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• Fans Miss Fortnite's Patch Notes, So They've Started Making Their Own

  07-11-2019 23:56
  Since the launch of Fortnite Chapter 2, Epic has decided to change things up. Starting with the crazy black hole event that ended Season 10 and began Chapter 2, fans have often been confused by what is going on in Fortnite. In fact, recently, Epic decided to delete the majority of the patch notes on the official Fortnite website, causing fans to make their own.
  Fan ire over a lack of patch notes really sprung up after a Harpoon gun was released into Fortnite without any warning from Epic earlier
  
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• Get a job: Simutronics is hiring an Assistant Technical Artist

  07-11-2019 23:50
  Simutronics is expanding its awesome team and we are looking for an Assistant Technical Artist with experience in 3D art pipelines for games. ...
  
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• Fox News Guest Lars Larson Breaks Network Rule Against Naming Alleged Whistleblower

  07-11-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conservative radio host Lars Larson blurted out the name of the alleged whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment inquiry Thursday afternoon on Fox News, breaking the network’s recently implemented rule against doing so.Appearing on Outnumbered Overtime alongside liberal Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall, Larson ranted about the impeachment inquiry process and casually dropped the name of a person right-wing media has publicly alleged to be the whistleblower.Fox News anchor Harris F
  
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• Death Stranding's BB juice can now fuel your motorcycle in Days Gone

  07-11-2019 23:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Patch 1.6 adds a bunch of Death Stranding cosmetics
  
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• Net revenue up 74% at Take-Two thanks to Borderlands 3, NBA, GTA, and others

  07-11-2019 23:40
  Take-Two Interactive has raised its revenue forecasts for fiscal 2020 as Q2 GAAP net revenue jumps from $492.7 million to $857.9 million year-over-year. ...
  
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• Kamala Harris introduces bill to extend school day until 6 p.m. with after-school programs

  07-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Family Friendly Schools Act would alter the traditional school day to align with parents’ work hours through a pilot program in low-income schools.
  
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• Xbox's X019 Event: Playable Titles Revealed

  07-11-2019 23:00
  Microsoft announced a list of games that will be playable at X019 in London. The show floor will include upcoming Triple-A titles, indie games, and first-party Xbox games that are already out.
  In total, Microsoft said that over 24 titles will be at X019.
  Xbox Game Studios will have eight games on the show floor, including Rare’s Battletoads reboot, Minecraft Dungeons, and Bleeding Edge from Ninja Theory. Microsoft is also bringing its most popular franchises to the show with the already re
  
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• BioWare Celebrates N7 Day With New Mass Effect Armor...in Anthem

  07-11-2019 22:45
  If you’re a Mass Effect fan, then November 7 (or N7 Day) is a good time to celebrate BioWare’s expansive space opera RPG. This year, BioWare is offering a neat Mass Effect tie-in with its current project, Anthem, in the form of themed armors and emotes.
  BioWare usually does something fun for fans on N7 Day, and this year they’re releasing a set of armor designs and emotes that pay homage to their popular franchise. BioWare has released four Mass Effect-themed armors that change
  
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• Pete Buttigieg Rises In Iowa But Fails To Export That Midwestern Charm

  07-11-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Buttigieg needs Iowa more than Iowa needs Buttigieg.
  
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• The Latest: Pilot dies as plane crashes into California home

  07-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police say the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a Southern California home has died.Upland police Capt. Marcelo Blanco said Thursday that authorities believe the pilot was the only person aboard the single-engine Cirrus SR22.Blanco says authorities don't know what caused the plane to crash into the residence, igniting a fire.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren challenges Bill Gates on 'wealth tax'

  07-11-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren offered to meet Bill Gates after the Microsoft billionaire expressed skepticism about her proposal for a "wealth tax" affecting the richest Americans -- and assured him he would not have to pay $100 billion.Gates would pay $6.37 billion from a net worth of $107 billion, according to the calculator, slightly less than the $6.697 billion that would be owed by Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos.
  
