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SpaceX, ULA are the big winners for US national security launches

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 04:19 PM PDT

NurPhoto Pics Of The Year - 2019 A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying satellites for the U.S. Air Force launches on June 25, 2019. | Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The US Department of Defense has selected its two primary rocket companies for getting satellites into orbit in the years ahead: long-time military launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX. ULA will receive 60 percent of the department's satellite launch contracts, while SpaceX will receive 40 percent.

The two companies beat out rivals Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin to launch DoD missions between fiscal years 2022 and 2027. This is a big prize, as each individual launch can cost over $100 million. The DoD hasn't committed to an exact number of launches over that five-year period, but they have awarded $316 million to SpaceX and $337 million to ULA "to meet fiscal year 2022 launch dates", according to a DoD statement.

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WarnerMedia undergoes major reorganization as HBO Max gets higher priority

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 02:43 PM PDT

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Two of WarnerMedia's top executives, Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly, are leaving the company as CEO Jason Kilar begins to plan the company's future with a tighter focus on HBO Max.

Greenblatt oversaw all of the company's direct-to-consumer lines and oversaw WarnerMedia as a whole; Kevin Reilly was WarnerMedia's content chief. He also served as president of TBS, TNT, and TruTV. As part of the shakeup, Andy Forssell (a former Hulu executive who worked alongside Kilar at the streaming company now owned by Disney) will oversee all of HBO Max, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

With Greenblatt and Reilly out, Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sarnoff and HBO programming president Casey Bloys will oversee a new group combining WarnerMedia's studios...

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Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords were breached — is going open source

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 02:42 PM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

These days, we almost take it as a given that piss-poor security will inevitably expose some of your usernames and passwords to the world — that's why 2FA is so important, and why you might want a password checkup tool like the ones now built into every modern browser (well, Safari is coming soon) so you can quickly replace the ones that were stolen.

But nearly all of those password checkup tools owe something to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned, which was kind of a novel idea when it first launched 7 years ago — and Hunt is now open-sourcing his website codebase so the idea can spread even further.

While not all password checkup tools actually use Hunt's database (a just-announced LastPass feature calls on one hosted by Enzoic instead),...

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VoteByMail makes it easier to request a mail-in ballot ahead of the election

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 02:12 PM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

A new website tries to streamline the process of signing up to vote by mail.

VoteByMail.io is a new service created by volunteers with work experience at several prominent companies, including Google, Intel, Dropbox, and Nike, that aims to help registered voters sign up for a mail-in ballot. The site is available in nine languages, and VoteByMail has partnered with multiple state and national organizations, including Vote.org, to support the launch.

The site asks for your information, including your full address and name, and uses that information to locate your local election official and create a letter requesting a vote-by-mail ballot. After you fill it out, VoteByMail sends a copy of the request to the election official but also...

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HBO Max and Ava DuVernay are making a series based on the @OnePerfectShot Twitter account

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 01:02 PM PDT

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Ava DuVernay is partnering with HBO Max and the team behind Twitter's popular One Perfect Shot account to create a half-hour documentary series of the same name, the company announced today.

One Perfect Shot will look at an iconic shot from different films, with the directors of those films walking viewers through a detailed breakdown of how it came to be. Each episode will feature a different director "walking through the scene in 360 moments that allow viewers to join an immersive exploration of moviemaking," according to a press release. Essentially, think of the show as a celebration of cinematography. DuVernay, who directed A Wrinkle in Time, Selma, 13th, and created Netflix's When They See Us, is set to narrate and executive...

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Many Reddit communities vandalized with pro-Trump content, possibly due to compromised moderator accounts

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 12:43 PM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

A number of subreddits were taken over and vandalized on Friday, possibly as part of a coordinated campaign. Hackers reportedly posted messages or changed a subreddit's design in support of President Donald Trump.

"An investigation is underway related to a series of vandalized communities," a Reddit spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. "It appears the source of the attacks were compromised moderator accounts. We are working to lock down those accounts and restore impacted communities."

Image: r/Japan
What r/Japan looked like when it was vandalized.

It's unclear right now how the accounts were compromised. A post on r/subredditdrama listed dozens of subreddits that were affected, and many were quite...

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The best free apps for video calling

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 08:28 AM PDT

Italy Continues Nationwide Lockdown To Control Coronavirus Spread Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association, most of us are relying on video calls to keep in touch with work colleagues, family, and friends — and if you're also facing financial difficulties, free is best. Zoom continues to top the list of videoconferencing apps, but there are a bunch of applications out there that will allow you to meet others online for free.

We've listed a few of the best known videoconferencing apps, along with a couple of popular text chat apps that include video calling features. While most of these already have free versions, some are offering access to additional features for those who are currently working from home or who want to check up on friends and relatives online.

There are a...

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In She Dies Tomorrow, figuring out how to spend your last day is really damn hard

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 08:10 AM PDT

A woman jolts awake and gasps for air in a nondescript living room. She can't explain why, but she's certain of one thing: she only has one more day to live. So she tells her friend, Jane, and something horrifying happens: Jane also becomes certain the next day will be her last. This strange conviction, it turns out, is contagious. And it'll infect many more before tomorrow actually comes.

Written and directed by Amy Seimetz, She Dies Tomorrow is a new film with a title and a premise that suggests something propulsive — a thriller, perhaps, or a nightmarish horror film. Instead, it is contemplative, a psychodrama that introduces a simple unsettling idea to each of its characters and lets us watch as they become unmoored. It doesn't give...

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Google training documents advise avoiding monopoly language

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:35 AM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro

Alphabet and Google employees are trained to avoid using certain words and phrases in internal communications and "assume every document will become public," according to a new report from The Markup. But Google says the practice, which it describes as standard compliance training, has been in effect for years.

A document titled "Five Rules of Thumb for Written Communications" states that "Words matter. Especially in antitrust law," according to The Markup. Employees across the company, including engineers, salespeople, interns, vendors, contractors, and temp workers, are encouraged to avoid the terms "market," "barriers to entry," and "network effects" (the latter being a reference to how a social network gains value the more users it...

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Vergecast: Samsung Unpacked, Google Pixel 4A review, and Apple’s new 27-inch iMac

Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:15 AM PDT

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is very large, as you'd expect from a Note. Becca Farsace / The Verge

The Vergecast is back to a phone-heavy discussion with a guest-heavy show. This week on the podcast, hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn bring in The Verge crew who have used the newest gadgets that were announced the past week, including the Pixel 4A, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the Samsung Galaxy Buds Live, and an updated 27-inch iMac.

Deputy editor Dan Seifert, news editor Chris Welch, and video director Becca Farsace (a Vergecast debut) join the show to give their reviews and first impressions of these new devices.

This is a classic Vergecast format, so sit back and listen to Verge director's commentary from this busy week of new tech.

Stories discussed this week:

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