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- Spotify was down in parts of the US and Europe Wednesday as users reported being able to play songs for only a few seconds at a time
- iPhones with ‘Fortnite’ installed are being sold for as much as $10,000 after Apple pulled the game from the App Store (AAPL, GOOGL)
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- ‘Objection!’: Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump’s Pardon of the Suffragist
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- Uber sends ominous message to riders in California ahead of its possible shutdown (UBER, LYFT)
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- Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon Poke Fun at Night Two of the DNC: ‘One of the Most Electrifying Infomercials of the Year’
- WATCH: Lou Dobbs Icily Scolds Someone Off Camera, Not Realizing That He’s On the Air
- Popular coding platform HackerRank is launching its first-ever virtual college career fair that its CEO says could help companies improve diversity: ‘Your pool suddenly got 10x bigger’
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- WH Chief Mark Meadows Forgets Osama Bin Laden, Claims Trump First POTUS Who ‘Went After A Terrorist And Took Him Out’
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- Warren Buffett’s $113 billion Apple stake and $147 billion cash pile now account for over half of Berkshire Hathaway’s entire market value
- Trump supports a TikTok acquisition by Oracle, whose chairman is a major supporter
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- Trump Ignites Backlash After Tweeting Support for GOP Primary Win of Far Right Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer: Shows ‘How Far Off the Rails the GOP Has Gone’
- Fox’s Brit Hume Praises Jill Biden’s Speech, Calls Her ‘Very Likable’ in Contrast with Michelle Obama’s ‘Hard, Angry Edge’
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- ‘We’re still in the wild west’: Free, ad-supported streaming TV war heats up with Amazon, Pluto TV updates
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- Karl Rove: Democrats Showed ‘Enormous Message Discipline,’ GOP ‘Would Be Wise to Emulate That’
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- John Kerry Condemns Trump’s ‘Blooper Reel’ Foreign Policy: ‘He Breaks Up With Our Allies and Writes Love Letters to Dictators’
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- WATCH: Joe Biden Accepts the Democratic Nomination for President to Ovation and Kool & the Gang Music
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks at DNC for Nomination of Bernie Sanders, Praises Movement to ‘Repair Wounds of Racial Injustice, Colonization, Misogyny’
- Bill Clinton Blasts Trump in DNC Speech: If You Want a President Who ‘Spends Hours a Day Watching TV’ and Tweeting, ‘He’s Your Man’
- Ex-Acting AG Sally Yates Tears Into Trump, Endorses Joe Biden at DNC: ‘The Future of Our Democracy Is at Stake’
- Stacey Abrams Praises Biden’s ‘Proven Courage’ and Calls Out Trump as a ‘President of Cowardice’ at DNC
- Tucker Carlson Goes After Michelle Obama: Portrayed Herself as a ‘Victim’ in Speech, She Wants You to ‘Shut Up and Accept Her Dominion Over You’
- WATCH LIVE: Democratic National Convention, Night 2
- Tucker Carlson Goes After Cardi B and ‘WAP’: ‘What Is This Doing to Our Kids?’
- MSNBC’s Joy Reid Floats Idea of Biden Administration Empaneling a ‘Trump Crimes Commission’ After Election
- Colin Powell to Speak at DNC Convention: We Need Commander-in-Chief Who ‘Takes Care of Our Troops’ Like He Would His Own Family
- Elon Musk has tripled his wealth during the pandemic, joining a list of 12 Americans collectively worth more than $1 trillion (TSLA, AMZN, FB, GOOG, GOOGL, BRK.A, WMT, ORCL, MSFT)
- TV Audiences Dip for First Night of Democrats’ Virtual Convention
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- Cindy McCain to Speak in DNC Video About Her Husband’s Relationship With Biden
- Notre Dame Joins North Carolina, More Than a Dozen Other Colleges in Canceling In-Person Classes After Covid Spike Hits Campus
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- Alphabet’s Wing named a new head of operations as the drone-delivery company looks to expand its global reach (GOOGL)
- Lou Dobbs Rails Against Republicans ‘Clearly Working Against President Trump’ After Release of Senate Intel Russia Report
- Elon Musk just made $8 billion in one day. Here’s how the CEO makes and spends his $84.8 billion fortune.
- Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice
- Fmr DHS Official Miles Taylor Calls Out Trump’s ‘Disinterest’ on Russian Interference in New Video: ‘He Denied That This Was a Threat’
- Watch Bernie Sanders Hilariously Shoo Off His Wife After She Admonished Him to ‘Stand Up Straight’ Just Before DNC Speech
- Daily Mail Releases Photos of Bill Clinton Getting Massaged by Jeffrey Epstein Victim
- Experts say Oracle buying TikTok is a wild idea which could either be a Larry Ellison headfake or a bold move to boost its cloud offensive (ORCL)
- Cannabis startup Dutchie raised $35 million from Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Starbucks founder Howard Schultz. Here’s an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to close the round.
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- Acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolf Dismisses Idea of Systemic Racism in Policing: ‘Absolutely Not’
- Gun-Pointing St. Louis Attorney Couple Will Make Virtual Appearance in Support of Trump at RNC
- Hollywood Executive Ron Meyer Leaves NBCUniversal, Citing Extortion
- Oculus will require people to log in through Facebook before they can use its VR devices, company says (FB)
- Retail startup Thanx created a smart QR code that’s helping restaurants up their digital game at a crucial time. The CEO says the tech ‘will become the new normal well beyond COVID.’
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- Doctor on CNN Destroys MyPillow CEO Immediately After Bonkers Interview: The Treatment He Was Promoting ‘Can Be Fatal’
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- Netflix has canceled ‘Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’ as it continues to struggle with topical talk shows
- Elon Musk promises an Autopilot ‘quantum leap’ in the next few weeks. Here’s how Tesla’s one-of-a-kind bet on self-driving tech works. (TSLA, GM, GOOGL)
- Anderson Cooper Repeatedly Grills MyPillow CEO for Peddling Virus Treatment in Insane CNN Clash: ‘How Do You Sleep at Night?!’
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- Journalists Dunk on Trump for Attacking Michelle Obama’s Lowball Coronavirus Death Toll: Not the ‘Own’ Trump Thinks it is
- An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs
- Who is Miles Taylor, Ex-DHS Official Waging War Against His Former Boss, Trump?
- NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer Resigns After Revealing Affair and Extortion Attempt
- Michelle Obama ‘VOTE’ Necklace Designer ‘Cried’ Upon Seeing It In DNC Speech
- Ted Cruz Blasts Former McCain Adviser Steve Schmidt: A ‘Cretin’ Who ‘Spent His Life’ Betraying Powerful Men
- Cops Are Buying Your Social Media Location Data Without a Warrant
- Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary
- Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Patriot Act’ Canceled After Six Seasons
- Mediaite Presents The Interview: Our Brand-New Podcast, With First Guest Tucker Carlson
- Trump Ramps Up ‘Suburban Housewife’ Dog Whistle: Biden, Cory Booker Will Force Low-Income Housing ‘Down Their Throats’
- ‘An Agency Gone Mad’: DHS Unleashes Personal Attack on GAO Employee Who Concluded Cuccinelli and Wolf Were Illegally Appointed
- With 170,000 Americans Dead, This GOP Senator is Still Saying Seasonal Flu is ‘In Many Cases Deadlier’ Than Coronavirus
- Republican-Led Senate Intel Report Outlines Russian Connections, Counterintelligence Risks Linked to Trump 2016 Campaign
- SpaceX Just Reused a Single Booster for the 6th Time
- MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus
- Trump Floats Invalidating Election Over Mail-In Voting: ‘They’ll Have to Do it Again’
- WATCH: MSNBC Assembles Focus Group of Suburban Women Who Proceed to Trash Trump for ‘Completely Racist’ Housewife Comments
- Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah Tackle the DNC: ‘Nothing Quite Fires Up Americans Like Long Speeches Over Zoom’
