speakers in public beta

A year after saying it was coming, Sonos finally announced that a public beta is incoming for Alexa support. At an event in New York today, the company said the functionality will be rolling out to all current models of its speakers.

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White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID

Rob Joyce, the White House cybersecurity czar, said on Tuesday that the government should end using the Social Security number as a national identification method.

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Open data from the Large Hadron Collider sparks new discovery

Back in 2014, CERN released the data from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments onto an online portal called the Open Data portal. It was an unprecedented move, making data from the LHC's experiments available to those who don't have access to a particle accelerator.

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Self Driving

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