Revolut launches stock trading in limited release

Fintech startup Revolut is launching its stock trading feature today. It’s a Robinhood-like feature that lets you buy and sell shares without any commission. For now, the feature is limited to some Revolut customers with a Metal card.

While Robinhood has completely changed the stock trading retail market in the U.S., buying shares hasn’t changed much in Europe. Revolut wants to make it easier to invest on the stock market.

After topping up your Revolut account, you can buy and hold shares directly from the Revolut app. For now, the feature is limited to 300 U.S.-listed stocks on NASDAQ and NYSE. The company says that it plans to expand to U.K. and European stocks as well as Exchange Traded Funds.

There’s no minimum limit on transactions, which means that you can buy fractional shares for $1 for instance. You can see real-time prices in the Revolut app.

When it comes to fees, Revolut doesn’t charge any fee indeed, but with some caveats. The feature is currently limited to Revolut Metal customers for now. It currently costs £12.99 per month or €13.99 per month to become a Metal customer.

As long as you make less than 100 trades per month, you don’t pay anything other than your monthly subscription. Any trade above that limit costs £1 per trade and an annual custody fee of 0.01%.

Eventually, Revolut will roll out stock trading to other subscription tiers. Revolut Premium will get 8 commission-free trades per month and basic Revolut users will get 3 commission-free trades per month.

Behind the scene, Revolut has partnered with DriveWealth for this feature. This is a nice addition for existing Revolut users. You don’t have to open a separate account with another company and Metal customers in particular get a lot of free trades.

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Calling all hardware startups! Apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen

Got hardware? Well then, listen up, because our search continues for boundary-pushing, early-stage hardware startups to join us in Shenzhen, China for an epic opportunity; launch your startup on a global stage and compete in Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen on November 11-12.

Apply here to compete in TC Hardware Battlefield 2019. Why? It’s your chance to demo your product to the top investors and technologists in the world. Hardware Battlefield, cousin to Startup Battlefield, focuses exclusively on innovative hardware because, let’s face it, it’s the backbone of technology. From enterprise solutions to agtech advancements, medical devices to consumer product goods — hardware startups are in the international spotlight.

If you make the cut, you’ll compete against 15 of the world’s most innovative hardware makers for bragging rights, plenty of investor love, media exposure and $25,000 in equity-free cash. Just participating in a Battlefield can change the whole trajectory of your business in the best way possible.

We chose to bring our fifth Hardware Battlefield to Shenzhen because of its outstanding track record of supporting hardware startups. The city achieves this through a combination of accelerators, rapid prototyping and world-class manufacturing. What’s more, TC Hardware Battlefield 2019 takes place as part of the larger TechCrunch Shenzhen that runs November 9-12.

Creativity and innovation no know boundaries, and that’s why we’re opening this competition to any early-stage hardware startup from any country. While we’ve seen amazing hardware in previous Battlefields — like robotic arms, food testing devices, malaria diagnostic tools, smart socks for diabetics and e-motorcycles, we can’t wait to see the next generation of hardware, so bring it on!

Meet the minimum requirements listed below, and we’ll consider your startup:

• Submit your application to TC Hardware Battlefield 2019 by August 14th
• You must have a minimally viable product to demo onstage
• Your product has received little if any, press coverage to date
• Your product must have a hardware device or component

Here’s how Hardware Battlefield works. TechCrunch editors vet every qualified application and pick 15 startups to compete. Those startups receive six rigorous weeks of free coaching. Forget stage fright. You’ll be prepped and ready to step into the spotlight.

Teams have six minutes to pitch and demo their products, which is immediately followed by an in-depth Q&A with the judges. If you make it to the final round, you’ll repeat the process in front of a new set of judges.

The judges will name one outstanding startup the Hardware Battlefield champion. Hoist the Battlefield Cup, claim those bragging rights and the $25,000. This nerve-wracking thrill-ride takes place in front of a live audience, and we capture the entire event on video and post it to our global audience on TechCrunch.

Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen takes place on November 11-12. Don’t hide your hardware or miss your chance to show us — and the entire tech world — your startup magic. Apply to compete in TC Hardware Battlefield 2019, and join us in Shenzhen!

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US Move to Bolster Aussie Military Base Could Jinx Beijing-Sydney Relations

Australia has turned a blind eye to the rapid transfer of US military units to Oceania and Southeast Asia. According to Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne, the United States plans to build additional military infrastructure in Australia.

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Joe Biden vs The World: Democratic Debate Second Night Highlights

Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Kamala Harris, and eight other Democratic presidential candidates clashed Wednesday on the second night of the second round of debates, with the nine candidates joining their efforts at attacking the former vice president over a number of issues.

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Joe Biden flubs his website during debate, so of course someone bought the domain already

At the end of CNN's second Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night, all the candidates ended their closing statements with their websites. 

Except Joe Biden, who got confused. He gave the number to his text line with no context instead. 

“Go to Joe 30330, and help me in this fight,” Biden said, faltering very slightly mid-sentence, possibly as he realised his mistake.

Before the candidates had even left the stage, Joe30330.com was purchased. And a moment later, it was redirecting to fellow presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's site, PeteForAmerica.com.

But another couple of minutes later, the redirect changed again ... to joshforamerica.com.  Read more...

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Brazil Named Major Non-NATO US Ally by Trump - White House

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump designated Brazil a major non-NATO ally of the United States.

