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Current Event aj0690Quit trying to make Quibi happen
Nobody asked for Quibi. Nobody, that is, except for Jeffrey Katzenberg, the founder of Dreamworks Pictures and famed Hollywood producer. Where other mobile video startups failed, like Samsung’s long-forgotten Milk Video and Verizon's own Go90 (RIP), Katzenberg figured he could succeed by pouring money (somehow he’s raised $1.75 billion so far!) into top talent and well produced shows. At CES in January, Quibi also revealed its core innovation, Turnstyle, which allows you to seamlessly s...
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3 days ago
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'Tequila' powered biofuels more efficient than corn or sugar
The agave plant used to make tequila could be established in semi-arid Australia as an environmentally friendly solution to Australia's transport fuel shortage, a team of researchers at the University of Sydney, University of Exeter and University of Adelaide has found.
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6 days ago
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‘Schitt’s Creek’: After Six Incomparable Seasons, the Roses Are Ready to Say Goodbye
In the 2015 premiere of “Schitt’s Creek,” a riches-to-rags comedy, the Rose family arrive in the tiny titular town wearing the designer clothes of their past life as protective gear. But over the show’s six seasons on Pop TV, viewers have seen the once wealthy Roses — Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O’Hara) and their adult children, David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) — scrape their way from being penniless exiles in a town they’d bought as a joke to being ele...
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8 days ago
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Christian pastor who thought COVID-19 is just ‘mass hysteria’ among the first in Virginia to die from virus
One of the first deaths of a Virginian from coronavirus was a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist” who fell ill while on a trip to New Orleans with his wife. As the Friendly Atheist’s Bo Gardiner points out, Landon Spradlin had previously shared opinions that the pandemic was the result of “mass hysteria” from the media.
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10 days ago
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Study on ‘hangxiety’ finds shy people experience an increase in anxiety a day after drinking alcohol
Shy people are more likely to experience anxiety during alcohol hangover, according to a recent Personality and Individual Differences study.
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2 weeks ago
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Most of India under lockdown as coronavirus appears in small towns
Police enforced lockdowns across large parts of India on Tuesday, with curfews in some places, as health officials warned that the coronavirus was spreading out of big cities where it first appeared into the small towns that dot the landscape.
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2 weeks ago
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Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
“We are freezing the economy.”
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2 weeks ago
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Coronavirus deals blow to NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan
The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA's plan to return Americans to the ...
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2 weeks ago
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2020 MacBook Air Reviews Praise Magic Keyboard and Faster Performance at Lower $999 Starting Price
The media has got its hands on the new MacBook Air and first impressions of the notebook after a day or two of usage are largely positive. Following in the footsteps of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, the new MacBook Air features a redesigned Magic Keyboard with scissor switches that deliver 1mm of key travel for a comfortable and stable key feel. As with the 16-inch MacBook Pro, reviews find the keyboard on the new MacBook Air to be far better than the problematic butterfly keyboard of recent years.
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2 weeks ago
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Logitech Debuts Trackpad Keyboards for 10.2-Inch iPad and 10.5-Inch iPad Air
Apple today announced that iPadOS 13.4 will feature trackpad support for all iPad Pro models, the iPad Air 2 and later, the fifth-generation iPad and later, and the iPad mini 4 and later. The software update will be released on March 24. Trackpad support paves the way for Apple's new Magic Keyboard for 2018 and later iPad Pro models, coming in May, as well as third-party options.
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1 month ago
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Return of the burbot: 'great lost fish' to be reintroduced to UK
Forget dreams of wolves, bears or lynx – the next animal to be restored to the British countryside could be a river bottom-dwelling fish that resembles a giant tadpole. The burbot, much-maligned for its unprepossessing appearance with a fleshy appendage dangling from its chin, was last sighted in British rivers in 1969.
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1 month ago
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Europe experiences exceptionally warm winter
The 2019/2020 winter has been the warmest on record for Europe, with average temperatures 1.4C above the previous high of 2015/2016. Winter is defined as the months of December, January, and February. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) says the warmth was very evident in the north and east of the continent where a number of local temperature records were being broken.
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1 month ago
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A Black Hole Spewed the Ingredients for Life Across the Galaxy, Study Suggests
When the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy explodes, it likely eviscerates any life close to it. But over longer distances, these bursts of radiation may help life emerge.
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1 month ago
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Terrible idea from the beginning. I'm honestly surprised it took this long.