Post Overview
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Current Event
4 years ago
+27 27 0 x 1Google rode to Robinhood's rescue after it was review-bombed and lost its four-star rating
Google has deleted at least 100,000 negative reviews from Robinhood’s app on the Google Play app store after furious users flooded the app with bad reviews that caused it to drop to a one-star rating. Robinhood users became livid on Thursday morning ...
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4 years ago
+16 16 0Astronaut William Thornton, who invented space shuttle treadmill, dies at 91
Former NASA astronaut William "Bill" Thornton, who used his own inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while on board two space shuttle missions, has died at the age of 91.
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Analysis
4 years ago
+7 7 0The Limits of Logic
Logicians don't rule the world or get the most done. Could it be that a consistent world view is neither desirable nor achievable? If we abandon the straightjacket of rationality might this lead to a more powerful and exciting future, or is it a ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+28 28 0 x 1NASA will soon fire up the most powerful rocket ever built
This liquid fuel engine is a beast.
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Current Event
5 years ago
+10 10 0The Proud Boys Are Raking In Donations from a Christian Crowdfunding Site
A day before the Proud Boys are preparing to join thousands of pro-Trump supporters in Washington for “Stop the Steal” protests, the violent street-fighting group is raking in massive donations from right-wing crowdfunding campaigns designed to fund ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+18 18 0The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI
This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a machine can exhibit conversational behavior indistingui ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+17 17 0Zoom woes reveal companies’ struggles to reconcile US, China systems
Recently revealed US charges against a China-based Zoom employee for censoring virtual meetings commemorating Beijing’s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 show how the space for global technology firms to operate in both China and the U ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+3 3 0A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning
President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill Sunday as unemployment aid expired, the government barrels toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored him to break the impasse he created af ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+10 10 0The federal eviction moratorium expires in January. It could leave 40 million Americans homeless.
Without federal intervention, as many as 40 million people could be displaced amid an ongoing and still worsening pandemic.
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Current Event
5 years ago
+18 18 0Amazon's New Driverless Taxi Doesn't Have a Steering Wheel, Accelerator, or Brakes
After almost a year of limiting our contact with the people in our lives and humanity in general, it’s hard to imagine a future where we freely move about our cities and towns going to meetings, errands, and social events. And it may be even harder t ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+18 18 0Hundreds of mostly maskless people attend Christmas singalong in Thousand Oaks organized by actor Kirk Cameron
Summoned by the actor Kirk Cameron, hundreds of maskless people belted out Christmas carols in a Thousand Oaks parking lot Sunday night in a protest against coronavirus restrictions. Cameron, known for his roles in the sitcom “Growing Pains” and Chri ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+28 28 0Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connect ...
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5 years ago
+18 18 0Apple Fitness+ reviews: Apple Watch features and engaging instructors make it a compelling Peloton competitor - 9to5Mac
Apple Fitness+ will officially debut later today after being announced back in September. Ahead of the launch, a handful of early reviews are now available, and they widely praise the integration with Apple Watch, the variety of the workouts, and mor ...
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Current Event
5 years ago
+11 11 0Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim
A new personality construct has been defined that describes people who persistently see themselves as victims within interpersonal conflicts. The research was published in Personality and Individual Differences.
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Current Event
5 years ago
+22 22 0Google’s star AI ethics researcher, one of a few Black women in the field, says she was fired for a critical email
Timnit Gebru, a star researcher who has criticized the company’s lack of diversity, emailed co-workers that she felt “constantly dehumanized." Her managers, she said, abruptly fired her shortly after.
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Current Event
5 years ago
+16 16 0Bitcoin the new gold? Analysts see 19-times upside by Dec 2021
A leaked report from Citibank, titled ‘Bitcoin: 21st Century Gold said the price of the bitcoin could hit the $3,18,000 mark by December 2021. This will mean a 19-times growth from the current level of around $17,000.
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Current Event
5 years ago
+21 21 0Coinbase Goes Down as Bitcoin Nears $17K
The website and mobile app of U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase are down as bitcoin is nearing $17,000.
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Analysis
5 years ago
+16 16 0The World's Wild and Crazy Vaccine Ride Is Just Starting
Is it possible to have too many vaccines? We may soon find out.
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Analysis
5 years ago
+4 4 0There are Planets So Close to Their Stars That They Have Magma Oceans 100km Deep and Winds that Go 8000 km/h
200 light years away, “super earth” exoplanet K2-141b orbits a star so closely that its “year” is only 7 hours long. Not its day…its YEAR!
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Current Event
5 years ago
+14 14 0'SNL': Dave Chappelle Gets Political In Post-Election Monologue
Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live's post-election show once again this weekend, and delivered a politically charged, frequently controversial monologue that showed the potency of his comedic stylings. Wearing a dark suit and smoking a ci ...




















