California's Hills Are Haunted by the Ghosts of Wind Energy's Past
Interstate 580 runs from the California’s North Bay through to the Central Valley. Along the way, it goes over the crest of Altamont Pass and hills that turn golden in summer and lush green with the winter rains.Read more...
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Conquer Your Pup's Dander and Fur With $700 Off a Cobalt or Charcoal Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum
Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum & Mop (Cobalt) | $200 | Best BuyRead more...
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TikTok Lives to See Another Day as Yet Another Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's Ban
There’s a new development in the seemingly neverending game of chicken between TikTok and President Donald Trump over a nationwide ban. On Friday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania blocked the Trump administration from outlawing U.S. transactions with Tiktok, which was set to take effect Nov. 12. Read more...
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Tesla Hikes Up the Price of 'Full Self-Driving' Option to $10,000
Tesla bumped up the price of its “full self-driving” software option to $10,000 on Friday, making good on CEO Elon Musk’s promise last week to implement a roughly $2,000 price hike in the U.S. It follows the launch of a limited beta version of the software, which lets a select number of U.S. customers use Tesla’s…Read more...
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Why is My iPhone Harassing Me About a Missing Update?
As many Lifehacker readers know by now, I love a good operating system beta. Risking life on the wild side in return for early access to new features is a trade-off I’m always willing to make, and it generally hasn’t been an issue on my Windows PC or various smartphones. My friends, however, haven’t always been as…Read more...
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How a Biden Administration Could Fight Climate Change Without the Senate
Somewhere between a dream and nightmare is this scenario for Jan. 20, 2021: Joe Biden becomes president, while the Senate remains in Republican control. Read more...
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Are the Apple One Subscription Bundles Worth It? Let's Math It Out
Apple’s new subscription bundles launch today as Apple One. But how much are you really saving by subscribing to apps you might not even need?Read more...
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His House Puts a Fresh Coat of Terror on the Haunting Genre
After barely escaping the horrors of war in South Sudan, Rial (Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku) and Bol (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) Majul have made it all the way to London and into their first home. But their apparent good fortune has a terrifying downside, as Remi Weekes’ chilling His House soon reveals.Read more...
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Author Behind Bogus Hunter Biden Report Isn't Real Either
As if this Hunter Biden smear campaign couldn’t be more
clearly manufactured, Martin Aspen, the author behind a viral phony “intelligence”
document about the Vice President’s son that made it to Trump’s
inner circle, is not the Swiss security analyst he claims to be. Namely because
Martin Aspen doesn’t exist. Even his…Read more...
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Two Ohio Republicans Plead Guilty in Alleged $60 Million Bribery Scandal for Coal and Nuclear Bailout
Two of the five Republicans arrested on corruption charges involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder pleaded guilty on Thursday to racketeering. They’re the first to be convicted in the alleged $60 million federal corruption scandal, which federal prosecutors are already calling one of the largest…Read more...
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Disney Made a Skinless Robot That Can Realistically Stare Directly Into Your Soul
One of the obvious giveaways that you’re interacting with a robot is their blank dead-eyed stare. The eyes don’t connect with yours the way they would if they were, you know, human. A research team at Disney is trying to fix that using subtle head motions and eye movements that make the robot seem more lifelike…Read more...
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When Behemoths Like Apple Hoard Cultural Touchstones, It’s a Recipe for Disaster
The holidays are looking a little less Linus this year for Peanuts fans hoping to catch Charlie Brown specials on network television, as has been tradition for decades. Read more...
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Keep Your Home-Built PC Alive With the Best Power Supplies
When you’re building a PC, you probably get really excited about the CPU, graphics card, and maybe the case—but the power supply is the least sexy part of any build. It is, however, one of the most important—so it requires just as much deliberation as your other components.Read more...
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Feds Warn of 'Imminent' Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals
As if the rampant underfunding and overcrowding weren’t enough for hospitals to deal with during the current pandemic, apparently they need to grapple with ransomware, too. In an advisory memo released last night, federal officials warned of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat” to hospitals and healthcare…Read more...
