GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Electronic Arts is launching a new EA Desktop app, a beta version of its revamped Origin online gaming service that EA calls a next-generation PC gaming platform. But it’s one more app among many in the subscription-loving …
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BEFORE THE EVER AFTERBy Jacqueline Woodson Zachariah Johnson Jr. (ZJ) is living a 12-year-old boy’s dream: His father is a star professional football player, he lives in a comfortable home in the suburbs with a half basketball court upstairs, he has a trio of friends who always show up at …
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Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This latest installment is part of a series exploring how the Americans With Disabilities Act has shaped modern life for disabled people. Share your stories or email us at ada@nytimes.com. In …
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One of the most intimidating aspects of buying your own home – particularly your first home – is the down payment. In most cases, lenders look for a cash down payment of 20% of the home’s value, which can add up to a lot of money. Let’s look at some …
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Creators of the 80 Million Tiny Images data set from MIT and NYU took the collection offline this week, apologized, and asked other researchers to refrain from using the data set and delete any existing copies. The news was shared Monday in a letter by MIT professors Bill Freeman and …
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WASHINGTON — Long considered the world’s premier public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen short in its response to the most urgent public health emergency in its 74-year history — a pathogen that has penetrated much of the nation, killing more than 100,000 people. The …
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Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz confirmed he has raised a new round of funding, and he also said that he will step down as the augmented reality company’s top executive. In a statement, Abovitz confirmed rumors that the company had raised a last-minute round of funding, but he didn’t say …
Read More »Photo by VGstockstudio / Shutterstock.com You may temporarily get away with treating your toilet like a garbage can, but sooner or later you’ll end up with an expensive plumbing bill. Toilets were designed to do only one thing: Dispose of human waste and toilet paper. Even so, many people are …
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Author’s Blurb: Recently we got news that Offpeak had ceased operations, so we reached out to co-founder Lau to learn what went wrong. He was brave enough to lay it out in detail (and we’re thankful for that), so hopefully the lessons learnt are ones that startups in similar positions …
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