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Doctor Who's 13th season is a single story, and here's the first trailer

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Doctor Who to do something it hasn't done in the modern era " dedicate an entire season to a single story. That's the word from showrunner Chris Chibnall in a new Doctor Who panel at the online-only San Diego Comic-Con today. Oh, and did I mention we're ...

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The Verge

Doctor Who's 13th season is a single story, and here's the first trailer

The Verge

Banned brand Aukey is still selling earbuds on Amazon

When Amazon started cracking down on mobile electronics companies with shady reviewer programs, Aukey and Mpow were the first to get whacked " and yet Aukey is still selling at least three sets of wireless earbuds at the giant online retailer, The Verge has found. Two weeks ago, I pointed ...

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The Verge

Banned brand Aukey is still selling earbuds on Amazon

Engadget

Steam Deck can limit frame rates to give you longer battery life

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Engadget

Steam Deck can limit frame rates to give you longer battery life

TechCrunch

Data-driven iteration helped China's Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

The bottled beverage industry wasn't what Genki Forest's founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. The company aims to reach $1.2 billion this year.

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TechCrunch

Data-driven iteration helped China's Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

The Verge

The Steam Deck has an "optional built-in FPS limiter" for better battery life

When Valve and IGN revealed last Thursday that the new Steam Deck handheld will target 30Hz gameplay, not everyone was impressed with that low bar " but Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais has taken to Twitter to clarify his original comment, and reveal a new feature of the portable console. ...

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The Verge

The Steam Deck has an "optional built-in FPS limiter" for better battery life

Engadget

Motorola's next Edge flagship phone might drop the curved display

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Engadget

Motorola's next Edge flagship phone might drop the curved display

Engadget

Las Vegas police solve an old murder case using record-low volume of DNA

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Engadget

Las Vegas police solve an old murder case using record-low volume of DNA

Ars Technica

Red planet has a big core, complex crust

Seismograph on NASA's InSight lander is slowly imaging the Martian interior.

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Ars Technica

Red planet has a big core, complex crust

WIRED

How to Share Your Wi-Fi Password

Help your guests connect to your network without typing a thing.

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WIRED

How to Share Your Wi-Fi Password

Ars Technica

Dread Pirate Roberts escaped development hell: Making Silk Road work as a film

"There's so much we had to leave out. Really, what this needs is a six-hour limited series."

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Ars Technica

Dread Pirate Roberts escaped development hell: Making Silk Road work as a film

WIRED

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth

Dozens of viruses don't use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this is possible?and perhaps more common than we think.

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WIRED

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth

WIRED

The Best Sunglasses for Every Outdoor Adventure

Protect your eyes in style while you lounge, run, paddle, or work on your computer outside.

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WIRED

The Best Sunglasses for Every Outdoor Adventure

Recode

How bad is space tourism for the environment? And other space travel questions, answered.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just flew to space. Now he wants more people to come along. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Six questions to consider before launching yourself into space. For many, the rise of commercial space tourism is a vulgar display of wealth and power. Amid several ...

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Recode

How bad is space tourism for the environment? And other space travel questions, answered.

WIRED

Hit the Road With These Travel-Planning Apps and Tricks

Let your phone be your guide. Even default map apps have handy features to help you plan an awesome itinerary.

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WIRED

Hit the Road With These Travel-Planning Apps and Tricks

WIRED

Trucks Move Past Cars on the Road to Autonomy

Money is pouring into autonomous trucking startups, just as many are souring on the short-term prospects for self-driving cars.

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WIRED

Trucks Move Past Cars on the Road to Autonomy

Ars Technica

Venmo gets more private?but it's still not fully safe

Until it offers privacy by default, it remains a liability for many of its users.

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Ars Technica

Venmo gets more private?but it's still not fully safe

Fast Company

The best way to answer "Describe a time you had to make a difficult decision" in an interview

When you're in a job interview, you're likely to get asked questions that require you walk your interviewer through past experiences. "Describe a time you had to make a difficult decision,&x201D; for example, asks you to do this in a way that provides them a bit of insight into how you handle tough ...

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Fast Company

The best way to answer "Describe a time you had to make a difficult decision" in an interview

The Verge

New trailers: Dune, Star Trek: Prodigy, The Last Duel, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and more

Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet in Dune | Legendary Happy Saturday! Posting the trailers roundup a day early this weekend since I?ll be on vacation starting Sunday (and shout out to the reader who said he preferred when we did the roundup on Saturdays, you got your wish at least ...

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The Verge

New trailers: Dune, Star Trek: Prodigy, The Last Duel, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and more

Engadget

GM sues Ford over the name of its hands-free driving feature

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Engadget

GM sues Ford over the name of its hands-free driving feature

The Verge

Robinhood's IPO roadshow answered questions I wasn't asking

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge "What's your favorite planet?" is a real question that Robinhood execs really picked to answer during the Q&A section of its retail investor roadshow. "Definitely Pluto," says long-haired CEO Vlad Tenev. He is having a good time. He ...

