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1. Court records show Trump was on calls with aides to kill stories of alleged sex affairs before 2016 election
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... of people are in brand-new trouble today. Breaking news responses from Twitter notables and reporters on the story, below. Trump, Hicks, and Cohen had a conference call the day after the Access Hollywood ...

2. No bail for Jeffrey Epstein, he will stay in detention pending trial
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... Berman ended the hearing by scheduling a July 31 conference, primarily for purposes of case management and scheduling. Epstein is sitting still, his hands folded together on the table in front of him. ...

3. US Treasury has 'serious concerns' Libra could be used for terrorism
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The US government views cryptocurrencies, including Facebook-backed Libra, as a national security issue. In a press conference today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury Department has ...

4. US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers
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As city after city has remitted hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay off ransomware criminals who hijacked their crucial systems, the US Conference of Mayors had unanimously adopted a resolution to ...

5. AOC and Greta Thunberg talk tactics and hope
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Congresswoman and force of nature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and student activist and force of nature Greta "Extinction Rebellion" Thunberg conducted a videoconference to meet one another and talk tactics ...

6. Exorcist training and conference next month in Chicago
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Next month in Chicago, the Pope Leo XIII Institute will hold its annual exorcism conference for clergy. While not directly associated with or funded by the Catholic Church, the Institute was "established ...

7. Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call
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Netflix Hangouts lets you watch Netflix at the office without your boss knowing by playing it in a quadrant of a fake video conference call. Read the rest Read all  ...

8. AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect
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I used to be on the program committee for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conferences; one year we decided to make the theme "magic" -- all the ways that new technologies were doing things that baffled ...

9. Trump asked about busing, announces new plan coming in four weeks
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During a press conference at the G-20 Summit in Japan, President Trump was asked about federally mandated busing, a topic that Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden sparred over during ...

10. Uber drivers in Toronto unionizing to take on The Man
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... and Commercial Workers, a 250,000-strong trade union which operates in both Canada and the U.S. The actual number of drivers who had signed cards was not released, but during a press conference this afternoon, ...

11. Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead
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Linux founder Linus Torvalds, today at the KubeCon + CloudNative + Open Source Summit China conference, warned attendees that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging Read all  ...

12. Apple's Seattle workforce will quintuple by 2024
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Apple is doubling down on the number of employees it plans on hiring in its new Seattle site. The company announced at a Monday news conference that it would be bringing 2,000 jobs to the city by 2024 ...

13. macOS Catalina preview: It's all about the apps
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Three weeks ago, Apple was holding court at the San Jose Convention Center, where it kicked off its annual developer conference with first looks at iOS 13, iPadOS and the latest version of macOS, Catalina. ...

14. Google Stadia launches this November with $130 Founder's Edition
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On the eve of E3 (well, the night before EA's press conference, anyway), Google has revealed pricing and availability for Stadia, its highly anticipated game streaming service. The big date for your ...

15. Massive boulder that rolled onto Colorado highway is too expensive to move, will now be a tourist attraction
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... to come, people will have the opportunity to observe this geological masterpiece that we're calling Memorial Rock," Polis said at a news conference earlier this week... The highway will be widened with ...

16. Amazon's StyleSnap puts fashion from photos in your shopping cart
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... and space) 2019 conference, Amazon announced an up... Read all  ...

17. Robert Downey Jr. wants to clean up Earth using nanotech
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Robert Downey Jr. took to the stage at Amazon's Re:MARS conference to talk about his goals for the future of the environment. The actor said that he was launching a new foundation that would harness ...

18. iOS 13 beta mentions Apple’s Tile-like tracking device
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It appears Apple left one item out of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) yesterday: its Tile-like tracking device. Earlier this spring, we learned that Apple is supposedly working on a tracking ...

19. WWDC 2019 by the numbers
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Apple held its 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose on Monday and took the opportunity to show off its latest MacOS build, a bunch of new features for the iPad, a bonkers 6K display for its ...

20. The new Apple TV app debuts on macOS Catalina
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... its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The... Read all  ...

21. Apple CarPlay redesign puts multiple apps side-by-side
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Apple CarPlay is getting a redesign. Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) that it is overhauling the in-car entertainment system's dashboard to display more relevant ...

22. Watch Apple's WWDC keynote at 1PM ET
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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is about to get underway, and there should be plenty of news in store at the opening keynote. We expect to learn details about iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS ...

23. The Morning After: The night before WWDC 2019
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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. This week brings a doubleheader of tech events, with Apple's developer conference to start and E3 at the end. For all of the big news from WWDC 2019, you should ...

24. The Morning After: Apple's future without iTunes
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... conferences start. Otherwise, let's take a look at some... Read all  ...

25. 'Beyond Good and Evil 2' won't be at E3
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The highly anticipated Beyond Good and Evil 2 won't be making an appearance at E3 this year, but fans will get more information about the game's status before the major gaming conference. Ubisoft ...