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SlashGear |
Apex Legends Season 7 gameplay trailer shows us Horizon in action
For a little while now, EA and Respawn Entertainment have been teasing Apex Legends Season 7. This is a big one for Apex Legends, because not only will a new character called Horizon be launching for the game, but Apex Legends will also be going live on Steam with the arrival of the new season. Today, EA and Respawn published … Continue reading
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Engadget |
Take great notes with this smart pen and writing pad combo
Most people need a good note-taking system. Students jot down useful information during classes to prepare for exams, professionals record a client's pain points and preferences to win business, creatives document their latest ideas and observations...
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Business Insider |
The best mouse pads
If you work at a computer with a mouse, you need one of the best mouse pads money can buy. Here are our top picks for mouse pads.
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Gizmodo |
How a Biden Administration Could Fight Climate Change Without the Senate
Somewhere between a dream and nightmare is this scenario for Jan. 20, 2021: Joe Biden becomes president, while the Senate remains in Republican control. Read more...
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Business Insider |
How to watch HBO's 'The Shop' with Barack Obama and LeBron James for free
The former president will appear on a special episode of LeBron's talk show on HBO, and it will be free to watch until November 28.
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Engadget |
Facebook pauses recommendations of political and social issues groups
Amid a wave of actions Facebook has taken to prepare for next week's presidential election, it has stopped recommending groups that focus on political or social issues. For the time being, users won't see recommendations of new groups either.It's not...
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VentureBeat |
AI Weekly: In a chaotic year, AI is quietly accelerating the pace of space exploration
AI and machine learning technologies are accelerating space exploration during a chaotic year on planet Earth.
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SlashGear |
2020 Audi Q5 Hybrid Review – 55 TFSI e doesn’t compromise for electric
Audi’s strategy with electrification has been “don’t rock a smooth-sailing boat,” and it’s sticking with that recipe for the 2020 Q5 55 TFSI e. If the e-tron SUV and e-tron Sportback feel much like regular Audi models that just so happen to be all-electric, the Q5 plug-in hybrid sticks even closer to that recipe. There’s no conspicuous “Hybrid” badging on … Continue reading
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Boing Boing |
It's Halloween, which means local news copaganda falsely claiming drugs, poisoned candy and razor blades are handed out to kids
There are many such stories every year, but today we'll be picking on ABC 7 today, pliantly running the annual fake news, sourced to local cops, warning of drugs and other dangerous items being given to children out trick-or-treating.
Indiana State Police say marijuana edibles could fool parents. — Read the rest
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Techdirt |
Nixon Scandal Resulted In A Law To Prevent The Politicization Of Antitrust Cases; Meanwhile Trump Uses His Politicized Antitrust Effort In Campaign Ad
Everyone knows about President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but you might now know as much about another huge scandal that preceded that one -- involving Nixon meddling, for political purposes, in an antitrust case by his Justice Department against a large "tech" company/conglomerate at the time. The case involved ITT trying to buy up some smaller companies, and the DOJ brought an antitrust case against them. The scandal part was that ITT approached the White House and worked out a d...
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Tom's Hardware |
Rocket Lake Flaunts Up To 18% Higher Single-Core Performance Than Core i9-10900K
Octa-core Rocket Lake processor trades blows with the Core i7-10700K and Core i9-10900K.
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Business Insider |
edX MicroBachelors offer undergraduate credits at a fraction of the cost of traditional college — all are in marketable fields like data science, IT, and professional writing
The programs are mini undergraduate degrees that give you real, transferable credits and certificates for a fraction of the cost of on-campus tuition.
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Business Insider |
The isolated town of Aniak, Alaska, relies on the post office for food and medicine. USPS debt and the pandemic are leaving its 549 residents vulnerable.
As the Postal Service grapples with soaring debt and ballot-related uncertainty, the pandemic is affecting mail delivery in small towns across the US.
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Hacker News |
What’s so exciting about Postgres?
