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Twitch teams up with streamers for ‘Chat’s Choice Awards’ show

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“Chat’s Choice Awards is an award show where we provide the categories and nominees, but it’s up to creators and their communities… to decide the winners,” Twitch explains. Instead of a single stream for the award show, streamers can each host their own version, and their viewers will get to vote on the winners while they watch. This also means that each category will have multiple winners, since each individual stream will vote independently. 

You can view the full list of award categories, and find out how to host your own Chat’s Choice Awards stream, over on Twitch’s blog. 

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Adobe Lightroom iOS update permanently deleted users’ photos

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Adobe rep Rikk Flohr responded to the thread, saying Adobe is aware of the bug and that a new update, 5.4.1, corrected the issue. However, he didn’t have good news for customers who had already lost photos and presets. “We know that some customers have photos and presets that are not recoverable,” Flohr wrote. “We sincerely apologize to any customers who have been affected by this issue.” It’s unclear exactly how many users were affected. Flohr did note that the Lightroom cloud, and Lightroom mobile on Android, Lightroom desktop on macOS and Windows, as well as Lightroom Classic weren’t affected. This makes it sound like only pictures that weren’t backed up to Adobe’s Cloud were deleted, though that’s no comfort to people who lost their photos.

Needless to say, users who had just lost photos and presets were not happy. “Rikk, we understand the announcement, however this doesn’t solve the problem,” wrote Ewelina Wojtyczka. “People lost months/years of their work. Apologies will not bring it back.”

Adobe hasn’t further commented on the bug outside Flohr’s post. Some users noted that they had fortunately backed up their photos or stored them elsewhere — not a bad idea, considering another big company, Canon, also lost images following a ransomware attack. While Adobe shouldn’t be let off the hook for this error, perhaps the importance of multiple backups is the hard lesson we can learn from this.

Update, 4:55PM ET: Adobe has posted a few more details on a support page for Lightroom for mobile 5.4.0 for iPadOS and iOS. It reiterates that the bug “affected customers using Lightroom mobile without a subscription to the Adobe cloud. It also affected Lightroom cloud customers with photos and presets that had not yet synced to the Adobe cloud.” It also recommends users check their iPad or iPhone system backups to see if they can return to a state before the update that might have saved the missing photos.

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‘Black Myth: Wu Kong’ looks like a gorgeous Monkey King-inspired game

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Black Myth: Wu Kong is an upcoming action-adventure game from a Chinese independent game studio. If you played last year’s excellent Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice or the recently released Mortal Shell, what’s on display here will be familiar. Black Myth: Wu Kong takes the Souls-like formula and applies it to the classic tale of the Monkey King and the Journey to the West. Stance-switching, which is a central gameplay element in Souls-inspired games like Nioh and Nioh 2, makes an appearance. And at one point in the teaser, we also see the protagonist transform into two other creatures. 

As in From Software’s games, it looks like the world will be just as much of a character in Black Myth as the player avatar and the rest of the human-like cast. However, what’s particularly notable about the game’s presentation is that it’s built on Unreal Engine 4.   

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Uber and Lyft get a temporary reprieve from California shut-down order

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Uber and Lyft can continue to operate in California thanks to a last-minute ruling that grants the companies a temporary stay while they appeal a previous court order to re-classify their drivers as employees.

The stay comes less than 12 hours before Lyft said it would shut down its California operations as a result of the injunction. Uber had also warned it would be forced to halt its ride-hailing business in California.

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Uber can now deliver prescriptions in Seattle and Dallas

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Uber is now able to deliver prescriptions in two cities. The company is expanding its Uber Health business to include medicine delivery in Seattle and Dallas, and plans to bring the service to more US cities “in the coming months.”

Uber Health launched in 2018 to help healthcare providers arrange rides for patients and their caregivers. With its expansion into prescription delivery, that service can help patients get their medicines on time as well. In order to complete the deliveries, Uber is partnering with pharmacy delivery service NimbleRx, which will connect pharmacies to Uber drivers via Uber Direct. 

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Adobe brings clipping masks and better brush management to Fresco

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Adobe has updated its Fresco drawing app with a bunch more features. There’s a clipping masks tool that will allow you to capture certain parts of your drawing and move them to another layer or layer group. That way, you can continue to work on your piece without worrying about messing up the work you’ve already done.

