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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 […]

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

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

Thailand’s government on Wednesday announced a plan to set up a center to combat unverified news on social media platforms, rejecting concerns that it might be used to suppress free speech. The planned center’s goal would be to fight all kinds of fake news, with a focus on misinformation about disasters and financial matters, Minister

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

Spacewalking astronauts added another parking spot to the International Space Station on Wednesday. Interested in Space? Add Space as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Space news, video, and analysis from ABC News. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan had to deal with multiple cables to install a docking port

LOS ANGELES — It’s never too early to start working on your brand. This dictum, at the heart of so much young entrepreneurship, is the guiding principle of the Unincorporated Life, a high-end fashion camp for kids, in Hollywood. Over the course of a week, students aged 6 to 18 learn how to build and

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,

Most people like a phone upgrade but your unwanted devices often contain a wealth of natural materials that the planet is running out of. As well as metals like gold and platinum, some phones contain tantalum which can be used in medical devices like hearing aids and pace makers. So what can you do to

Google autonomous vehicle spinoff Waymo says it will start testing on public roads in Florida to better experience heavy rain. The Mountain View, California, company says tests will begin this month in the Miami area and include highway driving to Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers. The Florida test vehicles will be driven by humans. They’ll