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9 months ago+30 30 0California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation
California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.
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9 months ago+31 31 0Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work
The chatbot could help Apple’s customer support teams too.
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9 months ago+31 31 0Tech titans promise watermarks to expose AI creations
The White House said Friday that OpenAI and others in the artificial intelligence race have committed to making their technology safer with features such as watermarks on fabricated images.
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10 months ago+37 37 0World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies
Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'
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10 months ago+27 27 0Ransomware criminals are dumping kids' private files online after school hacks
Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. The documents describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents — even suicide attempts.
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10 months ago+22 22 0Quentin Tarantino Shoots Down Hopes For ‘Kill Bill Vol. 3’
Quentin Tarantino is shooting down the rumors that he was working on Kill Bill: Volume 3. Many Tarantino fans had hoped that the filmmaker would revisit the Kill Bill universe and cast Uma Thurman’s daughter Maya Hawke in the potential sequel. Howeve ...
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10 months ago+34 34 0A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for testing a vehicle that a California startup describes as a flying car — the first fully electric vehicle that can both fly and travel on roads to receive US government approval. Alef Automotive sa ...
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10 months ago+33 33 0Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws
On July 1, laws requiring adult websites to verify user ages took effect in Mississippi and Virginia, despite efforts by Pornhub to push back against the legislation. Those efforts include Pornhub blocking access to users in these states and rallying ...
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10 months ago+34 34 0Daniel Radcliffe Breaks Silence on Harry Potter TV Reboot, Confirms Whether He’ll Appear in Max Series
Harry Potter is weighing in on his small screen successor. Several months after Max announced a 10-year commitment to a TV adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Daniel Radcliffe — who played the titular wizard in Warner Brothers’ film ser ...
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10 months ago+29 29 0Chinese scientists create edible food packaging to replace plastic
By incorporating certain soy proteins into the structure, Chinese University of Hong Kong scientists successfully created edible food packaging.
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10 months ago+31 31 0Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work 'torture.' Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide
The former employees from several African countries allege poor working conditions including low pay and insufficient mental health support.
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10 months ago+26 26 0‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy
Different strategies in fighting wildfires have prompted new questions about best practices in the face of a global challenge
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10 months ago+22 22 0Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
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10 months ago+30 30 0Thief who stole $2 million of Apple devices faces a decade in prison
A Nashua man hired to transport $2 million worth of iPhones, iPads, and more Apple devices for a customer, has pleaded guilty to taking bribes to fake documents and reroute the shipment.
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10 months ago+18 18 0Harrison Ford Has No Plans Of Retiring From Acting: “I Don’t Do Well When I Don’t Have Work”
Harrison Ford is not leaving acting anytime soon. The Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny star is opening up about his future and retiring is not a possibility. While being interviewed by Chris Wallace, the CNN host asked Ford if he was retiring as ...
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10 months ago+24 24 0Reddit says accessibility upgrades for moderators are coming to its mobile apps soon
Reddit will make “accessibility improvements” to many moderator tools in its official mobile apps by July 1st, the company announced on Friday. Some moderators rely on third-party apps because Reddit’s apps have what they characterize as “significant ...
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10 months ago+39 39 0A carpenter saved his whole life to fund college scholarships and helped 33 strangers go to school for free
Four years ago, one of the happiest days of Kira Conard’s life carried a cloud of sadness. At a high school graduation party, her friends were buzzing with excitement about their next steps. Many were going to college, but the aspiring therapist in D ...
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11 months ago+15 15 0Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years
The last four Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans went to shocking lengths to conceal a confessed serial child molester who is still living but has never been prosecuted, a Guardian investigation has found.
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11 months ago+19 19 0EU wants “readily removable” batteries in devices soon—but what does that mean?
Whenever regulation passes that seems to herald the dawn of a new age of repairable devices, there is almost always a catch, a loophole, or at least an "it depends." In the case of recent headline-grabbing battery legislation out of the Eur ...
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11 months ago+26 26 0Ryan Murphy Leaving Netflix, In Talks To Return To Disney
Ryan Murphy looks to be heading back to Disney. Murphy is set to leave Netflix at the end of his five-year overall deal, which was understood to be worth around $300M. Deadline has confirmed that he’s in talks with Disney, although no deal is yet sig ...