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An exposed database tracked whether 1.8 million Chinese women were “breed ready”

Over the weekend, security researcher Victor Gevers stumbled upon a Chinese database of 1.8 million women that listed their names, physical addresses, phone numbers and one potentially more troubling status: whether they were “breed ready.” Anyone with the IP address could visit the database, said Gevers, who had previously uncovered a database of 300 million leaked Chinese private messages last week and works for the Dutch nonprofit GDI Foundation.

“We don’t know who is behind this database and what the intention was...that is the part that worries us the most,” Gevers told The Verge. He says the database’s IP address was in China and that most of the women included in the records were located in Beijing.

The database remained online...

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Elon Musk says the SEC is making an ‘unconstitutional power grab’ over his tweets

Elon Musk says he shouldn’t be held in contempt of court over a recent tweet about Tesla because he didn’t violate his settlement agreement, and “there is no basis to issue contempt sanctions against him,” according to a new court filing. The filing says Musk “correctly used his discretion to determine” that a tweet on February 19th “did not contain information that could reasonably be considered material” to Tesla.

The tweets in question are better understood as “proud and optimistic restatement of publicly disclosed information,” the filing says. The filing also notes that Musk’s tweets about yearly Tesla production came after the close of market. Further, Musk has attempted to comply with the settlement by tweeting less — showing that...

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Google confirms it agreed to pay $135 million to two execs accused of sexual harassment

Google agreed to pay $135 million to two former executives accused of sexual harassment, it confirmed to The Verge today. We now know from a newly unsealed lawsuit that former senior search vice president Amit Singhal was initially offered $45 million, triple the amount he ended up walking away with.

The figure was first reported by CNBC, which spotted a newly unsealed shareholder lawsuit against the company. According to the suit, former head of Android Andy Rubin allegedly received an offer for a $150 million stock grant, which he then allegedly used to negotiate the $90 million in severance pay we’d heard about in previous reports. Singhal’s $45 million offer was reduced to $15 million because he joined a rival company, Uber. Google...

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Facebook proves Elizabeth Warren’s point by deleting her ads about breaking up Facebook

Today, Facebook removed a number of ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, according to Politico. The ads target tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook and were placed after Warren announced last week that she would work to break up the firms by reversing large acquisitions, if elected president in 2020.

Shortly after reports surfaced, Facebook told Politico that it would be restoring the ads that it had taken down. “We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo. In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads,” a Facebook spokesperson said.

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Mophie’s Palm battery pack may be the most niche charging accessory ever made

Amazon silently ends controversial pricing agreements with sellers

Amazon will no longer require third-party sellers to price their products on Amazon lower than they price them anywhere else. It quietly eliminated a clause in its contracts today that critics have called anti-competitive.

Price parity agreements, or most-favored nations clauses (MFNs), were formerly used by Amazon in contracts with third-party sellers to ensure that people selling products on the platform did not sell the same products for cheaper on any other platform like eBay or Alibaba.

Amazon declined to comment.

A few years ago, regulators in Germany and Great Britain investigated this practice and it was dropped in Europe. The threat of regulation or impending investigations might be at fault for causing Amazon to drop MFNs in...

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John Oliver wants to fight robocalls by robocalling the FCC

Comedian John Oliver is fed up with robocalls and the Federal Communications Commission not doing enough about them — so he’s sent robocalls after the FCC in revenge.

Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight yesterday that he’s going to send robocalls to the five FCC commissioners — Ajit Pai, Michael O’Rielly, Brendan Carr, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Geoffrey Starks — every 90 minutes to hopefully annoy the FCC into taking action. Oliver notes that it only took his tech guy 15 minutes to set it up.

The repeating call goes:

Hi, FCC. This is John from customer service. Congratulations! You’ve just won a chance to lower robocalls in America today. Sorry, but I am a live person! Robocalls are incredibly annoying, and the person who can...

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The RED Hydrogen One’s promised modules have gone missing from its website

One of the biggest things that could have redeemed the RED Hydrogen One was the promise of additional modules that would attach to the back and offer expanded experiences for using the phone. The modules were originally promised for a release later in 2019, but the company seems to have quietly updated its website to strike all mention of the modules, (as spotted by Reddit user u/ReipasTietokonePoju).

