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A Trump-Biden Debate Without Climate Change Is Inexcusable

The West is on fire, the Gulf Coast is under water, and voters want candidates to talk about the environment.

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WIRED

A Trump-Biden Debate Without Climate Change Is Inexcusable

Engadget

'Nier' remaster heads to the West on April 23rd, 2021

A remaster of the original Nier video game will be released in the West on April 23rd, 2021. The cult classic, directed by Yoko Taro, was first released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. It was a spin-off from the Drakengard series and foll...

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Engadget

'Nier' remaster heads to the West on April 23rd, 2021

Engadget

Even LinkedIn has Stories now

LinkedIn is the latest platform to embrace the disappearing Stories format. The professional networking site unveiled its latest redesign that makes the company's months-long experiment with LinkedIn Stories official. Beginning today, the company is...

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Even LinkedIn has Stories now

Engadget

Roli's light-up, learn-to-play Lumi keyboard is available for pre-order

Pre-orders for Roli's crowdfunded Lumi keyboard are now open. The small, light-up keyboard pairs with a companion app and is meant to help you learn how to play music, whether you want to dive right into your favorite pop songs (Beyonce) or start wit...

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Engadget

Roli's light-up, learn-to-play Lumi keyboard is available for pre-order

The Verge

How to watch the League of Legends World Championship – and what to watch for

Photo: Riot Games The 2020 edition of the League of Legends World Championship is about to begin in Shanghai " and it's a lot to take in. The annual competition, colloquially known simply as Worlds, spans more than a month, with 22 teams from across the globe all vying for a chance to lift the ...

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The Verge

How to watch the League of Legends World Championship – and what to watch for

WIRED

Lawmakers Demand Scrutiny of Racial Bias in Health Algorithms

Four congressmembers say formulas that include race as a factor can hurt Black Americans' access to care.

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WIRED

Lawmakers Demand Scrutiny of Racial Bias in Health Algorithms

The Verge

Mobvoi's TicWatch Pro 3 announced with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 4100 chip

The new smartwatch has a battery life of up to 45 days. | Image: Mobvoi The TicWatch Pro 3 is the latest smartwatch from Mobvoi and the first Wear OS smartwatch to use Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 4100, which promises faster performance and better battery life. The new smartwatch also adds the ...

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The Verge

Mobvoi's TicWatch Pro 3 announced with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 4100 chip

The Verge

PUBG Mobile floods its game with K-pop band Blackpink

PUBG Mobile is adding a new song from K-pop band Blackpink to its lobby. Players can listen to the band's single "How You Like That" ahead of their upcoming album release. The song will be available in-game from September 24th through October 2nd. PUBG's developers are also adding Blackpink-themed ...

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PUBG Mobile floods its game with K-pop band Blackpink

The Verge

The best projector for your home or apartment

From budget to 4K, here are the best projectors to replace your TV Continue reading…

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The Verge

The best projector for your home or apartment

Engadget

Epic, Spotify and others ally against Apple and Google app policies

A diverse variety of companies including Epic Games, Spotify, Match Group, Tile and others have formed an alliance to pressure Apple, Google and others to change their app store rules. The Coalition for App Fairness debuted today, stating that ?Apple...

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Epic, Spotify and others ally against Apple and Google app policies

TechCrunch

NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips

Climate change is on everyone's minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing down on the East Coast with alacrity (and that's just the United States in the past two weeks). A major " and growing " source of those [...]

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NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips

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Postal workers say they are ready for the mail-in voting surge

Tara Jacoby for Vox Unless Postmaster General Louis DeJoy gets in the way. Over the last few months, Lori Cash has watched US Postal Service management remove mail sorting machines, curb after-hours pickups and deliveries, and limit overtime work in the Upstate New York region ...

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Postal workers say they are ready for the mail-in voting surge

TechCrunch

E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M

Whitebox, a startup that manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment for a variety for brands, has raised $18 million in Series B funding. While discussing the new funding, CEO Marcus Startzel repeated a point he made after Whitebox raised its $5 million Series A last year – that the startup is differentiated ...

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TechCrunch

E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M

TechCrunch

Bowery Farming adds executives as it expands to sell produce in 650 stores

Bowery Farming has added to its executive team as it expands its retail footprint to 650 stores, the company said. From three indoor farms in Kearny, N.J. and Nottingham, Md., the New York-based company is pitching a smattering of leafy greens and herbs. Irving Fain, Bowery's chief executive and founder ...

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Bowery Farming adds executives as it expands to sell produce in 650 stores

TechCrunch

Airship acquires SMS commerce company ReplyBuy

Airship is announcing that it has acquired mobile commerce startup ReplyBuy. The startup (which was a finalist at TechCrunch's 1st and Future competition in 2016) works with customers like entertainment venues and professional and college sports teams to send messages and sell tickets to fans via SMS. ...

