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GameStop’s ongoing buy one, get one sale includes a host of great games - It’s no The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but Sky... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/10/23826277/gamestop-buy-one-get-one-free-refurbished-steam-deck-deal-sale

Kids Glued to Their Screens? 5 Tips To Get Them to Love the Outdoors - We asked five parents, teachers and guardians to share how they’ve instilled a love of na... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/kids-glued-to-their-screens-5-tips-to-get-them-to-love-the-outdoors-ed0b1906?mod=rss_Technology #paid

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)

CNET, one of the great-grandda... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960032 #internetarchive #internethistory #retrotech #archvies #linkrot #biz⁢ #google #tech #cnet #seo

Russia Hopes For Its First Successful Lunar Landing Mission in Nearly 50 Years - Russia hopes to launch its first successful lunar landing mission for nearly 50 ye... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/10/179234/russia-hopes-for-its-first-successful-lunar-landing-mission-in-nearly-50-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #moon

How to keep your phone charged and working in wildfires - Tech tips to stay in touch, find help and be safe during storms, from getting the right e... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/31/tips-phone-disasters/

Using AI and Big Data to Create a Workplace that Appeals to Gen Z - If you’re an entrepreneur or tech professional wondering how to engage and keep Ge... - https://readwrite.com/using-ai-and-big-data-to-create-a-workplace-that-appeals-to-gen-z/ #workplaceforgenz #dataandsecurity #entrepreneurs #startups #bigdata #genz

Canadian Engineers? They Have a Ring About Them - How can you spot an engineer? It can be tricky, but it is a little easier in Canad... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/canadian-engineers-they-have-a-ring-about-them/ #professionalengineering #hackadaycolumns #ironring #canada

Shifting to two-factor auth is hard to do, so GitHub recommends the long game - Slow and steady wins this race Black Hat  Getting people to use multi-factor authenticati... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/github_multifactor_authentication/

Yaccarino Says X Is Watching Threads but Has Its Own Vision - The CEO who started in June says the platform has “an entirely different road map” for th... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/x-ceo-yaccarino-says-platform-is-watching-threads-but-has-its-own-vision-c6b30c03?mod=rss_Technology #paid

The Last Voyage of the Demeter just isn’t scary enough to live up to Dracula’s legacy - Corey Hawkins as Clemens and Aisling Franciosi as Anna in ... - https://www.theverge.com/23827127/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter-review

YouTube is Deactivating Links in Shorts Videos To Combat Spam - YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-ye... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/10/1644202/youtube-is-deactivating-links-in-shorts-videos-to-combat-spam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #youtube

News outlets demand new rules for AI training data - Image: AP

Several media organizations called for r... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/10/23827316/news-transparency-copyright-generative-ai

Big day in Cupertino as Supreme Court delivers 'epic' win — for now - Apple notched another victory in its ongoing campaign to protect App Store profits aft... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3704650/big-day-in-cupertino-as-supreme-court-delivers-epic-win-for-now.html#tk.rss_all #softwaredevelopment #mobileapps #iphone #apple #ios

Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War - The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation comi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/technology/sweden-combat-disinformation.html #northatlantictreatyorganization #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #russianinvasionofukraine(2022) #freedomofspeechandexpression #defenseandmilitaryforces #immigrationandemigration #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #internationalrelations

NASA to test potential 400Mbps laser link for Mars - High bandwidth comms experiment to fly with Psyche asteroid mission in October NASA hopes... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/nasa_to_launch_laser_system/

Colleges Spend Like There's No Tomorrow. - The nation's best-known public universities have been on an unfettered spending sp... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/10/164238/colleges-spend-like-theres-no-tomorrow?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #education

Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data - The outcry over Zoom's tweak to its data policy shows how the race to build more powerful... - https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-generative-ai-companies-thirsty-for-your-data/ #business/artificialintelligence #fastforward #business

Top 10 React Native Development Companies in 2023 -  The web is afloat with mobile apps created using React Native technology. These a... - https://readwrite.com/top-10-react-native-development-companies-in-2023/ #topreactnativedevcompanies #readwrite #apps

PentaBlinky – When One LED Is Not Blinky Enough - [michimartini] over on Hackaday.io loves playing with multivibrator circuits, and ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/pentablinky-when-one-led-is-not-blinky-enough/ #discretetransistors #ringoscillator #classichacks #ledhacks #blinky #led

Q&A: Why does Google care so much about hiring diverse AI teams? - While concerns around the existential threat to the human race due to possible generat... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3704649/qa-why-does-google-care-so-much-about-hiring-diverse-ai-teams.html#tk.rss_all #artificialintelligence #diversityandinclusion #generativeai