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US Extends Restrictions on Iran, Pompeo Vows to Continue Pressure

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Putin, Trump Discuss Russia-US Trade Ties - Report

US President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to offer his help fighting Siberian wildfires, the Kremlin said in a statement.

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UK Foreign Secretary Raab Requests Meeting With Russia FM Lavrov - Source

BANGKOK (Sputnik) – UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has requested a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the ongoing ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting but the talks did not take place because London had stopped communicating, a source said on Thursday.

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'Jane the Virgin' gives fans a perfectly sweet goodbye

As our beloved and recently unveiled narrator tells us at the top of Jane the Virgin's final episode, everything ends. Stories end, friendships end, relationships end, and we must come to terms with it.

Yet so often in real life – outside of telenovelas and the CW shows that honor them – things don't end. Chapters of our own lives draw to a close, but then things go on. You learn to live without the thing that ended, or with the new change. The endings we experience in letting go of television are unique because rarely in life do we have to let go of so many beloved people and places at once, never to hear from them again. Read more...

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Japan Announces Plans to Renew F-35 Flights Following April Crash

Japan's Defense Ministry announced it will restart F-35 flights for the first time since one plane crashed in April, Reuters reported Wednesday.

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Old Video Shows Elijah Cummings Calling Baltimore ‘Drug Infested’ Amid Attacks on Trump

The US president came under a storm from Democratic politicians and the US media after he called the predominantly-black community of Baltimore a “rodent infested mess.” A recently resurfaced video shows Baltimore Representative Cummings using a very similar language from two decades ago.

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Latest Civilian Deaths in Yemen’s Sadda Mark Reversal of Progress - UN

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The latest deadly attack on a market in Yemen’s Sadaa governorate constitutes a setback in the progress reached by the United Nations and the warring parties to settle the conflict, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Wednesday.

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McDonalds Banned From Historical Sites in Rome – Report

Authorities in Rome are struggling with a massive influx of tourists who, although bringing a substantial amount of cash, pose a threat to the preservation of historical sites and of the public order, which has led to the adoption of a number of new restrictive measures.

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Iran Prepared to Build New Production Facilities in Syria - Reports

BEIRUT (Sputnik) - Iran is prepared to build several production facilities in Syria in the near future, Amin Nahhas, secretary of Syria-Iran joint economic committee, said.

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The ‘Damn’ Debate: Night One

A number of Democratic presidential candidates brought the energy this time around during the first half of a two-night debate event. While two favorites maintained their popularity, one candidate in particular had a monumental night - at least in terms of Google.

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Despite Talks With North Korea, US Establishment ‘Doesn’t Want Any Peaceful Resolution’

Despite reports that denuclearization talks between the US and North Korea will resume soon, the US political and military establishment doesn't want a peaceful resolution on the Korean Peninsula, author and professor Tim Beal, whose most recent book is “Crisis in Korea,” told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear.

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UN to Attend Astana Peace Talks on Syria

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The United Nations will be represented at the upcoming Astana format peace talks on Syria regardless of the special envoy’s for the country inability to attend the meeting, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Wednesday.

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You'll Get Your Equifax Money. It Just Might Take a While

Despite the FTC pushing people away from an Equifax cash payout, there's a good chance you'll get all $125. Eventually.

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Despite the FTC pushing people away from an Equifax cash payout, there's a good chance you'll get all $125. Eventually.

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Live mortar shell turns up at Goodwill

Someone dropped donated a live mortar shell to Goodwill in Placerville, Califonia. While the shell, thought to be leftover from World War II, would likely have fetched more than the usual bric-à-brac on offer, the organization is clear that they don't accept donations of live ammunition. From CBS Sacramento:

Goodwill says people often drop off items in boxes that haven’t been looked through, and sometimes the donations are from a deceased war veteran...

“As we sort through those things we often find war memorabilia, grenades, it’s rare that we find a live grenade or any live ammunition, but when we do we have protocols in place to make sure that we dispose of it safely,” said Richard Abrusci, President and CEO of Goodwill Sacramento.

In the case of this potentially explosive mortar, the bomb squad came in to take it away and disposed of it at Travis Air Force Base.

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Whose rocket was bigger?

Insert phallic joke here.

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US Seeks Diplomatic Solution, New Comprehensive Nuclear Deal With Iran - Pompeo

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States continues to pursue a diplomatic solution and a new comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran amid the escalating tensions with that country, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a news release.

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Orange Pets Good: Golden Retriever and Kitty Love to Chill Like Bros

It is widely believed that cats and dogs are irreconcilable enemies. People are used to watching dogs chasing cats, driving them under cars or trees, while the cats in return angrily hiss, arch their backs and unleash their claws.

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Samsung posts 55.6% drop in second-quarter profit as it copes with weak demand and a trade dispute

As it forecast earlier this month, Samsung reported a steep drop in its second-quarter earnings due to lower market demand for chips and smartphones. The company said its second-quarter operating profit fell 55.6% year-over-year to 6.6 trillion won (about $5.6 billion), on consolidated revenue of 56.13 trillion won, slightly above the guidance it issued three weeks ago.

Last quarter, Samsung also reported that its operating profit had dropped by more than half. The same issues that hit its earnings during the first quarter of this year have continued, including lower memory prices as major datacenter customers adjust their inventory, meaning they are currently buying less chips (the weak market also impacted competing semiconductor maker SK Hynix’s quarterly earnings).

