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WIRED

How Video Games Are Saving Those Who Served

Veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges often find solace in gaming. Research shows it's helpful?and could be used more broadly.

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How Video Games Are Saving Those Who Served

WIRED

Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That's Normal

The notion that a split between science and politics must exist is largely a fiction?and one of relatively recent vintage.

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WIRED

Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That's Normal

WIRED

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Review: Apple's Awkward Middle Child

Apple's $1,000 phone sits in the awkward spot of not quite being the best phone. Nevertheless, it offers compelling upgrades.

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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Review: Apple's Awkward Middle Child

WIRED

Apple iPhone 12 Review: Solid, but Don't Buy It Just for 5G

Apple's new iPhone makes a good upgrade if you're ready for your next phone.

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WIRED

Apple iPhone 12 Review: Solid, but Don't Buy It Just for 5G

WIRED

PC Gaming Doesn't Have to Be More Expensive Than Consoles

Don't buy into the myth: If you consider your options carefully, upgrading your desktop doesn't have to empty your wallet.

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WIRED

PC Gaming Doesn't Have to Be More Expensive Than Consoles

WIRED

Can Placebos Work"Even When Patients Know They're Fake"

Researchers showed that a saline spray 'treatment? reduced people's emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn't do anything.

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WIRED

Can Placebos Work"Even When Patients Know They're Fake"

TechCrunch

Microsoft Azure announces its first region in Austria

Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions in Switzerland, Germany, France and a planned new region in northern Italy, this part of Europe now has its fair share of Azure coverage. Microsoft also noted that it ...

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TechCrunch

Microsoft Azure announces its first region in Austria

TechCrunch

Google calls DOJ's antitrust lawsuit "deeply flawed" in GIF-laden blog response

Google was clearly anticipating today's U.S. Department of Justice antitrust complaint filing – the company posted an extensive rebuttal of the lawsuit to its Keyword company blog. The post, penned by SVP of Global Affairs and Google Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, suggests that the DOJ's case is "deeply ...

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TechCrunch

Google calls DOJ's antitrust lawsuit "deeply flawed" in GIF-laden blog response

TechCrunch

Google Photos revives its prints subscription service, expands same-day print options

Google Photos is reviving its photo printing subscription service and introducing same-day prints. The company earlier this year had briefly tested a new program that used A.I. to suggest the month's 10 best photos, which were then shipped to your home automatically. But Google ended the test on June ...

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TechCrunch

Google Photos revives its prints subscription service, expands same-day print options

TechCrunch

Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer" Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task " browsing the web. Today, nobody would say that Google Chrome is a web explorer. Browsing the web has become an effortless " and often mindless " task. ...

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Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

TechCrunch

Robotic kitchen startup YPC raises a $1.8M seed round

Montreal-based YPC Technologies today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round. Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. Toyota ...

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Robotic kitchen startup YPC raises a $1.8M seed round

TechCrunch

As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, some of its key creators raise cash for a new gaming studio

Even as Blizzard pulls the plug on new updates for its StarCraft II game, nearly a decade after its launch, gaming investors are financing the next new thing coming from key members of the game's early development team. Blizzard vets Tim Morten, the former production director for StarCraft II; and Tim ...

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TechCrunch

As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, some of its key creators raise cash for a new gaming studio

The Verge

Watch as NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to grab a sample from an asteroid

This afternoon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will grab a small sample of rocks from the surface of an asteroid named Bennu zooming through space more than 200 million miles from Earth. It's an ambitious task, but if it works, OSIRIS-REx may eventually return to Earth with the largest sample of material ...

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The Verge

Watch as NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to grab a sample from an asteroid

The Verge

For $6.99 a month, Google will send you prints of your 10 best photos, as picked by AI

Your memories, as picked by an algorithm. | Image: Google If you're someone who never prints out any of the photos you take with your smartphone, Google might have a good solution. For $6.99 a month, it"ll use machine learning to automatically select 10 of your best photos and send the prints ...

