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This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It

This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It

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This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It This story was supposed to be about abortion pills. I intended to write about how a federal judge temporarily suspended the Food and Drug Administration rule that forced patients to pick up the pills in person, from either a hospital or clinic—a significant barrier to early abortion. But when I pitched the editor of…Read more... Go to Source
Nvidia Announces the Next Generation of GPUs That Really Matter—And They’re Beasts

Nvidia Announces the Next Generation of GPUs That Really Matter—And They’re Beasts

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Nvidia Announces the Next Generation of GPUs That Really Matter—And They're Beasts Nvidia has consistently maintained its status as the lead creator of graphics cards, pioneering the transition to fancy lighting effects like ray tracing in games. Now that Nvidia’s officially announced its next-gen GPUs and the rumor mill is put to rest, we know just how much fancier its GPUs are going to get from…Read more... Go to Source
How Face Shields and Valve Masks Fail to Stop Infectious Droplets, as Shown by Lasers

How Face Shields and Valve Masks Fail to Stop Infectious Droplets, as Shown by Lasers

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How Face Shields and Valve Masks Fail to Stop Infectious Droplets, as Shown by Lasers A new study using lasers suggests that face shields and masks outfitted with an exhaust valve aren’t particularly great at protecting others from tiny respiratory droplets containing contagious germs like the coronavirus that causes covid-19. These aerosols can spill through and around these types of face equipment,…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content

Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content

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Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content Facebook has threatened to ban all news content for users in Australia if a law proposed by the Australian government moves forward, according to a press release published by the social media company late Monday. Facebook’s ban on news would apply to both news organizations and individual users in Australia and is…Read more... Go to Source
How to Prepare for the Next Time the Cloud Goes Down

How to Prepare for the Next Time the Cloud Goes Down

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How to Prepare for the Next Time the Cloud Goes Down Internet access is pretty essential to get anything done these days, whether it’s chatting with working-from-home colleagues in Slack, binge-watching the latest hit Netflix show, or writing up reports in Google Docs. Most of the apps we rely on run from the cloud, and it’s all too easy to just assume the cloud will…Read more... Go to Source
Predicting Big Tech’s Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died

Predicting Big Tech’s Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died

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Predicting Big Tech's Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died I downloaded a Mac OS 8 emulator a few weeks ago—not just because it looked cool, but because I had a serious hankering for some classic Oregon Trail. The app itself is pretty neat. It’s made by the same Slack developer, Felix Rieseberg, who also made a Windows 95 emulator. It’s not a fully functioning Mac OS 8…Read more... Go to Source
Snag a Laptop, Desktop, or Printer on the Cheap in HP’s Labor Day Sale

Snag a Laptop, Desktop, or Printer on the Cheap in HP’s Labor Day Sale

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Snag a Laptop, Desktop, or Printer on the Cheap in HP’s Labor Day Sale The back-to-school sale season is coming to a close, but fear not: That just means it’s time for Labor Day sales to begin. Luckily, HP has another banger batch of bargains to peruse with its own Labor Day Sale. Right now, you can snag a new Windows laptop for desktop for as low as $400 direct from HP, with larger…Read more... Go to Source
Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Movies are slowly trickling back into theaters, but a far safer option is to pick up one of September’s new books instead. And it’s a ridiculously bountiful month, with witches, warriors, time travelers, ghosts, robots, aliens, monsters, and space pirates to fire up your imagination without needing to leave the house.Read more... Go to Source
Rumor Claims We Could See a 12-Inch MacBook With Apple Silicon This Year, iMac in Late 2021

Rumor Claims We Could See a 12-Inch MacBook With Apple Silicon This Year, iMac in Late 2021

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Rumor Claims We Could See a 12-Inch MacBook With Apple Silicon This Year, iMac in Late 2021 We know Apple’s going to launch products powered by its custom silicon soon. How soon and which products, however, are currently up for debate. However, a report from the China Times hints that the first Apple Silicon computer might arrive later this year—and it’d be an extremely lightweight 12-inch MacBook that…Read more... Go to Source
Lenovo Is Making a Gaming Laptop That Weighs Less Than 4 Pounds

Lenovo Is Making a Gaming Laptop That Weighs Less Than 4 Pounds

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Lenovo Is Making a Gaming Laptop That Weighs Less Than 4 Pounds Lenovo is shrinking the chassis of the Legion 7i from 0.79 in. to 0.7 in., and the weight from 4.6 lbs to 3.9 lbs., making the up-coming Legion Slim 7i the lightest and slimmest gaming laptop it’s ever made. The company is attempting to tackle the holy-grail of laptop design: a laptop that is light, thin, and…Read more... Go to Source
Man Who Famously Died From Covid Says Covid Isn’t Very Deadly

Man Who Famously Died From Covid Says Covid Isn’t Very Deadly

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Man Who Famously Died From Covid Says Covid Isn't Very Deadly Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain died of covid-19 on July 30, but that hasn’t stopped the man from tweeting. In fact, Cain (or whoever is running his account, if you don’t believe in ghosts) has been tweeting about a subject near and dear to his lifeless heart: How the coronavirus pandemic is overblown and not…Read more... Go to Source
Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug

Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug

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Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug At times, we’ve come to you with stories about security researchers being paid thousands—and in some cases hundreds of thousands—of dollars by companies for finding critical bugs in well-known software or hardware. However, this time, the story is different. It’s about a company that was stingy, and that’s not cool.Read more... Go to Source