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NYPD’s Prejudiced Law Enforcement Doesn’t Take a Break During the Coronavirus Pandemic

NYPD’s Prejudiced Law Enforcement Doesn’t Take a Break During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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NYPD’s Prejudiced Law Enforcement Doesn’t Take a Break During the Coronavirus Pandemic The New York Police Department hasn’t let the coronavirus pandemic go to waste when it comes to pulling the same racist bullshit: The agency issued 374 criminal summonses related to alleged violations of the city’s social distancing guidelines between March 16 and May 5—and over 81 percent of them went to New Yorkers…Read more... Go to Source
GOLD Apple Watch Under Water for 9 MONTHS! – Can i Fix it?!

GOLD Apple Watch Under Water for 9 MONTHS! – Can i Fix it?!

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http://youtu.be/pU4iFVR3RCg We finally found the 24 carat GOLD Apple watch that Dan lost 9 months ago. His Apple watch has been soaking in deep water for almost a YEAR. Can the apple watch survive being under water for that long? Can an Apple Watch marinate in a marina for 9 months and still live? The only way to find out for sure is by tearding it down and seeing what needs to be replaced. Our first failed attempt to find the watch: https://youtu.be/SYSikYS92_U Scuba Jake FOUND IT here: https://youtu.be/Mm8RfyKqZ3s Dan surprising me: https://youtu.be/XWmWckwG6HU Dipping an Apple Watch in Gold with Casey: https://youtu.be/wFnzFZvD3tM HUGE Thanks to my buddy FIXD for helping me with the repair and spare parts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBTIuhduIoXk3x81trUnzQ *Follow me for upd...
UK Scientists Cry Foul After Government Redacts Criticism of Its Response in Key Coronavirus Report

UK Scientists Cry Foul After Government Redacts Criticism of Its Response in Key Coronavirus Report

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UK Scientists Cry Foul After Government Redacts Criticism of Its Response in Key Coronavirus Report The government of the United Kingdom has sparked a strong backlash from many in the scientific community by redacting large portions of a Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies report advising ministers on the coronavirus pandemic, the Guardian reported Friday.Read more... Go to Source
Advice for Surviving Lockdown, From a Woman Who Spent Two Years in a Closed Glass Structure

Advice for Surviving Lockdown, From a Woman Who Spent Two Years in a Closed Glass Structure

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Advice for Surviving Lockdown, From a Woman Who Spent Two Years in a Closed Glass Structure Botanist Linda Leigh was among the eight specialists who spent two years in effective quarantine as part of the notorious Biosphere 2 experiment of the early ’90s. The heavily hyped experiment sought whether life could thrive in a closed system. The so-called “bisopherians” had access to several biomes within the…Read more... Go to Source
Everything You Need to Start Your Own Podcast on the Cheap

Everything You Need to Start Your Own Podcast on the Cheap

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Everything You Need to Start Your Own Podcast on the Cheap If you’re keen to start your very own podcast, now’s the time—you’re bored at home, you’ve got a captive audience of people also bored at home, and everything you need to get up and running can be got at affordable prices and operated within the confines of your own four walls.Read more... Go to Source
Pandemic Robots Deployed in Singapore Parks to Remind Humans of Their Own Mortality

Pandemic Robots Deployed in Singapore Parks to Remind Humans of Their Own Mortality

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Pandemic Robots Deployed in Singapore Parks to Remind Humans of Their Own Mortality The Boston Dynamics robot known as Spot has been deployed to a park in Singapore to remind people they should follow social distancing guidelines during the pandemic, according to a new report from Singapore’s top government technology agency. And it almost feels like the robots are there to taunt us as this point,…Read more... Go to Source
Zoom’s Adding End-to-End Encryption for Real This Time, But It’ll Cost You

Zoom’s Adding End-to-End Encryption for Real This Time, But It’ll Cost You

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Zoom's Adding End-to-End Encryption for Real This Time, But It'll Cost You Zoom, the video conferencing platform du jour while nearly everyone’s stuck inside under shelter-in-place orders, has been gradually beefing up its security as part of a 90-day plan after a wave of disturbing troll attacks drew international ire. On Thursday the company announced its latest step: finally implementing…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Sued for Acting Like Users Own “Purchased” Movies (Spoiler Alert: You Don’t)

Amazon Sued for Acting Like Users Own “Purchased” Movies (Spoiler Alert: You Don’t)

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Amazon Sued for Acting Like Users Own "Purchased" Movies (Spoiler Alert: You Don't) The question of whether you own your digital purchases, or whether you’re simply licensing that content from whatever tech giant du jour hosts it, has always been a bit of a black box for consumers. Recently, this lack of transparency has prompted one California user to file a lawsuit against Amazon for saying…Read more... Go to Source
Google Pixel Buds Review: WAY Better!

Google Pixel Buds Review: WAY Better!

