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2 years ago+15 15 0Transfer of Stasi records agency closes a chapter of East German history
The Stasi Records Agency is a legacy of the peaceful revolution in the GDR. Now its name is disappearing, but its spirit is to live on elsewhere.
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3 years ago+17 17 0I’ll Take ‘White Supremacist Hand Gestures’ for $1,000
How hundreds of “Jeopardy!” contestants talked themselves into a baseless conspiracy theory — and won’t be talked out of it. It is an ironclad rule of the private Facebook group of past “Jeopardy!” contestants that nobody post about that night’s epis ...
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3 years ago+16 16 0Robot That Senses Hidden Objects – “We’re Trying to Give Robots Superhuman Perception”
System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view. In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associa ...
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3 years ago+20 20 0Apple is giving a laser company that builds some of its AR tech $410 million
Apple has announced that it’s awarding Pennsylvania-based optical technology company II-VI with $410 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that the company’s tech helps power Apple’s FaceID, Memoji, and Portrait Mod ...
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3 years ago+4 4 0How melting glaciers have accelerated a shift in Earth’s axis
The axis of the Earth has shifted and moved the locations of the north and south poles. The poles have always wandered very gradually on the globe but in 1995 the north pole turned away from Canada towards Russia and accelerated over the next 15 year ...
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3 years ago+17 17 0Snapchat Rolls Out Dark Mode on iOS
Nearly two years following the release of iOS and iPadOS 13, which included native, built-in, and systemwide dark mode, Snapchat, one of the world's most prominent social media networks, has finally rolled out a dark mode theme for iOS users.
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3 years ago+13 13 0Over 70% Of Men Say They'd Rather Cut Their Life Expectancy Than Ditch Meat, Poll Finds
More than 70 percent of men in Australia say they’d rather cut their life expectancy by up to 10 years than ditch meat. The data, commissioned by No Meat May, also found that 47 percent saw eating meat as a ‘masculine undertaking’.
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3 years ago+11 11 0Everything about America’s gun debate is wrong – here’s why
We write about gun violence in America as our full-time jobs. Between the two of us, we’ve been doing that for over a decade. We see that America’s endless gun debate does not treat shooting victims and their families equitably. It is not driven by a ...
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3 years ago+3 3 0Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average, according to a new study
Apparently, we're self-medicating with caffeine and high-sugar foods, and it's not good for our brains.
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3 years ago+20 20 0Samsung's 'iTest' Lets You Try a Galaxy Device on Your iPhone
Samsung has launched "iTest," an interactive website experience that's designed to allow iPhone users to test out Android on a Galaxy device, or "sample the other side," as Samsung puts it.
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3 years ago+3 3 0Robot artist sells art for $688,888, now eyeing music career
Sophia is a robot of many talents — she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. In March, she caused a stir in the art world when a digital work she created as part of a collaboration was sold at an auction for $688,888 in the form of a non-fungible ...
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3 years ago+11 11 0Jerome Powell: Economy Is Better Thanks To 'Dunkirk'-Like Rescue By Fed, Congress
A year after the pandemic plunged the U.S. economy into it worst crisis since the Great Depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is largely satisfied with the central bank's rapid-fire response.
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3 years ago+12 12 0Processed Meat Linked to Increased Dementia Risk, Study Finds
People’s love of processed meat might come back to bite them in the long run, new research from the UK suggests. The study found a link between greater consumption of processed meat and higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. ...
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3 years ago+14 14 0Matthew McConaughey says he’s seriously considering run for governor in Texas
Matthew McConaughey says he is seriously considering a gubernatorial run in Texas. The Oscar winner said on a Houston-based podcast that he was weighing up running for the job in his home state, where Republican Greg Abbott is up for re-election in 2 ...
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3 years ago+23 23 0Democrats hesitant to raise taxes amid pandemic
President Biden declared during the campaign that he would repeal the Trump tax cuts on “day one,” but after more than a month in office, some key Democratic lawmakers say they are reluctant to raise taxes during an economic slowdown.
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3 years ago+3 3 0Texas’s Energy Crisis Is America’s Future
The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.
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3 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.
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3 years ago+12 12 0Rumor: Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD Coming to Switch Later This Year - VGCultureHQ
Twilight Princess HD and The Wind Waker HD may be coming to the Nintendo Switch after all. While some may be disappointed that only Skyward Sword HD is coming to the Switch, there is hope for the other two titles, perhaps with a few more thrown into ...
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3 years ago+25 25 0Toyota will debut its first mass-market EVs in the US this year
Toyota will finally introduce its first mass-market all-electric vehicles in the United States later this year, the world’s leading automaker announced Wednesday, though it offered no further details about vehicle type or pricing.
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3 years ago+21 21 0How neo-Nazis used the internet to instigate a right-wing extremist crisis
The number of active hate groups in the United States has fallen by about 10 percent in the past year. This isn’t necessarily good news. There were 838 active hate groups this year, compared to 940 in 2019, according to an annual report by the Southe ...