RED hasn’t formally confirmed that it is actually canceling the modules for the Hydrogen One. (We’ve reached out for comment but have yet to hear back from the company.) There’s also been no comment from RED founder Jim Jannard (or any other RED employees) in the H4VUser Hydrogen One forum regarding the vanishing drawings, despite a forum...

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Tim Berners-Lee says we can still save the web

The World Wide Web is 30 years old tomorrow. A day earlier, its founder, English engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, first proposed the system that would become the WWW on March 11th, 1989. To acknowledge the anniversary, he’s revisited his ideas about the internet in a new letter published today.

Berners-Lee admits that the internet now has a lot of problems. Users are plagued by online harassment, state-sponsored hacks, and other criminal behavior. Ad-based revenue models reward clickbait, while there is a constant viral spread of fake news. And even though they can be rewarding, social media platforms have also become home to political outrage and polarizing conversations.

Still, Berners-Lee is hopeful about humans’ and...

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Instagram founders say selling to Facebook didn’t reduce competition among social networks

Talk of regulating Silicon Valley has dominated this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) pledge to break up Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook becoming a topic of conversation in almost every high-profile, tech-focused panel here.

A sit-down with Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger this afternoon was no exception. The entrepreneurs sold their company to Facebook, worked there for years, then abruptly left last September amid reported concerns over their autonomy and the future direction of the photo-sharing social network. Additionally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week announced a new, privacy-focused shift for the company that would see its disparate messaging products combined to...

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An exposed database tracked whether 1.8 million Chinese women were “breed ready”

Over the weekend, security researcher Victor Gevers stumbled upon a Chinese database of 1.8 million women that listed their names, physical addresses, phone numbers and one potentially more troubling status: whether they were “breed ready.” Anyone with the IP address could visit the database, said Gevers, who had previously uncovered a database of 300 million leaked Chinese private messages last week and works for the Dutch nonprofit GDI Foundation.

“We don’t know who is behind this database and what the intention was...that is the part that worries us the most,” Gevers told The Verge. He says the database’s IP address was in China and that most of the women included in the records were located in Beijing.

The database remained online...

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Elon Musk says the SEC is making an ‘unconstitutional power grab’ over his tweets

Elon Musk says he shouldn’t be held in contempt of court over a recent tweet about Tesla because he didn’t violate his settlement agreement, and “there is no basis to issue contempt sanctions against him,” according to a new court filing. The filing says Musk “correctly used his discretion to determine” that a tweet on February 19th “did not contain information that could reasonably be considered material” to Tesla.

The tweets in question are better understood as “proud and optimistic restatement of publicly disclosed information,” the filing says. The filing also notes that Musk’s tweets about yearly Tesla production came after the close of market. Further, Musk has attempted to comply with the settlement by tweeting less — showing that...

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Google confirms it agreed to pay $135 million to two execs accused of sexual harassment

Google agreed to pay $135 million to two former executives accused of sexual harassment, it confirmed to The Verge today. We now know from a newly unsealed lawsuit that former senior search vice president Amit Singhal was initially offered $45 million, triple the amount he ended up walking away with.

The figure was first reported by CNBC, which spotted a newly unsealed shareholder lawsuit against the company. According to the suit, former head of Android Andy Rubin allegedly received an offer for a $150 million stock grant, which he then allegedly used to negotiate the $90 million in severance pay we’d heard about in previous reports. Singhal’s $45 million offer was reduced to $15 million because he joined a rival company, Uber. Google...

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Facebook proves Elizabeth Warren’s point by deleting her ads about breaking up Facebook

Today, Facebook removed a number of ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, according to Politico. The ads target tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook and were placed after Warren announced last week that she would work to break up the firms by reversing large acquisitions, if elected president in 2020.

Shortly after reports surfaced, Facebook told Politico that it would be restoring the ads that it had taken down. “We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo. In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads,” a Facebook spokesperson said.