There’s a new brush management tool as well. You’ll be able to pick which Pixel brushes to display or hide and make a custom set of brushes with the ones you use the most often. Fresco now has a preview tool for Photoshop, Pixel and Eraser brushes, which shows you the size and shape of the brush when you touch the screen. You can activate that though the Brushes menu, which is under the Input options in App Settings.

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White House calls on Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s Twitter blocking

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The case was first filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute in July 2017, and has since kicked off both a protracted legal battle and a wider conversation about the nature of the president’s Twitter account. About a year later, Judge Naomi Buchwald of New York’s Southern District ruled that President Trump’s ceaseless stream of tweets and the conversations around it constitute a “public forum” — as a result, users blocked by the president as a result of participating in those conversations legally amounted to curtailing their right to free speech. That interpretation was later upheld by an appellate court in New York despite further protest from the president, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined to review the case again earlier this year after a majority of judges deemed it unnecessary.

The number of court decisions ruling against President Trump in this case would seem to make the legality of this situation pretty straightforward, and some are already calling on the highest court in the land to uphold those earlier decisions.

“This case stands for a principle that is fundamental to our democracy and basically synonymous with the First Amendment: government officials can’t exclude people from public forums simply because they disagree with their political views,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight Institute, in a statement. “The Supreme Court should reject the White House’s petition and leave the appeals court’s careful and well-reasoned decision in place.”

Even so, the ideological slant of the Supreme Court’s current iteration may work in President Trump’s favor. It’ll be some time before we learn what they have to say, though: The court will remain out of session until October 5, and hasn’t officially taken on the case yet as a result.

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Panasonic’s $835 cubicle offers authentic office hell in your home

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In case you’re not already depressed by the current state of the world, Panasonic is launching a work-from-home cubicle. For 88,000 yen ($835 dollars), you can sit behind two wooden peg boards that make your home feel like the office, just what you wanted.

According to Panasonic, the partition, named Komoru, will create a semi-private space of about one square meter. Don’t worry, it’s easy to assemble. The Verge spotted the desk earlier this week and says, for now, it’s only available in Japan. With so many people working from home, it wouldn’t be surprising if it made its way to the US.

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Korg’s Volca Sample 2 is a huge upgrade in almost every way

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Sample storage has also been doubled. There’s now 8MB of memory for a total of 130 seconds of samples, spread over 200sample slots. There’s a few other nice additions, such as two new step jump modes and delay start feature which lets you go off grid and get a little more creative with your grooves.

There are some oft-requested features that are missing however, including the native ability to play a sample chromatically across the keyboard. And, judging from reactions on message boards and Reddit, many users are content to stick with the original Sample loaded with a custom hacked firmware called Pajen which already added a lot of these software features, plus a lot more.

Still, if you’re not into messing with unofficial upgrades to gear and have been on the fence about snagging a Volca Sample this might be just the thing for you. The Volca Sample 2 is available for preorder now for $149 and will be shipping later this year.

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Lyft will not stop running in California at midnight (updated)

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Lyft wrote in a blog post that “what Sacramento politicians are pushing is an employment model that 4 out of 5 drivers don’t support. This change would also necessitate an overhaul of the entire business model — it’s not a switch that can be flipped overnight.”

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi echoed that sentiment earlier this week. He said his company wouldn’t be able to hire all 50,000 of its California drivers as employees “overnight.” Uber has yet to announce whether it will also suspend some operations in the state after today. Uber Eats will continue as normal for now. However, delivery drivers could be affected by the law too. In June, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin filed a lawsuit against DoorDash over worker classification.

Lyft is working on a “benefits model that works for all drivers and our riders. We’ve spent hundreds of hours meeting with policymakers and labor leaders to craft an alternative proposal for drivers that includes a minimum earnings guarantee, mileage reimbursement, a health care subsidy, and occupational accident insurance, without the negative consequences.”

Proposition 22, a ballot measure that Californians will vote on this November, seeks to exempt rideshare and delivery drivers from Assembly Bill 5. Uber and Lyft wouldn’t have to reclassify them as employees should the measure pass. Those companies funded the measure along with DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates.

Update (3:12PM ET): Though Lyft’s site still states it plans to cease operations in California at midnight, a court has granted both Uber and Lyft a temporary reprieve to operate in the state.

Update (4:40 PM ET): A Lyft spokesperson has confirmed the company will not shut down operations in California tonight.

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