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Through the End of the Week, Get an Extra Plan Free When You Sign up for 2 Years of NordVPN
2 Years + One Free Plan | $89 | NordVPNRead more...
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This Is the Best Gaming Laptop You Should Buy
We’ve reviewed a ton of laptops and played around with even more. While we have an entire guide dedicated to laptops, we know some people just want to game and so no matter your budget, we’ve curated some of the best gaming laptops currently on the market too. Many of them are great for other tasks besides gaming,…Read more...
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Celebrate Grand Admiral Thrawn's 30th Birthday Next Year With New Books, Fancy Books, and Old Books (on T-Shirts!)
In 1991, the Star Wars universe changed forever. After a few years of quiet, the Expanded Universe exploded in scope and reach, kicking off with a series of novels from Timothy Zahn that brought us the story of what happened after Return of the Jedi. With it came the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn and 30 years later,…Read more...
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This Tactile Pregnancy Test Offers Much-Needed Privacy to People With Visual Impairments
Pregnancy tests these days can get surprisingly high tech—and may even be rigged to play Doom. It’s also an unfortunate reality that these high-tech tests aren’t always accessible for the visually impaired. Because most rely on digital screens, blind or partially sighted people often have to ask someone else to read…Read more...
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AMD Might Benefit From Nvidia's Mishaps
Nvidia’s RTX 3070 officially hits retail stores tomorrow. After the fiasco that was the RTX 3080 release, actual buyers will hopefully be able to get their hands on these cards rather than see them snatched up by bots to scalp on eBay. Read more...
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An Indigenous Group in the Amazon Has Experienced a Drop in Body Temperature Since 2002
New research detected an intriguing change in the average body temperature of the Tsimane people, an indigenous foraging and farming group in the Bolivian Amazon that has recently started to interact more with industrialized communities. Over 16 years, the Tsimane have experienced a slight but rapid drop in body…Read more...
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One of the Most Coveted 4K OLED TVs for Next-Gen Gaming Is Over $600 Off
LG CX 55" OLED TV | $1,397 | AmazonLG CX 55" OLED TV | $1,397 | BuyDigRead more...
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The Department of Interior Releases Trump Propaganda Video, Then Opens a Rainforest to Logging
The Trump administration continues to stretch the limits of decency and legality as it tries to turn the government into a propaganda arm of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. The latest example comes from the Department of Interior, which released a Dear Leader-style video touting Trump’s environmental…Read more...
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Check Out This Exclusive Peek at Simon Stålenhag's Journey Into The Labyrinth
Tales From the Loop creator Simon Stålenhag has a knack for playing on our greatest hopes and fears, combining the innocence of youth with science fiction’s fascinating, yet terrifying, unknown. Now, the storyteller is back with a new art book, The Labyrinth, and io9 has an exclusive look inside the maze.Read more...
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Uber Yearns to Chop Up Grocery Delivery Services and Deliver Their Dry-Cured Corpses to Manhattan
It’s kill or be killed out in these freezer aisles, which is to say that Uber’s now locked in a four-way mortal combat with Instacart, Prime Delivery, and FreshDirect. Uber announced that as of today, Manhattan residents will see a “grocery” tab in their Uber and Uber Eats apps, marking an expansion of Uber’s grocery…Read more...
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Logitech Improved on the Nearly Flawless Trackball
The trackball is a contentious kind of peripheral. Most people point to the mouse or the trackpad as superior ways to move a cursor across the screen, but for a small subset of nerds, myself included, there is nothing as gratifying or exact as a trackball. A flick of your thumb and the cursor screams across huge…Read more...
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Hackers Deface Trump's Campaign Website
Cryptocurrency-loving hackers defaced the Trump campaign website for about 30 minutes today. The hackers complained of the President’s tendency to spread fake news and asked visitors to send cryptocurrency to one of two anonymous addresses.Read more...
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Party on With $20 off Some of the Best Games for the Nintendo Switch
Save $20 on Select Nintendo Switch Games | Best BuyRead more...
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