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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP Images Starting on Friday, movie theaters, restaurants, and other indoor venues in New Jersey will be allowed to open business to patrons at 25% capacity, Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Monday. California is also cautiously letting counties with low virus transmission reopen indoor dining and other activities, with restrictions. The two states, along with New York, had some of the worst outbreaks in the US, but they've gotten them largely under control. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . After being closed for nearly half a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Monday that movie theaters, restaurants, and bars can start reopening their indoor spaces — cautiously. Starting on Friday, theaters will be required to follow stringent guidelines and are limited to operating at 25% capacity with only up to 150 people, CNBC reported . ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook plans to block the sharing of local and international news stories on its platforms if legislation requiring tech platforms to pay publishers for content becomes law, the company said in a blog post Monday. “Australia is drafting a new regulation that misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect,” Will Easton, managing director of Facebook Australia and New Zealand wrote in the blog post, arguing that the commission overseeing the process “ignored important facts,” including the relationship between social media and news media. “Assuming this draft code becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia from... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3beLqik via IFTTT

  Much was made during the Republican Convention of the lack of a party platform. The media characterized this as a capitulation to the Cult of Trump phenomenon, but the questioned begged was: so what? If you’re running as a candidate to disrupt the status quo…. But beneath the media framing, an important question emerges. What exactly is the platform we need to emerge from the toxic situation we find ourselves in? For months, if not years, the technology industry has been working on a new platform to succeed the previous one. Mobile would seem to be that fundamental shift from the desktop world of Windows and PCs. The twin dominance of powerful phones by Google and Apple has created a new language of notifications and streaming video perfectly timed for the devastating pandemic. Our devices are now the front lines for managing the struggle to stay alive for our loved ones, the economy, and our future. Zoom is of course the poster child for all that it enables, and certainly w...

Image via XDA-developers Google’s Chromecast is a fantastic way to fling streaming video from phone to TV — but these days, you can often get a Roku Streaming Stick or Amazon Fire Stick with a dedicated remote control for the same money. But what if Google launched an Android TV dongle with its own remote control for the same $50 you’d pay for a high-end Roku or Fire stick? That’s exactly what 9to5Google seems to have discovered , thanks to a new Home Depot leak. The home improvement story briefly listed a Google “Sabrina” for $49.99, and 9to5Google ’s sources were able to provide pictures of that price tag in the Home Depot’s internal systems as well. Sabrina, of course, would be that Android TV dongle that leaked in June , only to seemingly appear again at the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3jxxF14 via IFTTT

A man wears a shirt calling for freedom for Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, the man who allegedly shot protesters in Wisconsin, during a US President Donald Trump Campaign Rally, the day after the end of the Republican National Convention, at Manchester airport in Londonderry, New Hampshire on August 28, 2020. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump, at a press conference on Monday, defended Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old supporter charged with double homicide in connection with the killing of two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin. "That was an interesting situation," Trump said. "He was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like, and he fell, and then they very violently attacked him." Trump did not mention that, prior to the scene he described, authorities say Rittenhouse had already shot and killed another person, according to a criminal complaint filed on Friday. Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree inten...

WISCONSIN, USA - AUGUST 25: Jacob Blakeâs father Jacob Blake speaks during the press conference in front of the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States on August 25, 2020. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In a live interview on CNN, Jacob Blake's father refuted President Donald Trump's account of the White House trying to get the Blake family on the phone. Less than an hour earlier, Trump said during his press briefing that he was unable to get in touch with the Blakes because "they wanted to have lawyers involved, and I thought that was inappropriate so I didn't do that. But I did speak with the pastor of the family." White House Senior Communications Adviser Ben Williamson tweeted, "The President was referring to the pastor of Julia Jackson—Jacob Blake's mother." In the same CNN interview, the family attorney said Blake's mother, along with a pastor close to her side of the family, were coordinating w...

President Donald Trump and John Kelly in 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly had a vivid simile for the experience to refusing his requests, according to an upcoming book.  Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, said it was like "French kissing a chainsaw," per a Daily Beast report on the contents of the book "Donald Trump v. The United States." It reports Kelly as saying: "Trump wanted to behave like an authoritarian and repeatedly had to be restrained and told what he could and could not legally do." Neither Kelly or Trump have publicly responded to the book, which was written by Michael Schmidt, a correspondent for The New York Times. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly said having to refuse the president's requests was like "French kissing a chainsaw," according to a new book.  "Donald Trump v. The United ...