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Bypass Paywalls is a popular extension for Firefox and Chrome that does what the name implies: allows your browser to manipulate its cookies so that websites with "soft paywalls" that allow a small number of free articles can't accurately determine if you've already exceeded your limit. Bypass Paywalls is a free software project maintained by Iamadamdev and hosted on Github . On November 17, Iamadamdev updated the project's Readme file to announce that Mozilla had removed the extension from its Add-Ons Store; according to Iamadamdev , the add-on was removed for violating Mozilla's terms-of-service; but they dispute that the project violates those terms. The terms are spread across two pages and the relevant passage appears to be "Mozilla reserves the right ...[to] remove [an add-on that] our reasonable opinion, violates this Agreement or the law, any applicable Mozilla policy, or is in any way harmful or objectionable to End-Users". I do not b...

Your computer ships with a collection of trusted cryptographic certificates, called its "root of trust," which are consulted to verify things like SSL connections and software updates. A recent report from Secorvo reveals that Sennheiser's Headsetup drivers for its headphones covertly inserted two certificates into this root of trust. What's more, the certificate was ineptly secured, making it possible to guess the other half of the key-pair (certificates come in pairs; what one signs, the other can verify, and a well-formed certificate can never be used to infer its matching other half). Worse still: the Headsetup installer didn't remove the certificates when you uninstalled the software, leaving your computer in a vulnerable state. The upshot: anyone with access to the Headsetup installer could figure out the signing key, then use that key to sign certificates that would allow them to impersonate Google, Apple, Microsoft, your bank, the IRS (etc) to your com...

During a Nine Inch Nails concert in Irving, TX two nights ago, Trent Reznor asked the crowd who voted for Ted Cruz. The room exploded with a resounding chorus of boos. He then told his fans, "He was bugging to get on the guest list, and I told him to fuck off.” According to Spin , Reznor said it wasn't the first time the "pain-in-the-ass" senator from Texas had asked for free tickets. “We put him on [the guest list] a few years ago. He drank all the beer and was just a pain in the ass to be around,” Reznor told the crowd, before launching into a performance of “1,000,000” from The Slip. Here's a reddit video of Reznor at his NIN concert explaining to his audience why he told Cruz to fuck off. Image: by Mark Benney, CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2rdPdq4 via IFTTT

New York City's "marshal" service is a throwback to the Dutch colonial days; the 35 marshals are appointed by the mayor, draw no salary, and earn their livings by skimming a percentage off of the debts they collect, operating with impunity and reaching around the world. The most prolific and successful NY marhsal is Vadim Barbarovich, who earned $1.7 million last year , making him New York's best-paid municipal employee. Barbarovich grew his income to such untold heights by partnering with internet-based "cash-advance" companies -- these are business lenders who circumvent loan-sharking limits on interest rates by characterizing their loans as buying a heavily discounted interest in the future earnings of a company. NY marshals can obtain "court orders" requiring banks to turn over their targets' savings without ever appearing in front of a judge or providing evidence of a genuine debt. These are not enforceable outside of New York City, but ...

Last year, scientist Chen Zhanqi from China noticed a baby jumping spider behaving in a way that baby mammals do: it attached itself to its mother the way baby animals do when suckling milk. Zhangi decided to closely study jumping spiders along with a colleague, and discovered that their babies actually do suckle milk from their mother's epigastric furrow, which is found on her abdomen. The milk was found to have four times the amount of protein as that of a cow, and the baby spiders suckled until they were considered "sub-adults" at 40 days old. But when the scientists painted over the epigastric furrow to block the flow of milk, the babies died after 10 days. "Providing milk and long-term care together is virtually unheard of in insects and other invertebrates. And with the exception of mammals, it’s not even that common among vertebrates," according to ScienceMag.org , which makes this discovery all the more fascinating. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/...