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The Verge - All Posts |
Here’s our best look at ray tracing on the Xbox Series X
We’ve been waiting months to see what next-gen games and ray tracing will truly look like on the Xbox Series X. Today, we’re getting a first good look at the next-gen Xbox’s ray-tracing capabilities, thanks to Watch Dogs: Legion. Set in London, the game includes drones, self-driving cars, and lots of historical sites to explore.
As it’s often wet and dark in Watch Dogs: Legion, the game also includes a lot of reflective puddles, shadows, and bright neon signs that are perfect for ray tra...
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Boy Genius Report |
Want a free Echo Show 5 or Echo Dot? Don’t miss Amazon’s Ring Alarm deals
The Ring Alarm is a fantastic DIY alarm system that you can easily tailor to your needs, and it costs a fraction of a traditional alarm.
You can even add professional monitoring like what you would get from ADT and other home security companies, but for just $10 per month.
To sweeten the pot even more, Amazon is offering some fantastic bundle deals that get you a free $40 Echo Dot or a free $90 Echo Show 5 when you buy a Ring Alarm.
We're living in the age of smart homes, so why on Earth would y...
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Ars Technica |
Doomed Philae lander accidentally did a science by denting the comet
New touchdown location identified where Philae bumped into a boulder.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Mitch McConnell Takes A Cheap Swipe At Hillary Clinton
The Senate majority leader and notable Republicans taunted the former presidential nominee over Barrett's confirmation.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
‘The Mandalorian’ Premiere Ends With Surprising ‘Star Wars’ Return
Baby Yoda is back in Season 2, along with someone else ... .
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Engadget |
Chevy will start selling EV retrofit kits in 2021
You’ll soon be able to buy an electric Chevrolet motor just as easily as one of its gas engines. After years of prototypes, the automaker plans to start selling crate electric motors and batteries to consumers by the second half of next year (via aut...
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Hacker News |
Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
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Gizmodo |
Are the Apple One Subscription Bundles Worth It? Let's Math It Out
Apple’s new subscription bundles launch today as Apple One. But how much are you really saving by subscribing to apps you might not even need?Read more...
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Techdirt |
Daily Deal: RAVPower Fast Wireless Charger
Deliver the fastest charging speeds on contact for both iOS and Android devices all with the RAVPower Fast Wireless Charger's HyperAir technology. It fast charges Qi devices up to 10W and up to 5W standard charging. This charger lets you power up your devices safely by preventing overcharging, over-discharging, overheating, and short circuits. It is on sale for $16.
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Business Insider |
Leaked documents reveal new details on Exxon's job cuts
Welcome to Insider Energy, Business Insider's weekly energy newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Friday.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
‘And THAT’S That!’: Alicia Garza On The Importance Of Power
The hosts talk with one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement about the 2020 election.
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BleepingComputer.com |
Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability used in targeted attacks
Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, today disclosed a zero-day elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability found in the Windows kernel and actively exploited in targeted attacks. [...]
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Boing Boing |
UK coronavirus spread already worse than winter worst-case scenario
As many as 100,000 people a day in the UK are catching the Covid-19 virus, more than four times as many as the government planned for—and more than in the U.S., which has a population five times larger. The expected 85,000 deaths over the whole of the winter may occur within weeks, reports the BBC. — Read the rest
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TweakTown News |
Ark Survival Evolved's Xbox Series X upgrades are mind blowing
Ark Survival Evolved's performance on Xbox Series X is a huge evolution, and the transformation has to be seen to be believed. Continue reading at TweakTown >
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Hacker News |
Swift Concurrency Roadmap
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Business Insider |
Ivanka Trump says she is 'unapologetically' anti-abortion
"I am pro-life, and unapologetically so," Ivanka Trump said days ahead of an election that will determine whether her father is reelected president.
