9 great reads from CNET this week – CNET

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What every week! Google saved us busy with a huge differ of product announcements out of its annual I/O builders conference. A Facebook co-founder made a very public case for breaking up the social community, and some politicians agree. And Jeff Bezos unveiled the Blue Moon lunar lander and Blue Foundation’s plans for good home colonies.

And that’s the reason accurate scratching the surface. Listed right here are the stories you’re making no longer are looking out to miss:

Amazon fired these 7 pregnant staff. Then came the lawsuits

A warehouse employee advised her supervisor she used to be pregnant. No longer as much as 2 months later, she used to be fired. Loads of lawsuits against Amazon cloak a identical pattern.

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In a Texas border town, a church on the threshold and natural world at risk

Some South Texans remark they’d quite reside with fixed surveillance by Border Patrol than a physical barrier.

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Google Assistant is 10x sooner and knows the attach your mom lives

After three years, the insist-activated helper gets its greatest update yet. And it presentations accurate how mighty Google already knows about you.

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Can Facebook be broken up? What you are going to beget got to know

Critics need Instagram and WhatsApp to spoil up from Facebook. We spoil down how that will maybe maybe happen.

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Amazon Alexa transcripts reside on, even after you delete insist files

You might maybe maybe perhaps delete insist recordings so Amazon can’t listen to your conversations with Alexa anymore, but text files are a particular memoir.

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Game of Thrones season 8: Are we headed for disappointment?

Dueling commentary: Fan expectations are pegging the sphere’s greatest cloak to turn into the sphere’s greatest bummer.

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Google brings AR and Lens nearer to the future of search

Weird and wonderful: While we await the technology to cloak up in smartglasses, Google is making AR a ways more precious for telephones.

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James Martin/CNET

Tribeca’s VR gave life to creepy dolls and alien pals. That is the attach they stagger next

At Tribeca Immersive, we tried the VR, AR and every thing in between, from possessed porcelain dolls to fuzzy alien pets. That is the ideal technique to take them too.

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The necessary person of Gymnasia used to be an unofficial mascot of the Immersive program on the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. 


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Hold you given up on alien life? Scientists haven’t

The see for extraterrestrial intelligence is the stuff of science fiction, nonetheless it looks the precise scientists are invested too.

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NASA believes exoplanets bask in TRAPPIST-1f might maybe beget the upright stipulations for liquid water, that potential they might maybe maybe maybe toughen life. 


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