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18 hours ago+11 11 0Apple's $6,000 Pro Display XDR requires a special Apple cloth to clean it
Remember the new Pro Display XDR, the 32-inch 6K display companion to the Apple MacCheese Grater Pro? Well, if you ordered one of these $5,000 beasts with the additional $1,000 nano-textured glass, Apple says you must exclusively use the cloth you wi ...
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1 day ago+17 17 0A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days ...
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2 days ago+4 4 0A cancer-drug developer's stock just surged more than 100% after Merck agreed to a multi-billion-dollar takeover
Shares of the cancer-drug developer ArQule spiked as much as 102% early Monday after Merck said it would acquire the firm in a $2.7 billion takeover. Merck offered $20 per share in the all-cash bid, more than double ArQule's Friday closing price ...
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3 days ago+25 25 0 x 1Bitcoin Addresses Hit a New All-Time High
Bitcoin recently hit a new milestone and an all-time high for its addresses. It currently has more addresses with BTC in it than at any other time in its history. The growth of addresses is the most obvious metric for measuring network growth. If we ...
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6 days ago+8 8 0Why is the sun's atmosphere so hot? Spacecraft starts to unravel our star's mysteries
If you ask a child to paint a picture of the sun, you will most likely get a bright yellow circle on a piece of paper. This is actually quite accurate, given that the sun is a ball of hot gas and that its surface (called the photosphere) mostly shine ...
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6 days ago+4 4 0I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City, and it revealed a dystopian reality
America, home of the brave, land of the free, is watching. Tens of millions of cameras are watching people across the country. The total number of cameras in the world could reach 45 billion by 2022, when the global video-surveillance industry is for ...
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8 days ago+17 17 0Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100 billion in taxes over the last decade
Six of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies had a combined “tax gap” of more than $100 billion this decade, according to a new analysis. Fair Tax Mark, a British organization that certifies businesses for good tax conduct, assessed global tax payments ...
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2 weeks ago+4 4 0Loneliness Is Fatal. Video Games Can Keep Men Alive.
MEN ARE LONELY, or so we’ve heard. Not from our friends—that would require actually sharing our feelings, which we’re not great at—but from an endless cascade of think pieces and scientific studies sounding the alarm on the growing crisis of male lon ...
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2 weeks ago+13 13 0The Keystone Oil Spill No One's Talking About Will Be Nearly Impossible to Clean Up
When the Keystone Pipeline burst last week, half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of a particularly dirty fossil fuel spilled into wetlands in North Dakota. And the thick liquid, known as tar sands oil, will be nearly impossible to clean up.
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2 weeks ago+20 20 0For people on low incomes, free internet access would be life-changing
A lot of the discussion about Labour’s promise to provide free fibreoptic broadband for all has revolved around economics, speculative polling and even “communism”. But it has not addressed what life without easy internet access is actually like for ...
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3 weeks ago+4 4 0Sanders: 'Your $8.99 Netflix subscription is more than the company paid in federal income taxes'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) targeted Netflix in a tweet, accusing the company of paying less in federal income taxes than the cost of a monthly subscription.
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3 weeks ago+16 16 0Why is Apple still selling MacBooks with bad Butterfly keyboards?
After receiving raving reviews, it seems that Apple has found an actual fix to its terrible keyboards on the new MacBook Pro 16-inch. But paying $2,400 to be able to type reliably may be a bit too much for all of us. Thank god we now know that the Cu ...
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3 weeks ago+4 4 0Mexican Girl Bullied For Being “Weird” Has A Higher IQ Than Einstein, So Let’s Protect Her Instead Of Giving Her A Supervillain Origin Story
She may have had a difficult past, but Mexico City resident Adhara Pérez has a bright future. At just eight years old, she already has an IQ of 162— higher than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who each had an IQ of about 160.
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3 weeks ago+22 22 0Apple finally admits iPad Pro won't replace your PC
Apple kept insisting. For quite some time, indeed, Cupertino plagued people with the message that the iPad Pro wasn't just a computer, but the only computer you need.
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1 month ago+4 4 0Listening to music while driving reduces cardiac stress
Stress while driving is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac complications such as heart attack (myocardial infarction), according to studies published in recent years. Selecting suitable driving music may be ...
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1 month ago+12 12 0Apple's Phil Schiller on reinventing the new MacBook Pro keyboard
The fastest way to get hardcore MacBook users on a rant is to ask them about the butterfly keyboard. Love it or hate it, Apple fans have passionate opinions about the company's decision to use a mechanism with a hinge in the middle that gives th ...
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1 month ago+14 14 0Billionaires' wealth falls as Chinese economy stalls
For the first time in a decade, the world's wealthiest saw their riches drop in value last year as stock markets spluttered. American billionaires bucked the trend but only just.
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1 month ago+11 11 0EPA to scale back federal rules restricting waste from coal-fired power plants
The Environmental Protection Agency will propose a set of rules Monday that would make it easier for coal-fired plants to store waste onsite and release water containing toxic metals into nearby waterways.
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1 month ago+2 2 0Being Socially Active Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia
Being more socially active in your 50s and 60s predicts a lower risk of developing dementia later on, according to a new study. “Dementia is a major global health challenge, with 1 million people expected to have dementia in the UK by 2021, but we al ...
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1 month ago+3 3 0Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours
Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, which officials believe is a world record. The burst of tree planting was part of a wider reforestation campaign named "Green Legacy," spearheaded by the country's Pri ...