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3 days agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet
China had claimed its birth control policies - widely seen as a crackdown - gave women more freedom.
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8 days agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books
A Baptist preacher born and raised in Georgia, he will become his state’s first Black senator, breaking a barrier with distinct meaning in American politics.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
500,000 graphics cards found in an abandoned container
The RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 are still hard to find. A shortage favored by strong demand, excessively long production cycles and the global pandemic, which does not make things easier. Good news however, since a South Korean port operator has just got hold of a lost shipment of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 cards!
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Reddit clone Voat shut down on Christmas Day
Voat, an “anti-censorship” alternative social network that’s been described as the “alt-right Reddit,” is scheduled to shut down on December 25th. Voat co-founder Justin Chastain announced the pending closure yesterday, saying the site had run out of money after an investor defaulted on their contract in March. “I personally decided to keep Voat up until after the US election of 2020. I’ve been paying the costs out of pocket but now I’m out of money,” Chastain wrote.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis Vandertoolen
Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
Which is weird, because ... isn’t it just nonsense?
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians
Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
A day after Brazil announced 11,000 square kilometers of annual deforestation, France, the EU’s biggest buyer of Brazilian soy flour, announced plans to become more self-sufficient on the commodity.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion
Slack is now a Salesforce property, marking a substantial shift in the business software industry.
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1 month agoAnalysis Vandertoolen
Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how
In 2019, Oslo, Norway recorded zero pedestrian or cyclist deaths. There was only a single traffic fatality, which involved someone driving into a fence. (For comparison, preliminary figures in London show 73 pedestrian and six cyclist fatalities in 2019; New York recorded 218 total traffic fatalities, including 121 pedestrian and 28 cyclist deaths.)
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1 month agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Apple cuts its App Store commission from 30% to 15% — if your apps earn less than $1M
Apple announced today that it’s reducing its App Store commission to 15% for developers earning less than $1 million a year. The company has made this cut from the 30% commission is previously charged. The new announcement comes as a part of Apple‘s “App Store Small Business Program” initiative. Under this project, only developers whose apps cumulatively earn less than $1 million per year can qualify.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
This ‘Search Engine Artist’ Tricked Google Into Displaying Her Art
If you’re reading this, chances are you have some sort of a relationship with Google. Most of us rely on the search engine to look for information instead of storing it on our own brains (which experts say is making us stupid), heading to it for searching, surfing and sometimes even contributing to the endless databases.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Pfizer ends its COVID-19 vaccine trial with a 95% success rate
Final results from Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine trial showed its shot had a 95% success rate and two months of safety data, paving the way for the drugmaker to apply for an emergency U.S. authorization within days, it said on Wednesday.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Virgin Hyperloop completes its first ever passenger test
In a landmark moment for the experimental transportation technology, Virgin Hyperloop has welcomed aboard its first ever passengers, albeit only for a short spin along a test track. These first ever human trials of a hyperloop system follow hundreds of unmanned test runs at the company’s facility in Nevada, and bode well for its ability to safely transport people through near-vacuum tubes.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Netflix files copyright claims against tweets criticizing movie, trailer
The company filed takedowns against its own trailer when shared in critical tweets.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Vandertoolen
Uber reports 18% revenue decline but says ride-hailing business is picking back up
Uber shares dropped as much as 4% after-hours Thursday as the company reported third quarter revenue that missed Wall Street’s expectations, but picked up during the company’s earnings call when the CEO said there are early signs its core ride-hailing business would fully recover from the Covid 19 pandemic.