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USA Today’s Facebook page is being inundated with likes from fake accounts, and its parent company, Gannett Co., has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate. Before a purge of such accounts last month, USA Today contends that spam accounts made up a significant percentage of the publication’s followers on the social media platform.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a magnetic chess board, but it’s probably one of the more innovative takes on the game: a globe-shaped board.

‘These ideas are not necessarily for the public good’

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These photos may look like a child’s drawings (or the wedding dress of a certain celebrity) but it’s actually seawater magnified 25 times. Captured by photographer David Liittschwager, it’s part of the contents of “one dip of the hand net.”

In this fan film from Malaysian-based film filmmaker Brian Lee, three Stormtroopers catch sight of their leader on the battlefield, and realize that they have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet him. It’s a hilarious film, made all the better by the acting.

Museums are turning to virtual reality, apps, and interactive experiences to keep tech-savvy visitors engaged

The Wachowskis' strange, celebratory, and globe-spanning series Sense8 returns for a second season on Netflix this week, so my colleague Tasha Robinson sat down to talk about the show with actor Naveen Andrews, who plays one of its more mysterious figures. I'd definitely recommend checking it out if you're a fan.

When the Nintendo Switch launched, tech and game blogs all-but-unanimously praised the Pro Wireless Controller. It looks and feels like a traditional wireless game controller — two joysticks, a directional pad, a ton of buttons and triggers — and must be purchased separately for $70.

The Internet of Shit is a column about all the shitty things we try to connect to the internet, and what can be done about it. It’s from the anonymous creator of the Internet of Shit Twitter account.

Weird Phone Case of the Month is a monthly series in which we live with, and subsequently review, our time with a phone case. Phone cases are one of our only ways to express individuality with our smartphones, so what do our phone case choices say about us?

An anonymous group has posted nine gigabytes of emails and other data, purportedly taken from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. In a statement to the BBC, the Macron campaign said it had been the victim of a “massive hacking attack” and confirmed that some of the documents were taken from campaign officials, although it claimed other portions of the archive may be fabricated.

Stephen Colbert apparently provoked the ire of more than just Trump supporters and the LGBTQ community when he made a controversial joke on The Late Show earlier this week. According to The Hill, the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into Colbert’s comments to see if the joke, which illustrated a sexual act between the president and Vladimir Putin using the word “cock,” meets the Supreme Court standards for “obscene” content. Colbert half-heartedly apologized for the joke on Wednesday... Читать дальше...

Details on the next iteration of Lenovo’s Moto Z Play leaked today, thanks to VentureBeat, and one of the device’s key specs seems to be getting a big downgrade. Lenovo is reportedly dropping the next Z Play’s battery from 3510mAh to 3000mAh, meaning it’ll go from 50 hours of expected life to 30 hours. The decrease in battery capacity comes with a drop in the device’s thickness, but that’s the exact tradeoff people praised the original Z Play for avoiding.

Facebook is reportedly closer than expected to making a big push into television. The company is developing around 24 shows and plans to premiere them in mid-June, according to a big new report from Business Insider. There will apparently be two tiers of show: a small number of longer, prestige shows on the order of House of Cards, and more digestible 5- to 10-minute shows that can be added to the Facebook app’s video tab daily.