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• Facebook collects data on its users, categorizes their interests, then lists those interests for advertisers. 
• According to a new study done by Pew Research Center, most Facebook users do not know the site lists their collected interests for advertisers.
• Of those, half are uncomfortable with how the site categorizes them. Some believe their listed interests do not line up with their personal lives. 
• Facebook users can view how the platform categorizes their interests on the "ad preferences" page in settings. Читать дальше...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A new bill introduced in the Vermont House of Representatives would ban internet sales of electronic cigarettes.

The healthcare industry is in desperate need of institutional change if it truly aims to combat sexual misconduct. Thanks to modern day civil rights movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #BlackLivesMatter, people across the country have mustered the courage to confront sexual misconduct and inequality. But despite the spike in sexual assault survivors coming forward in […]

Billikens and Hawks clash at 6 p.m. Friday night Source: St. Louis University

Apple’s new iPad Pros are good—so good that they cost as much as some MacBooks. Today, though, Amazon makes it a little easier to get in on the action with a couple of stellar $100 discounts on both the 11-inch and 12-inch models.

A military honor guard welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin on a state visit to Serbia on January 17. During the one-day visit, Putin awarded Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with a Russian state honor, the Order of Aleksandr Nevsky.

As a teenager he fell off a roof and was paralysed from the hips down.

PRINCE Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has been involved in a car crash - but is he hurt and was he taken to hospital?

By: Meg Van Dyk 7,300 miles — the approximate distance from Piscataway, New Jersey to Delhi, India. For forward McKenzie […]

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Microsoft (MSFT) is taking a stab at helping overcome the Seattle housing crisis by investing $500 million over the next three years.

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France will remain "militarily engaged" in the Middle East through 2019, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday, noting that the deaths of US soldiers and civilians in Syria a day earlier showed the fight against extremism was not yet over.

St Helens have completed the painstaking task of allocating a Heritage Number to every player who has represented the club at first-team level since the inauguration of the Northern Union in 1895, beginning with their first fullback Tom Foulkes, right up to England Academy star Jack Welsby, who made his debut in 2018. The numbers have been created thanks to…

In a major rebuke of President Trump, the House overwhelming passed a resolution Thursday formally disapproving of the Trump administration's rolling back of sanctions on companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russ...

Endangered leopard with liver failure dies at Florida zoo News & Observer A critically endangered Amur leopard in declining health has died at a Florida zoo.

"Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2 premieres Thursday night on CBS All Access

"Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2 premieres Thursday night on CBS All Access

LIVERPOOL have secured the long-term future of much-loved defender Andy Robertson. The Scottish international has been rewarded for his superb displays with a pay rise and an extension that will tie him to Anfield until 2024. He becomes the latest star to be tied-down by the Reds over recent months with Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino, […]

A General Motors facility in Ohio failed to properly respond to several nooses that appeared in the workplace, as well as other complaints of racial bullying, a lawsuit claims. Marcus Boyd, a former supervisor at the Toledo Powertrain, says his colleagues called him the N-word, told him the bathrooms were for “whites only,” and wore...

Rachael Ostovich felt like she had to “squash it” with Greg Hardy after all that’s been said in the lead-up to UFC on ESPN+ 1.

Behind the scenes, Canadian officials are talking to their British counterparts about a back-up plan to avoid major upset to trade with the U.K., Canada’s largest partner in Europe.