All Stories from October 24, 2015 (Change date)
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Why your pizza rat GIFs are disappearing off social mediaOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - When Matt Little filmed a New York rat hefting a slice of New York pizza down the grimy stairs of a New York subway, he waited 12 long hours before putting the video on ...
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Here's why Facebook needed to tweak its 'On This Day' featureOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - In an acknowledgement that not every social media moment is a fun trip into nostalgia, Facebook has now enabled filters on its "On This Day" feature, which resurfaces pa...
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Auto-parts retailers' immunity to Amazon drives stock surgeOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - NEW YORK _ Not all brick-and-mortar retailers are running in fear from Amazon.com Inc. Just look at the auto-parts industry. The three largest U.S. sellers of replacemen...
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Internet sleuths are furiously trying to find out who made an ominous viral videoOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - A shaky video shot in front of a gloomy, windowed brick wall and filled with coded messages has become an object of fascination in certain corners of the Internet, a...
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Facebook's solution to tech's diversity problemOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - There's little doubt that there's a race and gender gap in the tech industry. Look at any of the major tech firms' diversity reports and you'll see that there are propor...
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Match.com says hackers are after its dataOct 25, 2015 7:43 am - Match Group, the corporate parent of Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com, is planning to go public - which honestly won't have much impact on the 59 million people looking for...
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Pay-TV losing 300,000 customers is good news in cord-cutting eraOct 24, 2015 7:40 am - NEW YORK - How bad have things been for the pay- television industry lately? An estimated 300,000 Americans dropped TV service last quarter, and analysts are calling it ...
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App reviews: Twitter Moments, Photoshop MixOct 26, 2015 6:09 am - For its devoted users, Twitter is a torrent of information in which to splash around to pick up everything from the latest news to the latest meme. But for those who are...
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How an industry of 'Amazon entrepreneurs' pulled off the Internet's craftiest catfishing schemeOct 26, 2015 6:09 am - Dagny Taggart spends her time traveling the globe, meeting new people and learning new things. She speaks more than 15 languages, including Latin, Russian and Chinese. I...
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What that creepy new all-seeing eye emoji actually meansOct 25, 2015 7:44 am - Ever since Apple revealed its list of new emoji back in September, the all-seeing eye has flummoxed sleuths across the Internet. Of all the pictograms Apple chose to int...