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11 months ago+30 30 0 x 1YouTube algorithm sends gun videos to kids as young as 9, study finds
YouTube says it works hard to protect children, but the researchers say the material could traumatize vulnerable kids or send them down dark roads of radicalization and extremism.
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11 months ago+37 37 0 x 1Google to delete accounts inactive for two years in security push
Google, which hosts billions of user accounts, said on Tuesday that it plans to delete accounts that have remained inactive for two years.
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11 months ago+26 26 0Arnold Schwarzenegger criticises Terminator sequels: ‘They weren’t well written’
‘The franchise is not done. I’m done,’ said the actor
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11 months ago+22 22 0Generative AI is stealing the valor of human intelligence
With this week's Google I/O 2023 event, we got an extensive preview of how AI tools will transform our day-to-day lives in ways one could have predicted just a few years ago. And even those who did see it coming would never have guessed it would ...
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11 months ago+23 23 0Eat more beans. Please.
What kind of protein we eat has huge implications for our health — and well beyond. Besides the health, ethical, or religious reasons why people choose to stop eating meat, the way animals are raised to be food has enormous impacts on land use, defor ...
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11 months ago+18 18 0Yet Another Problem With Recycling: It Spews Microplastics
Recycling was already a mess. Now a study finds that one facility may emit 3 million pounds of microplastics a year.
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12 months ago+20 20 0Russia alleges Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin in a Putin assassination attempt
Russia said Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin with drones in an alleged attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine denies it, accusing Moscow of using this to justify a war escalation.
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12 months ago+31 31 0 x 1AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
30-second spot set to "All Star" may inspire awe—or nightmares.
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12 months ago+17 17 0Why does the Steam Deck run Linux? Blame Windows
The Steam Deck and its Linux-based software are the culmination of a decade-long "hedging strategy" by Valve after the Windows 8 disaster.
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1 year ago+26 26 0Jerry Springer, legendary talk show host, dead at 79
Jerry Springer, legendary talk show host and former mayor of Cincinnati , has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 79.
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1 year ago+25 25 0Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla get far more government money than NPR
This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets that shade into propaganda. Late ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0California’s ‘big melt’ has begun and could bring perilous flooding with it
Spring has offered California a welcome reprieve from the record rains and historic snowfall that hammered the state in recent weeks, but a new danger wrought by the warming weather looms large. The state’s enormous snowpack will soon begin to melt – ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0No asteroid impacts needed: Newborn Earth made its own water, study suggests
'We learned something new about our own planet by looking at a large dataset of exoplanets.'
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1 year ago+20 20 0EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history
The robbery was quick, quiet, and clean, and netted more than 2.2 trillion ISK—that's $22,300 in real money.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Over-consumption in the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally, new report says
The majority of wealthy countries are creating unhealthy, dangerous and noxious conditions for children across the world, according to the latest Report Card published today by UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti.
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1 year ago+18 18 0After New Zealand, Australia bans TikTok on official devices
Australia banned TikTok on official devices today and joined a long list of western countries including the US and the UK to make such move.
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1 year ago+14 14 0A knife so sharp you don't feel it cut
There’s an ongoing and heated debate about whether generative AI — like the technology that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT — is either an overblown parlor trick or an existential threat to humanity that’s already raging out of control. The truth is, of cour ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0OpenAI CEO: It's Not Funny That I'm Afraid of the AI We're Creating
The CEO of OpenAI has admitted repeatedly that he's scared of the tech his company is cooking up — but he doesn't think you should make fun of him for it. "I think it's weird when people think it's like a big dunk that I say, ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0NY officials detect polio again, warn of possible summer wave
With new detection, officials warn of spring and summer transmission risks.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Is It Time for the MicroSD Card to Return to Phones?
For a good chunk of the 13 years that we’ve been chatting about Android and smartphones around here, we talked about the microSD card, the best versions of them, and where you could find them at the lowest prices. MicroSD cards were a big, big deal f ...