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Bored Ape NFT maker Yuga Labs sues artist, claiming he copied tokens
The creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens has sued an artist in Los Angeles federal court, accusing him of selling copycats that are confusing potential buyers.
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3 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine
Artificial photosynthesis has been developed by scientists as a means of producing food without of the necessity for organic photosynthesis. The process turns water, energy, and carbon dioxide into acetate over the course of two electrocatalytic steps. Then, in the dark, organisms that produce food use acetate. The conversion of sunlight into food might be up to 18 times more effective with the hybrid organic-inorganic system.
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5 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Stunning photo of clouds that look like crashing ocean waves goes viral
AKELEY, Minn. - A Minnesota woman recently captured an incredible cloud formation that appeared to look like an ocean in the sky in a now viral photo. Theresa Birgin Lucus of Bemidji was driving home on Highway 64 after a long week in Rochester when storm clouds began rolling in. In a Facebook post, Theresa explained that her daughter was at home and worried about her mother.
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It's 2022. Does Elvis Presley still matter?
Thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s lavish new biopic, Elvis Presley is about to have a moment. He needs one. The second half of the 20th century, for those who came of age during it, was in essence one giant Elvis moment. He was at the epicenter of pop culture from the opening “well” of his first No. 1 hit, “Heartbreak Hotel,” in 1956, through his death in 1977 and beyond.
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9 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Ben Stiller meets with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, tells Ukrainian leader 'You're my hero'
"Zoolander" met Zelenskyy on Monday as actor Ben Stiller visited Kyiv to mark World Refugee Day. The comedy star praised the Ukrainian president — himself a former comedian and actor — as a hero during the meeting, telling him: “You’re amazing.” Stiller visited Zelenskyy in his role as an ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency. It comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to force millions of people to flee the war-torn country, exacerbating a growing global...
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12 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Massachusetts school can no longer be called Catholic after flying Black Lives Matter and pride flags, bishop says
A bishop in Worcester, Massachusetts, has said an area middle school can no longer call itself Catholic because it flew pride and Black Lives Matter flags on its campus after being told to take them down. In a decree, Bishop Robert J. McManus said the Nativity School is supporting movements that are "inconsistent with Catholic teaching."
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13 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Exposure to humorous memes about anti-vaxxers boosts intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine, study finds
Pro-vaccination messaging may be surprisingly effective when delivered through humorous internet memes, according to new findings published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. A series of studies revealed that exposure to sarcastic memes about anti-vaxxers increased UK residents’ intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The researchers suggest that the humorous memes were able to bypass the typical defense processes of people who are vaccine-hesitant.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
U.S. House passes a major wildlife conservation spending bill
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would create a permanent fund of more than $1.3 billion, given to states, territories, and tribal nations for wildlife conservation on the ground.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
WhatsApp now lets you transfer your chat history from Android to iPhone
Using Apple’s Move to iOS Android app.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
Why the global soil shortage threatens food, medicine and the climate
Soil can be considered black gold, and we’re running out it. The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years. “There are places that have already lost all of their topsoil,” Jo Handelsman, author of “A World Without Soil,” and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNBC.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash
Last year, as bitcoin’s price rose as high as $68,000, miners were having a blast. Their profits, according to some estimates, were hovering just under 90 percent, and many of them decided to expand their operations at a frantic pace, bracing for an even larger 2022 bonanza.
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Rediscovering the Mac: An iPad User’s Journey into macOS with the M1 Max MacBook Pro
For the past few months, I’ve been living a double life. Most of you probably know me as “the iPad guy”. And rightfully so: the iPad – more specifically, the iPad Pro – is my favorite computer Apple’s ever made; my coverage of iPad, iPad apps, and, later, iPadOS has far exceeded everything else on MacStories for the last 10 years. I’ve long considered myself primarily an iPad user and someone who strongly believes in the platform because there’s nothing else like it. I don’t th...
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the Pixel Watch and the unlikely return of Google Glass
If you ever want to feel better about your absent-minded moments at work, know that the first time we meet Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, is struggling with the Google Hangouts mute button. “It’s a problem to be solved,” he says. “One of these days, we’ll solve it more elegantly.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
MLB manager to protest national anthem after Uvalde shooting
Gabe Kapler said he felt shame for not kneeling during the national anthem.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Kim Kardashian supports Pete Davidson as he bids farewell to ‘SNL’
Kim Kardashian is supporting Pete Davidson as he takes on his next chapter. The reality star shared a collage of her beau via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, hours after Davidson made his final appearance on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Astronomers question if the first picture of a black hole is accurate
There may be a problem with the first image of a black hole. After three years of analysis, a group of researchers in Japan has produced an image of M87* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy – that looks markedly different from the one released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration in 2019. The researchers claim that the EHT group may have made a major mistake.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to All Hardware and Software Features
The European Union is pressing ahead with legislation to heavily regulate companies like Apple, setting plans to force "gatekeepers" to open up access to hardware and software, and even set up an internal department to meet new rules, according to an endorsed agreement from the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe
A mask that controls how much air you can breathe could be used to simulate environments with a restricted air supply in virtual reality. There have been previous attempts at using the breath to interact with VR, involving devices such as microphones or stretchable chest bands. But they have been prone to misinterpreting movements and can’t accurately record airflow.