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Transport Yourself To The Beach On Zoom With These Tropical Backgrounds

Williams-Sonoma The 14 Best Beach Zoom Backgrounds Will Make You Feel Like You’re On Vacay By Cianna Garrison April 30, 2020

Using video conferencing platforms like Zoom makes it easier to chat up your friends or hop on a work call from home. But if you’re ready to make your chats feel next-level zen, it’s easy to change out your physical background with a virtual one that’ll…

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The Sun Appears To Be Less Active Than Similar Stars

The light from the Sun is responsible for supporting almost all life on Earth, and despite occasional flares that put technology at risk, it is a quiet, well-behaved star. Now, a comparison with similar stars reveals that the Sun is possibly unique or just going through a long inactive phase.

As reported in Science, an international team investigated stars like the Sun to see how they stack…

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Watch these Irrfan Khan masterpieces to understand his brilliance

(CNN)He was the ultimate character actor.

He was the rare Indian actor who found success in both Bollywood and Hollywood. I interviewed him in 2010 and he explained why he liked working in the US, despite earning significantly less here. America, he told me, “allows me to push my boundaries as an actor.”

Here are some of those roles: Piku (2015)

In this heartwarming…

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Apple is holding steady despite the coronavirus pandemic

San Francisco (CNN Business)Apple warned earlier this year that it would experience a slump in iPhone sales as the coronavirus upends its supply chain and its biggest markets. But so far the impact appears muted.

“Despite COVID-19’s unprecedented global impact, we’re proud to report that Apple grew for the quarter,” CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. The jump was driven by an all-time record for…

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Fairphone teams up with /e/OS on a box-fresh deGoogled handset The makers of the world’s most ethical smartphone, the Fairphone 3, have teamed up for a version of the device with even less big tech on board.

Stressed firms look for better ways to source products

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Maxime Firth’s business is complicated to manage, even in good times.

His company, Onduline, turns recycled fibres into roofing material, after dousing them with bitumen to make them waterproof, and sells products in 100 countries.

Its eight production plants span from Nizhny Novgorod in Russia and…

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12 Kitchen Gadgets To Make You A Better Quarantine Cook | Betches

Since we’re all going to be living indoors for the foreseeable future, it’s probably time you learned how to f*cking cook. Even though Sex and the City taught us that ovens are for storing sweaters and fridges are only really meant for alcohol, I think the ongoing nature of these trying times means we need to face facts and like, cook food.

But grabbing a few ingredients and creating a…

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30 Stunning Historical Dresses Recreated By Extremely Outdated Fashion Blogger

While a lot of people spend a lot of time developing their personal style, few can say they have medieval dresses hanging in their closet. YouTuber Bernadette Banner has more than just a few. Furthermore, she’s made all of them by hand. “I study the history of dress through practical experimentation and reconstruction, exploring historical eras preceding the introduction of the electric sewing…

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9 Solo Sex Toys To Try If You're Quarantinig Alone | Betches

9 Solo Sex Toys To Try If You’re Quarantinig Alone | Betches

Let’s have a moment of silence for all the hookups that can’t happen right now due to social distancing orders…. andddd now let’s move on. If you’re single, thirsty, bored, and stuck inside without anyone to bang hang with at the moment, then you’re well aware by now that the struggle is real AF. But there’s good news! You’ve got the solution right at your fingertips… literally. There are just…

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UK privacy and security experts warn over coronavirus app mission creep

A number of UK computer security and privacy experts have signed an open letter raising transparency and mission creep concerns about the national approach to develop a coronavirus contacts tracing app.

The letter, signed by 177 academics, follows a similar letterearlier this month signed by around 300 academics from across the world, who urged caution over the use of such tech tools and called…

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How To Wedding Plan RN According To Your Zodiac Sign | Betches

Should we start this off with a platitude about how so much in the world is uncertain right now, or is that more tired than the banana bread Instagram posts? Either way, there’s probably no better time than the present to turn to the movement of the stars and planets to help us make major life choices. If you’re planning or postponing a wedding, you probably have a lot of questions. So let your…

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Schools will reopen in phases, says Williamson

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The reopening of schools in England is expected to take place in a “phased manner”, says the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.

He told the Education Select Committee the date for opening would depend on scientific advice – but schools would get “as much notice as possible”.

But when pupils start returning it could just be for some year groups.

“All schools…

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An Honest Recap Of 'He's Just Not That Into You' | Betches

An Honest Recap Of ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ | Betches

We’ve now been in quarantine for over six weeks, and I’m running out of things to watch. What about Netflix, you say? Ha! I laugh in the face of Netflix. Too Hot to Handle? Done! Tiger King? Obviously. Outer Banks? Duh! You name it, I’ve seen it. So now that I’ve exhausted every option, I’m rewatching old movies that I used to have on repeat. Today’s film? He’s Just Not That Into You, which is…

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Where is Kim Jong-un? Why the whereabouts of North Korean leader remain a mystery

Pyongyangs tight rein on the flow of intelligence means the outside world knows little about the missing ruler

Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, yet the world has few clues as to the North Korean leaders whereabouts or the state of his health.

Even Donald Trump, arguably the one person outside North Koreawho might have been expected to shed light on the mystery…

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Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new generation of entrepreneurs build their dreams and tell their stories.

So it’s “TC to VC” for me. After 8.5 years at TechCrunch and 10 in tech journalism, I’m leaving today to join the venture team at VC…

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Billionaires are getting even richer from the pandemic. Enough is enough

The United States is suffering a horrendous pandemic. But while the coronavirus itself is indiscriminate, there are huge disparities in who suffers from the resulting economic fallout.

Columbia University researchers project that poverty rates in the United States could soon reach their highest levels in half a century. Yet as my colleagues and I track in a new reportfor the Institute for…

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'I love fame': how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled

‘I love fame’: how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled

The Instagram influencer talks about the backlash to her creativity workshops, her reneged book deal, her addiction and the fallout from her relationship with her ghostwriter

It is hard to imagine Caroline Calloway being of any time before the internet like picturing a present-day Joan of Arc. She laughs when I tell her so.

Oh my God, are you kidding me? Caroline Calloway born in medieval…

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