Remember when the Department of Defense's own internal auditor revealed that the agency had committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in just one year? Now, an in-depth investigation into the Pentagon's crooked accounting in The Nation hints at the full extent of the accounting frauds deployed by the agency that already absorbs two-thirds of all of America's federal tax revenue , and delves into the methods used by the Pentagon's bagmen to hide their financial sleights of hand. The Pentagon's main goal is to ensure that it never has its budget cut, so it is at pains to disguise any funding surpluses it has at the end of the year. The laundering tactics used to accomplish this are shifting money from "one-year funds" into "five-year funds." The Pentagon's other tactics are internally described as "plugs" (which "plug a hole" in a budget) and "nippering" (shifting funds from a Congressionally approved purpose...

For those who don't know, the Vectrex was Milton Bradley's videogame console with an integrated vector graphics display that was introduced in 1982. As cool and unique as Vectrex was, it was only on the market for two years before succumbing to the video game crash of 1983. A few years ago, photos turned up revealing that Milton Bradley had apparently prototyped a more portable version of the console. Other than what was seen in those images though, there was little-to-no information about the actual system, like whether it actually worked or was just a mock-up. Until now. The National Videogame Museum has actually acquired one of the working prototypes! IT'S ALIIIIVE! We dug a little deeper into the Mini Vectrex console this weekend and we're happy to report it is now back to working order! Check out this video of the console in action! pic.twitter.com/9PFlcnYQlr — National Videogame Museum (@nvmusa) November 19, 2018 We've heard it suggested that the Mini V...

A rare, fully-operational Enigma cipher machine from World War II will go up for auction at Sothebys tomorrow as part of an amazing History of Science & Technology auction (also including Richard Feynman's Nobel Prize). The Enigma is expected to go for around $200,000. From a 1999 article I wrote for Wired : German soldiers issued an Enigma were to make no mistake about their orders if captured: Shoot it or throw it overboard. Based on electronic typewriters invented in the 1920s, the infamous Enigma encryption machines of World War II were controlled by wheels set with the code du jour. Each letter typed would illuminate the appropriate character to send in the coded message. In 1940, building on work by Polish code breakers, Alan Turing and his colleagues at the famed UK cryptography center Bletchley Park devised the Bombe, a mechanical computer that deciphered Enigma-encoded messages. Even as the Nazis beefed up the Enigma architecture by adding more wheels, the codes ...

A man on the federal wanted list for repeated crimes in Russia broke into an office building and stole 140,000 rubles ($2,100 USD) from a safe. He had brought a toolbox worth of tools, including "screwdrivers, wire cutters, a hammer, a nail puller, and a bunch of keys, to break into several private company offices, looking for valuables," according to Oddity Central . But before taking off, he spotted a leather armchair and couldn't resist. The gentleman took a seat and fell into a deep slumber, bungling any plan of escape. Asleep for hours, he was finally spotted on a security camera. Police came and had an easy time nabbing the man, who was still snoozing comfortably with his bag of cash. Needless to say, the 36-year-old burglar was arrested. Image: Mohamed Hassan/PublicDomainPictures.net ; CCO Public Domain from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2Q270PH via IFTTT

A Hannukah miracle I can get behind. The world has burnt enough oil. You can buy it here for $399. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2Q2zSr9 via IFTTT

Fred Berry's dancing, largely on the incredible sitcom What's Happening! serves as an incredible anti-depressant. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2KGnkQb via IFTTT

Trump today canceled, via a tweet, his planned G20 meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He said he was cancelling their private, one-on-one, nobody else in the room visit because of Russian naval aggression against Ukraine. BREAKING: Trump cancels meeting with Putin, citing Russia's seizure of Ukrainian vessels. — The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2018 Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she wasn't aware of any Trump-Putin phone call recently, but the two governments have been in communication. Trump's meetings with South Korea’s Moon Jae-In and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be pull-asides at the G20 summit, she said. — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 29, 2018 The Kremlin says they have not been notified of a cancellation of the Putin-Trump meeting. Emily Tamkin, BuzzFeed News : Trump's tweet came the same day that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for NATO to send ships to the Sea of Azov, where the Ukrainian vessels ...

