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1 year ago+20 20 0Brooke Shields reveals rape as young star in Sundance film: I just thought 'stay alive and get out' | Life
Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a young Hollywood actor in new documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premiered at the Sundance film festival on Friday. The former supermodel did not reveal the identity of her attacker, but said she ...
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1 year ago+10 10 050 Cent announces “modern” ‘8 Mile’ TV series with Eminem’s blessing
50 Cent has announced plans to create a “modern” version of Eminem’s semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile. Released in 2002, 8 Mile starred Eminem as aspiring rapper B-Rabbit, alongside Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy and Anthony Mackie. It was a critical ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Singapore teachers brace for more cheating by students using viral bot ChatGPT
Teachers in Singapore say they will likely have to move from assignments requiring regurgitation to those that require greater critical thinking, to stay ahead in the fight against plagiarism.
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1 year ago+25 25 0High-efficiency water filter removes 99.9% of microplastics in 10 seconds
Microplastics are a growing environmental problem, but now researchers in Korea have developed a new water purification system that can filter out these tiny fragments, as well as other pollutants, very quickly and with high efficiency.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Judge strips Alex Jones of bankruptcy protections for $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt
Houston Judge Christopher M. López reportedly ended a stay preventing Sandy Hook families from collecting a $1.5 billion judgment against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In a ruling on Monday, López granted an order to lift a stay that was automatica ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0New study finds alterations in the brain's white matter in children with depression
A 17-year neuroimaging study of persons diagnosed with depression as children found differences in white matter in the dorsal cingulum bundle region of the brain compared to persons without depression of similar age. The emergence of these difference ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Dog protects young girls for hours after getting lost in woods
When Abigail and Cecilia Bourg went missing at the end of November in the woods behind their home, their parents were frantic. Now, Artemis, the Bourg family dog, is being hailed a hero. "I just start like running around the whole property — six ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer.
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1 year ago+16 16 0How daredevil drones find nearly extinct plants hiding in cliffs
Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the neighboring red-rock ridges. It was quiet, if not for a faint buzzing of a drone flying among flocks of curious white-tailed tropicbirds.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Walmart-backed fintech startup plans to launch its own buy now, pay later loans
A Walmart-backed startup is looking to compete with buy now, pay later companies. The venture, called One, is gearing up to launch its own version of the payment service as soon as next year, according to a source familiar with the matter. One, which ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Reddit’s 2022 recap transforms users into trading cards
It’s app recap season once again, and Reddit is getting in on the moment with its second annual personalized recap. This year, your recap will include an autogenerated trading card that represents you and your Reddit experience in 2022.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Chinese hackers stole at least $20 million in US COVID-19 relief cash, the Secret Service says
This money was meant for COVID-19 relief and included small business loans and unemployment fund, the Secret Service told NBC.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Quentin Tarantino resisted studio calls to cast Johnny Depp in 'Pulp Fiction'
Quentin Tarantino has addressed a recent so-called “wish list” of actors that he wanted for roles in Pulp Fiction, and revealed he pushed back against studio wishes to cast Johnny Depp. The list of names recently went viral on social media, which inc ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries
Though the real world impacts of FTX’s spectacular crash have yet to fully settle, Amazon’s reportedly moving forward with a miniseries about the bankrupt crypto exchange and its infamous former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
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1 year ago+22 22 0GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump
A longtime Ron Paul aide helped a Russian businessman get into a Trump fundraiser; Trump later pardoned him for another campaign finance crime.
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1 year ago+19 19 0This hummingbird failed to fly south for the winter, so it got a car ride instead
A tiny rufous hummingbird was released safely in Vancouver late last month after it was found flying around Prince George, more than 500 kilometres north, long after it should have migrated for the winter. The bird first caught the notice of Clive Ke ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0 x 1Alex Jones' Sandy Hook conspiracy trial moves to punitive damages phase
Infowars host Alex Jones faces the possibility of having more steep penalties heaped onto the vast amount he already owes for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as the punitive damages phase began Friday in ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0Spain briefly closes part of airspace as Chinese rocket debris flies over
Spain briefly closed the airspace over the northeastern region of Catalonia and three other regions on Friday, causing delays to around 300 flights, as remnants of a Chinese rocket passed by before hitting the ocean off Mexico's coast, authoriti ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage
Google Hangouts is scheduled for death today. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today. For a brief period, Hangouts was Google's best, ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Five years later, is eSIM finally ready to take on the world?
Smartphone technology follows an odd dichotomy. On the one hand, you’ve got bleeding-edge imaging credentials powering some of the best camera phones, more power than you can shake a stick at, and incredible fast-charging advancements. On the other h ...