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Tim Cook Joins White House to Tell Unemployed Americans to Learn to Code
Ivanka Trump, a woman with a lifetime career guarantee and a net worth equalling the GDP of a small African country, has a plan for the millions of unemployed workers, many of whom lost their jobs during the pandemic: Find Something New. The initiative, in partnership with the nonprofit Ad Council, Tim Cook, and IBM executive chairman Ginni Rometty, sounds like the familiar Obama-era learn to code trope and not exactly on-brand with the Make American Great Again promise of bringing back jobs. Twitter users told Ivanka to take her own advice.
WhatsApp hit by outage, leaving users unable to send messages TechCrunch
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15 states will follow Californias push to electrify trucks and buses
California keeps moving forward as Trump cuts environmental protections
US rescinds directive barring international students from online classes
US strikes a deal with Harvard and MIT
All the Ways the Influential Hydroxychloroquine Study Was Crap
A controversial, highly influential study involving the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19one that helped launch months of research and failed clinical trialshas now been sharply criticized within the pages of the same scientific journal that published it. The new post-publication peer review highlights a variety of serious flaws in the study and concludes that the authors were fully irresponsible in how they presented their findings.
Google signs exclusive Stadia game deals with Rock Band and Until Dawn developers
More Stadia exclusives are on the way.
OpenCV AI Kit aims to do for computer vision what Raspberry Pi did for hobbyist hardware TechCrunch
A new gadget called the OpenCV AI Kit, or OAK, looks to replicate the success of Raspberry Pi and other minimal computing solutions, but for the growing fields of computer vision and 3D perception. Its new multi-camera PCBs pack a lot of capability into a small, open-source unit and are now seeking
Palm Springs is the perfect comedy for a world where nothing matters anymore
Groundhog Day for millennial burnout.
UK economic output rises 1.8% in May after historic April plunge
Disappointing rebound in GDP was much weaker than the 5.5 per cent forecast by economists
Razers Huntsman Mini is its first 60 percent keyboard
Razer is hopping on the 60 percent keyboard hype train
Amazon to test Dash Cart, a smart grocery shopping cart that sees what you buy TechCrunch
Amazon today introduced the latest in smart store tech with the introduction of the Amazon Dash Cart, a grocery store shopping cart that identifies then charges you for the items you place inside its basket. The cart will first be made available at the Amazon grocery store opening in Woodland Hills
NY Times' comical attempt to fact check Biden in the age of Trump lies
Both Sides journalism
Ghost of Tsushima is a beautiful samurai tale buried under a familiar open-world game
Launching on PS4 on July 17th.
Microsoft partners with Citrix for the future of virtual desktops
The pandemic has led to more businesses moving to remote working and virtual PCs.