In Leeds, England, Ashley Watson, 26, set a new Guinness World Record with a backflip between horizontal bars nearly 20 feet (5.87 meters) apart. In this case, Watson didn't fly through the air with the greatest of ease as it took him six tries to land it. Bonus below, Watson's own "favorite videos of 2015, in and out of competition": from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2G0VboD via IFTTT

In 2007, Florida multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to two felony prostitution counts in a sweetheart deal that sent him to a private wing of a minimum security prison, with a work-release program that let him go to an off-site office for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for just over a year. Prosecutors knew of at least 36 underage survivors of sex crimes committed by Epstein, but none of them were notified of the deal (this silence is a breach of federal law), and they were subsequently smeared by Epstein's lawyers who accused them of being "gold diggers." The Miami Herald has tracked down more than 80 of Epstein's victims, who were young teens when he convinced them to come to his house and committed nonconsensual and illegal sex acts with them. They were largely poor and desperate for the money that Epstein paid them, and they say he provided cash bonuses to girls who brought in more girls for him to have sex with. They also say he rejected girls who...

The first two recreational marijuana dispensaries opened in Massachusetts last week to blockbuster numbers. The two dispensaries, located in Leicester and Northampton sold over $2 million dollars of product in just five days. Black Friday was especially popular, with customers spending almost half a million dollars in one day. The state of Massachusetts gets $376,995 in tax revenue and the two dispensary locations will get $66,528 in local taxes from those five days. Not too shabby. But the launch of legal weed hasn't been without problems. Neighbors of Cultivate, the Leicester dispensary held an emergency meeting Monday night to address the massive traffic jams created by weed seekers. Cultivate is averaging 1,000 customers a day and has pledged to add more parking spaces and additional employees. Three new dispensaries are expected to open in Salem, Easthampton, and Wareham over the next couple of weeks. Salem's opening will be interesting to watch as it will be the close...

Reddit has posted a punchy, impassioned warning about the likelihood that it will no longer be able to function if the EU's plan to mandate copyright filters and limit linking to news without permission goes through. In its note, Reddit links the fight over the new Copyright Directive to other policy fights it has joined in, like the fights for Net Neutrality and against SOPA. Visitors to Reddit in the EU are being shown a warning box explaining the issue and asking them to contact their MEPs. It's fantastic to see Reddit in the fight, especially after Youtube's CEO proposed that this could all be fixed if everyone had to use ContentID , or something like it. Defending equal access to the free and open internet is core to Reddit’s ideals, and something that redditors have told us time and again they hold dear too, from the SOPA/PIPA battle to the fight for Net Neutrality. This is why even though we are an American company with a user base primarily in the United St...

Retro 51 has issued this handsome series of rocket pens that celebrate NASA's launch vehicles of the space race era. The line includes a Mercury-Redstone, Gemini-Titan II, and the Apollo-Saturn V that carried all the astronauts who traveled to the moon. (No word on whether the pens work upside down .) From Space.com : The Mercury and Gemini pens retail for $50 each. The Apollo pen is priced at $60. The pens are also offered as a boxed set with matching serial numbers for $170. Retro 51 will be donating a portion of the proceeds from each pen to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). Over the course of the past three decades, the Foundation has awarded more than $4.5 million to more than 500 U.S. college students excelling in science, technology, mathematics and engineering degrees. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2rbB908 via IFTTT

Another story came out this week about gun owners letting their NRA memberships lapse . My gun-owning family — admittedly more my husband than me — falls into that middle ground. He chose to drop his NRA affiliation and his favored gun range when its mandatory NRA membership tipped from practical tips into political advocacy. Apparently, he is not alone. The National Rifle Association of America reported $98 million in contributions in 2017, down from nearly $125 million in 2016, according to The Daily Beast, even though it has in President Donald Trump a champion it helped elect. The NRA’s more than $128 million in dues last year was a drop from the $163 million it took in the year before, the report said. Moreover, there's growing dismay at the decadent lifestyles of NRA leaders amid belt-tightening and layoffs. The National Rifle Association paid more than $100,000 in personal expenses for an official who is now leading an austerity campaign within the organization, new...

