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Hacker News |
The misuse of colour in science communication
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9to5Mac |
Apple begins rolling out Apple One services bundle starting at $15 per month
Apple has officially started rolling out its new Apple One subscription services bundle to users. The bundle offers discounted rates when you subscribe to multiple Apple services, including Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple News+, and more.
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Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season once again.
Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson about the latest congressional hearing with the big tech CEOs — this time about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Dorsey ...
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Business Insider |
From rich kid to first daughter: The life of Ivanka Trump
How President Donald Trump's favorite daughter grew up in the public eye to be a powerful businesswoman, famous face, and one of his closest advisors.
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Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy
While the rest of the U.S. economy languished earlier this year, the tech industry's biggest companies seemed immune to the downturn, surging as the country worked, learned and shopped from home. From a report: On Thursday, as the economy is showing signs of improvement, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Facebook reported profits that highlighted how a recovery may provide another catalyst to help them generate a level of wealth that hasn't been seen in a single industry in generations. With an entren...
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Business Insider |
Ostrich meat was supposed to be a 'gold mine' for farmers in Pakistan. The industry collapsed just as it was taking off.
Pakistan's climate is ideal for raising ostriches, and their meat is halal, making them a logical choice for farmers.
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Boing Boing |
Watch Sarah Cooper lip sync Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" tape
Watch Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip sync Trump's Access Hollywood tape. If I don't laugh, I'll cry.
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Thurrott.com |
The Sams Report: Sustainable Data of Excel and Game Pass
On this edition of the Sams Report, Microsoft has released its Q1 earnings, Excel gets a new data type, and Game Pass is now sustainable.
The post The Sams Report: Sustainable Data of Excel and Game Pass appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
Sapphire shows its reference RX 6800 series cards
Looking forward to the Nitro series
Sapphire is one of the first companies to show off its upcoming Radeon RX 6800 series graphics card, including both the RX 6800 XT and the RX 6800, but for now, we will only see reference designs.
In case you missed it earlier, the Radeon RX 6800 series is based on 7nm Navi 21 GPU, and both cards pack 16GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory interface, as well as 128MB of Infinity Cache.
The Radeon RX 6800 XT gets 72 CUs, for a total of 4608 Stream Processors...
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Hacker News |
Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML
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Gizmodo |
Passwords of Florida County Election Officials Temporarily Exposed
Login credentials belonging to several Martin County, Florida, election officials were inadvertently exposed by what an election security researcher says was an unsecured backup database that had likely been publicly accessible since 2017.Read more...
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Hacker News |
Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
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Ars Technica |
Nearly 90,000 cases in a day: Pandemic skyrockets in third, highest peak yet
Peak in new cases will be followed by new peaks in hospitalizations and deaths.
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Business Insider |
The most dangerous day for disinformation isn't Election Day, it's the day after
Regardless of whether Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden appear to be the winner next Wednesday, there will be a lot of people in deep denial.
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Business Insider |
We had 6 women of different heights and sizes try Everlane's new leggings to judge their look and feel
Everlane's first-ever performance leggings are silky and breathable — though they're not going to be right for everyone. Here's what you should know.
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Re/code |
As Covid-19 surges, the world’s biggest tech companies report staggering profits
Big Tech’s earnings aren’t noticing the pandemic. | Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
Despite antitrust investigations and a recession, Big Tech is doing great. Despite a pandemic that’s shocked the entire economy and impending antitrust lawsuits, Big Tech is doing rather well. Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook raked in a huge amount of money last quarter: $38 billion in profits on nearly $240 billion in revenue. For the most part, this represents growth over what these companies ...
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Mashable! |
Beats Solo3 wireless headphones are at their lowest price ever
SAVE $80: Get the Beats Solo3 wireless on-ear headphones for only $119.95 through Oct. 30 in an early Black Friday deal.
Black Friday came early this year, and the deals are already popping off. It seems like there are new sales every day, and crazy low prices can fly under the radar if you're not scouring the internet all day. Luckily, we do that for you, and find amazing deals like the Beats Solo3 wireless on-ear headphones for 40% off their retail price of $199.95.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
More People Have Now Voted Early In Texas Than In All Of 2016
Texans are coming out in waves to cast their presidential ballots, but it remains unclear which party will benefit.