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The Verge

For $6.99 a month, Google will send you prints of your 10 best photos, as picked by AI

The Verge

Google launches free Stadia game demos to entice people into cloud gaming

Image: Google Google is launching a series of Stadia game demos that are truly free to play. Starting today, existing or new Stadia users will be able to play demos of Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Hello Engineer. These will be available for a week and won't require ...

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The Verge

Google launches free Stadia game demos to entice people into cloud gaming

The Verge

Microsoft made a portable data center in a box

Microsoft's portable data center. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has created a portable data center to bring cloud computing to remote environments. The modular data center is essentially a big box of servers, designed for places where it's difficult to supply reliable cloud connectivity. Microsoft ...

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The Verge

Microsoft made a portable data center in a box

The Verge

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be fully optimized for the Xbox Series X and S

Image: Microsoft The Xbox Series X and Series S consoles are less than a month away from release, and ahead of launch, Microsoft is announcing that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be fully optimized for its next-gen hardware. Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the Series X / S will ...

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The Verge

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be fully optimized for the Xbox Series X and S

The Verge

Some Philips Hue power supplies are being recalled for potential shock risk

Signify, the company behind Philips Hue, is recalling power supplies that shipped with six outdoor lights due to concerns that they could shock owners. The power supplies may short-circuit due to water leakage "in very rare cases," the company said, potentially hurting someone who were to touch ...

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The Verge

Some Philips Hue power supplies are being recalled for potential shock risk

Engadget

A mini 'Pong' arcade machine is on the way

Atari and UNIS have teamed up for another Pong arcade machine you can play at home, albeit one that's much smaller than UNIS' coffee table-sized analog models. The Mini Pong Jr has a 7.9-inch LCD screen and two classic dial controls so you can play w...

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Engadget

A mini 'Pong' arcade machine is on the way

Engadget

Pit Boss adds WiFi to its latest Pro Series pellet grills

When it comes to pellet grills, Pit Boss has a range of options that can compete with bulk of the competition, but at a more affordable price. The company has been giving backyard cooks the ability to smoke, grill, sear and more for a while now, but...

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Engadget

Pit Boss adds WiFi to its latest Pro Series pellet grills

Engadget

Facebook uses AI to forecast COVID-19 spread across the US

It's crucial to predict the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic when a poor estimate could lead to overcrowded hospitals or extra-strict lockdowns. Facebook is betting that AI could help. It just published a paper outlining an AI technique it will...

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Engadget

Facebook uses AI to forecast COVID-19 spread across the US

Engadget

Google revives its AI-fueled photo printing service

Google just made good on its promise to bring back its AI-based Photos printing service, and this time it's more affordable. The upcoming premium print series will once again have machine learning select your 10 best photos each month, but you?ll now...

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Engadget

Google revives its AI-fueled photo printing service

Engadget

Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI

Cyberpunk 2077 is just a few weeks away and the action-packed RPG will launch with support for dialogue in 10 languages and subtitle options for several others. CD Projekt Red is aiming to add a deeper layer of immersion for players by using artifici...

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Engadget

Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI

Engadget

Impossible Foods is working on plant-based milk that tastes like the real thing

During a press conference this morning, Impossible Foods announced that it's branching out from just faux meats and is planning on producing a plant-based milk alternative called Impossible Milk. According to the company, it is not designed to be jus...

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Engadget

Impossible Foods is working on plant-based milk that tastes like the real thing

Fast Company

This 14-year-old scientist has an award-winning idea to beat COVID-19

A COVID-19 cure is vexing scientists around the globe, but the latest idea to beat it comes not from Big Pharma or top-tier university labs. It originated in middle school. Anika Chebrolu, 14, of Frisco, Texas, has won this year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work finding a molecule that ...

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Fast Company

This 14-year-old scientist has an award-winning idea to beat COVID-19

Fast Company

I can't believe we need to say this, but it's never okay to masturbate during a work meeting

In a turbulent sea of terrifying pandemic-election news, the Zoom Dick Incident on Monday, October 19, was a soothing Margaritaville-like oasis. With something between schadenfreude and there-but-for-the-grace-of-God humility, many folks celebrated the almost objectively funny news that a Very Serious ...

