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Protests and calls for boycotts over Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan have sprung up again in wake of the film hitting Disney Plus.Hashtags like #BoycottMulan have trended on Twitter following Mulan’s release on September 4th, but protests are tied to an incident that occurred in summer 2019, Vulture reports. Mulan actress and star Liu Yifei made comments last summer showing her support for police forces in Hong Kong at a time when people in Hong Kong were protesting newly su

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is trying to remove graphic videos circulating the app that show a man shooting himself with a gun, and banning accounts from people who are re-uploading the clip.TikTok says the clip was originally streamed on Facebook and has appeared on other apps. As the TikTok community became aware of the clip, many creators started posting videos warning their followers to look out for an image — a man sitting in front of his desk with a grey beard &md

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Joe Biden campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account from a teen supporter, who built a huge following over their summer break. Formerly a fan account, @VoteJoe account will now serve as the campaign’s primary point of grassroots outreach on Instagram, supplementing Biden’s personal account.The account began as @TeamJoeBiden and launched earlier this year by a 15-year-old supporter from California. The young supporter spent their summe

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Last month, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Watch 3 as part of its current lineup, and compared to its predecessors, it came with an expensive starting price of $400. Fortunately, the watch is now down to its lowest price yet. You can buy the 45mm size in black for only $365 on Amazon — this version of the watch usually retails for $430.
The Galaxy Watch 3 is a successor to Samsung’s 2018 Galaxy Watch, and includes an OLED display with a rotating bezel

Minecraft is getting a free upgrade making the game playable in PlayStation VR later this month, developer Mojang Studios announced in a blog post today.
Fans have been asking for PSVR Minecraft for a while now. Although the ever-popular game is already available to play on various virtual reality platforms (it launched on the Oculus Rift back in 2016, for example), Sony’s VR hardware has until now been overlooked. Mojang says the upgrade will come as a free download patch for all players

ThoughtRiver, a London-based legaltech startup that’s applying AI to speed up contract pre-screening, has announced a $10 million Series A round of funding led by Octopus Ventures. Existing seed investors Crane, Local Globe, Entrée Capital, Syndicate Room, and angel investor Duncan Painter also participated in the round.
The UK startup is one of a number applying AI to automate work that would otherwise be done by legal professions with the aim of boosting operational efficienc

Image: Crytek After a two-month delay following an underwhelming trailer, Crysis Remastered is finally launching on PC, PS4, and Xbox One this month. Ahead of its release, Crytek has unveiled the system requirements needed to run the game on your computer, and shockingly you won’t need a supercomputer this time.
While the recommended specs only require a 7th-gen Intel CPU or an AMD Ryzen 5, 12GB of RAM, and either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti or AMD Radeon Vega 56 GPU, it’s unlikel

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge After much confusion, LG has confirmed that AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support will be coming to some of its 2018 TV models, in addition to its newer 2019 and 2020 TVs. “LG’s 2018 TVs will add support for Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit later this year,” the company’s official UK Twitter account tweeted, and said more details would be shared as the features become available. LG UK also said that the Apple TV app is also now available worldwide for

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Before Nintendo released the Switch, the company had early plans to create a similar handheld based on its iconic GameCube console, leaked internal documents suggest. There’s also a leaked presentation which suggests that Nintendo explored the idea of releasing a high-definition console that would have competed more directly with the PS3 and Xbox 360. Eurogamer notes that the documents appear to have come from the same source as July’s &ld

It's always a risk when an artist covers a much-beloved classic song. But Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks performed a cover of Radiohead's iconic song "Fake Plastic Trees" and it most certainly did not disappoint.
For BBC Radio 1's Piano Sessions, Bridgers and Parks combined their ethereal vocals to perform a stunning piano version of the 1995 song from Radiohead's second studio album The Bends.
Just to make the whole thing even more melancholic, Bridgers donned a skeleton outfit and the pair per

HumanForest, a dockless, shared and ad-supported e-bike service which began trialling a service in London this June, has taken in its first tranche of external funding. The £1.8 million (~$2.3M) investment comes from backers in the mobility space, including Juan de Antonio and Vicente Pascual, founders of ride-sharing app Cabify.
As part of the investment, Cabify’sPascual has joined the HumanForest board along with Stefan Tilks, ex-Volvo president and CEO of NEVS AB, a Swedish electr

My Octopus Teacher might sound like the title of an arthouse film, but it isn't — it's actually a new Netflix documentary about a man who "forges an unusual relationship with an octopus" which shares with him "the mysteries of her world."
In the footage above, over images of a man hanging out with an octopus in a kelp forest, we get an over-the-top narration explaining that the filmmaker decided to visit the same mollusc every day for a period of time in order to spark a radical change in

