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55,704	Homeland Security Secretary Says It May Deploy Federal Troops Into Portland After Protest Fatality On August 28, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told Trump in a letter to "stay away" from the city, citing the controversial deployment of troops into Portland in July that fueled clashes with protesters as videos of federal law enforcement pulling people into unmarked vans went viral.	2,050
55,705	Scamsters Using Twitter And Instagram To Market Fraudulent Covid-19 Drugs And Diagnostic Kits, Study Finds Online fraudsters sell illegal Covid-19 medicines and remedies, a major risk to public health.	358
55,706	How Luxury Streetwear Is Using Animal Crossing To Remain Digitally Accessible To Gen Z And Millennials Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been flooded with a lot of high-end fashion brand designs on their digital platform since its latest installment back in March, and people are buying into the feature.	555
55,707	‘Fortnite’ Could Follow Its Marvel Season With A DC Season Fortnite has done the unthinkable and launched a fully licensed Marvel-themed season with eight battle pass skins and one already hitting the store on its own, Silver Surfer, now in the shop. Is DC next?	2,215
55,708	Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First Customers’ expectations, preferences, changing patterns in how and why they purchase need to be the core of any digital transformation effort.	1,724
55,709	The Other Reason ‘Borderlands 3’ Will Never Get DLC Vault Hunters Like Krieg Why Borderlands 3 isn't getting DLC Vault Hunters, even with year 2 content on the way.	2,215
55,710	Meet The Woman Who Helped Spark The Adventure Elopement Trend Maddie Mae is a 28-year-old pioneer. Among the first, and the most successful, to turn her wedding photography businesses into a strictly adventure elopement company, a vision she began crafting in an honors thesis for the College of Business at Colorado State University.	1,946
55,711	Here Are The 28 ‘Destiny 1’ Exotic Weapons Left To Be Re-Released In ‘Destiny 2’ There are frequently complaints that Destiny 2 is only just recycling old Destiny 1 content all the time, which includes bringing back old weapons. Well, there are still plenty left behind.	2,215
55,712	The Top Video Game Releases Coming In September And What To Play Here are all the video games releasing in September 2020 and what to play.	947
55,713	Forget Apple Watch, Or Samsung’s Galaxy, This Is A Serious New Rival Could this replace the Pixel Watch we've been waiting for?	1,261
55,714	Lenovo Launches Fedora-Powered X1 Carbon With Linux In The Spotlight The first wave of Fedora-powered ThinkPads are on sale now, and Linux is definitely enjoying the spotlight...	1,353
55,715	Netflix Has Taken ‘Cobra Kai’ From Obscure Hit To The #1 Show In America Netflix bought Cobra Kai from YouTube and turned it into a megahit, as they are prone to do.	2,215
55,716	NASA Map Shows Devastation Caused By Beirut Blast This damage map of the massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020, was created using satellite imagery and RADAR data.	501
55,717	Sunu Band – The Smart Wearable Helping Blind People Maintain Social Distance A smart wristband to help blind people detect objects around them is proving to be an invaluable tool for maintaining social distancing. In the longer-term, Sunu Band has the potential to revolutionize how blind people navigate by intensifying the senses and relaying location information.	1,115
55,718	Destiny 2, Call Of Duty, GTA 5, Valorant Down For Many, Along With Half The Internet In what seems to be a large scale outage affecting a huge number of large websites and online video games, users and players are having trouble logging in, and many can’t load sites or get past error messages in games at all.	2,215
55,719	Did Guano Make The Inca The World’s First Conservationists? The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever conservation effort	1,105
55,720	Windows 10: Microsoft Leaves Active Security Exploit Unfixed—For Two Years! Why did it take Microsoft two years to fix this Windows vulnerability being actively exploited by threat actors?	1,129
55,721	10 Supermassive Black Holes Discovered By a Research Station In The Netherlands [Infographic] In the past 30-40 years we have only been able to discover a handful of Supermassive Black Hole. Last year this research station found 10 more.	290
55,722	Huawei Fallout—Serious New China Threat Strikes At Samsung And Apple As Huawei struggles under U.S sanctions, Apple and Samsung have a new worry...	2,934
55,723	Privacy: Facebook New Challenges Vs. Apple Virtue Signals When you consume news within Facebook, you are giving the company a very rich information profile about the topics that interest you, and enabling better targeted and increasingly profitable advertising. But Facebook now faces a major obstacle: the next version of iOS.	938
55,724	Kids With No Symptoms May Shed Covid-19 Coronavirus For Over 2 Weeks A study showed how kids can get sick from the SARS-CoV2 and how long they can carry the SARS-CoV2 even when they are asymptomatic. Here are the implications for the re-opening of schools.	523
55,725	Why You Should Stop Sending Texts From Your Android Messages App Millions of you are still putting your security at risk...	2,934
55,726	NASA Eyes Wind Turbines To Power Martian Weather Stations NASA is investigating the potential for a tiny wind turbine to power instruments during long Martian polar night.	520
55,727	iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its Apple nightmare was even worse than previously thought.	100
55,728	What Happened To The ‘Harvest Moon?’ Why This Week’s Full Moon Has A ‘Backup’ Name Why it matters what we call the full Moon.	1,253
