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Mar 03, 2021
There are 3D-printing pens that let prolific doodlers turn their drawings into three-dimensional sculptures, but all users are really left with is a piece of art. Polaroid's taking 3D-printing pens one step further by replacing extruded plastic with melted candy so that when your masterpiece is complete, you can eat…
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Mar 03, 2021
Anker Nano Charger | $15 | Amazon | Clip Coupon
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Mar 03, 2021
As a young girl in the small town of Cromwell, Connecticut, all Andraya Yearwood wanted to do was run. Born into a family that prized athleticism, she dabbled in soccer, basketball, football, and dance as a child. But one day in the sixth grade, she saw older students running around the track oval, and she was hooked.…
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Mar 03, 2021
Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? That's the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station, space startups that got a lot of headlines this week. But there are plenty of skeptics that space hotels could become a reality for Americans who are still waiting on universal healthcare.
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Mar 03, 2021
The Little Mermaid remake continues to grow its cast. Hugh Grant will menace the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Sanrio's Hello Kitty movie finds a director. Plus, what's to come on Superman & Lois and The Flash, and new Godzilla vs. Kong pictures. Spoilers get!
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Mar 03, 2021
Just a few months after rolling out what can probably be called the first privacy-preserving news reader, the folks at Brave are taking a stab at creating their own search engine to complement their namesake browser.
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Mar 03, 2021
Just six months after the first e-readers featuring E Ink's color electronic paper technology arrived, the next generation of devices is already here with upgraded color screens. The improvements E Ink has made are minor, but the new PocketBook InkPad Color has a larger screen that offers a much improved reading…
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Mar 03, 2021
Even if you've been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you're not using them every day. Here are 12 things you might not…
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Mar 03, 2021
Vankyo Leisure 3W Mini Projector | $80 | Best Buy
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Mar 02, 2021
In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft.
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Mar 02, 2021
After acquiring the delivery startup Postmates for $2.65 billion last year, Uber Technologies announced on Tuesday that plans to spin the company's robotics division out into a separate company: Serve Robotics.
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Mar 02, 2021
Have you smoked 100 cigarettes in your life? Can you take up, and kick, a pack-a-day habit in the next two weeks? Are you capable of looking a health professional square in the eye and lying? I do not condone these things, but if any of the above applies to you, and you are a North Carolina resident, you may be…
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Mar 02, 2021
Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who paid big bucks to Elon Musk's SpaceX for the first seats on its Starship spacecraft for a trip round the Moon in 2023, recently teased a big announcement regarding the journey. Mystery solved: Maezawa proclaimed on Tuesday he is offering anyone interested a shot…
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Mar 02, 2021
Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefishes is left with a lot to prove. Recently, a crew of six common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) did just that, focusing their sinusoidal pupils and collective 48 arms and 12 tentacles…
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Mar 02, 2021
Facebook's so-called "Supreme Court" is reportedly planning to seek the company's permission to review the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are given the most prominence in each Facebook user's feed.
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Mar 02, 2021
Last year, Puma entered the gaming apparel world with its $100 Active Gaming Footwear, which are basically fancy socks with a bit of added tread. But now the user reviews are in, and reader, they are priceless.
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Mar 02, 2021
Godzilla isn't just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he's been stomping around the box office, Godzilla's gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his upcoming smashup with Kong in Warner's W…
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Mar 02, 2021
Amazon has quietly edited its app icon, possibly because users noticed that it resembled a smiling, err, uh... we'll go with Charlie Chaplin, but we don't really mean Charlie Chaplin.
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Mar 02, 2021
When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if your drown was small enough to accidentally swallow?
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Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday's Best Deals | Kinja Deals
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Mar 02, 2021
Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The news is extraordinary, not just because they claim to be the first software workers to have secured a collective bargaining agreement, but because the lead-up…
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Mar 02, 2021
Today at Microsoft's annual Ignite conference, the tech giant revealed a bold glimpse at the future of digital collaboration with Mesh, a new mixed reality experience set to shape how people work and socialize online.
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Mar 02, 2021
The #resistance is growing. The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation's largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
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Mar 02, 2021
On Monday, Roku announced a new "strategic alliance" with the market research giant Nielsen, that sees the connected TV giant swallow Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising business—and take on two major pieces of ad-targeting tech in the process.
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Mar 02, 2021
Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon is a film that's so different from most other movies of its kind, it didn't even have to be fully formed for writers and actors to jump at the chance to be part of it.
