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SlashGear |
The Xbox Series X previews are out – Here’s what we learned
The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are still about six weeks out, but today, some early previews of the Series X have gone live. Before you get too excited, you should know that these previews are fairly limited in scope, as those who got to test a console early weren’t able to play new games made specifically for … Continue reading
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Business Insider |
This technical-analysis pattern suggests the S&P 500 could jump 30% from current levels, according to BofA
As long as the S&P 500 holds on to the range of support at 3,000 to 3,200, the bullish cup-and-handle pattern is intact, Bank of America said.
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Hacker News |
Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45
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Reddit |
Chinese Tesla Competitor Unveils Flying Car at Beijing Auto Show
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The Next Web |
Amsterdam and Helsinki become first cities to launch AI registers explaining how they use algorithms
Amsterdam and Helsinki today became the first cities in the world to launch open AI registers that track how algorithms are being used in the municipalities. In a press release, the cities said the registers would help ensure that the AI used in public services operates on the same principles of responsibility, transparency, and security as other local government activities. “Algorithms play an increasingly important role in our lives,” said Touria Meliani, Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam. “Toge...
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Reddit |
Judge rules Trump's TikTok ban likely overstepped legal authority
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
In 2012, Trump Griped Americans Weren’t Paying Enough Taxes
When it comes to the president, there's always a tweet that can come back to bite.
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Boy Genius Report |
The IRS has exciting news for you if you haven’t gotten a stimulus check yet
The latest stimulus check update from the IRS is a reminder that a deadline is coming up by which people need to make sure the tax agency has their information if they want to receive a stimulus check this year.
The IRS wants people to make sure the agency has their personal details by October 15, which can be done by visiting the IRS' non-filers tool online.
For now, no new stimulus checks are coming via any kind of new accord in Congress. These checks stemming from the October 15 date are...
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Boing Boing |
Differing points of view on the Vincent Black Shadow
This guy is a little less colorful, and certainly finds the Vincent less abusive than Hunter Thompson did.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973):
But first things first. We were talking about motorcycles. Jackson and I were out there in Ventura fucking around with a 750 Honda and an experimental prototype of the new Vincent — a 1000-cc brute that proved to be so awesomely fast that I didn't even have time to get scared of it before I found myself coming up on a highway ...
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TweakTown News |
Final Fantasy XVI will be a mature game that earns PEGI 18 rating
Final Fantasy XVI has been provisionally rated PEGI 18 for its themes of violence, revenge plot, and other mature themes. Continue reading at TweakTown >
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TechCrunch |
N26 hires Adrienne Gormley as its new chief operating officer
Fintech startup N26 is announcing some changes in the leadership team with two new C-Level hires. First, Adrienne Gormley, pictured above, is joining the company as chief operating officer, replacing Martin Schilling who left the company in March 2020. Second, Diana Styles, pictured below, will become N26’s chief people officer. Gormley has spent the last […]
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VentureBeat |
Hearthstone Battlegrounds adds Elemental tribe and new rating system
Blizzard has announced some big changes coming to Hearthstone's Battlegrounds mode on September 29, including new minions and heroes.
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Business Insider |
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says the stock market will surge next year regardless of election outcome
Siegel said the "tremendous burst of liquidity" from the Fed and Congress will likely support a bull market that continues into next year.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Google's big crackdown on in-app purchases will begin next year
Google's rumored crackdown on in-app purchases has just been formally announced. The company is planning to step up enforcement of its existing rules regarding purchases made inside apps on the Play Store. However, developers don't have to rush to accommodate these changes immediately; the company is granting a one year reprieve in light of current events before it begins policing things more intently.
Again, this isn't actually a change in Google's policy, the company is simply going to start ...
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NYT > Technology |
Google Demands 30% Cut From App Developers in Its Play Store
Some companies like Netflix and Spotify had avoided making the payment when people paid for something inside their apps.
