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Spin’s revamped e-scooters are coming to eight US cities

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The revamped e-scooters have already been tested as part of a pilot program in Baltimore, and beginning next month, the scooters will arrive in Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Berkeley, Calif.; Denver; Washington, DC; Kansas City, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn. and Minneapolis. They’ll arrive with new branding, and Spin says we can expect to see them in more US cities in the not-too-distant future. Of course, they’ll have plenty of competition, from the likes of Lime, Lyft and Jump.

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Firefox Reality VR web browser arrives on Oculus Quest headsets

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The free software is initially available in 10 languages (including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean). More are on the way, Mozilla said. This isn’t necessarily a revolution, especially if you’re content to use the regular Oculus Browser. Regardless, it’s a big deal for Quest owners and VR browsing as a whole. You now have a significant browser alternative on one of the hotter VR headsets on the market, and there won’t be any pesky wires getting in the way while you check the news or catch up on videos.

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Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program delivers its first app

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The game is a 3D jigsaw puzzle that sends players to world-famous monuments around the globe. Users watch landmarks, like the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal, crumble. Then they must piece them back together. This is just the first of several games to come out of ICP, and Magic Leap says we can expect more to arrive in the coming weeks.

As Magic Leap has proven, AR is still in its infancy. Many of the platform’s experiences still feel experimental, and people haven’t quite decided if Magic Leap’s hardware, long shrouded in mystery, is worth the hype or the price tag. But as games like PuzzlrAR: World Tour and Seedling by Insomniac Games come out, that might start to change.

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LG’s CineBeam short-throw 4K projector is now available

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We saw the CineBeam in action at CES this year and were impressed by the sharp picture and small footprint. At just 7.2 inches from the wall, it can show a 120 inch diagonal image. The projector has AI voice control, offering support for both Google Assistant and LG’s ThinQ AI solution, so you can search for content via voice commands or using the included LG Magic Remote.

In terms of image quality, LG promises a high dynamic range for deeper blacks and more lifelike highlights, plus better color reproduction thanks to a three-channel laser for each RGB.

The CineBeam projector is available now for a steep but not unreasonable $5,999.

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SpaceX’s Starhopper test aborted seconds after starting

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The Starhopper was supposed to lift off for a short flight — 65 feet in the air, to be precise. However, the prototype vehicle didn’t move after its rocket shot out flames and smoke. The test was supposed to happen last week, but it was pushed back because Starhopper was engulfed in flames during an engine fire test. SpaceX conducted successful hop tests in the past that proved the Starhopper works and can lift a few inches from the ground. It’s not entirely clear if the mishap last week has anything to do with what happened during its latest attempt.

SpaceX certification engineer Kate Tice only explained during the webcast: “It appears as though we have had an abort on today’s test. As you can see there, the vehicle did not lift off today.” She added: “This specific test is one in a series of tests, designed to push the limits of the vehicle as quickly as possible, to learn all that we can as fast and safely as we can.” That sounds like we’ll definitely see more hop tests in the near future despite this setback.

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Samsung rescheduled the Galaxy Fold launch

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We’ll meet Samsung’s first foldable phone in September.The Galaxy Fold release has been rescheduled

Three months after its postponed launch, we finally have an idea of when the $1,980 Galaxy Fold’s release date. Samsung announced that “select markets” will have a chance to get the convertible device in September.

Its engineers have changed the design to keep debris out of its hinge and discourage people from pulling the protective film off of its Infinity Flex display. The backing has extra metal reinforcements, and Samsung says it’s been working on increasing software compatibility, too.

Instead of Air, Nike is using these beads to battle Adidas Ultraboost.Nike’s Joyride shoes use tiny beads to make your runs more comfortable

Meet Joyride, a responsive cushioning system designed to adapt to individual foot strikes and offer high levels of impact absorption as your feet hit whatever surface you’re running on. Nike says the idea is to “make running easy” and give you more personalized comfort, made possible by thousands of tiny, energy-packed beads that form the shoe’s midsole. Nike’s Joyride Run Flyknit will launch globally on August 15th for $180 — although Nike Plus members have the chance to scoop them up earlier, on July 25th.

Instead of a rocket engine, photons propel the boxing ring-sized sail.LightSail 2 is now surfing on sunlight

The Planetary Society announced that LightSail 2 deployed its solar sail on Tuesday as it was flying south of the continental United States. “Yesterday, we successfully set sail on beams of sunlight,” said Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society in a statement.

Work smarter, not harder. (No wait, please also work hard.)The best (and mostly free) apps to help you keep up in class

By design, school is supposed to challenge you — to push at the boundaries of your understanding of the world and make you a more well-rounded person. It’s not supposed to be easy, as much as it is fulfilling, but thankfully, there are ways to make your educational journey a little less difficult.

Luckily for you, a lot has changed since most of the Engadget team went to school. To help out, we’ve gathered a few apps here that should prove especially useful as you gear up for more long days of learning. (Trust us, you’ll probably miss them someday.) Oh, and don’t worry: These handy apps are all available for iOS and Android, so everyone gets to benefit.

And it won’t make a difference.Facebook will pay $5 billion fine for Cambridge Analytica data breaches

The FTC formally announced its $5 billion fine as well as a 20-year settlement order that dictates a new management structure, the creation of an independent privacy committee and new rules about how it must monitor and report potential privacy issues.

The company was also separately fined $100 million by the SEC and announced it discovered that some of its partners (including Microsoft and Sony) still had access to Facebook user data after it was supposed to have closed it off late last year. However, as Nathan Ingraham explains, this isn’t going to change a thing.

The Windows 10 internal build swaps live tiles for app icons.
Microsoft leak suggests a very different Windows Start menu could be coming

Microsoft has leaked what could be a new Windows Start menu. The company accidentally shared a Windows 10 internal build (18947) with its Insider Program, Windows Central reports. The most striking change is a completely redesigned Start menu that swaps live tiles for a grid of app icons. It also has a search bar at the top that lets you search both apps and the web.

So, it’s like the RTX 2080, but a little faster.NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super review

Priced at $700, it brings nearly the performance of a high-end RTX 2080 Ti. It beats out AMD’s Radeon VII at the same price, but NVIDIA’s mid-range Super graphics cards are better value

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Nintendo will launch a Disney-themed Switch in Japan

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If you’re unfamiliar, Tsum Tsum is a line of Disney figures and toys that feature beloved characters in a more kawaii design. They’re often found in gacha vending machines, conveniently at the same eye-level as your young children, for maximum pester power. But, since they are gacha, there’s always the risk that you’ll wind up buying several duplicates before stumbling upon the item your rugrat actually wants.

Unfortunately for kawaii fans, the Tsum Tsum Switch is only available in Japan, dropping alongside the game Tsum Tsum Festival. That’ll happen on October 10th, but you can pre-order both from today, setting you back 36,000 yen, or around $330.



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ABC is making a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ series for Hulu

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Cuse and Fuchs will write and executive produce the project under ABC Signature, the streaming division of ABC Studios, and Cuse’s Genre Arts. Fuchs is reportedly writing the pilot script for what Deadline says is “a modern updating of the classic story,” which started as a radio series in 1978. It was eventually adapted into novels, comic books, a TV series for BBC in 1981, a video game and, most recently, a feature film starring Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent. Deadline didn’t specify what it meant with “modern retelling” — we may have to wait for the show to figure out if that’s a good thing.

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Two dead, dancing stars challenge astronomers' expectations

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Stars still have plenty of surprises despite (or perhaps, because of) advances in astronomy. Researchers using Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility have discovered a binary white dwarf system 8,000 light-years away, ZTF J1539+5027, where the two dead…

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