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The Best ‘Peaches’ Cover Is About a Dead Minecraft Egg Named JuanaFlippa
Like me, you might have been seeing and hearing Jack Black-as-Bowser’s “Peaches” song from The Super Mario Bros. Movie all over the place. There are more than 500,000 videos using the official song on TikTok alone, and that’s not counting the folks who have adapted the song to express their devotion to the other things…
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UK Blocks $US69 Billion Microsoft Activision Blizzard Deal
British regulators said the deal would leave less choice for gamers, but Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have already said they plan to appeal.
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Facebook’s Ad System Went Nuts and Charged Customers for Ads No One Saw
Facebook’s advertising system went haywire starting around 2 am on Sunday morning, charging marketers extra money for ads that no one saw. Reports suggest Meta, the social network’s parent company, charged some advertisers more than double what they agreed to pay, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meta briefly took part of…
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Parler’s New Owner Is in It for the Money, Not the Politics
Last week, the right-wing social network Parler was sold to a media conglomerate called Starboard. The company shut Parler down indefinitely to “undergo a strategic assessment.” It marks the end of a long and tumultuous saga for the conservative social media company — once seen as a refuge from mainstream apps like Twitter — including…