Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts ~enviro climate change Article 237 words 10 votes
TietoEVRY, a software company from Finland, has developed a new font called Polite Type which uses machine learning to rewrite offensive language into more inclusive forms ~tech Article 322 words, published Aug 21 2020 10 votes
Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus ~news sweden politics russia belarus Article 319 words 13 votes
Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito throws MLB's first no-hitter of 2020 season ~sports.baseball Article 208 words 6 votes
Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned ~transport Article 375 words 18 votes
US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities ~society politics Article 399 words 7 votes
Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap ~finance business Article 126 words 12 votes
Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation ~games Article 327 words, published Aug 14 2020 8 votes
United States Postal Service (USPS) files patent for a blockchain-based voting system ~tech Article 368 words 24 votes
AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening ~movies Article 298 words 8 votes
Denmark's vegan party says it has enough support to run for parliament – the party, founded in 2018, reached the 20,182 declarations needed on Thursday ~news denmark politics Article 267 words 13 votes
US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent) ~tech social media Article 303 words 19 votes
Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg will complete his move to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, with Kyle Walker-Peters heading the other way ~sports.football Article 240 words 2 votes
Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000 ~news lebanon.beirut Article 219 words 37 votes
Epic Games closes a $1.78 billion funding round, with the company's valuation now at $17.3 billion ~games Article 158 words 5 votes
Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech ~health Article 216 words 6 votes
The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed ~life Article 398 words, published Jul 27 2020 4 votes
Poland Supreme Court validates presidential election results ~news poland politics Article 376 words 7 votes
Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag ~news norway usa.mi.st johns Article 306 words 17 votes
Anti-Putin protest in Russia’s far east attracts thousands for a fourth weekend ~news russia.khabarovsk politics Article 321 words 9 votes
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company ~tech apple Article 151 words 12 votes
A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition ~music Article 381 words 6 votes
Survey of 760 US museums shows extreme financial distress from the pandemic, with almost all reporting that they have a year or less of financial operating reserves remaining ~arts Article 292 words, published Jul 22 2020 9 votes
Disney delays ‘Mulan’ release indefinitely, pushes back all upcoming ‘Avatar’ and ‘Star Wars’ movies by a year, and more ~movies Article 337 words 9 votes
Sen. Hawley introduces bill to fine American companies relying on Chinese slave labor ~news usa politics law china Article 354 words 17 votes
Hundreds of unreleased prototype games are playable for free on the Internet Archive ~games Article 319 words 5 votes
Yelp says more than half of restaurants temporarily closed are now permanently shuttered ~food restaurants Article 270 words 9 votes
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely ~movies science fiction Article 398 words 16 votes
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in connection with $60 million bribery scheme ~news usa.oh politics crime Article 156 words 19 votes
Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1m prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change ~enviro Article 278 words 13 votes
An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar ~life Article 242 words 9 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint ~tech social media Article 372 words 10 votes
Netflix shares fall after lower-than-expected earnings and appointment of co-CEO, weak guidance for subscriber growth in third quarter ~finance business Article 305 words 11 votes
NASA plans to return its astronauts in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on Aug. 2 ~space Article 189 words 4 votes