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Amazon Air adds 12 new aircraft to its cargo fleet, expands its ground operations

Amazon announced today it has added 12 new cargo aircraft to Amazon Air, bringing its total fleet to more than 80 aircraft, in part because of increased demand for shipments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The converted Boeing 767-300 were leased from the Air Transport Services Group. Amazon said one of ...

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Amazon Air adds 12 new aircraft to its cargo fleet, expands its ground operations

Engadget

'Project Cars 3' trailer has some sim racing fans worried

The folks at Simply Mad Studios have released a short preview for their first Project Cars game under new ownership with Codemasters, and the response from fans has been a bit uneven. The nearly two-minute video looks sharp and smooth of course, with...

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'Project Cars 3' trailer has some sim racing fans worried

TechCrunch

Singapore-based caregiving startup launches Homage Health for online and home medical consultations

Homage, the Singapore-based startup that matches families and caregivers, has launched a new service that provides home medical visits, telehealth consultations and medication delivery. Called Homage Health, the service was already being developed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but co-founder and CEO ...

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Singapore-based caregiving startup launches Homage Health for online and home medical consultations

Engadget

Kitty Hawk moves on from its original flying car project

Kitty Hawk's Flyer, the company's first flying car project, is no more. The company has announced that it's shutting down the initiative in a blog post, where it has also revealed that it?ll focus on its Heaviside plane going forward. According to Te...

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Engadget

Kitty Hawk moves on from its original flying car project

The Verge

Namco ports Pac-Man CE for the Xbox 360 to the NES for the Switch

Namco has a new range of Famicom (NES) games coming out for the Nintendo Switch this month, and it includes an unexpected bonus: a NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, the incredibly good reimagining of Pac-Man released for the Xbox 360 in 2007. Pac-Man CE transformed Pac-Man from a plodding ...

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Namco ports Pac-Man CE for the Xbox 360 to the NES for the Switch

TechCrunch

Prosecutors seek arrest warrant against Samsung heir Jay Lee

South Korean prosecutors said on Thursday that they have filed an arrest warrant for Samsung Group's anointed heir Jay Y. Lee and two other former company executives as part of a sprawling investigation into an alleged accounting fraud and a controversial merger that shook the country. In May, Lee appeared ...

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Prosecutors seek arrest warrant against Samsung heir Jay Lee

Ars Technica

Slay the Spire, the decade's best deckbuilding game, coming to iOS in June

Android version also teased; exact June release date for $10 game coming soon.

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Slay the Spire, the decade's best deckbuilding game, coming to iOS in June

Engadget

Fiat Chrysler's early EV plans include an Alfa Romeo SUV in 2022

Fiat Chrysler hasn't been very specific about its plans for all-electric vehicles, but it's starting to open up. The company told Autocar (via Electrek) that its Alfa Romeo brand will release a small electric SUV sometime in 2022. A spokesperson didn...

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Fiat Chrysler's early EV plans include an Alfa Romeo SUV in 2022

TechCrunch

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites and achieves a reusability record for a Falcon 9 booster

SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 rocket in the span of just four days on Wednesday at 9:25 PM EDT (6:25 PM PDT). This one was carrying 60 more satellites for its Starlink constellation, which will bring the total currently in operation on orbit to 480. The launch took off from Florida, where

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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites and achieves a reusability record for a Falcon 9 booster

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Jack Dorsey is giving millions to Colin Kaepernick's criminal justice group

Jack Dorsey sits onstage at the Code Conference in 2016 alongside activist DeRay Mckesson. | Asa Mathat His gift is the largest yet from tech billionaires who are donating to criminal justice reform. The police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, has shaken the country ...

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Jack Dorsey is giving millions to Colin Kaepernick's criminal justice group

Engadget

Facebook and Instagram "mistakenly" blocked sikh for months

Facebook and Instagram have unblocked the sikh hashtag after nearly three months, saying the block happened "mistakenly" as the result of a report in early March. The company says it first became aware of the block on Wednesday, after feedback from...

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Facebook and Instagram "mistakenly" blocked sikh for months

TechCrunch

Google and Walmart establish dominance in India's mobile payments market as WhatsApp Pay struggles to launch

In India, it's Google and Walmart-owned PhonePe that are racing neck-and-neck to be the top player in the mobile payments market, while Facebook remains mired in a regulatory maze for WhatsApp Pay's rollout. In May, more than 75 million users transacted on Google Pay app, ahead of PhonePe's 60 million ...

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Google and Walmart establish dominance in India's mobile payments market as WhatsApp Pay struggles to launch

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Amazon's top lawyer sent a "Black Lives Matter" memo. But he didn't mention his own racial controversy.

