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The Tiger King's mentor has been indicted on wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty charges, Virginia's attorney general's office announced Friday. 
Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, who appeared in a Netflix docuseries about exotic animal keepers that dominated during the early days of the pandemic, is accused of trafficking lion cubs between Virginia and South Carolina, along with Keith Wilson, owner of a roadside zoo. Antle's Myrtle Beach Safari is in South Carolina and Wilson’s Wild Animal P

The crew access arm leading to the Crew Dragon, atop the Falcon 9 | Image: SpaceX NASA has delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission until early- to mid-November, the agency announced Saturday. The mission eventually will bring three NASA astronauts and an astronaut from Japan’s JAXA space agency to the International Space Station.Originally scheduled for October 31st, the planned six-month mission was delayed to allow time to resolve issues with the first-stage engine gas generator

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. You can subscribe here.First, a big congrats on making it through the week. If you live in the United States, you just endured one of the wildest news weeks ever. Rapid-fire headlines and nigh-panic have been our lot since last Friday when the president announced he was COVID-19 positive. We

Saturday is the second-ever National Period Day. Youth-run nonprofit organization PERIOD started the awareness campaign last year to bring period poverty, a rarely-talked about topic, into the public forum.
Products like pads and tampons are essential for people who get their periods, but not everyone can access or afford them. While you can buy things like lip balm or get a tattoo without paying extra in some states, 30 states make you pay a "tampon tax" on pads and tampons, according to the le

The battle royale between Epic Games and Apple is far from over. 
The ongoing debate over whether Fortnite, the wildly popular video game, will be allowed back in the App Store will not be answered any time soonAccording to Mac Rumors, on Friday a California judge denied a request by Epic Games for a temporary injunction against Apple. If granted, it would have forced Apple to let Fortnite back on the app-distribution platform as the case was being heard. 
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Huawei Huawei has tweeted that it will reveal its Mate 40 series on October 22nd, likely the last of its phones to have Kirin chips— at least for the foreseeable future— due to the ongoing economic pressure from the US.Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business unit, said at a conference August 7th that “this year may be the last generation of Huawei Kirin high-end chips.” The US has accused Huawei of building backdoors into network infrastructure, ostensibly to

Razer Razer’s Blade Stealth 13 is one of the best portable gaming laptops you can buy. Today, the company is giving it a refresh: it just announced a “late 2020” model of its 13-inch rig.The only really big change from the Blade Stealth 13 that came out earlier this year seems to be the processor. The upcoming Blade is powered by a chip from Intel’s newest generation, the Core i7-1165G7. That comes with a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of (upgradeable) stora

Last January, we showed you Razer’s awesome-looking Tomahawk Elite desktop PC case, with its gull-wing doors and auto-lifting lid for excessive heat.This January, I told you about the stunning Razer Tomahawk prebuilt desktop, with slide-out upgradable Intel NUC Element modules and space for the latest GPUs despite its tiny 10-liter frame.
As far as we can tell, no product called the “Razer Tomahawk” has actually ever shipped. But that isn’t keeping Razer from trying again

It’s not clear whether Razer commissioned Secretlab to build an exclusive new gaming chair, or simply decided to copy one of today’s oft-cited favorites, but the new $499 Razer Iskur is a dead ringer for the similarly-priced Secretlab Omega and Titan.
You can compare the design, the recline mechanism, the stitching— heck, just look at those nigh-identical 4D armrests — and the inspiration is plainly clear.But Razer is also clearly pitching it as a step ahead of Secretlab

In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything.Everyone remembers their favorite browser games, whether it was some cursed obscurity now lost to the void of internet history or a wildly popular time-waster that later evolved into a multi-million dollar franchise (like Doom, Trials, Super Meat Boy, or Bejeweled, to name a few). 
For many millennials, the golden age of browser games from the ear

Recently, my aunt suggested I slowly blink at her mercurial cat to get his attention. This is a cat that ignores you most of the day and might scratch at you during the times he deigns to lovingly rub against your leg. It turns out, she wasn't wrong.
In a study published this week in the journal Nature, psychologists in the United Kingdom researched dozens of cats with healthy eyesight to test their reactions to slow blinks with two experiments. Researchers defined slow blinks as "a series of ha

Peloton has removed several hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory from its virtual exercise platform, Business Insider reported. The move followed a tweet from a Washington Post editor earlier in the week that showed several hashtags— which allow people taking the same online fitness classes to connect with each other— using variants of QAnon’s “where we go 1 we go all” hashtag.A Peloton spokesperson told BI the company has “a zero-tolerance policy a

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Donald Trump says he’s recovered from COVID-19. Outside doctors say it’s too soon for him to return to public events, he’s coughing on Fox News, and he’s taking a potent steroid that can mask symptoms — but Trump says he’s not sick anymore. And he’s crediting that recovery to an experimental drug made by the company Regeneron, which he said on Wednesday was a “cure.”“They gave me Regene

