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1 day agoCurrent Event cone
Google postpones launch of foldable smartphone, again
Google has postponed the launch of its first foldable smartphone again, TheElec has learned. The company planned to launch the project sometime during the fourth quarter but delayed the launch this year.
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3 days agoCurrent Event cone
Reality TV viewing is associated with increased support for traditional gender roles among adolescents
Heteronormative stereotypes about how men and women should act in relationships are prevalent in our society and often depicted in popular media. New research published in The Journal of Sex Research found that heavy consumption of reality television is associated with greater endorsement of traditional gender role stereotypes in adolescents.
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4 days agoCurrent Event cone
A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk
In 2001 olena nazarenko’s father started farming in Lukashivka, a small village about 100km north of Kyiv, with three cows and a horse called Rosa (”Dew” in Ukrainian). In 2020 Mrs Nazarenko and her husband Andriy inherited the 400-hectare (1,000-acre) farm, now named Rosa after that founding horse. Early this year they took out a substantial loan to cover fertiliser for the coming spring-wheat crop.
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4 days agoCurrent Event cone
Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas
Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday.
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5 days agoCurrent Event cone
How Addictive Internet Apps Tap Into Our Brains’ Reward Pathways
Can we become addicted to the internet? That’s the question discussed in a new review article published in Science by the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Prof. Matthias Brand.
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8 days agoCurrent Event cone
Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds
Older TikTok users are using the online platform, regarded as the virtual playground of teenagers, to defy ageist stereotypes of elderly people as technophobic and frail. Research has found increasing numbers of accounts belonging to users aged 60 and older with millions of followers. Using the platform to showcase their energy and vibrancy, these TikTok elders are rewriting expectations around how older people should behave both on and off social media.
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9 days agoCurrent Event cone
Apple will let your subscription apps charge you more money without asking
Apple has updated its App Store rules to make it so subscriptions can auto-renew without your explicit permission, even if the developer has raised the monthly or annual price. Before the rule change, users would have to manually opt-into a subscription renewal if it came with a price bump; now, that won’t necessarily be the case, though you’ll still be notified about the price change before it happens. Apple says it’s making the change to help avoid the situation where users unintentional...
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10 days agoCurrent Event cone
Zelda: Skyward Sword HD's Non-Motion Sword Controls Took a Year and a Half To Perfect
It took developer Tantalus Media a year and a half to turn The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's original Wii motion controls into regular button inputs for Nintendo Switch HD version. CEO Tom Crago shared the trials and tribulations of the game's development with the Fragments of Silicon podcast (as spotted by Nintendo Everything) and also dismissed rumours of a Zelda: Twilight Princess port for Switch.
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11 days agoCurrent Event cone
Texas law allowing users to sue social networks for censorship is now in effect
The United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has pause an interim order on controversial law HB 20, which another court blocked from taking effect last year. As Houston Public Media note, the state introduced HB 20 last year after prominent conservatives, including Donald Trump, has been blocked on social media sites. Under the law, users will be able to sue major social media platforms with more than 50 million monthly active users like Facebook and Twitter if they believe they are banned bec...
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13 days agoCurrent Event cone
Tesla workers in Shanghai will reportedly sleep and eat in the factory after COVID shutdowns
Tesla is restarting production at its massive Shanghai factory as the city of 25 million begins to ease lockdown restrictions following a substantial COVID outbreak. According to a report from Bloomberg News that cites internal company memos, the factory will re-open in what’s being called a “closed-loop system” — an approach encouraged by Shanghai authorities to get people back into the workplace while maintaining the country’s zero-covid strategies.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Netflix Wasn’t the Only Big Loser in Streaming This Quarter: Here’s How Everyone Else Did
Netflix lost 200,000 global paid subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 — and then lost over $75 billion in valuation. (And now it’s being sued over both of those things.) Pretty rough start to the new year, but Netflix wasn’t the only SVOD service that streamed the bed in calendar Q1. Here’s how everyone else fared in streaming so far this year.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Accusations of 'grooming' are the latest political attack — with homophobic origins
Mallory McMorrow was stunned when she saw it. With horror, the Michigan state senator, a Democrat, read an email accusing her of "grooming" children. The email was sent by a fellow senator, Republican Lana Theis, who was soliciting funds from her supporters for her reelection campaign.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
'One of the greatest mysteries of our time': Congress to hold UFO hearing next week
A House committee will hold a public hearing on UFOs next Tuesday for the first time in decades, as Congress presses the Pentagon and other national security agencies for more answers on reports of mysterious aircraft violating protected airspace.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Pro-Russian forces say 50 more people evacuated from besieged Ukraine plant
Pro-Russian forces said 50 more people were evacuated on Saturday from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where scores of civilians have been trapped for weeks alongside Ukrainian fighters holed up in the Soviet-era plant.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Musk aims to quintuple Twitter's revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, New York Times reports
Elon Musk is aiming to increase Twitter's annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing a pitch deck presented by the world's richest man to investors.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Space station’s new robotic arm springs to life
Two spacewalkers at the International Space Station activated the facility's new robotic arm for the first time on Thursday, April 28.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
New eye-scanning app can screen people for Alzheimer’s, ADHD: researchers
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new app for people to screen for Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD and other neurological diseases.
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1 month agoCurrent Event cone
Amazon declines to describe search-algorithm data - Australian regulator
Amazon.com Inc has declined to describe its product-search system to an Australian competition regulator that has heard complaints of large marketplace platforms giving preference to in-house wares.
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1 month agoCurrent Event cone
Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software
Players caught cheating in Call of Duty can now be punished with a penalty that makes them unable to see their opponents, a new anti-cheat mitigation feature that Activision calls "cloaking."