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TechCrunch |
New GV partner Terri Burns has a simple investment thesis: Gen Z
In 2015, then-Twitter product manager Terri Burns penned a piece about staying optimistic despite the sexism and racism that exists expansively within tech. “America has broke my heart countless times, but I believe that technology can be a tool to mend some of the woes of the world and produce tools to better humanity,” she […]
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Tom's Hardware |
Nvidia Offers New Call of Duty Game Free to Anyone Lucky Enough to Buy an RTX 3080, 3090
Nvidia announced today that it's bundling the new Call of Duty game with RTX 3080 and 3090s, which is a great deal...if you can find it.
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VentureBeat |
ProBeat: Huawei sanctions are a win for Xiaomi, but a loss for the tech industry
The U.S. trade ban on Huawei is a win for Xiaomi and its smartphone business, but a loss for the whole tech industry.
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GeekWire |
Adventures in online learning: Microsoft Teams getting chat controls, and schools can hardly wait
A virtual school assembly! Great idea. That was my reaction when I heard what my daughter’s public school in Seattle was doing this week. As it got started, I looked over her shoulder for a charming (and heartbreaking) video of the school’s mascot roaming the halls, wondering where everyone was. Of course, they were all at home, watching (and typing) on their computers. And that’s where the problem started. The school was forced to cut the assembly short after some students beg...
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The Next Web |
AI to help world’s first removal of space debris
Space is a messy place. An estimated 34,000 pieces of junk over 10 cm in diameter are currently orbiting Earth at around 10 times the speed of a bullet. If one of them hits a spacecraft, the damage could be disastrous. In September, the International Space Station had to dodge an unknown piece of debris. With the volume of space trash rapidly growing, the chances of a collision are increasing. The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to clean up some of the mess — with the help of AI. In 20...
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Hacker News |
Put not thy trust in Nate Silver
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Business Insider |
Save up to $499 on Casper mattresses — it's one of the best deals we've seen from the startup
Now through November 2, Casper is offering sitewide discounts on mattresses, bedding, and more.
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Slashdot |
AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle For Understanding Our World
An anonymous reader shares a report: Unless you're a physicist or an engineer, there really isn't much reason for you to know about partial differential equations. I know. After years of poring over them in undergrad while studying mechanical engineering, I've never used them since in the real world. But partial differential equations, or PDEs, are also kind of magical. They're a category of math equations that are really good at describing change over space and time, and thus very handy for des...
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TechCrunch |
Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next?
It wasn’t the lingering exhaustion that made Christine Huang, a New York public school teacher, leave the profession. Or the low pay. Or the fact that she rarely had time to spend with her kids after the school day due to workload demands. Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York […]
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Business Insider |
'Gearing up for a big 4Q with fulfillment and COVID investment': Here's what 4 Wall Street analysts had to say about Amazon's 3rd-quarter earnings report
"Amazon is well positioned from a capacity standpoint heading into the holiday season, following a successful test over Prime Day," Amazon said.
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TechCrunch |
E.ventures opens new office in Paris
VC firm e.ventures is expanding its footprint in Europe with a new office in Paris, as well as a new Paris-based partner. Jonathan Userovici, who previously worked for Idinvest Partners, is joining e.ventures as partner and head of the Paris office. Originally founded in the U.S. 20 years ago, e.ventures has been expanding to new […]
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WSJ.com: WSJD |
Judge Kicks Off Scheduling in Google Antitrust Case
The federal judge presiding over the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google held a first scheduling hearing, with the search giant arguing it needs quick access to the government’s investigation files before it can decide on its next steps in litigation.
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Here Are the "Extraordinary Measures" the USPS Plans To Get Your Ballots In
The USPS says they're already doing this, but a federal judge has ordered them to anyways.
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ExtremeTechExtremeTech |
Starlink Beta Speed Tests Put Traditional Satellite Internet to Shame
According to data from Ookla Speedtest and analyzed by our colleagues at PCMag, Starlink is living up to its lofty speed claims.
