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Highlights of this day in history: Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; US flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers were born. (August 21)
(Gambling picture) If you’ve always wanted to recruit a who’s who of characters from folklore, mythology, and the public realm and then send them to fight and die on your behalf, Storybook Brawl is the game for you. Designed by the Good Luck Games of Olympia, Washington, Brawl is free to play and has been … Read more
When Facebook released its first quarterly report this week of the most viewed posts in the United States, Guy Rosen, its vice president for integrity, said the social network had taken “a long journey” to be “by far the most transparent platform in the world” on the Internet “The list showed that the posts with … Read more
In an APK teardown of the latest version of the Peloton Android app, 9to5Google found evidence that the company is preparing the software to support a rowing machine in the near future. The point of sale found various code snippets that mentioned a device with the code names “Caesar” and “Mazu”. The latter is a … Read more
While Apple may have released Siri before Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, its voice-activated assistant is the least advanced of the three in many ways. This has a lot to do with the amount of data and the training digital assistants need to understand different languages, dialects, and language patterns. To improve its digital assistant, … Read more
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday denied an attempt to block three restraining orders against Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates – including one that allowed all Texas school districts to require masks indoors. The court referred Attorney General Ken Paxton’s appeal to the 3rd Texas Court of Appeals in Austin for a hearing. … Read more
An artist’s rendering shows SpaceX’s Starship rocket ship on the moon. (SpaceX illustration) NASA has suspended its contract with SpaceX to bring astronauts back to the moon pending the first outcome of a lawsuit from Blue Origin. The voluntary stay ends on November 1, two weeks after the hearing on the case, according to a … Read more
Choosing an insurance policy is one of the most complicated financial decisions a person can make. Jakarta-based Lifepal aims to simplify the process for Indonesians with a marketplace where users can compare policies from more than 50 vendors, get help from licensed agents, and make claims. The startup, which it claims to be the largest … Read more
HOUSTON – A 38-day Democratic strike in the Texas House of Representatives effectively ended Thursday when three previously absent members arrived at the Capitol and paved the way for Republicans to establish a quorum and pass restrictive voting rules. Despite efforts by the Democrats to maintain a solid bloc, although most returned from Washington this … Read more