Former Amazon employee Christian Smalls protesting outside Amazon's Staten Island, New York, warehouse on March 30. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Amazon general counsel David Zapolsky still hasn't addressed his staff about comments he made about fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls. On Wednesday, ...

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Amazon's top lawyer sent a "Black Lives Matter" memo. But he didn't mention his own racial controversy.

Ars Technica

HBO's latest terrifying trailer for Lovecraft Country couldn't be more timely

Stories are a living thing.

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HBO's latest terrifying trailer for Lovecraft Country couldn't be more timely

The Verge

Fortnite's next live event and season delayed again

Image: Epic Games Epic Games has delayed Fortnite's next in-game live event and the start of the game's next season due to widespread outrage over the death of George Floyd and ongoing police brutality in response to protests around the country. The in-game live event, titled "The Device," will ...

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The Verge

Fortnite's next live event and season delayed again

Ars Technica

SpaceX lands the same rocket for the fifth time [Updated]

Company is also now operating two rocket-catching boats in the Atlantic.

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Ars Technica

SpaceX lands the same rocket for the fifth time [Updated]

TechCrunch

RiskIQ adds National Grid Partners as securing data becomes a strategic priority for utilities

RiskIQ, a startup providing application security, risk assessment and vulnerability management services, has added National Grid Partners as a strategic investor. The funding from the investment arm of National Grid, a multinational energy provider, is part of a $15 million new round of financing designed ...

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RiskIQ adds National Grid Partners as securing data becomes a strategic priority for utilities

The Verge

Nintendo's Donkey Kong statue was not actually stolen from its New York store

Photo by Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge Fear not: a large Donkey Kong statue at Nintendo's New York City store has not gone missing after the building was broken into on Monday evening. A now-viral tweet claimed looters removed a life-sized model of the fictional gorilla during demonstrations ...

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The Verge

Nintendo's Donkey Kong statue was not actually stolen from its New York store

WIRED

Zoom's End-to-End Encryption Will Be for Paying Customers Only

The videoconferencing company says it wants to be able to work with law enforcement to catch bad actors on its platform.

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WIRED

Zoom's End-to-End Encryption Will Be for Paying Customers Only

Engadget

'Call of Duty' developer will further crack down on racist players

Activision and Infinity Ward are responding to Black Lives Matter protests with more than delayed Call of Duty seasons. Infinity Ward has vowed to crack down harder on racism in its military shooters, including more efforts to monitor and identify ra...

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'Call of Duty' developer will further crack down on racist players

The Verge

Amazon warehouse workers sue over risk of COVID-19 infection

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of three Amazon warehouse employees who work out of the company's New York fulfillment centers have filed a lawsuit alleging the company put them and their families at risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a report from Bloomberg. One plaintiff, ...

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The Verge

Amazon warehouse workers sue over risk of COVID-19 infection

Ars Technica

The Pentagon's hand-me-downs helped militarize police. Here's how

$7.4 billion of DOD gear sent to more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies.

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Ars Technica

The Pentagon's hand-me-downs helped militarize police. Here's how

Engadget

Epic delays the next 'Fortnite' event and season again

Epic Games has delayed the next Fortnite event and season once more. A one-time event called The Device is moving from June 6th to June 15th. Chapter 2 Season 3, which will probably feature a flooded map, will start two days after that.The publisher...

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Engadget

Epic delays the next 'Fortnite' event and season again

The Verge

Dyson shares new photos and videos of its canceled electric SUV

Images: Dyson Luxury vacuum magnate James Dyson has revealed new photos and a little more information about his company's failed electric vehicle " a project into which he recently revealed he poured more than half a billion dollars of his own money. In a new blog post on his company's website, ...

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The Verge

Dyson shares new photos and videos of its canceled electric SUV

The Verge

SpaceX launches latest batch of internet satellites, including one with a visor

Update June 3rd, 9:43PM ET: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off at 9:25PM ET and deployed all 60 satellites into orbit. The rocket also landed on the company's drone ship in the Atlantic following the launch, marking the fifth time this particular rocket has been recovered after a mission. ...

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The Verge

SpaceX launches latest batch of internet satellites, including one with a visor

Ars Technica

Employees, civil rights groups blast Facebook inaction on Trump statements

The platform's tiny and occasional blocks do not stem the greater tide it permits.

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Employees, civil rights groups blast Facebook inaction on Trump statements

Ars Technica

Google's leaked TV dongle looks like a merger of Android TV and Chromecast

This would be Google's first Android TV device in six years.

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Ars Technica

Google's leaked TV dongle looks like a merger of Android TV and Chromecast

WIRED

How To Delete Your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok

Actually deleting your social media accounts is more complicated than it looks.

