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11 months ago+15 15 0Are Oysters Vegan? The Debate Explained
Whether oysters are sentient animals who feel pain is often subject to debate. At first glance, the answer to whether or not they are vegan would seem to be a simple “no.” However, a number of people in the plant-based community believe that they’re ...
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11 months ago+21 21 0Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford.
Tesla Motors scored higher in the trajectory and vision categories, but lower in character, trust, and citizenship on the 2023 Axios Harris Poll.
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11 months ago+19 19 0Aubrey Plaza Refuses to Use Streamers Because They Make Her ‘Really Angry,’ Buys Films and TV Series on iTunes Instead
Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be among Max’s subscriber base. “The White Lotus” star revealed ...
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11 months ago+4 4 0Sanctuary rolls out Phoenix, a Carbon-based humanoid AI labor robot
Canada's Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the "world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR)." Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat "piloted" ...
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11 months ago+19 19 0Buffy's 20 Best Episodes, Ranked!
Buffy‘s monsters were always a metaphor for growing pains, but in “The Body,” life’s truest and most inescapable horror is death itself. And what a devastating blow it was when Buffy came home to find her poor mother Joyce dead on the couch. Joyce’s ...
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11 months ago+22 22 0The genius behind Zelda is at the peak of his power — and feeling his age
Eiji Aonuma designed marionettes before overseeing Zelda, the wildly popular video game series. Its latest title, “Tears of the Kingdom,” has sold 10 million copies.
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11 months ago+21 21 0Foxconn commits $500 million to set up new manufacturing unit in India
Apple’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn, or Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, has committed to investing $500 million in setting up a new manufacturing unit in the Indian state of Telangana. “Demonstrating the ‘Telangana Speed’, I am happy to anno ...
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11 months ago+28 28 0Millions of Android phones are shipping with malware already installed
Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro have discovered a worrying supply chain attack in which millions of Android devices are infected with infostealer malware before they even make it out of the factory. The affected device are mostly budget sm ...
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11 months ago+24 24 0James Webb telescope detects water vapor in nearby star system, but its origin remains a mystery
The James Webb Space Telescope may have just given the world another monumental scientific breakthrough. On Monday, NASA announced that astronomers detected water vapor around a distant rocky planet with the help of JWST.
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12 months ago+27 27 0Epic Games just lost its massive iPhone lawsuit (again) — here's what it means for you
Apple has once again seen its App Store business model on iPhone affirmed by the courts in its ongoing legal battle with Fortnite developer Epic Games. In a ruling this week the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fell squarely behind the previous ruli ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0A SpaceX rocket exploded. Here’s why the Space Force remains hopeful.
SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle, the world’s heaviest rocket, could be a game changer for the Space Force, even after its first attempt at a suborbital flight on April 20 ended in an explosion. Despite the failure, service officials told C4ISRNET th ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Tesla employees reportedly passed around personal videos from owners’ cars
Tesla employees passed around and poked fun at private videos recorded by vehicle cameras, according to a report from Reuters. The videos, which were reportedly shared via Tesla’s internal messaging systems from 2019 through 2022, were recorded on th ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0The moon could have up to 297 billion tons of water stored in tiny glass beads on its surface, scientists say
Glass beads on the moon's surface may contain nearly 300 billion tons of water, which could provide a way for astronauts on future lunar missions to get water in space, a team of 28 scientists says. Prior research in the last decades has shown t ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0Designing a mobile Mario game was "challenging", Shigeru Miyamoto says
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, has revealed the difficulty faced when creating Mario games for mobile. Mario has had a few mobile outings over the last seven years - starting with Super Mario Run in 2016, and then Mario Kart Tou ...
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1 year ago+30 30 0 x 1How Psilocybin Mushrooms Can Be Used to Treat Depression
Depression is becoming increasingly prevalent, with an estimated 5% of adults suffering from this mental health condition globally. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) sets out multiple criteria for clinic ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Software 3.0
There’s a lot of discussion about where software is heading and what the future will look like with all the buzz generated by large AI models like GPT. With simple text prompting to an AI model, it’s now possible to generate human-indistinguishable t ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0People with personality disorders are more likely to sign up for psychology studies – here's why that's a problem
Many psychological studies rely on participants to give up their time to take part in experiments or complete questionnaires. They take part because they get paid or because they are required to as part of their university course. But, beyond this, n ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1Hailey Bieber has lost 1 million followers since Selena Gomez drama
In a coincidental turn of events, the discourse surrounding Selena Gomez, Hailey Bieber, and briefly Kylie Jenner, has resulted in a noticeable drop in Instagram followers for the latter two stars. Bieber has now recently been noted to have lost almo ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0The EU Parliament and Council agree to mandate charging stations every 60km by 2026
The European Parliament has reached a provisional agreement with the EU Council regarding charging and hydrogen refueling stations across Europe. The rule states that by 2026, there will be charging stations at every 60 kilometers along the TEN-T net ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0‘John Wick 5’ Back on the Table After Box Office Blowup
John Wick: Chapter 4 had widely been expected to be the final installment in the main action franchise, but a fifth installment is back on the table after the movie’s astonishing opening at the global box office, according to Lionsgate motion picture ...