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1 year ago+21 21 0Apple 'Tracking Employee Attendance' in Crackdown on Remote Working
Apple is tracking the attendance of its employees at offices using badge records in order to ensure they are coming in at least three times a week, according to Platformer's Zoë Schiffer. Since April 2022, Apple employees have been operating on ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Earth to Hit Critical Warming Threshold by Early 2030s, Climate Panel Says
A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
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1 year ago+14 14 0Evil Dead Rise: Fright Rags Collection To Be Unleashed In April
Fright Rags has plenty of new collections taking inspiration from classic and modern horror films but a recent announcement for an officially licensed Evil Dead Rise collection has me very excited for April. An Instagram post from yesterday revealed ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Donald Glover’s “Swarm” Is a Portrait of the Serial Killer as a Young Stan
You know Ni’Jah. Every last inch of her gleams: her hair, her eyes, her teeth, the beads and paillettes that shimmer with each hip thrust or arm swing, but, most of all, her skin. She looks the way royalty should. Her pronouncements, delivered in son ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less?
AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE captures the public imagination, while also exhibiting missteps and failures, enthusiasts continue to tout future productivity gains as justification for a lenient approach to its governance. For example, venture fund ARK I ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Silicon Valley finally figured out people don't like it
During the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, people in tech started to realize something: a lot of people really don’t like them. Since the bank started to buckle late last week, tech luminaries have taken time out of their busy schedules of doing innova ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Peter Schiff Criticizes Bitcoin's 20% Surge, Arguing Gold is Still a Better Inflation Hedge
On March 14, 2023, Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff posted a tweet about Bitcoin that sparked a debate within the crypto community. Schiff tweeted that Bitcoin had surged by 20% after a long-awaited change in direction from the Federal Reserve, ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0The world’s newest space telescope just found something that shouldn’t exist
The James Webb Space Telescope was built by the international community to help humanity better understand the stars, but images captured during a recent space survey may have just made our understanding of the universe even more complicated.
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1 year ago+11 11 0Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
A Japanese researcher has told a major genetics conference that he has created eggs from the cells of male mice. The research, still in its early stages, involved turning male XY sex chromosomes into female XX ones.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Chris Rock Eviscerates Will Smith in Live Netflix Stand-up Special
It was nearly a year ago that Will Smith marched onto the Dolby Theatre stage and smacked the piss out of host Chris Rock in the middle of the Oscars ceremony — all for the crime of making an off-color joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairdo. ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Is reverse aging already possible? Some drugs that could treat aging might already be on the pharmacy shelves
At 67 years old, Dr. Nir Barzilai looks about the same as, if not younger than, he did 10 years ago. It’s apparent in side-by-side photographs, and it’s what most people who know him say. Barzilai lives a healthy lifestyle. He exercises every day, ea ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0More than 60 nations agree to address concerns over AI use in warfare
The sudden rise and advancement of artificial intelligence systems over the last few months have brought fears of its potentially harmful effects on society. Not only might AI threaten human jobs and creativity, but smart machines' use in warfar ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Discarded Roman artefact may have been more than a good luck charm
The wooden object was initially thought to be a darning tool since it had been found alongside dozens of shoes and dress accessories, as well as other small tools and craft waste products such as leather off-cuts and worked antler, that were discarde ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0FDA no longer requires animal testing for new drugs. Is that safe?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) no longer requires new drugs to be tested in animals before being approved. Thanks to a law passed in December 2022(opens in new tab), the agency now has the option to approve drugs that are tested in only ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0Reddit was hacked in a phishing attack targeting its employees
The website says investigators have found no evidence that users' passwords have been compromised..
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1 year ago+22 22 0A neuroscientist shares the 4 ‘highly coveted’ skills that set introverts apart: ‘Their brains work differently’
Being the most talkative person in the room may be a good way to get people’s attention, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you have the best ideas. As a neuroscientist, I’ve worked with large companies like Google and Deloitte on how to attract and ret ...
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1 year ago+31 31 0 x 1New iPhone browsers on the way without WebKit; Apple prepping Safari for competition
We may soon see entirely new iPhone browsers available, as both Google and Mozilla anticipate the end of Apple’s insistence that all iOS browsers use the same WebKit engine as Safari. This will enable new versions of Chrome and Firefox to offer great ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0A Simple Urine Test Could Detect Brain Tumors
Researchers in Japan have developed a new device to identify proteins – which are diagnostic biomarkers of brain cancer – in urine. The study is published in ACS Nano.
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1 year ago+16 16 0An AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode on Twitch
Seinfeld has long inspired fan work, from the long-running @Seinfeld2000 Twitter account to video and audio remixes of every type. The only limiting factor in the endless production of these ideas is that they’re created by human beings who must eat, ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Watch This Flyover Of Mars In Full-Screen
Using hundreds of high-resolution photos of Mars surface taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Jan Fröjdman made this stunning video which depicts what a flyover of the planet might look like. (From 2017)
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