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The Verge

Robinhood's IPO roadshow answered questions I wasn't asking

Ars Technica

Review: Old is a mostly solid film undermined by jarring twist ending

Director M. Night Shyamalan's latest film was inspired by a French graphic novel.

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Ars Technica

Review: Old is a mostly solid film undermined by jarring twist ending

TechCrunch

The DL on CockroachDB

As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately joined Google, and even personally got kudos from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Kimball and Mattis quickly rose to prominence ...

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TechCrunch

The DL on CockroachDB

Engadget

Oculus makes it easier to create mixed reality apps

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Engadget

Oculus makes it easier to create mixed reality apps

TechCrunch

Should we be worried about insurtech valuations?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.

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TechCrunch

Should we be worried about insurtech valuations?

The Verge

GM, Cruise suing to stop Ford from using the name "BlueCruise"

GM is suing Ford over the BlueCruise name for its hands-free driving system | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors has filed a lawsuit to try to prevent Ford from using the name "BlueCruise" for the hands-free driving feature it announced earlier this year. First ...

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The Verge

GM, Cruise suing to stop Ford from using the name "BlueCruise"

TechCrunch

China Roundup: Kai-Fu Lee's first Europe bet, WeRide buys a truck startup

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch's China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. Despite the geopolitical headwinds for foreign tech firms to enter China, many companies, especially those that find a dependable partner, ...

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TechCrunch

China Roundup: Kai-Fu Lee's first Europe bet, WeRide buys a truck startup

Engadget

Hitting the Books: Digital youth activism can help save America from itself

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Engadget

Hitting the Books: Digital youth activism can help save America from itself

TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Clubhouse opens up, Twitter talks bitcoin, Snap sees record quarter

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 ...

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TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Clubhouse opens up, Twitter talks bitcoin, Snap sees record quarter

WIRED

Porn Showed Up on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet Rot

Plus: China's pipeline probing, a Chromebook debacle, and more of the week's top security news.

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WIRED

Porn Showed Up on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet Rot

Ars Technica

Nuclear power's reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases

A comprehensive analysis shows that warmer temperatures aren't the only threat.

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Ars Technica

Nuclear power's reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases

Ars Technica

Apple and Roku have newly upgraded streaming remotes"are they worth buying"

New remotes bring sensible upgrades, but only if you're tied to these streamers.

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Ars Technica

Apple and Roku have newly upgraded streaming remotes"are they worth buying"

Fast Company

Staring at a screen for too long can actually make you feel sick

Do you ever feel like the light of your computer screen is burrowing into your eyes and making your head pulse" Or feel dizzy or nauseous after looking at your phone" While you might think these sensations are just eye strain or fatigue from looking at your screen for too long, they're actually symptoms ...

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Fast Company

Staring at a screen for too long can actually make you feel sick

Fast Company

How drag queen Shea Couleé is pushing her brand from soap and beer to (hopefully) Marvel

It's been a year since Shea Coule&xE9; was crowned the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: All-Stars season 5. It seemed the Chicago-based queen wouldn't need the validation of hitting the main stage a second time after her star-making run on her original season that took her all the way to the finale. ...

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Fast Company

How drag queen Shea Couleé is pushing her brand from soap and beer to (hopefully) Marvel

Fast Company

If college campuses are embracing vaccine mandates, businesses should, too

This article is from&xA0;Capital & Main,&xA0;an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. When it's isolated and examined, the decision by the University of California almost looks courageous: Get vaccinated or you're not allowed on any UC campus ...

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Fast Company

If college campuses are embracing vaccine mandates, businesses should, too

Fast Company

Tracks are designed to favor some athletes over others?but not in the way you think

As a short-distance track and field runner in high school and college, I often found myself wondering which of the eight or sometimes nine lanes on the track was the fastest. It was conventional wisdom that the middle lanes– lanes three through six–were the best. This idea, in a way, is baked into ...

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Fast Company

Tracks are designed to favor some athletes over others?but not in the way you think

Fast Company

Yes you can use TikTok to advance your career. Here are 5 ways to do it

I promised myself I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to download TikTok and waste my time on another social app to watch influencers make up dances. And I actually held out for quite some time, but alas, curiosity got the best of me, and I was tired of my mom asking me if I'd seen "that one TikTok.&x201D; ...

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Fast Company

Yes you can use TikTok to advance your career. Here are 5 ways to do it

TechCrunch

Sequoia's Mike Vernal outlines how to design feedback loops in the search for product-market fit

"Finding product-market fit is not a deterministic process. Most of the time, it requires iteration. It requires constant adaptation."

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TechCrunch

Sequoia's Mike Vernal outlines how to design feedback loops in the search for product-market fit