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11 hours agoCurrent Event TNY
Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers
And still no sign of HiFi.
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11 hours agoCurrent Event TNY
Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
The duo is back just over four years after leaving Instagram.
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12 hours agoCurrent Event TNY
Medicare negotiating drug prices will likely save the U.S. billions, study says
A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that allows Medicare to negotiate prices on the costliest prescription drugs each year will likely save the U.S. billions of dollars — as long as the drug industry doesn't interfere, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum. Beginning in 2026, Medicare will begin negotiating the price of 10 drugs that cost the federal government the most money, followed by 15 more drugs in 2027, another 15 drugs in 2028, and another 20 drugs in ...
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1 day agoCurrent Event TNY
Billionaire Adani’s Empire Loses $51 Billion in 48 Hours
Asia’s richest man is rocked by a U.S. short-seller’s allegations of fraud and money laundering. Suspicion is creating chaos in the empire built by the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, who since last year has become the richest man in Asia.
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2 days agoExpression TNY
No, Project Veritas Video Doesn’t Prove Pfizer Is Mutating Covid-19, Who Is Jordon Trishton Walker?
A Project Veritas video claimed that it featured someone named “Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development - Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning.”
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2 days agoExpression TNY
Brett Goldstein Hints at ‘Ted Lasso’ Ending: ‘It’s Better If You Don’t Know Anything’
“I love all of these characters and want it to end well, but Jason has a very clear vision and always has,” Goldstein said of the Season 3 writing process. “No one is phoning it.&…
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3 days agoAnalysis TNY
Children ‘seriously harmed’ at scandal-hit mental health hospitals
Special report: In an expose of private children’s hospitals, workers say inadequate staffing put patients in harm’s way. Rebecca Thomas reports
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6 days agoCurrent Event TNY
Google to shut down spam backdoor for political campaigns
Google plans to end a controversial pilot program that allows political groups to bypass Gmail’s spam filters later this month, as first reported by The Washington Post Tuesday. Google launched the program last September in response to Republican accusations that the company’s algorithms disproportionately flag conservative fundraising emails as spam.
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10 days agoCurrent Event TNY
This Redditor took out $76,000 in loans to trade meme stocks thanks to hype on Wall Street Bets. It became an 'addiction' and he even lost $...
Reddit user Aaron took out loans to bet on meme stocks following r/wallstreetbets and used his girlfriend's money too. Now he has huge monthly repayments.
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10 days agoCurrent Event TNY
Crime App ‘Citizen’ Fires Overseas $2 an Hour Workers
Workers in Kenya and Nepal listened to police radio in American cities to fill Citizen with content. They were recently fired without severance.
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11 days agoCurrent Event TNY
Game developers aren’t so hot on NFTs, the metaverse, or huge acquisitions
NFTs? No Friggin’ Thanks
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11 days agoCurrent Event TNY
Facebook approved ads promoting violence in wake of Brazil riots, report says
Facebook approved a series of online ads promoting violence in Brazil, days after protesters ransacked government buildings, according to a new report.
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11 days agoCurrent Event TNY
Alec Baldwin Isn’t The First Celebrity To Face Manslaughter Charges Connected To A Deadly Tragedy: Who Are The Others?!
Alec Baldwin, an actor and producer, is not the only well-known person accused of being involved in a terrible death. Prosecutors in Santa Fe, New Mexico will accuse Baldwin and a film armorer with two counts of involuntary manslaughter each for the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust” in 2021.
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12 days agoAnalysis TNY
Sounds like science fiction? How Montreal researchers are 3D printing using sound waves
Printing a medical device directly into a patient's body sounds impossible, but a group of Montreal researchers say it could be feasible in the future thanks to a new technology they've developed called direct sound printing.
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13 days agoExpression TNY
It looks like NASA will finally have an astronaut live in space for a full year
NASA has had a series of "almost" a year missions.
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2 weeks agoExpression TNY
Why the scary, funny, profane ‘FAFO’ was 2022’s word of the year
A double-edged taunt, "eff around and find out" is a weapon for you and a weapon for them.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TNY
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, senior engineer testifies
Video from 2016 was promoted by Elon Musk as evidence that ‘Tesla drives itself’
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TNY
UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online
If passed, UK online safety bill could jail tech leaders for up to two years.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis TNY
Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023
Scientists say phenomenon coupled with growing climate crisis likely to push global temperatures ‘off the chart’
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TNY
90% of online content could be ‘generated by AI by 2025,’ expert says
Generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, could complete revamp how digital content is developed, said Nina Schick, advisor, speaker, and A.I. thought leader on Yahoo Finance Live.
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2 weeks agoExpression TNY
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
The greatest threat AI may present is its ability to replace humans in lobbying.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis TNY
‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why
The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.
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2 weeks agoExpression TNY
Apple's App Store changed the software world 15 years ago
On this day in 2008, the still-new iPhone gained an App Store, destroyed selling software in boxes, made apps cheaper — and is now mired on controversy.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TNY
US cancer death rate drops by 30% since 1991
After heart disease, cancer is the most common cause of death in the US.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis TNY
Cancer vaccines are showing promise. Here’s how they work.
The immediate goal is to create vaccines that destroy cancer cells—but some scientists are also testing vaccines that might prevent someone from developing cancer.
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