Get Over 30 Xbox One Games on the Cheap During Microsoft’s Ultimate Game Sale

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If you’ve been waiting for the right time to expand your Xbox One game collection, you might want to check Microsoft’s online game stores this week. Starting today, Microsoft has kicked off its annual Ultimate Game Sale, during which dozens of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games and add-ons are discounted by up to 80% of their original price.

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MasterCard’s Wild Plan to Authorize Purchases by Analyzing User Selfies

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With each passing year, consumers continue to spend more and more time and money shopping online, both via mobile devices and the desktop. As a result, there’s also been a corresponding rise in the level of online fraud in recent years.

In the latest, and perhaps most bizarre, effort we’ve seen to stem the incidence of mobile fraud, MasterCard is working on a new security scheme that would authorize online transactions by having users take a photo of their face as a means to verify their identity. Think of it as Apple’s TouchID, but with one’s face serving as the digital fingerprint.

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Someone Calculated How Long It Takes to Do Everything BuzzFeed Tells You to Do Before You Die

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BuzzFeed‘s Before You Die series of articles offers all sorts of interesting – and not so attractive – activities that you might consider doing before you die, and chances are you’ve seen at least a few of them whether you intended to or not. However, someone has actually gone ahead and calculated how long it would take to do all the Before You Die things BuzzFeed has published so far.

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This Is What Happens When You Live-Tweet a Miserable First Date

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Dating is awkward, but nothing is more anxiety-inducing than a first date. The most you can realistically hope for is a pleasant experience with someone you’ve never met, but sadly, that’s not always the way the cookie crumbles.

Anne Thériault, a Toronto-based writer, recently stumbled upon one of these nightmare scenarios while sitting in a coffee shop and did what any quick-witted, tech-literate person would do — she live-tweeted the whole thing.

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Gluten-Free Fad Debunked? Study Suggests There Aren’t Any Real Health Benefits

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Gluten-free food is hugely popular right now, but not everybody really needs it. There are some people who can’t process gluten, and there are people who choose not to eat it because they’ve heard going gluten-free is healthier. But a new study indicates that the second group of people is flat-out wrong, and gluten-free food isn’t actually healthier than other options.

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Charge Your Phone and Play Your Music With This Cheap Bluetooth Car Kit on Amazon

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Everyone knows the dangers of fiddling with a smartphone while driving a car, but it can still be incredibly tempting to look down at your iPhone and skip to the next track on your playlist or try to answer an incoming call. If you find it hard to resist the temptation, you might want to check out Amazon’s amazing deal on the TaoTronics Hands-Free Car Kit.

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