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Mar 02, 2021
What's the hardest video game you've ever played? If it wasn't QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don't know how truly difficult a game can be. The deceptively simple running game is so challenging to master that even an AI trained using machine learning still only mustered a top 10 score instead of…
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Mar 02, 2021
We're one step closer to officially moving up hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that it would formally start issuing its hurricane season tropical weather outlooks on May 15 this year, bumping it up from the traditional start of hurricane season on June 1. The move comes after a recent…
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Mar 02, 2021
Johnson & Johnson is getting some help to make their newly available covid-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to step in and produce some of J&J's vaccines, in order to address a potential shortfall in supply. The single dose vaccine was authorized for…
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Mar 02, 2021
When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips. We loved the end destinations, but getting there was a major drag. We had Game Boy Colors and other handhelds, but we had already played the games we owned way too many times. Consoles and desktop PCs aren't exactly portable, so we often got bored…
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Mar 02, 2021
The streaming video business is booming, and while that makes it easier to access tons of content, for some companies like Sony, it makes it less attractive to manage digital storefronts, so at the end of August, Sony is disabling the ability to buy on-demand videos in the PlayStation Store.
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Mar 02, 2021
Apple introduced the ability to track your noise level exposure on the Apple Watch back in 2019. The company also launched three clinical research studies alongside that feature, including one to examine hearing health. Now, a little over a year later, Apple's sharing some preliminary results in time for World Hearing…
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Mar 02, 2021
In the final moments of WandaVision's most recent episode, the name that's been on everyone's mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier's post-credits sequence was spoken.
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Mar 02, 2021
A sale on Pokémon 25th anniversary apparel and Aukey's Smart Watch lead Tuesday's best deals.
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Mar 02, 2021
Marshall Acton II | $230 | Best Buy
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Mar 02, 2021
As praises from celebrity investors and movie deals rained on the subreddit/memestock trading floor WallStreetBets, its two contingents of its moderators went to war, each accusing the other of profiteering off the community's newfound fame. Now, those beaten in the squabble intend to start a competing community…
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Mar 02, 2021
Samsung's consumer-friendly version of its larger-than-life The Wall display will eventually be available in a more reasonable 76-inch version—you know, for those of us whose homes can't actually accommodate 110-inch televisions.
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Mar 02, 2021
Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn't stopped creative developers from turning Macs into unique gaming machines, like putting Lemmings on the Touch Bar, and now putting an icon-sized playable version of Pong in the dock.
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Mar 02, 2021
The e-commerce industry spends a lot of time and energy trying to keep the public interested in its wares and traditionally this has involved spending cash on photography: taking nice pictures of your products has typically been the best way to keep users scrolling to your page on the likes of Amazon or Shopify. But…
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Mar 02, 2021
DJI is widely known for its commercial drones that are easy to use and friendly to newcomers, as well as for its content creation features for vlogs and even cinematography. With its new first-person view drone, DJI wanted to make a splash in the drone-flying community with a quad that toes the line. The DJI FPV…
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Mar 02, 2021
70" Insignia 4K Smart Fire TV | $500 | Best Buy
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Mar 02, 2021
When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet's atmosphere and touched down on the iron-rich soil, geologist and astrobiologist Abigail Allwood was at home on Earth, watching the events unfold via livestream like the rest of us. Speaking over the phone the next day, her…
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Mar 02, 2021
Apple AirPods (Wired Charging Case) | $120 | Amazon
Apple AirPods (Wireless Charging Case) | $150 | Amazon
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Mar 02, 2021
Twitter will ban users who spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and covid-19 vaccines under a new five-strike system, according to a new blog post from the social media company. Twitter bans all medical information that's "demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm."
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Mar 01, 2021
Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now.
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Mar 01, 2021
There are cracks already forming in the carefully curated life of self-help author May (Brea Grant) even before she must confront a sudden and apparently otherworldly intrusion into her life. But as Lucky's protagonist comes to find out, even facing her problems head-on doesn't guarantee they'll be solved.
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Mar 01, 2021
Industrial 3D printing pioneer Markforged is gearing up to go public after a newly-announced merger deal with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) one.
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Mar 01, 2021
Looking every bit like a winged tube of toothpaste, NASA's X-57 Maxwell experimental plane sits in a hanger at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The is NASA's first crewed experimental plane in 20 years; it runs solely on electric power, an agency first, and it's about to undergo high-voltage functional testing…
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Mar 01, 2021
Joe Biden has effectively endorsed ongoing unionization efforts at an Amazon facility in the state of Alabama and warned the e-commerce giant that its efforts to shut down the drive must involve "no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda."
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Mar 01, 2021
A formation famous for producing T. rex fossils has now yielded the oldest evidence of primates in the fossil record, in what is being hailed a significant discovery.
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Mar 01, 2021
Children's toys contain many potentially toxic chemicals, recent research suggests. The study highlights over 120 concerning chemicals commonly found in plastic toys that could possibly raise a person's risk of health problems, including cancer.
