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Report: Google Made a List of Words Its Employees Shouldn’t Say

Report: Google Made a List of Words Its Employees Shouldn’t Say

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Report: Google Made a List of Words Its Employees Shouldn’t Say The Markup has obtained internal memos from Google, dating back to at least 2019, with lists of bad words employees should never use, or else Google has to put a billion dollars in the antitrust swear jar. Rather than We will strip the meat from Yelp’s bones and throw its lifeless carcass into our search results, for…Read more... Go to Source
Razer’s Ultralight Headphones Are a Gamer’s Delight

Razer’s Ultralight Headphones Are a Gamer’s Delight

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Razer's Ultralight Headphones Are a Gamer's Delight The best gaming headphones are the ones you forget you’re wearing. High-end planar drivers and heavy-duty construction are great if you’re listening for detail, but if you’re blasting away for a few hours, you want an almost weightless device that offers solid noise suppression and audio quality.Read more... Go to Source
U.S. Issues Bizarre Warning About ‘Health Risks’ in New Zealand During Covid-19 Pandemic

U.S. Issues Bizarre Warning About ‘Health Risks’ in New Zealand During Covid-19 Pandemic

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U.S. Issues Bizarre Warning About 'Health Risks' in New Zealand During Covid-19 Pandemic The U.S. State Department issued a new travel warning for New Zealand this week, warning Americans to exercise “increased caution” because the country poses a “health risk” due to the covid-19 pandemic. In reality, New Zealand hasn’t had community spread of the coronavirus in months and has just 23 active cases of the…Read more... Go to Source
Fukushima’s Contaminated Wastewater Could Be Too Risky to Dump in the Ocean

Fukushima’s Contaminated Wastewater Could Be Too Risky to Dump in the Ocean

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Fukushima’s Contaminated Wastewater Could Be Too Risky to Dump in the Ocean Almost a decade ago, the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami triggered an explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl and releasing an unprecedented amount of radioactive contamination in the ocean. In the years since, there’s been a drawn out …Read more... Go to Source
Someone Leaked a Bunch of Confidential Intel Documents

Someone Leaked a Bunch of Confidential Intel Documents

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Someone Leaked a Bunch of Confidential Intel Documents Earlier today, a Twitter user leaked 20GB worth of confidential Intel documents stored on a file-sharing service—documents that the Twitter user claims they received from an anonymous hacker. According to the leaker, the folder contains classified information under NDA, and the hacker who provided the documents to…Read more... Go to Source
Apple’s App Store Policies Are Reportedly Keeping Microsoft’s Project xCloud off iOS

Apple’s App Store Policies Are Reportedly Keeping Microsoft’s Project xCloud off iOS

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Apple's App Store Policies Are Reportedly Keeping Microsoft's Project xCloud off iOS Microsoft’s cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, seems to be running into the same issues as its competitors have—specifically, Apple’s guidelines are reportedly making it difficult for xCloud to get into the App Store. So Microsoft has decided to end its Project xCloud preview period using the iOS TestFlight app, …Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Does Bare Minimum to Temporarily Slow Down Pro-Trump Misinformation PAC

Facebook Does Bare Minimum to Temporarily Slow Down Pro-Trump Misinformation PAC

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Facebook Does Bare Minimum to Temporarily Slow Down Pro-Trump Misinformation PAC In its latest spin around the misinformation merry-go-round, Facebook has temporarily restricted a pro-Trump super PAC that’s spent nearly $10 million in the 2020 election cycle from placing ads for repeatedly sharing lies, the company told Gizmodo in a statement.Read more... Go to Source
Isaias Shows Our ‘Dinosaur Energy System’ Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

Isaias Shows Our ‘Dinosaur Energy System’ Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

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Isaias Shows Our ‘Dinosaur Energy System’ Isn’t Ready for Climate Change It’s been two days since Hurricane Isaias swept over the East Coast, but thousands of people are still without power. In Massachusetts, National Grid estimates some may not have their utilities back on until Saturday afternoon. In parts of New York City, which is facing its largest power outage since Hurricane Sandy,…Read more... Go to Source
Doom Patrol’s Abrupt Season 2 Finale Burns Bright Before Going Out Like a Light