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Hacker News |
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
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Android Police - Andro... |
YouTube Music tests seven Spotify-like daily playlist mixes
Spotify Daily Mixes, just for YouTube Music
YouTube Music has been picking up the pace lately in adopting some well-liked features of the outgoing Google Play Music. In addition to all the inherited stuff, the streaming app has also been getting a whole bunch of new features to make the experience more personalized and engaging for its users. In line with that, YouTube Music is now adding a new My Mix section that offers several playlists tuned according to your music taste — but they are...
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TechCrunch |
Google to better enforce Play Store in-app purchase policies, ease use of third-party app stores
Under threat of regulation, Google announced today it’s updating its Google Play billing policies to better clarify which types of transactions will be subject to Google’s commissions on in-app purchases. While the more detailed language doesn’t actually change the earlier policy’s intention, it will impact a percentage of developers who don’t currently use Google Play’s […]
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VentureBeat |
Google’s Epic response: Android 12 will make it easier to install app stores
Google will make it easier to use third-party app stores with Android 12. Google will enforce its Payments Policy for in-app purchases of digital goods.
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Neowin |
Yakuza: Like a Dragon moved up to November 10 on consoles and PC, PS5 on March 2
Sega has preponed the launch date of Yakuza: Like a Dragon from its previously announced November 13 date for consoles and PC. The launch dates for next-gen consoles have also been unveiled.
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Gizmodo |
Forget Amazon Luna: Build Your Own Subscription-Free Game Streaming Service at Home
Featured Product: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K | $50 | AmazonRead more...
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The Verge - All Posts |
Google says Android 12 will make using third-party app stores easier
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google is outlining new changes to its developer policies and promising to make using third-party app stores easier on Android 12. The announcement addresses recent concerns around Android app development, including a fight over alternate in-app payment systems and difficulties for businesses moving online because of COVID-19.
Android users can already install apps through third-party stores like Samsung’s Galaxy Store. Google says that in response to...
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Mashable! |
Time to bring your garden indoors — these hydroponic systems are up to 42% off
These are the best deals on AeroGardens as of Sept. 28:
OUR TOP PICK: AeroGarden Bounty — save $169.96
BEST VALUE: AeroGarden Bounty Basic — save $99.96
BEST FOR SMALL SPACES: AeroGarden Harvest 360 — save $50The early months of the coronavirus pandemic turned a lot of us into gardeners: Planting and tending to a modest plot of herbs or veggies was a soothing way to pass the time outside during the warmer months (whether you had a green thumb or not).
But don't feel like yo...
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GeekWire |
Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts airing $10M ad campaign during presidential debates to highlight real data
USAFacts, the nonpartisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is launching a $10 million ad campaign to illustrate the power of data and facts. The ads will air during the nationally televised presidential debates. The campaign, called “Change the Story,” features snapshots of a diverse set of Americans and the numbers which relate back to their lives. The data includes such things as median household income in 1967 compared to today; ...
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Slashdot |
The Race To Redesign Sugar
Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat. From a report: Until the late eighteenth century, when sugar production started to become mechanized, most people consumed very little of what nutritionists call "free" or "added" sugars -- sweeteners other than, say, the lactose naturally present in milk and the fructose naturally present in fruit. In 1800, an average American ...
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SlashGear |
RazerCon 2020 streaming event will make RGB lights “dance” in real time
On October 10, 2020, Razer will hold a digital event that’ll last a full day. This event will be streamed via Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and will play host to a whole bunch of interesting bits. There’ll be a “variety of exciting events and activities” with product reveals, game release/update reveals, and musical performances. Lighting If you’ve got a … Continue reading
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Business Insider |
Plant delivery startup The Sill makes it easy to learn about which plants are right for your home — here's how it works
We love The Sill not only for its large variety of affordable indoor houseplants but also the support that helps you make the most of the experience.
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Hacker News |
How to Get Promoted
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Gizmodo |
Lovecraft Country Has Given Up Cohesive Storytelling in Favor of Something More Dramatic
What little hope there was for Lovecraft Country’s first season trying to tell a single, cohesive story went completely out the window this week with “I Am,” a statement episode that gave Aunjanue Ellis’ Hippolyta Freeman everything she’d ever dreamed of...just to ask her to give it all up.Read more...