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Airship acquires SMS commerce company ReplyBuy

TechCrunch

Spectrum Labs raises $10M for its AI-based platform to combat online toxicity

With the US presidential election now 40 days away, all eyes are focused on how online conversations, in conjunction with other hallmarks of online life like viral videos, news clips, and misleading ads, will be used, and often abused, to influence people's decisions. But political discourse, of course, ...

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TechCrunch

Spectrum Labs raises $10M for its AI-based platform to combat online toxicity

TechCrunch

Valar triples down on Petal, leading $55M Series C round into the credit card disruptor

Sometimes raising venture capital can be as simple as talking to your existing investor and having them wire over another check. When we last caught up with Petal in January 2019, the startup was hot off its $30 million Series B round and was accelerating its mission to take on the world of credit cards. ...

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TechCrunch

Valar triples down on Petal, leading $55M Series C round into the credit card disruptor

WIRED

A Tip From a Kid Helped Uncover a Slew of Scam Apps

After a girl reported a suspicious TikTok profile, researchers detected aggressive adware in apps that had been downloaded 2.4 million times.

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WIRED

A Tip From a Kid Helped Uncover a Slew of Scam Apps

The Verge

Pop star Ava Max will hold an album launch party in Roblox

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Ava Max is holding an album launch party in an unexpected place: the virtual realm of Roblox. The pop star will be part of what's described as "a first-of-its-kind immersive album launch party and virtual fan meetup" to celebrate the release of her new album Heaven ...

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The Verge

Pop star Ava Max will hold an album launch party in Roblox

WIRED

The 8 Best Projectors (2020): Short Throw, Portable, Low Latency, and More

Whether you want a portable presenter or a theater-quality behemoth, our picks will help you upgrade your at-home movie nights.

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WIRED

The 8 Best Projectors (2020): Short Throw, Portable, Low Latency, and More

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The first big test of Facebook's oversight board will be the US election

Facebook's oversight board, which has independent authority to reverse Facebook's decisions about whether controversial posts should remain up or get taken down, will launch in October. | Tobias Hase/picture alliance via Getty Images The board " which has the power to overrule Mark Zuckerberg ...

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The first big test of Facebook's oversight board will be the US election

Engadget

Apple's brand-new iPad is down to $299 on Amazon

Amazon joins Walmart with a new sale on the latest 8th-generation iPad – yes, the one that only came out last week. Amazon now has the iPad starting at $299, which is $30 less than its normal starting price. Both the 32GB and the 128GB models are on...

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Engadget

Apple's brand-new iPad is down to $299 on Amazon

The Verge

Amazon's Echo conquered the smart home " what comes next"

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon is gearing up for its latest hardware event where it's expected to announce its latest smart home gear. Based on prior years, we could see new Echo speakers, Alexa updates, Eero routers, Ring cameras, and more. But looking at Amazon's smart home lineup ...

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The Verge

Amazon's Echo conquered the smart home " what comes next"

Engadget

Facebook's Oversight Board will begin hearing cases before the US election

Faceboook has confirmed that it's Oversight Board set up to rule on moderation disputes across the company's platforms will begin to hear cases as early as mid-October, just ahead of the November US elections (via the Financial Times). ?Since the fir...

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Engadget

Facebook's Oversight Board will begin hearing cases before the US election

WIRED

Can a Genetically Modified Bug Combat a Global Farm Plague?

Biotech company Oxitec has created a caterpillar with self-destructing eggs in an attempt to curb agricultural damage. But will other pests simply move in?

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Can a Genetically Modified Bug Combat a Global Farm Plague?

WIRED

Motorola One 5G Review: It Has Battery for Days

Forget plugging in every night. This phone lasts more than 48 hours on a charge.

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WIRED

Motorola One 5G Review: It Has Battery for Days

Ars Technica

Nikola stock plunges 26% after fraud claims complicate hydrogen plans

Potential hydrogen fueling station partners reportedly have second thoughts.

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Ars Technica

Nikola stock plunges 26% after fraud claims complicate hydrogen plans

Ars Technica

Western Digital releases new, larger Red Pro and Purple drives

It feels like yesterday when 8TB drives were 'really big.?

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Ars Technica

Western Digital releases new, larger Red Pro and Purple drives

Fast Company

Love in the time of Zoom: Why we're in the midst of a dating revolution

It's nice to believe that love comes always as a magical thing, a proverbial bolt of lightning across a crowded room. It's comforting to imagine that this most human of emotions has been with us forever, ageless and unchanging.&xA0;Yet the history of romance reveals something very different; something ...

