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High-ranking Facebook executive was 'forced to resign over his support for Donald Trump' after gifting $10,000 to anti-Clinton campaign during the 2016 Presidential election Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey was allegedly fired for supporting Trump It had emerged Luckey paid $10,000 to an anti-Clinton group in the election After the revelation bosses including Mark Zuckerberg put pressure on him Eventually Luckey was put on leave and was said to have been fired in the end It comes as Donald Trump accused the tech giant of anti-conservative bias High-ranking Facebook executive was allegedly forced to resign after refusing to back down...

I have a perplexion. I need to move my lovely Windows 7 to a new laptop running the evil Windows 10. There are all sort of solutions claiming to be the easiest quickest fastus (sic) way to migrate to the new machine. I could rack my brain and make a large partition on the new machine and load a bootable system image, Leaving space for maybe a linux dist for the other. Who has done similar and what software did you use?

FULL TITLE: Trump threatens to withhold federal payments to California because it's forest management is 'so poor' as the state is ravaged by unrelenting wildfires President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold federal payments to California over 'gross mismanagement' of its forests as the state is ravaged by three massive wildfires. In a 2am tweet, Trump wrote: 'There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. 'Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now,...

Xinhua's first English AI anchor makes debut at the World Internet Conference that opens in Wuzhen, China Wednesday.

FULL TITLE: CNN's Jim Acosta trolls Trump with tweet saying he WILL cover the president's visit to Paris after White House trip him of press credentials over angry clash with president CNN reporter Jim Acosta tweeted a defiant message to Donald Trump from Paris Friday, saying he intends to cover the president's trip there despite being stripped of White House press credentials. The reporter tweeted a view of the Eiffel Tower and said: 'Greetings from Paris where we are on the ground for Trump’s trip to France. #1A' The hashtag is a reference to the first amendment, which guarantees freedom...

It looks like you're trying to run a rail service. Do you want some help with that?The train now arriving on platform 14 is... Office? (pic: Rob Dyke) Window admins rejoice! It isn’t just you that can’t get Office 2010 to uninstall silently. The mighty brains behind the UK railways have had just as much trouble.As well as the usual passenger information boards, detailing the day's cancellations and delays, London’s Victoria train station also features displays on every platform showing the state of the lines around the building.Station staff, taking a break from stopping passengers boarding trains due to inexplicable...

Includes a nice homage to this classic meme...

Baby Saved When Mom Hears Baby Has Heartbeat "My baby has a heartbeat?" a mother asked Created Equal's Road Trip for Life team outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, MO. Moments before, she'd arrived at the facility for an abortion. But just before going in, she walked over to speak with Created Equal at the property's border. The brief conversation which followed changed her life and that of her baby forever. Watch to see her wrestle through what to do.

In a string of disturbing tweets Thursday afternoon, Vox Senior Correspondent and co-founder Matthew Yglesias actually justified a mob of left-wing Antifa activists surrounding the home of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and terrorizing his family. Even as other journalists and pundits across the political spectrum condemned the incident, Yglesisas insisted that he “cannot empathize” with Carlson or his family. In response to liberal Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty denouncing the actions of the Antifa thugs via Twitter, Yglesias launched his offensive tweetstorm by proclaiming: “I think the idea behind terrorizing his family, like it or not as a strategy,...

Despite all the convenience and quality of Google's sprawling ecosystem, some users are fed up with the fishy privacy policies the company has recently Since Google owns some of the best and most-used apps, websites, and internet services, making a clean break is difficult -- but not impossible. We're going to take a look at how to leave the most popular Google services behind, and how to keep Google from tracking your data. We've also spent serious time researching and testing great alternatives to Google's offerings, so you can leave the Big G without having to buy new devices or...

