Month: August 2020
Revel’s electric mopeds come to San Francisco amid growing safety concerns
Despite ongoing safety concerns about its platform, Revel is expanding into San Francisco. As The Verge notes, Monday's announcement is not the electric moped rental company's first expansion into the Bay Area; it also operates in Berkeley and across… Source
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The airline industry is ditching change fees because it’s desperate for people to fly
American Airlines and Delta Air Lines both said they would permanently eliminate fees associated with changing or canceling a flight. The news comes less than a day after United Airlines first announced a permanent end to its change fee policy. All three carriers have been waiving change fees since March…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s re-creations of macOS wallpapers look just as good
Many of us are finding cool things to work on while stuck at home, and I think Matt Birchler takes the cake this week. He, like much of the internet, has been taking off in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and he used the absolutely unreal detail in the game to re-create…
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Bang & Olufsen’s $800 noise-canceling headphones copy the best part of Microsoft’s Surface Headphones
Bang & Olufsen has announced its new Beoplay H95 noise-canceling headphones for the steep price of $800. You can get a stellar pair of headphones for much, much less than that, but the audio specialist is hoping to leapfrog Sony, Bose, and other headphone makers in craftsmanship and sound quality.…
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Google, Facebook undersea web cable will no longer connect US and Hong Kong null
Google and Facebook have abandoned their plans to activate an undersea web cable between the US and Hong Kong following warnings from US security agencies that it could pose a risk to national security. As reported by The Register, the consortium building the Pacific Light Cable Network has now submitted…
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Ninja and MrBeast are getting ‘Fall Guys’ skins after $1 million charity contest
A team that includes Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has won the charity competition to have their likeness included in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the adorable but deceptively brutal battle royale everyone on Twitch has been playing. At nearly the last minu… Source
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