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Sennheiser’s New AirPods Rival Has the Best Sound You Can Buy for $130

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT

If you're in the market for a pair of wireless earbuds with excellent sound but don't want to blow your entire budget on Master & Dynamic's amazing MW08s or Sony's impressive WF-1000XM4s, for $130 Sennheiser's new CX True Wireless buds will make your ears happy—although you'll sacrifice features now found on even…

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U.S. Regulators Want Elevator Company to Issue Recall After 2-Year-Old's Death

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 04:15 AM PDT

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has filed an administrative complaint against Germany-based elevator company thyssenkrupp Access Corp., alleging serious defects that have resulted in the death of one child and serious injury to two others over the past decade. According to the CPSC, thyssenkrupp has…

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DOJ Pinky Swears Not to Torture Julian Assange If He's Extradited to U.S.

Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT

The U.S. Department of Justice has promised a court in the UK not to place Julian Assange in a super-maximum security prison or solitary confinement if he's extradited to the U.S., according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Solitary confinement is defined as torture by most wealthy countries around the…

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TikTok Is Expanding Into Job Recruitment — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 06:02 PM PDT

TikTok — a social media platform best known for its sober, academic exploration of the heady subject matter frequently tackled by its user base — is currently rolling out plans to establish itself as a presence in the job recruitment space.

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Alligator Loki: Everything We Know About Marvel's Next Breakout Superstar

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

We've come to expect the unexpected on Marvel Studios' Loki. Different timelines, crazy callbacks, multiple variants, and, most recently, an alligator with horns. The character, referred to as "Alligator Loki," was introduced in the post-credits sequence of Loki's fourth episode, "The Nexus Event," but came to the…

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American Horror Stories' Cast (So Far) Looks Appropriately Wild

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 04:15 PM PDT

American Horror Story's tenth season, Double Feature, arrives August 25 on FX, but there's a little(r) something coming sooner that should more than tide fans over: American Horror Stories, a spin-off series of the Ryan Murphy juggernaut. While we already knew the series, which Murphy described in May 2020 as "one…

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Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Brought by 36 States and Washington, D.C.

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:31 PM PDT

Google's Android app store is the subject of an antitrust lawsuit brought by 36 states and Washington, D.C. on Wednesday — the latest installment in the ongoing showdown between tech giants and the regulators that seek to bring them to heel.

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The Umbrella Academy Gets an Appropriately Nerdy Tribute Song

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT

It's time for a midweek dance party—don't forget your umbrella! A group of nerdcore rap artists have teamed up to pay Netflix's The Umbrella Academy its musical due, highlighting some of the biggest moments of the series (so far) while getting us amped up for season three.

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Tucker FOIAs the NSA

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:00 PM PDT

It was about two weeks ago that Tucker Carlson first claimed, without evidence, that not only was the National Security Agency spying on him and his staff but that it was plotting to "leak" his show's internal communications in an apparent effort to take it "off the air."

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Chime's Banking App Locked Up Customer's Money for Months During the Pandemic

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 02:49 PM PDT

Chime is a banking app that's racked up glowing praise for its forgiving overdraft policies and easy payment options. But behind the scenes, it was also racking up hundreds of complaints from customers claiming that the company locked them out of their banking accounts, sometimes for months on end.

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The X-Men Better Watch Out for Murd Blurdock, Space Lawyer

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Immediately following the Hellfire Gala, it was impossible for humanity not to take note of what the X-Men were up to on Mars. By terraforming the whole of the frozen planet, dubbing it Arakko, and declaring it the new capital of the Sol system, the mutants put themselves on the intergalactic map and reminded everyone…

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FBI Seized 'Fully Constructed' Lego Set of Capitol Building From Arrested Rioter

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Prosecutors seized a "fully constructed" Lego set of the U.S. Capitol from a man they have charged with leading part of the failed insurrection against Congress in Washington, D.C. on January 6, as first reported by Smoking Gun.

