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1 day agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
The plant-based future of food doesn’t always taste that great
I cover the plant-based food industry for Vox, so I get a lot of free food samples. A lot. Some of the products that startups mail me are delicious, many are just okay, and a few have been downright awful, bad enough to make me wonder out loud, “Why are they letting people eat this stuff?”
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2 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Apple's iPhone emergency SOS saves woman from attempted rape
As years of a harrowing court case concluded with her attacker being sentenced to prison, the survivor of a rape attempt has told how she used the iPhone emergency SOS to get help. Apple's emergency SOS feature debuted in the Apple Watch in 2016, before coming to the iPhone with 2017's iOS 11. It's been credited with saving a snowboarder from a crevasse, and now Virginia resident Kelli Worst has revealed how she used it to escape a rape attack.
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3 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
The James Webb Space Telescope could detect Earth 2.0
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, its greatly improved infrared resolution, and sensitivity will allow it to view objects too old, distant, and faint for the Hubble Space Telescope, which Nasa designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy launched on 25 December 2021.
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6 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Giant Sinkhole in China Reveals Massive Ancient Forest
Cave explorers in the Guangxi region of China have found a secret ancient forest hidden inside a 630-foot-deep sinkhole. As seen in a Twitter video posted by the China state-affiliated media organization CGTN earlier this month, the karst sinkhole — formed by rainwater that dissolves bedrock — exceeds 5 million cubic meters in area.
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7 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
'Security researchers' aka hackers make $800k in prize money for exploiting Windows 11 and Teams
Contestants in a hacking contest have netted over $800K in prize money after finding exploits in Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, and other enterprise software on the first day. During this 15th annual Pwn2Own Vancouver hacking competition, the teams discovered 16 zero-day bugs on multiple products like Firefox, Oracle Virtualbox, Windows 11, and other popular enterprise software.
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8 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Software Error Could Cause Hyundai Ioniq 5 And Kia EV6 To Rollaway In Park
Hyundai will recall 10,729 Ioniq 5s while Kia another 9,014 EV6s as a result of an issue with the shift by wire system that could cause Park to temporarily disengage, potentially allowing the vehicles to roll away. Hyundai is not aware of any instances of this happening in the U.S. but did initiate the investigation because of four cases in which this occurred to Ioniq 5s and one in a Kia EV6 in South Korea.
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8 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Prequel in the Works With Margot Robbie
The actor is attached to star in a prequel to “Ocean’s Eleven,” a heist comedy about con artists who rob hundreds of millions from a Las Vegas casino. The upcoming film is still in development at Warner Bros. and has not been greenlit.
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9 days agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
China's action on air pollution can help restore trust in a greener future
From my window on the 18th floor of a Beijing office building, I can see distant mountains on three sides, standing out against a clear blue sky. The contrast is striking compared to the smog-wrapped city I first visited in the years running up to the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
The Far-Right Is Doxxing Judges and Calling For Their Assassinations
Peaceful activists have been camping out near homes of Supreme Court justices in protest over Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, the far-right is calling for assaAs peaceful protesters camp outside the homes of Supreme Court justices after the leaked draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade, far-right activists are doxxing Democratic federal judges and calling for their assassination.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Apple begins arming Store managers with anti-union talking points
As workers at some of its Stores attempt to unionize, Apple is giving talking points to managers to tamp those efforts down, Vice has reported. It's telling employees that they could lose career opportunities, personal time off and work flexibility, adding that the company will pay "less attention to merit" in union stores.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
The gender of one's descendants appears to be an important predictor of sociopolitical attitudes
Many people have strong opinions about sex, reproductive rights, and gender roles, and those seem to differ by demographics like gender, age, and socioeconomic status. A study published in Evolutionary Human Sciences suggests that having more male offspring of reproductive age can also have a big effect — specifically on increased conservative views.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Google Removed Over 3 Billion Ads, 5.6 Million Advertiser Accounts in 2021
Google's campaign to crack down on advertising violations resulted in sweeping removals and account suspensions. On Wednesday, the company shared its 2021 Ads Safety Report, revealing that it eliminated 3.4 billion ads, restricted over 5.7 billion ads and suspended more than 5.6 million advertiser accounts.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
WHO: Nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID-19
The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
Sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in New Zealand
Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in some parts of Aotearoa, massively reducing the amount of time authorities have to respond.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
China Will Test Planetary Defense by Crashing a Spacecraft into An Asteroid
China plans to crash a spaceship into an asteroid that is potentially hazardous to Earth to alter its trajectory, a maneuver that caps off a multi-step planetary defense strategy that was outlined by a representative of the nation’s space agency on Sunday, reports SpaceNews.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TentativePrince
SpaceX: Can meat be grown in space?
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonise space. Nasa is also trying to put people on to the dusty surface of Mars. But if humans do want to set up communities on the moon or planets, what will they eat? Plenty of experiments have been conducted to see whether plants can flourish in space.