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Self-Driving Car Guru Ordered to Pay Google $179 Million Over Messy Contract Dispute

Self-Driving Car Guru Ordered to Pay Google $179 Million Over Messy Contract Dispute

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Self-Driving Car Guru Ordered to Pay Google $179 Million Over Messy Contract Dispute A former employee of Google and Uber credited as being one of the top engineers in the self-driving vehicle space, Anthony Levandowski, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy after he was ordered to cough up $179 million to settle with Google over an apparent contract breach.Read more... Go to Source
The Coronavirus Will Probably Come for the Baby Yoda Toys [Updated]

The Coronavirus Will Probably Come for the Baby Yoda Toys [Updated]

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The Coronavirus Will Probably Come for the Baby Yoda Toys [Updated] The spread of COVID-19 has already had an impact beyond the health crisis it has sparked across the world—from canceled conferences and refunded convention tickets to delayed films. An impact on manufacturing is inevitable as production in China is hit hard by continued shutdowns. This means, as much as you may want…Read more... Go to Source
Spotify’s Weird LinkedIn Playlists Sound Like a Cash Register

Spotify’s Weird LinkedIn Playlists Sound Like a Cash Register

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Spotify's Weird LinkedIn Playlists Sound Like a Cash Register Like the brief romance between Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, the new Linkedin-owned Spotify playlists are confusing at best. That seemed to be the consensus across the web after the job-hunter’s platform of choice announced these bops in a tweet earlier this week, promising to keep listeners company during “every…Read more... Go to Source
A Smartphone With a Behemoth Battery You Could Actually Slip in a Pocket

A Smartphone With a Behemoth Battery You Could Actually Slip in a Pocket

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A Smartphone With a Behemoth Battery You Could Actually Slip in a Pocket When it comes to making phones with prodigious battery life, it’s easy to slap on a humongous battery and call it a day like Energizer did for its dummy thick P18K Pop last year. But for people who don’t like carrying a brick around, there’s now an alternative in the Doogee N100. Read more... Go to Source
The Cast of Alex Garland’s Devs Divulge Their Character Motivations

The Cast of Alex Garland’s Devs Divulge Their Character Motivations

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The Cast of Alex Garland's Devs Divulge Their Character Motivations Today, Alex Garland’s move from film into television debuts on the new “FX on Hulu.” Devs’ world is filled with people very clued into tech, science, and all its advances and the show itself sits pretty much right up against our own reality when it comes to the concepts and theories at play in the narrative. Want to…Read more... Go to Source
How the UN’s Shady Aviation Organization Could Upend a Key Effort to Combat Climate Change

How the UN’s Shady Aviation Organization Could Upend a Key Effort to Combat Climate Change

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How the UN's Shady Aviation Organization Could Upend a Key Effort to Combat Climate Change The United Nations’ official aviation body begins three weeks of talks this week. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) council meeting will discuss all manner of aviation-related topics, from coronavirus to unannounced missile launches. But it is also set to make a decision on which carbon offsets it…Read more... Go to Source
Kumail Nanjiani’s Eternals Superhero Has the Coolest Secret Identity

Kumail Nanjiani’s Eternals Superhero Has the Coolest Secret Identity

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Kumail Nanjiani's Eternals Superhero Has the Coolest Secret Identity Unlike most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s established superheroes, who—aside from Spider-Man—have never really bothered to hide their secret identities, the family of characters at the heart of Eternals have spent thousands of years living among humanity, all the while hiding the fact that they’re a race of…Read more... Go to Source
8 Sibling Teams Who Paved the Way for Onward’s Fantasy Adventure Brothers

8 Sibling Teams Who Paved the Way for Onward’s Fantasy Adventure Brothers

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8 Sibling Teams Who Paved the Way for Onward's Fantasy Adventure Brothers When you’re a kid and you suddenly find yourself part of a big movie adventure, chances are good that if you have a sibling around, they’ll come too. That happens in Pixar’s Onward—just the latest in a long line of sci-fi and fantasy movies featuring siblings who become hero teams along the way. Here are eight of our…Read more... Go to Source
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Apple Tells Geniuses They May Run Low on iPhones Thanks to Coronavirus Shutdowns in China

Apple Tells Geniuses They May Run Low on iPhones Thanks to Coronavirus Shutdowns in China