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Mophie’s Palm battery pack may be the most niche charging accessory ever made

Amazon silently ends controversial pricing agreements with sellers

Amazon will no longer require third-party sellers to price their products on Amazon lower than they price them anywhere else. It quietly eliminated a clause in its contracts today that critics have called anti-competitive.

Price parity agreements, or most-favored nations clauses (MFNs), were formerly used by Amazon in contracts with third-party sellers to ensure that people selling products on the platform did not sell the same products for cheaper on any other platform like eBay or Alibaba.

Amazon declined to comment.

A few years ago, regulators in Germany and Great Britain investigated this practice and it was dropped in Europe. The threat of regulation or impending investigations might be at fault for causing Amazon to drop MFNs in...

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John Oliver wants to fight robocalls by robocalling the FCC

Comedian John Oliver is fed up with robocalls and the Federal Communications Commission not doing enough about them — so he’s sent robocalls after the FCC in revenge.

Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight yesterday that he’s going to send robocalls to the five FCC commissioners — Ajit Pai, Michael O’Rielly, Brendan Carr, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Geoffrey Starks — every 90 minutes to hopefully annoy the FCC into taking action. Oliver notes that it only took his tech guy 15 minutes to set it up.

The repeating call goes:

Hi, FCC. This is John from customer service. Congratulations! You’ve just won a chance to lower robocalls in America today. Sorry, but I am a live person! Robocalls are incredibly annoying, and the person who can...

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The RED Hydrogen One’s promised modules have gone missing from its website

One of the biggest things that could have redeemed the RED Hydrogen One was the promise of additional modules that would attach to the back and offer expanded experiences for using the phone. The modules were originally promised for a release later in 2019, but the company seems to have quietly updated its website to strike all mention of the modules, (as spotted by Reddit user u/ReipasTietokonePoju).

RED hasn’t formally confirmed that it is actually canceling the modules for the Hydrogen One. (We’ve reached out for comment but have yet to hear back from the company.) There’s also been no comment from RED founder Jim Jannard (or any other RED employees) in the H4VUser Hydrogen One forum regarding the vanishing drawings, despite a forum...

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Tim Berners-Lee says we can still save the web

The World Wide Web is 30 years old tomorrow. A day earlier, its founder, English engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, first proposed the system that would become the WWW on March 11th, 1989. To acknowledge the anniversary, he’s revisited his ideas about the internet in a new letter published today.

Berners-Lee admits that the internet now has a lot of problems. Users are plagued by online harassment, state-sponsored hacks, and other criminal behavior. Ad-based revenue models reward clickbait, while there is a constant viral spread of fake news. And even though they can be rewarding, social media platforms have also become home to political outrage and polarizing conversations.

Still, Berners-Lee is hopeful about humans’ and...

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Instagram founders say selling to Facebook didn’t reduce competition among social networks

Talk of regulating Silicon Valley has dominated this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) pledge to break up Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook becoming a topic of conversation in almost every high-profile, tech-focused panel here.

A sit-down with Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger this afternoon was no exception. The entrepreneurs sold their company to Facebook, worked there for years, then abruptly left last September amid reported concerns over their autonomy and the future direction of the photo-sharing social network. Additionally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week announced a new, privacy-focused shift for the company that would see its disparate messaging products combined to...

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বাসে সওয়ার মন্ত্রী শোভনদেব চট্টোপাধ্যায়, রাসবিহীরি মোড় থেকে টিকিট কেটে গেলেন জগুবাবুর বাজারের কাছে নিজের বাড়িতে

ভোটের ঢাকে কাঠি পড়ে গেছে। তাই সকালেই বেরিয়ে পড়েছিলেন দেওয়াল লিখতে। লেখা সেরে রাসবিহীরি মোড় থেকে বাসে উঠে পড়লেন মন্ত্রী শোভনদেব চট্টোপাধ্যায়। গন্তব্য জগুবাবুর বাজারের কাছে নিজের বাড়ি। টিকিট কাটলেন। কথা বললেন সহযাত্রীদের সঙ্গে। বললেন, অভ্যাস বজায় রাখতে চান। মাঝে-মধ্যেই এভাবে বাসে উঠে বুঝে নিতে চান সাধারণ মানুষের সুবিধা-অসুবিধা।

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Doom: Annihilation Trailer Opens A Portal to Hell

Universal 1440 Entertainment has released the first trailer for their straight-to-DVD release Doom: Annihilation.

