Senators Worry Post Office Changes May Obstruct November Ballots
Democratic senators warned Friday that controversial changes to U.S. Postal Service procedures have raised concerns in Washington about the timely delivery of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election.Read more...
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House Dems Say Trump Admin Got Played for Chumps on $644 Million Ventilator Deal
The White House got duped into overpaying for ventilators by half a billion dollars in the first few months of the novel coronavirus pandemic, House Democrats alleged in an oversight subcommittee report released Friday.Read more...
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How Sperm 'Swim' May Be Nothing But an Optical Illusion
An international group of scientists say their latest research will upturn one of the earliest scientific discoveries ever made about human sperm. In a new paper out Friday, they seem to show that sperm cells don’t propel themselves by simply flicking their tails back and forth, as is commonly believed. Rather, sperm…Read more...
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GeForce Now Finally Lets Users Automatically Sync Games With Their Steam Library
Nvidia has given GeForce Now an easier way to search for compatible games with a new feature called Game Sync. Instead of scrolling through game categories in the main menu or typing game titles into the search bar, GeForce Now users can sync their Steam library with their account. Games will automatically appear…Read more...
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Big Oil Has Never Lost This Much Money
It’s never been a worse time to be an oil company. Even the biggest of Big Oil firms are falling apart like shoddily built McMansions on a patch of quicksand.Read more...
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Take Flight and Save 15% on All Drone Accessories From Moment [Exclusive]
One thing I learned about myself in the Great Summer of Social Isolation is I am absolutely a Drone Guy now. Whether to snap photos from an aerial view or because I just feel like playing with a quadrocopter outside video games like Watch Dogs 2 and Forza Horizon 4, flying the DJI Mavic Air 2 in my parents’ backyard…Read more...
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It Was 125 Degrees in Baghdad This Week
As the worldwide feast and celebration for Muslims around the world known as Eid wrapped up on Thursday evening, the Middle East has been trapped in a scorching heat wave. Read more...
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President Trump's Department of Violent Goons Investigates Tweets of Portland Journalists
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent local police departments in Oregon at least three intelligence reports about the journalism and tweets of reporters in Portland over the past week, according to the Washington Post. The intelligence reports included tweets from journalists at the New York Times and Lawfare…Read more...
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FCC Approves Amazon's Bid to Launch a Constellation of More Than 3,200 Internet Satellites
The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon the go-ahead Thursday for its ambitious Project Kuiper, which would put 3,236 broadband satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth. With this regulatory milestone secured, Amazon’s posed to join SpaceX in the race to be the first…Read more...
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The NAACP Wants ISPs to Keep Students of Color Connected Through the Entire Pandemic
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) issued a letter to the chief executives of 20 internet service providers in the United States urging them to keep providing internet to students of color, for free, until they are able to attend classes in-person.Read more...
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AOC's Measure to Kill U.S. Military Twitch Streams Fails House Vote
An amendment proposed by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would st0p the military from recruiting on platforms like Twitch failed a House vote on Thursday. Had it passed, it would have added a provision to the House Committee on Appropriations Bill to bar the U.S. military from using federal funds to…Read more...
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Pre-Order NBA 2K21: Mamba Forever Edition at Best Buy for a Free Kobe Bryant SteelBook Case
NBA 2K21: Mamba Forever Edition (PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) | $100 | Best BuyRead more...
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Hold Onto Your Peacock, CBS All Access Just Got Better
Earlier this year, CBS All Access tapped the trove of ViacomCBS assets and introduced a mini library of Paramount films to its service—a move that made a good service even better. Around the same time, the company’s top brass said it was gearing up to introduce “major changes” to expand the service’s features and…Read more...
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Seized Fyre Fest Merch Is Going Up for Auction
An enthralling catalogue of vintage crime memorabilia has exploded on the page of a small Texas auction house today, entitled “Fyre Festival fraud scheme”: 126 lots of butt-ugly merchandise from the scam music festival that never was, ranging from hats to wristbands to hoodies to jogger sweats. Two documentaries, a…Read more...