Cheese, joy, and an inordinate amount of garlic are just a few things in abundance in the new YouTube cooking show Cooking in a Wheelchair. 
The idea to make an accessible cookery show came during lockdown when disability campaigner Katie Pennick was shielding at home for three months, and unable to leave the house for any reason. Prior to the pandemic, Pennick tended to eat out quite often. So when she began shielding, she got stuck into cooking every day out of sheer necessity in addition

The spacecraft was launched using a Chinese Long March 2F rocket, seen here in 2016 launching the Tiangong 2 space lab.| Photo: AFP via Getty Images Chinese state media says the country has safely landed a reusable spacecraft which it claims will provide a “convenient and inexpensive” method of getting to and from space. The craft launched on September 4th and landed on September 6th after spending two days in orbit, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
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TL;DR: The Complete Stock and Cryptocurrency Investment Toolkit Bundle is on sale for £29.46 as of Sept. 7, saving you 97% on list price.The world of finance has always been complicated, and now there are alternatives like cryptocurrency to make it even more inaccessible.
Given that there are signs pointing to crypto becoming more legitimate and accepted, it can quite literally pay to stay on top of the changing world of finance. And the Complete Stock and Cryptocurrency Investment Toolkit

You probably need to take your online security more seriously. Hackers and cyber thieves may seem like far-fetched things you see on TV, but in reality, they're closer than you think. And now that you're likely using your home computer for work purposes, the threat of cybercrime is even higher than before.
Investing in a VPN is the first step you should take toward improved security and safety online. You know how closing your doors to the outside world can help slow the spread of coronavirus? C

It's no secret that Labor Day has some of the best deals of the year, and 2020 is no different. Instead of overwhelming you with all the different sales out there, we're taking a look back at some recent favorite deals that are marked down this weekend and this weekend only.
All you need to do is use the promo code GOFORIT15 at checkout to snag the 15% off reflected in these prices — happy shopping! 
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TL;DR: Let the movie nights begin with a Lenso space pocket-size 4K 32GB projector for $288.15, a Labor Day savings of over $500 as of Sept. 7. Of all the cancellations and closures coronavirus has caused over the last several months, the loss of live music has been a tough one for fans. Major festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo attempted to reschedule but ended up canceling altogether, while major touring acts like Phish and Dave Matthews Band pushed their 2020 tours to 2021, in hopes th

We still have four months to go, but it's safe to say that 2020 has been the worst. We all deserve a pat on the back for just being part of the 2020 experience. No, forget the pat on the back. We deserve some serious self-care. 
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TL;DR: A two-year subscription to Goose VPN is on sale for £15.10 as of Sept. 7, saving you 94% on list price.These days, anything you do on the internet can open the floodgates to scammers and hackers. Sometimes, it's not even your fault. That's why it's so important to keep your data protected behind lock and key. In internet terms, that means encryption, or turning your activity and data into jibber-jabber that not even the most talented hackers can decipher. 
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Based in Bangkok, Freshket simplifies the process of getting fresh produce from farms to tables. Launched in 2017, the startup has now raised a $3 million Series A, led by Openspace Ventures.
Other participants included Thai private equity firm ECG-Research; Innospace; and Pamitra Wineka and Ivan Sustiawan, the co-founders of Indonesian agriculture technology startup TaniHub. French-Singaporean food conglomerate Denis Asia Pacific and Thai family office Seedersclub, who made previous investments

The Moto G9 Plus is shown with four rear cameras and a hole-punch display notch. | Image: Orange Slovakia It looks like Motorola is about to announce a second entry in its budget G9 phone lineup, just weeks after it revealed the Moto G9 Play. The Moto G9 Plus has appeared in a listing on Orange Slovakia’s website that was spotted by WinFuture’s Roland Quandt. According to the listing, the €255 (about $300) phone will have four rear cameras, including a 64-megapixel main camera,

The tradition of running the legendary game Doom on various gadgets and appliances that were not originally designed for gaming is long, but this one takes the cake. 
Foone, a programmer who likes reverse-engineering things and typically works with ancient hardware and software, has managed to run a fully functional game of Doom on an electronic pregnancy test. 
After posting a video of the classic video game running on the tester over the weekend, on Monday Foone upped the ante and re

More than 600 firefighters in California's San Bernardino County are still struggling to contain a fire that began on Saturday in El Dorado Ranch Park, near the city of Yuicapa. Over 7,000 acres have been burned and over 3,000 residents evacuated, according to CBS Los Angeles.
And now we know why: yet another gender reveal party stunt gone wrong.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a statement released late Sunday that the fire had been "caused by a smoke generating

Thousands of protesters seeking justice for the police killing of Breonna Taylor marched near the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. 
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot by Louisville police officers in March when they entered her apartment with a no-knock warrant. None of the police officers involved in Taylor's death have been charged. 
The famous horse race takes place each year in Louisville, where Taylor moved when she was a teenager. 
The Justice and Freedom Coaliti