Doom Patrol’s Abrupt Season 2 Finale Burns Bright Before Going Out Like a Light

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Doom Patrol's Abrupt Season 2 Finale Burns Bright Before Going Out Like a Light Besides the usual themes of self-discovery, Doom Patrol’s second season has been all about finding out what to do about Niles Caulder’s increasingly dangerous daughter Dorothy. We knew some kind of standoff was inevitable, but leave it to Doom Patrol to find a way to pull us even deeper into its weirdness, surprise…Read more... Go to Source
Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say

Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say

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Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say A man’s encounter with covid-19 likely led to him experiencing life-threatening catatonia that erased days of his memory, according to doctors in Sweden. Though the man was able to recover without serious brain damage thanks to prompt treatment, the doctors warn that the man’s case may highlight a never-before-seen…Read more... Go to Source
The macOS Big Sur Public Beta Is Available Now and Here’s How to Get It

The macOS Big Sur Public Beta Is Available Now and Here’s How to Get It

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The macOS Big Sur Public Beta Is Available Now and Here's How to Get It Apple has just announced the availability of the Public Beta for macOS Big Sur. This new version of macOS does away with a lot of the old and familiar design tropes associated with OS X and leans more heavily on touchscreen-style interfaces - a nod to the slow convergence of macOS and iOS.Read more... Go to Source
World’s Biggest Landlord Buys World’s Biggest Genealogy Website

World’s Biggest Landlord Buys World’s Biggest Genealogy Website

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World's Biggest Landlord Buys World's Biggest Genealogy Website The Blackstone Group will buy a majority stake in the genealogy website Ancestry.com in a deal worth $4.7 billion, according to a press release published Wednesday. Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, is the world’s largest landlord and Ancestry is the world’s largest genealogy website, with over 6 billion…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Finally Deletes a Trump Post Over Coronavirus Misinformation

Facebook Finally Deletes a Trump Post Over Coronavirus Misinformation

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Facebook Finally Deletes a Trump Post Over Coronavirus Misinformation Facebook has finally done the least it could do, for the first time ever deleting a post by Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the novel coronavirus. Twitter in turn restricted Trump’s re-election campaign account from tweeting at all until it deleted an identical post.Read more... Go to Source
How to Help People in Beirut After the Deadly Explosion

How to Help People in Beirut After the Deadly Explosion

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How to Help People in Beirut After the Deadly Explosion As the search for survivors of yesterday’s explosion in Beirut continues, at this point we know that it left more than 100 people dead and thousands of others injured. The blast happened near the Lebanese capital’s port, though it could be felt from more than 150 miles away in Cyprus, the New York Times reports.Read more... Go to Source
Common Cold Coronaviruses Might Prime the Immune System to Recognize SARS-CoV-2

Common Cold Coronaviruses Might Prime the Immune System to Recognize SARS-CoV-2

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Common Cold Coronaviruses Might Prime the Immune System to Recognize SARS-CoV-2 A group of scientists think they’re closer to understanding why some people’s immune systems seem to recognize the coronavirus that causes covid-19, despite the person never having been infected by it. The team’s new research released Monday suggests that past infections with much milder but related coronaviruses that…Read more... Go to Source
5 Things We Liked (and 3 We Didn’t) About Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

5 Things We Liked (and 3 We Didn’t) About Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

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5 Things We Liked (and 3 We Didn't) About Netflix's Transformers: War for Cybertron - Siege Everyone’s favorite robots in disguise returned to TV this past weekend with the launch of Transformers: War for Cybertron - Siege on Netflix. Except this time, they weren’t really in disguise, as the Autobots and Decepticons duked it out in the final days of the war for their homeworld. But was it an Allspark or a…Read more... Go to Source
Presidential Forecaster Predicts Joe Biden Win (With Plenty of Caveats)

Presidential Forecaster Predicts Joe Biden Win (With Plenty of Caveats)

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Presidential Forecaster Predicts Joe Biden Win (With Plenty of Caveats) Allan Lichtman, a political forecaster and historian, has accurately predicted almost every presidential election of the past four decades, even confidently predicting that Donald Trump would win in 2016. Now Lichtman is making his prediction for 2020, including a win for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. But…Read more... Go to Source