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• Kindle Unlimited lets you borrow as many as 20 books at a time from a library of several million titles.
• You can subscribe to Kindle Unlimited for $11.99 per month. It's not included in Prime membership.
• Prime Reading, on the other hand, is free with Amazon Prime. Fewer titles are available there

• Adam Kinzinger said Friday that the House GOP would be in "survival mode" after resolving their leadership woes.
• Kinzinger in the past has been a vocal critic of ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California.
• The ex-congressman said that he was unsure if the House GOP could govern going forward, given its slim majority.

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In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is rolling out an update on Windows

On July 13, 2023, SAG-AFTRA confirmed that its members would indeed go on strike. Much like with the WGA months prior, the organization’s discussions with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed to result in an acceptable contract regarding streaming revenue, AI concerns, and much more.…

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• An orca species that hunted alongside humans for thousands of years is likely locally extinct.
• The finding is thanks to DNA analysis of a 100-year-old skeleton and knowledge from the Thaua people.
• Orcas swam alongside Thaua hunters and led them to whales for thousands of years.

For thousands

• Rep. Ken Buck was opposed to Rep. Jim Jordan's now-unsuccessful bid for the House speakership.
• Buck received heavy backlash for his stance, and his district offices were flooded with calls.
• The GOP congressman told NBC News he received an eviction notice for one of his offices over his position.

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With the newly released Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games introduces Venom to its superhero gaming franchise. The classic Spider-Man nemesis is voiced by Tony Todd and a pretty big dude who’s been featured heavily in the game’s marketing. And given the nature of superhero media, plus the studio’s previous…

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A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded female Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, who filed the complaint, $1.1 million. Rowe’s lawsuit alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and that it later denied her promotions in retaliation for her complaints, both internal and later in court.

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• Thousands of people, and their dogs, have donated hair to help clean up Lake Maracaibo.
• Environmentalists will weave nets out of the hair to stop the oil slicks from spreading.
• The tried-and-true method has been an effective oil clean-up tool for decades.

Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo has been polluted with so much crude oil over