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Google Is Shuttering the Expeditions App, but Its VR Field Trips Aren't Going Away For Good

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Another one of Google’s virtual reality ventures is biting the dust. The company says it’s ending support for its VR educational app, Expeditions, next year, though it’ll fare far better than Google’s shuttered Daydream VR platform. Instead of discontinuing Expeditions completely, Google’s folding many of the app’s…

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If Only This Animal Crossing Animated Series Were Real

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Though you might have foregone it in favor of other video games, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing is still one of the most charming, relaxing titles to drop just when people across the world needed (and still need) a way to take their minds off the hellscape that is our reality. Animal Crossing encouraged all sorts of…

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The Essential Sneakerhead Starter Pack, According to Outfit Grid's Dennis Todisco

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Even if you aren’t one of his 87,000 Instagram followers, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with Dennis Todisco’s work. You just might not realize it. He’s hardly the first person to take a picture of his outfit and post it to social media, but as the mind behind @OutfitGrid, one of the most prominent fashion…

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Where to Buy an Xbox One X or Xbox Series S

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Top DHS Official Expects to Be Fired After Calling Bull on Trump's Voter Fraud Claims

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The nation’s top cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, has led the charge to debunk the flurry of voter fraud conspiracy theories pushed by the president and his supporters. And soon he expects to lose his job over it, according to multiple reports.

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Facebook: Steve Bannon Hasn't Broken Enough Rules to Fill His 'Account Suspension' Punch Card

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Former Trump advisor and felony fraud defendant Steve Bannon sure has been making headlines this month. First, he called for the murder and public dismemberment of two of the nation’s top officials in his WAR ROOM: Pandemic podcast, leading Facebook and several other social media platforms to remove the episode or ban…

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It's Probably Safe to Expect More $30 Movies on Disney+

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Disney+ has unsurprisingly blown subscriber expectations out of the water, and Disney executives made clear during the company’s earnings call this week they plan to grow those figures by throwing money at more content for the platform. But if Disney brings more premium titles to the service as it did with Mulan, we…

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Save Big on Games and Accessories in Today’s Best PlayStation Deals

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Well, Well, Well, the Commerce Department Actually Does Remember That the TikTok Ban Was Supposed to Happen Today

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A resounding silence echoed throughout the tech blogs today, the date of the long-hyped TikTok ban. It seemed to indicate that the government had hoped that the hypothetical event had already fizzled out in the recesses of public memory like so many flash-bang Trump pronouncements. But no: the Department of Commerce

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Amazon's Alexa Can Now Ask You Follow-Up Questions

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Responding to demands from consumers for “an Alexa, but make it talk even more,” Amazon announced on Wednesday that its latest digital assistant model will be able to infer a user’s “latent goals,” and will use those to pose follow-up questions to users.

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YouTube Is Down For Everyone Right Now

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YouTube appeared to be having technical issues on a global scale on Wednesday night, leaving scores of users (ahem) temporarily unable to stream their rainy night blogging music.

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Make Holiday Memories on a Budget in Sony's Limited-Time Camera and Accessories Sale at Best Buy

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You Need to Update Chrome Right Now

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Google rolled out Chrome version 86.0.4240.198 on Wednesday in response to two zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in the wild—the fourth and fifth security flaws discovered in the browser in the last three weeks alone.

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TikTok, Like Us, Wants To Know If It's Banned Or Not

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TikTok filed an injunction in a U.S. Appeals Court late Tuesday night in an attempt to halt an order by the Trump administration that would force the app to shutter.

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Facebook Maybe Not Singlehandedly Undermining Democracy With Political Content, Says Facebook

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In a dispatch from Facebook’s newsroom released Tuesday night, corporate executives sought to downplay the role partisan discourse plays in shaping the platform, stressing that political content makes up only about 6% of users’ newsfeeds and that ranking pages by which posts receive the most engagement is not…

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Keep a Close Eye on Your Home With $90 off an Arlo Pro 2 Camera System

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Arlo Pro 2 Security System | $90 | Newegg

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Eli Lilly's Covid-19 Antibody Drug Just Received Emergency FDA Clearance

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A drug proven to help prevent hospitalizations in high-risk patients already sick with Covid-19 will soon become widely available, thanks to an emergency FDA clearance issued Monday night for an Eli Lilly & Co.-manufactured antibody therapy.

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Twitter's “Misleading Information” Labels May Soon Affect Users' Ability to 'Like' Tweets

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After rolling out several new features ahead of the 2020 presidential election designed to make it harder for users to retweet and quote tweets containing “misleading information,” Twitter may now be gearing up to similarly hinder users’ attempts to ‘like’ content with the same designation.

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UK Defense Chief Says Army Could Have 30,000 Robots by the 2030s

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This is not a movie; this is real life. It is not a drill. In about a decade, we might see a ton of robots working alongside humans in the UK army. But don’t worry, although some of the robots will have weapons, only humans will be able to fire them. (That’s a relief, I think?)

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