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Music

The Soundtrack to Social Media: What Mark Zuckerberg Was Listening to When He Was First Developing Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg shares exactly what it sounded like while he was coding and creating Facebook— and it’s not quite like ‘The Social Network’.

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Why People Won’t Stop Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

The anti-surveillance folks are taking matters into their own hands, smashing Flock cameras whenever they pop up in a new city.

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Microsoft Gaming Boss Asha Sharma Assures Followers That She’s Writing Her Own Posts

Asha Sharma, the new Microsoft Gaming boss, confirms she writes her own social media posts and explains her Xbox play history.

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What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?

When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object.

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Life

Lion Trafficker Convicted Using DNA Evidence in World First: Everything We Know

Those involved in the crime were sentenced to 24 months in prison, making this the world’s first conviction based on forensic evidence tied to a single lion.

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