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CNET: Best vlogging cameras and accessories for YouTube - CNET Whether you're just shooting for fun or you're a semiprofessional YouTuber, this is the gear you need to make your videos shine. 1 hour ago
CNET: The best electric toothbrushes in 2019 for whiter teeth and a healthier mouth - CNET From whitening power to gum care, there’s an electric toothbrush for everyone. Here's how to choose the best electric toothbrush. 1 hour ago
CNET: Iceland holds funeral for 700-year-old glacier killed by climate change - CNET Iceland's Okjokull glacier spanned 15 square miles in 1901. Now it spans less than half a square mile. 1 hour ago
TechCrunch: RedDoorz raises $70M to expand its budget hotel network in Southeast Asia Singapore-based budget hotel booking startup RedDoorz is tiny in comparison to fast-growing giant Oyo. But it is holding its ground and winning the trust of an ever growing number of investors. On Monday, the four-year-old startup announced it has raised $70 million in Series C financing round, less than five months after it closed its […] 1 hour ago
Gizmodo: Semen Smugglers, Spreadsheets, and Laughing to Death: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week It’s been a weird one this week at Gizmodo, folks: From hacking buttplugs and realizing our dog photos have personally identifiable information in them to smuggled boar semen and an Arctic weather station hitting nearly 95 degrees Fahrenheit, we’ve been hard at work churning out the content you crave and that makes…Read more... 2 hours ago
CNET: Lion King remake is the 9th highest-grossing film ever - CNET It beat Avengers: Age of Ultron to secure the spot. 2 hours ago
CNET: Everything the iPhone 11 needs to be successful - CNET Commentary: The next iPhone doesn't need a radical redesign, but it does need some solid upgrades and new features to be a success. 2 hours ago
CNET: Watch the spectacular moment an enormous meteor lights up the skies of Sardinia - CNET For one brilliant moment, it literally lit the night sky. 2 hours ago
Gizmodo: Icelanders Mourn Loss of Okjökull Glacier With Ceremony, Plaque Politicians, scientists, and others gathered in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, northeast of Reykjavik on Sunday to mourn the loss of the Okjökull glacier, laying a plaque warning of the impact of climate change, the BBC reported.Read more... 3 hours ago
CNET: Kevin Smith to write Masters of the Universe animated series for Netflix - CNET Masters of the Universe: Revelation will tell "the epic tale of what may be He-Man and Skeletor's final battle." 3 hours ago
Gizmodo: Nintendo Says That Rumored Switch Exchange Deal Is Fake News So you know all those reports earlier this week about a Nintendo Switch exchange program? Yeah, turns out it was all a bunch of crap. The Verge published an official statement from a Nintendo rep on Saturday debunking the deal. Read more... 3 hours ago
CNET: Galaxy Note 10 Plus ongoing review: Samsung's camera gets a big boost - CNET The first couple days with Samsung's 6.8-inch superphone have been illuminating. 3 hours ago
CNET: 13 Apple Watch bands to get on Amazon - CNET From stainless steel to silicone, there's an Apple Watch band for every purpose. 4 hours ago
CNET: Spider-Man: Far From Home is Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film of all time - CNET That Marvel-Sony deal helps the webslinger knock super-spy James Bond from the top spot. 4 hours ago
TechCrunch: The Bugatti Centodieci is a $8.9 million homage to the early 90s EB110 supercar The Bugatti Centodieci is the French automaker’s most powerful supercar yet — coming in a skosh above the Chiron at 1,600 horsepower. But it’s not just the power — or the $8.9 million price tag — that makes the Centodieci stand out. The angular supercar, still dotted with the signature Bugatti design elements, tips its […] 4 hours ago
Gizmodo: This Unnerving Legion Clip Showcases Some of the Show's Creepiest Villains Legion mixed high-level design and filming techniques with wild comics-y shenanigans up until the end, and this recently released clip from the seventh episode of the show’s third season showcases precisely what that looks like in action. Read more... 5 hours ago
TechCrunch: Tesla pitches a solar rental program to boost its renewable energy business Tesla is pitching customers on a new rental offering for solar power as a way to revive the flagging fortunes of its renewable energy business. Once among the largest installers of renewables in the country through SolarCity, Tesla has seen its share of the market decline significantly since its acquisition of SolarCity three years ago. […] 6 hours ago
Gizmodo: To Curb Hate Speech Online, Beto O'Rourke Says Hold the Platforms Hosting That Shit Responsible Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke wants to stem the spread of hate speech on the internet after several recent mass shootings, including one in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso earlier this month, have been linked to online extremism. One solution proposed in a recent blog post on his campaign website would hold…Read more... 7 hours ago