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• Secret Service study: School attackers showed warning signs

  07-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most students who committed deadly school attacks over the past decade were badly bullied, had a history of disciplinary trouble and their behavior concerned others but was never reported, according to a U.S. Secret Service study released Thursday.In at least four cases, attackers wanted to emulate other school shootings, including those at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech University and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.The research was launched following the shooting
  
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• Divers Salvage 100-Year-Old Liquor from WWI Shipwreck

  07-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And it might still be drinkable.
  
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• CoD and WoW push Activision Blizzard to better-than-expected Q3

  07-11-2019 22:30
  Revenue at Activision Blizzard is down year-over-year but higher than expected for the quarter, something the company credits to better-than-expected performance for both Call of Duty and World of Warcraft....
  
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• Ukrainians Teased U.S. Officials About Trump’s Obsession With Biden

  07-11-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alex WongAs U.S. diplomats expressed concern to a top Ukrainian official that the country’s president was showing openness to investigating a former political rival, that official had a quick rejoinder at hand. The Trump administration, he explained, was doing the exact same thing. That exchange was revealed by George Kent, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, in his impeachment inquiry testimony. And it underscores the degree to which
  
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• Could a new Mass Effect game finally be on its way? Bioware teases possibilities

  07-11-2019 22:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Happy N7 Day, now give us a new game
  
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• Charges: Chinese surveillance goods illegally sold to US

  07-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised "a grave concern" over cyber security, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said.The equipment made in China and sold by Aventura "as purportedly U.S.
  
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• Woman claims she was 'slut-shamed' by airline

  07-11-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Australian woman said she was “publicly slut-shamed” by two Jetstar airline employees while trying to board a flight at Sydney Airport.
  
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• Child seats in Italy to be fitted with alarms after spate of deaths of children trapped in hot cars

  07-11-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Parents of babies and toddlers will be required to use special alarmed child seats under a new law in Italy, in response to a spate of children dying in cars from extreme heat. Parents who fail to buy the alarmed car seats, or buy alarm attachments, face fines of up to €326 and five points being docked from their driving licence. If, within two years, a parent is caught again without the special seat, their driving licence will be suspended for two weeks. The special car seats wor
  
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• Russia shuts down second rights group, drawing EU concern

  07-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Moscow court has ruled to dissolve an indigenous peoples' rights group, the second decision of its kind in less than a week that was criticized by European authorities on Thursday.Known as the Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the non-governmental organization was branded a "foreign agent" in 2015 for having received funding from abroad.Rights groups and other organizations designated by the Russian justice ministry as foreign agents, a term that carries a negative Soviet-
  
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• Dirty Indian Politics Have No Answer for the World’s Most Toxic Air

  07-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The politics of pollution in India’s capital New Delhi are as noxious as city’s air.While Delhi chokes, politicians squabble in an annual phenomenon that lasts for an intense few weeks at the start of winter, then dies down as pollution levels fall. What they haven’t done is come together to find sustainable solutions to one of the world’s worst air pollution problems that by the World Bank’s calculations costs the country as much as 8.5% of its GDP,
  
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• Dirty Indian Politics Has No Answer for the World’s Most Toxic Air

  07-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The politics of pollution in India’s capital New Delhi are as noxious as the city’s air.While Delhi chokes, politicians squabble in an annual phenomenon that lasts for an intense few weeks at the start of winter, then dies down as pollution levels fall. What they haven’t done is come together to find sustainable solutions to one of the world’s worst air pollution problems that by the World Bank’s calculations costs the country as much as 8.5% of its G
  
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• Al-Baghdadi's wife revealed ISIS group secrets after capture

  07-11-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wife of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed "a lot of information" about the jihadist group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said.
  
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• Could China's Robots Take Over The South China Sea?

  07-11-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America now needs to concern itself with more than humans.
  
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• Ohio police officer shot while executing search warrant has died, department said

  07-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Detective Jorge DelRio was carrying out a search warrant when he was shot. The injuries suffered were "tragically not survivable," police said.
  
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• Explainer: Is it illegal for Trump or Congress to name the impeachment whistleblower?

  07-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false information," Trump told reporters on Sunday.Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, on Tuesday tweeted a link to an article from a right-wing news outlet that claims to have identified the whistleblower.On Wednesday, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted a link to an article including the same name.
  
