Post Overview
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Current Event
3 years ago
+25 25 0 x 1AI is getting better at generating porn
AI image generators like Stable Diffusion are powering new websites that generate highly customize porn. The trend could have far-reaching consequences.
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3 years ago
+20 20 0Bitcoin's One Month Supply Has Reached A Historical Low
Bitcoin supply aged one week to one month has now dropped to the historical low. Short-term buying appears to be decreasing in the BTC market
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3 years ago
+14 14 0A new exoplanet 100 light years from Earth may be entirely covered in water
An international team of researchers led by the University of Montreal discovered an exoplanet that could be covered entirely in water. The planet TOI-1452b is about 100 light years away from Earth, located in Draco Constellation. It's larger in ...
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3 years ago
+16 16 0Notorious DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy
Denuvo, the company best known for its heavily-criticized PC gaming DRM technology, has set its sights on a new scourge: Nintendo Switch piracy. The software maker announced during GamesCom 2022 on Wednesday that it will begin selling a new product c ...
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3 years ago
+17 17 0The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers
Government documents that President Donald J. Trump had accumulated were with him in roughly two dozen boxes in the White House residence. They were to go to the National Archives, but at least some ended up in Florida.
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3 years ago
+25 25 0 x 1Super Punch-Out!!'s Secret Two-Player Mode Has Been Found After 28 Years
Super Punch-Out!!, the 1994 SNES game released as a sequel to the 1987 NES original, is a single-player game. You play as Little Mac, and fight your way through a succession of cartoonish boxing opponents, and every single battle is just you against ...
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3 years ago
+16 16 0Schools Spent Millions on Faulty COVID Scanners
Some of the thermal scanners and cameras sold to schools to detect fevers would regularly fail if someone walked in with a hot coffee or after spending too much time in the sun.
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3 years ago
+25 25 0 x 1Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle to close due to 'safety concerns'
Amazon is temporarily closing its Amazon Go store at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street for "the safety of our store employees, customers, and third-party vendors."
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Analysis
3 years ago
+16 16 0Earth Is Spinning Faster Now Than It Was 50 Years Ago
Compensating for the lost time may prove challenging for scientists.
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Current Event
3 years ago
+14 14 0China says U.S. chip act will distort global semiconductor supply chain
China's commerce ministry said on Friday that a major new chips act passed by the U.S. Congress will distort the global semiconductor supply chain and disrupt international trade.
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3 years ago
+17 17 0How Germany is kicking its meat habit
Oktoberfest — the annual two-week festival in Munich, Germany, that attracts some 6 million attendees a year — originally began in 1810 as the gaudy celebration of a royal marriage. Today, it’s primarily a good reason for visitors to drink about 2 mi ...
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3 years ago
+15 15 0Meteoroid hit has caused 'significant uncorrectable' damage to James Webb Space Telescope
NASA has reported that a meteoroid hit on the James Webb Space Telescope has caused "significant uncorrectable" damage to one of the panels it uses to stare into deep space. The orbiting observatory was launched last December and recently r ...
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3 years ago
+25 26 1 x 1Apple settles US butterfly-keyboard legal action for $50m
Apple will pay $50m (£41.6m) over claims its laptop keyboards were unresponsive and unreliable.
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3 years ago
+19 19 0TikTok is cutting jobs around the world
Some TikTok employees have already lost their jobs, while others are told to prepare for a meeting with the HR department as part of the video platform's global restructuring efforts, Wired reports. According to the publication, European employe ...
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3 years ago
+24 24 0 x 1Loss of male sex chromosome leads to earlier death for men
According to recent study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the loss of the male sex chromosome as men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can result in fatal heart failure. The discovery could provide some insight into why male ...
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3 years ago
+19 19 0Alien³ Changed David Fincher's Entire Approach To Filmmaking
David Fincher learned early on to shed his idealism. Starting in the mid 1980s, Fincher cut his directorial teeth on music videos, working for high-profile artists like Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Paula Abdul, The Rolling Stone ...
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3 years ago
+23 23 0"EVs aren't the only answer": Toyota scientist on the future of cars
It says something about modern life that talking to a softly spoken, fact-based scientist whose eloquence is inversely proportional to his showiness can be described as refreshing. Yet that’s exactly how an hour with Toyota Research Institute CEO Gil ...
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3 years ago
+26 26 0Shazam App Updated to Sync With iPhone's Built-In Music Recognition Feature
Shazam, the popular music recognition service, has updated its iPhone and iPad app so that songs identified with the Music Recognition feature in iOS now sync with the Shazam app.
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3 years ago
+28 28 0 x 1Apple is building a Lockdown Mode to fend off cyberattacks on high-profile users | Engadget
Apple has announced Lockdown Mode, an "extreme" level of security designed for a "very small number of users who face grave, targeted threats." It will be available this fall when the company rolls out iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS ...
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3 years ago
+17 17 0A billion here, a billion there: A new book tells the story of J. Paul Getty
In this age of inflation, when people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don't need to blink about rising costs, a new book about a Minnesota oilman and his dynasty seems timely. In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America ...




