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Star Trek's Best Ensigns
Next week, Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off, giving us a whole show in the canon dedicated to the most unsung Starfleet officers of all: the Ensigns. The bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young officers just starting off their careers are the stalwarts of any good Trek. So before they get their moment in... some kind of…Read more...
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Errol Morris Fans, There's a Surprise for You on YouTube
I’ve been thankful in quarantine that you can find Errol Morris’s documentaries on streaming services, not only because I think about Donald Rumsfeld’s bonkers word salad weekly, but also because Stephen Hawking grappling with the concept of origins helped put things into perspective. A few days ago, Morris quietly…Read more...
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US Energy Use Hit a Record Low This Spring, But Natural Gas Tightened Its Grip
Amid the lockdowns spurred by the deadly coronavirus pandemic, Americans have been doing a lot less. There have been fewer cars on the roads, fewer planes in the air, and entire industries shut down. As a result, U.S. energy use plunged to its lowest level in 30 years this past spring, the Energy Information…Read more...
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Pixar's Next Film, Luca, Will Be an Adventure in the Italian Riviera....With a Twist
Though we’re still a ways out from the premiere of Pixar’s next movie Soul, the studio’s already hard at work on its next animated feature Luca, a sun-drenched, summertime adventure inspired by director Enrico Casarosa’s childhood.Read more...
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Sea Level Rise Alone Threatens to Crush the Global Economy
A new study shows we face a wet and costly scenario. In the climate-ravaged future, floods that hit once every 100 years would occur every 10 years—and it could cause $14.2 trillion in infrastructure damage globally. Yes, trillions of dollars. Read more...
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President Trump Ditches Mask as U.S. Death Toll Surpasses 150,000
President Donald Trump declined to wear a face mask at a photo-op for the oil industry in Midland, Texas on Wednesday, despite being in close proximity to several people in a state that’s crawling with the coronavirus. The decision to go maskless sent a decidedly anti-science message at a time when U.S. deaths from…Read more...
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Jon Cryer and Ben Stiller Auditioned for a Very Different Back to the Future
Though the 35th anniversary of Back to the Future was earlier this month, the celebration continues into the fall. That’s when a brand new anniversary Blu-ray set is be released and news of it helped opened a door to a very appropriate alternate timeline.Read more...
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Umbrella Academy's Ellen Page on Giving Vanya Space to Open Up
The first trailer for Umbrella Academy’s second season made it abundantly clear that the Netflix series is pivoting into a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comics series it’s based on. Where the initial comic arc left Vanya (Ellen Page in the series) quite incapacitated thanks to a gunshot, the TV show…Read more...
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These Massive Murals For The Old Guard Are Truly Magnificent
One of the few bright spots in this god-forsaken year is the new Netflix film, The Old Guard. Director Gina Prince Bythewood’s adaptation of the Image Comic by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández provides the kind of emotional, exciting, superhero escape fans crave during the summer months. Read more...
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Jeff Bezos Tells Congress He 'Can't Guarantee' Amazon Isn't Violating Its Own Policies to Undercut Sellers
At Wednesday’s major tech antitrust hearing in the House Judiciary Committee—featuring the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google—Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he couldn’t promise that the company hasn’t violated its own policies on fair competition with third-party sellers.Read more...
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Watch NASA Launch Its Perseverance Mars Rover Live Right Here
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is ready for launch. You can watch the action live in the stream below starting at 7:00 a.m. EDT (4:00 a.m. PT).Read more...
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Congressman Louie Gohmert Has Covid, Suspects He Contracted It From Mask He Wasn’t Wearing
U.S. representative and walking self-parody Louie Gohmert, one of the many mouth-breathing conservative dolts who have mostly refused to wear a mask during the novel coronavirus pandemic, tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. He blames the mask.Read more...
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Spotify Is Testing a New Podcasting Tool to Share Quotes in Other Apps
Spotify is demoing a new tool that will allow some users to share quotes from episodes of podcasts from its platform to messaging and social apps.Read more...
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