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Mar 01, 2021
In a victory for Indigenous rights and conservation activists, the Forest Service rescinded its decision to permit a controversial mining project to be built within Arizona's Tonto National Forest on Monday.
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Mar 01, 2021
It appears the smallest design from Apple's 2020's phones may stick around for the iPhone 13, after all.
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Mar 01, 2021
Monday's Best Deals | Kinja Deals
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Mar 01, 2021
Much like 2020, there'll be no crush of excited San Diego Comic-Con fans piling into Hall H come July. However, there will be another round of Comic-Con@Home in July. And this is new: SDCC is hoping to hold another, smaller comic convention in November...in-person.
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Mar 01, 2021
The elusive vampire squid wears its red flesh like a voluminous cape. Billowing in the depths, the animal's velvety exterior almost seems to enshroud some deeper truth of the phantasmal creature, which says merely in its choice of habitat—the pitch-black, oxygen-starved layer of the ocean—that it would prefer to be…
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Mar 01, 2021
As we watched NASA put a rover on Mars last month, it definitely seemed like the agency had to be using some sort of high-tech processor in its machine. Surely the rover is built on something much more powerful than the components in devices us civilians use, right? But while NASA is technically using a specialized…
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Mar 01, 2021
Instagram is expanding its livestreaming offerings with a new feature dubbed Live Rooms, which is just like Instagram Live but with up to three more people haphazardly broadcasting their thoughts into the world simultaneously.
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Mar 01, 2021
Increasing extreme weather events is wreaking havoc across the globe, and may be harming the health of newborn babies in some of the world's most remote and vulnerable populations. New research published Monday in Nature Sustainability finds a strong link between extreme rainfall events in the Amazon, which have been …
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Mar 01, 2021
For Netflix binge-watchers who may be concerned that a giant TV would overwhelm their living room's vibe, fear not: The 165-inch C SEED M1 is a massive folding display that completely disappears into the floor when not in use. Unfortunately, installation looks like a giant pain—and that's assuming you survive the…
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Mar 01, 2021
There are plenty of uses for a camera system in your home. First and most importantly, they're powerful tools for home security. That's especially useful in the work from home era when we're cooped up inside all day. If anything suspicious is happening, you'll want to know right away. But home cameras can also be used…
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Mar 01, 2021
The latest episode of WandaVision provided, with the little help of a magical handbrake, the chance that three-and-a-bit Avengers movies and a side of Captain America: Civil War failed to take: We finally learned what had made Wanda Maximoff who she is. But in Agatha Harkness, we learned something of ourselves in the…
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Mar 01, 2021
Board your dirigible, prepare your Leyden jar cannon, and get ready to write your steampunk masterpiece because the Azio Retro Classic is here to make you feel like a salty yet wise mercenary.
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Mar 01, 2021
The hacktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets—which recently came under fire for leaking one of the largest repositories of law enforcement documents ever recorded—is back with another high profile data-dump. This time, the group claims to have gotten its hands on a whopping 70-gigabyte dataset from Gab, the…
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Mar 01, 2021
Google's regular software updates have become one of the best parts about its Pixel phones. I admit this month's new feature drop isn't a game-changer, but it does comes with some handy new additions for underwater shooting, the Recorder app, adaptability, and more.
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Mar 01, 2021
New research points to an important distinction between cats and dogs when it comes to reading certain social cues. It found that cats, unlike dogs, won't necessarily avoid people who have wronged their owners.
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Mar 01, 2021
If you thought wearable devices were limited to smartwatches and AR glasses, that's just the tip of the iceberg. In a few years we could be all covered from head to toe in smart stickers, starting with a new patch from Gatorade that can let you know if you're staying properly hydrated.
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Mar 01, 2021
Adventure has a new name and that name is Raya.
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Mar 01, 2021
You may remember last week when I wrote about an absurdly hyperbolic claim of alleged life-saving from a Tesla driving via its Level 2 semi-autonomous Autopilot system; this week, I have another one, but this one is a little different because it was brought to my attention by a Tesla-stan who was very sure this would…
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Mar 01, 2021
The Perseverance rover, along with several components used during the recent landing, have been imaged from space.
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Mar 01, 2021
"I was impressed that it only took four years," Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden's inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading,…
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Mar 01, 2021
Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council unanimously voted to ban new gas stations, building on a two-year moratorium passed in early 2019.
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Mar 01, 2021
Apple's AirPods Pro and the Google Pixel 4a 5G lead Monday's best deals.
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Mar 01, 2021
The middle of a pandemic might not seem like a great time to expand a fleet of shared transportation gadgets, but Lime is pushing ahead anyway with a new e-bike that runs on the same battery packs used in its scooters.
