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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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  ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

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

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

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

12. '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 ...

13. The next 'Detective Pikachu' game is headed to Nintendo Switch
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... conference today, execs said "Plans are under way to br... Read all  ...

14. 'Pokémon Go' gamified walking, so now 'Pokémon Sleep' scores your naps
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So how will the Pokémon Company and Niantic follow up Pokémon Go? At a press conference today they revealed Pokémon Sleep, a new mobile game that tracks your time sleeping ...

15. iOS 13's Dark Mode is on display in new screenshots
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Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is less than a week away, but if you just can't wait to get a glimpse of the changes coming to iOS, you're in luck. 9to5Mac posted screenshots ...

16. Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says Fox News is "much, much more powerful and much more destructive than Twitter"
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... Trump has done with Twitter is pretty genius, frankly," Williams said in an interview with CNN Business at the Collision tech conference in Toronto on Tuesday. "He's a master of the platform like few others." From ...

17. My daughter loves LEGO, maybe their creative toolbox will encourage her to code
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... to be the modern evolution of Mindstorms. My friends and I used to build LEGO Mindstorms robots and pitch them against one another on a conference room table, late at night at our Dotcom-era start-up. ...

18. The weight of a kilogram changed overnight; the length of a second may be next
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... the Planck constant." Scientists at the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures also redefined the kelvin, the ampere, and the mole. UP next, the second! The good news is that the changes are so ...

19. Europe's top trustbuster thinks it'll be impossible to break up Facebook
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... in the courts for years). Vestager just repeated these sentiments at the Vivatech conference in Paris today, saying "For us it would be a remedy of the very last resort. It would keep us busy in court ...

20. The world's preeminent cryptographers can't get visas to speak at US conferences
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... cryptography legend Adi Shamir (he's the "S" in "RSA") could not get a visa to visit the USA to participate in the RSA conference (again, he's the "S" in "RSA"). Shamir is a recipient of the Turing Prize ...

21. Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them
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... in that capacity, he recently presented at UC Berkeley's School of Information with a talk called "The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom" at the schoo's Dataedge 2019 conference. The ...

22. LA! Come see me this Saturday at the Nebula Awards Conference, and next Thursday at Exposition Park Library!
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This Saturday, May 18, I'll be appearing at the Nebula Awards Conference, at the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills: I'll be participating in the 1:30PM mass signing in the Grand Ballroom and then ...

23. AT&T will pull shows like 'Friends' from streaming rivals
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... conference that the company "will be bringing" many of its m... Read all  ...

24. Disney expects a third live-action 'Star Wars' series by 2022
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... a media conference, chief exec Bob Iger said he expect... Read all  ...

25. The Morning After: Reviewing Mercedes' tech-filled A220
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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. The weekend is a perfect time to catch up on everything announced during Microsoft's Build 2019 conference and Google's I/O event. Of course, the news wasn't ...