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1 year ago+3 3 0Do not feed the seals: How Belgium is protecting its newest residents
Seals had disappeared from Belgium by the end of last century but now their numbers are on the rise.
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1 year ago+23 23 0BMW adds games to the 5 series
BMW has announced a new in-car gaming feature available on its 5 series automobiles that allows users to use smartphones as a controller for software running on in-car screens. The German automaker billed the feature as a way to play "so-called ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks
Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass user authentication and take control of the device.
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1 year ago+27 27 0Sorry Bing, Samsung’s sticking with Google as its default mobile search engine
It looks like Samsung isn’t going to use Bing as the default search engine on its mobile web browser after all. That’s according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which says Samsung paused an internal review of whether the company should repl ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0State lawmakers agree to 'historic' environment and climate bill
Backers say this is a historic environment, energy and climate budget bill that will make transformative investments to help Minnesota combat climate change and move more aggressively toward a carbon-free economy.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Dave Chappelle rails on San Francisco at surprise live show
A half-hour into the Dave Chappelle show Thursday night at the Masonic, the crowd started yelling. They yelled that they loved him. They yelled to ask him to repeat lines from his old Comedy Central show. They yelled because they wanted to know what ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Revolutionizing tsunami predictions: How an engineer's dose of AI could save lives
Interesting Engineering (IE) interviewed engineer Dr. Usama Kadri about his innovative approach to predicting tsunamis using acoustic technology and AI.
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1 year ago+3 3 0TurboTax is sending checks to 4.4 million customers as part of a $141 million settlement | CNN Business
Roughly 4.4 million people will soon receive checks from TurboTax, following a 50-state settlement with parent company Intuit for allegedly steering millions of low-income Americans away from free tax-filing services.
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1 year ago+20 20 0I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.
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1 year ago+2 2 0Consumers snubbed plastic bags after charge imposed
The five rappen cost in 2016 saw the number of plastic bags being used, and then thrown away, fall by 84% in the first year, according to official figures. Since then, consumers have continued to snub plastic bags at the checkout, reports the Tages A ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Cleopatra was not Black, Egypt tells Netflix ahead of new series
Egyptian experts reacted angrily to the upcoming series, adamant that the country's most famous queen was of Greek descent and light-skinned.
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1 year ago+21 21 0CBS is taking some pretty drastic measures to cut its sitcom budgets
A few weeks back, we reported on a strange wrinkle facing the upcoming seasons of Law & Order and its variouis spin-offs, as NBC and Dick Wolf Productions attempted to find a way to keep the shows going despite budgets dropping all over the place ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Russia says US-South Korea nuclear deal could destabilise region
Russia's foreign ministry on Friday criticised a nuclear agreement between the United States and South Korea, saying it would destabilise the region and the wider world, and warned of a potential arms race as a result.
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1 year ago+27 27 0Airbnb will help some hosts pay for new heat pumps
A pilot program in Massachusetts will give Airbnb vacation-rental owners $2,500 to install air-source heat pumps and make their properties more energy-efficient.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Researchers use AI to discover new planet outside solar system
A University of Georgia research team has confirmed evidence of a previously unknown planet outside of our solar system, and they used machine learning tools to detect it. A recent study by the team showed that machine learning can correctly determin ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0Exploring Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's ocean of airborne islands
The setting sun dyes the sky a soft orange as Link glides through the air. Far beneath his dangling feet, Hyrule lies almost forgotten as my focus is fully set on the collection of islands scattered across the horizon. One in particular catches my ey ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0How ‘Juice Jackers’ Plant Malware On Your Phone At Airports And Hotels
USB charging ports are everywhere, and a seemingly handy way for travelers to keep their devices powered up. But earlier this month, the FBI warned consumers against using these charging stations in public places like airports, hotels and shopping ma ...
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1 year ago+1 1 0OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over
Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.
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1 year ago+2 2 0Gaze into the mesmerizing Whirlpool Galaxy high in the sky tonight
Also known as Messier 51, this spiral staircase-shaped galaxy will be visible for most of the evening.
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1 year ago+1 1 0Ron DeSantis takes aim at Disney, vows to void Florida theme park development agreement
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ramped up his fight against Walt Disney Co , seeking to void an agreement that Disney passed to limit the power of a board appointed by DeSantis to oversee its Florida theme park property.