The post Starlink Beta Speed Tests Put Traditional Satellite Internet to Shame appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Hacker News |
Recovering Lost Roam Notes
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Hacker News |
KDE.org migrated to Hugo
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SlashGear |
The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 1 Easter Eggs
The Mandalorian Season 2 Premiere was released today – time for the Easter Egg hunt! Today we’re taking a crack at finding the full collection of Easter Eggs, references, and callbacks in the first episode of the second season, starting with the first scene and ending with the very last – the very BIGGEST – secret element of all. Before … Continue reading
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Boing Boing |
Interview with two pollsters who say a Trump win is likely
Shy Trump voters put Trump in office in 2016 and they could do it again in 2020, say pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly. The both predicted a Trump victory in 2016 when everyone else was sure Clinton would win.
From Politico:
Cahaly: We live in a country where people will lie to their accountant, they'll lie to their doctor, they'll lie to their priest. — Read the rest
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
2020 Feels Like An Apocalypse — Because It Is One
2020 is an apocalypse in the original sense of the word, some religious scholars say, because it reveals deep truths.
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Hacker News |
SDLang – Simple Declarative Language
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VentureBeat |
Google says its Parallel Tacotron model generates synthetic voices 13 times faster than its predecessor
Google researchers claim their Parallel Tacotron system can generate synthetic voices up to 13 times faster than their last one.
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Hacker News |
YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
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Business Insider |
New York City will finally get electric scooter rentals this Spring
As the popularity of e-scooters exploded around the world in recent years, New York City has been left conspicuously absent.
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Ars Technica |
Health officials rated celebrities on Trump loyalty while planning ad campaign
Campaign is a “vehicle for taxpayer-funded political propaganda,” lawmakers say.
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Tom's Hardware |
SiFive Launches HiFive Unmatched RISC-V Development Board for Desktops
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched RISC-V motherboard has all the expandability slots developers might need.
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Android Police - Andro... |
LG wants you to believe people will still be using the Wing in three years
It's on billboards in the trailer for pandemic thriller "Songbird" and we couldn't think of a worse product placement strategy
We didn't ask for a film exploring the idea of a society split apart by their immunity (or lack thereof) to a disease undergoing pandemic spread, but hey, we're getting one from Adam Mason and Michael Bay next year called "Songbird." It imagines a Los Angeles of the near future with mass quarantine camps, the privileged few with immunity bracelets, a...
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Business Insider |
Insider poll: How fans of each major American sports league are likely to vote
Hockey and football fans are the most evenly split, while NASCAR fans heavily back Trump and basketball fans lean the most toward Biden.
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Business Insider |
The startup that made office phone booths for Google, Uber, and NASA is selling modular work pods — see inside
Workplace startup Room released mini modular workspaces that can modify a traditional office to be safer during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Boing Boing |
Food scientist thinks people should overcome their reluctance to eat maggots that feed on waste
Professor Louw Hoffman of the University of Queenslands wants people to eat more maggots. Specifically, black soldier fly's larvae, which he describes as a high quality protein.
"Just like meat, it contains all the nutrients humans need for health," he says. — Read the rest
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ExtremeTechExtremeTech |
Get Huge Savings On These Desktop Computers From Dell, HP, Lenovo and More
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These desktops can upgrade your home office in 2020.
The post Get Huge Savings On These Desktop Computers From Dell, HP, Lenovo and More appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Boy Genius Report |
Two coronavirus side effects that might never go away
Surviving a novel coronavirus infection doesn’t mean everything will go back to normal for many COVID-19 patients who will continue to suffer from ongoing “Long COVID” symptoms.
A series of recent studies identified COVID-19 side effects that might never go away, as well as one annoying coronavirus symptom that can linger for weeks after an infection is cleared.
Doctors have found cases where coronavirus survivors developed abnormalities in the frontal lobe of the brain, as well as pat...
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Reddit |
AI camera mistakes referee's bald head for ball, follows it through the match.
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MacRumors |
With Apple One, iCloud Users Can Get Up to 4TB Storage
Through the Apple One subscription service that launched this morning, iCloud customers can get a maximum of 4TB of storage to use, up from the 2TB maximum available without an Apple One bundle.
