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5 hours ago
Current Event TNYUniversal Basic Income Is the Path to an Entirely New Economic System
Sooner rather than later, a robot is going to be able to do part or all of what you do for a living. In response to this and other pressures, the Canadian province of Ontario is gearing up to launch a basic income trial this summer. For a limited period of time, and in three regions across the province, the government will be giving people a living wage, for free and with no strings attached, and seeing how the hell it goes, eh?
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8 hours ago
Video TNY
Spider Shoots 25 Metre Web - The Hunt - BBC Earth
Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no bigger than a thumbnail has baffled scientists with her web of steel.
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1 day ago
Current Event TNY
The ambitious plan to plant nearly 100,000 trees a day with drones
An Australian engineer is hoping to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe. Burned or cleared forests release their stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and land restoration experts say technology must play a big part in addressing the problem.
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1 day ago
Current Event TNY
Watch Foo Fighters dedicate 'Everlong' at Glastonbury to Devon teacher who died of cancer
Dave Grohl had sent a message to the fan's husband in the days before the festival began Foo Fighters dedicated ‘Everlong’ at Glastonbury to a Devon teacher who passed away after a battle with cancer last month.
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2 days ago
Current Event TNY
Grenfell woman who was feared dead is alive thanks to hero firefighter
A woman who appeared on missing persons posters after the Grenfell Tower fire is alive and was saved by a fireman, her family revealed today. Friends of Fadumo Ahmed, 32, who lived on the 19th floor of the 24-storey block, feared the worst after hearing no news of her. However, it emerged today that she was pulled unconscious from the upper floors of the tower by a fireman, who saved her life.
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2 days ago
Current Event TNY
Mozilla Is Offering a $2M Bounty to People Trying to Decentralize the Internet
Decentralized networking could bring the internet to those who need it most—rural communities and disaster victims. In the most recent season of Silicon Valley, the protagonist Richard Hendriks abandons the video chat business he started with his friends to pursue his own dream of creating a new internet. Although Hendriks's peers initially look at him askance for doggedly pursuing such a crazy idea, the dream of decentralizing the internet is alive and well IRL.
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3 days ago
Current Event TNY
32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online
A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online. The data – some 32TB of official and non-public installation images and software blueprints that compress down to 8TB – were uploaded to betaarchive.com, the latest load of files provided just earlier this week. It is believed the confidential data in this dump was exfiltrated from Microsoft's in-house systems around March this year.
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9 days ago
Expression TNY
E3 2017: Here's An Xbox One X Being Assembled From Scratch
After the Xbox One X was announced at Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference this week, the company has published video where an engineer puts the console together piece by piece. Watch the video below to see Major Nelson and Xbox Hardware GM Leo Del Castillo assemble the console, starting with the chip at the heart of it at all, before moving on to things like the motherboard, voltage regulators, the power supply, the hard drive, and more.
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10 days ago
Current Event TNY
Microsoft’s new Modern Keyboard has a hidden fingerprint reader
Microsoft has quietly unveiled a new “Modern Keyboard” with an integrated fingerprint reader. The Modern Keyboard is the successor to the Surface Keyboard, and looks identical. The only changes are a new fingerprint reader and the ability to use a cable for a wired connection instead of wireless.
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10 days ago
Current Event TNY
Can you build a $500 PC that beats the Xbox One X?
Microsoft’s Xbox One X presents an interesting challenge for PC builders. Sure, if you want raw power, nothing beats the PC. But can you put together an Xbox One X equivalent for $500? At that price point (and outside of that golden window of Black Friday sales and stellar combo/bundle deals on PC components), you're pushing the limits of what’s possible, particularly if you want to completely replicate the same experience Microsoft is promising hardcore console fans.
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10 days ago
Current Event TNY
'I had my whole life ahead of me - I don't want to die': Final call of Italian woman trapped in blaze revealed
A young, talented Italian woman telephoned her mother to say her goodbyes as her flat was engulfed in the Grenfell Tower blaze. Marco Gottardi and his girlfriend Gloria Trevisan, both architects from the Veneto region of northern Italy, are missing and feared dead by their families.
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11 days ago
Comment TNY
First one was meh. I'll wait until it's on Netflix.
Posted in: Daddy's Home 2 - Official Trailer
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11 days ago
Comment TNY
Wow that's a lot of places. Too far away from me though :(
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11 days ago
Funny how things work sometimes.
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11 days ago
Current Event TNY
Trump: 'Zero proof' of Russian collusion, so now 'they go for obstruction of justice'
President Trump early Thursday pushed back on a report that the special counsel leading the Russia probe is now looking into whether Trump obstructed justice. "They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice," Trump tweeted Thursday.
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11 days ago
Current Event TNY
Crackdown 3: Terry Crews is a playable character because he asked to be
Terry Crews is a playable character in Crackdown 3 because he asked to be, Sumo Digital has told Stevivor. “Terry Crews basically asked us, ‘can I be in the game?’ And we were like, ‘yeah, you can totally be in the game,'” Design Director Gareth Wilson said. “‘Cause the guy, he’s alive, he’s a living agent. He looks like an agent, which is crazy.”
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12 days ago
Current Event TNY
ISS astronauts will bake the first crumb-free, space bread in 2018
A team of researchers wants to ‘bake were nobody baked before’. Sometime in 2018, a microgravity oven is slated for launch to the International Space Station where it will bake the first space-grade bread in history. As anything on the International Space Station, this won’t be your regular bread. Designed and inspected from all scientific angles, the space bread will not only be filling and fresh, but also safe for the special environment.
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13 days ago
Current Event TNY
Congressional Democrats to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump
More than 180 members signed a complaint alleging that Trump improperly took gifts or payments from foreign governments.
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13 days ago
Comment TNY
London is just taking a beating this spring. tragic stuff.
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13 days ago
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Fire engulfs Grenfell tower block in west London
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2 weeks ago
Analysis TNY
Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit
DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?
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2 weeks ago
Analysis TNY
A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses
For each certified genius, there are at least a hundred great people who helped achieve such outstanding results.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event TNY
Madrid cracks down on 'manspreading' on public transport
A transport campaign discourages men who encroach on other seats by sitting with their legs apart.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis TNY
The Arab World Has Never Recovered From the Loss of 1967
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the intellectualism that once lit up the Middle East has been all but extinguished by corrupt regimes and perverse…
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2 weeks ago
Analysis TNY
How Do You Make the List to Buy a Supercar? Be Like These Guys
Find out why buying a limited-edition supercar takes more than wheelbarrows of cash.
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