| OCTOBER 21, 2020
Everything worth knowing in tech today, October 21, 2020. Forget PSLs and get your dessert on with National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day!  ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to): 412 articles, 13 podcasts, 11 press releases, 613 tweets, and 11 YouTube videos 1. US Sues Google Over Search Monopoly Let's face it; no one says "Bing it" when looking to find information on the internet. Google just got hit with a US antitrust suit over its Search practices. Microsoft may recall a similar suit over its browser back in 1998 with a bit of schadenfreude. 2. More Retailers Look to Special Sale Events Prime Day was a huge success, and Black Friday is already on the horizon. What better way to keep us spending our money than even more special sales events? Walmart, Target, and Best Buy have all jumped the gun with sales. 3. LinkedIn Adds Instagram-like Stories We're not sure a business-focused networking site has enough street cred to make this happen, but LinkedIn has added a new Stories feature, aping apps like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. How do you do, fellow kids? 🦑 Go Deeper A superconducting material that can work at room temperature has been discovered by scientists. We won't see hoverboards any time soon, though, reports Sascha Brodsky in this deeper look. 🎱 By the Numbers Makin' money on LinkedIn  Data: Foundation Inc We can see why advertisers love LinkedIn: it's full of people who make more than $75K per year, with all the purchasing power that implies. Still, why do we want yet another Stories feature in our online resume service? 🤓 Nerd Out "Matching blocks for science!" -Alice Newcome-Beill, Associate Commerce Editor Drop into a mini-game in first-person shooter video game Borderlands 3 and you could be helping real scientists studying the human gut biome. (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Walkie talkies for grown-ups  Image: Lifewire/Rob LeFebvre It can be tricky using your phone for quick, easy communication, what with opening an app, finding a contact, and the like. These Relay+ devices, then, offer instant push-to-talk functions that operate on LTE, so you're never too far apart. Get a few, get a ton (for your company) and just... talk. 🚀 Facing the Future Hang on, let me answer my wrist. Fitness tracker tattoos, anyone? We'll all likely be printing our tech right on our skin in the near future, if these researchers who found a way do it without heat are successful. 🗞 Extra! Extra! We've got you covered with the best in daily tech news! See the latest on our site or follow us on Google News. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Have something you'd like us to write about? We're always open for suggestions.
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