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Groups seek more protection for workers as COVID-19 cases at NC meat packing plants rise

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“We don’t know the extent to which it’s increasing because there’s no transparency around numbers, “ says one worker advocate. ...

In NC college towns, usually bustling weekend now has empty hotels and empty feelings

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No graduations leaves restaurants and hotels financially and emotionally devastated. Powered by WPeMatico

In NC college towns, usually bustling weekend now has empty hotels and empty feelings

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No graduations leaves restaurants and hotels financially and emotionally devastated. Powered by WPeMatico

When do stores like Belk, Macy’s and Kohl’s reopen? An update for Raleigh and Durham.

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Phase One of NC’s reopen plan starts Friday, but some large retail chains are waiting until next week — and ...

When do stores like Belk, Macy’s and Kohl’s reopen? An update for Raleigh and Durham.

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Phase One of NC’s reopen plan starts Friday, but some large retail chains are waiting until next week — and ...

States are killing pigs, chickens that COVID-19 keeps from the market. Could NC be next?

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NC’s assistant agriculture commissioner estimates plant production is down 35% to 45% Powered by WPeMatico

States are killing pigs, chickens that COVID-19 keeps from the market. Could NC be next?

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NC’s assistant agriculture commissioner estimates plant production is down 35% to 45% Powered by WPeMatico

NPR launches a coffee club, and it taps NC roaster Counter Culture to deliver the beans

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No offense to tote bags, but this is better than a tote bag. Powered by WPeMatico

NPR launches a coffee club, and it taps NC roaster Counter Culture to deliver the beans

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No offense to tote bags, but this is better than a tote bag. Powered by WPeMatico

September’s Tokyo Game Show 2020 Event Has Been Cancelled Due to COVID-19; Digital Event Planned Instead

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Tokyo Game Show 2020 has been canceled due to fears over COVID-19 but a digital event is being planned instead. ...

Greenberg: We Set Some Wrong Expectations for Yesterday’s Inside Xbox Event; 3rd Party Titles to Debut During July Event as Well, Shinobi Says

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Xbox marketing manager Aaron Greenberg has taken to Twitter to respond to community criticism following yesterday’s Inside Xbox event. Fans ...

Facebook SDK Bug Broke Several Popular iOS Apps Like Spotify, TikTok, More 

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Facebook wreaked havoc on Wednesday as a major bug caused a large number of iOS apps to crash for more ...

Xbox Series X Games in the Works at Over 140 Third-Party Publishers and Studios

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Today during the latest episode of Inside Xbox, Microsoft showed off new Xbox Series X trailers for a number of ...

Microsoft: Xbox Series X Is About Sustained Levels of Performance with No Bottlenecks or Compromises

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Prospective Xbox Series X customers got their first treat of target gameplay footage for the console during today’s Inside Xbox ...

Yakuza: Like a Dragon Will be an Xbox Series X Launch Title, PS5 Release a Question Mark

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Today during the most recent episode of Inside Xbox it was announced that Yakuza: Like a Dragon was coming to ...

YouTube Music gets a new Explore tab and song lyrics

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Today Google’s new music streaming service is getting a couple new features. There’s a new Explore tab in the YouTube ...

Realme X3 SuperZoom to sport periscope camera offering up to 60x magnification

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Realme is working on a bunch of new devices at the moment, but perhaps none is more interesting than the ...

Discover app by Facebook finds free data from carriers in Peru

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Facebook has a new app called Discover, and its part of a new “Free Basics Initiative” that offers wireless subscribers ...

Android 10 finally reaches the Xiaomi Mi Note 10

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Xiaomi’s Mi Note 10 launched last November sporting the world’s first 108 MP camera on a smartphone, as well as ...

Google Lens can now speak the text you scanned, copy it to your computer

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Spending extra time at home gave us a great opportunity to pick up a new language, but since we didn’t, ...

Samsung will launch a Samsung Pay debit card this summer

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Samsung announced on Tuesday that it has plans to expand Samsung Pay’s services to include both a debit card and ...

Clearview AI pinky swears it will stop working with private companies

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This time Clearview AI really means it. Honest.   The problematic facial-recognition company that scraped billions of photos off social ...

Lyft requires drivers and riders to wear masks

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Now when you order a car, you have to worry about catching and transmitting COVID-19. That’s why Lyft announced Thursday ...

Elon Musk returns to Joe Rogan’s podcast and explains his baby’s name

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The full interview is about two hours long and touches on a handful of topics.  Read more… More about Tech, ...

An engineer designed a working rotary cell phone — Future Blink

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Space engineer Justine Haupt wanted to create a phone that came with no distractions. Read more… More about Tech, Mashable ...

Waymo says it will resume driving operations, starting in Phoenix next week

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After suspending them at the end of March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Waymo has announced it will resume driving ...

In a potential big win for renewable energy, Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation

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Form Energy, which is developing what it calls ultra-low-cost, long-duration energy storage for the grid, has signed a contract with ...

Vista Equity Partners to invest $1.5B in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms

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Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, joining social ...

Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire

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A coronavirus conspiracy video featuring a well-known vaccine conspiracist is spreading like wildfire on social media this week, even as ...

Owkin raises $25 million as it builds a secure network for healthcare analysis and research

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Imagine a model of collaborative research and development among hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, universities and other research institutions where no one ...