55,729	Scientists Don’t ‘Recommend’ Disinfectants For Coronavirus Revealing whether substances are effective against coronaviruses is not the same as recommending which ones to use.	1,509
55,730	Post Announcing Chadwick Boseman’s Death Is The Most Liked Tweet Of All Time The tweet has 5.8 million likes.	2,429
55,731	Fortnite’s Silver Surfer Skin Has Just Gone Live In A Brand New Store Bundle Marvel's Fortnite season is far from over, as Silver Surfer has just arrived, the herald of even more skins to come. How much will he cost you?	2,215
55,732	‘Starfield’ Release Date: It’ll Be A While, Bethesda SVP Cautions Starfield still feels light-years away. Bethesda Game Studios’ first original IP since 1994’s Elder Scrolls: Arena, Starfield was first announced by studio head Todd Howard at E3 2018.	237
55,733	Thylacines Had More In Common With Coyotes Than With Wolves The last thylacine died in a zoo in 1936 (you can still watch eerie footage of it), and at that point no one had seen one in the wild for three years.	1,519
55,734	Researchers Use Modern Imaging Techniques To Open A Centuries-Old Locked Chest Without A Key An old steel chest in a Czech museum was locked for many years until researchers revealed the elaborate locking mechanism using X-ray computated tomography - and used that as a guide to picked the lock.	963
55,735	Running On Purpose: A Conversation With Charlie Moore Charlie Moore--Olympic gold medalist, corporate executive, philanthropist, and thought leader--shares his views on the importance of corporate purpose. He emphasizes that purpose is ultimately the responsibility of the board and that it is its primary one.	2,394
55,736	California’s New Regulations On Heavy Duty Diesels Is Equivalent Of Removing 16 Million Cars From Road It was a decision 10 years in the making, but last Thursday the California Air Resources Board finally approved new regulations that will dramatically reduce the Nitrogen Oxide emissions in the state.	1,693
55,737	National Parks And Pebble Mine Reveal The Influence Of Competitive Elections And Conservative Celebrities Trump administration rolled back many environmental regulations and supports fracking. Yet, it enacted a law to fund National Parks and halted permitting of the Pebble Mine. Read how conservative celebrities and competitive Senate elections made this happen.	382
55,738	Ubisoft Removes Insensitive Imagery Comparing Black Lives Matter To Terrorists From ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’, But It’s Not Enough Ubisoft has issued an apology after it used imagery currently used by the Black rights movement in relation to a terrorist organisation its latest game, Tom Clancy's Elite Squad.	2,184
55,739	Ubisoft’s ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’ Appears To Cast Black Lives Matter Protestors As Villains The intro video for Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Elite Squad" appears to cast Black Lives Matter as villains. The company has apologized for using associated iconography, but the underlying issues remain.	749
55,740	YouTube TV Offering 30 Day Cinemax Trials Subscribers of YouTube TV can take advantage of an extended, 30-day free trial of Cinemax, with a valid subscription	1,418
55,741	Facebook’s News Subscription Challenges Apple News+, Threatens Flipboard And Google’s Coming News Product Increasingly, news is paid. That makes it harder to access, but Facebook is working on a solution ...	1,427
55,742	Ubisoft To Drop Fist Imagery From ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’ Over Complaints It Demonizes Black Lives Matter ‘We sincerely apologize and it will be removed in our next title update this Tuesday, September 1,’ the company said.	2,429
55,743	Dell XPS 15 9500 (2020) Quick Review: New Design, New Keyboard, New Speakers Lots of changes in 2020 for the XPS 15.	1,839
55,744	Apple Pay Was Not Disruptive But Apple ID Will Be We’re all familiar with Apple Pay and Google Pay but Apple ID and Google ID will be far more important to our future online lives. We must make good choices about how digital identity should work and we must start now.	731
55,745	Meet The Entrepreneur Who Raised $18 Million For His Package Delivery Platform For Apartment Buildings Fetch Package, a last-mile delivery platform for apartment communities, founded by Under 30 honoree Michael Patton raised $18 million in a Series B round. The Austin-based company, which currently hires 275 people, had previously raised a $3 million in a seed round, and $10.5 million in Series A.	488
55,746	Over 2.2 Million Cheaters Banned From ‘PUBG Mobile’ In A Week The massive number of bans in PUBG mobile has been revealed, including a breakdown of the most popular cheats.	1,997
55,747	‘Fortnite’ Baby Groot Location: Where To Rescue Sapling Groot From The Holly Hedges Nursery If you want to get Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, you’ll need to start Thor’s “Awakening” challenges, which will also unlock his special built-in lightning emote.	947
55,748	Next Month, ‘Fallout 76’ Will Try To Fix Its Biggest Problem We’re on the eve of what Bethesda Game Studios is calling the One Wasteland update. This, for my money, is a more vital and necessary overhaul than even the changes made in the story-based Wastelanders expansion earlier this year.	237
55,749	‘Fortnite’ Wolverine Challenge: Where To Investigate 3 Mysterious Claw Marks Here's where to investigate mysterious claw marks in 'Fortnite' for the Wolverine week 1 challenge.	947
55,750	Chadwick Boseman’s Death Is A Reminder That Colorectal Cancer Rates Are Rising In Younger People The average age of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer is dropping and experts are urging people with worrying symptoms to seek help early.	2,840
55,751	‘Doom Eternal’ Gets Its First DLC In ‘The Ancient Gods’ More mayhem is on the way in Doom Eternal.	237
