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Disney Enters a Silent Shadowed Kingdom and Fallout Adds the Enclave in Gaming News

Disney Enters a Silent Shadowed Kingdom and Fallout Adds the Enclave in Gaming News

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Disney Enters a Silent Shadowed Kingdom and Fallout Adds the Enclave in Gaming News Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, we’ve got a creepy Disney game where players can’t talk to each other, a Mariposas promo pack to honor a young girl, and the arrival of the Enclave to Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. Check it out!Read more... Go to Source
Smoke from Western Wildfires Is Clouding Skies on the East Coast

Smoke from Western Wildfires Is Clouding Skies on the East Coast

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Smoke from Western Wildfires Is Clouding Skies on the East Coast The smoke from the fires out West, which has choked residents of California, Washington, and Oregon and painted the skies a haunting orange color, is absolutely everywhere. It’s blown thousands of miles east, and is now clouding up skies as far away as parts of New England, parts of Canada, and even Europe. Yes, you…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon’s Kicking Retailers While They’re Down (Again)

Amazon’s Kicking Retailers While They’re Down (Again)

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Amazon's Kicking Retailers While They're Down (Again) In case you haven’t heard, retail is in trouble. Aside from the hundreds of clothing stores that have permanently shuttered after the coronavirus brought shopping to a screeching halt, we’ve also spent the past year watching the slower (though no less tragic) decline of mall staples like Macy’s and JC Penny, not to…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Unveils Apple One and New Subscription Bundle Tiers

Apple Unveils Apple One and New Subscription Bundle Tiers

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Apple Unveils Apple One and New Subscription Bundle Tiers For months leading up to today’s annual Apple event, rumors swirled that the Cupertino tech giant was gearing up to bundle its growing roster of services. Today, Apple confirmed it’s introducing a multi-tiered bundle called Apple One, which will group together some of its most popular services with additional cloud…Read more... Go to Source
How to Watch Apple’s Event Today

How to Watch Apple’s Event Today

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How to Watch Apple's Event Today Apple’s WWDC 2020 event seems like it happened only yesterday, but that was just the beginning of Apple’s usual slew of announcements leading into fall. Today the Cupertino company is holding the first of what could be a handful of fall events to reveal its latest lineup of devices.Read more... Go to Source
U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower

U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower

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U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower Why are the terms “Nazi Germany” and “Mengele” become trending topics on Twitter? The words dominated the social media platform on Monday after it was revealed that a whistleblower has alleged “high numbers” of immigrant women at a U.S. concentration camp in Georgia were sent to be given unnecessary hysterectomies.…Read more... Go to Source
Werner Herzog Will Produce and Lend His Trademark Narration to a New Doc on Space Colonization

Werner Herzog Will Produce and Lend His Trademark Narration to a New Doc on Space Colonization

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Werner Herzog Will Produce and Lend His Trademark Narration to a New Doc on Space Colonization We already know that Werner Herzog enjoys documentaries on adventurous and unusual topics—he’s directed several of them, including Grizzly Man and Into the Inferno. His newest project in that realm is a family affair (his son, Rudolph, will direct) that thematically ties into his other recent works focused on outer…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Routinely ‘Ignored’ Efforts to Manipulate Elections Across the Globe: Whistleblower

Facebook Routinely ‘Ignored’ Efforts to Manipulate Elections Across the Globe: Whistleblower

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Facebook Routinely 'Ignored' Efforts to Manipulate Elections Across the Globe: Whistleblower Facebook has royally screwed up its response to political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and organized manipulation campaigns in the U.S.—where it’s based. Outside the West, the company has long been a sort of absentee landlord that ignores the spread of propaganda, state-backed armies of trolls, and incitement…Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Ergonomic Mouse?

What’s the Best Ergonomic Mouse?

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What's the Best Ergonomic Mouse? Between a dwindling list of distractions to keep me busy in the outside world and my work days ending hours before anyone else I know, I spend roughly two-thirds of most days with a mouse in my hand. Whether I’m toiling away here on The Inventory or putting Superman to shame in Spellbreak, it’s by far my most used…Read more... Go to Source
Your Weather App Is Selling You Out

Your Weather App Is Selling You Out

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Your Weather App Is Selling You Out While I think we can all agree that every app on our phone is probably an invasive little shit, I’d argue that weather apps deserve their own little corner in hell. We’ve seen weather apps sign folks up for services without their say-so, sneakily get location data from users who deliberately turned that function off,…Read more... Go to Source
Marvel’s Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars

Marvel’s Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars

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Marvel's Avengers Works Best Putting the Spotlight on Its Unlikeliest Stars The story of Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers caught many off-guard heading into the grindy, loot-driven brawler, expecting a perfunctory tutorial to the game’s all-encompassing live-service mechanics. Instead, we got maybe one of the most sincerely intimate Avengers stories in years, and it works…Read more... Go to Source
Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory for Kids? Health Experts Are Trying to Decide

Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory for Kids? Health Experts Are Trying to Decide

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Should a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory for Kids? Health Experts Are Trying to Decide As the race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus that causes covid-19 continues, a crucial question is on the horizon: Should a successful vaccine be made mandatory for children entering school? In a new paper out Monday, a group of experts argue that it’s still too early to answer the question definitively, but…Read more... Go to Source
Kang on, Marvel’s Ant-Man 3 Might Have Just Nabbed Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors

Kang on, Marvel’s Ant-Man 3 Might Have Just Nabbed Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors

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Kang on, Marvel's Ant-Man 3 Might Have Just Nabbed Lovecraft Country's Jonathan Majors Anyone who has watched The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Netflix’s Da 5 Bloods, or HBO’s current hit Lovecraft Country can tell Jonathan Majors is a star. Now, Majors might set off to the stars, as the villain in an upcoming Marvel Studios movie.Read more... Go to Source

How Can I Live a More Phone-Free Life?

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How Can I Live a More Phone-Free Life? It is the rare person who—logging off after a long day’s scrolling—thinks, “I need much more of that in my life.” Because the thing about the internet is, it’s awful. Even the good parts suck, because the good parts are swirled in with the bad—you can’t access one without wading through the other. Often, the good…Read more... Go to Source