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Apple Tells Geniuses They May Run Low on iPhones Thanks to Coronavirus Shutdowns in China As the global outbreak of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, Apple has warned technical support staff at stores that it may fall short on replacement iPhones and parts, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
Senator Demands Amazon Answer for Coronavirus-Linked ‘Price Gouging’

Senator Demands Amazon Answer for Coronavirus-Linked ‘Price Gouging’

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Senator Demands Amazon Answer for Coronavirus-Linked 'Price Gouging' Citing “disturbing” reports of price-gouging on Amazon in connection with the global coronavirus outbreak, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey on Wednesday asked the world’s largest online retailer to disclose its internal procedures for combating accounts of exorbitant markups on items such as masks and hand sanitizers.Read more... Go to Source
A Social Media Influencer Explores the Wrong Haunted Hotel in Followed

A Social Media Influencer Explores the Wrong Haunted Hotel in Followed

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A Social Media Influencer Explores the Wrong Haunted Hotel in Followed One of the simple truths of social media and internet culture is that someone is always trying to raise the bar. People will do anything to gain more fame and followers. And we do mean anything. With that in mind, io9 is excited to exclusively debut the trailer for the new horror film Followed. Read more... Go to Source
Publishers and Creators Are Dropping Out of Emerald City Comic Con as Coronavirus Fears Rise

Publishers and Creators Are Dropping Out of Emerald City Comic Con as Coronavirus Fears Rise

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Publishers and Creators Are Dropping Out of Emerald City Comic Con as Coronavirus Fears Rise As more cases of coronavirus infections have been identified and reported around the world, the organizers of conventions expected to draw massive crowds—like Google I/O and Mobile World Congress—have begun canceling the events in order avoid them becoming hotbeds for viral transmission. While the upcoming Emerald…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook May Be Considering Changing Course As Libra Crypto Project Sails Towards Disaster

Facebook May Be Considering Changing Course As Libra Crypto Project Sails Towards Disaster

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Facebook May Be Considering Changing Course As Libra Crypto Project Sails Towards Disaster Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has been heading full steam at a global financial regulatory system-sized iceberg for a while now. But it might be trying to change course after finally realizing that the iceberg will win.Read more... Go to Source
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Is Working on a Supernatural Revenge Thriller Called The Pinkerton

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Is Working on a Supernatural Revenge Thriller Called The Pinkerton

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J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Is Working on a Supernatural Revenge Thriller Called The Pinkerton Warner Bros. is heading to the weird Wild West for a new movie. The studio has announced it’s picked up a spec script for a supernatural revenge thriller called The Pinkerton, written by F9's Daniel Casey for J.J. Abrams Bad Robot production company.Read more... Go to Source
Lawsuit: ICE Rigged Algorithm to Always Order Arrested Immigrants Be Held in Detention Centers

Lawsuit: ICE Rigged Algorithm to Always Order Arrested Immigrants Be Held in Detention Centers

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Lawsuit: ICE Rigged Algorithm to Always Order Arrested Immigrants Be Held in Detention Centers Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials rigged a system called Risk Classification Assessment (RCA) that uses algorithms to determine whether immigrants in custody should be released to always say no, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed against the agency by the New York Civil Liberties…Read more... Go to Source
Report: Bloomberg Has Been Hiding Emails

Report: Bloomberg Has Been Hiding Emails

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Report: Bloomberg Has Been Hiding Emails Ever since Mike Bloomberg planted his well-worn penny loafers onto the debate stage, he’s all but ensured that a policy-focused, forward-looking 2020 Democratic presidential race will be a faint twinkle in the rearview mirror. This is to say that the email fiasco is here, and the culprit is Bloomberg, and there’s no…Read more... Go to Source
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DoorDash, Grubhub Tell Workers Worried About Coronavirus to Really Wash Their Hands This Time

DoorDash, Grubhub Tell Workers Worried About Coronavirus to Really Wash Their Hands This Time

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DoorDash, Grubhub Tell Workers Worried About Coronavirus to Really Wash Their Hands This Time As the United States braces for the novel coronavirus that has seen tens of thousands of confirmed cases and more than 3,000 deaths globally, gig economy employers have begun contacting their independent contractors about basic precautionary measures they should take to avoid spreading the virus. So far, these…Read more... Go to Source
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