Month: August 2020

The ICE directive is gone, but international students still fear deportation

Caroline Poole was in her off-campus apartment in Maine when a high school friend texted her in a panic. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had released a new directive for the fall 2020 semester: international students who were taking an online course load could not remain in the US.…

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Ratio Eight Coffee Maker Review: A Near-Perfect Chemex-Style Pot

A beautiful but expensive machine for aficionados of Chemex-style coffee. Source

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A new Zelda game could be coming to Switch, but it’s not Breath of the Wild 2 [updated] null

UPDATE: The original Amazon listing for a Skyward Sword port on Switch has been removed, unsurprisingly, after the leak was widely publicized and peered over by Zelda fans and gaming press. We don’t know for sure whether the port listing was legitimate, but there’s plenty of reason to think that…

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This mini soundbar could be perfect for students – and it’s pretty cheap yamaha soundbar

Soundbars are a great way of bringing immersive audio to your home cinema setup and boosting your TV’s puny inbuilt speakers – but if your living room is on the smaller side, or you want to squeeze a bar into your bedroom, office, or student dorm room, you may find…

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More affordable Samsung Galaxy S20 ‘Fan Edition’ emerges in leaked renders

Samsung’s unannounced Galaxy S20 “Fan Edition” (FE) has leaked again in new renders from Evan Blass. A series of leaks over the past few months from the likes of SamMobile, Ice Universe, and The Elec suggest the phone will be a cheaper alternative to Samsung’s Galaxy S20, similar to the…

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How the forced sale of TikTok could splinter the internet

Well, you know how it is. Head out the door for a long-planned vacation, pray nothing major erupts before you get back, and before you can so much as pack a suitcase the president announces that ByteDance must sell TikTok — or else TikTok will be banned in the United…

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