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1 year ago+14 14 0Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Commissions Peter Kosminsky for Drama Series
The BBC has commissioned “Grenfell,” a three-part drama about the devastating 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower in West London that killed 72 people. The drama will draw on some five years of research, including public sources, the inquiry hearings, and ex ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0A jury clears Elon Musk of wrongdoing related to 2018 Tesla tweets
The verdict by the nine jurors was reached after less than two hours of deliberation following a three-week trial and represents a major vindication for Musk.
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1 year ago+14 14 0NASA will join a military program to develop nuclear thermal propulsion
Nearly three years ago, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced its intent to develop a flyable nuclear thermal propulsion system. The goal was to develop more responsive control of spacecraft in Earth orbit, lunar orbit, and every ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Apple beefs up smartphone services in “silent war” against Google
Apple is taking steps to separate its mobile operating system from features offered by Google parent Alphabet, making advances around maps, search, and advertising that have created a collision course between the Big Tech companies.
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1 year ago+22 22 0‘Robots are treated better’: Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK
Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike in Britain. The walkout marks the first formal industrial action in the country for the U.S. tech giant. The 24-hour strike action began Wednesday a minute after midnight. Strikers are expected to picket outsi ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0This Hall Effect Stick Upgrade Kit Will Solve Joy-Con Drift Forever
GuliKit, makers of the truly excellent KingKong Pro 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch, which we reviewed last year, has just released an upgrade/repair kit for the official Nintendo Joy-Cons that brings its drift-free Hall effect joystick ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Fans shocked by TikToker’s wild SpongeBob revelation: ‘Now it makes sense’
In the words of SpongeBob SquarePants, it’s time to use your imagination. One user on TikTok is sharing a theory about the characters on Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” — and viewers are shook.
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1 year ago+18 18 0CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors
Last week, we reported that the prominent technology news site CNET had been quietly publishing articles generated by an unspecified "AI engine." The news sparked outrage. Critics pointed out that the experiment felt like an attempt to elim ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Zip line becomes a lifeline for California community cut off by storms
It was New Year's Eve in Corralitos, California, and after several days of heavy storms, it looked like the bridge was not going to make it. About seven households in the remote community east of Santa Cruz were about to be cut off from the main ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0‘Stranger Things’ actor Noah Schnapp comes out as gay
Actor Noah Schnapp, known for his role as Will Byers in the popular Netflix series "Stranger Things," has publicly announced that he is gay. In a recent TikTok video, Schnapp expressed that he had been afraid to come out for 18 years before ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0May the fireworks continue: three trends in Bitcoin that will strengthen in 2023
As podcaster Peter McCormack has often observed, almost everything happening has a Bitcoin angle nowadays. This might not be surprising as Bitcoin is money and money runs the world, but it is surprising how quickly Bitcoin has moved into the centre o ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds
Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear.
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1 year ago+17 17 02022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists
It’s been a good run for the narcissists. Over the past decade or so, a mix of shameless self-aggrandizement and self-confident charm has served certain people extraordinarily well, turning them into venture-capital darlings, licensed-merchandise mag ...
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1 year ago+34 34 0 x 1New Battery Made From Common Elements Offers Four Days Of Power
A company soon to settle in West Virginia has developed a battery that offers four days of full discharge using some of the cheapest, most available elements on earth. “They are now building and will soon deliver a next generation battery. It's ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Has Big $435 Million Worldwide Holiday Debut
After big preview numbers headed into the weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water came in below predictions of $500-600 million — mostly due to a shocking uncontrolled surge of Covid in China that’s filling hospitals and spreading like wildfire through a p ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Potential New Treatment for “Brain Fog” in Long COVID Patients
Individuals with long COVID, sometimes referred to as “long-haulers,” experience symptoms that may persist for weeks, months, or even years after their acute viral infection. While symptoms vary widely, a common complaint among patients is “brain fog ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists
Climate change-induced higher temperatures, shifting seasons, extreme drought and precipitation events, extended heat waves and fires are all impacting insects, with resonating effects on habitats, other wildlife and humanity.
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1 year ago+16 16 0T-Mobile's Best Holiday Deal: $25 Per Month Home Internet For Life
T-Mobile’s Home Internet is popular. So popular that they’ve had to partner with 3 separate vendors to provide hardware to keep up with demand. According to sources, that demand is about to have a sudden spike. As detailed in a brief document shared ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Airbus looks to run full-size airliners on liquid hydrogen by 2035
Airbus says it's on track to have a fully operational megawatt-class electric powertrain, fueled by cryogenic liquid hydrogen, tested in flight by 2026, ahead of a full-scale zero-emissions passenger airliner it plans to put into service by 2035 ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0New type of surgical robot used to remove throat tumour
A surgical team has used a new type of robot to remove a cancerous tumour from a patient's throat. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital surgeons Simon Higgs and Steve Hornby employed the Versius robot to remove a tumour from Martin Nugent's oesop ...