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5 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Exclusive: Nvidia cuts China prices in Huawei chip fight
Nvidia's most advanced AI chip it developed for the China market has got off to a weak start, with abundant supply forcing it to be priced below a rival chip from Chinese tech giant Huawei, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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7 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Texas man is preparing to watch his 13th solar eclipse. He’s 105.
LaVerne Biser, 105, has traveled the world to take photos and witness total eclipses of the sun. He’s also made his own telescopes.
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8 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas test positive for bird flu
Federal officials say milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Prada to design Nasa's new moon suit
Art meets science as Prada designers help create the spacesuits for the 2025 moon mission.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Biden to block oil drilling in millions of acres of Alaska’s North Slope
Following the Willow decision, oil drilling would be banned in nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve, with oil leases cancelled in a wildlife refuge.
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1 year agoExpression roxxy
Why lasers could help make the electric grid greener
Thousands of renewable projects are waiting to connect to the grid, but there aren't enough transmission lines. Some tech companies have faster and cheaper solutions.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
'Android's now better than iOS': Instagram boss weighs in on the age-old iPhone vs. Android debate
Which is better: iPhone or Android? Instagram head Adam Mosseri weighed in on the topic earlier this week, reigniting a debate that has waged on since the dawn of smartphones. "Android's now better than iOS," Mosseri posted on Threads in response to tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, who had asked for people's best tech "hot takes."
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Norway's new phosphate deposits are so massive they could guarantee solar power and electric cars keep running for the next 50 years
Huge phosphate rock deposits discovered in Norway could satisfy global demand for fertilizers and electric vehicles for the next 50 years, the founder of the company set to mine them has said. Norge Mining, which reportedly found the massive site in southwestern Norway in 2018, announced in May that it had discovered 77 billion tons worth of the mineral, according to The Economist.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Joshua trees are dying. This new legislation hopes to tackle that
The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Reddit blackout: Subreddits to go private on Monday
More than 1,000 subreddits will be inaccessible for 48 hours to protest changes.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims
Could intelligent aliens be lurking at the heart of the Milky Way? A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for radio pulses from the center of our galaxy. Narrow-frequency pulses are naturally emitted by stars called pulsars, but they're also used deliberately by humans in technology such as radar.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Study reveals unique molecular machinery of woman who can’t feel pain
The biology underpinning a rare genetic mutation that allows its carrier to live virtually pain-free, heal more rapidly and experience reduced anxiety and fear, has been uncovered by new research from UCL.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try
The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.
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1 year agoCurrent Event roxxy
Racism and xenophobia partially explain Trump supporters' heightened acceptance of political violence, study finds
Supporters of former President Donald Trump are more likely to endorse political violence and have positive assessments of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, according to new findings published in American Politics Research. The study provides evidence that these individuals are also motivated by racial animus and anti-foreigner attitudes, which partially explain their heightened acceptance of political violence.