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Aug 20
Trans girls will be given the opportunity to participate in female sports after a judge reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents.
Aug 20
Sanjay Gupta Doesn’t Know How To Feel About ‘Never Have I Ever’ Calling Him ‘Sexy’
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe CNN chief medical correspondent seemed befuddled – but charmed! – by the Netflix show’s obvious crush on him.
Aug 20
A little streetwear label has partnered with a giant in the adult toy industry to create a shoe derived in part from unused, defective sex toys.
Aug 20
The holdup comes as a huge number of donated books and purchases are frozen by Florida’s new education restrictions.
Aug 20
Aston Martin unveiled the newest V12 Vantage Roadster at the 2022 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
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Aug 20
Did you know streaming TV was the future? Nielsen data shows streaming TV viewership in the US surpassed cable for the first time this July. About 34.8 percent of viewing time went to shows on internet services — slightly more than the 34.4 percent for cable.
Breaking it down further, Netflix had the largest share (8 percent) thanks largely to demand for Stranger Things 4. Hulu also claimed a record 3.6 percent; Amazon Prime Video picked up 3 percent. YouTube and YouTube TV earned a combined 7.3 percent, but no presence in these figures for Disney+.
The next challenge? Streams haven’t yet overtaken traditional TV — broadcasts still represented 21.6 percent according to those July figures. Shouldn’t take too long: Netflix just released a documentary about cats. Broadcast doesn’t stand a chance.
— Mat Smith
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Motorola Edge hands-on: A return to (midrange) form?
The company might finally be responding to customer feedback.
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Motorolo’s new Edge 2022 (not to be confused with the Edge+ from earlier this year) has a big 6.6-inch OLED screen featuring a 144Hz refresh rate, similar to its more expensive sibling, along with a sizable 5,000 mAh battery, 6GB or 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. As for its cameras, you also get a familiar 50-megapixel main sensor paired with a lower-res 13MP ultra-wide cam (which can also shoot macros) and a depth sensor to help with portrait-style shots. Between its specs and that $500 launch price, the Edge is looking particularly intriguing.
Dodge says its all-electric Charger concept is as loud as gas-powered muscle cars
Its EV has an exhaust that emits sounds.
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When Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis first talked about releasing an “American eMuscle” car last year, he said the company’s vehicle will “tear up the streets, not the planet.” Now, the company has revealed the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept, which looks like a futuristic take on its gas-powered Challenger and Charger muscle cars.
Unlike other electric vehicles that barely make a sound, the all-electric Charger is loud, just like its gas-powered counterparts. The company put an exhaust on the vehicle, even though it doesn’t need one and the only thing it emits is sound. “The Charger Daytona SRT Concept voices a 126 dB roar that equals the SRT Hellcat,” Dodge wrote in its announcement.
GeForce Now boosts Chrome streaming to 120 fps and 1440p
But you’ll need an RTX 3080 membership to access the new settings.
NVIDIA is adding a new perk to GeForce Now’s most expensive tier. Starting today, you can stream games at 1440p and 120 frames per second through a browser. The new performance setting is available exclusively through GeForce Now’s $20 per month RTX 3080 membership and only Google Chrome on PC. Remember: You might need a compatible display to do it justice.
HBO Max is offering a 30 percent discount on its annual plans
Given how much content the service is removing and canceling.
You get 30 percent off HBO Max’s streaming service if you sign up for a year (over 40 percent compared with a monthly plan). If you don’t mind dealing with ads, the service will cost $70 for 12 months, down from the usual $100. HBO Max is introducing the offer just days before the Game of Thrones spin-off show House of the Dragon premieres. However, Warner Bros. Discovery has been culling content and canceling high-profile original movies as part of a major cost-cutting drive.
The best study-from-home essentials for students
These tools may actually make you want to hit the books.
Sure, we might recommend laptops, but that’s just the start. You might want to consider a laptop stand for preventing neck and arm pain, or a pair of noise-canceling headphones for blocking out distractions. From an external keyboard to a USB dock, we have suggestions on how to improve those long study sessions.
Aug 20
Trump and his lawyers are calling for the release of the affidavit justifying the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago because they “want to see who is finking on them,” he said.
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It’s a little jarring to consider what’s happening over at HBO Max a bloodbath in the context of Sesame Street, but that’s exactly what’s going on at the streaming platform right now. The platform has removed around 200 old episodes of the classic preschooler show, as Variety reports.
All episodes from seasons 39-52 are still available, along with a selection from the first, fifth and seventh seasons. There are 456 Sesame Street episodes on HBO Max right now, but it offered around 650 episodes not too long ago. HBO landed an exclusive deal back in 2015 to broadcast new episodes of the show before they aired on PBS. HBO Max will be the place to catch new Sesame Street episodes through at least 2025, but good luck trying to find old episodes there.
The platform yanked the Sesame Street episodes in the same week it removed dozens of other shows, including 20 original series (such as animated programs). While it’s common for titles to cycle in and out of streaming services, it’s rare to see exclusives going away. That’s becoming increasingly par for the course at HBO Max.
Parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said it nixed those shows ahead of HBO Max merging with Discovery+ next year. “As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and Discovery+. That will include the removal of some content from both platforms,” it said.
Since the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery earlier this year, Warner Bros. Discovery has been on a brutal cost-cutting drive. It laid off dozens of HBO and HBO Max production staffers this week. The company recently removed some other original films and shows from HBO Max — including An American Pickle, HBO show Vinyl and the 2020 remake of The Witches — reportedly to avoid paying residuals on them.
It also canceled HBO Max exclusive movies Batgirl and Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, which were almost completed. Reports suggest it did so to claim tax write-downs on the projects.
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