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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One. (Unabridged) - Ginger Zee

Description Before becoming America's first-ever female network chief meteorologist or appearing on Dancing with the Stars, ABC News's Ginger Zee checked herself into a mental health hospital. Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. is Ginger's heartbreaking, hilarious, and harshly honest life story - from Dickhead's (you won't soon forget that name) deck on Lake Michigan to her storm-chasing dream at ABC News. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that ranged from misguided to dangerous, and her tumultuous professional path. This cyclone of stories may sound familiar to some - it's just that Ginger'...

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Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions (Unabridged) - Russell Brand

Description This program is read by the author. A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery. "This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud.... My ...

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Fugitive used wanted poster as his Facebook profile pic, say police - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA bit of a giveaway? Stuart Police Department/ Facebook I've never been on the run, though some days I think I know what it feels like.I feel sure, however, that if I was trying to evade capture by the police, I would check my Facebook page to make sure there wasn't anything incriminating on it.This was allegedly not the case with Mack Yearwood.As the Stuart Police Department in Florida said on its Facebook page: "If you are wanted by the police, it's probably not a good idea to use the 'Wanted of the Week' poster of yourself as your profile pic."The Stuart police were looking for Yearwood in connection ...

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Snapchat Discover serves up a Serena Williams tennis game - CNET

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Luke Lancaster/CNET She looked good as ever in the US Open's first round, so it's appropriate that Snapchat is showcasing Serena Williams' 22 major tou ament victories.Snapchat Discover usually makes use of the platform's photo and video sharing to serve up ads, but the ESPN channel has offered up something a little more engaging than the usual multimedia fare with the Serena Williams' Match Point game.Each of the pro's 22 major tou ament wins are showcased with faithfully recreated set dressing (or as close as 8-bit graphics can get you). The game is based around a single tap on the screen to aim your retu s left or right and you only need a single point to win each match, so you...

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You can now stream Overwatch, Warcraft and Hearthstone directly to Facebook - CNET

A discrete relocatable overlay (currently at the bottom left co er) lets you know how many viewers you currently have. Screenshot by Aloysius Low/CNET Think you're the bee's knees at games like World of Warcraft and StarCraft II? Now you can show all your friends just how good you are. Blizzard's live streaming service is now up and running, so you can broadcast your skills (or lack thereof) to your buddies on Facebook Live. It's good timing too, with World of Warcraft's Legion expansion dropping on Tuesday.To sign up, simply hit the video button that should appear on the Battle.net client, or go to Settings > Streaming and enable it there. You'll need to connect your Battle.net account to Facebook, but o...

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College football coach admits using Facebook, Twitter to spy on players - CNET

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKliff Kingsbury, on the right, appearing on the podcast. The HawkCast/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET College athletes live an interesting life.They're suddenly placed on a higher plane and asked to perform daily.They're fawned upon when they win and vilified when they lose. In some cases, it's said that colleges are so desperate to persuade these young men to join their athletic programs that schools hire attractive young women to increase the attraction of the school.Once athletes are on the team, though, might they continue to enjoy the attention of women? On social media, for example.Texa...

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WhatsApp will hand over data to Facebook - CNET

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just announced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for businesses to communicate to users from the app. Subscribe: CNET Update delivers the biggest tech n...

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WhatsApp draws closer to Facebook, makes it easier for businesses to message you - CNET

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being wa ed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and third-party banner ads out.This is the first time WhatsApp has updated its terms in four years, meani...

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Hackers post Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones' nude photos, private data - CNET

Enlarge ImageLeslie Jones (right) has been targeted by some of the worst elements on the inte et. Hopper Stone The worst parts of the inte et have tu ed their sights on Leslie Jones.Over the past month, the comedian and "Ghostbusters" star has been the target of people sending racist and misogynist messages over social media. The campaign against her appeared to intensify after she called attention to it in July. Now, hackers appear to have broken into her personal website and potentially other accounts, posting personal information such as her driver's license and passport, as well as intimate photos, according to TMZ. The photos were also posted next to a video of Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla killed at t...

