Well, Well, Well, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi Must Testify in Epic Case
Yes, Apple and Epic are still in a legal battle over in-app transactions in Fortnite. And apparently, a judge has now ordered both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Craig Federighi, Apple’s perfectly coiffed senior vice president of software engineering, to testify.Read more...
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The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s highlights and…Read more...
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Longing For a Theater Filled With Strangers
Several years ago, at an independent South Jersey movie theater that would later be overtaken by AMC corporate, I saw The Secret Life of Bees. My mother and I had read the bestseller it was adapted from just a few years before and growing up in the kind of family that went to the movies at least once, maybe twice per…Read more...
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Google-Fitbit Merger Wins EU Approval, With a Few Conditions
Last year, Google announced it was going to acquire Fitbit for a whopping $2.1 billion. Immediately, the news raised privacy concerns as Google is a tech giant with a lot of ad data on the cusp of absorbing another company with a hoard of health data. The deal itself has been under some intense scrutiny from…Read more...
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The World's First Death Attributed to Air Pollution Could Spark the Change We Need
In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s untimely, tragic passing in 2013. She is the first person in the world to have a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death. The declaration could…Read more...
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A New Fitness Tracker Sensor Can Learn and Recognize Almost Any Activity
Depending on the sport, different athletes rely on different exercises during their fitness routines and while fitness trackers have gotten smarter, they can generally only recognize a handful of motions like swimming, riding a bike, or running. Bosch has developed a new self-contained chip that can be taught to…Read more...
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3,400 Dead
The U.S. reported precisely 3,400 deaths from covid-19 on Wednesday, a new record in a long list of new records this month. And there’s not much more to say that hasn’t already been said about this avoidable tragedy—the greatest failure of American political institutions to protect human life in recent U.S. history.Read more...
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Genius Media Group Is Suing Google For Antitrust
Joining the national pile-on of entities suing Google for antitrust is Genius Media Group, which announced a lawsuit on Wednesday night related to the search giant’s ad exchange practices.Read more...
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Alabama Amazon Workers Could Become the First in the Nation To Unionize
Warehouse workers in an Alabama Amazon facility could soon become the first unionized workers employed by the retail giant after federal regulators greenlit a National Labor Relations Board election on Wednesday.Read more...
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The Best Gifts and Gadgets to Help Your Youngest Child Build Character
Children are wonderful miracles. The way they go from babies to chaos to creatures with genuine personalities and feelings all their own is remarkable. But youngest kids of a multi-child household are another story. They are nightmare hellions with little regard for others, an incredible capacity to care only about…Read more...
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Twitch Bans the Words 'Simp' and 'Virgin' (Actual Simps And Virgins Still Welcome)
As part of an ongoing process of retooling its policies around harassment and hateful conduct, Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults. If they are used in a friendly way, the…Read more...
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Herman Miller's 'Experiential Concept Store' Has To Be the Classiest Place on Earth to Buy a Gaming Chair
Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody Gaming Chair | $1,495 | Herman MillerRead more...
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The Bond Between Starlink's Two Biggest Competitors Just Got Tighter
One of the largest satellite internet providers to rural America, HughesNet, has entered a $250 million, three-year contract with UK-based OneWeb to develop and manufacture ground system technology for its satellite LEO constellation, which will compete with SpaceX’s Starlink system.Read more...
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Substack Is Getting an RSS Feed Because Inboxes are a Disaster
The Substack newsletter hype-cycle hit a fever pitch this fall when a bunch of high profile journalists defected to the platform in search of a new business model, which increasingly resembles a bunch of old business models balled up, Katamari-like, into a product without much of an identity.Read more...
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Roku Users Are Finally Getting HBO Max
Months after HBO Max launched, it’s finally coming to one of the largest smart TV platforms around. Today Roku announced that HBO Max would finally be available on December 17 and timed (of course) with the release of HBO Max’s biggest original content to date, Wonder Woman 1984.Read more...
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Discoveries That Really, Really Seemed Like Aliens
As the famous X-Files poster declares, “I want to believe.” This wanting, however, often leads us astray. When confronted with shocking and inexplicable celestial phenomena, we tend to see intelligent design. This jumping to conclusions is a sin for which we can be forgiven—we have an insatiable need to know if…Read more...
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What's New on Netflix in January 2021
For someone who spends a lot of time cursing nostalgia culture and lamenting the fact that the vast majority of new entertainment—from movies to Broadway musicals—seems to exist only to milk a little bit more money out of some valuable IP, I sure do love Netflix’s Cobra Kai. Based on the 1980s franchise The Karate Kid…Read more...
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Stadia on iOS Runs Like a Gem
Google officially launched iOS compatibility for Stadia via the Safari browser today. Good news if you are a Stadia and iPhone or iPad user! Just navigate to the Stadia website, log in, and off you go. Stadia’s new compatibility with iOS now puts it in the same league with GeForce Now, Shadow, and Luna, with Microsoft…Read more...
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Report Claims Some Models of Next Year's iPhone 13 Could Feature 120Hz Displays
One of the few disappointments with this year’s iPhones are their lack of support for displays with high refresh rates. Based on new reports, it seems that could change for at least two versions of iPhone 13 next year. Read more...
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Wednesday's Best Deals: PlayStation Plus 2-Year Plan, Amazon Echo Dot, Melissa & Doug Toys, Yankee Candles, TCL Smartphones, Powerbeats Pro, and More
Two years of PlayStation Plus and the Amazon Echo Dot lead Wednesday’s best deals.Read more...
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The Ending of The Rise of Skywalker Gets Some Stunning Concept Art
New visions of the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have finally been revealed.Read more...
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A New Breakthrough In Tape Storage Could Squeeze 580 TB Onto a Single Cartridge
Cramming a full terabyte of storage onto a microSD card the size of a baby fingernail is a remarkable feat, but when it comes to cost and reliability, magnetic tape is still the preferred method for archiving data for decades. And even as hard drives continue to swell in size, magnetic tape storage still holds a solid…Read more...
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New Google Antitrust Lawsuit Could Be Filed As Soon As Thursday
A coalition of states is reportedly readying a new antitrust lawsuit against Google that will claim that the company changed its search infrastructure to the disadvantage of certain rivals that offer specialized search results.Read more...
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If the Computer Accessory of the Year Isn't a Webcam We Don't Know What Is. Grab This Aukey One for Just $27
Aukey FHD Webcam | $27 | Amazon | Use Code QHX7A7H5Read more...
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We Already Have the Technology to Decarbonize U.S. Electricity
It’ll take a lot to transition the U.S. off fossil-based energy: money, political will, labor. But a new report shows it won’t take new technological innovation. The study, published in the journal Joule last week, shows U.S. electricity demand can be met with currently available carbon-free tech, like solar panels…Read more...
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The Robot Vacuums Moms (and Pet Owners) Love
Robot vacuums are hot right now! With countless options available and price points ranging from a buck and a half to a grand or more, it can be tough to pinpoint which one you need and when the extra money makes sense. I’ve tried all of these brands, but I don’t have dogs, birds, or kids, so I don’t put mine through…Read more...
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Chemicals in Plastics Are a Global Health Threat, Says New Report
A new scientific report out Tuesday concludes that plastics and the chemicals they leave behind in the environment are a major threat to human health. It identifies over 140 chemicals readily found in plastic products that can harm our bodies, particularly through interfering with the endocrine system.Read more...
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