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Olivia Wilde's Booksmart Red Band Trailer Is One Raunchy Party

The first red-band trailer for Booksmart has arrived following the movie's premiere at SXSW.

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Good Boys Red Band Trailer Arrives from the Guys Behind Superbad & Sausage Party

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Point Grey has unveiled their NSFW Red Band trailer for Good Boys.

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'আগে পরীক্ষা, পরে বিয়ে': অপেক্ষায় বর, পরীক্ষা দিয়ে তবেই বিয়ের আসরে পৌঁছলেন কনে

নয়াদিল্লি : গত শনিবার ছিল বিয়ের দিন। আর ওই দিনটাই ছিল মহারাষ্ট্রের ঔরঙ্গাবাদের হারসুল গ্রামের ২০ বছরের তরুণী রেনুকা পাওয়ারের দ্বাদশ শ্রেণীর অর্থনীতি বিষয়ের পরীক্ষা। এমনিতেই পরিবারের আর্থিক অবস্থা ভালো নয়। তার ওপর বাবার মৃত্যুর পর পরিস্থিতি আরও কঠিন হয়েছে। তাই নিজের পায়ে দাঁড়াতে মরিয়া তরুণী বিয়ের আসরে যাওয়ার

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মোদিকে নিশানা রাহুল গাঁধীর



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পাচন দাওয়াইয়ের পর এবার নকুলদানা দাওয়াই বীরভূম জেলার তৃণমূল সভাপতি অনুব্রত মণ্ডলের

পাচন দাওয়াইয়ের পর এবার নকুলদানা দাওয়াই বীরভূম জেলার তৃণমূল সভাপতি অনুব্রত মণ্ডলের

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সিন্ডিকেট বিবাদে ধুন্ধুমার বেহালায়, দু পক্ষের সংঘর্ষ, গুলি চালানোর অভিযোগ দুষ্কৃতীদের বিরুদ্ধে

সিন্ডিকেট বিবাদে ধুন্ধুমার বেহালায়, দু পক্ষের সংঘর্ষ, গুলি চালানোর অভিযোগ দুষ্কৃতীদের বিরুদ্ধে

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জামা ছিঁড়ে চপ্পল দিয়ে বেধড়ক মার বিএমওএইচকে, বাসন্তীতে আটক অভিযুক্ত আশাকর্মী সহ ২

অফিস থেকে টেনে বার করে জামা ছিঁড়ে চপ্পল দিয়ে বেধড়ক মার বিএমওএইচকে, বাসন্তীতে আটক অভিযুক্ত আশাকর্মী সহ ২

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Tidal’s Master quality recordings are now available on iOS

Tidal’s “Master” quality recordings, which are the streaming service’s hi-res MQA music tracks, are now available to listeners via its iOS app. The announcement follows the launch of the feature on Android phones back in January. Master quality audio first became available to Tidal’s desktop listeners back in 2017.

Hi-res audio — which is defined as anything with a higher bitrate or sampling frequency than the 16-bit / 44.1kHz standard used by CDs — is able to be streamed thanks to MQA, a technology that allows the file to be effectively compressed to the same size as a standard CD-quality audio file. Previously, getting the full benefits of MQA required using a device with a hardware MQA decoder (such as the LG V30), but this is no...

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Tidal’s Master quality recordings are now available on iOS

Tidal’s “Master” quality recordings, which are the streaming service’s hi-res MQA music tracks, are now available to listeners via its iOS app. The announcement follows the launch of the feature on Android phones back in January. Master quality audio first became available to Tidal’s desktop listeners back in 2017.

Hi-res audio — which is defined as anything with a higher bitrate or sampling frequency than the 16-bit / 44.1kHz standard used by CDs — is able to be streamed thanks to MQA, a technology that allows the file to be effectively compressed to the same size as a standard CD-quality audio file. Previously, getting the full benefits of MQA required using a device with a hardware MQA decoder (such as the LG V30), but this is no...

