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ICYMI: Stack your dominoes and get the pizza delivered too Today on In Case You Missed It: Global pizza company Domino's is teaming up with drone delivery company Flirtey to launch an actual pie delivery service, via UAV, in New Zealand. [Read more...] UberEats drivers are revolting in London Established food delivery service Deliveroo and recently launched UberEats might be competitors in the UK, but their drivers have found a common enemy in the businesses they work for. [Read more...] 'Don't Starve Together' arrives on PS4 with a huge bundle Thanks to being a freebie for PlayStation Plus subscribers, Don't Starve earned a solid following on PlayStation 4. [Read more...] US banks will launch their Venmo competitor in October In an attempt to add a little hipness to personal banking, a consortium of US banks has been quietly working on its very own Venmo competitor. [Read more...] Russia's free, PC multiplayer Halo game has been cancelled Remember that Halo game you heard about that wasn't launching in North America? Well, now it's not launching anywhere. [Read more...] iPhone 7 could have tap-to-pay feature for Japan's subways Apple might give its upcoming iPhones an extra feature exclusively for people living in Japan. [Read more...] De La Soul releases crowdfunded 'and the Anonymous Nobody' album Like many Kickstarter projects, the new De La Soul album took a lot longer to arrive than promised, but now it's here. [Read more...] Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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Apple patenting a way to collect iPhone thieves' fingerprints Apple's done a lot to curb iPhone theft via the "Find my iPhone" feature and encryption that locks out users if an incorrect code or fingerprint is used too often. [Read more...] Uber has already lost more than $1.2 billion this year Uber is a fairly well-established business at this point, so you'd be forgiven for thinking that it makes a profit at this point. [Read more...] Google offers 360-degree tours of US National Parks To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the US National Parks Service, Google has put together a collection of virtual tours combining 360-degree video, panoramic photos and expert narration. [Read more...] Germany's aerospace agency built a safer rail car An aerospace agency might seem like an unlikely place to find a breakthrough in railroad safety equipment, but that is exactly what the engineers at the German Aerospace Center (better known as DLR) have recently come up with. [Read more...] PlayStation Network finally adds two-factor authentication Considering how much the PlayStation Network breach cost Sony, it's kind of crazy that the service didn't offer two-factor login authentication before now. [Read more...] HP built a privacy screen into its EliteBook laptops Now you can watch all the adult content you want on the go. HP has designed a new integrated privacy screen in partnership with 3M to combat what the company calls "visual hacking." In other words: creepers looking over your shoulder. [Read more...] Canon's EOS 5D Mark IV has a 30.4-megapixel sensor and 4K video The moment Canon fans have anxiously waited for is here. Today, the company finally took the wraps off of its EOS 5D Mark IV, a DSLR geared toward photographers and videographers alike. [Read more...] Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Editor's Pick: 25 Years of Linux: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

25 Years of Linux: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Jack M. Germain Aug 25, 2016 12:03 PM PT

Happy Birthday Linux! You're 25! When Linux was born on Aug. 25, 1991, it was little more than a hobby for 21-year old Linus Torvald. Today the Linux community is estimated to be upwards of 86 million users strong. It has become the backbone of large enterprises, and it is installed in government systems and embedded in devices worldwide. It has grown into a major mainstream computing platform. [More...]

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In a Political Season Many, if not most, people I know don't want to talk about it -- the election, that is. Lots of them have views but they don't want to share them, based on a dislike of contentiousness. Who likes conflict? There is an article floating around the Internet that I lost track of that says nobody's mind ever changes in a heated debate about something so vital, so why engage? [More...]

Kobe Bryant Pours Energy - and Money - Into Tech Kobe Bryant, the retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball champion, has expanded his burgeoning suite of business interests with Monday's launch of Bryant Stibel, a $100 million venture capital fund for technology, data and media companies. Jeff Stibel, the vice chairman of Dun & Bradstreet, is Bryant's long-time business partner. Bryant and Stibel plan to self-fund the new firm for several years. [More...]

Gadget Ogling: Musical Pizza Boxes, Backup Backpacks, and Tattooing Robots Call it a gimmick, but I'm very much into the idea of having a pizza box that doubles as a turntable. Pizza Hut partnered with Novalia to make the box, which includes pitch and volume controls, a mixer, and touch-sensitive decks. Using printed electronics, DJs can crossfade, rewind and even scratch. The box pairs with smartphones and computers using Bluetooth and works with DJ software. [More...]

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