FULL TITLE: Oregon sex offender is jailed for 22 years boy, 14, is found living with him in a halfway house after they met on an online gaming app An Oregon sex offender was handed a 22-year prison sentence after authorities found a 14-year-old living with him in a halfway house. Brendon Robert Louis Doyle, 26, met the boy on an online gaming app in 2017 and went on to start communicating with him via text messages and Skype. Doyle had picked up the 14-year-old near his Vancouver, Washington, home in February 2017 and brought him back to a halfway...

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Any Michigan Freepers care to comment? Dad and I are sitting here watching videos of John James and can't fathom why Trump wouldn't go there. Sorry for the vanity!

When Apple introduced the new iPad Pro, the company boasted that its slim slate is more powerful than 92 percent of PCs out there. Now that we've benchmarked the 12.9-inch iPad Pro for our review over at Laptop Mag, it looks like that claim could very well be legit. Credit: Tom's Guide The 7-nanometer A12X Bionic chip processor inside the iPad Pro packs four performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, and there's a new GPU that promises twice the graphics performance as the A10X processor inside the last iPad Pro. And the benchmark results are quite impressive. Geekbench 4 On...

Wide-ranging Chinese state rules on what video games can depict are believed to be behind the need to modify Rainbow Six. The revamp would mean Rainbow Six had a "single, global version" so it would be easier to maintain and introduce new features, said Ubisoft. It illustrated its blogpost with images showing what some scenes and icons would look like in the new version. The illustrations depict skulls and knives being swapped for more anodyne images and some elements, such as slot machines, being removed entirely. The modified images and maps will be introduced with the Year 3, Season 4...

TAIPEI -- Apple has signaled disappointing demand for the new iPhone XR, telling its top smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to the relatively cost-effective model that hit shelves in late October, sources say. "For the Foxconn side, it first prepared nearly 60 assembly lines for Apple's XR model, but recently uses only around 45 production lines as its top customer said it does not need to manufacture that many by now," a source familiar with the situation said. That means Foxconn, the Taiwanese company traded as Hon Hai Precision Industry, would produce...

The domain Gab.com has landed at Epik. This post will summarize why Epik welcomed Gab.com. It will also address why I believe the operators of the site have the right to be online. De-Platforming is Digital Censorship. Blacklisting is Digital Shunning. For those not familiar with the case, Gab.com’s ability to operate was abruptly terminated by Godaddy, among other vendors, who deemed Gab to have violated their terms of service. This de-platforming of Gab generated much discussion in the mainstream technology press. It also prompted a lively discussion in the professional domain name community, including at the popular discussion board...

Just about a half-hour ago when I clicked on my shortcut to go to FreeRepublic.com, a page popped up indicating something along the lines that "QANON.com" was phishing for information on FreeRepublic, and, when I continued, the address at the top now indicates that it's "dangerous" and it has lined through the "https" part of the indentification. Is something actually going on or is this something that Google is just doing to show its displeasure with a conservative website? It's not the shortcut, because I tried coming in directly from the search engine, along with typing in "https://www.freerepublic.com" specifically. Any...

MacDailyNews presents live notes from AppleÂ’s Q418 Conference Call with analysts starting at 5pm EDT/2pm PDT today. Apple will provide live audio streaming of its Q418 Results Conference Call using AppleÂ’s industry-leading QuickTime multimedia software.The live webcast will begin at 2pm PDT/ 5pm EDT today here.The company posted quarterly revenue of $62.9 billion, an increase of 20 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.91, up 41 percent. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarterÂ’s revenue.For Q119, Apple guided for revenue revenue between $89 billion and $93 billion.Live notes from AppleÂ’s Q318 Conference...

Computers made in America are virtually non-existent, but a little company in Denver had a dream to do just that. System76 has long been looking to make a Linux-powered computer in the USA using open source ideology. A lofty goal, which many folks didn't think would ever be achieved. Well, against all odds, today, System76 proves the haters wrong as it finally unveils its much-anticipated Thelio desktop computer. And boy, oh boy, it is beautiful.