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a more complex Pokémon Go for superfans

For Niantic Labs’ next trick, the augmented reality game studio is diving head-first into another knotty fandom, the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, with scores of dedicated fans, a rich history of lore to explore, and untold storylines to tell.

But this time, boiling down a massive fictional world into an easy-to-understand AR video game seems to have been much more difficult task. That’s because Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, as the game is called, is not very simple. In fact, it’s got numerous systems at work, all simultaneously competing for your attention and potentially obfuscating what is you might want to open the app to actually do.

In the first-ever demo of the game at Niantic’s San Francisco office last week, I was among...

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a more complex Pokémon Go for superfans

For Niantic Labs’ next trick, the augmented reality game studio is diving head-first into another knotty fandom, the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, with scores of dedicated fans, a rich history of lore to explore, and untold storylines to tell.

But this time, boiling down a massive fictional world into an easy-to-understand AR video game seems to have been much more difficult task. That’s because Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, as the game is called, is not very simple. In fact, it’s got numerous systems at work, all simultaneously competing for your attention and potentially obfuscating what is you might want to open the app to actually do.

In the first-ever demo of the game at Niantic’s San Francisco office last week, I was among...

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কলকাতা পুরসভার অধিবেশনে গরহাজির শোভন চট্টোপাধ্যায়, বান্ধবী বৈশাখীকে নিয়ে বিজেপিতে যোগ দেবেন প্রাক্তন মেয়র? বাড়ছে জল্পনা

কলকাতা পুরসভার অধিবেশনে গরহাজির শোভন চট্টোপাধ্যায়, বান্ধবী বৈশাখীকে নিয়ে বিজেপিতে যোগ দেবেন প্রাক্তন মেয়র? বাড়ছে জল্পনা

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উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষার্থীদের আতসবাজি পোড়ানোর সময় আহত শিক্ষিকা, ছড়াল আতঙ্ক, ঘটনাস্থলে পুলিশ

শ্যামবাজার এ ভি স্কুলের সামনে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষার্থীদের আতসবাজি পোড়ানোর সময় আহত স্কুলশিক্ষক। আজই শেষ হয়েছে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিকের বাণিজ্য বিভাগের পরীক্ষা। আনন্দে শ্যামবাজার এ ভি স্কুলের সামনে আতসবাজি পোড়াচ্ছিল কয়েকজন উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষার্থী। অভিযোগ, সেইসময় টিচার্স রুমে বাজি ঢুকে যায়। আহত হন এক শিক্ষক। ঘটনাস্থলে যায় শ্যামপুকুর থানার পুলিশ।

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কাল প্রার্থীতালিকা প্রকাশ তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের



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Star Wars: Episode IX Reportedly Features More Deaths Than You’d Expect

Star Wars: Episode IX is set to bring the franchise’s current era to a close, and if reports from various anonymous and not-so-anonymous sources are anything to go by, then director J.J. Abrams aims to go big for this final installment, both in terms of emotions and spectacle.

A similarly ambitious picture is painted by a new Reddit report that’s been getting an unusual amount of positive attention. Relaying a conversation had with an alleged source, user arcantiger apparently heard it said that the “sheer scale” of the upcoming trilogy-closer rivals that of Return of the King, and that this enthusiasm for the production is “shared across the board.” Kylo Ren’s arc in particular is singled out as a highlight, though the rumors of his uncle Luke coming back from the dead are dismissed as “nonsense.” In fact, it’s alleged that both Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian only have “small roles” in the film.

But while none of the above claims are particularly surprising, perhaps the most interesting part of the report is the assertion that the movie features “more deaths than you would expect,” including some that people may not be predicting.

Obviously, this is all just hearsay for the time being, but intriguing hearsay nonetheless. Though many of us are already expecting Kylo Ren to kick the bucket in this next picture, you have to wonder if a sad fate could be awaiting one of the young heroes like Rey or Finn.

Alternatively, imagine the teary-eyed response that Star Wars: Episode IX would get if Abrams dared to kill off one of the Original Trilogy’s more light-hearted players like R2-D2 or Chewbacca. In any case, we’ve got plenty of time to speculate before the film hits theaters on December 20th, 2019.



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