Customers who subscribe to an Apple One plan get 50GB, 200GB, or 2TB of storage included with the service based on the plan chosen, with 50GB provided for the $14.95 per month plan, 200GB supplied with the $19.95 per month plan, and 2TB supplied with the $29.95 pe...
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Business Insider |
The Linux Foundation wants to help combat COVID-19 with free, open source apps to tell people when they've been exposed to the virus
The Linux Foundation has a new Public Health group that wants to use open source software to address the coronavirus crisis and future epidemics.
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Android Police - Andro... |
You can now buy the new, more affordable Nest Thermostat at the Google Store, Best Buy, Home Depot, and more
Just in time for the cold weather
Google's completely redesigned Nest Thermostat is now generally available for purchase at retailers, escaping pre-order limbo at the Google Store as sales open at other storefronts. It's minimal, attractive, and pretty cheap at just $130, making it pretty low-risk if you want to pick one up before we publish our full review.
This new model is $40 less than the previously cheapest Nest Thermostat E, and $120 less than the 3rd gen big-boy Nest, achieved by cutt...
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Neowin |
Google Messages' SMS categorization feature could roll out soon
Google is preparing a wider rollout of SMS categorization in its Google Messages app. The feature will categorize messages into Personal, Transactions, OTPs, Offers, and More depending on its content.
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The Verge - All Posts |
Discord is getting a cool Halloween ringtone from hyperpop duo 100 gecs
Photo by Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post via Getty Images
The classic Discord ringtone is going to sound a little different this Halloween. Today, the company revealed a remixed version of the sound effect, which adds some spooky elements to the iconic chime. It’s a short, breezy clip that wouldn’t feel out of place at a haunted house.
You can check it out in the clip below, which extends the tune into a six-hour long video.
The new ringtone was created by hyperpop duo 100 gecs,...
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The Next Web |
Tesla short sellers have lost $27B betting against Elon Musk this year
Intel stock is trading at its lowest point since May 2019. Bad news for shareholders, sure, but the company’s short sellers are likely over the moon — unlike Tesla’s. Intel stock fell nearly 14% in the 30 days preceding October 28, during which time the total value of the company’s shorts fell by nearly $1.35 billion, which is the biggest decrease of any top shorted stocks on the market. Short sellers bet that a company’s share price will fall, as opposed to going “long” on a sto...
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Business Insider |
Trump created a hotline for reporting violations of his executive order that bans some diversity trainings. It's already received more than 140 calls.
On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, among other groups, filed suit against the administration over the executive order.
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MacRumors |
Black Friday Spotlight: Best Buy Kicks Off a Month of Apple Deals and More
We've begun tracking early Black Friday deals in our dedicated Black Friday Roundup, and in an effort to prepare our readers for the big shopping event we're highlighting sales store-by-store in the lead-up to November 27.Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Best Buy. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.This year we're starting with Best Buy, which announced its Black Friday sales earlier in the week whil...
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Hacker News |
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring an Implementation and Tech Partnership Manager
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Business Insider |
Save $200 on KitchenAid stand mixers from Best Buy — one of the best early Black Friday deals we've seen so far
Best Buy is offering $200 off KitchenAid stand mixers as part of its early Black Friday 2020 sale; one of the best deals we've seen so far.
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Business Insider |
6 pot stocks to bet on now
Welcome to Insider Cannabis, where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar cannabis boom.
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Engadget |
Samsung redesigns its Galaxy Store to focus on games
Samsung wants its phones to be the go-to option for mobile gamers, and it’s taking another step towards achieving that goal. The redesigned Galaxy Store has just two home screen tabs: one for apps and one for games.Each time you buy a game from the G...
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BleepingComputer.com |
Over 1M Lazada RedMart accounts sold online after data breach
Singapore's largest online grocery store Lazada Redmart has suffered a data breach after 1.1 million user accounts were put up for sale on a hacker forum. [...]