Samsung reported that its chip business saw second-quarter operating profit drop 71% year-over-year to 3.4 trillion won, on consolidated revenue of 16.09 trillion won. In the second half of the year, the company expects to continue dealing with market uncertainty, but says demand for chips will increase “on strong seasonality and adoption of higher-density products.”

Meanwhile, Samsung’s mobile business reported a 42% drop in operating profit from a year ago to 1.56 trillion won, on 25.86 trillion won in consolidated revenue. The company said its smartphone shipments increased quarter-over-quarter thanks to strong sales of its budget Galaxy A series. But sales of flagship models fell, due to “weak sales momentum for the Galaxy S10 and stagnant demand for premium products.”

Samsung expects the mobile market to remain lackluster, but it will continue adding to both its flagship and mass-market lineups. It is expected to unveil the Note 10 next month and a new release date for the delayed Galaxy Fold, along with new A series models in the second half of the year.

“The company will promptly respond to the changing business environment, and step up efforts to secure profitability by enhancing efficiency across development, manufacturing and marketing operations,” Samsung said in its earnings release.

It’s not just market demand that’s impacting Samsung’s earnings. Along with other tech companies, Samsung is steeling itself for the long-term impact of a trade dispute between Japan and South Korea. Last month, Japan announced that it is placing export restrictions on some materials used in chips and smartphones. Samsung said it still has stores of those materials, but it is also looking for alternatives since it is unclear how long the dispute between the two countries may last (and it could last for a long time).

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France Deploys 200 Firemen to Tackle Herault Department Wildfire - Reports (Videos)

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Some 200 firemen were dispatched in the southern French department of Herault to fight a wildfire that has erupted near the town of Montbazin, local media reported on Wednesday.

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Sex tech startups band together to protest Facebook’s ad policies

There’s a double standard when it comes to the sexualities of men versus women, trans and gender non-conforming folks. Unbound and Dame Products, two sex tech startups, have teamed up to bring attention to the issue.

By launching a website, “Approved, Not Approved” and staging a protest outside Facebook’s NYC headquarters, the two startups hope to bring more awareness to the company’s advertising guidelines that seem to favor products that cater to cisgender men. The point of the digital campaign is to show how ads for sex toys and products geared toward men are more likely to be approved than those for women, trans or gender non-conforming people.

“For so long, advertisements have been how we continue to reinforce the status quo of what we view as societally desirable and validating,” Dame Products CEO Alexandra Fine told TechCrunch. “Since we’re in a category that’s often denied, we wanted to create an experience that illuminates the disparity.”

On Facebook, for example, it’s prohibitive to promote the sale or use of adult products or services except for ads that pertain to family planning and contraception. The policy also requires that ads for contraceptives cannot focus on sexual pleasure or sexual enhancement, and have to be targeted to people 18 years or older.

“They’re never going to view sexual pleasure as necessary — only functionality as necessary,” Fine said. “And since the functioning only matters for one sex, then we’re just encouraging shitty sex or at least one-sided sex. Healthy sex should be pleasurable sex. That’s really what I think is important.”

Facebook, however, clearly disagrees since it explicitly bans ads relating to sexual pleasure.

“We have had open lines of communication with both companies about our policies and are always taking feedback,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We are working to further clarify our policies in this space in the near future.”

Unfortunately, there is no telling if and when Facebook and other platforms will change their advertising policies to enable companies like Dame Products and Unbound to reach potential customers through ads.

“I think a lot of us feel like we’ve been silenced by these platforms and they control so much,” Unbound CEO Polly Rodriguez told TechCrunch. “Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest — these are the channels startups live and die by. Not being able to advertise on them is a big deal because, in addition to the policies being biased and genders, it prevents those founders from being able to reach potential customers.”

Unbound CEO Polly Rodriguez. The startup was a finalist at TC Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield finalist in 2018.

In addition to missing out on potential customers, an inability to advertise can have a detrimental effect on a business in terms of raising venture funding.

“I think one of the most frustrating things is trying to raise a round and getting pushback around where you’ll spend the money,” Rodriguez said. “It’s just tough because it’s this vicious cycle where we could be growing at the same rate as a Him or a Roman. It’s definitely in the tens of millions of dollars in terms of foregone profits.”

In addition to the protest, Fine is suing New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority alleging it’s in violation of Dame’s First Amendment rights, the due process clause of the 14th Amendment and the state’s constitutional rights regarding freedom of speech. The lawsuit came in light of the MTA preventing Dame from running its ads on the subway.

Still, despite efforts to squash it, sex tech may finally be getting its moment in the sun. Earlier this month, the sex tech industry had a big win when the organizer of the Consumer Electronics Show finally decided to allow sex tech companies to exhibit and participate in its competition. That came after the Consumer Technology Association, the organizer of CES, royally messed up with sex tech company Lora DiCarlo last year. The CTA revoked an innovation award from the company, which is developing a hands-free device that uses biomimicry and robotics to help women achieve a blended orgasm by simultaneously stimulating the G-spot and the clitoris. In May, CTA re-awarded the company and apologized.

“It’s so rare you see a victory like that and it was because of the press,” Rodriguez said. “It was because it takes. It’s unfortunate these companies don’t do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do. They do the right thing when enough people speak out about it.”

Unbound makes pleasure fashionable

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UK Foreign Secretary Vows to Find New Trading Opportunities For Britain Beyond EU - Report

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday ahead of his trip to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bangkok that the United Kingdom needs to broaden its trade focus, which long has been on Europe, and acquire a global trading outlook beginning with Asia.