For a long time, podcasts were seen as a boy's club. But women have been a central (if less visible or heard) force behind podcasting's rise, especially with a recent wave of podcasts specifically geared toward feminism, women's issues, gender equality, and equity.
From hosts to audience demographics and subject matter, though, male-centric perspectives still dominate the top spots of podcasting lists.
NEXT STORY:In August 2020, The Wrap found that throughout a month-long period, 80 percent of t

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Aside from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Prime Day has become one of the biggest shopping moments of the year. It’s a two-day stretch wherein Amazon Prime members will likely find some of the best prices yet on popular tech products like games, gaming consoles, laptops, 4K TVs, phones, PC accessories, and more. And with Prime Day 2020 happening so close to the year’s end, this week could be a good time to snag some gifts.
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TLDR: Take an extra 20 percent off these already heavily discounted gadgets as part of the 10.10 Shopping Day deals. If you thought Black Friday was the world’s biggest shopping day, then you’re only focused on North America. Because when you take the entire globe into consideration, the single biggest shopping day of the year is actually China’s Singles Day on Nov. 11.  Ecommerce giant Alibaba jumpstarted the holiday about a decade ago, turning it into a juggernaut that

In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything.I’m not sure what triggered my journey. A nagging nostalgia, I suppose. Affection for an internet long gone. A part of my life I hardly remember. A certain bored curiosity that comes with life in quarantine. 
I wanted to access my old Myspace. 
The internet is a central part of my life now, even more than most. I make a living writing o

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My parents have a bit of a problem throwing things out. They aren’t hoarders per se, but our basement is perpetually full of things that my mother swears she will sell in a garage sale one day. That garage sale is never happening, and the state of our basement is dire. Thank goodness for the internet, where you can sell pretty much anything, and where I’m going to unload everything. 
Sure, there are plenty of places to sell your stuff online, but it can be pretty overwhelming. A

Software engineering is a high demand job nowadays. There are currently about 1.5 million jobs for software engineers, and they are projected to grow by an astonishing 22% from 2019 to 2029. That means by 2029, about 33 million jobs will be added. It’s a stable job to have, and it can come with great perks: the compensation is great, you can get unlimited PTO, reimbursement for phone bills, and WiFi bills. You can see why more and more people are pursuing a career in this space. Recently,

The Haunting of Bly Manor is not very good. 
That's partially because the source material itself is unremarkable, but the creative team behind Bly is not blameless. Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is a baffling text to parse, let alone adapt for television, but we expected Mike Flanagan, creator of the mesmerizing Haunting of Hill House, to deliver something less overwhelming than the cluttered yet listless Bly. 
Flat characters
While Netflix's take on The Haunting of Hill House lo

An online app called Amica is now using artificial intelligence to help separating couples make parenting arrangements and divide their assets. For many people, the coronavirus pandemic has put even the strongest of relationships to the test. A May survey conducted by Relationships Australia found 42% of 739 respondents experienced a negative change in their relationship with their partner under lockdown restrictions. There has also been a surge in the number of couples seeking separation advic

Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 25 and October 2. The missing figures were subsequently added to the daily totals, but given the importance of these numbers for monitoring the outbreak and making key decisions, the results of the error are far-reaching. Not only does it lead to underestimating the scale of coronavirus in the UK, but perhaps more important is the subsequent delay

TL;DR: Get into collectibles with these 15 Funko Pop! figures on sale as of Oct. 10.Funko Pops are a super popular gift every year. These adorable figures of everyone in the pop culture universe — from Batman to Britney Spears — are equally beloved by kids and adults. Plus, they make great gifts for the superfans among us (hint hint). 
To do you a solid in advance of shopping season, here are 15 on sale for a limited time.
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These adorable Funko versions of Justin, JT, Lance

YouTube is testing a feature that would allow users to directly purchase products they see in videos, according to a report by Bloomberg. It could be one of the biggest changes to Google’s streaming platform yet, turning it into a bit of an Amazon competitor. According to the report, YouTube recently began asking creators to tag and track the products used in their videos. That data is then sent to Google to build out its analytics, as well as shopping tools right on YouTube. The company

Image: Amazon Game Studios Amazon has officially canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter. It’s the end of a rocky journey for the game, which was first launched in May after years in development before being put back into closed beta in July.“We very much appreciate the way that our fans have rallied around our efforts, and we’ve loved seeing your responses to the changes we’ve made over the last few months, but ultimately we didn’t see a healthy, s

Sony today finally clarified which, out of the thousands of PS4 games, won’t work on the PlayStation 5. Thankfully, the list is mercifully small, though even the games that work might have some problem. Still, if you’re getting the PS5 a month from now, there are only a handful of games you won’t be able to play. A PlayStation support article titled “Backwards compatibility” clarifies that the “overwhelming majority” of PS4 games will be playable on PS5

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fortnite won’t be coming back to the App Store any time soon. On Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers refused to grant Epic Games a preliminary injunction against Apple that would force the game developer to reinstate Fortnite on the App Store, while simultaneously granting an injunction that keeps Apple from retaliating against the Unreal Engine, which Epic also owns (PDF). In other words, we now have a permanent version of the temporary restrainin