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Ars Technica

NASA says its Mars helicopter is ready for a historic first flight

This is all experimental, so it's quite possible that Ingenuity will fail.

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Ars Technica

NASA says its Mars helicopter is ready for a historic first flight

The Verge

Amazon has reportedly canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game

Amazon Game Studios has canceled a Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported. The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play game for PC and consoles. The game was to be set "at a time long before ...

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The Verge

Amazon has reportedly canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game

Engadget

'Roblox' will use content ratings to help limit access to sexual material

'Roblox' creators have promised a content rating system that will help prevent kids from seeing sexual activity in games on the platform.

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Engadget

'Roblox' will use content ratings to help limit access to sexual material

The Verge

NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter's first flight on Mars for Monday

An artists" rendering of the Ingenuity and its parent rover Perseverance | NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has rescheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter to April 19th at 3:30AM ET, the agency announced Saturday. The four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February ...

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The Verge

NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter's first flight on Mars for Monday

Engadget

NASA will attempt to fly its Mars helicopter on April 19th

NASA now expects to fly its Mars helicopter Ingenuity no earlier than April 19th, with live coverage that morning.

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Engadget

NASA will attempt to fly its Mars helicopter on April 19th

Ars Technica

Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art

Italian chemists successfully tested their hydrogels on actual street art in Florence.

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Ars Technica

Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art

Engadget

Chrome 90 will let you share links to highlighted text

Google has started rolling out a feature for Chrome 90, which will allow you to create a link that takes people straight to the part of a page you highlighted.

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Engadget

Chrome 90 will let you share links to highlighted text

The Verge

CPSC urges people with children at home to stop using Peloton Tread Plus treadmill "immediately"

Photo by Ethan Miller / Getty Images The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday issued a warning about Peloton Tread Plus treadmills, saying the machines pose 'serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death." In a March blog post by CEO John Foley, the company ...

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The Verge

CPSC urges people with children at home to stop using Peloton Tread Plus treadmill "immediately"

TechCrunch

How one founder build a startup around compassion and care facilitated by AI

In the second episode of our new podcast Found, our guest is Brie Code. Code is the founder and CEO of TRU LUV, a startup based out of Toronto that has its roots in the game industry, but that is taking a radically different approach to designing interactive experiences based on a historically-overlooked ...

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TechCrunch

How one founder build a startup around compassion and care facilitated by AI

The Verge

During Indianapolis shooting, FedEx cell phone policy meant some family members couldn't reach workers

Police caution tape blocks the entrance to the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. | Photo by JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images During a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday, a company policy barring some employees from having their ...

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The Verge

During Indianapolis shooting, FedEx cell phone policy meant some family members couldn't reach workers

Engadget

Peloton opposes US demand for Tread+ recall following child injuries

Peloton is fighting US demands for a Tread+ recall after reports of numerous injuries to children, including one death.

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Engadget

Peloton opposes US demand for Tread+ recall following child injuries

TechCrunch

Hear how StockX brought the sneaker scene to Detroit

At TechCrunch's Detroit City Spotlight this week, I sat down with Rae Witte, the journalist behind the StockX EC-1. TechCrunch's EC-1 push allows individual authors to go deep on a particular company. And as StockX has been headquartered in Detroit since its inception, we took the chance to dig into ...

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TechCrunch

Hear how StockX brought the sneaker scene to Detroit

Engadget

Hitting the Books: How Planck's 'chain of tiny beads' helps explain why lightbulbs work

'Einstein's Fridge' author Paul Sen explores the works and quirks of the pioneering researchers " from Lord Kelvin and James Joule to Emmy Noether, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking " who sought to understand how heat helped shape the known universe.

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Engadget

Hitting the Books: How Planck's 'chain of tiny beads' helps explain why lightbulbs work

The Verge

Twitter having a partial outage Saturday morning

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It looks like problems on Twitter that began Friday night are persisting Saturday morning. People on the east coast of the US were reporting that while the page would load, they were unable to send tweets and DMs. As of 11 AM ET Saturday, ...

