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Elon Musk says to attempt Starship launch in March
SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March, its billionaire chief Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday.
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3 days agoCurrent Event drank
A student needed medical care and a home. His teachers adopted him.
Elementary school teacher Jenna Riccio visited her student in a hospital, and when she learned about his home life, she suddenly said: “Can I foster him?”
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6 days agoCurrent Event drank
TV's 30 Best Series Finales, Ranked — Now Including, Yes, Lost
Few episodes of a TV series are watched with greater scrutiny than its very final outing. Which shows have managed to best stick the landing, when under such incredible pressure? In the wake of AMC’s Better Call Saul expertly wrapping its six-season run, the TVLine staff set out to find the acclaimed Breaking Bad prequel a spot on our ranking of the Best Series Finales of All Time.
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6 days agoCurrent Event drank
Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War
True Anomaly, a startup backed by US senator JD Vance's VC firm, plans to launch prototype pursuit satellites on a SpaceX flight later this year.
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7 days agoAnalysis drank
AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution—and Might Do It Even Better
A language model AI created proteins as good as ones honed over a million years of evolution. The implications are staggering.
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10 days agoCurrent Event drank
Is Starfield delayed or not?
Let’s just cut to the chase. Is Starfield delayed? Officially, no. And to be fair to Microsoft and Bethesda Game Studios, they already told us we wouldn’t be hearing anything out of Todd Howard’s next epic role-playing game during Wednesday’s Developer Direct showcase. There’s going to be a stand-alone showcase for Starfield at some point. It’s still one hell of an elephant not in the room, especially if two of the four games shown — Redfall and The Elder Scrolls Online’s Necrom ...
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12 days agoCurrent Event drank
Drug maker paid for “news” story on CBS’s 60 Minutes, doctors’ group alleges
A 13-minute segment on a recent episode of CBS's 60 Minutes appeared to be a news story on Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy but was actually a sponsored promotion, violating federal regulations, according to the nonprofit public health advocacy organization Physicians Committee. The group filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration last week, arguing that the segment, which aired on January 1, violates the FDA's "fair balance" requirement. This law requ...
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13 days agoCurrent Event drank
Science Fiction as a Futurist Tool
Through the medium of science fiction, we are transported to strange and foreign worlds that are distorted mirrors of today’s world or visions of possible futures, good or bad. The science fiction visions that resonate most with us tap into our conscious and subconscious desires and anxieties about the future.
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Steven Spielberg: ‘The Dark Knight’ Should Have Been First Blockbuster Nominated for Best Picture
According to Steven Spielberg, you either die a critically ignored blockbuster or live long enough to see a Best Picture nomination. The “Fabelmans” director, who landed his first Best Original Screenplay nomination for the 2023 Oscars, reflected on the expanded Best Picture category. The semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” is also up for Best Picture, and the category was doubled in size in 2009 from five nominees to 10.
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2 weeks agoUnspecified drank
Social media needs rules
Currently, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other apps are failing democracy as they tend to be a source of misinformation and mistrust.
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An Environmental Activist Has Been Killed Every Other Day for the Past Decade
At least 1,733 environmental activists and land defenders have been killed for their work over the past decade, according to a new report from the nonprofit Global Witness. That means that a person defending the environment is killed every other day, a harrowing statistic especially in the context of the worsening climate and biodiversity crisis.
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‘This is not an employee choice': The CEO of Morgan Stanley gets real and says employees can't simply choose to work remotely
The pandemic has completely transformed people’s working lives. Employees across industries have gotten used to remote work, and they want to hold onto it, fighting back against efforts to bring them back into the office, and experts warning that if companies don’t welcome remote work, they risk losing talent.
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Amazon is closing its AmazonSmile charity platform
Amazon is shutting down its AmazonSmile charity program next month. The closure coincides with a variety of cost-cutting efforts announced by the e-commerce giant that includes laying off thousands of employees.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event drank
Apple's Website Suggests M2 and M2 Pro Mac Announcements Were Originally Set for Fall 2022
Information embedded within Apple's website suggests that this week's new Mac announcements, including the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, were initially set to be unveiled in October or November of last year.
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1 month agoCurrent Event drank
Six-day illegal rave in Spanish village "magnificently organised" according to mayor
An illegal rave lasting six days brought 5,000 people to a small village in Spain over the New Year period. Lasting from December 30 to January 4, tents, stalls, caravans and seven stages popped up out of nowhere reportedly less than a mile from the centre of the village of La Peza, The Guardian reports. The village has a population of 1,200, which quintupled in size when the rave was taking place. “By Saturday we were 6,000,” said Fernando Álvarez, the mayor of La Peza’s municipality.
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New York City's greenery absorbs a surprising amount of its carbon emissions
A study of vegetation across New York City and some densely populated adjoining areas has found that on many summer days, photosynthesis by trees and grasses absorbs all the carbon emissions produced by cars, trucks and buses, and then some. The surprising result, based on new hyper-local vegetation maps, points to the underappreciated importance of urban greenery in the carbon cycle. The study is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.