55,752	Happy Hypoxia: Why Covid-19 Can Cause Lung Damage Even Without Symptoms As thunderstruck as the scientific community has been by its unusual range of end-organ effects and its ability to spread without symptoms, its arguably most peculiar characteristic is its ability to cause lung damage without symptoms, a clinical state somewhat irreverently deemed ‘happy hypoxia’.	2,875
55,753	Microsoft Edge Just Revealed These Brilliant New Features To Beat Chrome Microsoft Edge 85 packs some brilliant features that could tempt Google Chrome users looking to switch browsers.	100
55,754	Claims About Risks Of Caffeine Consumption In Pregnancy Misleading You may have seen claims in the news over the last week that pregnant women should avoid all caffeine as it puts their unborn baby at risk, but are these claims really true?	2,510
55,755	Xiaomi Reveals Flagship Smartphone With Under-Screen Camera A significant leap forward in camera technology.	2,198
55,756	Options Trades Suggest Alphabet’s Stock Surges By As Much As 19% Recent trades in the options market suggests Alphabet's stock rises by as much as 19%.	1,954
55,757	25 Year Old May Have Gotten Covid-19 Coronavirus Twice, And The Reinfection Might Have Been Worse This could be the first documented case of Covid-19 coronavirus reinfection in the U.S. and raises further questions about immunity to SARS-CoV2	523
55,758	The Forward March Of Agtech During A Pandemic With investment in Agtech already at $8.8 B across 798 deals by June 2020, agriculture continues its adoption of technology, even during a pandemic.	718
55,759	IBM’s Customers Show Us Why It’s Important To Build A Quantum Computing Strategy Today While it's early days in quantum computing, IBM's customer use cases showcase how businesses are looking to the nascent technology to solve real-world problems.	2,020
55,760	Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live Beat Google’s Pixel Buds With Two Features Samsung has upped its earbuds game.	1,261
55,761	The PS5’s Launch Lineup Is Looking A Lot Better When Sony first unveiled Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart at its PS5 game showcase, it looked like a winner. I assumed it was much further off than the ;aunch window, but it looks like we'll be getting it sooner.	749
55,762	Pokémon GO’s Mega Evolutions Have A Microtransaction Problem Mega Evolutions are here in 'Pokemon GO', but already the associated microtransactions have left a sour taste in player's mouths.	749
55,763	Google Accidentally Reveals Radical Google Photos Update Google Photos is testing some radical changes.	2,198
55,764	TikTok Stars Bryce Hall And Blake Gray Could Face A Year In Jail. This Isn’t Totally Bad For Business. Unlike traditional celebs, Bryce Hall and Blake Gray have direct access to their fans—and unfiltered avenues for making money.	169
55,765	‘Avengers’ Can Teach ‘Destiny 2’ A Few Things About Battle Passes Yesterday, the Avengers game revealed its plans for microtransactions and they seem…pretty non-controversial, and something Destiny 2 could take notes on.	2,215
55,766	Conservation Florida Is Protecting Land And Adding Diverse Voices To Land Protection A nearly 500-acre spot in Florida known as the D Ranch Preserve is where Lillian Dinkins and Papa Gueye hope to kickstart their careers in land conservation.	1,320
55,767	Where Is PS5’s ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales,’ The Biggest Next-Gen Launch Exclusive Left? With Halo Infinite delayed into 2021, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the last big name exclusive launch game left for either console. So where is it?	2,215
55,768	Google Cloud Updates Anthos With Bare Metal And Hybrid AI Google updates Anthos for bare metal, which lets Anthos run on-prem and at edge locations without a hypervisor, and brings Speech-to-Text On-Prem to Anthos.	1,194
55,769	Is ‘Destiny 2’ Taking One Of Anthem’s Best Combat Ideas For Stasis? Has Destiny 2 taken one of the better ideas from the combat of BioWare’s Anthem and used it as a core foundation of Stasis?	2,215
55,770	Borderlands 3’s New ‘Easy Mayhem’ Event Accidentally Proves How Bad The Modifiers Are Borderlands 3's Mayhem modifiers need to go, as this recent Mayhem Made Mild event proves.	2,215
55,771	Yes, Black Panther Is Supposed To Arrive In Fortnite’s Marvel Season Late last night, the world learned of the tragic death of Chadwick Boseman, the 43 year-old actor who blew everyone away as Black Panther in the boundary-breaking superhero film.	2,215
55,772	Can You Become The Next YouTube Sensation? For every YouTube star there are plenty of individuals who couldn't find an audience if they set themselves on fire!	2,235
55,773	What Will We Do With Our Reusable Face Masks When Covid-19 Is Over? In many cities reusable face masks are as commonly seen on the face of a passer-by as a pair of sunglasses. But one day these often-beautiful fabric pieces won’t be essential, and people have already begun speculating about their post-Coronavirus uses.	1,788
55,774	Drinking Bleach Doesn’t Cure Coronavirus. So Why Do It? Drinking bleach is dangerous and won't protect you from Covid-19. Why do some people think it makes sense?	1,509
55,775	New Razr 5G Leak Solves Perplexing Security Mystery The latest folding phone from Motorola is expected to be announced on September 9, but what's happened to the fingerprint reader?	1,129
55,776	Apple iPad Air To Feature Dazzling Design, Edge Touch ID, Report Claims Apple’s next iPads are definitely coming soon. They could include a radically different iPad Air.	770
55,777	The Week’s 10 Biggest Gainers, Including New Centibillionaire Mark Zuckerberg, Added Nearly $50 Billion To Their Fortunes Big weeks for Tesla, Walmart and Quicken's newly listed parent helped these tycoons gain billions.	1,485