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How To Delete Your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok

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First Twitter, now Snapchat: Trump's war on social media has a new target

Evan Spiegel, Snap's CEO, is now in the crosshairs of Donald Trump. Trump's team attacked "radical Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel" in a dramatic escalation of its fight with Silicon Valley. Donald Trump's campaign expanded its war against Silicon Valley tech companies on Wednesday to include Snapchat, ...

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First Twitter, now Snapchat: Trump's war on social media has a new target

WIRED

Major Hydroxychloroquine Trial Shows No Prevention Benefits

A large, double-blind study examined 821 people who had been exposed to the virus. The drug was no better at stopping Covid-19 infection than a placebo.

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WIRED

Major Hydroxychloroquine Trial Shows No Prevention Benefits

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Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's tense meeting with Facebook employees

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images This is how Facebook's CEO is thinking about democracy, speech, and racial justice at a critical moment. On Tuesday morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg led a tense video call meeting with 25,000 of his employees ...

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Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's tense meeting with Facebook employees

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Zoom wants to "work together" with the FBI. That may not be as bad as it sounds.

A cat is seen on a table during a video call on May 27, 2020, in Milan, Italy. | Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Everyone's mad at Zoom again. Zoom can't win. The videoconferencing service that catapulted to both fame and infamy during the pandemic was subjected to a fresh ...

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Zoom wants to "work together" with the FBI. That may not be as bad as it sounds.

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From Citizen to Signal, the most popular apps right now reflect America's protests

Protesters around the US are turning to technology to organize and stay safe from law enforcement. | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images What app downloads tell us about how protesters are organizing. As protests against police brutality have swept across the United States, ...

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From Citizen to Signal, the most popular apps right now reflect America's protests

WIRED

16 Health Workers Talk About Their Battles With the Pandemic

WIRED's video team reached out to doctors, physician assistants, and paramedics, and asked them about their experiences treating Covid-19 patients.

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WIRED

16 Health Workers Talk About Their Battles With the Pandemic

Fast Company

'Standing in the gap': One part of allyship that gets overlooked

After a hellish week of grappling with the emotional trauma of more senseless murders of black men and women, I've finally mustered up enough energy to speak my truth. I'm TIRED. And here's why: I'm tired of swallowing my pain so that I can put on a happy face for my baby boys who are growing up ...

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Fast Company

'Standing in the gap': One part of allyship that gets overlooked

Fast Company

Warner Music Group pops after Nasdaq debut as the pandemic and protests rage on

Warner Music Group, one of the "big three&x201D; U.S. record labels, was trading up by more than 19.5% after debuting on the Nasdaq exchange this morning. The firm priced 77 million shares at $25 and trading opened at $27, making it the biggest U.S. listing of 2020. The share price then rose above $29 ...

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Fast Company

Warner Music Group pops after Nasdaq debut as the pandemic and protests rage on

Fast Company

Pipeline companies are still trying to take people's land?even during a pandemic

Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan is cutting a 400-mile line across the middle of Texas, digging up vast swaths of private land for its planned Permian Highway Pipeline. The project is ceaseless, continuing through the coronavirus pandemic. Landowner Heath Frantzen says that dozens of workers have shown ...

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Fast Company

Pipeline companies are still trying to take people's land?even during a pandemic

Fast Company

Trump campaign rips Evan Spiegel as 'radical' after Snapchat stops promoting president's account

Snap Inc. said today that President Trump's account will no longer be featured with other high-profile and professional accounts on its Snapchat Discover page. "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,&x201D; a spokesperson told ...

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Fast Company

Trump campaign rips Evan Spiegel as 'radical' after Snapchat stops promoting president's account

Fast Company

Waiting for a second stimulus check? The GOP isn't itching to send you one

Bad news if you are hoping on another stimulus payment: it might not be coming. Though Republicans are talking about a summer stimulus package, they are not specifying that stimulus payments will be part of the deal. In other words, when Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says there's a "strong likelihood&x201D; ...

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Fast Company

Waiting for a second stimulus check? The GOP isn't itching to send you one

Fast Company

The narratives Facebook uses to keep its employees happy are crumbling

When you run a business whose very design lends itself to nefarious–even dystopian–uses, you need a set of carefully crafted narratives to keep your mainly younger, liberal-minded workforce feeling good about coming to work every day. Sometimes the high salaries and wicked perks just aren't enough. ...

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Fast Company

The narratives Facebook uses to keep its employees happy are crumbling

WIRED

Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Gaming PC

Prebuilt gaming computers are more affordable and more powerful than ever. Before you shell out for one, here's some advice.

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WIRED

Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Gaming PC

WIRED

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in

Why is he abetting Trump while civil rights leaders and his own employees rebuke him? It's about dominance.

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Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in