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9to5Mac |
How to watch the Peanuts Charlie Brown holiday specials this year
The partnership started with an Apple TV+ x Peanuts original last year with Snoopy in Space and now to the frustration of many fans, the beloved Peanuts Charlie Brown holiday specials are now exclusive to Apple TV+. However, the good news is they’ll remain free to access, just not on broadcast TV. Read on for when and how to watch Peanuts Charlie Brown holiday specials this year.
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Thurrott.com |
Ask Paul: October 30 (Premium)
Happy Friday, and Happy Halloween! Here’s a great set of reader questions to get the weekend and the holiday started a little early.
The post Ask Paul: October 30 (Premium) appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Tom's Hardware |
HP ZBook Create G7 Review: Prosumer Prowess
The HP ZBook Create G7 is a workstation with consumer-level parts that offers content creators high-level performance while sacrificing GPU power on traditional business workstation tasks.
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The Information |
Amazon Catapults Over Alphabet on Capex Spending
Big tech companies’ third-quarter earnings on Thursday demonstrated their outsize performance in advertising, retail and hardware sales. At the same time, most of the companies—most noticeably Amazon—are increasing spending on properties and data centers to pave the way for future growth despite continued uncertainty about the economy.
That’s good news for suppliers of servers and their components, which fill the data centers providing the vast cloud operations of the bi...
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TechCrunch |
Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways
Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, […]
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Slashdot |
Chinese Spacecraft Set for Mars Landing in May: State Media
A Chinese spacecraft is expected to land on Mars in May, state-run media reported on Thursday, citing a space agency official. From a report: The spacecraft, which left Earth in July, is set to land in Utopia Planitia, a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, the China News Service reported, citing Liu Tongjie, spokesman for the Mars mission. Separate spacecraft launched by the United States and the United Arab Emirates this year are also en route to Mars, though only the U.S. one will attemp...
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Business Insider |
Apple's Q4 earnings report was missing the most important number Wall Street was waiting for
Apple's Q4 earnings didn't tell us much about what early reception of the iPhone 12 has been like, even as we head into the holiday season.
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Business Insider |
Attacks like the beheading in Nice are almost impossible to prevent, security sources say
Security officials in France and Belgium say that their ability to stop attacks like the one that killed three people in Nice this week is limited.
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Neowin |
A Brief Guide to a Secure Multicloud Environment - Free Guide
Learn what multicloud is, isn't and the benefits of embracing one, 6 challenges of securing multicloud environments and how to secure your multi-cloud environment with the right security solution.
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Android Police - Andro... |
All the new movies and early theater releases you can watch at home right now
COVID-19 changed the way we're watching movies, get ready to stream everything
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at home to limit potential risks, or just saving a few bucks by watching from the couch, we've organized a huge list with many of the newly added films and some upcoming titles.
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It's the last batch of new releases before Halloween, so you know there ...
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Mashable! |
Get the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 for $70 off before Black Friday
SAVE $70: The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 in 40mm and 44mm are on sale for $179.99 and $199.99, respectively, as of Oct. 30.
We've been at home for a long time now. Most everyone is working from home, learning from home, and probably doing a lot of sitting around. If you don't have a home gym, you could probably use a little motivation to get you moving around. This Black Friday (so, starting now) grab a smartwatch to help motivate you to boost your activity.
Best Buy has both sizes of t...
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Thurrott.com |
First Ring Daily Live: Tech Money, Money
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Apple made a lot of money, Amazon made a lot of money, Google also made a lot of money.
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Gizmodo |
His House Puts a Fresh Coat of Terror on the Haunting Genre
After barely escaping the horrors of war in South Sudan, Rial (Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku) and Bol (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) Majul have made it all the way to London and into their first home. But their apparent good fortune has a terrifying downside, as Remi Weekes’ chilling His House soon reveals.Read more...