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How Facebook censors your posts (FAQ) - CNET

Enlarge ImageFacebook's censorship policies are a confusing mess. James Martin/CNET After Korryn Gaines entered her Baltimore apartment earlier this month, she pulled out a shotgun and then her phone. She opened the Instagram and Facebook apps so she could post details of her standoff with the police. Facebook cut her off. Gaines wasn't the first black person to post about a run-in with the police. Others include Philando Castile, whose fiancee streamed live video on Facebook as he died after a police officer shot him in July. A few days later, a protester streamed a sniper attack on Dallas police on the social network. But her clash marked a tu ing point in the conversation about Facebook's role in empow...

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If you can't legally drink, Facebook has (another) app for you - CNET

Enlarge ImageApps like this remind me that I'm old. Facebook In your face, Snapchat!Kids still say that sort of thing, right? How about: The '00s called and they want their app back! Well, it's late on a Friday, and Facebook has quietly released a new app, called Lifestage. And while its name might suggest the target market is caterpillars, this is actually for teens -- aka not me. Like other apps not built for me, it's somewhat confusing. But the gist of it is that you (the younger version of you, who was able to eat french fries dipped in milkshakes any time you damn well pleased) create a profile using your phone number (remember those?) and your name. Then Lifestage has you take photos or videos of vari...

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Megahit Minecraft arrives on Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset - CNET

Enlarge ImageMinecraft team member Tommaso Checchi plays the virtual-world video game while wearing Facebook's Oculus VR headset. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET It's a match made in nerd heaven. Minecraft, Microsoft's tremendously popular video game, now works on Facebook's Oculus Rift headset, a highly regarded entrant into the new world of virtual reality. "We'd like to welcome you to the game all over again, because it's a fantastic new experience in VR, even if you're a Minecraft veteran," Mike McGrath, a Minecraft developer who helped build the software, said Monday in a blog post. The version requires people to use the Windows 10 beta-test version of Minecraft, which is free to those who...

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Twitter now lets you slap ad stickers on your photos - CNET

As the homogenization of social media continues, Twitter followed in Snapchat's wake by adding the ability to apply stickers with embedded hashtags. Now the business justification emerges: brands will be able to offer stickers with their own built-in hashtags so that you can promote for them and allow them to track your stickered tweets. The company's Promoted #Stickers initiative was announced in a blog post on Monday, with Pepsi as the exclusive partner, and the option will be available to "select marketers" with managed accounts. They're pitched to advertisers as "a huge opportunity for brands to drive brand affinity and raise awareness of their message at scale." Happy brand-affinity driving.Let's block ads! ...

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Facebook's ads have been defeated (again) by Adblock Plus work-around (update) - CNET

Close Facebook's newest ad-blocking tactic defeats Adblock Plus' workaround Drag That was quick. Just two days after Facebook found a way to sneak ads past ad-blocking software, the ad blockers have struck back. Adblock Plus, one of the best-known tools for blocking ads on the inte et, claims to have a work-around that can defeat Facebook's advertising. According to an official Adbl...

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New 'Star Trek: Discovery' series to feature female lead - CNET

CBS When the upcoming "Star Trek: Discovery" edges out of port, it will have a woman as the TV series' lead actor.However, she won't be captain, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but rather a lieutenant commander. That character will likely be non-white, boldly going where no Star Trek has gone before, reports Deadline. (CBS is the parent company of CNET publisher CBSInteractive.)"We're going deep into something that was for me always very tantalizing, and [we're telling] that story through a character who is on a jou ey that is going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy," series creator Bryan Fuller told reporters Wednesday during the Television Critics Association summer press tour...

