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Google won't let you sign in with very old Android versions after September 27th | Engadget
Google is cutting off the last support for old Android versions by blocking them from signing into key apps after September 27th..
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Facebook and religion forging unholy alliance after assault on democracy
Worrisomely, Facebook and religion are getting more and more chummy in the U.S. What good will come of supercharging the spread of fantasies as facts?
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Why DoorDash Drivers Are On Strike
Having organized on TikTok, Reddit and Facebook, many DoorDash drivers around the country logged off the app on Saturday. Drivers are demanding tip transparency and higher pay.
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The Play Store is getting Apple-style privacy labels: here's our first look
Back in May, Google announced that the Play Store was also getting App Store-style privacy labels, one-upping Apple's implementation
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Newly Launched ‘Galileo Project’ Will Hunt for Alien Technologies in Our Midst
The project is led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who argued that interstellar object ‘Oumuamua might be an alien probe.
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How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google
It started in a small flat in west London, with three friends selling board games and a fanzine via mail order; now Games Workshop is worth more than Marks & Spencer and Asos and is more profitable than Google. This week the Nottingham-based company, which produces the Warhammer fantasy role-playing brand, announced all of its workers would get a £5,000 bonus after sales and profits surged during the pandemic.
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A Toxic Workplace Triples Your Risk of Depression, a New Study Finds
You know toxic workplaces are bad for mental health. You'll be surprised by how bad.
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I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised...
Federal court judge says allowing artificial intelligence systems, as well as humans, to be inventors is ‘consistent with promoting innovation’. An artificial intelligence system is capable of being an “inventor” under Australian patent law, the federal court has ruled, in a decision that could have wider intellectual property implications.
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Here’s why Apple says it hates leaks
Apple is a notoriously secretive company, and a cease and desist letter recently acquired by Motherboard sheds new light on exactly why, arguing that leaks harm accessory makers, consumers, and Apple itself.
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Scientists Invented a Simple New Test For Creativity, And You Can Try It Out
What makes one person more creative than another? Creativity is hard to define and perhaps even more difficult to measure, but scientists think they've come up with a remarkably simple way of assessing at least one aspect of it.
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She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
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MTV Is Turning 40 — Here's How Beavis, Butt-Head And Daria Disrupted Cable
"Animation has been critical to the MTV brand from its inception," says MTV Entertainment president Chris McCarthy. The network helped bring adult and experimental animation into the mainstream.
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Why It Actually Took 50 Years to Make COVID mRNA Vaccines
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Cutting Carbon Pollution Quickly Would Save Millions of Lives, Study Finds
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly would save tens of millions of lives worldwide, a new study finds. It's the latest indication that climate change is deadly to humans, and that the benefits of transitioning to a cleaner economy could be profound.
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Google is kicking ‘sugar dating’ apps out of the Play Store
Dormant developer accounts now also face removal. “Sugar dating” apps will not be allowed on the Android Play Store from September 1st, Google has announced as part of a series of policy changes for the platform. The change, which was first reported by Android Police, specifically prohibits apps relating to “compensated sexual relationships.” Other changes coming to the platform include a new crackdown on inactive developer accounts, Google says.
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The 'world's most powerful tidal turbine' starts to export power to the grid
The O2 turbine weighs 680 metric tons and has a length of 74 meters.
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PS5 is the fastest-selling PlayStation as it hits 10m sales milestone
PlayStation 5 is Sony's fastest-selling games console after surpassing 10 million sales worldwide. The new console reached the figure on July 18th, just under a month faster than the PlayStation 4 managed.
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Dark mode may not save your phone’s battery life as much as you think, but there are a few silver...
When Android and Apple operating system updates started giving users the option to put their smartphones in dark mode, the feature showed potential for saving the battery life of newer phones with screens that allow darker-colored pixels to use less power than lighter-colored pixels.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s new PC boosts: Yes, the VR mode is finally good
Even more good news for MSFS after its stellar console launch this week.
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Bezos says he is now willing to invest in a Moon lander—here’s why
"I think they realized it's why they lost."
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Europe’s proposed A.I. law could cost its economy $36 billion, think tank warns
A new law designed to regulate artificial intelligence in Europe could end up costing the EU economy 31 billion euros ($36 billion) over the next five years.
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2022 Mac Pro said to use Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 CPUs
A future Mac Pro is rumored to use the Xeon W-3300 CPU family, in parallel with Apple's commitment to fully transition to Apple Silicon by 2022. A reliable leaker known as YuuKi_AnS says that the 2022 Mac Pro will use Xeon W-3300 series CPUs. While this corroborates other leaks, it also goes against Apple's promise to transition all Macs to custom silicon.
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Large study finds COVID-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence
People who have recovered from COVID-19 tend to score significantly lower on an intelligence test compared to those who have not contracted the virus, ...
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California couple whose gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire charged with 30 crimes
A California couple has been criminally charged for their role in igniting last year’s destructive El Dorado wildfire after they used a pyrotechnic device during a gender-reveal party. The blaze torched close to 23,000 acres (9,300 hectares), destroyed five homes and 15 other buildings, and claimed the life of a firefighter, Charlie Morton.
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Children are dying in the TikTok 'Blackout' challenge. How social media is changing...
Dangerous viral social media challenges can be attractive to teens who crave peer approval and are more prone to risk-taking behaviors.
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Seagate to Launch Mass Market 20TB HDDs in the Coming Months
Seagate is working on multiple consumer hard drives featuring a 20TB capacity that will use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technologies, which are more cost effective than Seagate's current, business-focused HAMR technology. The company's 20TB SMR HDDs will be available in the second half of this calendar year, so they're not too far out.
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Dune - Official Main Trailer
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Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices
Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords. A fix is rolling out.
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'Woodstock 99' Documentary Clip: That 'Mud'? It's Shit
HBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage focuses on infamous music festival
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Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122F heat
The enhanced rain is created using drone technology that unleashes electrical charges into clouds in order for them to clump together and form precipitation
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