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http://youtu.be/48bK3mmjgRE Pixel Buds vault right up to where they belong. ? Pixel Buds: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_buds Why Everyone is Copying AirPods: https://youtu.be/zHAB4qDsgKY MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Video Gear I use: http://kit.co/MKBHD/video-gear#recom... Tech I'm using right now: https://www.amazon.com/shop/MKBHD Intro Track: Jordyn Edmonds http://smarturl.it/jordynedmonds Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD
Researcher Discovers That Old Tesla Media Control Units Are Full Of Owner’s Private Data Even After A Factory Reset

Researcher Discovers That Old Tesla Media Control Units Are Full Of Owner’s Private Data Even After A Factory Reset

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Researcher Discovers That Old Tesla Media Control Units Are Full Of Owner's Private Data Even After A Factory Reset There’s a hacker/security researcher with the Twitter handle GreenTheOnly that has been doing some interesting work with used Tesla parts. This time specifically, he’s acquired three Tesla Model 3 integrated media control units (MCU) and Autopilot (HW) units (known as the ICE computer, just for Models 3 and Y), and a…Read more... Go to Source
How to Keep the Fun (And Work, Ugh) Going During a Power Outage

How to Keep the Fun (And Work, Ugh) Going During a Power Outage

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How to Keep the Fun (And Work, Ugh) Going During a Power Outage In today’s world, a power outage is like a death knell for your sanity. Many of us are working from home for the foreseeable future, and even those who decided being a couch potato is a more noble living, what are you going to do when the power goes out? Nothing—everything’s closed! That’s why we’ll prepare ahead of…Read more... Go to Source
Somebody Is Furiously Uploading ’90s Windows Desktop Themes to the Internet Archive

Somebody Is Furiously Uploading ’90s Windows Desktop Themes to the Internet Archive

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Somebody Is Furiously Uploading '90s Windows Desktop Themes to the Internet Archive Two free-roaming archivists are wildly uploading hundreds of early Windows Desktop themes from the ‘90s and early aughts to the Internet Archive, populating the site with a trove of off-brand fan art you can install as your desktop wallpaper. Why? I do not know, but they have a captive audience. They probably would…Read more... Go to Source
Full-Time Airbnb Hosts Strive for Justice

Full-Time Airbnb Hosts Strive for Justice

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Full-Time Airbnb Hosts Strive for Justice The revolution will be on a website for a midcentury modern bungalow, CNBC reports. After Airbnb hosts complained that they’re getting nothing from the federal relief package (calling it a “publicity stunt”), and little from Airbnb’s own $250 million relief package in the form of 25 percent cancellation fees, the…Read more... Go to Source
What We Do in the Shadows’ Scariest Vampire Is Still Giving Us Nightmares

What We Do in the Shadows’ Scariest Vampire Is Still Giving Us Nightmares

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What We Do in the Shadows' Scariest Vampire Is Still Giving Us Nightmares While FX’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows is across-the-board delightful, we have a special affection for the show’s “energy vampire,” a character who’s both totally original and instantly recognizable. He’s also pretty terrifying—especially when he gets a sudden power boost.Read more... Go to Source
Alphabet’s Scrapping Its Smart City Dreams

Alphabet’s Scrapping Its Smart City Dreams

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Alphabet's Scrapping Its Smart City Dreams For the past two years and change, Google’s smart-city-centric sister company Sidewalk Labs has put millions on the line to build what it called a model smart city in downtown Toronto. The planned neighborhood, called “Quayside,” was supposed to be nothing short of utopic, boasting everything from affordable housing…Read more... Go to Source
Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin Are Fighting on Twitter About the Trump Regime’s Coronavirus Death Toll

Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin Are Fighting on Twitter About the Trump Regime’s Coronavirus Death Toll

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Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin Are Fighting on Twitter About the Trump Regime's Coronavirus Death Toll Axl Rose, the lead singer of legendary 1980s rock band Guns N’ Roses, is currently squabbling with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic. Why? Because that’s our reality here in the year 2020. Just spin the giant wheel of pop culture references, political incompetence, and…Read more... Go to Source
New ‘EARN IT Act’ Alternative Seeks $5 Billion to Hunt Child Predators Without Wrecking Encryption

New ‘EARN IT Act’ Alternative Seeks $5 Billion to Hunt Child Predators Without Wrecking Encryption

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New 'EARN IT Act' Alternative Seeks $5 Billion to Hunt Child Predators Without Wrecking Encryption Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a new bill aimed at drastically expanding the federal government’s resources devoted to the targeting and prosecution of child predators, developing new technologies to identify child sexual abuse material online, and funding leading community organizations that work to…Read more... Go to Source
Coronavirus Has Taken a Paris Agreement-Size Chunk Out of US Emissions

Coronavirus Has Taken a Paris Agreement-Size Chunk Out of US Emissions

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Coronavirus Has Taken a Paris Agreement-Size Chunk Out of US Emissions New data shows how the coronavirus has continues to completely how we use roads. Traffic is way down and so are greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The reduction has been so dramatic, in fact, that it’s put the put the U.S. on track to meet its goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. Read more... Go to Source
Disneyland in China to Reopen May 11 With Temperature Checks and Masks Required

Disneyland in China to Reopen May 11 With Temperature Checks and Masks Required

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Disneyland in China to Reopen May 11 With Temperature Checks and Masks Required Disney’s theme park in Shanghai, China will reopen on May 11 after being closed for over three months due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek. The park will observe new rules on everything from face masks to the number of people who will be allowed to enter the park at one time in what…Read more... Go to Source