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4 days ago+11 11 0Commented in U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says
Global warming. AI. Microplastics. Pandemics. Pollution. War. Inflation. Censorship. Politics.
When everything is an existential threat, fatigue sets in and absolutely nothing gets accomplished.
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3 weeks ago+12 12 0Commented in Tuned In: Amazon Said To Be Paying Record $120M To Stream NFL Playoff Game
I don't watch a lot of sports ball, but I imagine a lot of people who do are not going to be happy about this long term. Sure, you can get a trial subscription and then cancel, but you only get one trial per credit card/ address.
It's enshittification in the name of profits, because the NFL just doesn't make enough money.
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1 month ago+14 14 0Commented in 3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really
"Downloading smarttoothbrushupdate3.21totallynotavirus.exe"
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1 month ago+13 13 0Commented in 3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really
TIL smart toothbrushes are a thing.
Why?
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2 months ago+17 17 0Commented in The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
Once Chrome blocks ad blockers, Firefox numbers are going up.
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4 years ago+16 16 0Don Imus, Legendary 'Imus in the Morning' Host, Dies at 79
The controversial radio personality passed away on Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas.
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5 years ago+13 14 1Former President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94
The patriarch of a political dynasty, Bush was the last World War II vet to serve in the Oval Office. His son George W. called him "one of the greatest one-term presidents in the nation's history."
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5 years ago+5 5 0Burt Reynolds has died at 82
Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century ago, died Thursday, according to his agent Todd Eisner.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Here Is One Very Expensive Way to Fight ISIS
The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting 500-pound bombs against a group of 70 ragtag fighters.
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5 years ago+16 16 0Astronomers discover a nearby free-range planet with incredible magne
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world h
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5 years ago+12 12 0Two stars will merge in 2022 and explode into red fury
Get ready for a big nova event.
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5 years ago+15 15 0Hubble Finds an Einstein Ring
These graceful arcs are a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring - created as the light from distant galaxies warps around an extremely large mass, like a galaxy cluster.
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5 years ago+18 18 0Yale Space Scientists Seeking 100 Earth Analogues
Specifically, 100 planets like Earth: worlds of similar size, with a rocky surface, in the habitable zone, probably holding water, and orbiting a star like our Sun.
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5 years ago+12 12 0Hubble Makes 1st Precise Distance Measurement to Globular Star Cluster
Astronomers for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the big bang.
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6 years agoCurrent Event+3 3 0NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
Scientists used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the "fingerprints" of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away.
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6 years ago+15 15 0List: Nihilistic Password Security Questions
What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...
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6 years ago+12 12 0The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
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6 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Drug maker hikes price of 2-in-1 painkiller >2,000%—$36 drugs now $3,000
The combination is naproxen (in Aleve) and stomach drug esomeprazole (in Nexium).
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6 years ago+20 20 0USAF takes delivery of the GBU-57A/B Penetrator - now there's nowhere to hide
The GBU-57A/B is a GPS-guided 30,000 lb bomb designed to take out hardened underground targets. It can penetrate 200 feet of hardened concrete before its 5,300 pound warhead explodes.
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6 years ago+19 19 0New antibiotic family discovered in dirt
The compounds are called malacidins and can kill several stubborn infections, including superbug MRSA.