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1 year ago+30 30 0EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic
The Justice Department says eBay failed to follow laws requiring verification buyers' identities and people who bought pill presses there have been charged in drug trafficking cases.
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1 year ago+52 52 0Microsoft and Adobe push new symbol to label AI images
Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Scientists Discover Giant Sinkhole in China With Primeval ‘Lost World’ Inside
At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese gover ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Hollywood actors announce strike after SAG-AFTRA negotiations fail
160,000 performers with SAG-AFTRA will join Hollywood writers in an historic work stoppage after negotiations with studios collapsed.
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1 year ago+13 13 0MIT physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs
When your laptop or smartphone heats up, it’s due to energy that’s lost in translation. The same goes for power lines that transmit electricity between cities. In fact, around 10 percent of the generated energy is lost in the transmission of electric ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Texas says state-funded EV chargers must include Tesla plugs
Texas will require EV charging companies to include both Tesla's NACS and CCS standards to qualify for state subsidies.
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1 year ago+14 14 0‘Fantasy Island’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Fox
“Fantasy Island” will not be returning for Season 3 at Fox, Variety has learned. The reimagining of the classic series originally aired during the summer on Fox, while the second season…
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1 year ago+28 28 0My phone is making me sick and I'm not alone
It all began one day when I was playing Fortnite with my wife and my son. I was using a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4(opens in new tab) with my favorite mobile controller(opens in new tab) — the GameSir X2 — and I noticed my eyes ached after playing for an ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Astronomers are using AI to discover fledgling planets
The number of known exoplanets has veritably exploded in recent years, with more than 5,000 worlds beyond our solar system now known. But there’s a catch: The worlds we’ve found are typically those easiest to detect. It’s only as techniques and techn ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Washington passes law requiring consent before companies collect health data
A new Washington state law will require companies to receive a user’s explicit consent before they can collect, share, or sell their health data. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health, My Data bill into law on Thursday, giving users the ...
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1 year ago+31 31 0 x 1Are influencers ready for a world without follower counts?
Several emerging social media trends might soon render an influencer’s follower count irrelevant to brands says Kimmy Shoval, Movement Strategy’s senior vice-president and head of influencer marketing. Here, Shoval explains how this shift could affec ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0As America obsesses over ChatGPT, it’s losing the race with China on tech in 37 out of 44 key areas, study funded by the State Department says
The cutting edge of technology in 2023 is artificial intelligence, with the (sometimes creepy) ChatGPT nearing an “iPhone moment” as a revolutionary tool that is being adopted at record speed. But it could just be a sideshow to the real story: China’ ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO... based in Czech Republic
A dozen years ago, Groupon shot to fame popularizing the online group buying format, confidently rejecting a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google and instead going public with a $17.8 billion market cap. The company today says it has 14 million a ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0 x 1The case for slowing down AI
Pumping the brakes on artificial intelligence could be the best thing we ever do for humanity. Computers need to be accountable to machines,” a top Microsoft executive told a roomful of reporters in Washington, DC, on February 10, three days after th ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Google will boost Android security through firmware hardening
Google has started working to harden the security of Android at the firmware level, a component of the software stack that interacts directly with the various processors of a system on a chip (SoC). The plan is to expand the security in Android devic ...
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2 years ago+4 4 09-hour cut of Avatar 3 reportedly coming to Disney+ after theatrical release
As well as getting a theatrical release, there are new reports indicating that Avatar 3 may be turned into a limited series for Disney+, with this version of the project clocking in at nine hours worth of content. James Cameron’s Avatar films are som ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0“Don’t ask questions. Just withdraw the money now”
"Stop everything you are doing now and give an order to withdraw all your money from SVB. Don't ask me questions, just do it. Then we will think about what to do next and ask the questions," wrote Avi Eyal, managing partner of venture ...
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2 years ago+10 10 0College ump suspended after egregious strike call
Plate umpire Reggie Drummer, who made an egregious third strike call to end Friday's game between New Orleans and Mississippi Valley State, has been suspended indefinitely.
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2 years ago+3 3 0A bright comet is heading towards Earth and could outshine the stars in the sky, say astronomers
Comet C/2023 A3 last visited Earth about 80,000 years ago. When it visits us in 2024, it could be about 100 times brighter than the green comet.
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2 years ago+13 13 0’John Wick 4’ Star Donnie Yen Reveals The Changes He Requested
Even though the John Wick series features gratuitous violence and guns on guns on guns, the process of making the movie is probably (hopefully) a little bit nicer than it seems. We know that Keanu gives his input to make Wick look cool, and Chapter 4 ...