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It's Tuesday, July 03, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

If you have the day off tomorrow, maybe it’s time to git gud at Fortnite with a new practice mode. Before you kick back, though, there’s big news from Tesla and an update on life with MoviePass.

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Calling all students! While you're on a break from that summer job, go ahead and send us some back-to-school gadget questions before you decide how to spend the money you're earning.

After launching momentarily last Wednesday, it had been offline ever since.

'Fortnite' Playground practice mode is finally online

You know we’ve been itching to get some four-player practice time in with the Fortnite Playground mode, and now it’s live.

Congratulations?

Tesla made 5,031 Model 3s in a week

Now, at the end of its second financial quarter, Tesla confirmed it has produced 5,031 Model 3s in seven days. Tesla has also set goals for its future growth, and they're as ambitious as the company has always been: 6,000 Model 3s per week by the end of August. The benchmark hasn’t been a bearer of good news for everyone, though -- former manufacturing chief Doug Field’s temporary break from the company has turned into a permanent one. After working at Apple and Segway, he joined Tesla in 2013 and was in charge of manufacturing for the Model 3 before Elon Musk took the reins.

Survival comes at a cost.

Everything MoviePass does just makes things worse

Making sweeping policy changes on the fly seems to be how MoviePass rolls, and it's pretty annoying if you’re a subscriber. Unfortunately, an unsustainable business model means more changes are likely on the way. So now what?

The most expensive plan is up to $80.

PlayStation Vue prices are going up $5 per month

Sony will be raising the price of its four PlayStation Vue multi-channel bundle plans this month. Access, Core, Elite and Ultra packages will increase by $5 per month starting July 24th. Just like we’ve seen with price hikes for Sling TV, DirecTV Now and YouTube TV, the company cited rising business costs as a factor.

Sometimes you can’t just change the password.

For victims of smart home abuse, there's no easy out

Now domestic abusers are using smart home devices to harass and stalk, changing door-lock codes, turning lights on and off and boosting the thermostat to unbearable heat.

Reach out and touch someone.

Teledildonics gave me the gift of long-distance sex with a stranger

Yup, you read that correctly.

But wait, there's more...

1. What's on TV: 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' and 'Another World'

2. Nerf's new laser-tag guns hook up to your smartphone

3. Facebook bug caused 800,000 accounts to unblock some users

4. FBI, SEC and FTC join the DOJ in probing Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data leak

5. Comcast will limit Xfinity Mobile video streaming resolution

6. Former Uber, Waymo lead Anthony Levandowski has another self-driving startup

7. PSVR's World Cup 'executive suite' is more ludicrous than luxurious

8. Facebook shuts down tbh, Hello and Moves apps over 'low usage'

9. Samsung's texting app is randomly sending messages and photos

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It's Monday, July 02, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

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Welcome back! Ahead of your midweek plans for July 4th, here’s the biggest tech news from over the weekend. It includes a smartphone with a pop-up camera. Because it might be the future.

Spoiler alert: It's really cool, but don't bother importing one.

Vivo's all-screen NEX S is a frustrating glimpse of the future

Vivo's NEX S is a fascinating device. From a distance, it seems like any other big-screened smartphone. But take a closer look and you see some features that are rare and offer a glimpse into the (possible) future. An in-display fingerprint sensor? A pop-up selfie camera? This is no ordinary phone. Chris Velazco has been using it for a few days now -- or trying to -- and according to him, if you were thinking about importing one from China for the sheer novelty of it all, you should really hold off.

It was all about preserving important visuals while making crucial tweaks.

Here's how 'Wolfenstein II' manages to run on Nintendo Switch

Somehow, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has been crammed on to the Switch. But just how did developer Panic Button accomplish it? DigitalFoundry has produced a detailed examination of the many tweaks made to make the game work. The developer managed to preserve all the gameplay sequences, geometric detail and key visual effects (such as particles, volumetric lighting and motion blur) -- it's the less-than-essential features that get cut.

It would make the Australia project seem modest.

Tesla's next California energy storage project may be its largest yet

Tesla's giant Australian energy storage facility may soon seem rather small. Pacific Gas and Electric has submitted proposals for four new energy storage projects to the California Public Utilities Commission. One is for its Moss Landing substation that could output 182.5MW over the course of four hours -- that's more than 3,000 of Tesla's Powerpack 2 units.