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Elizabeth Warren schooling John Delaney ends with his death on Wikipedia

You might not be able to pick John Delaney out of a lineup, but he'll go down in history in at least one way: as the first 2020 presidential candidate to drop dead during a live televised debate.

OK, not really, but for awhile there, Wikipedia said so. His Wikipedia page was edited mid-debate to list his date of death as Tuesday, July 30, at the hands of Sen. Elizabeth Warren. 

Delaney, a former congressman from Maryland, tried to position himself as a realist, saying he wanted to avoid "impossible promises" and "run on things that are workable, not fairytale economics." 

And to that, Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, had this to say: Read more...

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Medicare-For-All, Border Security, Trade Deals: Democrat Debate Reveals Party Split

The first night of the second Democratic 2020 presidential debate kicked off Tuesday. The debate featured 10 candidates: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan, John Delaney, Marianne Williamson and Steve Bullock.

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Tokyo Still Seeks Japan-DPRK Summit Without Conditions - Report

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that Tokyo closely cooperates with the United States on the incident with the recent launch of projectiles by North Korea.

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Trump Expects to Reach Arms Control Agreement with Russia - Report

US National Security Adviser John Bolton said earlier on Wednesday that Washington will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and said the only remaining US-Russia New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) unlikely to be renewed.

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South Korea Conducts Emergency National Security Council Meeting Over Pyongyang's Missiles

South Korea coundcted an emergency meeting of the National Security Council Wednesday over the recent missile test conducted by Pyongyang, Yonhap news agency reported.

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Racist Ronald Reagan called Africans "monkeys" in taped call with Nixon

ACLU Blasts ‘Inaccurate Stereotypes’ For Opposition to Trans Athletes in Womens’ Sports

Two biologically male transgender athletes sparked controversy earlier this year when they won gold and silver medals in a state running championship, beating their biologically female competitors.

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‘The Four Horsemen Are Idiots’: North Carolina Billboard Lashes Out at Dem ‘The Squad’ Lawmakers

A North Carolina gun shop is offering a limited edition bumper sticker targeting the four Dems to anyone who will “eat bacon” and “vote Trump” in the 2020 US presidential election.

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US Senior Democrat Engel Calls on House to Pursue Trump Impeachment

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Senior Democrat Congressman Eliot Engel in a statement called on the House of Representatives to launch an impeachment process against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice during Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

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US to Rely on ‘Sheer Bullying’ Against Iran After Germany, France Snub ‘Maximum Pressure’ Proposal

The US has officially requested Germany, France and the UK join its troops in an anti-Iran program that would escort Western tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Berlin and Paris’ trade interests with Tehran. With only London on board, Washington may augment their original “request” and resort to classic bullying.

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Snapchat trolls Instagram with 'real friends' ad campaign

Snapchat is finally growing again, and it's using that momentum to engage in some (not so) subtle trolling of its biggest rival: Instagram.

Snap introduced a new ad campaign that's all about promoting Snapchat as the home for "real friends." The implications, of course, being that other platforms aren't about "real friends." Think that's too subtle? Well, just in case there was any question of what they really meant, Snap kicked off the campaign. on none other than Instagram. 

Snap doesn't have its own presence on Instagram, so it worked with dozens of "quotefluencers" — high-profile accounts that primarily post inspirational quotes. Together, these accounts flooded Instagram with cheery quotes about friends using the "#realfriends" and "#friendshipquotes" hashtags. The posts were all on a yellow background, complete with Snapchat's ghost logo and "brought to you by Snapchat" captions. Read more...

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Trump Seeks Afghan Exit, But Iran Crisis Makes Taliban Peace Deal Unlikely

While US President Donald Trump claims he seeks to reduce the US presence in Afghanistan, the reality is that peace talks with the Taliban have stalled out and if the US found itself in a war with nearby Iran, its Afghan bases would be useful, a leading peace activist told Sputnik.

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Drone crash near kids leads Swiss Post and Matternet to suspend autonomous deliveries

A serious crash by a delivery drone in Switzerland have grounded the fleet and put a partnership on ice. Within a stone’s throw of a school, the incident raised grim possibilities for the possibilities of catastrophic failure of payload-bearing autonomous aerial vehicles.

The drones were operated by Matternet as part of a partnership with the Swiss Post (i.e. the postal service), which was using the craft to dispatch lab samples from one medical center for priority cases. As far as potential applications of drone delivery, it’s a home run — but twice now the craft have crashed, first with a soft landing and the second time a very hard one.

The first incident, in January, was the result of a GPS hardware error; the drone entered a planned failback state and deployed its emergency parachute, falling slowly to the ground. Measures were taken to improve the GPS systems.

The second failure in May, however, led to the drone attempting to deploy its parachute again, only to sever the line somehow and plummet to earth, crashing into the ground some 150 feet from a bunch of kindergartners. No one was hit but this narrowly avoided being a worst-case scenario for the service: not just a craft failing, but the emergency systems failing as well, and over not just a populated area but immediately over a bunch of children. The incident was documented last month but not widely reported.

Falling from a few hundred feet, the 12-kilogram (about 26 pounds) drone and payload could easily have seriously injured or even killed someone — this is why there are very strict regulations about flying over populated areas and crowds.

A first look at Amazon’s new delivery drone

Obviously they grounded the fleet following this incident and will not spin up again until Matternet addresses the various issues involved. How was it even possible, for instance, that the parachute line was capable of being cut by something on the drone?

