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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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Jalopnik The Koenigsegg Gemera Is A 1,700 HP Warp Speed Machine For You And Your Kids  |Jezebel Ignorant Commenters Equate Black Girl Empowerment Commercial With Racism  |The Root CancelCon: Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx to Headline Netflix Is A Joke Fest  |The A.V. Club Joe Biden speaks and the world cringes  |Read more... Go to Source
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
Apple May Be Supersizing Its Smallest MacBook Pro and Adding Mini-LEDs

Apple May Be Supersizing Its Smallest MacBook Pro and Adding Mini-LEDs

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Apple May Be Supersizing Its Smallest MacBook Pro and Adding Mini-LEDs Even though COVID-19 has already put hurt Apple’s bottom line and forced the company to temporarily close stores in China, according to a new report, the coronavirus hasn’t put any dampers on Apple’s plans to release new devices: specifically, six new products with mini-LED displays over the next two years.Read more... Go to Source
This Slick Combo Camera, Monocular and Digital Guide Did All My Birdwatching for Me

This Slick Combo Camera, Monocular and Digital Guide Did All My Birdwatching for Me

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This Slick Combo Camera, Monocular and Digital Guide Did All My Birdwatching for Me Naturalists carry a lot of expensive toys out into the wilderness. We’ve got our binoculars to see the details and field marks of distant animals. We carry bulky DSLR cameras with telephoto lenses in case any photo ops present themselves, or in case we stumble upon something rare. Sometimes we carry a portable…Read more... Go to Source
What Would It Take to End HIV Forever?

What Would It Take to End HIV Forever?

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What Would It Take to End HIV Forever? During his State of the Union address in February, President Donald Trump reiterated a promise he had made a year earlier: By 2030, the United States would bring an end to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that first took root nearly 40 years ago. It’s the sort of sweeping assurance that seems too good to be true, given Trump’s…Read more... Go to Source
Wind and Waves Helped Encase a Small New York Town in Ice

Wind and Waves Helped Encase a Small New York Town in Ice

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Wind and Waves Helped Encase a Small New York Town in Ice Imagine waking up to a dark home and realizing ice is covering your windows. And doors. And outdoor stairs. I’m not talking about no winter wonderland type experience. I’m talking about ugly, brown, prickly icicles dangling off your usually ice-free home. That’s exactly what happened to residents who live along Hoover…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs

Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs

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Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs Twitter has announced that employees are encouraged to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of a novel coronavirus that has infected at least 105 people in 15 states and killed six people in the U.S. The San Francisco-based social media company is believed to be the first major U.S. firm to announce a…Read more... Go to Source
NYC Regulators Sue Airbnb Software Partner Guesty, Accusing It of Illegal Business Model

NYC Regulators Sue Airbnb Software Partner Guesty, Accusing It of Illegal Business Model

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NYC Regulators Sue Airbnb Software Partner Guesty, Accusing It of Illegal Business Model The New York City government has been battling short-term rental service Airbnb, which has been blamed for an explosion in illegal hotels that have helped drive housing scarcity and rising rent in the city, for years. Now it’s suing Guesty, a concierge service and Airbnb preferred software partner that the city…Read more... Go to Source
The Invisible Man Is a Hit, But Its Director and Star Haven’t Talked About a Sequel Yet

The Invisible Man Is a Hit, But Its Director and Star Haven’t Talked About a Sequel Yet

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The Invisible Man Is a Hit, But Its Director and Star Haven't Talked About a Sequel Yet With a $29 million opening weekend against a reported production budget of just $7 million, The Invisible Man is officially a hit. And, if you’ve seen the movie, you know it very much ends in a way that could set up a sequel. Those two facts seem to suggest a follow up could be coming, but when io9 spoke with the…Read more... Go to Source
Stock Trading App Robinhood Experiences Widespread Outages Right During Market Rally

Stock Trading App Robinhood Experiences Widespread Outages Right During Market Rally

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Stock Trading App Robinhood Experiences Widespread Outages Right During Market Rally Free stock trading app Robinhood, valued in July 2019 at over $7.6 billion, underwent a major outage on Monday amid a major rally on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Per TechCrunch, the error resulted in numerous users being locked out of their accounts and unable to trade using the service throughout the day.Read more... Go to Source
Gina Torres Joins The Brides TV Pilot, and We’re Suddenly Very Excited About the Vampire Soap

Gina Torres Joins The Brides TV Pilot, and We’re Suddenly Very Excited About the Vampire Soap

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Gina Torres Joins The Brides TV Pilot, and We're Suddenly Very Excited About the Vampire Soap We’ve known for a little while that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the creator of the singularly bonkers Riverdale, was working on a steamy drama series about the Brides of Dracula. The Brides, which is still in the pilot stage at ABC, has just cast its first star—and our mild interest is now sky high, because it’s Gina…Read more... Go to Source
Walmart’s $250 laptop is AWESOME!

Walmart’s $250 laptop is AWESOME!

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