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A gay penguin couple are trying to hatch an egg together. 
Skipper and Ping, two male king penguins residing at Zoo Berlin in Germany, arrived as a pair from another zoo in Hamburg in April. Zookeepers were able to tell the couple wanted to start a family soon after their arrival, since Skipper and Ping would take turns trying to incubate rocks and pieces of fish between their legs. 
"It is very common that two penguins of the same sex come together," Zoo Berlin spokesperson Maximilian

The wait isn't over, but its end is in sight. Netflix confirmed Thursday that the sequel to 2018's To All the Boys I've Loved Before will premiere on Feb. 12, 2020 – and a third film, completing the trilogy of novels by Jenny Han, is already in production.#ToAllTheBoys: P.S. I Still Love You premieres February 12!And a third film —To All The Boys: Always And Forever Lara Jean — is already in production!!! pic.twitter.com/EPfUYbOaKl
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Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple just released iOS 13 beta 7 to developers today, and people are already digging through the software to find hints about the rumored iPhone 11. iHelp BR has discovered that the latest iOS 13 beta includes an asset that hints at an iPhone 11 event date of September 10th. An image, simply named “HoldForRelease,” includes the September 10th date on the calendar of the iOS 13 home screen. Apple uses this particular image for the out of box experi

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reached a handful of settlements with media outlets following investigations into whether they misused the emergency alert system tone.
The agency found that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, AMC’s The Walking Dead, Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, and Meruelo Radio Holdings all misused the emergency alert system (EAS) tone, a sound that is blasted out to television and smartphones to warn people of emergencies like tornadoes, floods, an

Instagram is, very slowly, ramping up its tools to fight misinformation.
The photo-sharing app will now let its users report posts that contain "false information." Reported posts may be sent to one of Instagram's fact-checkers and the post could eventually be hidden from Instagram's Explore page and hashtag pages. 
In other words: if you spot fake news or some other type of misinformation in the app, you can now report it, and it might be removed from the more public-facing areas of the ap

Photo: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Twitter) Amazon’s latest marketing campaign for the Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has not gone as planned, with the Santa Monica Police briefly shutting down a 30-cents-per-gallon promotion for gas due to traffic delays caused by eager customers, according to ABC 7 reporter John Gregory. The promotion has since resumed, with Amazon now working with the city to limit the number of cars in line to keep traffic running.The absurdly cheap gas p

TL;DR: The reliable TomTom GPS Via 1625TM system is now $118.15 at Amazon. That's a $51.84 discount for the six-inch model that also includes live traffic and free lifetime map updates. You've got places to be, but you don't always know how to get there. You might trust your phone's navigation apps to help you out, but good luck trying to read directions on a small screen. A dedicated GPS device offers you clearer instructions without sucking up your data. So if you need to get to your favo

Internet services company Cloudflare is going public, and it describes the controversy over banning hateful websites — like 8chan and the Daily Stormer — as a potential risk factor. The company’s S-1 filing reports that objectionable sites could cause “significant adverse political, business, and reputational consequences.”
The filing describes this risk as a double bind for Cloudflare because once an objectionable customer signs up, any moderation call will anger s

Surfacebook 2 | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is working to fix CPU throttling on the company’s latest Surface devices, while owners complain of Wi-Fi issues, too. “We are aware of some customers reporting a scenario with their Surface Books where CPU speeds are slowed,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to TechRepublic. “We are quickly working to address via a firmware update.”
The CPU throttling appears to be affecting both the Surface B

TL;DR: Grab a sweet deal this school year on a Lenovo IdeaPad S340 laptop for only $379 at Walmart. Regular price is $489, which means you save $110. Start the school year right with a laptop that gives you the performance you want at a price that won't put a black hole in your budget. You'll get the flexibility to tackle those big class projects with a durable, lightweight personal computer that is also versatile enough to handle all your extracurricular activities with ease. 
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is changing how it handles copyright claims around brief or unintentional clips of music in an attempt to make the system fairer to video creators. In the short term, however, YouTube warns that the changes could lead to more videos being blocked entirely.
Creators on YouTube have increasingly struggled with record labels claiming copyright on their videos when snippets of music appear momentarily in the background, like from the radio of a car pa

TL;DR: You can save up to $215 on a foam mattress from Casper by ordering yours from Amazon.As anyone who's ever slept in a dorm bunk bed will tell you, a mattress topper can only go so far when the mattress itself is a piece of junk — because no, most colleges *don't* change that sucker from year to year. (Spoiler: Cooties aren't the only germs you'll have to worry about while living in a crowded residence hall.)
Whether you want to replace your grody dorm mattress for the semester o

Judge Says Georgia Must Scrap Outdated Electronic Voting Machines After 2019https://www.npr.org/2019/08/15/751419405/judge-denies-request-to-scrap-georgias-outdated-electronic-voting-machines-for-2?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alltech&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190815 …