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Lincoln Project called Facebook to dispute fact-check warning label on anti-Trump ad 'Mourning in America'

The Lincoln Project contacted Facebook to push the social media giant to remove a warning label it attached to the group's blistering "Mourning in America" ad.




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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Preventing burnout 'needs to be a priority'

A new survey suggests that women are experiencing physical symptoms of severe anxiety and burnout at up to twice the rate of men amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's what Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Rachel Thomas, co-founder and CEO of LeanIn.Org, suggest companies do to provide support.




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6 books and podcasts that will help married couples get their finances in order

Combining your finances with your partner as a married couple can be tricky. To help things go smoothly, check out these money podcasts and personal finances books that are specifically geared toward couples.




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Facebook will allow most employees to work from home through end of 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will announce Thursday that most of the company's employees will be given the choice to continue to work from home through the end of 2020, a company spokeswoman told CNBC.




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Facebook, YouTube and other platforms are struggling to remove new pandemic conspiracy video

Platforms including Facebook, Alphabet's YouTube, IAC's Vimeo and Twitter are struggling to stay ahead of the spread of the "Plandemic" conspiracy video, which contains claims that defy the advice of medical experts.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Facebook, Dunkin' Brands, Boeing, Moderna & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.




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Booking Holdings CEO says a coronavirus vaccine is needed to make travelers feel safe again

Even as economies start to reopen, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said the travel industry will take years to recover to pre-coronavirus levels.




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Why one host is striking back at Airbnb by building her own direct booking website

Polina Raygorodskaya, the co-founder and CEO of direct booking site Wanderu, discusses her and other hosts' frustration with Airbnb policies, and why she decided to build her own site in an effort to diversify her business.




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Facebook, Alphabet and Amazon are in a 'three-horse race' in advertising, Jim Cramer says

"With this latest quarter, they've pretty much become the only game in town," the "Mad Money" host said.




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United Airlines swings to $1.7 billion loss in first quarter as bookings disappeared in coronavirus pandemic

United Airlines had reported a first-quarter pretax loss earlier this month.




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No exact playbook on how to reopen economies, doctor says

Peter Drobac, director of the University of Oxford's Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, discusses Europe's handling of the coronavirus crisis.




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Facebook just launched its brand new site — here's how to check it out if you don't see it yet

Facebook's new homepage is live now. Here's how to switch to it.




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Cramer: Coronavirus could propel plant-based Beyond Meat into a giant like Amazon or Facebook

Plant-based protein is not a passing fad, CNBC's Jim Cramer said.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Facebook, Qualcomm, Transocean and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Google cut its lobbying spending nearly in half in 2019, while Facebook took the lead

Amazon, Apple and Facebook all increased their lobbying spending in 2019 from the previous year.




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Facebook and Amazon lead Big Tech lobbying in the first quarter while Google scales down

The new tally comes as the coronavirus pandemic has made many workers more reliant on the internet than ever.




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Norwegian Cruise Line CEO talks cruise bookings, raising $2 billion to avoid bankruptcy

Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Frank Del Rio said the troubled company has raised enough liquidity to get through potential 18 months of zero revenues.




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Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook advise employees to work from home

Announcements made following coronavirus guidance from Washington state officials instructing workplaces to allow employees to work remotely

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across Washington state, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have advised their Seattle-area employees to work from home for the next few weeks.

Related: Coronavirus: Google leads tech charge to work from home

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Microsoft launches faster Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2

Windows-maker updates top and cheapest PCs, and launches new headphones

Microsoft is launching a revamped line of its most powerful and cheapest Windows 10 PCs, the Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2, as it adjusts to continue operations during the pandemic.

The new products, announced by blogpost rather than an event, are Microsoft’s premium computers competing directly with the likes of Apple and Dell, but with more novel designs.

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Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel on impact of coronavirus on travel

Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, joins "Squawk on the Street" to discuss the company's Q1 earnings results and how coronavirus has stalled travel plans globally.




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The biggest status symbol of our Zoom era? Bookshelves | Adrian Chiles

With so many conversations now happening online, all eyes are on our decor. It may even help me find a buyer for my strange yellow filing cabinet

An awful lot is being made of what is on the bookshelves behind people who broadcast or are interviewed in their homes. Thankfully, mine are at a right angle to the computer so you cannot see any of the titles. In fact, until adjustments were made, it looked as though the shelves were completely empty, which was rather shaming. The books had to be pulled forward, to make it clear they existed, without compromising their anonymity.

I was keen to have a nod to my football team, West Bromwich Albion, in the back of shot. A scarf seemed a bit naff, and my treasured West Brom gnome just too odd. I even considered a jigsaw puzzle of the face of one of our greatest ever players, Tony “Bomber” Brown. Unfortunately Bomber, as gentle a man as you could ever meet, looks like a serial killer in this particular picture.

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Teeny Books for Christmas

This December, I discovered the Etsy shop Ever After Miniatures, which offers DIY printable miniature books. You buy the templates, print them out, then cut, fold, and paste the sweetest little openable books, which have readable pages inside.


This sort of project is made for me.


Most evenings, I would work on a few. I made them as gifts, mostly.


We have a small secret drawer at the end of our dining room table. I kept my project in there when I wasn't working on it.


At a certain point, Kevin pointed out that they would make good tree ornaments. So I started adding strings and ribbons to a few of the covers. :o)


I got a little obsessed with this idea.




Here's one of my favorite pages of Pride and Prejudice.


After they were dry, up they went!


Lovely.

I have loads more Arctic pictures to share, and will do so as time permits. Hope you're all having a nice January! As I type this, it's sleeting in the Boston area, and our temperatures are expected to be close to 0°F tonight, which is about -17°C. Svalbard-worthy temperatures!

More pictures soon, when book-writing permits.




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Cookbook Contemplation by The Pioneer Woman

Have I ever told you that I really like/enjoy/have fun writing cookbooks? I do. Sure, they are all-encompassing and take over my life while they are being written/cooked/photographed/edited, but in the end, I’m always happy that I spent the time making it (hopefully!) what I wanted it to be. My number one goal when I […]




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Food Network and Cookbook Update! by The Pioneer Woman

I’ve been handling Paige’s departure to college pretty well! After the initial weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, I basically just set up camp in my kitchen and have hardly left. It’s my safe zone. My haven. My happy place. Unless the sink is full of dishes, then I want to sell the house. Oh, […]























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Book Tour!

We have tour sign, folks! Some details of this still need to be worked out, note, especially amid the April dates. But we’ve got some big cities covered, some smaller towns, and every single borough of New York (which, for non-New Yorkers, is not a thing often done). Updates as I hear about them, for […]




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Famous People’s Bookshelves.

Gal Beckerman has a NY Times piece on celebrity bookshelves (“With celebrities now frequently speaking on television in front of their home libraries, a voyeuristic pleasure presents itself”) that might not be worth a post except that 1) I myself certainly focus on those shelves when they show people talking from home, and 2) Cate […]




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my facebook birthday

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: my facebook birthday


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imaginary map book

Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: imaginary map book


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