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9 months agoCurrent Event capoti
Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users' data for AI training
Reddit says the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform's sale, licensing or sharing of user posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial intelligence models.
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10 months agoExpression capoti
Why are minigames now basically essential for larger video games?
From Gwent to Orlog and the upcoming Queen’s Blood in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, minigames are everywhere
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1 year agoAnalysis capoti
'Polar bear capital of the world' soon to be overrun with record number of bears due to shifting sea ice
The Canadian town of Churchill has already had more than four times as many polar bear visitors this year compared with the same time last year, and many more could soon be on the way.
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1 year agoExpression capoti
How electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
EVs have become weaponised amid fears over cost of shift to battery power and job losses at carmakers
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
Kansas woman killed by grizzly bear was 'beautiful free spirit', says mother
Amie Adamson was an avid hiker, and died "doing what she loved" on a Montana trail, her mother says.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
New Zealand bans thin plastic fruit and vegetable bags in world first
The ban is expected to reduce the use of 150 million bags a year
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
The first permanent electrified road for electric vehicles will be constructed in Sweden
With the most recent EU regulation requiring zero CO2 emissions from automobiles starting in 2035, European nations are scrambling to set up the infrastructure (electrified road) required for the mobility of electric vehicles (EVs). In terms of sustainability requirements and the adoption of renewable energy, Sweden is appropriately upholding its pioneering reputation.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
You can now use your phone to ID skin conditions
While it’s not at all aimed to replace medical screening, the visual search function of Google Lens has now moved beyond identifying plants and birds to being able to act as a preliminary skin check tool. Simply take a snap in the Google app, or upload an earlier shot from your library, and it’ll return to you image-based links that best match your image.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
Reddit blackout: Subreddits to go private on Monday
Thousands of Reddit communities will be inaccessible on Monday in protest at how the site is being run. Reddit is introducing controversial charges to developers of third-party apps, which are used to browse the social media platform. But this has resulted in a backlash, with moderators of some of the biggest subreddits making their communities private for 48 hours in protest.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
Google to crack down on office attendance, asks remote workers to reconsider
Google's HR chief told workers that office attendance will be more closely monitored
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1 year agoReview capoti
23 books to read this summer
Whether you’re traveling or catching the sun at home in the coming months, here are books we’ve enjoyed this year that make for good summer reading.
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1 year agoExpression capoti
Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block
The future of the internet could be at stake.
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1 year agoAnalysis capoti
New tool links air pollution with increased risk of dementia
Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants (PM2.5) may increase the risk of developing dementia, according to a new meta-analysis from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
‘I felt so betrayed’: classical musician forced out of London flat after noise complaints
Musicians are facing a postcode lottery of noise complaints, industry leaders have warned, after a member of the classical chart-topping choir Mediaeval Baebes was handed a noise abatement notice for playing music in her flat. Fiona Fey was told she had created “excessive noise from the playing of musical instruments that is audible and detectable from your property” and that she must cease making any more “noise from the property in the form of playing loud music”.
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1 year agoCurrent Event capoti
Ecuador Strikes a Landmark Deal to Protect the Galápagos, and Save Cash
A creative debt restructuring will save the country money and create a fund to protect waters around the Galápagos Islands.