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It’s finally happened. After months of speculation, Apple has confirmed its plans to buy Intel’s smartphone modem business in a deal worth $1 billion. 

The acquisition, which hasn’t been finalized, is Apple’s second-largest in its history. (The record is still held by Beats, which Apple bought for $3 billion in 2014.) As part of the deal, Apple says more than 2,000 Intel employees will join its ranks. (Note that Apple is only acquiring Intel’s smartphone modem business. The chipmaker, which abandoned its own 5G smartphone plans earlier this year, will still be able to make 5G chips for PCs and other devices.)  Read more…

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A well meaning but butter-fingered tourist may have lost his phone, but an alligator somewhere in Louisiana is about to catch up on the tea. 

A video from ViralHog shows a group of people hunched over a boardwalk swamp in order to record a young gator lazing around the water. One of the young men precariously holds his phone above the gator in an effort to catch the perfect shot … only to slip and drop his phone directly into the gator-riddled water. 

“I was filming because it looked like the gator was about to move away,” the video’s description says. “You can tell that for a split second he thinks about trying to grab it but then decides [he] better not.” Read more…

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Democratic primary candidate for president, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, has filed a lawsuit against Google over claims of “election interference.”

In the complaint filed by Gabbard’s campaign committee, Tulsi Now Inc., the congresswoman alleges that the search giant suspended her presidential campaign’s Google ad account after the first Democratic primary debates last month. 

Gabbard seeks damages of up to $50 million and an injunction prohibiting Google from taking any further action against the account in the future.

The lawsuit alleges the company suspended her advertising account for 6 hours in total following the debates, hurting Gabbard’s ability to raise money and reach out to potential voters. The campaign is accusing Google of violating Gabbard’s First Amendment rights. Read more…

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Ahead of tomorrow’s release of the final season on Netflix, Orange is the New Black is partnering with GoFundMe to raise money for critical issues explored on the show.

The Poussey Washington Fund (named for Samira Wiley’s beloved character on the show) will support eight pre-existing non-profits that focus on issues like criminal justice and policy reform, immigrants’ rights, and mass incarceration.

The fund doesn’t just take inspiration from the show.  It’s also an interactive part of the final series (don’t worry, this isn’t a spoiler). At the end of the final episode, viewers will be directed to donate through the campaign. There’s also a text-to-donate option in which U.S. viewers can contribute by texting 41411. Read more…

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With the number of people who checked in to storm Area 51 now around 2 million, we can see that the public has recognized their power to collectively organize against the government in the name of aliens. So, what’s the next step? Wall Street? Tackling Trump?

Nah, let’s storm the Bermuda Triangle. It can’t stop all of us! 

Because the viral energy clearly hasn’t died down, we now have a bunch of parody copycat events attempting to capture the chaotic energy that made the original Area 51 event so magical. Well, until the Air Force stepped in and told us to knock it off, that is. 

Shoes laced up and ready to Naruto run into action, what are we supposed to do now? We need to storm something.  Read more…

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Sometimes you just have to meet the idiot masses on their level. 

That appears to be the thinking of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, which took pains to explain foreign interference operations in a way the common dumb-dumb just might be able to maybe understand. Namely, with pineapple pizza. 

The agency created an infographic, promoted in a pizza-themed July 25 tweet, that reframes the known Russian interference in the 2016 election as a matter of culinary disagreement. In this CISA-provided example, instead of Russians attempting to sow division among Americans by inciting race-based violence, the hypothetical foreign adversary in question wants to make us battle it out over pineapple pizza.  Read more…

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Global Energy Transmission’s system can charge multiple drones at once. Read more…

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With all its wonders, space holds a vast amount of interesting facts and information. We collected some facts about space that you may have not known Read more…

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Silicon Valley-based Cobalt Robotics created robots that can monitor offices, warehouses, and factory floors. Read more…

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Samsung’s foldable phone is back on.

An improved version of the Galaxy Fold will be ready to launch in “select markets” beginning in September, Samsung announced. The company said it has made a number of improvements to the design of the foldable phone, including “additional reinforcements.”

Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold with great fanfare in February, promising the foldable phone would usher in a new era of smartphone design. But when the company handed out devices to journalists in April, many early reviewers quickly reported serious issues. Samsung then put the phone on hold, and rumors of design flaws and planned fixes have trickled in since.  Read more…

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