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1. Watch Google's GDC game-streaming event right here at 1PM ET
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Google is planning to reveal its "vision for the future of gaming" at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) later today, where it seems we'll finally get a look at the company's long-rumored ...

2. Warren Spector previews 'System Shock 3'
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Tonight at the Game Developers Conference, Warren Spector showed off a "pre-alpha" glimpse of System Shock 3 that's being developed using the Unity engine. Naturally, the SHODAN AI is back ...

3. Racist Australian Senator egged by teen after saying Christchurch massacre will eventually be "accepted"
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... ultimately released without charge. Here's footage of the egging, the punching, and the choking: WATCH: This is the moment Senator Fraser Anning was egged by a teenage boy during a press conference in ...

4. Microsoft is testing Skype group calls for up to 50 people
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Skype conference calls could be about to get a whole lot busier. Microsoft is planning to bump up the maximum number of group call participants from 25 to 50 (18 more than can fit into a Group FaceTime ...

5. Steam Link Anywhere beta takes PC game streaming on the road
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Valve giving a major expansion to its game streaming service. Just ahead of the 2019 Game Developers Conference, the company announced the release of Steam Link Anywhere, a new feature that will let gamers ...

6. Polish newspaper offers anti-semitic tirade "proving" Poland never did anything anti-semitic
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... at a recent Paris conference. Newsweek: The anti-Semitic headline ran alongside the front page article complaining that speakers at last month’s Holocaust studies meeting in Paris had been attacking ...

7. Apple's WWDC keynote is set for June 3rd
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Apple has set the dates for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference. It takes place June 3rd to 7th at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, the same venue as the last couple of years. At ...

8. Google's Lookout app says what it sees for blind users in the US
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... annual I/O Conference in 2018 and was designed to help the... Read all  ...

9. New York public school lunch program will have "Meatless Mondays"
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... a news conference. "We're expanding Meatless Mondays to all public schools to keep our lunch and planet green for generations to come..." School leaders in New York said doing this just makes good sense. "For ...

10. Mark Zuckerberg has "secret escape passageway" under conference room
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... been briefed about the existence of a top-secret exit route through the floor of the conference room into the parking garage, but others said they had no knowledge of it. Facebook declined to comment on ...

11. EA is the latest to nix its E3 press conference
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When E3 kicks off later this year, Electronic Arts will be seen but not heard. The company announced today that it will be forgoing its standard press conference at the event. Instead, EA will be focused ...

12. Tim Cook is in on the Tim Apple joke
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President Trump knows words. He has the best words. And he showed some of those big beautiful words off yesterday during a press conference for the during the inaugural meeting of the American Workforce ...

13. 10 Vendors Making Product Announcements at RSA Conference 2019
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eSecurityPlanet: Here are 10 vendors with interesting product announcements at the 2019 RSA Conference, spanning email security, container security, threat detection, SIEM, EDR and cloud security. Read ...

14. Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW
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... Fairmont Manchester AB); then at the EFF Austin Party with Cindy Cohn and Bruce Sterling (7PM, 1309 Bonham Terrace); and on Sunday, I'm giving a keynote for Berlin's Re:Publica conference, which has its ...

15. Higher education: cannabis as a college course
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... medicinal plant chemistry after attending a conference where cannabis industry representatives spoke of an urgent need for analytical chemists for product quality assessment and assurance. The four-year ...

16. Top 10 Sessions to Catch at RSA Conference 2019
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eSecurityPlanet: Here are our picks for the top RSA conference sessions that could help you improve cybersecurity within your own organization. Read all  ...

17. 10 Vendors Set to Innovate at RSA Conference 2019
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eSecurityPlanet: Hundreds of vendors exhibit at the annual cyber security gathering, but only 10 are finalists in the 2019 Innovation sandbox contest. Find out who they are. Read all

18. Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds
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... Protocol (RTP) packets. This means that an attacker who joins a network that is carrying the video feed (for example, the wifi at a conference center or coffee shop that Ring owner is using to monitor ...

19. How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions
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... Black clergy members, lobbying Congress, and changing the location of its annual conference to the Trump National Doral Golf Club near Miami. Read the rest Read all  ...

20. Robert Kraft allegedly paid for sex act on morning of AFC Championship game between New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs
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... sting in Florida. Palm Beach state’s attorney Dave Aronberg announced the charges at a press conference Monday. “These cases aren’t about any one defendant or any group of defendants,” Aronberg told reporters. ...

21. San Francisco marijuana crimes to be expunged by the thousands, with Code For America's help
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... crimes will soon be removed from people’s criminal records. That's a big deal. As the SF DA said at today's press conference, a felony conviction for cannabis could mean “barriers to education, housing, ...

22. Xiaomi's Mi 9 flagship comes to Europe on February 28th
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Xiaomi's latest Android flagship, the Mi 9, will hit European store shelves on February 28th. At a press conference in Barcelona, the company confirmed that the phone will be available with either ...

23. Fast food executive complains that social media inflates young people's "self-importance," killing their willingness to work for free
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... to a conference for two weeks, one of her subordinates demanded a payrise for “looking after the department” while she was gone. “I said, ‘Actually you didn’t, I wasn’t on leave. You had maybe an extra ...

24. She's back! RBG returns to the Supreme Court
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... the Supreme Court Friday to participate in the regular closed-door conference meeting among the nine justices, the court announce. This marks the 85-year-old Ginsburg's first time back at the court since ...

25. Blockchain Wikipedia is a dish best served cold
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"You really shouldn't be interviewing me. I don't want to fuck it all up again." We're standing in a greenroom for panelists at StartEngine ICO 2.0, a blockchain conference ...