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has just added reggae music to its list of more than 300 practices and expressions of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" for safeguarding. From UNESCO : Having originated within a cultural space that was home to marginalized groups, mainly in Western Kingston, the Reggae music of Jamaica is an amalgam of numerous musical influences, including earlier Jamaican forms as well as Caribbean, North American and Latin strains. In time, Neo-African styles, soul and rhythm and blues from North America were incorporated into the element, gradually transforming Ska into Rock Steady and then into Reggae. While in its embryonic state Reggae music was the voice of the marginalized, the music is now played and embraced by a wide cross-section of society, including various genders, ethnic and religious groups. Its contribution to international discourse on issues of injustice, resistance, love and humanity ...

The Worst Things For Sale explores "the terrible world" of sriracha sauce-themed merchandise , such as the official water bottle of Huy Fong Foods, the geniuses behind the distinctly-flavored red spooge. The unofficial stuff, though, is worse. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2DORU94 via IFTTT

We live at the confluence of two ages: the first rush of climate change, which is bringing new species and new pathogens to territories they've never been known in; and the nascent age of genetic engineering, which holds out the promise of eliminating these pathogens, and not just in the wealthy territories they've moved into, but throughout the world, including the poor countries where they are deadly scourges. A favorite target in these crosshairs is the disease-bearing mosquito, whose dengue, malaria, zika and other pathogens are among the world's deadliest killers, and whose range has pushed relentlessly north as the world has warmed. One possibility is to use CRISPR and gene-drives to directly intervene in the genomes of mosquitoes to kill them off. But another -- possible less controversial -- tactic is to tweak the pathogens that attack mosquitoes, like Wolbachia bacteria, which can be bred into to male mosquitoes (who don't bite and therefore can be released...

It's not too late to get your conspiracy-theory-lovin' sweetie something they really want for the holidays: validation that the earth is flat. Start with this flat earth calendar ($13.22) and stay for the flat earth posters, stickers, decals, magnets, prints, tees, and tote bags. Find all of it at UK-based Etsy shop Flat Earth Posters . A big thanks to Doc Pop for this one ! P.S. I previously listed some strange calendars but this one tops them all! from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2AuQRYo via IFTTT

It's getting hot in here. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, plead guilty today to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate project in Russia. Cohen has secured a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. From CNN: According to the info being read out, Cohen made a false statement regarding Trump Tower deal in Moscow that he was working on in 2015 & 2016. He had discussion about the project even later. Cohen previously said the deal was stopped in January 2016. BOOM https://t.co/5FU94PFZri pic.twitter.com/HZTNmFTl4l — Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) November 29, 2018 From ABC News , earlier this morning: Cohen is scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday where he is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign. Once among the president’s most loyal and zealous defenders in business and politics...

Snack bars, counters, cabinets and drawers have become the newest office staple. These containers present a challenge for companies wishing to satisfy their employees’ cravings. People want a little bit of everything, so office managers must get ahead and adapt quickly in the face of an evolving workforce that always seems to crave what’s next. […] The post 3 Important Strategies For Buying Variety Snack Packs That Employees Will Love appeared first on ReadWrite . from ReadWrite https://ift.tt/2Ql660j via IFTTT

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here — and it’s long overdue. The technology is rapidly gaining traction and becoming a prominent force within several industries. The technology has come a long way since IBM’s Watson creation trumped Jeopardy! in 2011. Originally, Watson made its home in small and encasement approximately the size of an average […] The post 4 Ways AI Will Revolutionize the Marketing Industry appeared first on ReadWrite . from ReadWrite https://ift.tt/2BFxpu7 via IFTTT

It has been about two weeks since the New York Times published an exposé on Facebook's response to bad press and protests against it over the last couple of years. Since then, an outgoing exec took responsibility for hiring a PR firm, Definers... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2Q0KNSh via IFTTT

Last month Netflix announced two of the "Defenders" series it produces with Marvel and Netflix had come to an end, and now it's pulling the plug on Daredevil too. Season three debuted just a few weeks ago starring Charlie Cox as the blind hero protec... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2QrurBs via IFTTT

Starting today, Hulu Live TV subscribers will have access to Discovery networks. The channels, spread across a variety of packages available on the live streaming service, include Discovery, TLC, MotorTrend, Animal Planet and Investigation Discovery... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2rbujYz via IFTTT