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Hacker News |
UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Marriott £18.4m over breach
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
Walmart Removes Guns From Floor Displays, Citing ‘Civil Unrest’
The retailer will continue selling firearms to customers who request them.
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Mashable! |
Get a 65-inch Hisense 4K TV for the price of most cheap 55-inch TVs
Save $250: A 65-inch Hisense 4K UHD TV sees an incredible sale price of $249.99 as part of Best Buy's early Black Friday deals.
If you thought that Prime Day deal on the 70-inch Samsung TV was a good find (which is back again, BTW), you're in for a real treat with Best Buy's early Black Friday deals — specifically, the 65-inch Hisense TV that's on sale for $249.99.
At any time other than Black Friday season, you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent 55-inch TV at the $250 or $300 price ...
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Engadget |
Sony's WF-1000MX3 earbuds drop to $168, an all-time low on Amazon
It might be a good time to buy if you’re itching for some true wireless earbuds to tune out the rest of the world. Amazon is selling Sony’s well-received WF-1000XM3 buds for $168. That’s an all-time low on Amazon, and one of the best deals yet for th...
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Android Police - Andro... |
Latest Galaxy S21 Ultra leaks reveal at least one possible upgrade
The Galaxy S21 doesn’t seem like it’ll get it, though
Latest update
As mentioned initially, these renders do not necessarily reflect the final product, given that Samsung can still make further adjustments before validating its definitive design. New leaks reveal the company
If you're eagerly waiting to get your hands on Samsung's 2021 flagship, new leaks have revealed a couple of details about it, showing the phone's potential d...
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Neowin |
Flight Simulator Patch 1.10.7.0 brings a bunch of fixes and some known issues
After a brief delay, Microsoft has released the fifth Flight Simulator patch bringing a bunch of fixes to autopilot stability, UI glitches, and more. There are also some known issues in the release.
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Gizmodo |
This Drone's Feathered Wings Can Open and Close Like a Bird's
Aeronautical engineers have built planes that can streak across the sky at over 4,000 miles per hour, but still haven’t come close to designing aircraft that can maneuver with the astounding agility of a bird. Researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne figured, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘emRead more...
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Gizmodo |
Friday's Best Deals: Apple Watch SE, iTeknic Water Flosser, Beats Solo 3 Headphones, AirPods Pro, Switch 128GB microSD, Vitamix Pro Blender, and More
The Apple Watch SE and an iTeknic water flosser lead Friday’s best deals.Read more...
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Re/code |
Silicon Valley is spending millions more for Joe Biden than it did for Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were both backed by the tech industry. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
New numbers show just how much tech is spending to get rid of Trump. Silicon Valley is spending far more money to oust Donald Trump in 2020 than it did in 2016, a testament to the new political muscle that the tech industry has flexed over the last four years. And the money is not just from its billionaires.
The tech industry did spend big to support Hillary Clinton in 2016. But Trump was merely a...
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Mashable! |
'The Mandalorian' Season 2 premiere wants to remind you that it's a Star War
The Mandalorian might be Star Wars canon, but for at least the first season it was Star Wars lite. It was an anthology and a space western and very much a world in which people use droids and fight storm troopers, but it was the most accessible part of a wider universe that some people could never get into otherwise.
That all changes with Chapter 9, the first installment in Season 2 that premiered Oct. 30 on Disney+.
Now tasked with the custody and return of The Child, our Mandalorian is on the ...
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Boy Genius Report |
Experts are scared of coronavirus-flu dual infections this winter – but it’s already happening now
Public health authorities in the Bay area confirmed that a patient survived a dual coronavirus-flu infection.
The patient was between 20 and 65 years of age and works in the “health care realm,” although specific details about the case were not disclosed.
Health officials are urging people in the US to get flu vaccines, which will provide some protection against dangerous dual infections.
Health experts have warned for months that fall and winter will bring back the regular flu epide...
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Mashable! |
Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' is now a lot pricier
Elon Musk wasn't kidding. Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) set of features has become more expensive, increasing from $8,000 to $10,000.
Musk announced this a few weeks ago, but the price hike actually happened a week later than anticipated. The company has been steadily increasing the price of FSD throughout the years; in April 2019, it went up from $5,000 to $6,000; in November it went up to $7,000, and in May of this year, the price was hiked by another $1,000.
