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Enlarge / California State Capitol building in Sacramento. (credit: Getty Images | joe chan photography) The California legislature worked through the summer to finalize the text of the state’s landmark data privacy law before time to make amendments ran out on Friday. In the Assembly (California’s lower house), Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin has been a key …

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Enlarge / Disney CEO and former Apple board member Bob Iger. (credit: DC Comics/Creative Commons) Disney CEO Bob Iger has sat on Apple’s board since 2011, but that tenure came to an end this month, according to a SEC filing Apple made on Friday. The filing says that Iger resigned from Apple’s board on September 10, …

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Enlarge / “If I lose this Netflix streaming deal, that’s it for me.” (credit: Aurich Lawson / Seinfeld) Netflix and Sony Pictures Television confirmed on Monday that they had reached a streaming-exclusivity deal for one of the most popular TV series in the world: Seinfeld. Beginning in 2021, Netflix will become the exclusive online-streaming home …

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I’ve rarely had as much difficulty photographing a new car at an auto show press day than I had trying to get a good shot of the Honda e. It was always mobbed. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] FRANKFURT, GERMANY—Two years ago, Honda arguably stole the Frankfurt auto show with its Urban EV concept car. That …

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Enlarge / Bottles of Purdue Pharma L.P. OxyContin medication sit on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday night amid accusations from state attorneys general that its owners—members of the mega-rich Sackler family—are lowballing opioid victims …

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OnLeaks’ render of the cheaper OnePlus 7T. [credit:OnLeaks / Pricebaba ] OnePlus has picked September 26 as the official unveiling date for its next flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 7T. The company is hosting a “unique online reveal of the OnePlus 7T in North America” at 10:30am ET with a follow-up “OnePlus 7T Series Launch Event” …

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Enlarge / Wi-Fi connects the world together, but it’s still quite complicated. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Today, the Wi-Fi Alliance launched its Wi-Fi Certified 6 program, which means that the standard has been completely finalized, and device manufacturers and OEMs can begin the process of having the organization certify their products to carry the Wi-Fi 6 …

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Enlarge / How am I supposed to see around that tank like I have X-ray vision without my mini-map? After years of annualized releases, you might think the basic elements of Call of Duty—like the user interface and heads-up display—would be pretty standardized by now. But this weekend’s PS4 beta test for the new Call …

Devs restore Modern Warfare’s mini-map after two days of beta backlash Read More »

Enlarge / An X-15 contrail after launch. (credit: NASA) The X-15 was not the first rocket-powered aircraft, but it is probably the best one ever built and flown. Before the first X-15 took flight in the late 1950s, the fastest speed airplanes had reached was Mach 3. The X-15 doubled that. And, remarkably, it also …

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Enlarge / This is “Liftboat Myrtle,” which housed the drilling operation into Chicxulub Crater. (credit: Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin) Geology is a big science. The Earth is a large enough place today, but when you stretch the fourth dimension back across many millions of years, the largeness can get …

Here’s what happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos Read More »