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If Fox News' latest report is to be believed, Seattle's peaceful Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is roiling with infighting among the activists who have made it a police-free zone. 
Of course, as with so many things Fox News, it is not to be believed. In what appears to be a clip from Friday night's broadcast, a reporter with the channel shows a screenshot of a now-deleted Reddit post that purportedly demonstrates the absurdist level of disagreement in the ranks of those protesting police viol

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has started adding a wireless phone charger and USB-C ports to Model 3 vehicles built at its Fremont, Calif. factory, Elektrek reported. The features were already available in Tesla’s Model Y, and the carmaker began adding them last month to its Chinese-made Model 3 vehicles.
The Model Y, which Tesla began delivering to US customers in March, comes standard with the Qi wireless phone charger, but until now, it’s only been available to Model 3

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has started adding a wireless phone charger and USB-C ports to Model 3 vehicles built at its Fremont, Calif. factory, Elektrek reported. The features were already available in Tesla’s Model Y, and the carmaker began adding them last month to its Chinese-made Model 3 vehicles.
The Model Y, which Tesla began delivering to US customers in March, comes standard with the Qi wireless phone charger, but until now, it’s only been available to Model 3

Being a teenager is hard. And Netflix is there to remind you of that.
Whether you want to revisit your younger years or are still facing the ups and downs of high school, the streaming service has curated a collection of films that you will definitely relate to.
We've searched through Netflix's catalog to find some of the best teen movies out there, from films that focus on lighthearted first loves to those that zone in on the more serious complications of being an almost-adult.
Ready to feel yo

Private launch companies seeking to lower the coast of reaching space continue to develop new vehicles, and the latest to attempt a trip to space is Interstellar Technologies (IST), a Japanese private launch company founded in 2003. The company first launched a vehicle in 2017, but the launch didn’t go exactly as planned and failed to reach space – in 2019, its MOMO-3 sounding rocket did break the Karman line, though just barely, and unfortunately its MOMO-5 sounding rocket launched

A protest against the police killing of George Floyd and police brutality in Seattle has been mostly characterized by drum circles, speakers and movie screenings. But if you only tuned into Fox News for coverage of these demonstrations, you might think it was full of burning buildings and armed guards.
On Friday, Fox News published several digitally altered images of the demonstrations on its website, which the Seattle Times caught. It's not clear who is responsible for tweaking the images.
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It might not necessarily make that early Monday morning video call more fun, but Microsoft Teams will now let users upload their own photos for custom backgrounds, the company announced in a blog post. Custom images and other background effects are only available for scheduled Teams meetings, Microsoft says.
Teams has a background blurring effect and a library of pre-installed images to allow meeting participants to conceal their messy home offices. But i

When it comes to your Messenger inbox, Facebook thinks that only you and Facebook should have access to the theoretically private conversations contained within.  
To that end, reports Engadget, Facebook is testing new ways to secure its app. Specifically, on an unspecified number of iOS devices, the social-media giant has added a second layer of protection to Messenger's inbox. If enabled, users will need to either re-enter their passcode, or engage Touch ID or Face ID before they can read

Persona 4 Golden, the enhanced version of Persona 4 for PlayStation Vita, is launching for PC via Steam. The game is available as a standard version for $19.99 or a deluxe edition — which includes the digital soundtrack and art book — for $24.99.
The game’s launch on PC is a first for the mainline Persona series, which has previously been restricted to PlayStation platforms. Persona 4 Golden, released in 2012, follows a group of small town teens investigating a series of murder

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Many in the tech industry saw the threat of the novel coronavirus early and reacted correctly. Fewer have seemed prepared for its aftereffects, like the outflow of talented employees from very pricey office real estate in expensive and troubled cities like San Francisco.
And few indeed have seemed prepared for the Black Lives Matter prote

You wouldn't be blamed if you haven't heard about the Trump administration's latest rollback of protections for transgender people. With the coronavirus pandemic, the economic crisis, and the  continuing protests against the police killing of George Floyd, there's a lot going on.
On Friday, the government reversed an Obama-era regulation which makes it illegal for healthcare providers and insurance policies covered under the Affordable Care Act to discriminate against transgender people, NB

Speaking of Reliance Jio Platforms, the top Indian telecom operator said on Saturday it has secured another investment.
L Catterton,a U.S. private equity firm will invest $250 million for a 0.39% stake in Jio Platforms, becoming the ninth investor to back the Indian firm at the height of a global pandemic.
L Catterton, a firm known to invest in consumer tech businesses, has backed dozens of young and established firms over the years including Peloton,  class="crunchbase-link" href="https://

This article was originally published by Steve Schaefer on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. The 2020 Mini Cooper SE is the brand’s first production all-electric vehicle (EV). It delivers all the charm and fun of the premium small hatchback, which has built a following