In a statement to IEEE Spectrum, which recently noted the news stateside, Matternet said that it “had never seen a failure like that in the past, neither in our expensive (sic) testing nor in commercial operations.” (Presumably they meant extensive.) The company issued a slightly different statement to TechCrunch:

This is the first time ever that our vehicle parachute system has failed. As stated in the report, the flight termination system was triggered nominally per the drone’s specification, but the parachute cord was severed during the parachute deployment.

At Matternet, we take the safety of our technology and operations extremely seriously. A failure of the parachute safety mechanism system is unacceptable and we are taking all the appropriate measures to address it.

Swiss Post and Matternet reacted to the incident immediately by grounding all the operations involving this vehicle type. Our experts analyzed the incident and proposed the appropriate mitigations which are being evaluated by FOCA. We will restart operations once Matternet and Swiss Post, FOCA and our hospital customers in Switzerland are satisfied that the appropriate mitigations have been applied.

Drone delivery is a promising field, but situations like this one don’t do it any favors when regulators take a look. Despite sunny predictions from the industry, there is a huge amount of work yet to be done in terms of flight proving the technology, and although 2 failures out of some 3,000 may not sound like a lot, if one of those failures is an uncontrolled fall that nearly takes out some kids, that could set the entire industry back.

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‘Witch Hunt Ends’: Trump Hails DNC Lawsuit Dismissal Over 2016 Hacking Charges

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump applauded a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee against the Trump campaign over hacking allegations during the 2016 election.

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US Senate Banking Committee Launches Probe of Massive Credit Card Data Breach

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Senate Banking Committee has begun collecting information for an investigation of a data breach by one of the largest US banks that affected at least 100 million customers, committee Chairman Mike Crapo told reporters.

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US-Russian New START Treaty Unlikely to Be Extended - Bolton

The New START treaty was signed in 2010 and is currently the only Russian-US arms control deal.

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Normalization of Iran-EU Trade Relations Is 'First Step' to Comply With Nuclear Deal - Rouhani

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday that the normalization of trade relations with Iran was the first step of the European Union to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, the Press TV broadcaster reported.

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North Korea Reportedly Fires Two Ballistic Missiles of New Type

According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired off "multiple unidentified projectiles" that flew between 240 and 330 kilometers on Wednesday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported. They were later identified as two ballistic missiles.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Life May Be in Danger Due to ‘Powerful Friends’ – Attorney

While child molesters are not known to last long in prisons all around the world, Jeffrey Epstein is fortunate enough to also have powerful ‘ex’ friends who would like to keep his mouth shut, claims an attorney who fought against Epstein in court a decade ago.

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New UK PM Pursuing 'Dangerous' No-Deal Brexit Deal - Nicola Sturgeon

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in an interview on Monday that newly elected UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pursues a no-deal Brexit plan of withdrawing his country from the European Union which is "dangerous" both for Scotland and the entire United Kingdom.

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A Hacker Stole Data From 100 Million Capital One Customers

In a criminal complaint, the FBI detailed how a hacker allegedly stole data from 100 million people—and how she got caught.

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A Hacker Stole Data From 100 Million Capital One Customers

In a criminal complaint, the FBI detailed how a hacker allegedly stole data from 100 million people—and how she got caught.

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US Charges Two Men for Attempting to Join Daesh in Sinai - Justice Dept

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Two men have been charged for allegedly conspiring to travel to Sinai to join the Daesh terrorist group, the Justice Department said.

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Japanese Manufacturer Pleads Guilty to Global Price Fixing Conspiracy - US Justice Dept

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Japanese manufacturing company of suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives has pleaded guilty for its role in a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices, the Department of Justice said in a press release.

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Japanese Manufacturer Pleads Guilty to Global Price Fixing Conspiracy - US Justice Dept

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Japanese manufacturing company of suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives has pleaded guilty for its role in a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices, the Department of Justice said in a press release.

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California Garlic Fest Shooter Exploited Weak Nevada Gun Laws - US Senator

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - At least 15 people were injured on Sunday and four people killed during a shooting spree at a California garlic festival in the town of Gilroy, located 80 miles southeast of San Francisco.

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Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

Another day, another massive data breach.

This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, which revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Consumers and small businesses affected are those who obtained one of the company’s credit cards dating back to 2005.

That includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, self-reported income and more credit card application data — including over 140,000 Social Security numbers in the U.S., and more than a million in Canada.

The FBI already has a suspect in custody. Seattle resident and software developer Paige A. Thompson, 33, was arrested and detained pending trial. She’s been accused of stealing data by breaching a web application firewall, which was supposed to protect it.

Sound familiar? It should. Just last week, credit rating giant Equifax settled for more than $575 million over a date breach it had — and hid from the public for several months — two years prior.

Why should we be surprised? Equifax faced zero fallout until its eventual fine. All talk, much bluster, but otherwise little action.

Equifax’s chief executive Richard Smith “retired” before he was fired, allowing him to keep his substantial pension packet. Lawmakers grilled the company but nothing happened. An investigation launched by the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the governmental body responsible for protecting consumers from fraud, declined to pursue the company. The FTC took its sweet time to issue its fine — which amounted to about 20% of the company’s annual revenue for 2018. For one of the most damaging breaches to the U.S. population since the breach of classified vetting files at the Office of Personnel Management in 2015, Equifax got off lightly.

