This company wants you to text with 'ugly' fruit emoji to fight food waste

One socially conscious company is making your emoji keyboard a little less perfect in an effort to tackle food waste.

Hungry Harvest, a startup service that delivers “recovered produce” to consumers’ doorsteps, has created a series of “ugly” fruit and vegetable emoji meant to get people thinking — and typing — about our preoccupation with aesthetically pleasing food.

SEE ALSO: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money

In late September, the company rolled out …

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This company wants you to text with 'ugly' fruit emoji to fight food waste

Reuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module

In the ever evolving saga of Yahoo’s email servers and who could peek into them, the latest nugget comes from a Reuters report that the scanning program operated at a deeper level than mail filters for porn or spam. Citing three former employees, it… – Source

Reuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module

Bloomberg: AT&T considering dropping the Galaxy Note 7 completely

Samsung’s Note 7 headache could get a lot stronger.

Bloomberg reports that AT&T is considering stopping sales of the Note 7 entirely. The report, which quotes a person familiar with the situation, was published on Friday evening. AT&T may have already taken the decision, according to Bloomberg, which estimates that the carrier is Samsung’s third largest client.

The report comes after all major US carriers started allowing customers to return their Note 7’s and get different phones, even if the returned Note 7 is from a supposedly safe batch. The move is a response to an incident from earlier this week where a “safe” Galaxy Note 7 allegedly caught fire aboard a plane, prompting the cancellation of the flight. Samsung said it’s still looking into the incident.

Carriers insisted that there’s no indication that the replacement Note 7 units present any safety risk and said they only allowed the replacements for their customers’ peace of mind.

If AT&T decides to stop selling the Note 7 completely, Samsung faces a real risk of contagion, as other carriers could decide to follow AT&T’s lead. Operators may not want to associate their image with a device that competitors denounced as unsafe.

Interestingly, this week’s setbacks have not spooked investors too much. Samsung’s stock is at an all-time high, buoyed by the strong earnings estimates that the company posted for the quarter ending on September 30.

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Bloomberg: AT&T considering dropping the Galaxy Note 7 completely

Donald Trump issues video statement on that obscene tape

Donald Trump released a video statement shortly after midnight Saturday, in which he responded to the controversy surrounding the release of an audio recording of him making lewd comments about women.

In the clip, he says he “I was wrong, and I apologize.” But he also uses it as an opportunity to attack Bill and Hillary Clinton.

SEE ALSO: Donald Trump caught on tape: ‘I did try and f*ck her, she was married’

Trump’s statement followed the publication Friday by the Washington Post of tape from 2005 that saw him use obscene language to describe how he interacts with women.

In the clip, which was filmed ahead of his cameo on Days of Our Lives, he’s heard telling Billy Bush from Access Hollywood how he tried to sleep with a married woman. “I moved on her like a bitch,” he says. He later tells Bush he is “automatically attracted to beautiful women.” …

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Crunch Report | Verizon wants $1 billion discount on Yahoo deal

Verizon wants a $1 billion discount on the Yahoo deal, Facebook launches a standalone Events app, Poland is testing some roads that glow blue at night for cyclists, carriers are accepting Note 7 replacement trade-ins and Maserati is working on an electric vehicle. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Mylan to pay $465 million over Medicaid pricing of EpiPen

Mylan will pay the Department of Justice $465 million in a settlement over its pricing and classification of the EpiPen through Medicaid, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.

Mylan, which came under fire this summer for systematically hiking the price of the life-saving device, at the same time allegedly improperly classified the EpiPen as a generic drug. That led Medicaid and Medicare to both overpay for the product.

The DOJ’s question centered on the EpiPen’s classification through Medicaid and Medicare. The EpiPen had been classified as a non-innovator drug, affecting how the federal programs calculated rebates. …

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Google now offers $35 18W USB Type-C Power Adapters designed for Pixel smartphones

Google’s web store has started selling 18W USB Type-C power adapters. Designed specifically for the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, these are meant as spare chargers or as an option for charging Type-C devices. The cost for the accessory is $35, and the price includes an USB Type-C cable. It also comes as expected that the charger is designed to operate with maximum safety.

Rated at 18W, these ought to charge devices a little bit faster than the 15W chargers that came bundled with the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. It’s also worth noting that the charger itself features … – Source

Google now offers $35 18W USB Type-C Power Adapters designed for Pixel smartphones

19 killed by elephant tranquilizer so potent it's used as chemical weapon

Dozens of people in the U.S. have died from carfentanil, a seriously potent elephant tranquilizer often cut into heroin and other street drugs, in the past few months.

At least 19 have been killed in Wayne County, Michigan since July, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said Thursday. Eight more have reportedly perished in the Cincinnati area.

Carfentanil is a seriously deadly substance. It’s 100 times stronger than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that killed Prince and is itself up to 50 times stronger than heroin. It’s also 10,000 times stronger than morphine.

It’s so potent, in fact, that it was viewed as a chemical weapon before being discovered by drug dealers. And it’s being freely exported to the U.S. from China, a new Associated Press investigation has revealed. …

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Google Assistant is gender-neutral(ish), but it's not feminist

In a world occupied by Siri, Cortana and Alexa, Google Assistant is a bit of an anomaly. It’s the first widely used voice assistant to eschew a female name, which the company reportedly did to avoid giving it a personality. The company would rather y… – Source

Google Assistant is gender-neutral(ish), but it's not feminist

Rejoice: 'Golden Girls' action figures finally exist

The girls are back and more golden than ever.

On Thursday, toy manufacturer Funko debuted Golden Girls action figures at this year’s New York Comic Con.

Finally, you can have a chance to act out your own sitcom as everyone’s favorite over-50 foursome.

SEE ALSO: This toy advert is taking on gender stereotypes and people love it

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While Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia come as a one-per-person limited set to those who have won the lottery to Funko’s booth, Target also offers these gems as an online exclusive.

“The response to our ‘Golden Girls’ products has been wild,” Funko director of marketing Mark Robben told …

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