Musk has long held t...
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Boing Boing |
This neon banana costs $69
From Amazon:
〖Real Neon Signs〗 It is Real Neon, Not Led Plastic. The neon signs are handmade of glass tubes. The most advanced electrode system, energy efficient, low energy consumption and long life as many as 100,000 hours. The neon signs are with Low-voltage design, so pls don't worry about it getting hot, no risk of glass breakage or harmful substances leaking.It — Read the rest
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Boing Boing |
Kanye gave Kim a hologram of her dead father
For my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime. A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad. ✨
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Business Insider |
I took my family to a Palm Springs Airbnb for our first post-lockdown getaway — here's how it went
I've reported extensively on safe vacations and travel during COVID — here's why I decided on Airbnb based on everything I know and what it was like.
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Engadget |
Under Armour is selling MyFitnessPal for $345 million
Under Armour may be rethinking its fitness app strategy. After purchasing MyFitnessPal for $475 million in 2015, the company announced today that it has started a “definitive agreement to sell the MyFitnessPal platform to Francisco Partners.” It’s al...
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Business Insider |
The best deals on Xbox One consoles, controllers, and games right now — including $20 off 'Borderlands 3'
If you're looking to buy an Xbox One console or a new game to add to your collection, check out our roundup of the best deals available right now.
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Hacker News |
A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]
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Hacker News |
Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” content
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Android Police - Andro... |
T-Mobile welcomes the LG Wing with a BOGO offer starting November 6
If you get two of them, does that make you a T-Mobird?
Add T-Mobile to the list of American carriers taking a chance on the LG Wing as it plans on selling the new-fangled swiveling phone starting November 6, just like AT&T is. Unlike Ma Bell, however, this carrier will try to sell its customers two Wings for the price of one.
The BOGO offer applies to new and existing customers with no upgrade or trade-in hurdle. You'll need to have both on 24-month installment plans — pay the full r...
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The Verge - All Posts |
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is getting an incredible animated Into the Spider-Verse suit
Spider-Man: Miles Morales certainly owes a lot to the massive success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the 2018 animated film that helped catapult Miles’ iteration of the webslinging hero to new heights of popularity.
So it’s fitting that players will be able to suit up in Spider-Verse’s now-iconic spray-painted version of Miles’ black-and-red suit in Spider-Man: Miles Morales. But developer Insomniac Games didn’t just make a simple skin; the studio actually replicated Spider-Vers...
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Hacker News |
Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest
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Boing Boing |
Watch huge building mechanically walk to its new location
A massive building in Shaghai, China "walked" to its new location using 200 mechanical legs. The timelapse is incredible but in reality it took more than two weeks for the building, an 85-year-old primary school, to rotate 21 degrees and move around 200 feet. — Read the rest
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Hacker News |
Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List
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TechCrunch |
NowThis partners with Calm to offer a soothing Election Day live stream
Mobile news organization NowThis is announcing a bit of counter-programming for next week’s presidential election — it’s partnering with meditation app Calm to create a live stream for anyone who needs relief from the stress of Election Day news. Not that NowThis is exactly avoiding that news, but this live stream (combining breathing exercises and […]
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Mashable! |
Save up to 38% on Tile trackers at Amazon
Amazon is having a pre-Black Friday sale on Tile trackers through Oct. 30. Here are the best deals:
BEST FOR YOUR KEYS: Tile Pro — Save $10.50
BEST FOR SMALL OBJECTS: Tile Sticker (4-pack) — Save $23
BEST BUNDLE: Tile Performance Pack — Save $18This is the ninth inning, the last quarter, the final stretch — whatever you want to call it, the year is coming to an end and things are getting a bit hectic. The holidays seem to jumble everyone's minds, so yo...