Image: Summer Game Fest Even if the world’s biggest video game expos have been canceled this year, we’re being treated to an unprecedented array of virtual events in their place — and today, what’s been dubbed the Summer Game Fest will continue with the PC Gaming Show and the Future Games Show, starting at 11AM PT / 2PM ET.
Here’s what to look forward to, and how to watch.
The PC Gaming Show
What: The PC Gaming Show will showcase “new games, never-before-seen

“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York Times best sellers list in paperback nonfiction, two and a half years after its initial January 2018 publication. “…I don’t think there’s a more important space to be talking about it.”
Oluo and I were talking this January, just before the global pandemic s

Amazon's antitrust headaches don't appear to be going away.
State officials in California and Washington are reportedly looking into Amazon's handling of third-party sellers on a platform where the company also sells its own, competing products. Amazon faced similar scrutiny in 2019 from the European Union.
The news of a California investigation was first reported Friday in The Wall Street Journal. A subsequent New York Times report corroborated the earlier one, and also noted that Washington wa

American private equity firm TPGsaid on Saturday it will invest $600 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook and Silver Lake that have backed India’s top telecom operator at the height of a global pandemic.
TPG said it is acquiring a 0.93% stake in Jio Platforms, giving the Indian firm a valuation of $65 billion. TPG, which manages $79 billion of assets, is the eighth investor that has agreed to back Mukesh Ambani’s telecom network in j

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has reinstated the account for markets blogging site Zero Hedge, and says it decision to suspend the account for “platform manipulation” earlier this year was a mistake, Bloomberg reported. The January suspension of its Twitter account followed a report from Zero Hedge suggesting that a Chinese scientist had created the coronavirus in a lab, a theory that has since been widely debunked.Zero Hedge says in a post on its site Saturday tha

NASA recently launched US astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in a decade, in a rocket designed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Under President Donald Trump, the US mission to reassert itself as the dominant power in space has rapidly gathered pace. In the process, the US has also begun to reshape international space law to suit its purposes – a move that has many countries concerned. In April, Trump released an executive order restating US support for corporate

Instead of throwing her remote at the TV to express her frustration with President Donald Trump, writer and comedian Sarah Cooper takes to TikTok to impersonate him.
On Friday, Cooper appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to debut her new clip 'How to Bathroom.' Like with all of her Trump TikTok videos, Cooper lip syncs what the president is saying while taking on his mannerisms, exaggerating her facial expressions and providing hilarious visuals. 
In this one, Cooper gives her own

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first co

Falcon 9 launched 58 Starlink satellites and three PlanetSkysats to orbit, then returned to Earth. | SpaceX SpaceX launched 58 new Starlink satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday morning, and three satellites from Planet tagged along for the ride. The SpaceX satellites are part of its growing Starlink constellation, which it’s building to provide internet connectivity on Earth. The company has permission to launch some 12,000 satellites as part of the project.The Falcon 9 rocket la

Companies across industries are exploring and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) projects, from big data to robotics, to automate business processes, improve customer experience, and innovate product development. According to McKinsey, “embracing AI promises considerable benefits for businesses and economies through its contributions to productivity and growth.” But with that promise comes challenges. Computers and machines don’t come into this world with

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Father’s Day in the US is coming up on Sunday, June 21st. That’s next week, so you still have time to do some shopping. Given that the COVID-19 pandemic still has many retail stores shuttered, we recommend doing most of your shopping for dad online. Though, if you’re running short on time to buy a gift, you might be able to arrange a curbside pickup depending on the store.
There are a lot of things you can get for the dad in your life, but of

TLDR: CNN called it the “the best foldable smartphone” — and in The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Giveaway, you can win one for yourself for free. You may not have believed it only a few short years ago, but a foldable phone is now gaining traction with users. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip debuted in March to strong reviews — and even stronger sales, notching almost half a million sold worldwide since it hit store shelves. Of course, we want to get as many of our readers up to speed

SpaceXhas launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites, growing the constellation by another 58 spacecraft just 10 days after its most recent Starlink launch. That brings the total number of operational Starlink broadband internet satellites on orbit to 538. SpaceX also split the payload for this Starlink mission for the first time, giving up two of its usual Starlink payload complement in order to also carry three Planet Skysat spacecraft on behalf of that client.
SpaceX’s latest Star

Rocket Labhas returned to active launch status from its first launchpad in New Zealand, after the global COVID-19 pandemic temporarily paused its work there. Early this morning, it flew its 12th Electron launch vehicle from its launch site on NZ’s Mahia Peninsula, carrying payloads on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaisance Office (NRO), NASA, and the University of New South Wales Canberra.
The launch occurred at 1:13 AM EDT (5:13 PM local time) and went off without a hitch. Rocket Lab l

TLDR: The courses in The Software Developer Certification Bundle teach various coding languages, valuable developing tools and even the business acumen to succeed. There’s a great lesson to be learned from all the time we’ve been spending working in our homes the past few months.  When you have to fight commute traffic, deal with frustrating coworkers and generally battle to get through your day in a physical office, it’s easy to feel like just making it to 5 p.m. is a vi