Legislatively, nothing has changed. Equifax remains as much of a “victim” in the eyes of the law as it was before — technically, but much to the ire of the millions affected who were forced to freeze their credit as a result.

Mark Warner, a Democratic senator serving Virginia, along with his colleague since turned presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, was tough on the company, calling for it to do more to protect consumer data. With his colleagues, he called on the credit agencies to face penalties to the top brass and extortionate fines to hold the companies accountable — and to send a message to others that they can’t play fast and loose with our data again.

But Congress didn’t bite. Warner told TechCrunch at the time that there was “a failure of the company, but also of lawmakers” for not taking action.

Lo and behold, it happened again. Without a congressional intervention, Capital One is likely to face largely the same rigmarole as Equifax did.

Blame the lawmakers all you want. They had their part to play in this. But fool us twice, shame on the credit companies for not properly taking action in the first place.

The Equifax incident should have sparked a fire under the credit giants. The breach was the canary in the coal mine. We watched and waited to see what would happen as the canary’s lifeless body emerged — but, much to the American public’s chagrin, no action came of it. The companies continued on with the mentality that “it could happen to us, but probably won’t.” It was always going to happen again unless there was something to force the companies to act.

Companies continue to vacuum up our data — knowingly and otherwise — and don’t do enough to protect it. As much as we can have laws to protect consumers from this happening again, these breaches will continue so long as the companies continue to collect our data and not take their data security responsibilities seriously.

We had an opportunity to stop these kinds of breaches from happening again, yet in the two years passed we’ve barely grappled with the basic concepts of internet security. All we have to show for it is a meager fine.

Thompson faces five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Everyone else faces just another major intrusion into their personal lives. Not at the hands of the hacker per se, but the companies that collect our data — with our consent and often without — and take far too many liberties with it.

A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout

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Russian Rescuers Respond to Health Emergency at Iranian Cargo Vessel in Astrakhan

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian emergency services are operating onboard the Iranian cargo vessel Tina, currently in port of the Astrakhan city in southern Russia, to help the crew members who reported not feeling well, the local branch of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Sunday.

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Man interviewed at Amazon, didn't get the job, but they used his photo on their jobs site

Several years ago, Jordan Guthmann, a VP at Edelman PR, interviewed for a job at Amazon. While he was on the company campus chatting with folks, someone asked to take his photo and he kindly obliged. Guthmann didn't get the gig, but apparently he at least looked like the right person for the job: Until a few days ago his photo appeared on Amazon's Talent Acquisition website. After Guthmann tweeted it, Amazon quickly swapped out the photo. As Petapixel commented, hopefully the person in the current photo actually got the job!

Years ago I went to Amazon for a job interview that I did NOT get but they were taking photos and the kind person taking photos asked me if she could snap my picture and I was like sure why not anywho that's why I'm on their jobs website today... https://t.co/ehhRvnYaC6

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Active Duty US Troops Now Prison Guards at Texas Detention Facility

It was reported last week that US Border Patrol detention facility in Donna, Texas, had increased the role of active duty US troops previously ordered to have no direct contact with the migrants at the facility. Their new guidelines may result in the violation of a 140-year-old law considered to be a cornerstone of American civil liberties.

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Russian Embassy in UK Slams London Assessment of Unauthorized Moscow Rally as Biased

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom was not objective in its assessment of the situation around the recent unauthorized rally in Moscow, the spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in London told journalists on Sunday.

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Betsy Ross T-Shirt Sales Skyrocket After Americans Push Back at Nike Flag Shoe Controversy - Report

The report comes in the wake of Nike pulling its model of running shoes adorned with an old-time US flag, after its advertising representative Colin Kaepernick said the flag represented the era of American slavery.

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Is the Big One Coming? Internet on Edge as NASA Aircraft Surveys California

When the US aerospace agency brings a plane to zig-zag over a fault line that could conceivably bring doom to the American West Coast, there must be a reason. But which one exactly? Internet users are getting suspicious.

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100 million Americans' data accessed in massive Capitol One hack

Well, this is not good. 

Finance services giant Capital One announced Monday that there had been a major cybersecurity incident directly affecting 100 million Americans and six million Canadians. Specifically, a host of their customers' private financial data had been accessed by a hacker. 

According to a statement issued by the company, two separates breaches occurred — once on March 22 and another on March 23 — and were discovered on July 19. 

Bloomberg reports that a Seattle woman has been arrested and accused of hacking Capital One's server at an unnamed cloud-computing company.

Notably, it seems that although the customer data in question was encrypted, the hacker was able to decrypt it.  Read more...

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Congressional Deregulation Has Left Air Safety Standards ‘Out of Control’ of FAA

A new report by the New York Times reveals the extent to which Boeing was allowed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to effectively self-regulate when it came to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software, the failure of which caused the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, killing 346 people.

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How to Get the URL of Images You Upload in WordPress

Do you want to find the link or URL of images you upload in WordPress?

Sometimes you may need to get the link of an image to display it in other areas of your website or social media platforms.

In this article, we will show you how to easily get the URL of images that you upload to your WordPress site.

Finding a WordPress Image URL – Step by Step

WordPress automatically creates a unique URL for each image you upload to your website using the default WordPress media uploader.

Usually, a WordPress image URL includes your domain name followed by /wp-content/uploads/, date of image upload, and the image file name.

For example, an image named ‘travelaccessories.png’ uploaded to example.com in January 2019 will have a URL like this:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/travelaccessories.png

Now let’s take a look at how to get the URL of images uploaded to your WordPress site.

