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Prepare for Sex and Dating to Get Even More Complicated Once the Lockdown Lifts

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For the past two months, Katie Holliday has been cooped up alone in her Brooklyn apartment thinking longingly about an unlikely erogenous zone: the lower half of a stranger’s face. 

“I remember joking to my friend before all of this started, ‘Imagine if someone’s face becomes their most coveted body part?’” Holliday, who is 31, told The Daily Beast. “‘When someone removes their mask, is it a sign of trust? Is it like letting someone see you naked?’ I was kidding back then, but now it’s reality.”

Holliday doesn’t know exactly when it will be safe to start seeing people like she did before the pandemic began, but she’ll return to a singles scene unlike any other in history. “I’m picturing walking into a bar where everyone’s wearing masks,” she said. “I’ll meet someone whose face is covered. Are they cute or not? I don’t know!” 

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The New Trump App Is a Death Star of Fake News—and It Reaches More People Than Daytime Cable News

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Campaigns and consultants have spent the last four years worrying about the Trump campaign’s digital operation. Even before COVID-19 upended the election and forced candidates online, the Trump campaign was geofencing campaign rallies, micro-targeting digital ads, and amplifying deepfake videos.

And now, as both the crisis and the general election enter their third month, panic is beginning to set in about the startling digital gap between the two parties, amplified by the recent Trump campaign announcement of both a new app experience and the start of a $10 million digital push against Joe Biden

President Trump’s campaign manager has called what he’s built a “juggernaut” and is likening his digital infrastructure to a Death Star. In reality, what he's built is a trap.  

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Since You Have More Time on Your Hands, Why Not Give Composting a Shot

Being at home this long, or really, just in one place for this long, has led me to see how much waste I produce. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot more than I thought. But I’m not here to shame anyone, in fact, quite the opposite. I think there are plenty of small ways we can cut down our carbon footprint, from driving less (check), to not using a washing machine or dryer (also, sadly, check), but gardening is what I’ve been doing, and is something that I’d recommend everyone give a shot now that we all have a little more times on our hands.

GETTING STARTED

Composting is a natural way to recycle all of the organic materials in your house through decomposition. Compost can improve your soil’s water retention, which saves you money on your water bills, and helps keep excess garbage out of landfills, too. To get started you need two things. The first is a compost bin for your kitchen. This is great whether you want to start a compost at home or if you have a compost center you can bring them to. You want something sleek, designy, yet simple because after all, it’s really just a trash can. This is an excellent one.

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We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

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Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike

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Stochastic Robots Use Randomness to Achieve More Complex Goals

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Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More

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Middle age may be much more stressful now than in the '90s

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CFL looking at way more trouble than it can handle

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Spiral Galaxies More Likely to Host Complex Life: Study

Giant elliptical galaxies are not as likely as previously thought to be cradles of complex life, according to a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2015, University of Durham astronomer Pratika Dayal and colleagues concluded that large elliptical galaxies have up to 10,000 times more habitable planets than the [...]




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We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second

During these long, mundane physically-distant days, stretching on into an uncertain future like an ever-lengthening beigeish corridor, it’s impossible not to miss hanging out with friends. Especially the kind of hanging out where you’re not really doing anything in particular, not talking about any one thing—just kind of being. As we continue to stay physically […]




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Nintendo sells a lot more Switches, as people stay at home playing Animal Crossing

A couple of weeks ago, we noted some new NPD numbers pointing to a very good March for the Switch. Nintendo’s financials this week bear out the predicted surge in popularity for the three-year-old console. The company has sold 21 million Switch units in the past year, handily beating a 19.5 million forecast; 6.2 million […]




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Blood pressure drugs may do more harm than good for some older people

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More than 1,000 queue for food in rich Geneva amid virus shutdown

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More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America

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Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 offers a more rapid alternative to a vaccine

Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine, argue an international team of scientists.




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More selective elimination of leukemia stem cells and blood stem cells

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Google unifies messenger teams, plans “more coherent vision”

One person is now in charge of Google’s six messaging apps.




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More future Navy SEALs resume war preparations following COVID-19 pause

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Demand for flour doubles during lockdown as more people take up baking at home

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Black and Asian coronavirus patients 'may be at higher risk of more severe illness', experts say

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Police have issued more than 1,000 fines to lockdown flouters

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'Proud' London bus driver begs Government to do more to protect transport workers amid coronavirus outbreak

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Italy records fewest daily coronavirus deaths in more than three weeks

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UK weather forecast: More sunshine on the way as mercury to hit highs of 23C later this week

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War veteran Tom Moore, 99, raises more than £1.5m to help NHS fight coronavirus

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US woman, 93, receives 150 cans of beer after holding up 'I need more beer' sign

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UK coronavirus outbreak 'could cause GDP drop of 35% and leave 2 million more people unemployed'

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Two million could lose jobs amid coronavirus crisis as Rishi Sunak warns 'more tough times' lay ahead

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More than 3,000 fines issued for alleged breaches of coronavirus lockdown laws

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More than £1 million of cocaine found hidden in coronavirus face mask shipment

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More than £120,000 raised for family and newborn baby of pregnant nurse who died from Covid-19

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International Space Station crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days in orbit

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