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SlashGear |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War PC requirements confirm unbelievable install size
With the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War coming up in a couple of weeks, Activision and Treyarch have shared several lists of required PC specifications. Not only do these requirements cover minimum and recommend specifications, just like we’re used to seeing, but they also have a dedicated list for recommended settings with ray tracing, a competitive … Continue reading
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CIO |
“Do More with R” video tutorials
Search for R video tutorials by task, topic, or package. Most videos are shorter than 10 minutes
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InfoWorld News |
“Do More with R” video tutorials
‘Do More with R’ offers quick video tips on useful things you can do in the R programming language. Now you can search these R tutorial videos by topics, tasks, and packages in the table below. (Click on the task to go straight to the video content—or in some cases, an article with a video). Most videos are shorter than 10 minutes.
To read this article in full, please click here
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Gizmodo |
What the U.S. Should Have Learned From the 2016 Election
Years after revelations regarding Russian interference in 2016 started to come to light, the tiresome odes to “Soviet Russian tradecraft” ought to leave us wondering what’s changed.Read more...
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gets system requirements
Up to 250GB of storage and RTX 3080 for Ultra RTX settings
Activision and Treyarch have released the new official PC trailer, as well as detailed full system requirements for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, scheduled to launch on November 13th.
As you probably know, Activision and Treyarch have already announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC on Battle.net on November 13th, as well as Playstation 5 and Xbox One Series X at ...
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MacRumors |
MagSafe Wallet for iPhone 12 Now Available for Pickup at Select Apple Stores Internationally
Apple's new Leather Wallet with MagSafe for iPhone 12 models is available for pickup today or tomorrow at select Apple Stores in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. We've yet to see any pickup availability in the United States or Canada, but we'll update this story if that changes.A few customers have started sharing photos of the Leather Wallet on Twitter after completing a pickup at an Apple Store today.Photo shared by Leona...
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Motherboard RSS Feed |
Why I'm Suing DHS For the '14 Words' Emails It Refuses to Release
A DHS press release echoed an infamous white supremacist slogan. DHS says any connection is a "conspiracy theory" but is suppressing emails about it.
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The Verge - All Posts |
Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet with 128GB of storage is cheaper than ever at Best Buy
Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge
It has been a busy few days when it comes to covering deals. Both Best Buy and Amazon launched a deluge of early Black Friday deals, letting you take care of some holiday shopping (for your family or just you) before the calendar flips over to November. Definitely check out Best Buy’s deals if you haven’t already, which include big price drops on OLED TVs from Vizio and LG as well as the return of Prime Day deals on Sony’s WH-1000XM4. Then, if you want t...
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Android Police - Andro... |
24 temporarily free and 57 on-sale apps and games for Friday
Don't miss out on the sales for The Room Three, Crashlands, Evoland 2
Welcome to Friday, everyone. It would appear we have a boatload of game sales today, with more than a few standouts in the mix. First up is The Room Three, the third release is the acclaimed escape room series (Two is on sale as well). Next up is Crashlands, a fantastic survival game well worth the current sale price. And last up is Evoland 2, a quality RPG that offers a plethora of graphics types that range from 8-bit t...
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The Next Web |
Why countries need to work together to bring digital health into the future
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the speed and scale of adoption of digital health technologies in a way that’s hard to imagine under normal circumstances. Innovations like telemedicine and chatbots designed to limit in-person contact and data models that optimize the allocation of ventilators, hospital beds, and staff are seeing increased use today around the world. Countries are learning from the approaches of their neighbors and applying new methods in a race towards efficiency. D...
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Business Insider |
Research shows Hollywood is failing Latinos. People behind 'One Day at a Time' and 'Vida' share how those stories made it to TV and how the industry could push change forward.
Little progress was made over the last two years in increasing Hispanic or Latino representation in US TV shows and movies, three new studies show.
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Business Insider |
Xiaomi is now selling more smartphones than Apple, and Samsung tops the list, according to new data. Here's how the major smartphone players rank.
Samsung sold nearly twice as many phone as Apple, which was hit by the delayed launch of the iPhone 12. Here's the full ranking.
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Tom's Hardware |
A Virtual Shop Where RTX 30-Series GPUs Never Go Out of Stock
Galax launched a virtual shopping mall for PC parts. One where RTX 30-series actually exist.
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Neowin |
LG to reportedly launch a new flagship and a rollable display-sporting phone early next year
LG is reportedly working on at least three phones for launch in Q1 2021. These include the Velvet 2, a new high-end flagship, and a device with an extending screen thanks to a rollable display.