55,778	Why China Will Not Save Huawei From Trump’s Devastating New Blow Trump has just forced Huawei into a "life or death situation," so where's China?	2,934
55,779	Huawei’s Radical New Device Is Definitely Not What You Expected You can file this under stories I didn’t expect to be writing this week...	2,934
55,780	4 Myths From Electric Vehicle Haters – And Why They’re Wrong Huge arguments ensue online about EVs, so here are four of the most frequent themes, and why they are missing the mark by an electric mile.	1,234
55,781	NBA 2K21: There Are Only 2 Good Reasons To Buy The Current-Gen Version At this point, we’ve already seen the major selling points for the current-generation version of NBA 2K21. Is it enough to justify buying this version with the superior next-gen version coming in a matter of months?	1,008
55,782	Debris From A Defunct Russian Satellite Could Endanger Other Objects In Orbit, Space Tracking Company Says The debris could eventually intersect with SpaceX satellites or the International Space Station, according to LeoLabs.	2,429
55,783	2020 Election: NBA To Make Arenas Available To Vote Given Covid-19 Coronavirus The NBA and NBAPA will also establish a social justice coalition, focusing on issues such as "increasing access to voting, promoting civic engagement, and advocating for meaningful police and criminal justice reform.”	523
55,784	Elon Musk Wants To Put A ‘Fitbit In Your Skull’ To Summon Your Tesla “Neurons are like wiring,” Elon Musk says. “And you kinda need an electronic thing to solve an electronic problem.”	1,427
55,785	Corn Moon: Exactly When, Where And How You Can See The Full Moon At Its Delicate Best This Week There are three very specific times you should look at this month's full Moon.	1,253
55,786	NBA 2K21: 2K Answers 4 Crucial Questions About MyLeague, MyGM And MyTeam For Current And Next-Gen 2K offers answers to four important questions about NBA 2K21's MyTeam, MyLeague, and MyGM modes.	1,008
55,787	Microsoft Divulges Next-Generation AMD, Intel And Qualcomm GPU Features In New DirectX 12_2 Blog Post Amidst all of the technical jargon, however, Microsoft also divulged some features that will be supported by partner products from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm – but those products have yet to be released.	1,776
55,788	Fitbit Is Attempting To Join The Fight Against Coronavirus The company is partnering with other prominent research organizations to determine if wearables may potentially provide a valuable role in detecting infection.	2,462
55,789	Are Apple & Salesforce Blowing A Tech Bubble? A lot of the companies in the tech sector have gone from being fundamental growth stories that persisted through the Covid-19 slump, to being stocks with more than a bit of euphoria and price momentum.	1,845
55,790	‘Savage Kingdom’ Combines Technology And Creativity To Weave An Epic Tale Of Survival Season 4 of the National Geographic series "Savage Kingdom" winds down tonight--sharing the intense drama and epic narrative of the triumphs and challenges faced by wildlife in Botswana.	2,788
55,791	NASA Satellite Launched In 1964 Is About To Fall Back To Earth A satellite NASA launched 56 years ago to study Earth’s magnetosphere is set to make a fiery homecoming on Saturday when the Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) re-enters our atmosphere.	924
55,792	Everything You Need To Know About ‘Games Of Summer’ In ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare’, Rewards, Modes And More Here's what you need to know about the Games of Summer in 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare', from prizes to modes and more	749
55,793	Wind Turbine Builder Siemens Gamesa Plots Return To Profitability The new financial strategy of Siemens Gamesa will look familiar to those following the squeezed U. S. shale sector: less focus on growth at all costs, more focus on profitability and cash generation.	2,511
55,794	Here’s Why A TikTok Deal Makes Sense For Walmart A deal for TikTok could be a boon for Walmart’s long-term growth prospects, analysts say.	2,591
55,795	Dow Rises 150 Points, Turns Positive For 2020 The market has continued to hit new record highs this week.	2,591
55,796	Facebook Isn’t Renaming Oculus After All Facebook has confirmed that it is not changing the name of Oculus to 'Facebook Reality Labs'.	2,184
55,797	Detecting & Stopping Bot Attacks With Better AI Identity trust platforms can help distinguish and address different kinds of bots in real-time and without a negative impact on business.	1,724
55,798	Here's What We Can Do To Reduce The Risk Of A Ransomware Attack Ransomware attacks are getting more and more sophisticated. We will need better backup routines, proper risk assessment, contingency plans, verification protocols... but most of all, education, education and education!	938
55,799	Calling Bullsh*t By Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West — Review A useful and accessible guide to how to think critically about the information and research we read about in the news	1,105
55,800	Bizarre Notifications Pop Up On Android Phones, Was A Hacker To Blame? Android phones around the world have been buzzing with a strange stream of notifications this week.	1,714
55,801	The Canada 2020 Customer Experience Index Results Are Now Live Forrester’s Canada 2020 Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) reveals the scores of 147 brands across 12 industries. This year is especially exciting for two reasons:	1,569
55,802	Retail Reimagined: Browsing & Buying In The 5G Era Here, we’ll explore how digital transformation can help preserve and even improve the retail industry.	2,761
55,803	Airbnb’s IPO Opens Path To Market Dominance In the online travel business, s/he who recovers from Covid fastest wins the most market share.	1,333

