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21 hours agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email
On the morning of January 20, one Google employee had to call tech support after getting hit with an unusual error message when they tried to log in to their work system.
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5 days agoExpression grandsalami
The 'BlackBerry' trailer looks funnier than you'd expect
The BlackBerry movie trailer looks far funnier than we expected
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6 days agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Space Force: We expect to see ‘interfering, blinding’ of satellites during conflict
The U.S. Space Force chief of space operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman in congressional testimony March 14 singled out China as the “most immediate threat” as it continues to weaponize its space technology. Among the most concerning of China’s technologies, he said, are ground-based lasers designed to disrupt and degrade satellite sensors, electronic warfare jammers targeting GPS and communications satellites, and anti-satellite missiles.
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7 days agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Argentina inflation soars past 100% mark
Inflation hits triple digits for the first time since the period of hyperinflation in the early 1990s.
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12 days agoAnalysis grandsalami
Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise
A new way of sucking carbon from the air is up to three times more effective than current technology.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event grandsalami
‘SNL’ Cold Open Has ‘Fox & Friends’ Getting Rupert Murdoch and Alex Murdaugh Cases Confused
Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce made his hosting debut on the comedy show, with musical guest Kelsea Ballerini.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event grandsalami
China’s tech firms chase overseas AI talent to build ChatGPT rivals, amid lack of experts at home
While it could be a tall order for firms to poach experts who already left China, the lack of a glass ceiling at home could be a major appeal.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Carnage after trains collide near Greek city of Larissa
Two trains collide near the city of Larissa, killing at least 29 people and injuring dozens.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Woody Harrelson Slams COVID Set Protocols as ‘Nonsense,’ Urges Hollywood to ‘Stop’ Forcing ‘Vaccination’: That’s ‘Not a Free Country’
Woody Harrelson railed against COVID protocols on film sets during a new interview with The New York Times. The actor is making the press rounds in support of his new movie “Champions,” an indie sports dramedy from director Bobby Farrelly that’s backed by Focus Features. Harrelson expressed uncertainty about the future of indie movies given “all the COVID protocols” in place, calling such protocols “absurd.”
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event grandsalami
This Chinese kissing device lets you smooch over the internet
Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption with warm, moving silicon "lips" appears to have just the answer.
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1 month agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Microsoft Puts New Limits On Bing’s AI Chatbot After It Expressed Desire To Steal Nuclear Secrets
Microsoft announced it was placing new limits on its Bing chatbot following a week of users reporting some extremely disturbing conversations with the new AI tool.
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1 month agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes
Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.
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1 month agoUnspecified grandsalami
Is the iPhone's 'Made in India' era about to begin?
As Apple looks beyond China to secure crucial supply chains strained by Covid lockdowns and threatened by rising geopolitical tension, India has emerged as an attractive potential alternative to the world's second largest economy.
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1 month agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in January from a year earlier, satellite data showed on Friday, in the first monthly figures under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Arguing with AI: My first dispute with Microsoft’s brilliant and boneheaded Bing search engine
For the past couple days, I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, a chatbot that uses an advanced version of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s large language model to… Read More
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1 month agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Disney to cut 7,000 jobs and slash $5.5 billion in costs as it unveils vast restructuring
Disney unveiled a vast corporate restructuring, and CEO Bob Iger said the company isn't considering a spinoff of ESPN.
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1 month agoCurrent Event grandsalami
Tech giants post disappointing results, facing gloomy outlook
Apple, Amazon and Alphabet all posted disappointing quarterly results this week, while Facebook parent Meta bucked the gloomy trend in technology with better-than-expected revenue. Apple reported its first revenue drop in nearly four years after COVID-19 restrictions on its factories in China curtailed iPhone sales during the crucial Christmas holiday season.