Gizmodo: Report: FTC, FCC Squabbled About Who Is Responsible for Cracking Down on VoIP Robocalls As automated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems fueled a national robocall epidemic estimated at tens of billions of bogus calls annually, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission argued over who should actually do something about it, according to a Sunday report in the Wall…Read more... 8 hours ago
Gizmodo: George R.R. Martin Says Game of Thrones Ending Was Freeing as a Writer Writing a fantasy epic is hard. Writing a fantasy epic while also competing with a television show that adapts said epic, and will finish before you? Apparently that’s way harder.Read more... 8 hours ago
Gizmodo: Arnold Schwarzenegger Shares a Fantastic Piece of Old Terminator Storyboarding I don’t normally think of Terminator as being a very emotionally expressive franchise, but there’s something haunting about this great storyboard. Read more... 9 hours ago
Gizmodo: Sunday's Best Deals: Fire TVs, Instant Pot Max, AmazonBasics Batteries, and More Get a free Echo Dot when you buy a Fire TV, Instant Pot Max, and a 20-pack of AmazonBasics AA Batteries lead of Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more... 13 hours ago
TechCrunch: Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Wu Assassins’ is a punching, kicking delight When we reviewed “Another Life” last week, we described it as an old-fashioned space show, something that’s been absent from TV for the past decade or so. “Wu Assassins” is another new Netflix series, and it’s also a kind of throwback — this time to ’90s martial arts series like “Vanishing Son” and “Kung Fu: […] 13 hours ago
TechCrunch: The mainstream media have still not learned the lessons of Gamergate This week the New York Times published a five-years-later retrospective on Gamergate and its aftereffects, which is chilling and illuminating, and you should go read it. It makes an excellent case — several excellent written cases, actually — that “everything is Gamergate,” that it and its hate-screeching online mobs were the prototype for all the […] 14 hours ago
Gizmodo: Get a Pack of 20 AmazonBasics AA Batteries For $6 When You Subscribe & Save AmazonBasics AA Batteries, 20-Pack | $6 | Amazon | Clip 30% off coupon when you Subscribe & SaveRead more... 15 hours ago
TechCrunch: Week in Review: Snapchat beats a dead horse Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about how Netflix might have some rough times ahead as […] 15 hours ago
Wired: Form Swim Goggles Review: Fitness Tracking at the Pool Form is moving the swim watch from your wrist to your face. Our review of its fitness-tracking augmented reality goggles. 15 hours ago
Wired: Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About $5) Coffee Haus makes coffee drinks 100 times an hour in its robotic kiosks. No humans required. 16 hours ago
TechCrunch: NASA and SpaceX practice Crew Dragon evacuation procedure with astronaut recovery vessel NASA and SpaceX continue their joint preparations for the eventually astronaut crew missions that SpaceX will fly for the agency, with a test of the emergency evacuation procedure for SpaceX’s GO Searcher seaborne ship. The ship is intended to be used to recover spacecraft and astronauts in an actual mission scenario, and the rehearsals this […] 1 day ago
TechCrunch: Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways Inside Voyage’s plan to deliver a driverless future In the autonomous vehicle space, startups have taken radically different strategies to building our AV future. Some companies like Waymo have driven all across different types of environments in order to rack up the datasets that they believe will be needed to effectively maneuver without a human […] 1 day ago
TechCrunch: Ikea doubles down on smart home tech with new business unit Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit. The company’s smart home endeavors began in 2012, and focused on wireless charging and smart lighting. It’s iterated in both […] 1 day ago
TechCrunch: SoftBank reportedly plans to lend employees as much as $20 billion to invest in its VC fund SoftBank has a plan to loan up to $20 billion to its employees, including CEO Masayoshi Son, for the purposes of having that capital re-invested in SoftBank’s own Vision venture fund, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. That’s a highly unusual move that could be risky in terms of how much […] 1 day ago
Wired: Best Gaming Mouse for 2019 (WIRED Tested, Wireless, Cheap) Whether you're into esports or casual fragging, these are the best corded and wireless gaming mice we've tested. 1 day ago
Wired: Back-to-School Sales for 2019: Best Tech Deals We Could Find We combed through this weekend's back-to-school deals for bargains on great tech and dorm room essentials. 1 day ago
Wired: Apple Puts the AR in 'Art' (and in 'Transparent Sky-Being') The company’s newly launched augmented-reality walks may only be available in five cities, but [AR]T Walk creates wildly ambitious deployments of public art. 2 days ago