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Homeland Security Secretary Says It May Deploy Federal Troops Into Portland After Protest Fatality On August 28, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told Trump in a letter to "stay away" from the city, citing the controversial deployment of troops into Portland in July that fueled clashes with protesters as videos of federal law enforcement pulling people into unmarked vans went viral.

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Scamsters Using Twitter And Instagram To Market Fraudulent Covid-19 Drugs And Diagnostic Kits, Study Finds Online fraudsters sell illegal Covid-19 medicines and remedies, a major risk to public health.

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How Luxury Streetwear Is Using Animal Crossing To Remain Digitally Accessible To Gen Z And Millennials Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been flooded with a lot of high-end fashion brand designs on their digital platform since its latest installment back in March, and people are buying into the feature.

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‘Fortnite’ Could Follow Its Marvel Season With A DC Season Fortnite has done the unthinkable and launched a fully licensed Marvel-themed season with eight battle pass skins and one already hitting the store on its own, Silver Surfer, now in the shop. Is DC next?

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55,708

Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First Customers’ expectations, preferences, changing patterns in how and why they purchase need to be the core of any digital transformation effort.

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55,709

The Other Reason ‘Borderlands 3’ Will Never Get DLC Vault Hunters Like Krieg Why Borderlands 3 isn't getting DLC Vault Hunters, even with year 2 content on the way.

2,215

55,710

Meet The Woman Who Helped Spark The Adventure Elopement Trend Maddie Mae is a 28-year-old pioneer. Among the first, and the most successful, to turn her wedding photography businesses into a strictly adventure elopement company, a vision she began crafting in an honors thesis for the College of Business at Colorado State University.

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55,711

Here Are The 28 ‘Destiny 1’ Exotic Weapons Left To Be Re-Released In ‘Destiny 2’ There are frequently complaints that Destiny 2 is only just recycling old Destiny 1 content all the time, which includes bringing back old weapons. Well, there are still plenty left behind.

2,215

55,712

The Top Video Game Releases Coming In September And What To Play Here are all the video games releasing in September 2020 and what to play.

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55,713

Forget Apple Watch, Or Samsung’s Galaxy, This Is A Serious New Rival Could this replace the Pixel Watch we've been waiting for?

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55,714

Lenovo Launches Fedora-Powered X1 Carbon With Linux In The Spotlight The first wave of Fedora-powered ThinkPads are on sale now, and Linux is definitely enjoying the spotlight...

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55,715

Netflix Has Taken ‘Cobra Kai’ From Obscure Hit To The #1 Show In America Netflix bought Cobra Kai from YouTube and turned it into a megahit, as they are prone to do.

2,215

55,716

NASA Map Shows Devastation Caused By Beirut Blast This damage map of the massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020, was created using satellite imagery and RADAR data.

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55,717

Sunu Band – The Smart Wearable Helping Blind People Maintain Social Distance A smart wristband to help blind people detect objects around them is proving to be an invaluable tool for maintaining social distancing. In the longer-term, Sunu Band has the potential to revolutionize how blind people navigate by intensifying the senses and relaying location information.

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Destiny 2, Call Of Duty, GTA 5, Valorant Down For Many, Along With Half The Internet In what seems to be a large scale outage affecting a huge number of large websites and online video games, users and players are having trouble logging in, and many can’t load sites or get past error messages in games at all.

2,215

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Did Guano Make The Inca The World’s First Conservationists? The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever conservation effort

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55,720

Windows 10: Microsoft Leaves Active Security Exploit Unfixed—For Two Years! Why did it take Microsoft two years to fix this Windows vulnerability being actively exploited by threat actors?

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55,721

10 Supermassive Black Holes Discovered By a Research Station In The Netherlands [Infographic] In the past 30-40 years we have only been able to discover a handful of Supermassive Black Hole. Last year this research station found 10 more.

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55,722

Huawei Fallout—Serious New China Threat Strikes At Samsung And Apple As Huawei struggles under U.S sanctions, Apple and Samsung have a new worry...

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Privacy: Facebook New Challenges Vs. Apple Virtue Signals When you consume news within Facebook, you are giving the company a very rich information profile about the topics that interest you, and enabling better targeted and increasingly profitable advertising. But Facebook now faces a major obstacle: the next version of iOS.

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Kids With No Symptoms May Shed Covid-19 Coronavirus For Over 2 Weeks A study showed how kids can get sick from the SARS-CoV2 and how long they can carry the SARS-CoV2 even when they are asymptomatic. Here are the implications for the re-opening of schools.

