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Current Event TentativePrinceChina shuts down 4,000 websites
China has shut down thousands of websites and online accounts following a three-month campaign against "harmful" content, the state news agency Xinhua has announced. The content, on 4,000 sites, included infringements of copyright and material spreading "improper values, vulgarity or obscenity", it said. But the purge also appeared to be aimed at platforms offering free e-books. China tightly controls the country's internet access.
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8 days ago
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Every Sidequest In Cyberpunk 2077 Will Feel Like A Complete Story In And Of Itself
One game folks just can’t stop talking about these days is CD Projekt Red’s upcoming RPG Cyberpunk 2077. Based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk 2020 series of tabletop RPGs, Cyberpunk 2077 promises to take players on a neon-filled adventure like never before. The hype is real, so are the stakes, especially since CDPR’s last game- The Witcher 3 raised the bar very high in terms of quest design and narrative. CDPR is fully dedicated to making Cyberpunk 2077 bigger and better from their past t...
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8 days ago
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OnePlus ignores its own user polling, removes headphone jack on OnePlus 6T
OnePlus is working on a followup to the OnePlus 6, the OnePlus 6T. The company's latest smartphone should launch sometime in October, and until then we're getting a slow, continual drip of information on the device. The latest news is not so great. The company has revealed that it's dumping the headphone jack on the OnePlus 6T.
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9 days ago
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Suspending young students risks future success in school
Some kindergartners and first-graders suspended from school can find it challenging to reverse the negative trajectory in their academic life, says a University of Michigan researcher. These young suspended students—especially boys—are likely to be suspended again later in elementary school, according to Zibei Chen, a research fellow at the U-M School of Social Work, and colleagues at Louisiana State University.
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12 days ago
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About damn time! It's hard enough having to switch constantly.
Posted in: Windows file sharing comes to Chromebooks
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12 days ago
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‘It’s not Ireland’s fault that the tax law in the US was written by someone who was taking acid’
One of US president Donald’s Trump’s top economic advisers has said he expects Ireland will continue to be a “voice of reason” alongside the US against more left-wing European governments in the coming years. Speaking at an event at the US ambassador’s residence in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, strongly defended the economic policies of Mr Trump, while also praising the strength of US-Irish relations.
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2 weeks ago
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'Dragged Across Concrete' director S. Craig Zahler: "I don't think US cinema is in a good place"
American filmmaker S. Craig Zahler is back at Venice Film Festival for a second year running, this time with his Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn cop drama Dragged Across Concrete. Screen caught up with Zahler at the festival to talk about working with controversial figure Gibson, getting projects made outside of the studio system, and why he won’t compromise on the runtime of his films.
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2 weeks ago
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Probiotics 'not as beneficial for gut health as previously thought'
Probiotics, hailed by some as a cure for all kinds of digestive ailments and recommended by many GPs alongside antibiotics, may not be as universally beneficial for gut health as previously thought. The gut microbiome is the sum total of all the micro-organisms living in a person’s gut, and has been shown to play a huge role in human health. New research has found probiotics – usually taken as supplements or in foods such as yoghurt, kimchi or kefir – can hinder a patient’s gut microbiome...
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2 weeks ago
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This is exactly what Eminem wanted lol
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2 weeks ago
Current Event TentativePrince
Donald Trump terrifies Germans above all else
More than two-thirds of Germans — or 69 percent — are extremely concerned that US President Donald Trump's policies are having a dangerous impact worldwide, according to the annual survey "The fears of Germans" by the R+V Infocenter. "Trump's ruthless 'America First' politics, his aggression with regards to international arrangements and his equally aggressive trade and security politics, even towards allied countries, scare the majority of the population,&...
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3 weeks ago
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Eminem Says He Received a Visit From the Secret Service After His Anti-Trump Rap
Eminem has dropped a surprise 13-track album, but its arrival isn’t the only surprise. On Kamikaze’s opening track “The Ringer,” the rapper alleges that he was paid a visit by the United States Secret Service after his anti-Trump freestyles at the BET Hip Hop Awards in 2017. And not, he senses, of their own volition...
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1 month ago
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Almost Half a Million Viewers Tuned in to CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal Live on Twitch
With CD Projekt Red only showing gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 to the media behind-closed-doors at E3 and Gamescom this year, gamers have been dying to get a first look at what’s next from the developer of The Witcher and Gwent. Thankfully, CDPR hosted a mysterious stream on Twitch earlier today entitled “DATA TRANSMISSION IN PROGRESS_” and after 9 hours of cryptic code running on the screen, the devs finally revealed what everyone has been wanting years to see: 48-minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 g...
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1 month ago
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The School Shootings That Weren't
How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know. But we don't. This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
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1 month ago
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Critics say cigarette filters, a health and environmental scourge, must go
Cigarette butts have long been the single most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years.
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1 month ago
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Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy
Privacy has always been a key feature and popular selling point for the messaging app WhatsApp. Company co-founder Jan Koum grew up in the Soviet Union under heavy government surveillance, and he promised to keep user data protected after Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014. Now, with Koum on the way out, it may be time to ditch WhatsApp before that promise leaves with him.
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1 month ago
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As huge wildfire spreads southwest of Berlin, crews are hindered by buried WWII ammo
A wildfire the size of more than 500 soccer fields spread southwest of the German capital on Friday, leading to the evacuation of three villages. Efforts to extinguish the flames were complicated by old ammunition from World War II that is still buried in the forests around Berlin and could explode in the fire.
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1 month ago
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Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'
Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells' The researchers "caution against the widely held opinion that e-cigarettes are safe". However, Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking and people should not hesitate to use them as an aid to giving up cigarettes. The small experimental study, led by Prof David Thickett, at the University of Birmingham, is published online in the journal Thorax.
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1 month ago
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China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
The startup's founder has said that while Redcore is based on Google Chrome, it includes important independent innovations.