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1 year ago+19 19 06 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a troubling picture: Climate change is already impacting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are in store if we fail to halve greenhouse gas emissi ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0DALL-E 2: The world's seen nothing like it, but can AI spark a creative renaissance?
Think of anything. Seriously, anything. A turtle wearing a cowboy hat. Spider-Man blowing out birthday candles. Maybe a landscape painting of Algonquin Park, rendered in the style of Monet or Takashi Murakami.
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1 year ago+10 11 1Republicans in Congress lay groundwork for anti-transgender push
U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall.
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1 year ago+23 23 0James Webb Space Telescope team quietly releases a picture of Jupiter
On top of the first high-resolution science images that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has just released, there was also a picture of Jupiter hidden in a document about telescope testing
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1 year ago+24 24 0 x 1‘Severance’ Is the Year’s Best Series So Far Because It’s Not a Puzzle. It’s a Portrait.
Dan Erickson’s exhilarating Apple TV+ drama can be called a puzzle box series, but it’s the characters that matter most — and the message is already clear.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Westworld: how the most glorious show on TV became the biggest mess
American TV has a very weird and specific problem right now: every child exists on TV simply to reflect an adults’ trauma back at them, and nothing else. They droop around the house with a teddy bear asking weird, direct questions at bedtime about ho ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0 x 1Brett Goldstein Takes His ‘Ted Lasso’ Skills To ‘Shrinking’ Comedy With Harrison Ford At Apple TV+
Playing Roy Kent on Ted Lasso hasn’t just given Brett Goldstein the biggest success of his career, with an Emmy award and tons of acclaim to boot; the hot-tempered but bookish star-player-turned-coach role has given TV viewers one of the most indelib ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0June's strawberry moon will light up the sky this week
According to NASA, the moon will be full from Sunday moonrise to Wednesday moonset. It will peak at 7:52 a.m. ET on Tuesday, but will not be completely visible until moonrise in North America. The strawberry moon this year is the first of two supermo ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0 x 1Meta slammed with lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids
Facebook and Instagram's parent biz, Meta, was hit with not one, not two, but eight different lawsuits accusing its social media algorithm of causing real harm to young users across the US. The complaints filed over the last week claim Meta' ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Hubble telescope sees haunting galactic dance of 2 galaxies linked by the corpse of a cannibalized neighbor
Two galaxies are intertwined in a turbulent gravitational dance in a stunning new view from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pair includes the large spiral galaxy NGC 3227 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3226. The galaxies, collectively known as Arp 94, ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Elon Musk suggests cutting Twitter offer by proportion of bots and calls its lack of explanation 'very suspicious'
Elon Musk has added to uncertainty over his $44 billion offer for Twitter by saying the price should be cut by the proportion of fake accounts on the platform and calling Twitter's lack of explanation over its estimates "very suspicious.&qu ...
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2 years ago+29 29 0 x 1This super-smart tech could cut CPU thermals by 150%
Scientists may have found the answer to smaller and faster chips that could usher in the future of processors, and that answer might be using silicon-28 nanowires. Although the technology was initially dismissed as not very effective, further researc ...
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2 years ago+25 25 0 x 1Google and Samsung join forces to make it easier to sync fitness data between apps
Google and Samsung have partnered to create Health Connect, a platform and API (application programming interface) that gives developers a toolset to sync users’ health data between Android apps and devices. This should make it easier for users to ke ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Learning to think critically about machine learning
Students in the MIT course 6.036 (Introduction to Machine Learning) study the principles behind powerful models that help physicians diagnose disease or aid recruiters in screening job candidates. Now, thanks to the Social and Ethical Responsibilitie ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Biden Finally Grants Relief To People With Federal Marijuana And Drug Convictions After More Than A Year In Office
After more than a year in office, President Joe Biden on Tuesday granted clemency to dozens of people with non-violent federal drug convictions on their records. The president commuted the sentences of 75 individuals who were previously released to h ...
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2 years ago+24 24 0CRISPR Creator Says We Could Engineer Species to Fight Climate Change
One of the inventors of CRISPR gene editing, a groundbreaking new method to engineer genetic code, believes we could use the same techniques to tackle some of the biggest issues facing humanity right now, including climate change.
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2 years ago+16 16 0U.S. forgives 40,000 student loans, provides aid to 3.6 million more
Student loan debt is seen as a drag on the economy, burdening young professionals for years after graduation, while the wide availability of loans has contributed to rising tuition.
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2 years ago+17 17 0The Obamas to end deal with Spotify
Former President Barack and Michelle Obama are leaving Spotify. The couple’s production company, Higher Ground, is ending its deal with the streaming service, according to Variety. Higher Ground’s exclusive deal with Spotify expires in October. The O ...
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2 years ago+24 24 0 x 1Scientists Have Developed Liquid Solar Energy System That Can Store Electricity For 18 Years
The specially designed molecule system makes use of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. When the solution comes in contact with the sunlight, the atoms inside it rearrange and change the shape, turning the molecule to turn into an energy-rich isomer. Thi ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Gamma-ray telescopes may help scientists catch more gravitational waves
Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when massive objects such as black holes collide, ...