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9 votes
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FCC proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
17 votes -
Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
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Oil drilling has brought great prosperity to Nuiqsut, Alaska. The town has also experienced warming more than three times the global average.
6 votes -
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem
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Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
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Pastry chef, Claire Saffitz, attempts to make gourmet Milky Way Bars | Gourmet Makes
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QA Lead at Obsidian explains a bug in The Outer Worlds where the game decided your companion was dead, despite the fact that companions usually can't die
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Scotland's UK election results deliver another independence mandate, says First Minister
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The Arctic may have already turned into a net emitter of carbon emissions due to thawing permafrost, according to the US government's 2019 Arctic Report Card
11 votes -
The real purpose of US President Donald Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism is to quash the defense—and even the discussion—of Palestinian rights
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"Forgive us our debts": Jubilee Baptist Church is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment, focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression
10 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place
13 votes -
Bloomberg just bought CityLab—and will put half its staff out of a job
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Too many thoughts about Star Wars | Movies with Mikey
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How to get a book deal in ten years or less
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Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too.
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Pakistani lawyers go on a rampage after row with doctors
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Ten years ago, DNA tests were the future of medicine. Now they’re a social network — and a data privacy mess
10 votes -
The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
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The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office
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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?
10 votes -
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
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Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology after criticism by a human rights group
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Happy Friday the 13th, everybody! ... remember, I'm trying to start a Thing where Friday the 13th is a Good Luck day, 'cuz every Friday is "Good Friday". Henceforth, it's Monday the 13th that's...
Happy Friday the 13th, everybody!
... remember, I'm trying to start a Thing where Friday the 13th is a Good Luck day, 'cuz every Friday is "Good Friday".
Henceforth, it's Monday the 13th that's the bad-luck day ('cuz ... Mondays ... duh).
So anyway, Happy Friday the 13th ... it's gonna be a thing!
10 votes -
How computers wrote BBC election result stories
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What the British people voted for, and what they received
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result. Party Share of...
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result.
Party Share of Votes Total Seats Share of Seats Conservative 43.6% 364 56.0% Labour 32.2% 203 31.2% Scottish National Party 3.9% 48 7.4% Liberal Democrat 11.5% 11 1.7% Democratic Unionist Party 0.8% 8 1.2% Sinn Féin 0.6% 7 1.1% Plaid Cymru 0.5% 4 0.6% Social Democratic and Labour Party 0.4% 2 0.3% Green 2.7% 1 0.15% Alliance 0.4% 1 0.15% Brexit 2% 0 0% Ind 0.6% 0 0% Change 0% 0 0% Other 0.8% 0 0% All data from The Guardian, with 649/650 seats declared (still awaiting St Ives).
17 votes -
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
4 votes -
Golfer Thorbjørn Olesen pleads not guilty to sexual assault on plane – Ryder Cup winner due to stand trial next May on three charges
4 votes -
Freddie Gibbs And Madlib: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
8 votes -
The twenty travel trends we predict for 2020
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Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government.
11 votes -
Decidedly Bad - War Of The Spark: The Forsaken - A Magic: The Gathering Novel by Greg Weisman
4 votes -
The story of Freedom Ship
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Plastic to fuel using sunlight
4 votes -
'S'vivon' (dreidel) in 4 Balkan styles on the accordion
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Home Alone | Laws Broken
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Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules
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Roman Castra - How legionaries built and lived in their fortresses
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Megan Thee Stallion: NPR Tiny Desk Fest (Extended Concert Series) (2019)
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
11 votes -
Are we ready for first contact?
5 votes -
Amazon just released 'The Expanse' season four a few hours early
11 votes