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Facebook Finally Gives Us Answers On That Viral Instagram Hoax (Sort Of)

Usher fell for it. So did Julia Roberts, Rob Lowe and Rick Perry, aka the guy in charge of overseeing America’s nuclear arsenal. The problem, of course: It’s not true. Claims that Facebook, or Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), is changing its terms of service and will make everything public unless users repost some […]

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YouTuber Finds Lost GoPro Video of Man Who Drowned and Returns It to His Family

For two years, Robin McCrear wondered what happened to the last video footage her son recorded before he died. Her son, Richard Lee Ragland III, 22, drowned in June 2017 near a waterfall in Foster Falls State Park in Tennessee, she said. It was a devastating loss for Ms. McCrear, 51, who described her son

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2 Prominent Academics to Cut Ties to M.I.T. Media Lab Over Epstein Link

Two educators affiliated with the M.I.T. Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that they would end their relationships with the research institute over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier who was facing federal sex-trafficking charges when he killed himself this month. The planned departures of the educators, the associate professor

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Scorsese’s New Mob Epic, ‘The Irishman,’ Has Netflix and Theaters at Odds

Adam Aron, the AMC chief executive, said in a statement, “Talks are underway with Netflix about our showing ‘The Irishman’ and other Netflix films, but the outcome of those conversations is not yet clear.” AMC and Cineplex are negotiating with Netflix separately, the people familiar with the talks said. A crucial sticking point has been

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How Many Triangles Are There? Here’s How to Solve the Puzzle

So now, divide out the redundancy. The total number of triangles created by those six lines is (6×5×4)/6, or 20. That’s the answer. Here’s where math becomes powerful. The same procedure works for any number of lines. How many triangles are created by seven nonparallel lines? That’s (7×6×5)/6, or 35. What about 23 lines? (23×22×21)/6,

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