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Facebook acquires Giphy to integrate with Instagram

(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $ …

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Optimzing Showers for Money and Time

Over the last few months, I’ve written a few articles on how to “optimize” particular common household tasks in terms of both money and time. I’ve written about laundry, dishwashing, and meal planning and grocery shopping. A few readers have popped in stating that they like the series and asking …

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Man Faces Terrorism Charge After Threatening to Kill Michigan’s Governor, Officials Say

A Detroit man has been charged with threatening to kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and the state attorney general, Dana Nessel, prosecutors said on Friday. The man, Robert S. Tesh, 32, was charged with false report of threat of terrorism, a felony. Mr. Tesh relayed what prosecutors called “credible …

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