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TechCrunch |
Smartphone shipments dip in China for Q3, led by Huawei decline
China was the first major global smartphone market to rebound from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stringent lockdown measures were able to help the country recover from the virus relatively quickly during the first wave, as sales started to return well ahead of other areas. In Q3, however, things have begun to decline […]
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Computerworld |
Tech event calendar 2020: Upcoming shows, conferences and IT expos
Regional IT events
Africa
Australia
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Global security eventsComputerworld has compiled a list of upcoming technology events for the IT industry taking place in the following weeks and months.To read this article in full, please click here
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The Next Web |
Dear Nissan, why won’t you replace this lovely Canadian’s Leaf battery?
Over the course of this week, a story from across the pond in Canada has been gathering pace. It’s highlighting the potentially dangerous future we could head towards if we don’t take a more thoughtful approach to how we recycle electric cars. This week, Canadian news outlet CBC reported the story of Clayton Brander, a secondhand Nissan Leaf owner, who has been on a quest for a new battery for his electric car to restore its range to factory spec. Unfortunately, he’s not having much luck. ...
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9to5Mac |
John Hancock life insurance customers can now earn an Apple Watch Series 6 for $25 with regular exercise
John Hancock was one of the early insurers to offer discounted Apple Watch hardware to life insurance customers. This week, the company announced that it is expanding its popular Apple Watch program to include the new Apple Watch SE and the new Apple Watch Series 6.
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Hacker News |
Star Wars Asciimation (2015)
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Slashdot |
Samsung Regains Top Smartphone Vendor Spot as Xiaomi Overtakes Apple
Samsung is back on top as the world's biggest smartphone vendor one quarter after losing its spot to Huawei, according to reports from IDC, Counterpoint, and Canalys. The news comes just as Samsung posted its highest quarterly revenue figures ever, which the company said was helped by a boost in demand for smartphones. From a report: Huawei became the number one vendor for the first time three months ago, benefiting from strong sales in China while much of the rest of the world was operating und...
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TechCrunch |
Illinois is taking a data-driven approach to its mask-wearing ad campaign
Here’s an example of ad targeting that’s actually good for public health: In a campaign encouraging people to wear masks, the Illinois state government has been focusing its digital ad dollars on the counties with the highest COVID risk. To achieve this, the government’s been working with Civis Analytics, the data science company founded by […]
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Hacker News |
A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
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The Next Web |
NASA says this planet is just too damn hot to exist
The exoplanet LTT 9779b is far more massive than our own world, and the world is nearly five times larger. Temperatures on its surface put Venus — the hottest planet in our solar system — to shame. This exoplanet, discovered just last year, is so extreme it should not exist — at least not for long. Hot Neptunes are — theoretically — worlds the size of Neptune or slightly larger than Neptune, orbiting close to their parent stars. However, such planets were thought to be unstable, as the...
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The Guardian |
My expensive new earphones promised to upgrade my life. Then they broke | Romesh Ranganathan
Like an idiot, I ordered them to replace my almost identical old pair that I was now convinced were trashI have been known to be wildly inconsistent with my reactions to expensive items. I will happily overpay for a pair of jeans, and later that same day bemoan the state of the world when an ice-cream costs a fiver, despite both items having a similar manufacturing cost.My biggest blind spot is headphones. I have become convinced that I need a pair for different situations. So I have a pair for ...
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VentureBeat |
Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in 18 accidents over 20 months
Waymo released a safety report outlining the accidents and near-collisions its cars encountered in the years they've been driving in Phoenix.
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The Verge - All Posts |
Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
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Gizmodo |
20 Years Later, Pulse Is Still the Creepiest Horror Movie About Internet Ghosts
Pulse begins with an ancient sound: the screech of a dial-up internet connection. At the time of its release in 2001, however, that sound signified a new form of communication that had already begun to change the world. The movie takes a look at where that technology will take us, and forecasts nothing but doom.Read more...
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The Verge - All Posts |
Halloween isn’t risk-free, but it can be lower risk
Photo by Sebastian Willnow / picture alliance via Getty Images
The hottest decorations this Halloween may turn out to be PVC pipe covered in orange duct tape or painted a garish, spooky purple. From Chicago to Washington state, people are rigging up “candy chutes” to send Twix and Milky Ways into the waiting buckets of trick-or-treaters from a safe distance during the pandemic. They range from simple slides all the way to elaborate feats of puppetry — and they’ll be called into action...
