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How Many of Quibi’s Paltry Launch Day Downloads Were Rage Downloads? Star Wars

How Many of Quibi’s Paltry Launch Day Downloads Were Rage Downloads?

Image: QuibiQuibi, the (mostly) mobile-only streaming service that launched this week, doesn’t appear to have had a spectacular response straight out of the gate—in fact, the response was rather abysmal. According to one preliminary estimate, Quibi’s launch-day downloads amounted to roughly 300,000 despite all its pre-launch marketing and hype coming…
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April 7, 2020
Tesla is hiking the price of its semi-autonomous ‘Full Self-Driving’ package soon in anticipation of new over-the-air updates Elon Musk

Tesla is hiking the price of its semi-autonomous ‘Full Self-Driving’ package soon in anticipation of new over-the-air updates

Tesla plans to bump up the price of its "Full Self-Driving" feature on July 1, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Friday. The add-on currently costs $7,000, but many of the capabilities it promises are still in development — essentially, buyers are paying for software updates that Tesla will release…
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April 7, 2020
In Another Pushback Against Oversight, Trump Removes Pandemic Inspector General Volodymyr Zelensky

In Another Pushback Against Oversight, Trump Removes Pandemic Inspector General

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April 7, 2020
Is Trump’s ‘campaign of retaliation’ about to get worse? Impeachment

Is Trump’s ‘campaign of retaliation’ about to get worse?

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter Tuesday to acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell demanding he explain President Trump's recent dismissals of Michael Atkinson and Glenn Fine, the inspectors general of the intelligence community and the Pentagon, respectively. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent says how…
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April 7, 2020
A Family Of 10 Says Everything Is Fine After Their Viral TikTok Was Apparently Reported For Tossing Their Disabled Teen TikTok

A Family Of 10 Says Everything Is Fine After Their Viral TikTok Was Apparently Reported For Tossing Their Disabled Teen

In an otherwise totally average TikTok, the Whitaker family's video has gone massively viral for unintended reasons. Posted on April 7, 2020, at 5:08 p.m. ET A large family and their "Something New" TikTok challenge has gone viral for, hmm, let's say unintended reasons.The Whitaker family is responding to a…
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April 7, 2020