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55,725

Why You Should Stop Sending Texts From Your Android Messages App Millions of you are still putting your security at risk...

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55,726

NASA Eyes Wind Turbines To Power Martian Weather Stations NASA is investigating the potential for a tiny wind turbine to power instruments during long Martian polar night.

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55,727

iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its Apple nightmare was even worse than previously thought.

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55,728

What Happened To The ‘Harvest Moon?’ Why This Week’s Full Moon Has A ‘Backup’ Name Why it matters what we call the full Moon.

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55,729

Scientists Don’t ‘Recommend’ Disinfectants For Coronavirus Revealing whether substances are effective against coronaviruses is not the same as recommending which ones to use.

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55,730

Post Announcing Chadwick Boseman’s Death Is The Most Liked Tweet Of All Time The tweet has 5.8 million likes.

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Fortnite’s Silver Surfer Skin Has Just Gone Live In A Brand New Store Bundle Marvel's Fortnite season is far from over, as Silver Surfer has just arrived, the herald of even more skins to come. How much will he cost you?

2,215

55,732

‘Starfield’ Release Date: It’ll Be A While, Bethesda SVP Cautions Starfield still feels light-years away. Bethesda Game Studios’ first original IP since 1994’s Elder Scrolls: Arena, Starfield was first announced by studio head Todd Howard at E3 2018.

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Thylacines Had More In Common With Coyotes Than With Wolves The last thylacine died in a zoo in 1936 (you can still watch eerie footage of it), and at that point no one had seen one in the wild for three years.

1,519

55,734

Researchers Use Modern Imaging Techniques To Open A Centuries-Old Locked Chest Without A Key An old steel chest in a Czech museum was locked for many years until researchers revealed the elaborate locking mechanism using X-ray computated tomography - and used that as a guide to picked the lock.

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Running On Purpose: A Conversation With Charlie Moore Charlie Moore--Olympic gold medalist, corporate executive, philanthropist, and thought leader--shares his views on the importance of corporate purpose. He emphasizes that purpose is ultimately the responsibility of the board and that it is its primary one.

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California’s New Regulations On Heavy Duty Diesels Is Equivalent Of Removing 16 Million Cars From Road It was a decision 10 years in the making, but last Thursday the California Air Resources Board finally approved new regulations that will dramatically reduce the Nitrogen Oxide emissions in the state.

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National Parks And Pebble Mine Reveal The Influence Of Competitive Elections And Conservative Celebrities Trump administration rolled back many environmental regulations and supports fracking. Yet, it enacted a law to fund National Parks and halted permitting of the Pebble Mine. Read how conservative celebrities and competitive Senate elections made this happen.

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Ubisoft Removes Insensitive Imagery Comparing Black Lives Matter To Terrorists From ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’, But It’s Not Enough Ubisoft has issued an apology after it used imagery currently used by the Black rights movement in relation to a terrorist organisation its latest game, Tom Clancy's Elite Squad.

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Ubisoft’s ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’ Appears To Cast Black Lives Matter Protestors As Villains The intro video for Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Elite Squad" appears to cast Black Lives Matter as villains. The company has apologized for using associated iconography, but the underlying issues remain.

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YouTube TV Offering 30 Day Cinemax Trials Subscribers of YouTube TV can take advantage of an extended, 30-day free trial of Cinemax, with a valid subscription

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Facebook’s News Subscription Challenges Apple News+, Threatens Flipboard And Google’s Coming News Product Increasingly, news is paid. That makes it harder to access, but Facebook is working on a solution ...

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Ubisoft To Drop Fist Imagery From ‘Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’ Over Complaints It Demonizes Black Lives Matter ‘We sincerely apologize and it will be removed in our next title update this Tuesday, September 1,’ the company said.

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Dell XPS 15 9500 (2020) Quick Review: New Design, New Keyboard, New Speakers Lots of changes in 2020 for the XPS 15.

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Apple Pay Was Not Disruptive But Apple ID Will Be We’re all familiar with Apple Pay and Google Pay but Apple ID and Google ID will be far more important to our future online lives. We must make good choices about how digital identity should work and we must start now.

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Meet The Entrepreneur Who Raised $18 Million For His Package Delivery Platform For Apartment Buildings Fetch Package, a last-mile delivery platform for apartment communities, founded by Under 30 honoree Michael Patton raised $18 million in a Series B round. The Austin-based company, which currently hires 275 people, had previously raised a $3 million in a seed round, and $10.5 million in Series A.

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Over 2.2 Million Cheaters Banned From ‘PUBG Mobile’ In A Week The massive number of bans in PUBG mobile has been revealed, including a breakdown of the most popular cheats.

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‘Fortnite’ Baby Groot Location: Where To Rescue Sapling Groot From The Holly Hedges Nursery If you want to get Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, you’ll need to start Thor’s “Awakening” challenges, which will also unlock his special built-in lightning emote.

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Next Month, ‘Fallout 76’ Will Try To Fix Its Biggest Problem We’re on the eve of what Bethesda Game Studios is calling the One Wasteland update. This, for my money, is a more vital and necessary overhaul than even the changes made in the story-based Wastelanders expansion earlier this year.