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The Verge

Twitter having a partial outage Saturday morning

Engadget

Studio SWEAT delivers a gym experience to your home for $99

With a one-year subscription to Studio SWEAT onDemand, you get access to a massive list of live and pre-recorded fitness classes. You?ll join thousands of other members who are working out remotely while still enjoying the full gym experience.

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Engadget

Studio SWEAT delivers a gym experience to your home for $99

The Verge

Peloton is fighting a recall request on its treadmill after a child died last month

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is resisting a request from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to recall its Tread Plus treadmill, which was involved with the death of a child last month, the Washington Post is reporting tonight. At the time of the ...

5 hours ago

The Verge

Peloton is fighting a recall request on its treadmill after a child died last month

TechCrunch

Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era

After months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing.

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TechCrunch

Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era

TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 ...

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TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids

WIRED

Everyone On Facebook's Oversight Board Should Resign

The committee's coming decision on banning Donald Trump from the platform is meaningless. Its existence only gets in the way of actually fixing Facebook.

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WIRED

Everyone On Facebook's Oversight Board Should Resign

WIRED

How the FBI Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe's SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week's top security news.

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WIRED

How the FBI Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

WIRED

The Best Accessories for Your New PlayStation 5

From backup controllers to full-on sound systems, here are our favorite complements to your PS5.

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WIRED

The Best Accessories for Your New PlayStation 5

WIRED

We're Starting to See How Covid PPE Litter Affects Wildlife

More than a year into the pandemic, scientists and environmentalists have the first data on where disposable gloves and masks are turning up in ecosystems.

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WIRED

We're Starting to See How Covid PPE Litter Affects Wildlife

WIRED

What Is Hi-Fi Audio, and Should You Pay More for It?

A number of streaming services offer "high-quality" options, from Amazon Music to Spotify's upcoming tier. Here's how to demystify them.

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WIRED

What Is Hi-Fi Audio, and Should You Pay More for It?

Ars Technica

At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eager for a shot

Some worry the country can't keep up the current pace of vaccination.

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Ars Technica

At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eager for a shot

WIRED

15 Best Weekend Deals on TVs, Smart Speakers, and PC Gear

It's a laid-back, put-your-feet-up kind of weekend. These discounts might help get your zen on.

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WIRED

15 Best Weekend Deals on TVs, Smart Speakers, and PC Gear

Ars Technica

DC's Rorschach: A detective walks into a world shaped by squids and superheroes

During COVID-19, Rorschach has been something to look forward to each month.

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Ars Technica

DC's Rorschach: A detective walks into a world shaped by squids and superheroes

Fast Company

This immersive technology turns hospitals into less stressful places

There is quality sound, and there is noise. Sadly, in our day-to-day lives, we have way too much of the latter. Excessive noise can cause several short- and long-term health problems, such as sleep disturbance, cardiovascular effects, poorer work and school performance, and the most obvious risk: hearing ...

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Fast Company

This immersive technology turns hospitals into less stressful places

Fast Company

COVID-19 public health messages have been all over the place?but we can do better

Persuading people to get a COVID-19 vaccine remains a challenge even as more than 120 million people in the U.S. have received at least one dose. Public health officials have struggled to find persuasive and accessible approaches throughout the pandemic, from explaining where COVID-19 originated to ...

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Fast Company

COVID-19 public health messages have been all over the place?but we can do better

Fast Company

How to watch Prince Philip's funeral on CNN, ABC, CBS, and elsewhere, including free options

Funeral services for Prince Philip of England are set to take place on Saturday at St. George's Chapel in Windsor. Due to coronavirus restrictions, only family and close friends will attend the services in person. According to Buckingham Palace, the 30-person guest list includes Queen Elizabeth II; ...

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Fast Company

How to watch Prince Philip's funeral on CNN, ABC, CBS, and elsewhere, including free options

Fast Company

3 things to consider if you want your workplace to be 'transparent?

