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Fri. 02/11 - Rams vs. Bengals In the Wild


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MoviePass is back and it wants to track your eyeballs. Plus, who would win in a real-world animal showdown: a ram or a Bengal tiger? NASA has released the first images of a star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. And the Comanche language version of Wordle that Facebook doesn’t want you to see.

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MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads (Vice) 
  • MoviePass is officially coming back (The Verge)
  • Who Would Win in a Real-World Battle: A Bengal Tiger or a Ram? (Smithsonian Magazine)
  • Nathan Chen Makes 'Crazy' Joe Burrow Comment And Predicts Super Bowl Winner (HuffPost)
  • Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times (NASA)
  • James Webb Space Telescope captures its first images of a star (Engadget)
  • Comanche Wordle vs. Facebook (Dr. Kate Pewenofkit Briner, Twitter)
  • Words removed from Wordle after move to New York Times (Boing Boing) 
  • Comanche NotWordle (TalkingComanche.org) 
  • Wordle players' streaks are returning after NYT switch (Polygon)
  • Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR (BBC)
  • Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial (KUOW)
  • Gary Bowser is going to prison for selling Nintendo Switch hacks (The Verge)
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  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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