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9to5Mac |
Billie Eilish documentary coming to Apple TV+ and theaters in early 2021
Star musician Billie Eilish went mainstream with the album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?” and the single “Bad Guy” in 2019. Eilish now has a documentary slated for 2021 and it’s an Apple Original Film that will debut on Apple TV+ alongside a theatrical release.
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9to5Mac |
PSA: No, iOS 14 widgets can’t secretly steal private info with your keyboard
A conspiracy theory being spread on Facebook and other social media platforms this week claims that iOS 14 widgets are actually serving as key loggers, tracking everything you type on your iPhone. This is unequivocally not true, and there are technical limitations and protections in place that prevent widgets from accessing your data.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
How Politics And Bureaucracy Halted The Promise Of The Abortion Pill
Twenty years after medication abortion was approved in the U.S., patients are still jumping through hoops to access it.
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GeekWire |
Techstars Seattle grad and Vancouver-based Olive raises $1M for IT procurement software
Olive announced a $1 million seed round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies streamline IT procurement. The Vancouver, B.C.-based startup aims to replace a traditionally manual evaluation process with spreadsheets, meetings, and word docs. Its platform lets vendors promote their products and helps buyers evaluate the options. The company says it can help trim the enterprise software buying process to less than eight weeks, versus several months or even years. “Put simply, bu...
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Business Insider |
Corsair's Ironclaw RGB Wireless is a reliable and precise gaming mouse, but the lighting options are a bit of a letdown
The Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless gaming mouse is reliable, functional, and reasonably priced. Here's our full review.
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Spice Up Your Next Zoom Meeting by Inviting a Real Goat
Farmers are raising money during the pandemic by renting them out to virtual team meetings—and Motherboard tried it.
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Digital Trends |
These are the best Adobe Photoshop deals for October 2020
We’ve rounded up the best Adobe Photoshop deals available, along with a rundown of Photoshop’s features.
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VentureBeat |
Study indicates neither algorithmic differences nor diverse data sets solve facial recognition bias
In a new study, researchers find evidence that facial recognition bias is pervasive across different computer vision models.
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Gizmodo |
How a Bargain-Basement Internet Conspiracy Theorist Rode the QAnon Wave to the Edge of Congress
At an indoor, largely maskless victory party in August, Marjorie Taylor Greene had a message for her detractors. Greene, a bargain-basement conspiracy theorist, had handily won her primary runoff, despite warnings from a handful of spooked Republican activists. In her heavily red corner of Georgia, the nomination…Read more...
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Hacker News |
Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash
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The Next Web |
Lightroom’s new color-grading tools could change the way you edit your photos
Ahead of Adobe’s upcoming Max (virtual) conference, the company is teasing a new Lightroom tool that will provide photographers much more flexibility for editing the colors of their photos. I want it, now. Simply dubbed Advanced Color Grading, the tool upgrades the existing Split Tool feature, which lets you set different hues to the shadows and highlights. Advanced Color Grading instead gives you control over shadows, highlights, and midtones, with controls designed as color wheels rather th...
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Digital Trends |
Escape reality online with the best cheap PS Plus deals for October 2020
Here are a few PS Plus deals that will have you playing online and enjoying free monthly games right away.
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Neowin |
Save up to 79% off FlexClip Premium subscriptions
With today's highlighted deal, you can create, customize and export beautiful videos in minutes with this platform's hundred templates, stock resources, and intuitive interface. Save big!
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Engadget |
A Redditor got Stadia to run on an iPhone
Although Apple cracked open the door for game streaming services to run on iPhone and iPad earlier this month, you can’t use Stadia, xCloud or GeForce Now on those devices yet. Well, at least not officially.Members of the Stadia subreddit have been t...
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TechCrunch |
GV bets on young team behind high school social app HAGS
As high schools pivot to hybrid models and students see less in-person face time with friends, the current social app sphere seems to be missing a way to build deeper bonds with classmates. HAGS is building a social network designed around high school networks and they’ve picked up some fresh funding led by Google’s venture […]
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Digital Trends |
These are the best Microsoft Office deals for October 2020
We’ve sniffed out the best Microsoft Office deals you can find now, along with a rundown of the Office suites.