- Zing? Trump Trashes Michelle Obama Speech For, Among Other Things, Undercounting Coronavirus Death Toll
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- Trump Announces He Will Sign ‘Full and Complete’ Pardon for Women’s Suffrage Icon Susan B. Anthony
- ‘F*ck You, James Comey’: Showtime Drops Extremely Odd Trailer Promoting Its New Miniseries on Former FBI Director
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- Trump Lashes Out at ‘Loser’ John Kasich After DNC Speech: ‘Went to the Other Side Desperate For Relevance’
- The closure of newsrooms is a symbolic end of a publishing era
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- Fox & Friends Struggles to Trash Michelle Obama Speech After Griff Jenkins Calls It ‘Strong and Pointed Case’ Against Trump
- An exclusive look at the pitch deck HR startup Flux used to raise $3 million as the pandemic makes remote working the norm
- Trump Blasts Michelle Obama After Her Scathing Speech Against Him: ‘ObamaBiden Administration Was the Most Corrupt in History’
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- Michelle Obama Sets Twitter Ablaze With Electrifying DNC Speech: ‘Just Won This Election for Biden’
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- This Minnesota politician has more than 140,000 TikTok followers and is embracing the app as Trump seeks to ban it from the US
- Wealth firms are losing talent and up to 20% of business because of gaps in their tech, exclusive data shows. Here’s what they can do to improve.
- Tokyo installed see-through public toilets in a park to let people inspect their cleanliness before using them, at which point the glass turns opaque
- We got hold of a leaked 16-slide TikTok deck that teaches creators how to post better educational content and get more views
- Check out the pitch deck that Birdie — an AI-backed customer analytics firm with customers like Samsung and P&G — used to raise a $1.6 million seed round
- Entire MSNBC Panel Gushes Over Michelle Obama’s Anti-Trump DNC Speech: ‘She Delivered Epic Shade!’
- Oracle just reportedly entered the race to buy TikTok’s US operations, competing with rival Microsoft for the viral app as Trump’s deadline looms (ORCL)
- ‘People want to take back their mind’: Substack CEO Chris Best on the growing appetite for paid newsletters
- “It’s been a source of some much-needed income’: Sports clubs are building subscription businesses on Facebook
- ‘They need to model empathy’: Agency workers prepare for the start to a most unusual school year
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- Chris Wallace Praises Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech: ‘She Really Flayed, Sliced and Diced Donald Trump’
- Bernie Sanders Urges Supporters at DNC Convention to Back Biden and Defeat Trump: ‘Price of Failure Is Just Too Great to Imagine’
- Michelle Obama Condemns Trump in Blistering DNC Speech: ‘If You Think Things Cannot Possibly Get Worse, Trust Me, They Can’
- ‘America Is at a Crossroads’: John Kasich Delivers DNC Speech From Literal Crossroads
- Daughter of Covid-19 Victim Tears Into President Over Pandemic at DNC: My Dad’s ‘Only Pre-Existing Condition Was Trusting Donald Trump’
- Cuomo Slams Trump, Touts NY Pandemic Response at DNC Convention: ‘In Many Ways, Covid Is Just a Metaphor’
- George Floyd’s Brother Speaks at DNC Convention, Honors Those Who ‘We Lost to Hate and Injustice’ With Moment of Silence
- Ellen DeGeneres Tells Her Staff That 3 Top Producers Are Out
- Trump’s TikTok attack shows the surprisingly vast power of CFIUS, a decades-old government group that can kill or unwind deals even if none of the companies are American
- DNC Chair Tom Perez Defends Republican Convention Speakers Like Kasich: ‘I Think We’re Uniting America’
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