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Mar 01, 2021
Tattoos are usually considered a form of personal expression, but a team of researchers in Europe have created what they're calling the world's first light-emitting tattoo based on OLED screen technology that, besides presumably looking kind of cool, could also serve as a visible warning about potential health…
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Mar 01, 2021
RAVPower MagSafe Charger | $20 | Amazon | Clip coupon
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Mar 01, 2021
Once a day, at least, I'll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry convulsion, a sudden seizure of feeling. More often than not, I have no specific memories tied to the song in question—sometimes I'm hearing it for the first or second time. If you asked me why the song was…
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Mar 01, 2021
Apple AirPods Pro | $190 | Woot
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Mar 01, 2021
Jonathan Majors could be battling Eldritch horrors in Spike Lee's next film. Netflix has nabbed a new sci-fi crime thriller from the writer behind Source Code. Plus, what's to come on the CW's cavalcade of DC shows. To me, my spoilers!
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Mar 01, 2021
The latest Moto G Power isn't very pretty, and it's not that fancy either, but for a simple, well-built phone that starts at just $200, it's got practically everything you need. And when it comes to its name, the G Power definitely delivers, with battery life that can actually last multiple days. Sure, this phone is…
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Mar 01, 2021
Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons | $69 | Walmart
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Mar 01, 2021
In April, the old Google Pay app is losing its key functionality, which means you'll need to move over to the new Google Pay app before then to carry on using the service. Confused yet? If you're not sure which app you're on, or what the difference is, here's what's happening.
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Mar 01, 2021
Anker PowerWave Wireless Charging Pad | $9 | Amazon
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Mar 01, 2021
A plastic surgeon in Northern California went viral over the weekend after video surfaced showing the doctor in traffic court via Zoom while a patient was on his operating table. Dr. Scott Green, who appeared in court by videochat dressed in mask and operating gown, confirmed he was in surgery but insisted he could do…
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Feb 28, 2021
In 2020, The Walking Dead had two pandemics to deal with. The first, of course, was the zombie virus, which has proven to be such a pesky problem for the survivors—and ex-survivors—of the show over the past decade. Then there was covid-19, which the show's cast and crew have been trying to navigate since last spring…
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Feb 28, 2021
If you're the type of person that still needs more storage, Apple might have answered your prayers.
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Feb 28, 2021
U.S. regulators are investigating Robinhood after it temporarily blocked users from purchasing so-called meme stocks on its stock trading app amid the Reddit-fueled short squeeze earlier this year.
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Feb 28, 2021
In an effort to be helpful, Verizon accidentally stuck its foot in its mouth on Sunday, and then furiously backtracked.
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Feb 28, 2021
An iceberg more than 20 times the size of Manhattan split off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica this week because our planet is totally having a normal one.
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Feb 28, 2021
He's back and he's two-dimensional. The Terminator universe is expanding into an anime series for Netflix, the first animated TV adaptation of the franchise.
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Feb 28, 2021
A 4-pack of Nutale Findthing trackers and a 50-pack of 3-ply colorful face masks lead Sunday's best deals.
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Feb 27, 2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up "meme" stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.
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Feb 27, 2021
There's no doubt that pandemic fatigue is high. I get it. Heck, my area has restrictions right now. But it's important to remember that there are ways that we can get together as a community while being safe and considerate of others. If you need an example, check out the more than 200,000 Buddhists that got together…
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Feb 27, 2021
There's no doubt that pandemic fatigue is high. I get it. Heck, my area has restrictions right now. But it's important to remember that there are ways that we can get together as a community while being safe and considerate of others. If you need an example, check out the more than 200,000 Buddhists that got together…
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Feb 27, 2021
Yet another vaccine is now part of our arsenal of weapons against the covid-19 pandemic. On Saturday, the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to the one-dose shot developed by Johnson & Johnson. It joins the two-dose mRNA vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech.
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Feb 27, 2021
The SolarWinds drama just won't stop. It's a tale of Russian hackers—and potentially Chinese hackers—alleged email spying, and a gaping hole of security vulnerabilities that seems to get worse as more details come to light. Now, we can add yet another twist to the story: the laughably insecure password…
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Feb 27, 2021
This has been a rough week for anyone trying to play games online. Sony's PlayStation Network began experiencing issues Friday afternoon, and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on the PSN status page. The outage comes just one day after the equivalent service for Sony's competitor Microsoft,…
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Feb 27, 2021
Red Sonja has been a long, long time coming, but with a very welcome addition, it's time to get the show on the road.
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Feb 27, 2021
Diversity has always been an issue in STEM. Although a 2018 Pew report found that women make up half of the U.S. workforce in STEM occupations, it also found that their presence varies widely across occupational clusters and education levels. Black and Hispanic workers are underrepresented in STEM, per the report,…
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Feb 27, 2021
SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you.
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Feb 27, 2021
Redragon K552 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard | $34 | Amazon | Clip coupon
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