First, you need to login to your WordPress admin area and click on the Media menu. Once done, it will open your media library where all your images and other media files are stored.

Next, you can use the search feature to find the image that you want to find the link of.

Once you click on the image, it will open a popup window with the image attachment details. You will see the image details in the right column and image preview on the left.

The right column displays all image details including file name, file type, upload date, file size, dimensions, and image metadata like image alt text, title, caption, description, image uploaded by, etc.

You will also see the image URL at the end. It is the link next to ‘Copy Link’ option.

You can simply copy the link and use it anywhere you like.

If you open the image URL in your browser, then you can see the full size original version of the image uploaded.

Finding Your WordPress Image URLs from the Frontend

The method shown above lets you get the URL of any image uploaded in WordPress, whether it is published live or not.

If you want to get the URL of images already published on your site, then you can get it from the frontend itself. It is much easier!

Open a page or post where the image is published and locate the image. After that, right-click on the image, and select ‘Open image in new tab’ option.

Once the image opens in the new tab, look at the URL in the address bar. That is your WordPress image URL.

Now you can copy the image address and use it anywhere you want.

It is pretty quick and straightforward!

How to Get the URL of GIFs, Videos, and PDFs in WordPress

As mentioned above, other media files like GIFs, videos, and documents like PDFs are also saved in the WordPress media library. You can easily find the URL of these files by following the same steps as shown above.

Go to Media » Library from your dashboard, and then click on a GIF, video, or document whose URL you want to see. After that, attachment details popup window will appear.

You can get the attachment URL next to the ‘Copy Link’ option on the right column.

We hope this article helped you to learn how to get the URL of images you upload in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on basic image editing in WordPress.

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At Least 15 Killed as Pakistani Military Plane Crashes During Routine Training - Reports (Photos)

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - At least 15 people, including two pilots and three crew, were killed and others injured after a small plane of the Pakistan Army Aviation crashed in the Rawalpindi city of Pakistan's Punjab province during a routine training flight, local media reported on Tuesday.

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Uber to Sack 400 Marketing Staffers Globally - Reports

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Uber Technologies Inc. is laying off one-third of its marketing employees worldwide, or about 400 people, in a bid to cut costs and create a more centralized structure, media reported on Monday.

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Capital One hacked, over 100 million customers affected

Capital One was hacked earlier this month, the company has disclosed.

A notice about the data breach is currently being broadcast from the company’s home page.

Here’s what we know so far:

• Capital One believes the breach exposed credit card application data for those who’d applied between 2005 and 2019.
• The company says this works out to roughly 100 million individuals in the US, and 6 million in Canada.
• The data leaked potentially includes “names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” of those who’d applied, as well as information like “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information”
• Capital One is estimating that roughly 140,000 social security numbers were potentially compromised in the US, as well as 80,000 linked bank account numbers. In Canada, roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised.
• Transaction data for “a total of 23 days” spread across 2016/2017/2018 was obtained

A notice from the US Department of Justice says that Seattle engineer Paige A. Thompson was arrested in connection with the breach this morning.

Story developing..

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Katy Perry Hit 'Dark Horse' Copied Christian Rap Song - Report

The nine-member federal jury in Los Angeles has reportedly returned the unanimous verdict. The decision came five years after Marcus Gray and two co-authors first sued to allege that "Dark Horse" stole from "Joyful Noise," a song he released under the stage name Flame, AP reported Monday.

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Turkey, US Defence Ministers Discuss Syria Safe Zone - Ankara

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and US Defence Secretary Mark Esper held phone talks on Monday and discussed the establishment of the safe zone in northern Syria, the Turkish Defence ministry said in a statement.

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The LG 43-inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV is on sale for under £300 on Amazon

TL;DR: The innovative LG 43-Inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV is available for just £294.80, saving you 51% on list price.

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If you're looking for a TV with a 43-inch screen, an IPS 4K display, ThinQ AI, and active HDR, you can expect to pay over £500. That's just the price you pay for all of that innovative technology. Except, it doesn't have to be.

You can now pick up the LG 43-Inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV, with all of that innovation, for just £294.80 on Amazon. That's down from the list price of £599.99, saving you over £300 — a considerable saving, and one that shouldn't be missed.

Of course, you shouldn't be interested in a product purely because of a discount, but the combination of impressive features and the discount should pique your interest. Thankfully, the LG 43-Inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV does possess a great set of features, including true colour accuracy, ultra surround sound, and smart options. Read more...

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Pro Breeze mini clip fans, Q-Connect desktop fans, Bionaire tower fans, Honeywell cooling towers, and more fans on sale in the UK

TL;DR: Pick up a cooling fan for as little as £12.49 on Amazon, and save up to 75% on list price.

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It's so hot right now in the UK, and it is going to continue being hot for the foreseeable future. 

You could continue to wallow in the heat, with the curtains drawn and every single window wide open, or you could invest in a fan. You know how you talk about getting a fan every year, when you're sat with an ice pack on your forehead? Well, how about this year you actually go and buy one, rather than just talking about it?

We have lined up the very best deals on desktop fans, mini fans, floor fans, oscillating tower fans, and cooling towers, from all the biggest brands, so you can stay cool this year. These are the best deals from across the internet for July 24: Read more...

