Post Overview
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9 months ago+23 23 0Jon Stewart back at ‘The Daily Show’ is exactly what America needs in 2024
Aside from humor, the comedian offers something we need now more than ever: compassion and humanity
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Expression
10 months ago+28 28 0Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?
Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places
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Expression
11 months ago+52 52 02023 was the year that GPUs stood still
A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.
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1 year ago+46 46 0Five former Ubisoft execs arrested following sexual harassment investigation
French police have arrested five former Ubisoft executives after an investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the company. Among those taken into custody was former Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoët.
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1 year ago+51 51 0X's privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models
X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job and education history, Bloomberg spotted
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1 year ago+39 39 0What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
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Analysis
1 year ago+32 32 0Nuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study says
Scientists previously believed Chernobyl was the main cause of radioactivity in Europe's wild boars.
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1 year ago+23 23 0Vanna White wants Pat Sajak’s pay to stay on ‘Wheel of Fortune’: report
A source has refuted a previous rumor claiming White would seek just “50%” of the legendary “Wheel of Fortune” host’s salary amid Ryan Seacrest’s takeover.
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1 year ago+32 32 0Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard wins second consecutive Tour de France
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard wins second consecutive Tour de France with Jordi Meeus winning the final stage.
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1 year ago+22 22 0The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
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1 year ago+29 29 0Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
Google says doctors prefer its answers, even if they’re less accurate.
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Expression
1 year ago+30 30 0The AI Revolution and The New Roaring '20s
In 2023, predictions about artificial intelligence (A.I.) have spanned from utopian dreams to apocalyptic nightmares, and attempts to identify comparable moments in history range from the development of the atomic bomb to the ancient discovery of how ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Michael Cieply: Will A Long Writers Strike Sideline Hollywood In The Culture Wars?
One month into the writers strike, there’s little for a bystander to add about the issues, prospects or relative staying power of the opponents. Deadline’s reporters and contributors have done an admirable job on that score. But having intensively co ...
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Analysis
1 year ago+33 33 0To fight climate change, we've got to quit making so much plastic
A 75 percent reduction is needed to limit warming to 1.5 C, new report says.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland to Japan — has been detected by researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. No ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Teammates for life: Canadian women's hockey players Poulin, Stacey announce engagement
Olympic gold medallists. World champions. Engaged. Canadian women's hockey teammates Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey announced their engagement in an Instagram post on Friday. "So... This happened," wrote Poulin, alongside picture ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0Dubai launches first self-driving electric abra
Dubai's first autonomous electric wooden abra has hit the waters to support efforts to cut carbon emissions and boost the emirate's self-driving transport goals. The revamped vessel has embarked on its first journey from Al Jadaf Station to ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Despairing about climate change? These four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar may change your mind
Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined. Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Officially Smashes $1 Billion Globally
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
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1 year ago+33 33 0 x 1Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
A new report from The Information today goes in-depth on the apparent chaos inside teams at Apple working on Siri and artificial intelligence. According to the story, “organizational dysfunction and a lack of ambition” have plagued Apple’s efforts to ...