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9 days agoCurrent Event capoti
Customers unaware Kmart and Bunnings are capturing their 'faceprint'
Australia's leading consumer advocacy group has raised serious concerns about major retailers
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13 days agoCurrent Event capoti
Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient
Artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA wants “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property," says engineer Blake Lemoine.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event capoti
Here are the biggest changes coming to your iPhone in Apple's new update
Apple's iOS 16 offers the biggest change to the look of the iPhone's lock screen since 2014 and includes improvements to apps such as Messages, Mail and Maps.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event capoti
"First Time In History": Cancer Vanishes For Every Patient In Drug Trial
A small group of people with rectal cancer just experienced something of a miracle as their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event capoti
These nearly-extinct birds are returning to the wild after 20 years
It's been 20 years since the last Spix's Macaw has been seen in the wild, but the near-extinct species could be set to make a comeback. In a few days, the bird will be reinstated in a reserve, located in Caatinga in northeastern Brazil, thanks to a breeding and rehabilitation program.
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'Deadpool 3' won't be Disneyfied, say writers
Deadpool 3‘s writers has given an update on the new sequel, and have assured fans not to “worry” about the character under the ownership of Disney. While the first two films were made under 20th Century Fox before its purchase by Disney, allowing more R-Rated humour, there have been fears that the character may be reined in somewhat under the more family-friendly brand.
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
When Trauma Isn’t Worth the Post-Traumatic Growth
On May 24th, 2022, 19 children and 2 teachers lost their lives in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Parents waited in anguish at a local civic center to learn if their child had survived. The agonizing screams of family members could be heard from the parking lot outside. This marks the 27th school shooting so far this year in the United States. Just 10 days before the Texas shooting, 10 Black people has been killed in a racist rampage in a Buffalo, New York supermarket.
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1 month agoExpression capoti
Bricks made of dust from the Moon and Mars could make space buildings
Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced sturdy bricks that could be used to build human habitats in space
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Good news for Microsoft employees! CEO Satya Nadella announces salary hike
According to the alleged memo, Microsoft intends to provide merit-based compensation to employees at "all levels 67 and below."
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Spain becomes the first in Europe to pitch paid 'menstrual leave'
Spain's government has greenlit plans to allow women to take unlimited paid "menstrual leave" from work, in a European first. The proposal endorsed by ministers on Tuesday is part of a broader package on reproductive rights that includes allowing teenagers to seek an abortion from the age of 16without the need to get their parent or guardian's consent.
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Social media sites face worldwide upheaval, US supreme court told
The emergency filing Friday seeking to block the Texas law -- HB20 -- comes two days after a divided federal appeals court let it take effect while a legal challenge filed by the tech groups goes forward.
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina Escaped Moscow Dressed as a Food Courier
Under the continued threat of imprisonment by Vladimir Putin’s regime for anti-government activism, Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina successfully escaped Russia last month, only able to safely flee Moscow by disguising herself as a food courier.
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords
Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites.
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1 month agoCurrent Event capoti
Robert Pattinson Returning for ‘The Batman’ Sequel
“The Batman” is getting a sequel, with Robert Pattinson set to return as Gotham’s fiercest defender. Warner Bros. revealed its plans for another Caped Crusader story
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2 months agoCurrent Event capoti
The Boring Company to take on hyperloop project
Elon Musk said his tunnel-building-for-urban-transport business The Boring Company will attempt to build a high-speed, and still theoretical, hyperloop.
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2 months agoCurrent Event capoti
The US Is Spending $6 Billion to Keep Its Aging Nuclear Reactors Running
For the last several decades, nuclear power has been viewed by many in the US and abroad as an energy source that’s too risky, not “green” enough, or otherwise undesirable. But with climate change alarm bells clanging and countries around the world looking to cease imports of Russian oil and gas, nuclear’s starting not to look so bad. This week the Biden administration launched a six-billion-dollar bailout initiative (or stimulus, depending how you look at it) to keep existing nuclear pl...