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AT&T and Verizon have taken issue with SpaceX and T-Mobile’s upcoming direct-to-cell satellite offering, arguing that SpaceX’s implementation will harm their respective mobile broadband networks. Filings that urge the Federal Communications Commission to reject SpaceX’s request to waive out-of-band emission limits were submitted by AT&T and Verizon this



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Marvel supervillain and Fantastic 4 foil Doctor Doom is everywhere these days. After appearing at Comic Con as Robert Downey Jr.'s latest role, the green-caped menace will be heavily featured in Fortnite's Chapter 5 Season 4 as part of the Absolute Doom battle pass, Epic announced

"Wielding the ancient power of Pandora’s Box, Marvel's armored despot Doctor Doom has transplanted his Latvarian



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In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, soldiers sit in a  military truck as a column of the Russian Armed Forces move to build up forces conducting active combat operations with Ukrainian formations in the Sudzhansky district of Kursk region of Russia. One solider waves at the camera.
Russia is moving troops to defend Kursk — though many are likely conscripts from within the country. Handout photo from the Russian MOD.
  • Russia looks to have moved thousands of troops from the front lines in Ukraine to defend Kursk.
  • One of Ukraine's likely goals with the Kursk incursion was to force Russia to thin out its troops.
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Srivastava learned to swim at 68 years old, and now swims three times a week.
  • Vijaya Srivastava learned to swim at the age of 68 to lose weight.
  • Now, seven years later, she's incorporated swimming and fitness into her life, and loves it.
  • She shared tips for getting fit at any age with Business Insider.

At 68, the closest Vijaya Srivastava had ever gotten to swimming was dipping her



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Is the second time the charm for Google's foldable? In this episode, Devindra chats with Senior Writer Sam Rutherford about his hands-on impressions of the new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. It has bigger screens and a sleeker design than its predecessor, but how does it compare to the other foldables out there? And why isn't it called the Pixel Fold 2?!


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Congress can’t get enough of the Meta boss. Nineteen members of Congress are now pressing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs on both Facebook and Instagram. It comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) used Meta’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads that included “photos of prescription drug bottles, piles of pills and



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Ye and Taylor Swift have been feuding on and off since 2009.
  • Taylor Swift appears to be reigniting her feud with Ye in the new version of her album.
  • She retitled the diss track "thanK you aIMee" to "thank You aimEe," seeming to call out Ye.
  • It came the same week she blocked Ye's album from the top slot of the Billboard 200 chart.

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Sydney Sweeney in "Immaculate."
  • The bloody ending of "Immaculate" is purposely ambiguous.
  • Sydney Sweeney nailed the final scene, in which she gives birth,  on her first try.
  • Here's how it was made, and how sound design kept the ending open to interpretation.

When Sydney Sweeney brought director Michael Mohan the script for "Immaculate," she told him she just wanted to be "covered in



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Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina, accused of treason for making a donation to a charity supporting Ukraine, attends a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina was accused of treason for making a donation to a charity supporting Ukraine.
  • A Russian court sentenced US-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana to 12 years in prison for treason.
  • Khavana was arrested in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for donating $51 to a Ukraine-supporting charity.
  • Her sentencing followed the release of US journalist Evan



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Fortnite is finally back on iOS, just over four years after Apple booted it from the iOS App Store — but it’s only available in the EU. The game is launching today on both a new iPhone version of the Epic Games Store and through AltStore PAL, another third-party app store. The Epic Games Store is