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1 year ago+14 14 0Uber fined $14m for lying to make you ditch cabs
Australia's Federal Court has fined Uber AU$21 million ($14 million) for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Uber did so in two ways – one of which involved the offer it made in some parts of Australia to arrange rides in ye olde licen ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Nearly 40 million children are dangerously susceptible as measles threat grows
Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published on Nov. 23 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Howard Stern Fires Back at Kanye West for Loving Hitler: ‘This Guy Is So Ill…It’s Pretty F—ing Crazy’
Howard Stern said during the Dec. 5 episode of his SiriusXM radio show that Kanye West has reached a level of antisemitism where it’s almost like he wants to be “a white man in the Nazi party.” It was Stern’s first show back since West had an antisem ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Now you won’t have to get a Real ID for two more years
The government has extended the deadline for when federal agencies like the TSA will start requiring Real ID cards, moving the date from May 3rd, 2023, to May 7th, 2025. This will give people an extra two years to get an updated driver’s license or I ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0The Transistor at 75
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS is a long time. It’s so long that most of us don’t remember a time before the transistor, and long enough for many engineers to have devoted entire careers to its use and development. In honor of this most important of technologica ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Bitcoin Is the Rediscovery of Money
Bitcoin is the rediscovery of money. It is money reconsidered. It is the removal of counterparty risk. It is the purest, fastest, soundest money, re-imagined from the ground up. It is computational proof of historical events, building up an incorrupt ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Kids Online Safety Act may harm minors, civil society groups warn lawmakers
The Kids Online Safety Act has gained momentum at a time of debate over parental control of what's taught in school, including on topics such as gender identity.
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1 year ago+22 22 0‘Zombie’ virus revived after 50,000 years trapped in Siberian permafrost
Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research have revived more than a dozen prehistoric viruses that were previously trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost, according to a pre-print study.
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1 year ago+13 13 0People living in Toronto are feeling more socially isolated than ever before
Life has pretty much gone back to normal (or some version of the "new normal" we were all promised post-lockdown times) for many in Toronto, now that offices have reopened, and we're allowed to see our friends in real life again at des ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0'He sold himself to the devil' - Messi, 2030 and a very uncomfortable deal with Saudi Arabia
Argentina versus Saudi Arabia at the World Cup in Qatar. A battle for early supremacy in Group C, yes, but also the prelude to a battle off the field that will take place in the coming years. The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Cana ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Alleged Drunk Driver Thanked Officer for Pulling Him Over and Asked for a Hug
On Wednesday a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer observed a black Jeep Cherokee driving erratically. The man behind the wheel was determined to be a probable drunk driver after failing a roadside breath test. The incident occurred in Langf ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them?
Some of today’s quantum physicists are tinkering with an esoteric phase of matter that seems to disobey some of our laws of physics. What exactly is a time crystal?
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1 year ago+12 12 0Sonic booms heard across Florida as secret Space Force spaceplane returns to KSC
A secretive Space Force spaceplane streaked across Florida early Saturday, generating unmistakable sonic booms en route to a landing at Kennedy Space Center that wrapped up another record-breaking mission.
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1 year ago+25 25 0The dark side of Dubai: Instagram stars sell sex to fund lavish lifestyle
Bloggers paid to sell a rosy image of emirate are also selling their bodies — some for £7,000 a night — to fund their lavish lifestyles
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1 year ago+22 22 0Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 launching later this month, Apple announces $450 million investment
Apple confirmed today in a press release that the new satellite features for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro will indeed launch in November for customers in the United States and Canada, as originally announced.
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1 year ago+30 30 0 x 1As the midterms approach, Google ads mislead voters
Google says it’s committed to connecting voters with accurate information. But the company is again allowing misleading ads to target people searching for how to vote. Google is serving misleading ads in English and Spanish to Americans looking for i ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Chinese chip designers slow down processors to dodge US sanctions
Alibaba and start-up Biren Technology are tweaking their most advanced chip designs to reduce processing speeds and avoid US-imposed sanctions aimed at suppressing Chinese computing power.
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1 year ago+13 13 0AMC’s TV Version of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Bests the 1994 Film
Fans of Anne Rice’s novels are devout. The author’s stories of vampires, witches, and other things that go bump in the night has inspired a generation, especially those who found identity through her homoerotic characters, particularly the vampire Le ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Vegan dog diet is healthiest and safest, large-scale study suggests
Is it time for dogs to go vegan? There is a growing movement promoting vegan dog diets, with Formula 1 legend Lewis Hamilton the most prominent proponent. Now in what the authors believe is the first large-scale study comparing vegan with meaty dog d ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Smiley in the sky: NASA satellite captures 'happy expression' on Sun’s surface after solar eclipse
The Sun is finally in a good mood. A jolly photograph released by NASA shows the Sun "smiling for the camera". In an image taken from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a face-like pattern appeared on the surface of the nearest star t ...