Yikes. Fiat Chrysler announced on Friday that it’s recalling 1.4 million automobiles due to concerns about their software security. The announcement comes just days after hackers demonstrated a terrifying hack of a Jeep that was driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour.
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Following Verizon’s recent acquisition of AOL, the industry and readers at large are waiting to see if and how the deal might affect the news sites Verizon now owns, including Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget. Considering Verizon has long been one of net neutrality’s biggest enemies, the worries are fairly obvious.
If there’s one company that readers are likely even more concerned about, it’s Comcast, which has long been the subject of widespread Internet wrath do to complaints surrounding poor service and even worse customer service.
Now, it looks like Comcast is in talks to buy some of its biggest critics.
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With yesterday’s news that Space Jam 2 may actually be on the horizon, it’s as good a time as any to point out that the original Space Jam website from 1996 is, believe it or not, still up and running on Warner Bros’ website.
And it’s not alone. If you scour the corners of the web, you’ll find traces of atrocious mid-90s web design lurking in all sorts of strange places. As it turns out, there are quite a few notable domains that have simply been abandoned and serve as virtual time capsules to a time gone by. Below are a few of the more prominent examples.
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Weight Watchers has worked for millions of people looking to get shed some pounds by improving their diets, but not everyone can afford to pay the $19.95 monthly fee Weight Watchers charges. Sure, there are other ways to lose weight — I lost 50 lbs in just three months without help from Weight Watchers — but the Weight Watchers program has been proven to be effective for many, many people so it’s clearly worth trying.
Now, however, there’s an iPhone app that gives you access to everything the official Weight Watchers program has to offer, but there’s no monthly fee at all.
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Apple’s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are already in production, and more images showing purported parts for the new smartphones have surfaced. After the first images showing the phone’s housing emerged a few days ago, a new set of pictures that supposedly show the iPhone 6s’s front panel has now also leaked.
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![%name Today is National Hot Dog Day – here’s where to find free hot dogs [updated] by Authcom, Nova Scotia\s Internet and Computing Solutions Provider in Kentville, Annapolis Valley](https://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/hotdog.jpg?w=610 "Today is National Hot Dog Day – here’s where to find free hot dogs [updated] by Authcom, Nova Scotia\s Internet and Computing Solutions Provider in Kentville, Annapolis Valley")
Happy National Hot Dog Day, America! In celebration of this fantastic holiday, several of our nation’s food retailers will give you free hot dogs when you visit their establishments. Let’s go over some of the big ones below.
UPDATE: Because I am a total idiot, I thought today was July 23rd. But no: It’s July 24th. Ergo, National Hot Dog Day was yesterday and not today. I apologize to any confused hot dog fans whose hopes I just dashed.
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You’re probably used to seeing quite a few free iPhone app deals on BGR, as we regularly feature some of the best paid apps on the App Store that go free for limited periods of time. But free app sales aren’t the only iOS deals you should check out these days, considering that Apple currently has a monster sale on 100 great apps and games that are currently priced at $0.99 each.
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Google Maps is one of the most useful apps on your smartphone, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. It turns out Google thinks about Google Maps along the same lines, as the company has added a hilarious Easter Egg to its Android app that you can use to troll everyone you’re driving with.
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With a defense budget that’s higher than China, Russia, France, and the UK combined, the United States has, without question, the most advanced military force on the planet.
Throughout history, the U.S. has always placed a premium on military superiority, though that’s not to say that there haven’t been some out and out military setbacks over the years.
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Raise your hand if you knew competitive cup stacking was a thing. Being the clueless old fogey that I am, I didn’t until I stumbled across a video of a kid named William Orrell, who earlier this year broke the world record for competitive cup stacking by finishing the task in 5 seconds flat.
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