Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ā€˜the child is the customerā€™

A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects. The highlight will be the creation of a network for nonprofit preschools that are to be built in low-income communities and accept students at no charge.

Bezos also intends to fund existing nonprofits that help homeless families by providing access to housing and food. Both initiatives will be overseen by something heā€™s calling the Bezos Day One Fund, which heā€™s committing $2 billion toward.

Each of the initiatives will have a specific group behind it: the Day 1 Families Fund and the Day 1 Academies Fund. The Families Fund will issue grants on a yearly basis to organizations doing ā€œneedle-moving work.ā€ The Academies Fund will…

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US carriers introduce Project Verify to replace individual app passwords

Four major US carriers ā€” AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon ā€” are joining forces to launch a single sign-on service for smartphones. The service, called Project Verify, authenticates app logins so that users donā€™t need to memorize passwords for all their apps. The companies say their solution verifies users through their phone number, phone account type, SIM card details, IP address, and account tenure. Essentially, your phone serves as the verification method with details that are hard to spoof.

Users have to manually grant apps permission to use Verify, and it works similarly to how you might log into some services through Gmail or Facebook instead of using a unique account password. Of course, these apps also have to choose to work…

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The first teaser for Netflixā€™s Sabrina asks, ā€˜What if Riverdale, but also Satan?ā€™

On October 26th, Netflix will release the first season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, its Teen Vogue-meets-The Craft spin on the Archie Comics teenage witch, and now we have the first teaser. In case you were unclear about what ā€œdark coming-of-age storyā€ meant when Netflix first announced the series, the minute-long clip is here to assure you that, yes, this show will be gunning for a Satanic Panic revival to call its own.

The series, which stars Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) as the titular orphaned daughter of a warlock and a human, begins with Sabrina Spellmanā€™s 16th birthday on the horizon, a milestone for witch-kind in which, like a demonic bat mitzvah, every witch or warlock must participate in a ritual that includes signing your…

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