The Associated Press reports today that more than 200 EV manufacturers including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW and others transmit real time vehicle data like position, engine information and battery charge level to centers backed by the Chinese government.... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2TYOoOR via IFTTT

Sidewalk Labs' smart neighborhood in Toronto is edging closer to becoming a reality after it revealed the initial draft plan for the site. It's proposing that Quayside should be focused around 12 mass-timber buildings, with a maximum height of 30 sto... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2Ax9Stq via IFTTT

Calculator watch fans rejoice: there's a new contraption that makes your wrist wear a little more useful. Audioweld has made what it claims is the first synthesizer watch -- which is appropriately named Synthwatch. The husky contraption offers a set... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2FPv83z via IFTTT

T-Mobile is getting back into the mobile banking game. The company is launching T-Mobile Money, a checking account that will offer perks to T-Mobile subscribers. The company hasn't officially announced the launch of T-Mobile Money, but mobile apps ar... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2DRh4Up via IFTTT

Earlier this month, hackers attempted to breach Dell's network and obtain customer information, according to the company. While it says there's no conclusive evidence the hackers were successful in their November 9th attack, it's still possible they... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2zzAoCE via IFTTT

Volkswagen is planning a new factory in North America to build electric vehicles for the market, and the automaker is exploring potential sites. Scott Keogh, the new Volkswagen Group of America CEO, said at the LA Auto Show that VW's existing plant i... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2AxKFPF via IFTTT

YouTube is rolling out its Instagram-style Stories feature to more creators starting today, according to a report from The Verge. The latest expansion of the feature, which YouTube first started testing last year, will allow creators with more than 1... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2QtCIoq via IFTTT

Microsoft's Office icons on Windows and the web have been conservative, to put it mildly. They've been functional things you click while you scramble to finish a business spreadsheet or school report. The company would like you to sit up and take n... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2TZbWTK via IFTTT

The White House is set to host a roundtable discussion next week that will include a number of tech CEOs, the Wall Street Journal reports. A White House email says those attending will discuss "bold, transformational ideas" that "can help ensure US l... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2AxuJNb via IFTTT

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Lyft has just completed its acquisition of the company behind Citi Bike, and it's not wasting any time ensuring it's a force to be reckoned with in the bike sharing world. The company has struck a deal with New York City to expand Citi Bike through... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2KGCJQv via IFTTT

Last year, President Trump signed a directive that tasked NASA with returning to the moon -- an effort that Vice President Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine have repeatedly backed. And that goal is set to include commercial companies, whic... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2PZ8Xwi via IFTTT

Who needs a leather computer? When HP announced the Spectre Folio, the first notebook with a completely leather case, it seemed like a vain attempt at doing something different. But after spending a week with it, the Folio turned out to be much... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2BFjvb4 via IFTTT

It's been nearly 20 years since the American market has had access to one of BMW's Grand Touring 8-series, but that wait is now nearly over. At the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, BMW finally lifted the veil (quite literally) on the new... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2Rp3OKz via IFTTT

Now that the Home Hub is widely available, Google is releasing its other smart speaker update this year: namely, that Aqua Home Mini it was supposed to ship in late October (yes, roughly a month ago). The minty-colored puck costs the same $49 as oth... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2PaHqmf via IFTTT

BMW has a problem: with cities planning to either create zero-emissions zones or even ban gas-powered cars entirely, how does it keep its vehicles on the road? By turning them into ad hoc electric cars, apparently. In a conversation at the LA Auto... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2TVjqHo via IFTTT

Kia was not messing around at its LA Auto Show press conference on Wednesday, rolling out vehicle updates and new models left and right. from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2E4f64a via IFTTT

The scientific community and the world at large were rocked this week when researcher He Jiankui claimed he had created the world's first genetically edited babies. Using CRISPR/Cas9, He says he edited the genes of twin girls, Lulu and Nana, in order... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2Q2uC6T via IFTTT

Earlier this year, Facebook announced and enacted a plan to require all political advertisements to carry a "Paid for by" label and be listed in an ad archive. Now the company is granting an exemption for those requirements to legitimate news publica... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2U0TESr via IFTTT

