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1 year ago+3 3 0'Ring Nation' Is Amazon's Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia
Amazon's propaganda campaign to normalize surveillance is about to hit a higher gear: Wanda Sykes is going to host a new show featuring videos taken from Ring surveillance cameras, Deadline reported on Thursday. It will be called Ring Nation.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Nepal has nearly tripled its wild tiger population since 2009
Wild tigers in Nepal have clawed their way back from the brink of extinction. There are now almost three times as many wild tigers in the country as there were in 2009, according to the Nepalese government.
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1 year ago+10 10 0People who are perceived as high in self-control are subjected to robotic dehumanization
People perceived as high in self-control tend to be dehumanized as more robotic and machine-like, according to new research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The findings provide evidence that this form of “roboti ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Microsoft defends Activision Blizzard deal by saying the studio doesn't make "must have" games
Microsoft is defending its $68 billion bid to buy Activision Blizzard by arguing that the studio doesn't make any "must have" games. In a response(opens in new tab) to the New Zealand Commerce Commission (thanks, RPS(opens in new tab)) ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Using only skin cells, Israeli lab makes synthetic mouse embryos with beating hearts
An Israeli lab has grown synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts — in an egg-free sperm-free procedure that used stem cells taken from skin. The breakthrough, published on Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Cell, represents the first ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Sneaky black hole discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation and gravitational waves
There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research. Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of general relativity—which postulated black holes—in 1922. One hundred years later, astronomers ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can't stop
Societies may tremble when a hot new video game is released, but the hours spent playing popular video games do not appear to be damaging players' mental health, according to the largest-ever survey of nearly 40,000 gamers and their gaming habit ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Major Step Forward In Fabricating An Artificial Heart, Fit For A Human
The future of cardiac medicine involves tissue engineering. It includes the creation of a human heart for transplant. Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created the first biohybrid model of b ...
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1 year ago+8 8 0Biotech firm electrocutes soil so bacteria can eat ‘forever chemicals’
A biotech firm is trialling the removal of PFAS “forever chemicals” from soil at a test site in Wisconsin by injecting chemical-eating bacteria and electrocuting the ground.
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1 year ago+4 4 0ISS dumps waste container of junk into outer space
A new space waste disposal method has been tested on the International Space Station (ISS), disposing of approximately 172 lbs of garbage—including dirty crew clothing and used office supplies.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Cloned mice created from freeze dried skin cells in world first
Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive populations of endangered species. The breakthrough paves the way for countries to store skin cells from animals as an insura ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0This 'sand' battery stores renewable energy as heat
A company in Finland has created an an unusual storage solution for renewable energy: One that uses sand instead of lithium ion or other battery technologies. Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an energy utility in Western Finland, have built a sto ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Amazon Prime Day 2022: Best 22 early deals you can find right now!
Every year we are delighted when we need to announce the new Amazon Prime Day! And here it is! Amazon Prime Day 2022! Amazon’s annual Prime Day event is back. Two full days of incredible sales and discounts.
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1 year ago+3 3 0The royal family won't publish its inquiry into Meghan Markle bullying accusations to protect the privacy of people involved, report says
A Buckingham Palace investigation into allegations that Meghan Markle bullied royal staff members won't be released, according to a new report from The Sunday Times. Royal sources told the outlet that the investigation into claims that Meghan bu ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0'Skyrim' Grandma Would Love Bethesda To Release 'Elder Scrolls 6' Before She Dies
Beloved YouTuber Shirley Curry, better known to her devoted fans as Skyrim Grandma, has but one simple request of Bethesda for The Elder Scrolls VI: She'd very much like the developer to hurry up and get it out so she can play it before she dies ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0GM cuts cost of electric vehicles by $6,000
General Motors made a surprising move this month with the Chevrolet Bolt hatchback and its slightly bigger cousin, the Bolt EUV. At a time of scant car supply, with dealers often charging thousands of dollars above sticker and consumers waiting weeks ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Satoshi Nakamoto: A mysterious guy who developed a trillion digital currency
Uncovering Satoshi Nakamoto will be a multi-year process in order to try to understand who really is this man and finally how decentralized bitcoin currency is. Nowadays, the total capital of crypto market is over half a trillion dollars with bitcoin ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0The 'Benjamin Button' effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans
In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again. Using proteins that can turn an adult cell into a stem cell, Sinclair and his team have reset aging cells in mice to earlier versions of themselv ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Practical Power Beaming Gets Real
Wires have a lot going for them when it comes to moving electric power around, but they have their drawbacks too. Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? It’s a nuisance.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.