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2 years ago+18 18 0Facebook sued for billions over harvesting people's data
Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit which could see its parent company Meta paying $3.1 billion to its UK users for harvesting their data. The lawsuit was filed against Meta on Thursday with the U.K.'s Competition Appeal Tribunal in London ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0PS5 Shortage Has Reportedly Led Sony to Make More PS4s Than Initially Planned
To deal with the ongoing global PlayStation 5 shortage, Sony has allegedly decided to produce more PlayStation 4s than it had initially planned to help "fill the supply vacuum and keep gamers within the PlayStation ecosystem."
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2 years ago+13 13 0Overwhelmed by Omicron surge, U.S. hospitals delay surgeries
Hospitals across the United States are postponing elective surgeries to free up staff and beds due to a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Administrators say hospital staff shortages have be ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Samsung says its foldable shipments increased four-fold in 2021
Samsung wants you to know its foldables haven’t flopped. In a recent blog post, the company said it sold four times more foldable devices in 2021 than 2020. It attributes this success to the arrival of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, which, in our ...
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2 years ago+21 21 0Vaccine effect fades faster for cancer patients; boosters restore it
Vaccine protection against COVID-19 wanes more quickly among cancer patients, but boosters rapidly bolster their antibody levels, Israeli research has found. The study supports the case for giving cancer patients third vaccine doses in countries wher ...
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2 years ago+24 24 0McDonald's targets kids in lower-income countries with social media posts, study finds
Fast-food chain McDonald's may be targeting children in lower middle-income countries globally with marketing messages, potentially worsening diet problems in some of the world's most vulnerable populations, an analysis published Tuesday by ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0HBO Max Might Have Outsmarted the Streaming Wars
The play to put all Warner Bros. theatrical movies on the service in 2021 was a big gamble. It paid off.
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2 years ago+1 1 0Hubble telescope traces a spiral galaxy to chart our universe's expansion
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning spiral galaxy in a larger quest to chart the expansion rate of our universe. The new image of spiral galaxy Mrk (Markarian) 1337 shows its glittering stars shining roughly 120 million light-years awa ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0OPINION: For A Conscious Planet, Focus Should Move Towards Soil
Our attention has to shift to soil. As a part of this, we are unfolding a movement called Conscious Planet. Right now, it looks like climate change and ecology are the playground of the rich and elite. This must change. Through Conscious Planet, we a ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Kristen Stewart Is Developing A Gay Ghost-Hunting Reality Show
Since the "Twilight" film franchise ended in 2021, it's seemed like stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been in competition to see who can separate themselves the furthest from their teenage vampire movie roots. Both take o ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0NASA is studying how to build a Wi-Fi network on the moon in the hope it could solve Earth's digital divide
A new study revealed by NASA considers the possibility of building a lunar Wi-Fi network, the agency reported. It comes in an effort to address inadequate internet access across parts of the US and help inform future Artemis missions.
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2 years ago+23 23 0Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions. A new experiment appears to have triggered ignition for the first time, at the National Ignition Fac ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
Earlier today, we reported that new firmware versions are gradually rolling out for Apple’s wireless headphone products. This new software enables Find My support for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max, which Apple first teased.
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2 years ago+21 21 0Facebook says its AI mislabeling a video of Black men as "primates" was "unacceptable"
Facebook is apologizing for an incident where its AI mislabeled a video of Black men with a “primates” label, calling it an “unacceptable error” that it was examining to prevent it from happening again. As reported by the New York Times, users who wa ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0China Is Planning To Build Megastructures In Space
Decades after launching the first artificial satellite into orbit, Beijing is strengthening its foothold in space. As per a new report, now China intends to construct megastructures in space that will span miles and may include solar power plants, to ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Belarusian Olympian Tsimanouskaya Plans To Represent Poland After Defection
The Belarusian sprinter who appealed for international help to avoid being forced home prematurely from the Tokyo Olympics says she wants to represent Poland, the country she defected to with her husband less than three weeks ago.
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2 years ago+15 15 0U.S. chip start-up says its work with UK’s biggest plant came to a ‘screeching halt’ after Chinese takeover
A U.S. semiconductor start-up says its relationship with the U.K.’s largest chip plant ended abruptly when Chinese-owned Nexperia took over in July. Pennsylvania-based Ideal Semiconductor told CNBC it was getting silicon wafers processed at the Newpo ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Explosive death of star captured in never-before-seen detail
Around a billion years ago, a massive yellow star exploded in the constellation of Cancer. If the Kepler space telescope hadn't been looking in the right place at the right time a billion years later, we'd never know about it.
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2 years ago+17 17 0New Infrastructure Bill Looks to Raise $30B Through Crypto Taxes
A bipartisan infrastructure bill in Congress proposes to raise $28 billion from crypto investors by applying new information reporting requirements to exchanges and other parties.
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2 years ago+12 12 0‘It’s good to think of Elder Scrolls 6 as still in a design phase’, says Todd Howard
Bethesda’s Todd Howard has said The Elder Scrolls 6 is still in the relatively early planning stages, suggesting its release is some years away. The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced at E3 2018 with a brief teaser trailer which confirmed that the sequel ...