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The back-to-school season is here and so it’s time to stock up for the entire school year. There’s a big sale on at Office Depot, which delivers bestselling school supplies throughSept. While there’s overlap in some areas, everything needed for each specific age range is already curated. Since paper, pencils and pens are the foundation of good school supplies, we’ll start there. Both college-ruled and wide-ruled paper areavailable as low as 50 cents....

It wasrevealed via tweetthat both Bethesda’sStarfieldand Arkane Studios’Redfallare having their releases pushed back by several months. According to Bethesdaand Arkane, both games need additional development time to better realize the teams' ambitions. Instead, it heavily embraces science fiction with a spacefaring journey about “answering humanity’s greatest mystery.” Bethesda Bethesda

Wi-Fi access will also be free for United MileagePlus customers. Technicians installed the first Starlink equipment onto an Embraer E175, a workhorse aircraft that runs regional routes. United estimates it will outfit 40 similar regional aircraft per month through the end of the year. The full installation and testing period grounds the aircraft for three to four days. The Starlink hardware’s smaller footprint is expected to increase fuel efficiency in each plane....

Better.com, an online mortgage lender, said Tuesday it’s making more cuts to its workforce just three months after the company’s CEO faced criticism for firing 900 employees over a Zoom call. Better, which has about 9,000 employees, plans to lay off about a third of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees, according to numbers provided toThe New York Times. “We must take the difficult step of streamlining our operations further and reducing our workforce in both the US and India in a substantial way,” Interim President Kevin Ryan said in aletter to employeesand posted to Better’s website Tuesday....

A new report finds that cybercriminals areduplicating real smartphone applicationsand inserting malware. It’s part of a growing industry of real apps that contain malicious code. In one example, the researcher reported finding hundreds of modified versions of the original Netflix app online. Olemedia / Getty Images The counterfeit apps had all been injected with malware, spyware, or adware. You should never download applications provided by people or organizations you don’t know, Downs said....

In June, Lizzo corrected the same word on her new album, Special, and issued an apology. Here’s what’s happening with Beyonce. What did Beyonce say and why is it offensive? In the song, the singer uses the words “spaz” and “spazzin.” The Cambridge Dictionaryexplainsthat the term is used as a way to call someone stupid. What happened with Lizzo? In June, Diviney tweeted at Lizzo after the singer used the word in her song GRRRLS....

However, it appears the pop queen’s project has leaked early. On Wednesday,Variety reportedeasily finding “high-quality flac files that certainly sound like the album.” The leak occurred about 36 hours before Beyonce’s scheduled album drop, according to the entertainment publication. “I’m calling all BeyHive. From now on we don’t tweet or discuss the leak! “wrote Beyonce fan account @theyoncehub. “We just need to be positive and wait for Beyonce’s planned release date....

Have you noticed the signs of AI creep? Just take one look atApple IntelligenceorGoogle Gemini. You may be wondering what this actually means for your next phone and the way you interact with it. Theapps themselvesdrift into the background, with AI once a nice-to-have novelty taking center stage. Thecompany visionis that “AI becomes the new UI,” its marketing director Ignacio Contreras tells me. “It becomes the user interface through which we can interact with our devices....

The US Department of Agriculture announced Friday it will grant more than $3 billion to seven rural electric cooperatives as part of theEmpowering Rural America program. Nearly $2.5 billion is headed to the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, anot-for-profit clean energy supplierthat generates power for 41 rural electric companies across the American West and Midwest. More than $1 billion is headed to the other six cooperatives, which include suppliers that service Minnesota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas....

The US Department of Transportationhas released $100 millionto repair thousands of brokenelectric vehiclechargers across the US. The government has its work cut out for it in improving confidence in EV charging and overcoming range anxiety. In August,a survey from J.D. Satisfaction with DC fast chargers sunk even further, declining 20 points to 654. Complaints included the speed and cost of charging, as well as long lines and broken chargers. Power’s EV division, said in a statement....

President Joe Biden and the Education Departmentapproved $3.9 billion in student loan forgivenesson Tuesday, primarily for former students of the ITT Technical Institute. The measure will fully and automatically cancel any remaining federal student loans that borrowers received to attend the for-profit college from January 2005 through September 2016, when the vocational school permanently closed all locations. US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona noted in a press release Tuesday that the former students should “stop shouldering the burden from ITT’s years of lies and false promises,” referring to the school’s predatory and misleading recruiting and enrollment practices....

Households on tribal lands can get a $75 per month subsidy. The FCC says that roughly 11.5 million households have signed up for the monthly subsidy. As an example, Verizon previously offered its 200 Mbps Fios service for $40. The administration will soon launch the GetInternet.gov website to allow people to sign up and find participating providers. It’s an issue that’sdogged policy makers for decades. The issue took on new urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of Americans were forced into lockdown....

President Joe Bidenhas once again extended the student loan forbearance, which now lasts through May 1, 2022. Paying off student loans can be a daunting task, especially if you’re just out of college. List your income, your debts and other responsibilities you have. There arebudget appsavailable on iOS and Android that can help with understanding your current financial status. This is known as the “snowball method.” The goal is to pay off accounts as quickly as possible....