#Facebook plays hardball rather than play fair with news organizations

#Facebook plays hardball rather than play fair with news organizations

“#Facebook plays hardball rather than play fair with news organizations” Facebook’s scorched-earth campaign to pressure Australia’s Parliament to back off a bill that would force tech companies to pay for content has backfired: “Delete Facebook” is trending on other social-media platforms after the company banned news — and even critical government information services — from down under….

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#Marc Benioff’s Time magazine gets cease-and-desist

#Marc Benioff’s Time magazine gets cease-and-desist

“#Marc Benioff’s Time magazine gets cease-and-desist” Print magazines may be a dying business, but a recent cease-and-desist aimed at Time magazine suggests the business of churning out high-priced special issues, or “bookazines,” is still hot. Meredith sold Time magazine to Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and wife Lynne in September 2018 and for the past 2…

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#Study links screen time to suicidal thoughts in teen girls

#Study links screen time to suicidal thoughts in teen girls

“#Study links screen time to suicidal thoughts in teen girls” A new study has linked prolonged screen time to suicidal ideation in teens. Published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, the research revealed that among adolescent girls, significant time spent watching TV, playing video games or on social media that gradually increased was predictive…

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#Man badly beaten with baseball bat in Brooklyn

#Man badly beaten with baseball bat in Brooklyn

“#Man badly beaten with baseball bat in Brooklyn” New video obtained by the Post shows a savage, baseball bat beating on a Brooklyn street that only ended when a bystander stepped in, cops said Thursday.  Ashanti Robinson, 46, is facing criminal charges in the assault that occurred on Flatbush Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, cops…

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#Video shows NYPD cops pummeling police assault suspect

#Video shows NYPD cops pummeling police assault suspect

“#Video shows NYPD cops pummeling police assault suspect” A new video shows NYPD cops pummel a suspect accused of spitting on and head-butting police officers at a Lower Manhattan subway station. The video from the South Ferry subway station on Tuesday shows three officers trying to restrain a 50-year-old suspect in an attack on two…

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#Tim Allen and Richard Karn of ‘Tool Time’ returning to TV

#Tim Allen and Richard Karn of ‘Tool Time’ returning to TV

“#Tim Allen and Richard Karn of ‘Tool Time’ returning to TV” Fasten your tool belts.  Tim Allen and Richard Karn, perhaps better known as Tim “The Toolman” Taylor and Al Borland of “Tool Time” on ’90s prime-time comedy “Home Improvement,” are reuniting in a new competition show on the History Channel. The unscripted series, dubbed…

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