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Beats joins the rugby scrum, AT&T and ESPN’s heartbreaking story, the Wall Street Journal gets into the cocaine business for Netflix.

This week Facebook introduced 360 video to the newsfeed and, obviously, there were a handful of impressive launch partners, including LeBron James, GoPro, Saturday Night Live, and Vice. But the one that likely drew the biggest nerdgasm was Star Wars’ 360-degree view look at the planet Jakku from the back of a speeder bike driven by Daisy Ridley’s Force Awakens character, Rey. It’s no contest.

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NotDoba is an addictive little game that looks and sounds like a Saul Bass credit sequence come to life.

The legendary Saul Bass was one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th century, lending his unique unique vision to everything from corporate logos to motion picture title sequences. About the only thing the man didn’t design during his career was video game. Now, thanks to NotDoba, you can now get an idea of what that would be like: it’s a fun, frantic indie game that plays like a Saul Bass title sequence brought to life.

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Nicky Case’s Neurotic Neurons is one of the best infographics we’ve ever seen, but it’s so much more than that.

Falling somewhere between an infographic, a web comic, and an animated TED talk, Neurotic Neurons, an interactive graphic by artist Nicky Case, is charming, educational, funny, sad, and strangely hopeful. It’s ostensibly an interactive explainer of how neurons works, but it’s so much more than that.

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“We want to make it clear that the apps you can use through Internet.org are free, basic services,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook’s Internet.org program, intended to supply free Internet to people in developing countries, is renaming its app “Free Basics”—and allowing developers greater flexibility in creating apps for the platform.

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A crack team of Villanova students are working to improve and encourage the Pontiff’s profile online.

On the evening of April 3, Melissa Connolly, a 21-year-old student from Villanova University, found herself atop the Palatine Hill outside the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, just a few steps away from the world’s biggest celebrity. Following the suggestions of the more experienced “paparazzi” around her, she positioned her camera. When the right moment arrived, with her target just 15 feet away—boom!—she got the shot she wanted. She quickly posted her picture of Pope Francis online—not on her personal Facebook page, but on the official Vatican Website, news.va.

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Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping have agreed on common standards for cybertheft and economic espionage online.

The United States and China have moved a little bit closer to a joint understanding on cybersecurity, cyberwar, and the ongoing theft of proprietary trade secrets via hacking. In a meeting at the White House today, President Obama and Xi Jinping of China announced a “common understanding” to combat “cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property,” but left a lot of unspoken space about just what that common understanding actually is.

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Volkswagen’s emissions fraud has big repercussions for the auto industry.

Hot on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency discovering that Volkswagen secretly installed software that gave falsified emissions data from cars, the EPA says it’s ramping up its checks. In a public statement, the EPA told media and automobile companies it is expanding testing of cars as a result of the Volkswagen case.

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Marketers, rejoice! Twitter is toying with a feature that will let you embed polls in tweets.

Twitter is testing out a new feature: allowing users to embed polls into tweets. Twitter employees and those with verified accounts—Twitter users marked with those fancy blue checkmarks—are now able to embed simple two-question polls into their messages. It appears to be still under development, and is currently only available to select users.

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He’s probably going to want a beer.

Can you believe pizza rat, David Cameron‘s swine fever, and Martin Shkreli all happened in just one week? Future Tabs historians will surely point to September 21-25, 2015, as one of the greatest weeks of all time for tabs content. But were you paying attention? And more importantly, how bored are you this Friday afternoon? Take the quiz, and find out.

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The film showcases the Clinton Global Initiative’s efforts in solar power, hearing aids, and girls’ education in Africa.

Two days ago, I found myself facing Bill Clinton, listening to the former U.S. president talk passionately about the work he and his foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, have been doing in Africa.

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