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Early Addition: Google Wants To End The Scourge Of Passwords This Year
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Ben Yakas
Published May 24, 2016
Modified May 24, 2016
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- Sex shop workers are planning to unionize.
- You're everything to me: the Times on how "everything" became the highest form of praise.
- An Uber driver has been charged for allegedly strangling a student in a dorm parking lot.
- Google wants to get rid of passwords by the end of the year.
- The great Gallagher Brothers War of 2016 has begun.
- Advocates say legalizing pot would reap $300 million in taxes for NJ.
- Forget Don't Look Back or Masked & Anonymous—the greatest Bob Dylan movie of all time is this one minute clip of him walking on the beach in 1985.
- What do dogs see when they look in the mirror?
- Here's an insider's look at Anthony Weiner's most recent failed mayoral campaign.
- Comedy Central is sticking by Trevor Noah, regardless of whether he's funny or not.
- Neil Young is now okay with Donald Trump using "Rockin' In The Free World."
- And finally, this wolf really loves his belly rubs:
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