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Fast Company

I can't believe we need to say this, but it's never okay to masturbate during a work meeting

Fast Company

NYC's new subway tool settles the biggest debate in maps

Just when you think you've mastered the New York City subway system, it throws a curveball at you. A station or line is closed. A train suddenly runs uptown only. The paper maps plastered all over stations are of little help in this situation. It's why the MTA is constantly printing out all sorts of ...

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Fast Company

NYC's new subway tool settles the biggest debate in maps

Fast Company

The Designers Group CEO on how COVID-19 has changed interior design

Blima Ehrentreu is the founder and CEO of The Designers Group, an interior design firm with offices in Toronto, New York, and Miami. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. Doreen Lorenzo: Have you always been interested ...

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Fast Company

The Designers Group CEO on how COVID-19 has changed interior design

Fast Company

Would a Democratic sweep help or hurt Silicon Valley?

There's just two weeks left until Election Day, and the polling currently has Joe Biden as the overwhelming favorite to take back the White House. Democrats look likely to retake the Senate, too. But if we've learned one thing about 2020, it's that anything can happen–and you better believe that Silicon ...

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Fast Company

Would a Democratic sweep help or hurt Silicon Valley?

Fast Company

These $250 earbuds auto-mold to your ears for a perfect fit

It's not every day that you look in the mirror and see your ears glowing blue. But here I am, in my bathroom, trying the latest technology from the audiophile headphone brand Ultimate Ears, which is owned by Logitech. The company is known for creating anatomically customized, form-fitting ear monitors ...

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Fast Company

These $250 earbuds auto-mold to your ears for a perfect fit

Ars Technica

Major ex-Blizzard contingent forms new RTS-focused game studio

Frost Giant Studios emerges with major pedigree from WarCraft III, StarCraft II teams.

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Ars Technica

Major ex-Blizzard contingent forms new RTS-focused game studio

Ars Technica

Google Stadia's free demos could prove the value of game streaming

Instant access + 'try before you buy" = streaming gaming's killer feature"

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Ars Technica

Google Stadia's free demos could prove the value of game streaming

Ars Technica

Google kills the Nest Secure, its $500 home security system

Nest got into home security three years ago, and now there's an unclear support future.

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Ars Technica

Google kills the Nest Secure, its $500 home security system

Ars Technica

Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust suit against Google

Landmark suit is biggest tech antitrust action since US v. Microsoft in the 1990s.

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Ars Technica

Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust suit against Google

Ars Technica

Today's the big day for NASA's mission that seeks to pluck asteroid dust

"This is much more like four and a half minutes of mild anxiousness."

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Ars Technica

Today's the big day for NASA's mission that seeks to pluck asteroid dust

Ars Technica

US cases surge to new peak as Trump administration goes to war with science

As WHO stresses that we can turn things around, Trump calls experts "idiots."

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Ars Technica

US cases surge to new peak as Trump administration goes to war with science

Recode

Silicon Valley megadonors unleash a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump

Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz is making his biggest political play of the cycle. | Asana Facebook billionaire co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has put more than $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big. A little-known Democratic super PAC backed by some of Silicon ...

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Silicon Valley megadonors unleash a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump

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Bill Barr and Elizabeth Warren find a common enemy: Google

Attorney General William Barr has been criticized for acting as President Trump's personal attorney and pushing the idea that tech companies have an anti-conservative bias. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Massachusetts senator wants the attorney general to resign. She also wants him to sue ...

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Bill Barr and Elizabeth Warren find a common enemy: Google

Recode

The US government is suing Google over anti-competitive practices

Google's UK Headquarters in London, England. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The Department of Justice is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google, zeroing in on the company's tactics to preserve its search dominance. After a 14-month investigation, the United States government filed a landmark ...

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The US government is suing Google over anti-competitive practices