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After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul and KSI finally exchanged blows today in front of millions of people. The official way to watch this fight was supposed to be a pay-per-view stream on YouTube that costs $10, but it seems most fans found alternate ways of watching the event.Pirated broadcasts of the boxing match seemed to be everywhere on social media: on Twitter, one top stream had 70,000 people tuning in on Periscope, and there were other ones floating around, too. Live-stre

Apparently, the new way to settle YouTube beefs is to punch each other in the face and make a whole bunch of money off it.  
After months of hype, shit talking, and petty drama, YouTube has made its final descent into the gutter. Disgraced vlogger Logan Paul faced off against fellow YouTuber Olajide "KSI" Olatunji for a sold out boxing match in Manchester, UK on Saturday, while their respective brothers, Jake Paul and Oladeji "Deji" Olatunji, traded blows in an undercard.  
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From a ground-level perspective, blazing wildfires and different varieties of storm are terrifying displays of nature's might. But viewed from space, through the right (computer-enhanced) eyes, they're all things of beauty.
On Friday, NASA released a visualization of Earth showing the aerosols that were swirling through our planet's atmosphere on Aug. 23. It was a busy day for Mother Nature, as you can see.
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Hurricane Lane may have looked like a monster storm earlier this week, but it petered out by Friday thanks to strong wind shear. Now a tropical storm, Lane still poses a threat to Hawaii in the form of flash flooding. 
SEE ALSO: Photos of Hurricane Lane from space show the extreme size of the monster storm
The National Weather Service in Honolulu extended its flash flood warning Saturday morning. It may be extended again, beyond Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time, if heavy rain per

It hasn’t been a good week for telecommunications companies: security researchers have uncovered security flaws with systems at AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile that could have left customer data accessible to bad actors.Yesterday, BuzzFeed News reported two flaws that left customer information information vulnerable at AT&T and T-Mobile. In T-Mobile’s case, an “engineering mistake” between Apple’s online storefront and T-Mobile’s account validation API all

With the Royal Wedding now in the rearview mirror, Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle are taking the next big step in their marriage: They're adopting a dog.
The newlyweds have reportedly adopted a Labrador according to People.
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According to the entertainment magazine, the two adopted the dog in "early summer" and the assuredly adorable pup has "been joining them at their country getaway in the Cotswolds area and

Apple has a new deal for US customers who haven’t signed up for iCloud yet. 9to5Mac spotted a Reddit thread that pointed to the deal: new subscribers on the four big US carriers can get 200GB free for two months.The deal appears to be only be available in the US for customers who haven’t signed up for the service yet. As to be expected, there’s some fine print: those customers will be charged $2.99 a month after that two month window. Image: Apple
As my colleague Chaim Gartenb

Google essentially got slapped in the face when Epic Games, the developer of the super popular Fortnite, decided not to make the game available through the Play Store, but via its own app.
Google warned Epic that doing so could potentially put Android users at greater security risk, but the game developer brushed it off, insisting on going it alone for several reasons — including not having to give Google a cut in-app revenue and "embracing open platforms."
Well, now the worst has happened

Automakers around the world have spent the last few years promoting hybrid and electric drivetrain technology in order to show how they’re thinking about the future. But lately, some of them are looking back to the past to promote these new technologies.
Friday was the first day of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, one of the ritziest car shows in the world. Staged along the California coast, the opening ceremonies featured appropriately outlandish announcements (like the

Walt Disney World might now be a place where the workers' dreams really do come true. After months of negotiations, the theme park and resort struck a deal with six unions to start paying employees $15 per hour by 2021, according to the Orlando Sentinel. 
The deal still awaits union members' approval, but it would slowly increase the hourly minimum wage for Disney World staff from $10 to $15 by October 2021. Nationwide advocates of a $15 hourly wage often refer to that pay as a "living wage

The internet's love for '90s sitcoms runs deep, especially when said sitcom features child actors that managed to grow up without turning into complete trash.
Today's trip down memory lane comes compliments of Danielle Fishel, who starred as Topanga on Boy Meets World. Fishel recently got together with three of her fellow former cast members — Ben Savage, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong — and the happy gathering led to a so-cute-it-hurts recreation of a classic cast photo.
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You are what you binge You know those really old-school moms who guilted their kids into cleaning their plates by shrilly reminding them that “there are children starving in Africa”? How about those even more intense moms who said that wasting even one grain of rice was an insult to her, since she cooked it, “And to your father, who worked for it! And to the farmer, who grew it! And to the sun, and water, and soil, who nurtured it! Eat your damn rice!” Well, I’m ab

Way back in 2015, before he was firing everyone from his golden toilet in the White House, Donald Trump just wanted a photo with Sia.
In a Rolling Stone profile published Friday, the singer recalled how Trump politely took it in stride when she declined to take a photo together after they both appeared on Saturday Night Live. But the funniest part? Sia said she had "crazy diarrhea" after the encounter. 
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Fortnite would not be the phenomenon that it is today without the one-versus-one-hundred concept: conflict is the lifeblood of a battle royale game. While the pastel-colored shooter has arguably put its own spin on the genre through lighthearted additions like shopping carts, the other big draw is the world-building and status of the island. But Fortnite’s win condition is starting to feel at odds with what keeps me coming back to play the game.Earlier this week, Fortnite captured the att