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Fast Company

Love in the time of Zoom: Why we're in the midst of a dating revolution

Fast Company

The red-flag signs you may be burning out while working from home

Picture yourself this February, blissfully ignorant about the long and stressful road that would unfold before us once the calendar flipped to 2020. Perhaps, like me, you were in the process of planning a family vacation, or regularly enjoying post-work happy hours with colleagues. Perhaps you were ...

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Fast Company

The red-flag signs you may be burning out while working from home

Fast Company

These new emojis perfectly sum up this dumpster fire of a year

The hellscape that is 2020 is enough to leave anyone speechless. So it's good timing on the part of Unicode, which just announced a new batch of 217 emojis you can use when crying into your keypad makes it difficult to write actual words. And while it's hard to say what will happen in the last few ...

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Fast Company

These new emojis perfectly sum up this dumpster fire of a year

Fast Company

UPenn releases surprising report on 9/11 rescue dogs and their causes of death

What became of the fluffy, dusty search-and-rescue dogs of 9/11, seen sniffing smoldering mounds of rubble? Turns out that they did not share the disease&x2013;laden fates of many 9/11 rescue workers. In the weeks following attacks of September 11, 2001, veterinarians at the University of Pennsylvania ...

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Fast Company

UPenn releases surprising report on 9/11 rescue dogs and their causes of death

Fast Company

Spotify, Match Group, and Epic Games join to fight Apple and Google app stores

A number of prominent tech giants have banded together to fight . . . even more prominent tech giants. As The New York Times reports, tech firms including Spotify, Match Group, and Epic Games, have banded together to form the Coalition for App Fairness. The coalition is a collection of companies that ...

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Fast Company

Spotify, Match Group, and Epic Games join to fight Apple and Google app stores

Fast Company

Apple responds to criticism over how Siri answers "where are the terrorists" question

Apple says it has made an adjustment to Siri after some users criticized how the voice assistant answered a question about terrorists. As demonstrated in a number of Facebook posts, YouTube videos, and Reddit threads, Siri would produce a list of directions to local police departments when asked, ...

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Fast Company

Apple responds to criticism over how Siri answers "where are the terrorists" question

Ars Technica

Two demon-hunting siblings reunite to save the world in Helstrom trailer

The Hulu series is the sole survivor of a planned Marvel-centric fear-based franchise.

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Ars Technica

Two demon-hunting siblings reunite to save the world in Helstrom trailer

Ars Technica

NASA wants a big budget increase for its Moon plans. Is Congress biting?

Space agency needs Christmastime funding for landers to keep Moon plan on track.

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Ars Technica

NASA wants a big budget increase for its Moon plans. Is Congress biting?

Ars Technica

California bans new internal combustion engines, starting in 2035

Governor Newsom follows in Europe's and China's footsteps with emissions mandate.

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Ars Technica

California bans new internal combustion engines, starting in 2035

Ars Technica

Apple's new iPad and Apple Watch are already (slightly) discounted on Amazon

By $30 and $15, respectively. Dealmaster also has Switch games, SSDs, and more.

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Ars Technica

Apple's new iPad and Apple Watch are already (slightly) discounted on Amazon

Recode

How do you cover a presidential campaign during a pandemic?

Doug Chayka for Vox What happens when the campaign trail is an ethernet cable" Olivia Nuzzi was covering a Donald Trump rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this summer when the New York magazine reporter had an idea. Why not go talk to the Trump fans at the gathering, most ...

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How do you cover a presidential campaign during a pandemic?

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Trump's Justice Department proposes legislation that could end the internet as we know it

President Trump has signed an executive order that could threaten social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. | Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images The pillar of internet free speech is Trump's latest target. The Trump administration's Justice Department has made ...

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Trump's Justice Department proposes legislation that could end the internet as we know it

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This billionaire built a big-money machine to oust Trump. Why do some Democrats hate him?

Democrats need Reid Hoffman's money. But it's not that simple. | Doug Chayka for Vox Reid Hoffman symbolizes a bigger debate over whether Silicon Valley disruption has any place in our politics. Every few months, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman sends an invitation to some of the ...

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This billionaire built a big-money machine to oust Trump. Why do some Democrats hate him?

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The best alternative streaming services, from anime to arthouse

Niche streaming platforms are all the rage. | Aja Romano/Vox Crunchyroll or Funimation" Acorn TV or BritBox" The Criterion Channel or Mubi" Go beyond Netflix and Hulu with our guide to niche streaming platforms. As the streaming wars between major platforms such as Netflix, Disney+, and HBO ...

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The best alternative streaming services, from anime to arthouse