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Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

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Amazon's New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services? Amazon’s annual product event introduced a host of new hardware and service updates, including a markedly different Echo Show design. But for those of us who prefer background noise while we’re whipping something up in the kitchen, the revamped Echo Show also introduces a new streaming option: Netflix.Read more... Go to Source
Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters

Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters

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Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters The Justice Department released—and later retracted—a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the discarding of nine military ballots cast for President Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The notice disappeared from the DOJ’s website hours later only to be replaced by a “revised statement,”…Read more... Go to Source
Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Decried by U.S. Senators Over Liu Cixin’s Muslim Commentary

Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Decried by U.S. Senators Over Liu Cixin’s Muslim Commentary

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Netflix's Three-Body Problem Decried by U.S. Senators Over Liu Cixin's Muslim Commentary Earlier this month, Netflix announced that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss would partner with The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo to adapt the beloved, Hugo-winning Chinese sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. But now, the company is facing calls from a cadre of Republicans…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Luna Is Stadia and Microsoft’s Newest Cloud Gaming Competitor

Amazon Luna Is Stadia and Microsoft’s Newest Cloud Gaming Competitor

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Amazon Luna Is Stadia and Microsoft's Newest Cloud Gaming Competitor Amazon finally has a game streaming service. It’s been rumored for years now and it’s finally here. Starting at $6 a month with early access, the new service will have Twitch integration, a special channel just for Ubisoft games, and an optional controller that connects directly to the cloud.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon’s Echo Dot Is Now a Ball

Amazon’s Echo Dot Is Now a Ball

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Amazon's Echo Dot Is Now a Ball Amazon has upgraded its Echo Dot, its smaller-sized Alexa device, giving it the spherical design and fabric covering of the new, larger-sized Echo. The Kids Edition Dots got similar treatment but instead of a bright candy cane design, these little guys now have Panda and Tiger faces and can even teach your wee ones to…Read more... Go to Source
Too Much Licorice Stopped Man’s Heart and Killed Him, Doctors Say

Too Much Licorice Stopped Man’s Heart and Killed Him, Doctors Say

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Too Much Licorice Stopped Man’s Heart and Killed Him, Doctors Say A Massachusetts man’s fateful switch to licorice candy seems to have sent him to an early grave. In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors described how the man’s recent habit of eating a bag of licorice every day likely led to his sudden cardiac arrest, kidney failure, and eventual…Read more... Go to Source
Next Year You’ll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness

Next Year You’ll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness

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Next Year You'll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness If there’s one thing we could do without next year besides, well (gestures at everything), it’s subscription services. Peacock. Xbox Game Pass. Disney+. Adobe Creative Suite. Apple Arcade. Stadia. HBO Max. CBS All Access. Netflix. Hulu. Spotify. Amazon Prime. Even our shoes aren’t safe from monthly payments. Kind of…Read more... Go to Source
Portland Police Ridiculed For Tweeting ‘Molotov Cocktails’ Made From Plastic

Portland Police Ridiculed For Tweeting ‘Molotov Cocktails’ Made From Plastic

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Portland Police Ridiculed For Tweeting 'Molotov Cocktails' Made From Plastic Portland Police tweeted a photo Tuesday night claiming to show a “molotov cocktail,” made from what appears to be a plastic bottle and a washcloth. It’s at least the second time this year Portland Police have distributed photos of what it claims are molotov cocktails made from plastic, something that defense journalist…Read more... Go to Source
1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists

1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists

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1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy some 1,000 years ago, in what is a surprise to archaeologists.Read more... Go to Source
Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker

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Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a color. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated color detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely…Read more... Go to Source
The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes is a classic. Of course, I’m talking about the original (the Tim Burton remake is another “one good scene” post in the making). There was huge demand for a sequel, one that would expand the story’s world and mythos following that dynamic ending. That didn’t quite happen with Beneath the Planet of…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With ‘Mass Censorship’ of Climate Activists

Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With ‘Mass Censorship’ of Climate Activists

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Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With 'Mass Censorship' of Climate Activists Just last week, Facebook launched an initiative to uplift climate science. It was wildly misguided, yes, but the company was trying to show it’s down for the cause or something. Now, the company is proving just how devoted to climate activism it is by, um, booting environmental justice organizers from the platform.…Read more... Go to Source
This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners

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This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every time we leave the house for several hours, there’s a small part of me that’s convinced our furballs have died gruesome deaths due to freak accidents. I imagine their ghosts staring at me dolefully, asking…Read more... Go to Source
Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts

Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts

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Pro-Trump NIH Goon to 'Retire' After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts One of the Trump administration’s flacks at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases secretly trashed the agency under the persona “streiff” for the right-wing blog RedState, according to a Monday report by the Daily Beast. He is now planning to “retire.” Read more... Go to Source
One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal

One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal

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One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal On September 19, 2019, Apple launched Apple Arcade, a $5-a-month subscription service dedicated to bringing top-tier, bullshit-free mobile games to iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. One year later the service has more than 130 mostly great games with more arriving on a semi-weekly basis, and I’ve never once considered…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It

Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It

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Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You'll Let It Over the years, Amazon has made it very clear that it’s no longer satisfied with being “the everything store.” What was once just a hub where you buy shit online has since branched into the world of autonomous vehicles, pharmaceuticals, drones and space travel. Earlier today, the company unveiled some of the details…Read more... Go to Source
Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them

Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them

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Android's 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here's How to Use Them For a long time, one of the key benefits of choosing Android over iOS has been the ability to break away from the rigid inflexibility of multiple home screens, split up into uniform grids of app icons. Now with the introduction of home screen widgets and the App Library in iOS 14, that advantage has disappeared.…Read more... Go to Source
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