In 2011, Facebook asked the Federal Election Commission to exempt it from rules requiring political advertisers to disclose who’s paying for an ad. Political ads on TV and radio must include such disclosures. But Facebook argued that its ads should be regulated as “small items,” similar to bumper stickers, which […]
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Subscribe to the Apple Byte Podcast iTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBurner MP3 Stitcher | Google Play | TuneIn iTunes video | RSS video | FeedBurner video YouTube | Livestream | Periscope Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 102 Your browser does not support the audio element. THE APPLE BYTE EXTRA […]
View photos FILE – In this Aug. 10, 2005, file photo, tourist Chris Farthing from Suffolks County, England, takes a picture of the Chaco Canyon ruins while visiting the park in Chaco Canyon, N.M. A group of archaeologists and professors is expected Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, to release a report […]
The USS Ronald Reagan met with a Japanese Self-Defence Force helicopter carrier and two destroyers in preparation for World War 3. The aircraft carrier strike group included 14 US destroyers and cruisers, some armed with ballistic missile interceptors. The drills began on September 11, the same day the UN council […]
It seems that Tatum was so keen for payback against his on-set mate that he spent $1,500 at a sex shop. “There was a day I managed to recruit (the costume guy) to go into Channing’s trailer and put a mannequin in his bed with a wig just above the […]
Tim Cook famously cuts his beauty rest short by waking up at 3:45 a.m., but even the overachieving Apple CEOs among us need to sleep eventually. It’s in our genes — and, as Caltech scientists reported this week in Current Biology, it’s in animal genes, too. The act of sleeping, […]
The news has come after Hurricane Maria has pummelled northern Caribbean with “catastrophic” flooding and torrential downpours leaving Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in ruins. The National Weather Service San Juan tweeted: “2:15pm flash flood emergency for a dam failure in Isabela municipality y Quebradillas municipality in Puerto Rico…” […]
Steph Curry, the two-time NBA MVP, says the Golden State Warriors can “inspire some change” and “send a statement” by snubbing a visit to Donald Trump’s White House. The Warriors franchise have yet to make a decision as to whether they will celebrate their NBA title with the US president […]