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Think you're obsessed with Amazon Prime? People living in Iqaluit, Canada actually depend on it.

Canada's CBC News reports that people in Iqaluit, which is the capital of the extremely remote Nunavut territory, say that Amazon Prime's goods and food staples are far more affordable than what they can buy anywhere else.
Iqaluit is on an island, accessible by daily jets from Montreal and Ottawa, both roughly 1,200 miles away. Travel by boat is tenuous because of sea ice, and many residents use snowmobiles to get around.

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Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire, has fired back against one of its loudest critics and defended its vaginal jade eggs. “I’m absolutely flabbergasted that they chose me as the center of their ire,” Jen Gunter told BuzzFeed News.

Medical experts have long slammed Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-commerce wellness empire, for endorsing non-scientific and potentially dangerous products — from sex dust to silver nanoparticles — and pseudoscience personalities.

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There's a baby boy on a stretcher in a children's hospital emergency room. His mother is standing nearby, begging the doctors to do something, as her baby lies there. He is drooling and shaking; his diaper is soaked; he is making a disturbing snoring noise. An EMT comes in and says, "Doctor, this is a one-year-old male found by the mother at home, having a seizure. The seizure's been lasting about seven minutes. Blood glucose on scene was 90." The EMT leaves.

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When Upeka Bee applied to the startup Gusto this spring, she had recently turned 33, and was thinking about freezing her eggs. The engineer didn't feel ready to have children yet, so she was prepared to shell out at least $15,000 of her own savings for the procedure.

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This past Tuesday evening, as the White House wound down after another tumultuous day, Counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway was looking at Corgis on the internet.

Just after 8:30 P.M., Conway followed two corgi-related novelty Twitter accounts in rapid succession. First, it was TheCutestCorgis (bio: "Because who doesn't love corgis?!?!") followed by OhMyCorgi, a powerhouse cute pet account with over 685,000 followers.

Normally this sort of peculiar detail might go unnoticed by even the most watchful of social media eyes. But thanks to a new Twitter bot now you, too, can keep tabs on the social media nuances of the Trump family and certain members of the White House as well.

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The latest software update patches a security vulnerability that would allow an attacker to hack your phone using the device’s Wi-Fi chip.
Apple released a new iOS update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on July 19 – and if you haven't yet, you should download and install it now.



There's a serious vulnerability related to the devices' Wi-Fi chip, and the new update, iOS 10.3.3, offers a patch for this specific attack.




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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during the annual Google I/O developers conference on May 17, 2017
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Several major advertisers revolted against YouTube in March, saying they would pause or even cancel their YouTube advertising because the company was placing ads on obscene or hateful videos whose content was decidedly brand-unfriendly. But all those pulled ads appear to have had little effect on the revenue of YouTube's parent company, Alphabet.

The company said today that its second-quarter revenue, which is largely made up of ads placed on Google, YouTube, and all over the internet, was $26 billion. That's up 21% from the second quarter of last year and above what analysts had expected for the year.

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If you’re a fan of Twitter and also like being depressed, take a look at yesterday’s headlines. The Twitter world seemed so much better back then, as the past often does for the struggling company. “Twitter Inc (TWTR) Stock Is Finally Worth a Bullish Bet,” Investorplace declared. “Why Twitter’s Next Earnings Report Might Not Be as Bad as You Think,’ Fortune dreamed.

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At an all-hands meeting Tuesday morning, Uber addressed rumors that the company’s former CEO Travis Kalanick is plotting a return to power.

The ride-hail giant's general counsel Salle Yoo told employees that while the company is appreciative of Kalanick's role in building Uber, the search for a new CEO isn't focused on the past.

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Apple is planning to release a cellular version of its Apple Watch smartwatch later this year, according to a report on Friday from Bloomberg.

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