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• 'Campaign of lies': What George Kent told impeachment investigators

  07-11-2019 21:05 via politico.com
  
  House Democrats on Thursday released another deposition transcript ahead of public hearings scheduled for next week.This time, the deposition was that of George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary at the State Department whose portfolio includes Ukraine.Kent testified in a closed session on Oct. 15, telling lawmakers that, like other career diplomats, he was essentially cut out of decisions about Ukraine due to maneuvering by other administration officials and outsiders, including Trump’s p
  
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• Man serving life sentence says it ended once he died, was revived in medical emergency

  07-11-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Iowa man convicted of murder was rushed from prison to a hospital where his heart was restarted five times. He claims he should be freed.
  
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• Photos from space reveal what climate change looks like, from melting Arctic ice to rampant California fires

  07-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires are linked to climate change. Such phenomena can be seen from space.
  
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• Why Sony Leadership Changes Will Help PlayStation Transition to PS5

  07-11-2019 20:50
  
  PlayStation is going through a reorganization ahead of the launch of the PS5. Sony Interactive Entertainment Shawn Layden left PlayStation last month, and today Guerrilla Games’ Hermen Hulst succeeded Shuhei Yoshida as head of Worldwide Studios. But PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says the reorganization is necessary to help transition the company for the PlayStation 5.
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• Mystery surrounds the last person missing from Camp Fire that left 85 dead in California

  07-11-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sara Martinez-Fabila is the last person still considered missing from the Camp Fire that killed 85 people and nearly destroyed a town in California.
  
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• Retired Detective Murdered His Wife to ‘Enjoy’ Retirement With New Lover: Prosecutors

  07-11-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  APU GOMES/GettyA retired Massachusetts detective fatally shot his wife—then staged her murder as a suicide—so he could be with another woman and keep his pension all for himself, prosecutors alleged in court Thursday. Brian Fanion, a 55-year-old former Westfield Police detective, pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court Thursday morning to a first-degree murder charge in connection with the May 2018 death of his wife, Amy. Authorities at the time ruled the 51-year-old’
  
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• Hillary Clinton slams Sanders's and Warren's wealth-tax plans as 'incredibly disruptive' and 'unworkable'

  07-11-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren "unworkable" and said they would be "incredibly disruptive" if enforced.
  
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• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Terry Bogard DLC Review

  07-11-2019 20:35
  Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury probably wasn’t on the tip of many people’s tongues when it came to their dream Smash Bros. guest characters. But now that he’s here, what this brawler lacks in broad notoriety, he more than makes up for with his mechanically dense gameplay. He’s one of the most challenging, but also one of the most fun and satisfying characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to date.
  There’s a lot that’s special about Terry, but perhaps most notabl
  
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• Mainland Chinese student jailed in Hong Kong protests

  07-11-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A student from mainland China arrested at a Hong Kong democracy protest was sentenced on Thursday to six weeks in prison for possession of an offensive weapon -- the city's first such case involving a mainlander in almost five months of unrest.Since the first mass demonstrations in June, more than 3,300 people have been arrested in Hong Kong in connection to the protest movement, with some charged for rioting and illegal assembly.Chen Zimou, a 24-year-old music and English student originally fro
  
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• PlayStation Is 'Always Looking' for New First-Party Studios

  07-11-2019 20:22
  PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan could be interested in expanding Sony’s line-up of first-party studios, but not with out exercising a bit of caution.
  Speaking to GamesIndustry.Biz, Ryan said they are "always looking” for new game development studios to acquire, similar to how they recently purchased Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, but that they are "careful about who we look at and talk to.”
  Ryan described the current landscape as a “seller’s market,&r
  
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• One of the world's thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming

  07-11-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For half a century, Taku had been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change – until now.
  
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• Johnson, Grassley ask State Department for Hunter Biden docs

  07-11-2019 20:05 via politico.com
  
  Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley are asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to release any State Department records related to Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.As President Donald Trump faces a House impeachment inquiry for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, Republicans are focusing on Hunter Biden’s role on the board the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings while his father was vice president.
  
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• The flu shot: How effective is it? Here's what Doctors say

  07-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The efficacy of the shot varies drastically from year to year, ranging from  10% to 60%. It all depends on the strains of the virus that appear.
  
