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6 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Sony's new laser-based camera kit can help those with low vision see clearly
Sony Electronics has released the DSC-HX99RNV kit, a new retinal projection camera kit that uses lasers to help people with low vision see well enough to capture the world around them, according to a press release published on Monday. For this project, Sony joined forces with QD Laser to offer a new experience with focus-free retinal projection, allowing people with low vision a new, sharper way to view and photograph the world.
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9 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
USDA Announces $29 Million to Increase American-Made Fertilizer Production
ORLANDO, Fla., March 10, 2023 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Department received $3 billion in applications from more than 350 independent businesses from 47 states and 2 territories for the first two rounds of a new grant program to add innovative domestic fertilizer production capacity.
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10 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else'
CEO of a New York-based property management company bought his first building in 2021. As part of the deal, he promised to take care of an elderly resident, Alice Schuman, who survived the Holocaust.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Ke Huy Quan lost his health insurance because he couldn't land a job after filming 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
Ke Huy Quan said he lost his health insurance after he filmed "Everything Everywhere All At Once" because he couldn't land another job. Quan told James Corden that "Everything Everywhere All At Once" started filming in 2020 and the crew shot almost the entire film before being shut down on the last day of shooting because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It would be eight more months before the cast and crew convened again to finish the movie.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Seven healthy habits may help cut dementia risk, study says
Seven healthy habits and lifestyle factors may play a role in reducing the risk of dementia, according to a two decade-long study. Being active, eating a better diet, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, keeping normal blood pressure, controlling cholesterol and having low blood sugar in middle age may all lower the chances of developing conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease later in life, research suggests.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Warner Bros. Discovery Sees $2.1 Billion Loss in Q4 After Big Writedown; Ad Sales Tumble
Warner Bros. Discovery continued to work on making all its various pieces, merged together last year, into a cohesive whole. The New York owner of the TNT and TBS cable networks, the HBO Max streaming service and the Warner Bros. production studio reported a net loss of $2.1 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter after the company wrote down $1.85 billion in assets and faced nearly $1.2 billion in restructuring expenses.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Seeing Is Believing? Global Scramble to Tackle Deepfakes
Artificial Intelligence, with a deluge of images created out of thin air and people shown mouthing things they never said, have eroded online trust
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Eco-friendly mud houses make comeback in Hungary
They were long derided as old-fashioned symbols of grinding poverty, but mud and straw houses are making a comeback in Hungary as a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to concrete. Master builder Janos Gaspar, who renovates earth houses, is worked off his feet. "I'm booked up for three years. Interest is sky-high," the 48-year-old—who has built more than 200 clay houses— told AFP.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Epic Games alleges Google not complying with Indian antitrust order
U.S. firm Epic Games is challenging Google in an Indian tribunal for not complying with some portions of an antitrust directive, alleging that the tech giant is not hosting the gaming company's app store on Google's Play Store app.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Rumored iPhone Ultra strategy may work, but could easily backfire on Apple
Could Apple be planning a new iPhone Ultra, costing even more than the Pro Max? That’s the suggestion of a report over the weekend, and it may be backed by a hint dropped by CEO Tim Cook in last week’s earnings call.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Tyre Nichols not seen to resist police in video footage
Footage of a traffic stop that has seen five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder shows them kicking and punching a motorist for several minutes as he cries out for his mother. Officers are seen beating Tyre Nichols, 29, in the videos from the 7 January arrest, with no signs of him resisting.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
People often think they know what causes chronic depression. Surveys indicate that more than 80% of the public blames a “chemical imbalance” in the brain. That idea is widespread in pop psychology and cited in research papers and medical textbooks. Listening to Prozac, a book that describes the life-changing value of treating depression with medications that aim to correct this imbalance, spent months on the New York Times bestseller list.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Physicist encourages continuing the search for life in Venus' atmosphere
In a recent paper accepted to Contemporary Physics, a physicist from Imperial College London uses past missions and recent findings to encourage the importance of searching for life in the atmosphere of the solar system’s most inhospitable planet, Venus.
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2 months agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Bald eagle delivers 2 eggs in California nest watched by web cam
A bald eagle has laid two eggs this month in a Southern California nest and nature lovers will watch for the hatchings via an online live feed. Mother eagle Jackie delivered the second egg Saturday afternoon amid a snowstorm near the mountain community of Big Bear east of Los Angeles. The first egg came Jan. 11.