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Warren Buffett has made $100 billion on his investment in Apple
The iPhone maker now makes up 40% of Buffett's $280 billion investment portfolio.
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5 days agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Why Is Facebook Launching An All-Out War On Apple's Upcoming iPhone Update?
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's Tim Cook are fighting over iPhone privacy rules. At stake is the future of how iPhone user data is used by data brokers and advertisers.
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Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?
The fossil fuel industry’s disinformation machine turned on before the lights even went out. As a massive winter storm rolled towards Texas, it was accompanied by a barrage of lies about how renewable energy — and “frozen wind turbines” in particular — was to blame for potential blackouts.
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2 weeks agoExpression 66bnats
Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country
Across US public lands thousands of people are taking to van life, as featured in the Oscar-tipped film Nomadland
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Stanley Kubrick’s Unmade Film Noir ‘Lunatic at Large’ Revived, Filming Starts Fall 2021
"Lunatic at Large" is one of three Kubrick screenplays discovered after the director's 1999 death.
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1 month agoAnalysis 66bnats
Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers
X-rays of 300 skeletons from a city's graveyards show the "bone-crushing" work of labourers.
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1 month agoExpression 66bnats
The Epic Hunt for One of the World’s Most Wanted Men
He was one of Africa’s richest moguls and helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Then Félicien Kabuga vanished and stayed hidden for more than two decades—until recently, when the United Nations’ war crimes detectives picked up his trail and began to close in.
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1 month agoExpression 66bnats
Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here
Zune eternal.
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1 month agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion WV GOP Lawmaker Resigns After Arrest for Capitol Siege
You may have heard that Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican delegate from West Virginia, has resigned after getting arrested and charged with federal crimes for his role in the Capitol siege. The moron incriminated himself when he was seen shouting “Move! Move!” as well as “We’re in, we’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”… on the footage he was taking.
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2 months agoAnalysis 66bnats
TV Ratings: First Streaming-Only NFL Game Scores Solid Numbers for Amazon
The first ever NFL game to be shown exclusively on streaming platforms scored solid numbers, showing encouraging signs for future streaming-only games.
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2 months agoAnalysis 66bnats
Kindness is Scientifically Proven to Make You Happier
How to make someone’s day and make your own life better.
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2 months agoAnalysis 66bnats
How Pepper Plants Pick the Perfect Path for Putting Down Roots
Two plants in the same pot must find a way to share the water and nutrients in the soil
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth
Centuries of discrimination and exploitation have left Black Americans much poorer than white Americans. The median white household has a net worth 10 times that of the median Black household. If Black households held a share of the national wealth in proportion to their share of the U.S. population, it would amount to $12.68 trillion in household wealth, rather than the actual sum of $2.54 trillion. The total racial wealth gap, therefore, is $10.14 trillion.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Climate Change Could Wipe Out the Marshall Islands
Along U.S. coastlines, from California to Florida, residents are getting increasingly accustomed to “king tides.” These extra-high tides cause flooding and wreak havoc on affected communities. As climate change raises sea levels, they are becoming more extreme.
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2 months agoExpression 66bnats
How Nick Kroll Became the Picasso of Puberty
His show “Big Mouth” is a seriously funny — and surprisingly mature — exploration of humanity’s most horrifying shared experience.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Tom Cruise 'planning to shoot scenes for Mission Impossible film in space'
The Hollywood star hopes to make history as the first actor to film scenes in space for the forthcoming eighth Mission Impossible film – which is currently filming in Europe