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2 days ago+17 17 03-D video brings life-like perspective to Delphi murder scene
The new CrimeDoor app created an augmented reality video of the moments before Libby German and Abby Williams were killed.
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8 days ago+18 18 0The wearable cyborgs that use brain waves to power up your muscles
Kristen Sorensen was 55 when she became paralyzed from the neck down last year. "It came out of nowhere," says Sorensen. "I'd been fine and exercising every day, but it just started with tingling in my fingertips then progressed.& ...
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11 days ago+20 20 0Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
Lying drunk in a field outside the Austrian city of Innsbruck in 1971, inspiration struck Douglas Adams, a science-fiction writer. He looked at his copy of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe”, and then up at the stars, and came up with the idea for a ...
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2 weeks ago+19 19 0Why Facebook Is Bad, Twitter Might Be a Little Bit Good, and Social Media Is Rotting Our Brains
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media. Too few of us listened. Now, in the most chaotic of moments, his fears—and his bighearted solutions—are more urgent than ever.
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3 weeks ago+24 24 0It's time for big tech companies to stand up to China
On Dec. 18, prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department charged a China-based Zoom executive with conspiring to terminate Zoom meetings this year that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at the Chinese government’s behest. The 47-page co ...
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1 month ago+18 18 0M1 Mac with ultrawide monitors – Apple will fix resolution issue
Apple has acknowledged problems experienced when using an M1 Mac with ultrawide or super-ultrawide external monitors. M1 Macs don’t seem to recognize the native resolution of these monitors… Macworld spotted an extremely brief support document.
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1 month ago+9 9 0Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation store
Sony has pulled Cyberpunk 2077, one of the year's most-anticipated games, from its store and offered refunds to all players. The unprecedented move follows complaints that the game has been riddled with bugs and glitches, and is prone to crashes ...
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1 month ago+19 19 0Roald Dahl’s Family Apologizes for His Anti-Semitism
The family of Roald Dahl has apologized for “the lasting and understanding hurt” caused by anti-Semitic comments the author made during his lifetime. Mr. Dahl, the writer of classic children’s books such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Th ...
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1 month ago+16 16 0Arecibo radio telescope finally collapses following cable failures
The legendary Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico was destroyed this morning. Shortly before 8 a.m. local time, Arecibo’s 900-ton receiving platform collapsed, crashing down onto its 1000-foot-wide (305 meter) dish below.
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1 month ago+14 14 0Astonishing story of teenage boy who killed a Nazi, escaped the Holocaust and led secret life in UK revealed by his son
When British man John Carr learned that his father was not a Polish Catholic who had settled in Britain after the war but was in fact a Jew who had escaped from the Łódź ghetto when he was just 13 years old, he had no idea that the shocking revelatio ...
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1 month ago+25 25 0Uri Geller Says Nintendo Can Print Kadabra On Pokémon Cards Again
Spoon-bending magician Uri Geller gave Nintendo permission to use the character Kadabra on Pokémon cards today, after a 20 year legal dispute in which Geller claimed the Pokémon’s Japanese name and image were too close to his own.
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1 month ago+25 25 0 x 1'Jeopardy!' Shares Alex Trebek's Posthumous Thanksgiving Message
In his pre-recorded message, Trebek encouraged everyone to "keep the faith" as they celebrate amid the novel coronavirus pandemic: "We’re going to get through all of this, and we will be a better society because of it."
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1 month ago+23 23 0Millions of people are flying across the US for Thanksgiving, ignoring CDC advice
Millions of people flew across the US over the weekend weekend in advance of Thanksgiving, defying advice from the US Centers for Disease Control for people to stay home for the holiday to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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2 months ago+20 20 0Everyone in UK ‘could be vaccinated by April’, reports say
Everyone in the UK ‘could be vaccinated by April’ according to leaked documents. Leaked NHS documents, seen by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), suggest that mass vaccination could begin before the end of January if supplies can be secured. Under the ...
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2 months ago+24 24 0‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program
‘Project Wide Awake’ files obtained by The Tyee show efforts to secretly buy and use powerful surveillance tools while downplaying capabilities.
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2 months ago+13 13 0ESPN to Cut 500 Positions to Free Up Money for New TV Ventures
ESPN’s chief said the Disney sports-media division would eliminate 500 positions – 300 employees and 200 posts that are currently unfilled – in a bid to free up resources for streaming, digital and other kinds of video experiences designed for the ne ...
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2 months ago+23 23 0 x 1Nissan Actively Discourages Battery Replacement on the Leaf, Upset Owner Claims
Being one of the early makers of all-electric vehicles, Nissan has had a fair share of issues with the Leaf, mostly regarding battery performance, battery degradation and battery replacement. It’s still struggling on that last count, according to one ...
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2 months ago+12 12 0The 60 Minutes interview that President Trump cut short
In an interview that's made headlines this week, Lesley Stahl presses President Trump on once-again rising coronavirus cases and what his priorities would be if re-elected. Stahl also speaks with Mr. Trump's running mate, Vice President Mik ...
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2 months ago+18 18 0Bitcoin Is the Technology of Dissent That Secures Individual Liberties
The U.K. hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. extradition on the week of February 24, 2020, presented a test of Western liberal democracy. The indictment of Assange under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents which expos ...
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3 months ago+16 16 0The great unravelling: 'I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse' | Joelle Gergis
If you’ve ever been around someone who is dying, it may have struck you how strong a person’s lifeforce really is. When my dad was gravely ill, an invisible point of no return was gradually crossed, then suddenly death was in plain sight. We stood ba ...