Happy Valentine's Day everyone! We have everything you missed this week, whether you spent all of your time treating yourself or your significant other. Comcast changes the game, illegal sites get a taste of their own medicine, we say goodbye to an annoying/addictive game, Facebook acts open minded, and windows 8 is a bit of a hit!
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Comcast Buys Time Warner
Comcast did not exactly save up its last few pennies to buy Time Warner. The truth is the biggest cable company in America just bought the second biggest. So, what does that mean? Well, I hope you like board games, because it is about to be a very long game of monopoly. Okay, no more cheesy jokes. But seriously, this gives more power to Comcast than most would be happy about, especially with talk about ending net neutrality.
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Silk Road 2.0 Hacked
The go to place to buy anything illegal in the deep pits of the internet was recently hacked. The same bug that has been plaguing Bitcoin users is thought to be the source of the incident. All of the funds were drained, but we are unclear on exactly how much. Some sources suggest it may be millions of dollars.
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Farewell Flappy Bird
Dong Nguyen put an end to the IOS game after his intentions to create something relaxing accidentally created something addicting. The only remaining copies of the mobile game are the ones downloaded prior to Sunday.
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Facebook gets Gender Friendly
Facebook just became more trans friendly by adding an alternative gender option. This is great news for the LGBT community and supporters. You can now have the option of "they" or "their".
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Windows 8 Sells 200 million licenses
This is a bit lower than some of their other sales, but a huge step for windows 8. Microsoft finally hit their milestone of $200 million licenses sold. This platform can be found mostly on tablets and mobile devices.
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Stay sweet and romantic until next time! Deep down we know we do not need one day to celebrate love, we celebrate everyday. See you on Friday!