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Fitbit Data Points to Lingering Physical Changes for Some Covid-19 Sufferers

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 02:20 PM PDT

New research out today is the latest to indicate that people who catch covid-19 can experience lingering effects after recovering. The study, based on Fitbit data collected from hundreds of users, found that it took around two to three months for the elevated heart rates of covid-19 survivors to return to normal…

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Elon Musk’s Proposed Fort Lauderdale Tunnel Is a Flood Disaster Waiting to Happen

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Officials from Fort Lauderdale, Florida formally accepted a proposal from Elon Musk's Boring Company on Tuesday to build an underground transit tunnel.

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Sun Gets Ahead of Itself, Shoots Off Huge Solar Flare on July 3rd

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 01:50 PM PDT

The Sun jumped the gun on July 4 celebrations, as a huge solar flare erupted on the morning of July 3. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the outburst.

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Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway Shines Brightest Away From Its Mecha Stars

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 01:30 PM PDT

Mobile Suit Gundam as a franchise might be most widely known for its titular mechanical warriors, their designs as iconic as they have become toyetic in the decades since the original show began its rocky road to international renown. But the latest cinematic entry in the franchise, premiering on Netflix this month,…

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SDCC Faces Changes, Challenges in 2021 and Beyond

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Comic-Con International: San Diego is coming up in a few short weeks, and that you may not have realized that seems significant. For years, San Diego Comic-Con (as it's colloquially known) has been the crown jewel of the pop culture calendar: four days in San Diego, California, filled with comics, movies, toys, and…

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Intel Officials Warned of Hate Groups Using Ashli Babbitt to Incite Terrorism Days After Capitol Siege

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:40 AM PDT

Hardly a week had passed since a violent mob of Americans had laid siege to their own capital on Jan. 6 in a brutish but futile attempt to reverse the course of a national election. U.S. intelligence analysts charged with monitoring terroristic threats emanating from the internet's darkest corners were awash with…

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The Boys Launches a Fake News Show Starring a Tucker Carlson Lookalike

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:30 AM PDT

Dying to know what's been going out with those pesky Boys? Why read a recap when you can check out good ol' fashioned American propaganda! The Boys has launched a new digital series designed to bridge the gap between the superhero series' seasons two and three, taking the form of a news show starring some guy with a…

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One Day, Black Holes Will Be All That's Left of This Star Cluster

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:20 AM PDT

Some 80,000 light-years away, a group of black holes is slowly becoming the only show in town, according to a team of astronomers that recently modeled a globular cluster called Palomar 5. The cluster, which has streams of stars issuing from two arms on either side of it, will eventually be solely constituted by black…

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AI Job Interview Software Can't Even Tell If You're Speaking English, Tests Find

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:10 AM PDT

AI-powered job interview software may be just as bullshit as you suspect, according to tests run by the MIT Technology Review's "In Machines We Trust" podcast that found two companies' software gave good marks to someone responding to an English-language interview in German.

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How to Fix Apartments

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

Roughly 40.1 million Americans live in apartments. For many, they're living in the past.

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Former President Sues Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in Desperate Plea for Platform

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:42 AM PDT

After getting "canceled" by them earlier this year, Donald Trump has announced a trio of class action lawsuits against Twitter, Google, and Facebook, thus generously giving Americans the opportunity to join our former POTUS in his valiant mission for personal revenge.

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Fish Can Get Addicted to Methamphetamine

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:40 AM PDT

When people consume drugs, they metabolize a good portion of them. But what isn't metabolized can come out when people pee, and sewage treatment plants aren't designed to filter those trace amounts of drugs out. That means these trace chemicals end up contaminating our waterways. In a study published in the Journal of…

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Blade Runner: Black Lotus' Cast Has Been Revealed

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:30 AM PDT

The replicants are back, and this time they're more animated than ever. Literally. Crunchyroll and Adult Swim just revealed the characters and international voice cast for the upcoming animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. Yes, that Blade Runner. It'll debut later this year with 13 episodes airing on both Adult…

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