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Making Your Own Caving Headlamp

An important distinction between equipment used for caving, climbing, biking, and other outdoor activities is the level of stress that’s generally applied. For instance, while climbing helmets are built to withstand the impact of sharp rocks, they’re not made to protect a biker’s head from suddenly hitting the ground. Likewise, while camping headlamps may be

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Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops and tablets, TVs, headphones and speakers, cameras and drones, wearables, and more (Wired)

Wired: Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops and tablets, TVs, headphones and speakers, cameras and drones, wearables, and more  —  Don’t bother trudging to the store.  We’ve gathered the absolute best online tech deals in every category.  —  Whether you’re fighting through snow flurries … Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops

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Filings show Oyo had a net loss of $332M on revenue of $900M in the year through March 2019; operations in China account for ~40% of its losses worldwide (Sean O'Neill/Skift)

Sean O’Neill / Skift: Filings show Oyo had a net loss of $332M on revenue of $900M in the year through March 2019; operations in China account for ~40% of its losses worldwide  —  Oyo has disclosed a surge in losses in documents related to its $1.5 billion in new funding.  The hospitality company claims

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Emergency services call for better cooperation with tech companies on their ‘safety features’

Tech companies have taken great steps in recent years to add emergency features to their products to save people’s lives. Apple and Samsung have introduced features like SOS signaling and fall detection to their wearables, along with a host of other tech companies working on various sensor-based automatic dialing to emergency services and sharing vital

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Moonday Mornings: US arrests Ethereum dev for teaching North Korea about cryptocurrency

Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn’t miss. Take a look at what happened over the past weekend. 1. Ethereum dev conspires with North Korea US authorities have arrested developer Virgil Griffith, who has most recently been working at the Ethereum Foundation, for consulting with

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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland (Steve Satterfield/About Facebook)

Steve Satterfield / About Facebook: Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland  —  At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting

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