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Business Insider |
Volvo's Polestar EV brand will add this sleek new model to its Tesla-challenging lineup — see the 'Precept'
Polestar is advertising the electric Precept as a green future in more than just its EV status, with an interior made from recycled materials.
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VentureBeat |
Teslagrad 2 will bring back the magnetic Metroidvania mayhem
Rain Games has announce Teslagrad 2, a sequel to its 2013 indie Metroidvania.The first Teslagrad stood out with its use of magnetic and electric abilities.
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Business Insider |
FarmVille is leaving Facebook after more than a decade of letting players harvest crops and raise livestock with friends
No one will invite you to play FarmVille anymore as the iconic game is set to leave Facebook at the end of the year.
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Mashable! |
Houston, there's a turd floating around the Moon – Space is Weird
In 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts discovered multiple turds floating around the capsule. We found the audio recordings in NASA's archives and animated the chaos. Read more...More about Nasa, Mashable Video, Space Exploration, Apollo 10, and Space Is Weird
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Live Updates: Trump To Send Rapid COVID-19 Tests To Help States Reopen Schools
Stay up to date as we cover the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its effects across the world.
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TechCrunch |
2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content
Utilizing content marketing and digital PR can make huge strides in getting your brand name out there.
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Android Police - Andro... |
OnePlus Nord's super-limited closed beta is now open — apply now
Here's what you need to join the group of 200
OnePlus runs one of the more public-facing software-testing operations among the phone makers we cover at Android Police and it's little surprise to see another launch of beta testing groups — this time for its latest phone, the Nord.
The company is inviting up to 200 Nord owners who are willing to provide timely feedback about features on upcoming OxygenOS builds for the Nord via a OnePlus Slack channel. Prospective participants will ne...
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Boy Genius Report |
5 Instant Pot deals at Amazon that might be as good as Prime Day sales
Are Prime Day 2020 deals here already? They might as well be with all the awesome deals we found today on Instant Pot multi-use electric pressure cookers.
Instant Pots are the most popular and most versatile kitchen gadgets out there, and millions of people swear by them.
In this post, we'll show you the five best Instant Pot deals on Amazon today, including Instant Pot multi-use pressure cookers starting at just $59 and a huge $60 discount on the Instant Ace Plus Cooking Blender.
Anyone who own...
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Business Insider |
The Air Force is doing live-fire testing with its new helicopter, the Jolly Green II
The goal of the ground testing was to verify the weapons' functionality and accuracy and to demonstrate they are safe to employ operationally.
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Ars Technica |
IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters
Virtual currency profits are taxable under US law.
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Digital Trends |
How to get a free $10 credit to spend on Amazon Prime Day 2020
Get $10 of credit when you spend $10 or more with a small business listed on Amazon this Prime Day
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MacRumors |
Billie Eilish Documentary 'The World's A Little Blurry' Launching in Theaters and Apple TV+ in February 2021
Apple in December shelled out $25 million for the rights to a Billie Eilish documentary that follows the 18-year-old singer-songwriter's life after the launch of her debut album in March 2019. Apple today announced a release date for the documentary, which was directed by R.J. Cutler. It's coming out in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021.
Descriptions of the documentary suggest that it will highlight moments between Eilish and her family and provide behind-the-scenes looks at pu...
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BleepingComputer.com |
Logistics giant CMA CGM goes offline to block malware attack
CMA CGM S.A., a French maritime transport and logistics giant, today disclosed a malware attack affecting some servers on the edge of its network. [...]
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Hacker News |
All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
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ExtremeTechExtremeTech |
The Galaxy Z Fold2 Has Convinced Me That Foldables Are the Future
I even wrote this article on the Galaxy Z Fold2. And it was pretty easy!
The post The Galaxy Z Fold2 Has Convinced Me That Foldables Are the Future appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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The Xbox Series X previews are out – Here’s what we lea...