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Gizmodo |
What to Do if You See a Ghost
So you’ve had an encounter with a ghost. All of a sudden the air turned cold; a light flickered; a shadowy figure floated in a dark corner; when you asked if you were in the presence of a spirit, the Ouija planchette in your shaking hand dragged itself toward “YES.” Naysayers be damned, you know you’ve been contacted…Read more...
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Wired Top Stories |
Which Tablet Should I Get for My Kids?
In this moment of need, let there be no judgments passed about screen time. Here are the tablets you should get your kids, and why.
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ExtremeTechExtremeTech |
RISC-V Tiptoes Towards Mainstream With SiFive Dev Board, High-Performance CPU
RISC V continues to make inroads across the market, this time with a cheaper and more fully-featured test motherboard.
The post RISC-V Tiptoes Towards Mainstream With SiFive Dev Board, High-Performance CPU appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Boy Genius Report |
These crazy early Black Friday deals will be available all weekend long on Amazon
Black Friday 2020 is still a month away, but Amazon couldn't wait that long so it just kicked off an early Black Friday sale!
A whopping 36 different deals on Amazon devices are included in the sale, and each one offers all-time low pricing on a wildly popular Amazon product.
You'll find all the hottest deals right here in this roundup, and you can also check out the entire Amazon device sale for more deals all weekend long.
Just the other day, we were thinking about how weird it was that t...
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Guru3d Latest Headlines |
NVIDIA Bundles Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with RTX 3080 and 3090
Today NVIDIA announced that for a limited time, buyers of GeForce RTX 3080 or 3090-equipped graphics cards and PCs will get a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War....
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Neowin |
These are the best Xbox One games launching next week
Next week, a number of popular titles are coming to Xbox One. While Dirt 5 is the highlight of the list, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is also hitting the system with a fresh coat of paint.
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Business Insider |
How to delete files from OneDrive storage in 2 different ways, and remove them from all of your connected devices
You can delete files from OneDrive to remove them from the cloud and any devices connected to your OneDrive account.
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Reddit |
Online giants will have to open ad archives to EU antitrust regulators
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Boing Boing |
NBC News: Hunter Biden documents are work of fake "intelligence firm"
A 64-page document alleging wide-ranging crimes and conspiracies involving Hunter Biden, widely disseminated among conservative media, is the work of a fake "intelligence firm" headed by a man whose portrait is generated by an AI. NBCNews:
The document and its spread have become part of a wider effort to smear Hunter Biden and weaken Joe Biden's presidential campaign, which moved from the fringes of the internet to more mainstream conservative news outlets. — Read the rest
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TechPowerUp |
(PR) OWC Announces Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C SSD
OWC, the premier zero-emissions Mac and PC technology company, and a respected provider of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking solutions, and performance upgrade kits, announces the new OWC Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C Bus-Powered SSD. This new portable drive puts pro-grade speeds, dust and waterproof ruggedness, and universal compatibility in the palm of your hand.
The OWC Envoy Pro Elektron is the fastest, toughest mini-sized SSD in the universe. Pocket-sized tiny, this USB-C bus-...
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
Intel reveals more Rocket Lake-S details
Cypress Cove core and double-digit IPC increase
Intel shed some light about its upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPUs that will be launching in Q1 2021, and these will be based on Cypress Cove CPU cores bringing a double-digit IPC increase in performance.
According to Intel's own slides, 11th gen Core S-series CPUs codename Rocket Lake will bring new CPU core architecture with double-digit IPC improvements. It will also feature Intel UHD graphics based on 12th generation Xe graphics architecture, which i...
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SlashGear |
Ford confirms pricing for Mustang Mach-E and new F-150’s hands-free Autopilot rival
Ford’s Active Drive Assist, its hands-free highway cruise control and lane-keeping system, has been priced up for the new Mustang Mach-E and 2021 F-150, though you’ll need to be patient. The Tesla Autopilot and Cadillac Super Cruise rival aims to best Elon Musk with more user-friendliness, while simultaneously putting the tech within reach of far more drivers than GM has … Continue reading
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Business Insider |
Spotify's defense of Joe Rogan puts it on track for a huge culture war over how it moderates its platform
Joe Rogan provoked outcry after he invited far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones onto his podcast, but Spotify defended keeping the episode up.