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October 2020 top product alerts: AMD’s RX 6000 GPUs, a liquid-smooth 360Hz monitor, affordable phones, and more
October may not have matched September’s deluge of product announcements, but it still brought a couple of zingers. We’ve highlighted the best of the bunch, along with a few items that launched this month so you don’t miss out. (Shortages are a real thing these days.)At this point, we’re starting to move past announcements into product arrivals. Still, a couple of major reveals happened. The biggest is AMD’s Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards—and the bold claim that its top-end car...
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Mashable! |
It's Alexa's birthday — celebrate with these amazing deals on Amazon devices
SAVE UP TO 62%: Amazon is having a massive sale on all of its devices in honor of its Alexa smart assistant's birthday on Nov. 6 — here are its best deals as of Oct. 30:
BEST ECHO DEAL: Echo Dot (3rd Gen) — $18.99 (save 62%); comes with a free Sengled smart bulb
BEST FIRE TV DEAL: Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote — $29.99 (save 40%)
BEST KINDLE DEAL: Kindle (10th Gen) — $59.99 (save 33%); comes with three free months of Kindle Unlimited
BEST RING D...
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Business Insider |
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have now spent more than $200 million on Prop. 22 — but there's still no guarantee it'll pass
The most recent polling found a 46% to 42% margin ahead of Tuesday's vote, which could prove perilous for gig-work companies if rejected.
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Re/code |
Facebook glitch blocks certain political ads, raising new questions about transparency
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits for testimony during the Section 230 Senate hearing this week. | Greg Nash/AFP
The company says it has mostly fixed the “technical problems” that prevented some Biden and Trump ads from running.
With less than a week until Election Day, Facebook has admitted to a glitch in the system that handles political ads on its platform. “Technical flaws” related to a new transparency effort that restricted new political ads from appearing on Fac...
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Boing Boing |
Stolen (and recovered) collection of rare Batman comics to be auctioned
Heritage Auctions is selling a famous collection of Batman comic books, ones that had been stolen and later recovered by the owner.
One of the world's most prominent collections of Batman comic books heads to auction in November – two years after the comics were stolen out of a Florida self-storage unit. — Read the rest
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Business Insider |
A financial planner shares 3 ways first-generation Americans can build wealth for the future while supporting families who need them now
If you are a first-generation Americans supporting your family and struggling to build wealth for the future, this financial planner has some advice.
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Business Insider |
38 thoughtful gifts that your aunt will actually use
She didn't tell when you spilled nail polish on the carpet in 7th grade, so it's time to treat your aunt to a special gift. Here are 38 ideas she'll love.
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Hacker News |
Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
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Mashable! |
Now that most Black Friday ads are out, here are the best early TV deals
Need guidance at a glance? These are our favorite TV deals from Walmart, Best Buy, Dell, and Amazon as of Oct. 30:
SAMSUNG: Samsung The Frame 50-inch 4K HDR Smart TV — $947.99 (save $362)
LG: LG 55-inch NanoCell 81 Series 4K Smart TV (55NANO81ANA) — $499.99 (save $150)
Sony: Sony 77-inch OLED A9G Series 4K HDR Smart TV (XBR77A9G) — $3,499 (save $3,500Most years, the TV sections of Black Friday ads are essentially a contest to see who can name a TV price so c...
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Boy Genius Report |
This spray just got EPA approval for killing coronavirus – and it’s about to sell out at Amazon
Products like Purell hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes, and Lysol spray have been proven to kill the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Now, there's another cleaning spray that just received EPA approval after having been tested and proving effective at killing the novel coronavirus.
It's called Microban 24 Sanitizing Spray, and it's about to sell out at Amazon now that the cat's out of the bag.
There are two crucial steps to keeping yourself and your family safe from the novel coronavirus,...
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Gizmodo |
As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder
The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.Read more...
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Business Insider |
20 fun Advent calendars for adults who can't wait for Christmas
Advent calendars are a fun way to mark the holiday season, especially when you count down with a treat each day. These are the best Advent calendars.
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