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Facebook's developing unblockable ads to thwart your ad blocker - CNET

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Facebook taking another go at connecting India, testing cheap Express Wi-Fi service - CNET

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Facebook unveils another Snapchat-esque feature - CNET

Users can also jazz up their photos with filters. Sound familiar? Facebook Facebook is basically Snapchat's little sister right now and wants to copy everything she does. The social-networking giant unveiled on Friday a tweak to its mobile app, a new main screen it's trying out in Canada and Brazil that looks a lot like Snapchat's home screen, according to BuzzFeed.The potential feature demonstrates just how much inspiration Facebook gets from Snapchat. On Tuesday, Facebook-owned Instagram added an element called Stories, which looks nearly identical to Snapchat Stories.The new home screen in the Facebook app opens up with a forward-facing live camera screen for still shots and videos. As in Snapchat, users...

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T-Mobile vows to match Verizon's coverage in next 12 months - CNET

T-Mobile has its sights set on Verizon Wireless. The nation's third-largest carrier believes it will be able to match Verizon's industry-leading wireless coverage within the next 12 months, and maybe sooner, according to T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray. "We plan to materially close the gap by the end of the year," Ray said in an exclusive interview Thursday. Ray and T-Mobile have reason to be bullish. Testing firms OpenSignal and Ookla both crowned T-Mobile the fastest wireless network, and OpenSignal said T-Mobile has surpassed AT&T on network availability, just behind Verizon. T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday published a blog post highlighting the scores, essentially taking a victory lap. T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray at a past company event talking ...

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Covering the DNC: What I did on my summer vacation - CNET

What did you do on your summer vacation? I went to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. All right, so it wasn't exactly a vacation. I live in a nearby suburb of Philadelphia and I was working 14 hours a day throughout the week, getting home well past midnight each evening. But for a reporter who's covered technology for more than a decade and a half, getting to experience the media circus of a national political convention was a thrill. Add in Hillary Clinton becoming the first female to win a major political party's nomination for US president, and this history nerd couldn't have been happier on only four hours of sleep a night. So what was it like to attend the Democratic National Convention? Click through the gallery below for a glimpse of how things...

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Social media swoons over photos of young Tim Kaine - CNET

When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced that Sen. Tim Kaine would be her running mate, the inte et went wild with witty memes. Now it seem Kaine is trending again on Twitter as old photos of him surface online. Plus the young Kaine could double as Superman, which could come in handy. Not only are his new fans smitten with his dashing good looks, some are even giving the VP candidate hipster status just based on his '70s fashion sense. Kaine is getting a lot of attention for his cheekbones and laid-back swagger. But his Democratic cohorts likely have photos from their younger years that could also result in new admirers. In fact, one fan tweeted that the below early...

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Facebook will honor refunds for mistaken in-app purchases made by minors - CNET

Facebook has been ordered to issue refunds for accidental purchases made by minors. CNET Facebook users that have racked up hefty charges for in-app purchases made without their consent are now entitled to a refund.A Califo ia court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2012 class action lawsuit brought against the social media giant. The case applied to two children that accidentally charged thousands of dollars to their parents' credit cards buying Facebook Credits, a virtual currency that was retired in favor of Facebook Payments.While Facebook argued that the individual claims were too different, the website must now rescind its "all sales are final" policy and issue refunds to parents that request ...

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Live video has made Facebook the place to be - CNET

Enlarge ImageLive video has become the buzzword of social media lately. Jason Cipriani/CNET What a difference two years make.Back then, when live video apps like Periscope and Meerkat arrived on mobile phones, live video seemed like a lark for tech nerds and poor college students looking to watch cable TV for free. But within months, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri tapped into the shaky and visceral feel of live video because they understand they can share the emotion of breaking news events with observers who might otherwise just get the news through photos and news cameras.Fast forward to March, when Facebook began giving anyone with a phone and inte et connection an easy way to broadcast live video, str...

