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Samsung now beat Google for updates on Android for security updates

Samsung is upping the ante on Android updates and offering four years of security updates on many of its Android devices

The company's full update package is now three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates, besting even what Google offers on the Pixel line.

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Roughly 6 billion people on Earth own a phone, but only 4.5 billion have access to a working toilet

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The sentence "Are you as bored as I am?" can be read backwards and still makes sense

jus sayin 😏

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A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections

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Cypress Hill is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut studio album with the release of the graphic novel, Tres Quis

Created in collaboration with Z2 Comics

Tres Quis is also set to feature character appearances from their songs, including Officer O’Malley from “Hole in the Head” and Sister Maggie from “Stoned Is the Way of the Walk.”

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Gremlins star Zach Galligan has reunited with Gizmo for the first time in 31 years

https://youtu.be/Teep-y_wjXA

It is tasty... be careful

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Parler is asking users to download the app from play stores

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😂😂 guess they never got that "memo" 😂😂

flashback to 2016

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A group of thieves posed as mannequins in a department store in England as it closed down for the night, then grabbed £10,000 in merchandise

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kinda why some protesters are protesting with toilet brushes is because of the gold toilet brushes in the video

✌️ L8tr

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UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website

a company called Users Needs Ltd, based in Nottingham, has won a contract for up to £20m for something called "User Research Participants"

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Pigs can be trained to use computer joysticks, say researchers

Study found pigs were able to move a cursor to hit a wall on a screen and earn a treat

Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, Croney and co-author Dr Sarah Boysen report how they used tasty treats to train the pigs to move the joysticks using their snouts while watching a computer screen

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631755/full

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Twitter has talked about subscription services as a way to generate more revenue for a couple of quarters in a row

so.......maybe nothing will happen AGAIN this quarter

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The Great Suspender Chrome extension removed for being malware

Google automatically removed the extension

Tip: if you did use that extension and it has vanished but need to find a tab/tabs

There is, fortunately, a way to access those tabs again, but it does require a bit of work

That involves searching through Chrome’s history for tabs marked with the extension’s unique “klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg” and copying only the actual links of the web pages

#TipsAndTricks

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A nazi.social instance

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not even hiding the fact

https://nazi.social/main/all

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Microsoft Defender ATP is detecting yesterday's Chrome update as a backdoor

Microsoft commercial antivirus product is labeling Chrome's latest update as being infected with the Funvalget backdoor.

based on reports shared on Twitter by other dismayed system administrators, Defender ATP is currently detecting multiple files part of the Chrome v88.0.4324.146 update package as containing a generic backdoor trojan named "PHP/Funvalget.A."

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Peter Tierney Murrell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish National Party

He is married to Nicola Sturgeon

😆

take from that what ya may

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sperm counts have dropped by 60% since 1980

low sperm count

you won't see it coming

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What does being ducked mean?

the canadians started it

Little rubber duckies spread goodwill to Jeep owners everywhere. ... Now there's a new way to reach out, and it's called Jeep Ducking. Jeep owners buy little rubber ducks, write messages on them, and leave them on or in other Jeeps as a way to spread some smiles

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there is Dr who Easter egg in it's a sin

It’s a Sin’s Doctor Who crossover contains a poignant tribute to actor who died of Aids

Written by Russell T Davies, Channel 4’s new drama, it's a sin, follows a group of young gay men living in London in the 1980s at the beginning of the Aids crisis

However, the scene is more than a simple Easter egg for Doctor Who fans. It is a direct tribute to actor Dursley Linden, who appeared in the 1988 episode “Remembrance of the Daleks”

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Lorne Sausage, also known as square sausage, is a Scottish tradition

The square shape suits sandwiches and rolls

The sausage meat is set into a square and sliced into 1/2 inch thick slices.

depending where in Scotland (or indeed the world) you hail from you may call it a ‘Lorne Sausage’, ‘Flat Sausage’, ‘Butcher’s Slice’ or even simply a ‘Slicey’