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‘Fortnite’ Wolverine Challenge: Where To Investigate 3 Mysterious Claw Marks Here's where to investigate mysterious claw marks in 'Fortnite' for the Wolverine week 1 challenge.

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Chadwick Boseman’s Death Is A Reminder That Colorectal Cancer Rates Are Rising In Younger People The average age of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer is dropping and experts are urging people with worrying symptoms to seek help early.

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‘Doom Eternal’ Gets Its First DLC In ‘The Ancient Gods’ More mayhem is on the way in Doom Eternal.

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Happy Hypoxia: Why Covid-19 Can Cause Lung Damage Even Without Symptoms As thunderstruck as the scientific community has been by its unusual range of end-organ effects and its ability to spread without symptoms, its arguably most peculiar characteristic is its ability to cause lung damage without symptoms, a clinical state somewhat irreverently deemed ‘happy hypoxia’.

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Microsoft Edge Just Revealed These Brilliant New Features To Beat Chrome Microsoft Edge 85 packs some brilliant features that could tempt Google Chrome users looking to switch browsers.

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Claims About Risks Of Caffeine Consumption In Pregnancy Misleading You may have seen claims in the news over the last week that pregnant women should avoid all caffeine as it puts their unborn baby at risk, but are these claims really true?

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Xiaomi Reveals Flagship Smartphone With Under-Screen Camera A significant leap forward in camera technology.

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Options Trades Suggest Alphabet’s Stock Surges By As Much As 19% Recent trades in the options market suggests Alphabet's stock rises by as much as 19%.

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25 Year Old May Have Gotten Covid-19 Coronavirus Twice, And The Reinfection Might Have Been Worse This could be the first documented case of Covid-19 coronavirus reinfection in the U.S. and raises further questions about immunity to SARS-CoV2

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The Forward March Of Agtech During A Pandemic With investment in Agtech already at $8.8 B across 798 deals by June 2020, agriculture continues its adoption of technology, even during a pandemic.

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IBM’s Customers Show Us Why It’s Important To Build A Quantum Computing Strategy Today While it's early days in quantum computing, IBM's customer use cases showcase how businesses are looking to the nascent technology to solve real-world problems.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live Beat Google’s Pixel Buds With Two Features Samsung has upped its earbuds game.

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The PS5’s Launch Lineup Is Looking A Lot Better When Sony first unveiled Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart at its PS5 game showcase, it looked like a winner. I assumed it was much further off than the ;aunch window, but it looks like we'll be getting it sooner.

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Pokémon GO’s Mega Evolutions Have A Microtransaction Problem Mega Evolutions are here in 'Pokemon GO', but already the associated microtransactions have left a sour taste in player's mouths.

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Google Accidentally Reveals Radical Google Photos Update Google Photos is testing some radical changes.

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TikTok Stars Bryce Hall And Blake Gray Could Face A Year In Jail. This Isn’t Totally Bad For Business. Unlike traditional celebs, Bryce Hall and Blake Gray have direct access to their fans—and unfiltered avenues for making money.

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‘Avengers’ Can Teach ‘Destiny 2’ A Few Things About Battle Passes Yesterday, the Avengers game revealed its plans for microtransactions and they seem…pretty non-controversial, and something Destiny 2 could take notes on.

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Conservation Florida Is Protecting Land And Adding Diverse Voices To Land Protection A nearly 500-acre spot in Florida known as the D Ranch Preserve is where Lillian Dinkins and Papa Gueye hope to kickstart their careers in land conservation.

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Where Is PS5’s ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales,’ The Biggest Next-Gen Launch Exclusive Left? With Halo Infinite delayed into 2021, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the last big name exclusive launch game left for either console. So where is it?

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Google Cloud Updates Anthos With Bare Metal And Hybrid AI Google updates Anthos for bare metal, which lets Anthos run on-prem and at edge locations without a hypervisor, and brings Speech-to-Text On-Prem to Anthos.

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Is ‘Destiny 2’ Taking One Of Anthem’s Best Combat Ideas For Stasis? Has Destiny 2 taken one of the better ideas from the combat of BioWare’s Anthem and used it as a core foundation of Stasis?

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Borderlands 3’s New ‘Easy Mayhem’ Event Accidentally Proves How Bad The Modifiers Are Borderlands 3's Mayhem modifiers need to go, as this recent Mayhem Made Mild event proves.

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Yes, Black Panther Is Supposed To Arrive In Fortnite’s Marvel Season Late last night, the world learned of the tragic death of Chadwick Boseman, the 43 year-old actor who blew everyone away as Black Panther in the boundary-breaking superhero film.

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Can You Become The Next YouTube Sensation? For every YouTube star there are plenty of individuals who couldn't find an audience if they set themselves on fire!

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What Will We Do With Our Reusable Face Masks When Covid-19 Is Over? In many cities reusable face masks are as commonly seen on the face of a passer-by as a pair of sunglasses. But one day these often-beautiful fabric pieces won’t be essential, and people have already begun speculating about their post-Coronavirus uses.

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Drinking Bleach Doesn’t Cure Coronavirus. So Why Do It? Drinking bleach is dangerous and won't protect you from Covid-19. Why do some people think it makes sense?

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New Razr 5G Leak Solves Perplexing Security Mystery The latest folding phone from Motorola is expected to be announced on September 9, but what's happened to the fingerprint reader?

