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2 years ago+14 14 0Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue growth. The company is also taking a $1.2 billion charge in the fiscal second quarter, which will result in a negative ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
Suit seeks damages from Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Making the case for using insects as food for both humans and livestock
Two pairs of academics are making the case for using insects as a food source in Perspectives pieces published in the journal Science. The first pair, Arup Kumar Hazarika and Unmilan Kalita, with Cotton University and Barnagar College, respectively, ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Apple starts hiring spree for first flagship stores in India
Apple is preparing to open its initial first-party store in India, and job postings are seeking employees to work at the Apple-owned retail location. Apple has been working to open its first-party retail outlet in India for quite some time, but the e ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished
High fertilizer prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests. The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tons of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are le ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Five ways TikTok is seen as threat to US national security
Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Millennials Are in Worse Financial Health Than Previous Generations
Fewer Millennials in their 20s were “Middle Class” than Boomer and GenX in the same period of their lives.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Calling Animals "Pests" Is More About Us Than Them
Our relationships with nonhuman animals (animals) are complex, challenging, and paradoxical. We allow dogs and cats to breed themselves to death and continue to harm and kill other animals and destroy their homes at unprecedented rates as we take ove ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Reddit Users Are Turning Ye’s Page Into a Holocaust Memorial
After Ye made antisemitic remarks, including declaring his love for Adolf Hitler, Reddit users have repurposed r/Kanye — a tribute to the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — into a record of the Holocaust. On Thursday, Ye openly espoused antisemiti ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Ex-engineer files age discrimination complaint against SpaceX
Filing is latest action against Elon Musk’s rocket venture as Twitter and Tesla are also roiled by lawsuits
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2 years ago+2 2 0Overweight people are seen as less capable of thinking and acting autonomously, study finds
A series of five experiments reported that people tend to deny overweight individuals mental agency, but not experience. Heavier weight people are seen as less capable of controlling their own lives, thinking and acting autonomously. However, weight ...
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2 years ago+2 2 0Twitter and Square's Jack Dorsey: Bitcoin Will Be World’s Single Currency
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey recently had some remarkably positive remarks about bitcoin. Predicting the future of finance, he suggested that the “father of cryptocurrencies” is likely to become the world’s only currency within the next 10 year ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Robots authorized to kill in SFPD draft policy
A policy proposal that is heading for Board of Supervisors approval next week would explicitly authorize San Francisco police to kill suspects using robots. The new policy, which defines how the SFPD is allowed to use its military-style weapons, was ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Elizabeth Holmes Will Likely Land in Fenceless, Low-Security Prison for Theranos Fraud
Legal experts say that Holmes may serve as little as three years at one of the least restrictive facilities in the system...
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2 years ago+2 2 0GM expects EV profits to be comparable to gas vehicles by 2025, years ahead of schedule
expects its new electric vehicle profits to be in-line with cars and trucks with traditional engines by 2025 – years ahead of schedule and what many thought was possible. GM CEO Mary Barra on Thursday said the updated forecast factors in federal inc ...
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2 years ago+23 23 0When texts suddenly stop: Study investigates why people "ghost" -- and it's consequences
Check your phone. Are there any unanswered texts, snaps or direct messages that you’re ignoring? Should you reply? Or should you ghost the person who sent them? Ghosting happens when someone cuts off all online communication with someone else, and wi ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Denise Richards & Husband Get Shot At In Road Rage Incident
Denise Richards and her husband Aaron Phypers were involved in a road rage incident where shots were fired at the couple, Deadline has confirmed. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum was on th…
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2 years ago+3 3 0Web-based exercise intervention leads to mental health improvements in 3 months, according to controlled trial
Participants of a web-based physical activity intervention saw improvements in their depression, anxiety, and stress levels, according to findings published in the journal Mental Health And Physical Activity. Interestingly, these mental health benefi ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0What it looks like as drought strangles the mighty Mississippi
The Mississippi River, the nation’s most mythical waterway, has been strangled by months of drought, with water levels plummeting to historic lows.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Here's how you would die on each planet of the Solar System
While some deaths would be instantaneous, others would allow you to experience the horror of being exposed to another world for a brief time.