The Nintendo Switch is a versatile device: it’s super portable, and the availability of apps like Hulu means that it’s more than just a gaming device. Now, you can add reading comic books to the list of things you can do with it. An app called InkyPen will launch in November, and will give players the ability to read thousands of comics on the device via a subscription.InkyPen released a short teaser earlier this week that shows off the app in action. Readers use the controls to scr

Labor Day is nearing, which usually spells good deals across every category of tech. But in the meantime, there’s a smattering of savings worth recalling from throughout the week. From Amazon devices on the cheap, to exclusive Anker power bank discounts, and a small, but decent eBay coupon, here are the best deals of the week.
The best portable charger that you can stow anywhere is the Anker PowerCore Slim 5,000, and for Verge readers, it’s now $23.99 on Amazon with offer code VERGE

Mistakes happen. But on the iPhone, they can be undone very easily.
While the Mac has Command-Z, the iPhone has its own unique way of fixing mistakes: Shake to Undo. Shaking your device to go back or undo a mistake has been around since 2009 and iOS 3 (called iPhone OS back then). And it's one of the most overlooked features on iOS.
Rather than a system-wide button or symbol for undo on iOS, you just shake your phone. For most iPhone users it's a forgotten feature, but writer John Gruber recentl

Elon Musk has finally come to his senses.
The Tesla CEO and erratic tweeter has shared a new blog post explaining his decision to keep the electric car company public instead of taking it private as he had previously suggested on Twitter.
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Though Musk initially believed taking Tesla private would allow the company to have better long-term sustainability, allowing it to focus on making great electric vehicles instead of answering to W

Let this be a lesson to all big-name athletes: Fame carries a heavy price. 
Take it away, Dr. Evil.The Houston Astros made a ton of enemies in Los Angeles when they knocked out the city's Dodgers in a World Series win last year. Justin Verlander, one of Houston's all-star pitchers, learned that the hard way on Friday when he went out for lunch in Beverly Hills.
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When the bill arrived for Verlander's lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel

One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly – seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags – they stick around for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, much of this plastic ends up as environmental pollution. We’ve all seen the gruesome images of a sea turtle killed by a plastic bag, or the array of bottle caps, toothbrush fragments, and other plastic items found in the stomach of a

NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, has captured its very first images of the deep-space target it’s currently hurtling toward — a nearly half-mile-wide space rock orbiting the Sun named Bennu. It’s a big step for the vehicle as it prepares for its arrival at the asteroid in December of this year.
Since the picture was taken from so far away — at a distance of 1.4 million miles — Bennu appears as just a few pixels of light moving across space. Bu

Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced its first gaming phone, the Honor Play. It has a 6.3-inch notched 19.5:9 1080p display, a 3,750mAh battery, and a Kirin 970 processor alongside 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.Those aren’t super high-end specs — in fact, they’re very similar to the mid-range Honor View 10 that came to the US early this year. But Honor says the major innovation with the Play is “GPU Turbo,” a hardware-software integration that supposedly boosts GP

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a disaster for everyone: for Facebook’s users, whose personal data was exposed and misused. For Facebook itself, which breached and then lost the trust of a billion-plus people. And lastly for the thousands of third party app and game developers, marketers, and researchers who relied on Facebook for access to its data and its users, and have now seen that source run dry as Facebook pulls back its information. When it comes to utilizing dat

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It's fascinating to watch conspiracy theories die — their diehard captains still clinging to shards of evidence as the ship of belief cracks and sinks all around them. 
We're watching that happen in two areas of the culture this week. There are the QAnon crazies, whose bizarre pro-Trump theory is taking on water after lawyer Michael Cohen turned on his former boss. Moderators in the Q forums have started banning mentions of Cohen's name.
Alas, much this same reality-denying dynamic is

It all started with a tweet. A really really good tweet: Why are people so stingy with their likes on Instagram? I know I am. I hold onto likes tighter than a bottle of wine at a social gathering. But it makes no sense. Likes are unlimited. And they’re just nice. There’s not even any decision-making involved, as in the case of Facebook interactions. A quick double tap, and you’ve sent a little bit of digital love someone’s way. Other colleagues felt the same, and venture

Since the day President Trump announced conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee, liberals argued that giving him a lifetime appointment would be a terrible mistake. On Sunday, August 26, they're taking their case to the streets with a national "Unite for Justice" day of action to demand the Senate reject Kavanaugh's nomination.
Kavanaugh's views suggest he'd be open to undermining the equal rights of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. He may also be

Tasmin Ara, Mustakima, Nur Akter, and Showkat arrived at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a year ago.The girls, all of whom are 10 with the exception of 12-year-old Showkat, have developed a system for surviving Kutupalong: They make friends with every new girl who’s forced to call the world’s largest refugee camp her home.“It is hard when you first arrive, so we help by sharing food and clothes,” Mustakima recently told Plan Interna

“Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people,” the president mentioned today on his Social Media Giant of choice. “Can’t do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!”
It’s part of a recent campaign on President Trump’s part to depict Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms as hostile to conservative voices. L

No matter how much you try to deny it, you know you do a mental happy dance whenever your posts get tons of likes on Instagram. There's no need to be shy — even science can prove that likes make people happier. According to experts, you get some sort of physiological high when friends — and sometimes even strangers — hit like on your posts. Your dopamine levels shoot up with each new like, making you feel rewarded when you accumulate a whole lot of them.
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