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Dead Birds, Missing Drugs, and Lost Human Remains: USPS Workers Blame a ‘Manufactured Crisis’

Dead Birds, Missing Drugs, and Lost Human Remains: USPS Workers Blame a ‘Manufactured Crisis’

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Dead Birds, Missing Drugs, and Lost Human Remains: USPS Workers Blame a 'Manufactured Crisis' When Ella’s monthly supply of modafinil didn’t arrive in the mail in late August, she wasn’t sure what to do. They’re not like the pills she takes for her allergies or her blood pressure. “Without it, I might not be able to get up for three days,” she said. A 65-year-old on a fixed income, Ella suffers from…Read more... Go to Source
Woman Arrested For Facebook Post Promoting Anti-Lockdown Protest in Australia

Woman Arrested For Facebook Post Promoting Anti-Lockdown Protest in Australia

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Woman Arrested For Facebook Post Promoting Anti-Lockdown Protest in Australia Police in Australia arrested a 28-year-old woman on Wednesday for publishing a Facebook post that promotes an anti-lockdown protest in the country’s state of Victoria. Footage of the arrest was captured by her partner and shows police officers handcuffing the woman and saying that she’s being charged with…Read more... Go to Source
Metal Gear Solid Sees Another Delay and Trivial Pursuit Embraces Horror in Gaming News

Metal Gear Solid Sees Another Delay and Trivial Pursuit Embraces Horror in Gaming News

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Metal Gear Solid Sees Another Delay and Trivial Pursuit Embraces Horror in Gaming News Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. In this latest edition, we’ve got a board game about gods celebrating the wonder of dinosaurs, some awesome roleplaying dice inlaid with (fake) mosquitos, and another delay for one of IDW’s most anticipated games. Check it…Read more... Go to Source
White House Says It Won’t Help Global Vaccine Effort to Spite China, World Health Organization

White House Says It Won’t Help Global Vaccine Effort to Spite China, World Health Organization

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White House Says It Won't Help Global Vaccine Effort to Spite China, World Health Organization The U.S. won’t contribute to an international effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19, the White House said on Tuesday, because it involves the “corrupt World Health Organization” and China.Read more... Go to Source
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