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Remember when Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff two years ago to “click yes” in an email to promise to work in “extremely hardcore” mode or risk losing their jobs? One of those employees who didn’t click “yes” just won a major ruling, according to the Irish news service RTÉ.

Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled that Gary Rooney, a former senior executive for the company known then as



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Detecting an offside violation can be difficult. | Photo by Dan Istitene / Getty Images

The UK’s top soccer league is switching up the tech it uses to detect offside violations on the football pitch. The Premier League has contracted with a company called Genius Sports, which will use dozens of iPhones combined with machine-learning models to help game officials make an



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Valve has started publicly testing sorting reviews in the Steam store based on how well they help players make purchase decisions about games.

Historically we’ve sorted reviews by the number of ‘helpful’ votes given to each review by other players. However, we’ve seen that many players use reviews for sharing jokes, memes, ascii art and other content that



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A bunch of the Engadget crew loves the Playdate, the tiny, quirky portable console with a load of great indie games and a crank on the side. I've long had my eye on it, but never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. I do get Playdate emails, though, and a surprising and hilarious one caught my eye earlier today (subject line: Mamma Mia!):

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The message goes on to say that "We won't



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Apple will take 30% of transactions made within Patreon's iOS app starting in November.
  • Patreon must accept Apple's 30% fee on all in-app purchases starting in November or face removal.
  • Creator-economy startups have been facing Apple's fees for years. Patreon just happened to be lucky.
  • Creators could potentially bypass the fee by directing



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WalletHub ranked Massachusetts the No. 1 state to live in.
  • WalletHub released its 2024 ranking of the best states to live in.
  • The study considered metrics including affordability, economy, and safety.
  • Massachusetts was ranked the No. 1 state to live in.

Sylvester Stallone, Blake Lively, and Amanda Seyfried have more in common than their professions. All three Hollywood A



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Halide is one of the best camera alternatives for the iPhone, a lovingly-crafted app that gives users plenty of manual control over the images they take. And today they just pushed out a major update with an intriguing proposition: an “anti-intelligent” camera.

Of course, more advanced digital photographers will already be familiar with the RAW format, something Halide (and basically all digital



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Future-proof your wearable with the best Google Pixel Watch 3 screen protectors. They don't cost much but go a long way in terms of durability and fortification.