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2 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson's account after comments about Elliot Page
A post by Jordan Peterson about transgender actor Elliot Page that broke Twitter's "against hateful conduct" guidelines reportedly resulted in his suspension from the social media
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4 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
6 Mistakes You Should Make in Life That Will Make You Stronger - Inspiration, Creativity, Wonder.
This may sound strange, but it’s good to make mistakes. In fact, there are certain mistakes you should make in life to become stronger.
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4 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
‘Mad God’ Becomes Most Streamed 2022 Shudder Film Premiere
Phil Tippett’s “Mad God” has become the most watched 2022 film premiere on Shudder, the speciality horror streaming platform has announced. The film, a stop-motion animated epic that Tippett spent 30 years working on, premiered on Shudder on June 16, after its release by IFC Midnight in New York on June 10. The Shudder premiere coincided with its expansion to an additional 24 screens across North America.
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9 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
Apple Takes 62% of Premium Market in Q1 2022
The global premium (US$400 and above wholesale ASP) smartphone market sales volume declined 8% YoY during the quarter, but it still performed better than the overall smartphone market, which declined by 10%, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service. This is the eighth consecutive quarter in which the premium market has outperformed overall smartphone market growth.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Petrox
Ingenuity Mars helicopter bags prestigious aviation award
The team behind NASA’s plucky Ingenuity helicopter has collected another award for the aircraft’s groundbreaking achievements on Mars. The helicopter hovered into the history books in April 2021 when it became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. In recognition of its success, the National Aeronautic Association presented NASA’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.,...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Petrox
Apple TV to Be Exclusive Home of Major League Soccer Starting in 2023
Apple today announced a partnership with Major League Soccer that will see every single MLS match streamed through the Apple TV app for the next 10 years, with the deal to kick off in 2023.
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3 weeks agoExpression Petrox
Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end
For much of the past two decades, the ethos of Silicon Valley was largely defined by Facebook's former motto: "move fast and break things." But in a sudden and dizzying shift, the current mood in the tech sector could perhaps best be described with a far more restrained mantra: "cut costs and try to survive."
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3 weeks agoAnalysis Petrox
Plant Protein Slashes Frailty Syndrome Risk in Older Women By 42 Percent, Study Finds
A higher intake of plant protein is associated with a reduced risk of frailty in women over 60, says a new study published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Petrox
Ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei who led firm's digital push, dies at 84
Sony Group Corp. said Tuesday that Nobuyuki Idei, its former chairman and CEO who led the Japanese giant's push into the digital network business, has died of liver failure. He was 84. In addition to enhancing Sony's presence in the digital and communications fields, he also focused on the entertainment business, such as movies, music and game consoles, laying the foundation for its current operations.
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1 month agoAnalysis Petrox
AI Improves Drug Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease
New AI machine learning method can be used for AD and a variety of diseases.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Traffic jams just a math problem, says Israeli AI firm
Israel’s traffic congestion ranks near the worst among developed economies, but an algorithm can help, says one of the country’s IT firms engaged in the auto and mobility sector. ITC, or Intelligent Traffic Control, was one of the artificial intelligence players at Tel Aviv’s recent EcoMotion showcase where high-tech and AI firms hope to make transport more efficient and cleaner.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
NASA posted a stunning video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in action
The record-breaking 25th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place on April 8, and a black-and-white navigation camera aboard the helicopter capture...
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Proud Boys leader Tarrio loses latest bid for release from jail
A judge has denied the latest request by Enrique Tarrio, the former top leader of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, for release from jail while he awaits trial on criminal charges relating to last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Humans could become a truly interplanetary species within 200 years, physicists claim
Our species faces a pivotal moment in human history. Either we develop the technology to safely harness the energy needed to escape our planet, or we kill ourselves in some great cataclysm, a stark new study claims. But, the new paper argues, if we can achieve the former and avoid the latter, then we might just become a truly interplanetary species in as little as 200 years.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Solar Panels Are Coming to Ikea
Starting this fall with its locations in California, the Swedish furniture giant Ikea will sell the means to power your Starkvind (that’s an air purifier) and Stjärnstatus (that’s a fridge) by adding solar panels to the company’s offerings. Thankfully, assembly will be handled by the professionals.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Boeing's Starliner capsule to land in New Mexico Wednesday
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will wrap up its landmark test flight to the International Space Station for NASA this week with a touchdown in New Mexico on Wednesday evening (May 25), if all goes according to plan. Starliner arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday (May 20), a day after launching on Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), an uncrewed shakeout mission designed to show that the capsule is ready to start carrying astronauts to and from the station for NASA.