SwiftKey recently gave users the ability to translate conversations without having to leave their apps, and now it's making it easier to search the web. SwiftKey for Android has added a search function, allowing users to search for what they need rig... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2P9MmYy via IFTTT

1. Science class The principal calls this a mindful school. Johane Ligondé is effusively warm but with the kind of emotional solidity you'd expect from someone who wakes each morning to manage more than 1,000 kids at the only public midd... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2Semr46 via IFTTT

Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted nine people and two companies for allegedly selling Samsung's curved-edge OLED display tech (which it uses in its flagship Galaxy phones) to a company in China. The CEO of Samsung supplier Toptec Co Ltd was am... from Engadget RSS Feed https://ift.tt/2zzyban via IFTTT

There is a weird rumour that Emmy-winner Claire Foy, of The Crown fame, knows all the words to The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 classic "Rapper's Delight." The fact that Foy is a fan of early rap is fun enough, but Jimmy Fallon couldn't let the actress leave her Thursday appearance on The Tonight Show without spitting out a few bars. While deeply embarrassed about being put on the spot, Foy went ahead and yes, she nailed it. Read more... More about Entertainment , The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Claire Foy , Entertainment , and Celebrities from Mashable https://ift.tt/2E5g2Fh via IFTTT

Never underestimate the power of a group of passionate, angry young people. Thousands of young Australian students ditched their classrooms on Friday protesting their government's lack of action on climate change. SEE ALSO: The most damning conclusions from the UN's special climate change report Inspired by Greta Thunberg , a 15-year-old Swedish student who led her own climate change strike outside Swedish parliament, the national School Strike 4 Climate Action was organised through Facebook in capital cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth, and in regional towns.   Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison implored students earlier in the week to remain in class rather than protest over climate change.  Read more... More about Politics , Australia , Climate Change , Students , and Social Good from Mashable https://ift.tt/2rbhGNb via IFTTT

Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has been accused of being directly involved in the company's (once) covert investigation into billionaire George Soros. As reported by the New York Times , Sandberg allegedly asked communications staff at Facebook to research Soros' financial interests. SEE ALSO: Embarrassing PDF fail reveals Facebook considered selling access to data The accusation comes from three people who are familiar with the emailed request from Sandberg, which was reportedly sent shortly after Soros' attack on Facebook and Google.  Back in January, the billionaire philanthropist labelled the tech companies a "menace" in a speech to the World Economic Forum, calling for increased government regulation. Read more... More about Facebook , Sheryl Sandberg , Social Media Companies , George Soros , and Definers from Mashable https://ift.tt/2DS78tQ via IFTTT

Daredevil has seen its last season on Netflix. The streaming service is canceling the Marvel series, just over a month after the third season was released. SEE ALSO: 'Once Upon a Deadpool' trailer has a charity tie-in "Marvel’s Daredevil will not return for a fourth season on Netflix," the streaming service said in a statement to Deadline. "We are tremendously proud of the show’s last and final season and although it’s painful for the fans, we feel it best to close this chapter on a high note. "We’re thankful to our partners at Marvel, showrunner Erik Oleson, the show’s writers, stellar crew and incredible cast including Charlie Cox as Daredevil himself, and we’re grateful to the fans who have supported the show over the years." Read more... More about Entertainment , Tv , Netflix , Disney , and Daredevil from Mashable https://ift.tt/2DRXozJ via IFTTT

For the past few days, the internet admired the size of Knickers , the massive Australian cow (or technically a steer) who towers over his brethren. At six feet, three inches tall and weighing 1.4 tonnes, or roughly 3,086 pounds, Knickers is a behemoth who is difficult to match. But now a challenger has entered the ring.  SEE ALSO: The big cow has inspired a lot of hope and joy A steer called Dozer in Manitoba, Canada, measures six feet, five inches tall, just eclipsing Knickers' height. As reported by CBC , Dozer came to an animal sanctuary called Kismet Creek Farm, which is run by Karl Schoenrock and his wife Raelle. They saw Knickers making waves on the internet, and decided to see how their Dozer measured up. Read more... More about Animals , Canada , Culture , Cows , and Culture from Mashable https://ift.tt/2zuxLBZ via IFTTT