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9to5Mac |
iFixit finds iPhone 12 camera repair impossible without proprietary Apple tool
iFixit has found that an iPhone 12 camera repair or replacement cannot be made without access to a proprietary Apple tool which is only available to technicians authorized by the company.
The company says this appears to prevent DIY repairs at home, as well as those by third-party companies who do not have access to the online software tool …
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The post iFixit finds iPhone 12 camera repair impossible without proprietary Apple tool appeared first on 9to5Mac.
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The Guardian |
Facebook leak reveals policies on restricting New York Post's Biden story
Moderators had to manually intervene to limit distribution of Hunter Biden reportFacebook moderators had to manually intervene to suppress a controversial New York Post story about Hunter Biden, according to leaked moderation guidelines seen by the Guardian.The document, which lays out in detail Facebook’s policies for dealing with misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, sheds new light on the process that led to the company’s decision to reduce the distribution of the story. Continue read...
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BetaNews |
Install KB4580364 update to fix Windows 10 problems and gain the new Meet Now taskbar button
Microsoft has released a new optional, non-security update for Windows 10 that not only fixes a number of issues, but also adds a new Meet Now button to the taskbar. The KB4580364 update is available for Windows 10 builds 2004 and 20H2. It addresses a wide range of bugs including system freezes and performance problems. See also: Sun Valley: Microsoft is planning a major redesign for Windows 10 Microsoft releases KB4577586 update to remove and block Flash from Windows Microsoft is throttling the...
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Business Insider |
US stocks tumble amid mega-cap tech growth concerns after earnings
Stocks slumped on Friday as mega-cap tech companies reported earnings and daily US COVID-19 cases hit a record.
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Reddit |
UK ‘sky mining’ facility creates carbon-negative diamonds
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Business Insider |
Apple sees $111 billion in market value erased on disappointing 4th-quarter iPhone sales and lack of forward guidance
Apple stopped short of providing official sales forecasts for the current quarter, leaving some to worry whether iPhone 12 sales will meet estimates.
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Business Insider |
How to print double-sided on a Windows PC using any printer
You can print double-sided on your Windows PC as a default setting or on a per-job basis for individual items.
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Neowin |
UK charity sees surge in child abuse image reports
The UK charity, Internet Watch Foundation, has reported an increase in reports of child sexual abuse content online. It said the lockdown meant more people were online and uncovering illegal content.
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Hacker News |
Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
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TechPowerUp |
(PR) Logitech G Partners with Riot Games to Unveil League of Legends Co-branded Gaming Peripherals
Logitech G, a brand of Logitech and leading innovator of gaming technologies and gear, and Riot Games, creator of League of Legends, the most-played PC game in the world, today announced an exclusive new multi-year partnership. As a part of the agreement, Logitech G will introduce a portfolio of officially licensed League of Legends (LoL) gaming products, the first of which is inspired by the aesthetics of the global virtual music group, K/DA, and their 2020 comeback.
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Boy Genius Report |
Early Amazon Black Friday deal slashes Bose’s best-selling soundbar to $149
With less than a month to go before Black Friday 2020 arrives, Amazon is really turning up the heat on its daily deals.
We already told you about the massive early Black Friday sale that slashes 36 Amazon devices and bundles to all-time low prices.
Now, Amazon has dropped the best-selling Bose Solo 5 TV Soundbar back down to an all-time low of just $149, the same price we saw when it sold out on Prime Day.
Bose makes so many amazing personal audio products and almost all of them have two things ...
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Business Insider |
25 high-tech smart home gifts to upgrade their life
From smart speakers to security cameras and streaming sticks, these are the best smart home gifts for the 2020 holidays.
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HuffPost - Breaking Ne... |
James Corden Asks Obvious Question After Melania Trump’s Speech
The "Late Late Show" host doesn't think the Trumps know what social distancing is.
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Reddit |
Hydrogen trade hopes boosted by Australia-Germany deal
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Hacker News |
Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020
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The misuse of colour in science communication
