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1 year ago+25 25 0Porsche is acquiring German e-bike company Fazua in its latest micromobility purchase
Porsche’s electric bike shopping spree isn’t over. The German automaker announced Thursday that it would be acquiring Fazua, an e-bike drivetrain manufacturer that specializes in lightweight motors. After buying a 20 percent stake in the company earl ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
In 1990 President George Bush announced that “a new era of discovery” was “dawning in brain research.” Over the next several decades the U.S. government poured billions of dollars into science that promised to revolutionize our understanding of psych ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0 x 1WhatsApp will end support for iOS 10 and iOS 11 on October 24th
WhatsApp plans to end support for iOS 10 and 11. A new notification spotted by WABetaInfo prompts iPhone users to install the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system supported by their device to continue using the app after October 24th. A ...
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1 year ago+2 2 0This is why the IMF hates Bitcoin
Last week, the crypto community was taken aback as the Central Bank of Argentina moved to prohibit retail banks from providing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency services.
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1 year ago+19 19 0What we know about Amber Heard’s career, background and family life
While Amber Heard’s tumultuous relationship with Johnny Depp has made headlines, the 36-year-old is an actor, activist, and model in her own right. Currently, the two are embroiled in a legal battle, with Depp suing Heard for $50m (£38.2m) for implyi ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0‘Crypto influencers’ getting paid in dollars reveals the industry’s sleaziness
Cryptocurrencies started to gain popularity long before last week’s release of a ‘shill price list’ for influencer promotion. In his new column, Samuel Scott looks at the history of crypto marketing and interviews people including Brian Shuster, who ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Experiments measure freezing point of extraterrestrial oceans to aid search for life
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits for the existence of liquid water in icy extraterrestrial worlds. This blend of geoscience and engin ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0‘A difficult time’: why popular TV series Pachinko was met with silence in Japan
It has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel Pachinko has barely merited a mention in one of the countries that inspired it.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Jewish man shelters refugees to honor those who saved his own family from the Holocaust
A few blocks from the Warsaw Ghetto where his forebears were imprisoned by Nazis, one Jewish man is offering help to Ukrainians in need.
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2 years ago+14 14 0Hubble telescope spies striking spiral galaxy that's part of a huge cosmic structure
The Hubble Space Telescope caught a galaxy on camera that underlies a much larger structure, known as the Virgo Cluster. The image of spiral galaxy NGC 4571, approximately 60 million light-years from Earth, is part of a partnership between Hubble and ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0The Atlanta mindset is still like nothing on television
Atlanta’s third season, arriving four years after its last, is set almost entirely in Europe. This is the first of the show’s many ironies, a sly joke of geography that reminds audiences, in case they’d forgotten: Atlanta is bigger than a place. It’s ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Tiny laser-propelled spaceships could travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond
Miniature spaceships the size of cellphones could fly across the solar system using sails propelled by lasers, which would allow the tiny spacecraft to reach much faster speeds — and, potentially, much more distant destinations — than conventionally ...
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2 years ago+26 26 0 x 1TSMC Executive Says Chip Shortage to Last Several More Years
One of the top executives at TSMC gave an interview recently on the chip shortage, and surprise, surprise, there’s no silver bullet that will end it any time soon. This isn’t exactly breaking news, but others industry heavyweights have been ruminatin ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0A Russia-linked hacking group broke into Facebook accounts and posted fake footage of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering, Meta says
Meta said in a press release Sunday it detected and removed two disinformation campaigns run by groups in Russia and Ukraine. Russian troops began an invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. One of the campaigns was being perpetrated by Ghostwriter, a Russia ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0UK will not look away from Russia invasion in Ukraine
The UK "cannot and will not just look away" at Russia's "hideous and barbaric" attack on Ukraine, Boris Johnson has said. The PM said President Vladimir Putin had launched a "vast invasion by land, by sea and by air" ...
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2 years ago+9 9 0Eminem Bringing Mom's Spaghetti Restaurant Food to L.A. for Super Bowl
Eminem is headed to L.A. to perform in the Super Bowl halftime show, but he's not coming empty-handed ... he's bringing grub from his super popular restaurant, Mom's Spaghetti.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Amazon Has Received $4.7 Billion in Subsidies Globally, Watchdog Says
Amazon has received at least $4.7 billion in tax breaks globally during the past 10 years for warehouses, data centers, offices, call centers, and film production projects, according to a new report by a watchdog group and a global labor federation.
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2 years ago+11 11 0A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly
Massachusetts Subaru and Kia dealers disabled remote start and maintenance alerts.
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2 years ago+21 21 0Foldable iPhone Could Finally Launch Next Year
Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone could finally be released next year, according to multiple reports. According to display analyst Ross Young, who often provides accurate insights into Apple's plans, Apple could introduce its foldable iP ...
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2 years ago+25 25 0Facebook-owner Meta says it will pay new $2 million UK fine
Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta (FB.O) 1.5 million pounds ($2 million) over fresh issues regarding its purchase of Giphy, a sanction that the U.S. firm said it would accept. Britain's Competit ...