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1 year ago+13 13 0Students who report experiencing discrimination are more vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and behaviors, study finds
Adolescents who feel they experience discrimination are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and behaviors, according to research published in Psychiatry Research.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Seattle public schools blame tech giants for social media harm in lawsuit
Seattle's public school district filed a lawsuit against Big Tech claiming that the companies were responsible for a worsening mental health crisis among students and directly affected the schools' ability to carry out their educational mis ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Attack of the Chatbots: Screenwriters’ Friend or Foe?
Even as products like ChatGPT make advances, top film and TV writers are skeptical that the tech imperils their livelihoods, but some think talent advocates should be proactive about setting rules of engagement for writers.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.
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1 year ago+13 13 0China cracks advanced microchip technology in blow to Western sanctions
Huawei patents method of making ultra-small microchips closely guarded by the West
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1 year ago+22 22 0Year of the tech grifter: will Silicon Valley ever learn from its mistakes?
The tech industry’s hype machine always trumpets a fresh new ‘genius’ – and it still hasn’t learned its lesson
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1 year ago+21 21 0How the Puritans once banned Christmas in Massachusetts
You have likely heard the story of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" — but what about the one where the Puritans in Massachusetts banned the holiday altogether?
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1 year ago+16 16 0A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control
Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee to a federal court in Texas, spent much of his career trying to interfere with other people’s sexuality. A former lawyer at a religious conservative litigation shop, Kacsmaryk denounced, in a 2015 article, a so-ca ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Avian flu has led to the killing of 140m farmed birds since last October
More than 140 million birds have died and hundreds of millions of pounds have been spent in the past year in the US, UK and EU in tackling bird flu, as some experts said continual culling was “morally” wrong. With an international agreement on the us ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure of Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes
Judge rejects claim that the FBI violated the rights of hundreds of people when it searched their safe-deposit boxes in Beverly Hills
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1 year ago+17 17 0Breakthrough wormhole simulation may unite quantum physics and general relativity
Scientists have devised a quantum experiment that allows them to study the dynamics of wormholes, theoretical spacetime entities that first emerged from Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, or general relativity.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Age that kids acquire mobile phones not linked to well-being, says Stanford Medicine study
Stanford Medicine researchers did not find a connection between the age children acquired their first cell phone and their sleep patterns, depression symptoms or grades.
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1 year ago+20 20 0How will the space economy change the world?
The space economy is no longer the sole domain of governments and aerospace and defense companies. The passengers who boarded commercial flights just after World War II didn’t know that air travel would begin to soar over the next decade, nor did the ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity
Jaron Lanier, the eminent American computer scientist, composer and artist, is no stranger to skepticism around social media, but his current interpretations of its effects are becoming darker and his warnings more trenchant.
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1 year ago+19 19 0Apple’s Upcoming Product Releases in 2023
We recognize apple for innovation. They’ve set themselves apart as a trendsetter in the tech industry. In September 2022, apart from iPhone 14, Apple released the AirPods Pro 2, the Apple Watch Ultra, the Apple Watch Series 8, and the Apple Watch SE. ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Why the N.F.L.’s Big Streaming Deal Is Going Into Overtime
Talks for Sunday Ticket are expected to spill into next year, as Apple faces increased competition from Google for the league’s last available TV rights.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Kanye Disses Trump, Unleashes Bombshell 2024 Campaign Videos
In a bizarre 2024 move, Ye dished on topics from ex-wife Kim Kardashian to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, with an adviser telling The Daily Beast that “Trumpworld is in crisis.”
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1 year ago+13 13 0Turns Out Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes Actually Works
New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Chris Hemsworth Changed His Life After an Ominous Health Warning
In an exclusive sit-down with Vanity Fair, the actor discusses movies, the future of Thor, his businesses, fatherhood, and how a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s alters everything.
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1 year ago+12 12 0Netflix gives account holders the ability to kick freeloaders
It's about password sharing, sure, but security, too.