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Neuroimaging study reveals anxious dogs have different brains to normal dogs
Dog ownership is a lot of furry companionship, tail wags and chasing balls, and ample unconditional love. However, some dog owners are also managing canine pals struggling with mental illness.
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2 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Swarm isn’t a love letter to Black women. It’s hate mail.
In 2013, when I was a freshman at Howard University, one of my friends was borderline obsessed with Childish Gambino’s music. Before that, I hadn’t heard much about Gambino — or his alter ego, then-comedian Donald Glover — but I was surprised when, in the midst of a conversation praising his artistry, my friend, who is also a Black woman, flatly said that the rapper didn’t like Black women, something she said was evident not only in his dating choices (at the time, the rumor was that h...
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3 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network
If humanity is going to have a long-term presence on the Moon, it's going to need reliable communications — and Lockheed Martin thinks it can provide that link. The company has created a spinoff devoted to lunar infrastructure, Crescent Space, whose first project is a Moon-to-Earth satellite network. Parsec, as it's called, uses a constellation of small lunar satellites to provide a non-stop connection between astronauts, their equipment and the people back home. The system will also...
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4 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Some laid-off staff at Google's Irish office could be given severance packages worth $320,000, report says
Google staffers in Ireland made redundant as part of the company's 12,000 global cuts could be offered severance packages worth more than €300,000 ($320,000), British newspaper the Sunday Times reported this week. The tech giant announced plans to lay off over 12,000 workers globally in January, in a major cost-cutting drive. Some 240 workers at its Irish offices were affected including 85 in sales, 80 in technology, and 75 in support services, according to the Sunday Times.
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7 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Microsoft and Nintendo Sign 10-Year Contract for Call of Duty
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has now confirmed the company’s 10-year commitment to release Call of Duty on Nintendo devices “the same day as Xbox, with complete feature and content parity.” According to Smith’s tweet announcing the partnership, “[Microsoft’s] commitment to deliver Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more people on more platforms” is a result of this new agreement.
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7 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government
The agenda for the Ottawa County governing board’s most recent meeting here last week listed, among other issues, a roof repair and resurfacing contract, a budget calendar that needed setting and, from IT, a request to hire one more employee.
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9 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Chris Tucker Says He’s ‘Definitely’ in for ‘Rush Hour 4’: ‘I Love Working With Jackie Chan’
Jackie Chan announced at the Red Sea International Film Festival last December that “Rush Hour 4” is officially in development. “We’re talking about ‘Rush Hour 4’ right now,” the acting icon said, adding that he would be meeting with the film’s director later that night to work on the script. No official “Rush Hour 4” details exist outside of Chan’s tease, but consider his co-star Chris Tucker more than eager to return to the franchise.
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12 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Surprising newfound ocean bacteria could aid search for alien life
In the deep waters of Earth's oceans, scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria flourishing in the plumes from submarine hot springs. Such hot springs likely also exist on oceanic worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa and the Saturn satellite Enceladus, so these observations sharpen our understanding of the forms alien life might take on those moons, astronomers say.
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13 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island
The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking alarm.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Is your city an ‘allergy capital’? Here’s where pollen was the worst last year.
Allergy sufferers know how this goes: Spring starts calling, and pollen begins falling.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
America's immigration system is a nightmare, and it's forcing tech companies to move jobs outside of the country
As issues with labor shortages continue, remote work makes it easier for US tech firms to hire anywhere. These companies are relocating more jobs overseas to avoid American's broken immigration system.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Warner Bros. Discovery Worried That ‘HBO’ Name Turns Off New Subscribers
Warner Bros. Discovery is pushing forward with a plan to drop “HBO” from the name of its flagship streaming service HBO Max. That decision for the long-planned rebranding of the combined HBO Max and Discovery+ services was partially informed by the company’s belief that “the HBO name turns off many potential subscribers,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday and TheWrap independently confirmed.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
The Netherlands says it will join the US in restricting chipmaking-tool exports to China
At the end of January, it was reported that the US had completed two years of negotiations with the Netherlands and Japan to join the United States in imposing restrictions on the export of chip-manufacturing tools to China. The US says this will prevent its global rival from developing semiconductors for military applications, including supercomputers, nuclear weapons modeling, and hypersonic weapons.
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1 month agoExpression Pfennig88
The Internet Doesn't Want To Help You Anymore – Does AI?
Let me share an odd internet adventure with you. The other day, I could not recall the term “evidence board”. Naturally, I typed into Google the search term “what are the pin boards with faces called”. In case we’re not on the same page, I’m talking about those evidence boards from procedural crime shows and thrillers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Europe's plan to rein in Big Tech will require Apple to open up iMessage
European regulators on Thursday revealed their plan to rein in the anti-competitive practices of Big Tech and fundamentally remake how some of the world's most powerful companies do business. The rules, which target tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Meta and Google, are far-reaching and would have huge ramification for those companies' software and services.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
White House releases ambitious cyber strategy calling for more regulation of vulnerable sectors
The White House on Thursday released an ambitious national cybersecurity strategy that calls for new federal regulation of vulnerable critical infrastructure firms and for software makers to be held liable when their products leave gaping holes for hackers to exploit.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
What the West Must Do Now to Help Ukraine Win the War
Ukraine’s spirited defense has inspired the world—we must not self-deter from enabling Ukraine to defeat Putin’s invasion.