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New Facebook Messenger bot orders lunch for you, curates meals - CNET

Enlarge ImageAllset's chatbot for Facebook Messenger lets your order food whenever you're hankering for a meal. Allset Since Facebook added bots to its popular Messenger app in April, there's almost a chatbot for every user whim and desire. Yahoo launched a suite of bots in July to deliver weather and news info, CNN's got one and now there's one that lets you order food.Dining app Allset launched a chatbot for Facebook Messenger, and it's available for San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York City users. Through the bot, you can order and pay for meals, and book a table (for a max party of six). The bot will also look for nearby restaurants to dine at, and curate meal suggestions. So far, 180 restaurants acros...

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Facebook to pledge 1,500 housing units for general public - CNET

Facebook's main campus is in Menlo Park, Califo ia. Robyn Beck/AFP, Getty Images As the influx of Facebook employees continue to drive up demand (and prices) of housing in Menlo Park, Califo ia, where its headquarters are located, the company is trying something different.To accommodate plans for expanding its campus and hiring 6,500 new employees, the tech giant will build 1,500 housing units open to the general public, according to The Wall Street Jou al. The company will also set aside 15 percent of these units for low- to middle-income families."Facebook is committed to being a good neighbor," said a spokesperson for Facebook. "We understand that our growth affects the everyday lives of our neighbors, ...

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The 404 Show 1670: the last VCR, Elon Musk's masterplan, Facebook Aquila, Comic-Con (podcast) - CNET

Today Justin Yu brings along the sad tale of the last VCR. We'll also breakdown Elon Musk's vision of the future, Facebook's WiFi drone test flight Aquila and the current state of Comic-Con. The 404 Show # 1670 Your browser does not support the audio element. Download today's podcastLet's block ads! ...

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Hillary Clinton creates a Trump filter for your photos - CNET

Screenshot by David Priest/CNET Looking for a chance to be insulted? Hillary Clinton's latest salvo in the online political contest is a page that creates insulting filters for your Facebook profile picture. Of course, they're not just any insults -- they're quotes from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The page is simply titled, "Trump yourself."If you want to subject yourself to Trump's insults, some highlights include, "For a man to be successful he needs support at home ... not someone who is always griping and bitching."And, "If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl."And if you want the more tried and true classic, there's always, "[Undocumented Mexican immigrants are] bring...

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Facebook will live-stream the USA basketball exhibition games - CNET

The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook. James Martin/CNET No need to go to Brazil to watch USA basketball. It's on your phone.The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook, the league said Thursday. A total of nine games played by the men's and women's basketball teams will be streamed on both the USA Basketball and NBA Facebook pages. The men's team includes stars Kyrie Irving of the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Kevin Durant and Draymond Green from the Golden State Warriors.The games will also be retransmitted on NBA TV. The news comes two days after Twitter announced it would live-stream a weekly NBA pregame show on its ...

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Buzz Aldrin's first Facebook Live session remembers Apollo 11 - CNET

[embedded content]In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the surface of the moon. Today, to commemorate that anniversary, Aldrin made his first delightful foray into Facebook Live to share his memories of that momentous occasion.In the one-hour session, he and his daughter Jan shared anecdotes and memories, and his hopes for the future.Highlights include Jan recounting how she couldn't hug her father when he came home because the astronauts had been quarantined; her faith in the space program; paparazzi climbing over the fence to photograph the Aldrin family; Buzz revealing that the reason there are so many photographs of him on the moon is because Armstrong had the camera; and detailing his hopes for humans travelling to Mars in the future."You ain'...

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Facebook finds a way to use lasers for high-speed wireless internet - CNET

Facebook Connectivity Lab Facebook's Connectivity Lab is moving forward in its plan to bring fast, cheap inte et to regions of the world with no access to it at all. It's developed a new detector that could bring laser communications to wireless inte et. Lasers are currently in use in optical fibre networks, but wireless networks use radio frequencies and microwaves. Lasers could be a lot faster, but directing a small beam of laser light at a detector some distance away is tricky."A large fraction of people don't connect to the inte et because the wireless communications infrastructure is not available were they live, mostly in very rural areas of the world," said Tobias Tiecke, led the team on a paper tha...

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