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5 hours ago
Comment aj0690Never heard of the guy but RIP buddy
Posted in: ‘Degrassi’ Actor Jahmil French Dies at 29
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1 day ago
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6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways
Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," the business that preserves the author's legacy said.
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2 days ago
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How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot
On social media, on cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.
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2 days ago
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Gonna check this out today or tomorrow when I have time!
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2 days ago
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption
A court has found Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced the former French president to three years in prison with two of them suspended. France’s president from 2007 to 2012 was accused of forging a “corruption pact” with his lawyer and a senior magistrate. Judges said there was “serious evidence” of collaboration between the three men to break the law.
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5 days ago
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‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded while they posed and prepped for the portrait.
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5 days ago
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Honestly I'm surprised they didn't do this earlier before the Trump boom
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5 days ago
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It all started with the automated drink pourer some 20 years ago
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6 days ago
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‘Millions of people’s data is at risk’ — Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance. Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company's efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company's security shortfalls expose users' information to potential breaches, theft and exploitation.
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6 days ago
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Social Media Sites Must Remove Content in 36 Hours of Order, Says Govt in Draft Digital, OTT Platform Rules
The central government has finalized the rules to regulate internet-based businesses and organizations - social media companies, OTT streaming services, and digital news outlets, among others - as it plans to introduce a sea change in legislation to assert more control over powerful Big Tech firms.
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7 days ago
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But that $78 million is basically worthless outside of the game
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7 days ago
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Don't fuck with chickens!
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7 days ago
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This guy isn't very bright is he?
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7 days ago
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I might switch from Chrome just because of this
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9 days ago
Similar reason I miss the Blockbuster days of going into a store and wandering around for 15 min looking at movie boxes, and hoping they were in stock for rent haha
Posted in: Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
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2 weeks ago
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Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio titan, has died of lung cancer at age 70
Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News, died Wednesday after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal. He was 70. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.
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3 weeks ago
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UK tells social media to take down COVID myths
The British government said on Thursday it was telling social media giants to take down posts containing coronavirus disinformation over concern that many in minority communities were refusing to be vaccinated.
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3 weeks ago
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The world’s biggest owl is endangered—but it’s not too late to save it
Sitting motionless on a fallen tree trunk, Rada Surmach strained to hear the mournful echo of nesting owls, deep in the Tunsha River Valley of the Russian Far East. In the twilight, she finally heard it: The duet of the Blakiston’s fish owl, an endangered species whose six-foot wingspan makes it the world’s biggest owl.
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1 month ago
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'New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.
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1 month ago
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Alexei Navalny Grows More Powerful Every Time Putin Talks About Him
One day we may look back on January 2021 as the beginning of the end of Putin’s reign.
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1 month ago
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Talking can spread Covid as much as coughing, says research
Tiny aerosols of the virus emitted when speaking linger in air for longer than larger droplets from a cough
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1 month ago
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Trump's Hollywood Income Collapsed as He Prepared to Leave the Oval Office
Income from 'The Apprentice' and residuals from films like 'Home Alone 2' and 'The Little Rascals' fell significantly during his final year in office. Former President Donald Trump, who was a well-established media and entertainment personality for decades before winning the 2016 presidential election, saw his Hollywood income fall dramatically during his final year in office.
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1 month ago
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Photographer Takes Once-In-Lifetime Shot Of The Moon Dressed As Saturn
A photographer in Guatemala received a great chance to capture an incredible photograph of the moon disguised as Saturn. This majestic photograph was shot from the perspective of the Acatenango volcano base camp. Thanks to the photographer Francisco Sojuel's six hour long hike we are able to witness a once in a life-time scenery by our eyes.
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1 month ago
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NASA lends 3.9-billion-year-old moon rock to the Biden White House
There's a new decoration in President Joe Biden's Oval Office. Although really, it's a very old decoration. At the request of the new administration, NASA loaned out a moon rock from its Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The moon rock went on display in the Oval Office on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
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1 month ago
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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
The origins of an enigmatic type of lightning in the upper atmosphere has been traced to a 10-microsecond flash of bright blue light.