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• Death Stranding and Days Gone Crossover is Weird as Hell

  07-11-2019 19:53
  Death Stranding is finally getting released tomorrow, and Sony Worldwide Studios is celebrating with some fun crossovers. Bend Studio, who released the zombie apocalypse game Days Gone earlier this year, just revealed its own Death Stranding and Days Gone collaboration today in the form of a creepy motorcycle accessory.
  Starting today, players can download Days Gone’s 1.6 patch which includes two Death Stranding-themed motorcycle bike tanks, decals, and frame paint. While one of the new bi
  
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• In Trump adviser trial, comedian contradicts Stone's account, regales jury with jokes

  07-11-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Comedian Randy Credico testified in the trial of President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone on Thursday where he told jokes, did a Bernie Sanders impression and said he never served as a backchannel between Stone and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.Credico is a key witness in the government's case against Stone, who is charged with obstructing justice, witness tampering and lying to the House of Representatives intelligence committee in its investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 e
  
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• 'Prepare to die' Trump adviser Stone texted witness, trial jury hears

  07-11-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors on Thursday unveiled threatening text messages by U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone to radio host Randy Credico in which Stone urged Credico not to testify about their communications over Stone's efforts in 2016 to learn when WikiLeaks might release more damaging emails about Trump's rival Hillary Clinton."Prepare to die ..." Stone wrote in one profanity-laced text to Credico.In text messages, shown as exhibits during Stone's criminal trial in federal court in Washing
  
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• Bolivia: Protesters cut off mayor’s hair, cover her in red paint and drag her through the streets

  07-11-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anti-government protesters have reportedly attacked a mayor from a small Bolivian town, covering her in red paint and cutting her hair.Patricia Arce, a member of the ruling Mas party, was dragged barefoot through the streets by demonstrators before being taken away by the police.
  
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• NATO experiencing 'brain death', France's Macron says

  07-11-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - France's president warned fellow European countries on Thursday that NATO was dying, citing a lack of coordination and U.S. unpredictability under President Donald Trump, comments quickly rejected as "drastic" by the German chancellor.In an interview with British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron expressed doubt about U.S.-led NATO's security maxim that an attack on one ally is an attack on all, which has underpinned transatlantic ties since the alliance's 1949 found
  
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• Star Trek's Full-Body 'Away Mission' Experience Is Expensive but Interesting

  07-11-2019 19:35
  Star Trek Discovery: Away Mission is a new multiplayer location-based full-body VR experience that builds upon Oculus tech, similar to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void. We went and tried it out at the new downtown San Francisco location, opening November 13.
  Check out the video above for impressions from two members of our four-person away team. And yes, in case you're wondering: you do get to beam up (the effect is enhanced by force feedback in your vest and fans that blow on you fr
  
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• Bolivian Mayor Has Hair Forcibly Cut by Masked Protesters as Post-Election Violence Continues

  07-11-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vinto Mayor Patricia Arce was covered in red paint and had her hair cut in violence after President Evo Morales's contested election.
  
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• Pompeo ducks questions about State's lack of support for Yovanovitch

  07-11-2019 19:14 via politico.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sidestepped questions about his lack of support for Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly recalled from her post earlier this year amid a smear campaign seeking her removal.During a news conference in Germany on Thursday, Pompeo took umbrage with an American journalist's question posed to his German counterpart about whether Ukraine had “suffered a setback with what happened in Washington,” namely the White House’s d
  
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• A New Arab Spring Is Unfolding in Iraq and Lebanon. But Things Could Get Bloody If Iran Gets Its Way

  07-11-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Arab Spring is unfolding in Lebanon and Iraq as citizens lead protests. But Iran's involvement could be dangerous for protesters.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren willing to show Bill Gates how much she'd tax him: 'I promise it's not $100 billion'

  07-11-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bill Gates joked on Wednesday that "when you say I should pay $100 billion, OK, then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have left over."
  
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• Man linked to killings of New Hampshire couple at Texas beach captured in Mexico, extradited

  07-11-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Law enforcement caught Adam Williams in Mexico, according to a Mexican newspaper. He is accused of theft in connection to the Butlers deaths in Texas.
  
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