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1 year ago+16 16 0'If we can make a space station fly, we can save the planet': An astronaut's view on protecting the Earth
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent six months aboard the International Space Station last year, and his view of the Earth was as alarming as it was breathtaking.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Canada bans new handgun sales in latest gun control action
Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Paul Ryan says Donald Trump won't be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024: 'We all know that he will lose'
"We all know that he's so much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle," Ryan said of Trump.
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1 year ago+20 20 0How to store data for 1,000 years
"You know you're a nerd when you store DNA in your fridge." At her home in Paris, Dina Zielinski, a senior scientist in human genomics at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, holds up a tiny vial to her laptop ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Success! NASA's DART Redirects Asteroid in 'Watershed Moment for Humanity'
NASA has succeeded in changing the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DART, into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collisio ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Researcher discovers another astronomy book written by Galileo Galilei
The process for this discovery started with the revelation that some of Galileo’s documents held at the University of Michigan and at Morgan Library in New York City were in fact counterfeits made by the infamous forger Tobia Nicotra in the early 20t ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Meadow Walker breaks down in tears during lunch with husband Louis Thornton-Allan
Meadow Walker broke down in tears on Tuesday during an outing with her husband, Louis Thornton-Allan. The daughter of late actor Paul Walker was photographed crying at an outdoor New York City restaurant, where she and Thornton-Allan — who tied the k ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0Artificial intelligence could soon diagnose illness based on the sound of your voice
Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on an app for that. The National Institutes of Health is funding a massive research project to collect voice data and develop an AI that ...
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1 year ago+36 36 0 x 1World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available
Alibaba gets the first RISC-V laptop on sale
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1 year ago+17 17 0Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' departure hints at deeper problems in late night TV
Noah increasingly looked like a performer who was growing beyond the grind of a late-night Comedy Central show. If he doesn't find a new perch in the genre, the industry will be all the worse for it.
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1 year ago+23 23 0How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030
John Deere tractors are going autonomous as the green-and-yellow tractor company has been pushing further into technology and robotics for the farm.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Amazon launches its own QLED 4K TVs, starting at $800
A year after it started pushing its own TVs, Amazon is expanding its lineup with pricier, more advanced options. The Fire TV Omni QLED Series announced yesterday at the invite-only Amazon hardware event shows the tech giant upping the ante with quant ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop
A year ago, before Facebook had turned Meta, the social media company was sporting a market cap of $1 trillion, putting it in rarefied territory with a handful of U.S. technology giants. Today the view looks much different. Meta has lost about two-th ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Do Kwon denies attempts to withdraw $66m in BTC before arrest warrant was issued
On-the-run Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has denied he attempted to cash out $66 million of Bitcoin days before an arrest warrant was issued for him earlier this month. Speaking on Twitter, the 31-year-old said he hadn’t used exchanges Kucoin or ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Is Tumblr's latest update its first step towards bringing back porn?
Don't get too excited, but Tumblr may be taking steps to open the platform up to explicit content again. After a 2018 ban led to a notoriously devastating exodus from the microblogging site, users were tickled to notice a few interesting turns o ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds
A study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior has found that boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, with this difference disproportionately affecting the unmarried, or individuals with disrupted relations ...
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1 year ago+8 8 0Dead Island 2 consulted diversity council for “representative” LA
If there’s anything Dambuster Studios wants you to know about Dead Island 2, it’s that it’s going to be pulpy in tone. This tone, which strikes a balance between the humorous and the horrifying, took centre stage at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live this ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Ethereum completes the “Merge,” which ends mining and cuts energy use by 99.95%
Ethereum replaces proof-of-work with proof-of-stake, making miners unnecessary.
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1 year ago+18 18 0The founder of Patagonia is giving his company away to help fight climate change
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who has previously expressed his reluctance at amassing wealth, is giving away his company. The outdoor apparel company will now be in the hands of a trust and a nonprofit organization. All future profits will be don ...
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1 year ago+8 8 0U.S. Hits 1 Million Organ Transplants Since First in 1954
Just about a million organ transplants have now been performed in the United States. The milestone was reached Friday, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nonprofit facilitator of these life-saving operations in the U.S. It’ ...