Reminding someone they're behind on a project can be awkward.

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Fast Company

3 things to consider if you want your workplace to be 'transparent?

Recode

Andrew Cuomo and Google's former CEO push to cap internet prices for low-income New Yorkers

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime ally of Andrew Cuomo. | Alejandra Villa/Getty Images The law limits the cost of broadband access to $15 a month for needy families. At the beginning of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to help ...

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Andrew Cuomo and Google's former CEO push to cap internet prices for low-income New Yorkers

TechCrunch

Daily Crunch: Squarespace files to go public

Squarespace is going public, Apple shares some music payment details and Twitter bans the founder of the right-wing media organization Project Veritas. This is your Daily Crunch for April 16, 2021. The big story:

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TechCrunch

Daily Crunch: Squarespace files to go public

Ars Technica

NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander

"We looked at what's the best value to the government."

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Ars Technica

NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander

Ars Technica

21.5-inch iMac supply dwindles amid chip shortages, possible refresh

A new iMac landing next week is a real possibility.

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Ars Technica

21.5-inch iMac supply dwindles amid chip shortages, possible refresh

TechCrunch

Peloton responds to concerns over Apple GymKit integration

Third-party hardware integration can be a tricky thing. Peloton this week raised some eyebrows by dropping Apple GymKit compatibility for its Bike Bootcamp program. Users were, naturally, quick to react. The situation left some wondering whether the move was a direct response to Apple's recent entry ...

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TechCrunch

Peloton responds to concerns over Apple GymKit integration

Fast Company

Should the America First Caucus sound an alarm about white nationalism?

For a political party that seethes at the idea of identity politics, Republicans sure are obsessed with preserving their heritage as a matter of policy. On Friday afternoon, the leading lights of the GOP announced they were forming the America First Caucus, an initiative intended to promote, among ...

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Fast Company

Should the America First Caucus sound an alarm about white nationalism?

Fast Company

This soap refill company is salvaging soap dispensers from other brands

When you order a starter kit from Gelo, which makes pods of concentrated hand soap, you usually get a Gelo-brand soap bottle for you to refill over and over. But if you order Gelo's Soap Bottle Salvage kits, you get a cheeky little extra: an empty bottle from another soap brand, such as Method or Softsoap. ...

1 day ago

Fast Company

This soap refill company is salvaging soap dispensers from other brands

Recode

Biden makes good on his promise to punish Russia for the massive SolarWinds hack

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images America has officially blamed the Russian government for the hack of multiple federal agencies. The Biden administration has officially blamed and sanctioned Russia for its role in the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised computer ...

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Biden makes good on his promise to punish Russia for the massive SolarWinds hack

Recode

Jeff Bezos seems to be reckoning with his legacy in the wake of the Amazon union drive

A woman protests plans to build an Amazon warehouse in France in January 2021. | Chesnot/Getty Images The outgoing CEO is vowing to make Amazon "Earth's Best Employer." In his final letter to Amazon shareholders before stepping aside as CEO, Jeff Bezos offered a vigorous defense ...

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Jeff Bezos seems to be reckoning with his legacy in the wake of the Amazon union drive

Recode

Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea

The child safety groups say that Facebook's plans for Instagram for kids should be canceled. | Richard Baker/in Pictures via Getty Images Facebook is working on a new version of its popular app that's targeted at children under 13. Public health experts are urging ...

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Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea

Recode

Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered

Many vaccine passport initiatives are popping up, but they're not all the same. | Getty Images/iStockphoto What is a vaccine passport" Can I get one" In the United States, vaccine passports have become a controversial issue. But not everyone seems to be arguing ...

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Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered

Recode

Substack wants to pay you to write about local news

Children selling newspapers, 1910. | Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Your local newspaper is dying. Can newsletters replace it" Substack, the email newsletter startup, might be best known as the home of high-profile writers who leave big publications and ...

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Substack wants to pay you to write about local news