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Twitch is now selling digital gift cards
Twitch is now selling official gift cards you can use to buy items on the popular streaming platform, the company announced today. Despite being a free service, Twitch offers a number of ways you can spend money, including buying subscriptions to channels and paying for Twitch’s “Bits” virtual currency, and…
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Americans Are Really Scared About Their Economic Future
After weeks cooped up at home or working in essential jobs that expose them to the coronavirus, people in the United States are experiencing record levels of anxiety about the future. Released Monday, the New York Fed’s April Survey of Consumer Expectations found that consumers — especially low-income earners —…
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This flexible robot is a speedy runner — and not a bad swimmer
Soft robots have been a booming category for research and manufacturing in recent years, due to a number of beneficial characteristics. The field has become increasingly important to things like robotic graspers, which rely on their compliance to pick up fragile objects like fruit. Speed, on the other hand, doesn’t…
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3D atom mapping helps investigate the origins of life
A relatively new technique for studying atoms might shed more light on how life began on Earth. Scientists have used 3D atom mapping (specifically, atom probe tomography) to discover that the oldest molecular fluids in the Solar System could have sup… Source
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This company wants to kill VPNs forever
In order to make it easier for people working from home during the pandemic to access their work computers, Citrix recently announced that it will make its remote access tool more widely available via the cloud. According to senior program manager at the company Gabe Carrejo, Remote PC Access provides…
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Reconnecting, reluctantly, with Facebook
Haje Jan Kamps is an author, freelance writer, journalist, photographer and editor who lives in the East Bay in Northern California and, beginning in 2016, spent more than a year as a TechCrunch writer. In a recent catch-up with him about work and life during COVID-19, we wound up talking…
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