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2 years ago+10 10 0Netflix, Disney, WBD Shares Dive With Broader Market As Slow Retail Sales, High Interest Rates Fuel Recession Fears
Media and entertainment stocks led by Netflix were among big losers Thursday as economic data and the latest Fed move has investors panicking about an imminent recession. Netflix in particular — off nearly 10% — was knocked by a report that its ad-su ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Small, but mighty: how tiny are nanomaterials and why are they useful?
Nanomaterials have at least one of their dimensions (length, width or height) between 1nm to 100nm (see graphic). In the microscopic nano world, properties such as colour, melting point and electrical conductivity are quite different to their larger, ...
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2 years ago+11 11 0People implicitly associate masked faces with psychological distance, study finds
Published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers found that people who wear masks tend to be viewed as more socially distant. The findings provide evidence of an implicit association between masked human faces and concepts relat ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Chris Hemsworth Announces Plans to Take a Break From Acting After Health Warning
He wants some time to be with his kids and wife. Chris Hemsworth shared some heartbreaking news regarding his health and career in a recent interview. For his latest Disney+ series, Limitless, the Australian actor underwent some genetic testing for t ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Ultra-processed foods as addictive as tobacco, warns study
Heavily marketable processed foods like potato chips, cookies, ice cream and French fries meet the same criteria used for decades to demonstrate the addictive qualities of smoking tobacco, notes a new study. “Unnaturally high doses” of refined carbo ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0‘Monster’ Renewed for Season 2 & 3 at Netflix as Anthology, ‘The Watcher’ Renewed for Season 2
Netflix is going the anthology route with “Monster,” with the streamer ordering two additional seasons of the series. Netflix has also ordered Season 2 of “The Watcher.” Both shows were created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. “Monster” launched Sept. ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Famous glaciers will disappear by 2050 because of global warming, UNESCO says
Glaciers in Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Dolomites and Mount Kilimanjaro will melt by 2050. More will almost entirely disappear by 2100 unless the world drastically reduces carbon emissions, the agency says.
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2 years ago+13 13 0We Are In The Midst Of A Climate Emergency
Most of us are doing something for the environment. We bring around a tote bag (sometimes), use a metal straw (save the turtles!), and try our best to recycle whatever we don’t need. And at the end of the day, we give ourselves a pat on the back and ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Ted White, 'Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter's Jason, Dies at 96
Very sad news has come in as it has been reported that Ted White, the actor and stuntman especially popular with horror fans for his unforgettable performance as Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, has died. The news was revealed by ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0'Our patients aren't dead': Inside a cryogenic freezing lab with humans on ice
Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future. Many of the patients – as Alcor Life Extension Foundation calls them – are people who were te ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0People of colour have been shut out of the climate debate. Social justice is the key to the green agenda
“Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.” From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those a ...
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2 years ago+25 25 0 x 1The Aorus RTX 4090 Master is the biggest GPU we've ever seen
Gigabyte’s Aorus RTX 4090 Master is the biggest GPU we’ve ever seen. We don’t yet know the full specs of this GeForce RTX 4090 model, but we do know we’re going to need a very large case to house this beast. This is a monster unit. It needs four slot ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Major Tech and Car Companies May Be Using ‘Blood Gold’ Mined Illegally From the Amazon Rainforest
Your iPhone may contain gold linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new report from Amazon Watch and the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) published Monday reveals that the gold used by major tech and car companies incl ...
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2 years ago+9 9 0A long-lasting male contraceptive jab could be available within a year
A male contraceptive jab that last 10 years and prevents men passing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases could be available within a year. The injection will be less painful and also reversible making it more simpler than a vasectomy. Researc ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Vitamin D doesn't prevent COVID-19, other respiratory infections, studies find
The findings from 2 large clinical trials—one in the UK and one in Norway—discount the notion that vitamin D supplements protect against COVID-19 or other respiratory-tract infections.
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2 years ago+20 20 0A Dubai of cryptocurrencies in Africa? Binance is working on it
Nigeria wants to create a virtual free zone for cryptos and wants to be inspired by that of Dubai, with the help of the Binance company.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Barack Obama Wins Emmy for Narrating National Parks Series
‘Our Great National Parks’ is a Netflix documentary series
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2 years ago+13 13 0Chinese nuclear reactor proposal could power 10 International Space Stations
China is moving forward on nuclear power in space. China's Ministry of Science and Technology approved a space nuclear reactor project aiming to generate a megawatt of electricity, according to SpaceNews(opens in new tab). That's enough sp ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0The USPS Underestimated the Benefit of Going Electric, Study Shows
The United States Postal Service dramatically underestimated the benefits of an electric delivery fleet in its environmental review when it agreed to purchase nearly all gas-powered trucks, a peer-reviewed study by University of Michigan researchers ...
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2 years ago+25 25 0DoorDash hit by data breach linked to Twilio hackers
Food delivery giant DoorDash has confirmed a data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. In a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication at market close, DoorDash said malicious hackers stole credentials from employees of ...