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50,000 printers hacked to help PewDiePie keep his YouTube crown

Dec03
by on December 3, 2018 at 6:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, world


The battle for YouTube supremacy between Swedish vlogger PewDiePie and Indian record label T-Series is getting more intense than you could imagine: In order to give PewDiePie an edge, someone hacked 50,000 printers around the world to ask people to subscribe to the Swede’s channel, and unsubscribe from T-Series. Plenty of people tweeted images of the printed message, which explained how PewDiePie is set to lose his position on YouTube as the channel with the largest subscriber base, to an Indian company called T-Series, which only uploads movie trailers and songs. It also urged people to subscribe to PewDiePie’s channel…

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SERPstash is a $20 app that will help you win at SEO

Dec02
by on December 2, 2018 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


SEO is clearly a game you can’t afford to lose. SERPStash knows that game can use their armada of resources to move you up those all-important rankings. Right now, you can secure a lifetime of SERPStash coverage at over 90 percent off, only $19.99 with the limited time added price drop from TNW Deals.

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Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K

Dec02
by on December 2, 2018 at 8:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Sex robots are everywhere at the moment (not literally – you won’t find them marching down the street just yet), but figuratively, as a growing number of ‘robot brothels’ divide public opinion as they feel out the market in the US and Canada. But if a robot hasn’t ‘had sex’ yet, does that make it a virgin? A crowdfunding campaign to open the world’s first consent-focused sex brothel launched by Abyss Creations employee Unicole Unicron last month would argue that it does indeed. With a $155,000 funding target to be reached within the next nine days (it’s languishing at less than $3,000 currently, so it definitely hasn’t…

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