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Geekz Snow 2019-08-09

Following battery issues and a single-alarm fire caused by improperly disposed of batteries in Washington, D.C., Skip has been given the green light to resume operations in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas of Alexandria and Arlington.

The plan is to redeploy the scooters in the coming weeks.

In June, a battery on one of Skip’s scooters caught fire in D.C., prompting the company to ground its scooters in both D.C. and San Francisco.

The scooter in question was found with its external battery on fire, which caused “minor damage” to a wall nearby.

In light of that incident, Skip identified other potential at-risk batteries and quarantined them in its warehouse.

“In DC, they weren’t disposed of properly, which helped create the right conditions for a single-alarm fire,” Skip wrote in a blog post.

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W Hotels, specifically the W Hotel in Washington, DC, has introduced a new room service option that’ll appeal to YouTubers: the Sip & Slurp menu for filming mukbang videos.

The new menu is pricey and only available for a limited time, offering customers more than just food — they also get a lapel microphone and cell phone stand for recording the content.

Mukbangs are a video trend that originated out of South Korea; they’re typically live-streamed and simply involve a vlogger eating a large meal while chatting with their audience.

The video genre exploded in popularity, making its way to a number of YouTube channels from both new and established streamers.

W Hotels, the trendy hotel property owned by Marriott, is capitalizing on the trend by offering a new limited-time menu option called Sip & Slurp that costs $285 USD, according to The Verge.

For that price, customers get a large food loadout that includes a cherry pie, half-pound hamburger, double-patty burger, lobster tail, filet mignon, and more.

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Geekz Snow 2019-08-08

Mukbang, the South Korean phenomenon in which vloggers stream themselves eating large quantities of food, has now made its way to the W Hotel in Washington, DC.

The DC location of the hotel chain is introducing its Sip & Slurp menu, an extravagant $285 room service package that comes with a lavalier lapel mic and a cell phone stand so guests can film their very own mukbangs.

The Sip & Slurp menu is available until the end of 2019, and it’s limited to the W Washington DC for now, though more locations may join later.

The whole menu is a publicity campaign to celebrate the hotel’s new $50 million renovation, but it’s honestly kind of a clever way to attract guests through internet trends.

Hotels are often at odds with influencers looking to trade stays for Instagram posts, but if the mukbang menu is any indication, it means some will still happily work with influencers for exposure.

W Hotels kicked off its new mukbang menu with help from Queer Eye’s food expert, Antoni Porowski.

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Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
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If you don't trust Equifax, the company is willing to bet you will soon.

At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, Jamil Farschi, Equifax's chief information security officer described how a company could regain the public's trust on Thursday -- just 17 days after the company reached the largest settlement for a data breach.

The credit-monitoring company agreed to pay at least $650 million in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 48 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.

In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history with hackers stealing sensitive data on as many as 147.7 million Americans.

Two former Equifax executives have been charged with insider trading and its former chief information officer was sentenced to four months in prison in June.

Equifax's former CEO Rick Smith blamed the hack on a single employee who failed to patch the company's servers for a vulnerability the company had been warned about four months prior to the breach.

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Geekz Snow 2019-08-08

Huawei will be officially banned from the United States from August 13, 2019, reveals the US government.

Several months after the Trump decree, Washington formalized the rules against the Chinese manufacturer.

Despite the easing announced at the G20, the manufacturer will no longer be allowed to enter into contracts with US public markets.

The government ensures that exemptions can be granted.

Yesterday, August 7, 2019, the US government officially unveiled the measures that will regulate the trade between the Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company and Dahua Technology Company, and the US federal agencies.

These measures, already mentioned in Donald Trump’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), will, therefore, come into effect.

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Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
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If you don't trust Equifax, the company is willing to bet you will soon.

At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, Jamil Farschi, Equifax's chief information security officer described how a company could regain the public's trust on Thursday -- just 17 days after the company reached the largest settlement for a data breach.

The credit-monitoring company agreed to pay at least $650 million in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 48 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.

In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history with hackers stealing sensitive data on as many as 147.7 million Americans.

Two former Equifax executives have been charged with insider trading and its former chief information officer was sentenced to four months in prison in June.

Equifax's former CEO Rick Smith blamed the hack on a single employee who failed to patch the company's servers for a vulnerability the company had been warned about four months prior to the breach.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-08

Huawei will be officially banned from the United States from August 13, 2019, reveals the US government.

Several months after the Trump decree, Washington formalized the rules against the Chinese manufacturer.

Despite the easing announced at the G20, the manufacturer will no longer be allowed to enter into contracts with US public markets.

The government ensures that exemptions can be granted.

Yesterday, August 7, 2019, the US government officially unveiled the measures that will regulate the trade between the Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company and Dahua Technology Company, and the US federal agencies.

These measures, already mentioned in Donald Trump’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), will, therefore, come into effect.

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