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This anti-manspreading chair forces men to sit with their legs closed

British designer and artist Laila Laurel created an anti-manspreading chair that forces men to respect other people's personal space by sitting with their legs closed. The project is called ‘A Solution for Man-spreading’ and it has already won a national design award in the UK. Obviously, as BBC reports, some men hate it. We think it's brilliant. Read more...

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Politician's emotive speech about her cancer diagnosis will move you to tears

An Australian politician gave a powerful speech on Wednesday after learning that her cancer had returned, and it's truly personal and moving.

"A week after being sworn in as a member for Dunkley I received the unexpected news that my cancer had returned," Peta Murphy, Labor Member for Dunkley, told the Australian House of Representatives.

"You might say Murphy's Law strikes again," she added. "But my mother Jan — who is a Murphy by marriage not birth and therefore able to adopt a less pessimistic personal motto — would say 'everything happens for a reason.'"

New Member for Dunkley @petajan tackled the very personal topic of cancer in her first speech, after learning that her own cancer has returned. She took the opportunity to provide some frank health advice to Australianspic.twitter.com/hMWjBNh0ZX

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Cersei had a chilling response to Boris Johnson becoming UK prime minister

Cheese descriptions are super horny

Mashable bites into a creamy, nutty, gooey, and sometimes stinky world during our first-ever Cheese Week.

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Some take the concept of “cheese lover” a little too literally.

Whether it's flavor profiles, packaging, or story, cheese available in the U.S. gets described in some of the most sensual and arousing words available in the English language. When this reporter went to local Los Angeles gourmet cheese shop Say Cheese, for example, the cheesemonger did not blink twice at her request to hear about some of their most sexually-charged cheeses. 

Sure, the same can often be said for wines and chocolates. But melting cheese is a true staple of the best food porn, with sultry raclette sizzled right on the wheel and dripped onto the plates of restaurant patrons fighting off a public food orgasm.  Read more...

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Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan is on sale for just £30.34 a month

TL;DR: Subscribe to the comprehensive Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan for just £30.34 a month, saving you 40% on list price.

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When it comes to creativity, it's important to let everything out. It's no good having all these ideas, and keeping them bottled up. Creative individuals need an outlet, and nowadays that can be found with the help of an app.

The Adobe Creative Cloud offers a bunch of apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe XD, with cloud storage, Adobe Portfolio, Adobe Fonts, and Adobe Spark. Basically, the cloud has everything you need to get your creative juices flowing.

The Creative Cloud experience is pretty varied too, with loads of different plans for individuals, businesses, students, and schools. If you're an individual with a serious passion for creativity, then the All Apps plan is probably the best option for you. Read more...

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Reddit introduces 'community awards' to encourage healthier conversation

If you've spent any time lately on r/DunderMifflin, the subreddit dedicated to fans of The Office, you might have noticed something new: a series of new "awards" peppering the group's most popular posts.

These new virtual gifts — a gold "Dundie Award" statuette, a green stack of "Schrute Bucks" — are part inside joke, part badge of honor for the group, which has more than 1 million subscribers. It's also Reddit's latest effort to make its communities healthier (and, perhaps, bring in some additional revenue in the process). 

These are Reddit's "community awards," a new type of in-app gift Reddit is officially launching today, after a few months of testing. Community awards are an extension of Reddit's more well-known virtual kudos, like the coveted "Reddit Gold" that Redditors are known to hand out to noteworthy posts (there are also silver and platinum markers). Read more...

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Samsung 4K TVs, Honeywell fans, Oral-B electric toothbrushes, BarCraft accessories, and more on sale for July 24 in the UK

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Stephen Colbert busts out his best British accent to mock Boris Johnson

Today is the day Britain is set to get a new prime minister.

On Tuesday, Boris Johnson was elected as the new leader of the Conservative party. Taking to the stage, he attempted to pump up the crowd with an unfortunate use of the word "dude" and some mumblings about not being daunted by the task ahead.

Stephen Colbert wasn't impressed. "He is the world's worst cheerleader," says the Late Show host in the clip above, before busting out his best British accent to mock Johnson's attempts at motivation.

"Three cheers for Great Britain!" says British Colbert. "Hip, hip... you look like you're thinking hooray, you really do." Read more...

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The disastrous dogs-in-costume sketch Conan didn't want you to see

There's an old saying in showbiz: Never work with animals, or animals dressed up as larger, fictional animals.

Conan O'Brien left his studio set to film at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, and when you're away from home, it's fun to try new things. It doesn't always work, but at least you learned something. And what Team Coco learned was that just because you stick a Godzilla costume on a beagle, doesn't mean it's going to get right into character and start smashing up the tiny city you built for exactly that purpose.

OK, so it's not a total disaster — just a bit of an anti-climax, if you're the kind of person for whom the very presence of a dog in a Godzilla costume is not the absolute peak of artistic endeavour. Read more...

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These headphones were made to help you sleep — and they're on sale

TL;DR: Grab the immersive Bedphones wireless sleep headphones for $99.99 in the Mashable Shop — a savings of 33%.

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The only thing harder than trying to sleep with glasses on is trying to sleep with headphones in. Typical earbuds make laying on your side extremely uncomfortable and anything worn over the ear isn't even worth trying. But what if you fall asleep best to the sound of music, or need to block out your partner's snoring? That's where the Bedphones come in.

The Bedphones wireless sleep headphones let you fall asleep listening to your favorite playlist, audiobook, or podcast without disturbing your comfort or your partner. They're incredibly thin, infinitely adjustable, and boast a 13-hour battery life, so they'll last you throughout the night and beyond. Read more...

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