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1. Pete Buttigieg's prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: "the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism"
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In 2000, Mayor Pete won the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's Profiles in Courage Essay Contest with an excellent essay praising Bernie Sanders as a unique American politician, whom Buttigieg ...

2. Google Fi will warn you about spam calls
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Google has been extending its cell carrier service, Fi, by offering an unlimited calling and data plan and expanding to cover the iPhone as well as Android devices. However, there were issues with the ...

3. Check out the deliciously insidious first monetized choice in this freemium game
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... icon represents a choice requiring spending premium currency): You encounter the occasional familiar face, as well: However, that's all in the future. At the start of the story, you're in dank cell ...

4. Golden Globe, streaming cancella le emittenti TV
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Nessuno dei cinque maggiori network televisivi USA ha ricevuto nomination per i Golden Globe: spiccano Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video e Apple TV+. The post Golden Globe, streaming cancella le emittenti ...

5. Bose 700 noise-cancelling headphones drop to $349 on Amazon
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... 700 noise-cancelling headphones are on sale at Amazon for... Read all  ...

6. Six tiny cellphones found hidden in a pair of Nike shoes at Oklahoma detention center
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Officials at Logan County Detention Center inspected a pair of Nike shoes and found three tiny cell phones hidden the sole of each shoe, reports Fox News. If you covet such a phone, AliExpress is awash ...

7. Newsletter detailing the world of white collar crime
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Matt Levine's consistently excellent newsletter for Bloomberg is called Money Stuff, and is typically focused on white collar crime and crime-adjacent behavior. Monday's edition looks at the New York ...

8. We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out
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[The sale of the .ORG top-level domain to a private equity fund run by a bunch of Republican billionaires is a corrupt, revolting perversion. Here, my EFF colleague Mitch Stoltz does an excellent job ...

9. A former InfoWars employee describes Alex Jones' bizarre and dangerous behavior
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... bad, things we don’t want to get out, so let me take a look at this before we upload it,” one of my managers said. The first video I clicked on came from a cellphone. The camera pans across a blood-covered ...

10. GM and LG team up to build EV batteries in the US
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In a call today with reporters, GM CEO Mary Barra announced that the company would be teaming up with LG Chem to supply battery cells for the automaker's upcoming electric vehicles including EV trucks. ...

11. FCC Chairman Pai's former employer, Verizon, lied about coverage, and then Pai tried to bury the news
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... wing bias, so when the FCC investigated the claims made by Verizon, T-Mbile and US Cellular about their 4G coverage, it discovered that they had lied to their regulator (again). Rather than punishing ...

12. Bill & Ted's excellent recap
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How's it going, Royal Ugly Dudes? Read the rest Read all

13. Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z companion app is now available on Android
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When it came out earlier this year, there was one small omission to the otherwise excellent package that was Teenage Engineering's diminutive but powerful OP-Z synth: you couldn't use its handy ...

14. These noise-cancelling earbuds adapt to block noise or enhance conversations
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... surroundings using smart noise-cancellation technology. They can either block out distractions or enhance conversations. They are normally priced at $250, but you can get them now for $63.74 with the 15% ...

15. Humiliated Trump leaves NATO summit early after video emerges of world leaders mocking him
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... Trump is. Trump has left the NATO summit early, reports The Independent, after describing Trudeau as "two-faced" and cancelling a press event. Donald Trump has reacted furiously to footage of world leaders ...

16. McKinsey designed ICE's gulags, recommending minimal food, medical care and supervision
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... to the Freedom of Information Act. They document how McKinsey's sole focus was lowering costs and accellerating deportations, even if it meant inhumane conditions and gross miscarriages of justice, including ...

17. Sony’s stellar WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds are under $200 at Amazon
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Sony's WF-1000XM3 are still the best true wireless earbuds, even though they debuted a few months ago. The combination of great sound quality and powerful noise cancellation put these ahead of the ...

18. 14 Can't-Miss Deals With an Extra 20% off This Cyber Monday
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With the season of shopping in full swing, now is an excellent time to go looking for new tech and holiday gifts. Of course, that means everyone else has the same idea. Instead of fighting through the ...

19. Ambiente, COP21: Costa sollecita l'adesione al trattato di Barcellona
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Questa settimana va in scena a Napoli una nuova COP21, Conferenza delle Parti che si lega alla Convenzione quadro delle Nazioni Unite sui cambiamenti climatici (UNFCCC), per la salvaguardia del nostro... ...

20. China now requires face scans to sign up for phone service
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China is as determined as ever to link real identities to the digital world. As of December 1st, anyone signing up for a new cellphone or cellular data contract is required to not only show their national ...

21. Japanese store "rethinks" badges that indicate if employees are menstruating
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... with their support. Daimaru are not cancelling the policy, but they are rethinking it. Ms Higuchi said they would come up with a different way of sharing the information - without alerting the public. 【オープン取材】大丸梅田店の「ミチカケ」が導入している“生理バッジ”は人気漫画「生理ちゃん」が目印。普段から付けている紙のプレートを裏返しにするだけで着用できます。着用の判断はスタッフに委ねているそう。https://t.co/uEaHqxYmm0#ミチカケ ...

22. The Secret World newsletter
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The excellent first edition of Matthew Braga's new Secret World newsletter looks at exactly who you're calling when you use a satellite phone or Garmin emergency beacon to call for help: It turns out that, ...

23. Score an extra 20% off these gadgets with this Black Friday sale
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... code: $12 TREBLAB Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones With neodymium-backed 40mm drivers and T-Quiet noise cancellation, the TREBLAB Z2 headphones provide a great listening experience. Read the rest ...

24. Researchers develop E. coli strain that 'eats' carbon-dioxide
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... to eat, too). According to a new paper published in Cell, s... Read all  ...

25. Twitter non toccherà gli account di utenti defunti
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Twitter ha affermato che non cancellerà gli account inattivi fin quando non troverà una soluzione per commemorare i defunti. The post Twitter non toccherà gli account di utenti defunti appeared first ...