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Apple iPad Air To Feature Dazzling Design, Edge Touch ID, Report Claims Apple’s next iPads are definitely coming soon. They could include a radically different iPad Air.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Gainers, Including New Centibillionaire Mark Zuckerberg, Added Nearly $50 Billion To Their Fortunes Big weeks for Tesla, Walmart and Quicken's newly listed parent helped these tycoons gain billions.

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Why China Will Not Save Huawei From Trump’s Devastating New Blow Trump has just forced Huawei into a "life or death situation," so where's China?

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Huawei’s Radical New Device Is Definitely Not What You Expected You can file this under stories I didn’t expect to be writing this week...

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4 Myths From Electric Vehicle Haters – And Why They’re Wrong Huge arguments ensue online about EVs, so here are four of the most frequent themes, and why they are missing the mark by an electric mile.

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NBA 2K21: There Are Only 2 Good Reasons To Buy The Current-Gen Version At this point, we’ve already seen the major selling points for the current-generation version of NBA 2K21. Is it enough to justify buying this version with the superior next-gen version coming in a matter of months?

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Debris From A Defunct Russian Satellite Could Endanger Other Objects In Orbit, Space Tracking Company Says The debris could eventually intersect with SpaceX satellites or the International Space Station, according to LeoLabs.

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2020 Election: NBA To Make Arenas Available To Vote Given Covid-19 Coronavirus The NBA and NBAPA will also establish a social justice coalition, focusing on issues such as "increasing access to voting, promoting civic engagement, and advocating for meaningful police and criminal justice reform.”

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Elon Musk Wants To Put A ‘Fitbit In Your Skull’ To Summon Your Tesla “Neurons are like wiring,” Elon Musk says. “And you kinda need an electronic thing to solve an electronic problem.”

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Corn Moon: Exactly When, Where And How You Can See The Full Moon At Its Delicate Best This Week There are three very specific times you should look at this month's full Moon.

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NBA 2K21: 2K Answers 4 Crucial Questions About MyLeague, MyGM And MyTeam For Current And Next-Gen 2K offers answers to four important questions about NBA 2K21's MyTeam, MyLeague, and MyGM modes.

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Microsoft Divulges Next-Generation AMD, Intel And Qualcomm GPU Features In New DirectX 12_2 Blog Post Amidst all of the technical jargon, however, Microsoft also divulged some features that will be supported by partner products from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm – but those products have yet to be released.

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Fitbit Is Attempting To Join The Fight Against Coronavirus The company is partnering with other prominent research organizations to determine if wearables may potentially provide a valuable role in detecting infection.

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Are Apple & Salesforce Blowing A Tech Bubble? A lot of the companies in the tech sector have gone from being fundamental growth stories that persisted through the Covid-19 slump, to being stocks with more than a bit of euphoria and price momentum.

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‘Savage Kingdom’ Combines Technology And Creativity To Weave An Epic Tale Of Survival Season 4 of the National Geographic series "Savage Kingdom" winds down tonight--sharing the intense drama and epic narrative of the triumphs and challenges faced by wildlife in Botswana.

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NASA Satellite Launched In 1964 Is About To Fall Back To Earth A satellite NASA launched 56 years ago to study Earth’s magnetosphere is set to make a fiery homecoming on Saturday when the Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) re-enters our atmosphere.

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Everything You Need To Know About ‘Games Of Summer’ In ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare’, Rewards, Modes And More Here's what you need to know about the Games of Summer in 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare', from prizes to modes and more

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Wind Turbine Builder Siemens Gamesa Plots Return To Profitability The new financial strategy of Siemens Gamesa will look familiar to those following the squeezed U. S. shale sector: less focus on growth at all costs, more focus on profitability and cash generation.

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Here’s Why A TikTok Deal Makes Sense For Walmart A deal for TikTok could be a boon for Walmart’s long-term growth prospects, analysts say.

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Dow Rises 150 Points, Turns Positive For 2020 The market has continued to hit new record highs this week.

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Facebook Isn’t Renaming Oculus After All Facebook has confirmed that it is not changing the name of Oculus to 'Facebook Reality Labs'.

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Detecting & Stopping Bot Attacks With Better AI Identity trust platforms can help distinguish and address different kinds of bots in real-time and without a negative impact on business.

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Here's What We Can Do To Reduce The Risk Of A Ransomware Attack Ransomware attacks are getting more and more sophisticated. We will need better backup routines, proper risk assessment, contingency plans, verification protocols... but most of all, education, education and education!

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Calling Bullsh*t By Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West — Review A useful and accessible guide to how to think critically about the information and research we read about in the news

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Bizarre Notifications Pop Up On Android Phones, Was A Hacker To Blame? Android phones around the world have been buzzing with a strange stream of notifications this week.

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The Canada 2020 Customer Experience Index Results Are Now Live Forrester’s Canada 2020 Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) reveals the scores of 147 brands across 12 industries. This year is especially exciting for two reasons:

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Retail Reimagined: Browsing & Buying In The 5G Era Here, we’ll explore how digital transformation can help preserve and even improve the retail industry.

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Airbnb’s IPO Opens Path To Market Dominance In the online travel business, s/he who recovers from Covid fastest wins the most market share.

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