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17 hours ago
Current Event grandtheftsoulNew York Passes a Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’ After Years-Long Efforts
Between 2012 and 2018, 14 states and Washington, D.C., passed laws prohibiting “conversion therapy” for minors. Deep-blue New York was not among them. That finally changed this month when the State Legislature voted overwhelmingly to bar mental health professionals from working to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity. As jurisdictions across the country began solidifying protections for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, conversion therapy became part...
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18 hours ago
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The Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city. That’s not good.
With at least 680 cases, it’s already the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
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20 hours ago
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Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots
The robot revolution will have to wait at the Henn na Hotel in Japan, which is laying off low-performing droids after they created more work by annoying and confusing guests and piling up in the repair shop.
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5 days ago
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That Moment I Escaped North Korea
We talked with another advocate of the organization Liberty in North Korea, Geum Hyok Kim. Geum is a defector from the ruling class of North Korea who didn’t realize the nature of the regime until he left. He tells his beautiful, reflective story of growth, understanding freedom, and realizing what’s important.
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6 days ago
Comment grandtheftsoul
Yes, yes, YESSS.
Posted in: Official Tease: Crypts of Winterfell
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6 days ago
Analysis grandtheftsoul
Screens Might Be as Bad for Mental Health as … Potatoes
The science of how technology affects happiness needs a huge statistical upgrade. A new paper charts a path toward better research.
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6 days ago
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Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules
A California judge has ruled that American cops can’t force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or finger. The ruling goes further to protect people’s private lives from government searches than any before and is being hailed as a potentially landmark decision. Previously, U.S. judges had ruled that police were allowed to force unlock devices like Apple’s iPhone with biometrics, such as fingerprints, faces or irises. That was despite the fact feds weren’t permitted to force a...
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7 days ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
The Truth About the Gig Economy
The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent contractor jobs are the new normal. In the post-recession years, this became conventional wisdom, as more and more Americans took jobs—well, “jobs”—with companies like Postmates, Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and Lyft. But the gig economy was then and is now a more marginal phenomenon than it might have seemed.
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9 days ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
'Game of Thrones' to finally reveal exact season 8 premiere date
HBO will finally reveal the exact return date for the final season of Game of Thrones. Up until now, the network has only said the show is coming back in April, 2019. But which Sunday in April? The 7th? The 14th? The 21st? Dear god, it’s not the 28th is it? Just tell us it’s not the 28th!
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9 days ago
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Mugen's Body Kit for the Honda Civic Type R Makes It Look Even More Insane
Yes, the Honda Civic Type R is already one of the most extreme-looking cars on sale today. And yes, it can get even crazier, as proven by Mugen, a Honda-centric Japanese tuner that has taken the hot hatch to a new level visually (or a new low, depending on what you think of it).
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9 days ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
SpaceX cutting 10 percent of its staff to become a leaner company
SpaceX will lay off up to 10 percent of its work force, the company said Friday evening. The company characterized the job cuts as "a strategic realignment," designed to ensure it is positioned to succeed for the long term. They were announced to employees Friday in an e-mail from company president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell. The company has a work force of more than 6,000 employees.
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10 days ago
Analysis grandtheftsoul
Understanding the Hidden Bias in Emotion-Reading AIs
Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to help with hiring decisions. Other programs scan the faces in crowds to identify threats to public safety.
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12 days ago
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A robotic-sex-toy company accused the world's biggest tech show of sexism after being stripped of an innovation award
A robotic sex toy had its innovation award revoked at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, prompting accusations of sexism. The Osé hands-free personal massager is the first product made by Lora DiCarlo, a company that describes itself as "a woman-run start-up" that is "determined to change the face of pleasure products."
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12 days ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined. Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density.
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13 days ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
People With Advantageous Personality Traits Have More Nerve-Fibre Insulation (Myelination) In Key Brain Areas
Researchers are getting closer to understanding the neurological basis of personality. For a new paper in the Journal of Personality, Nicola Toschi and Luca Passamonti took advantage of a recent technological breakthrough that makes it possible to use scans to estimate levels of myelination in different brain areas (until fairly recently this could only be done at postmortem).
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2 weeks ago
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We’ve Stopped Translating Children’s Books Into English. Where Will We Get the Next Tintin?
The Little Prince, Astrid Lindgren, the Brothers Grimm, made us readers. But they came to English years ago—where’s all the stuff that’s happened since?
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2 weeks ago
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Stop sterilizing your dust
Most people have heard about antibiotic-resistant germs. But how about antibiotic-resistant dust? A new Northwestern University study has found that an antimicrobial chemical called triclosan is abundant in dust — and linked to changes in its genetic makeup. The result is dust with organisms that could cause an antibiotic-resistant infection.
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2 weeks ago
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Apple trolls CES with a giant dig at Android and Alexa privacy
There’s a giant ad on the side of a building in Las Vegas, making a wordplay on the classic “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” line. Nothing unusual about that, except it’s been set up by Apple just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show’s arrival in town, an event that the iPhone maker traditionally pretends isn’t even happening.
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2 weeks ago
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How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon
A growing number of self-proclaimed experts promise they can teach anyone how to make a passive income selling cheap Chinese goods in the internet's largest store. Not everyone’s getting rich quick.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
Gaming worth more than video and music
The video games sector now accounts for more than half of the UK's entire entertainment market, according to a new report. The industry is worth £3.86bn ($4.85bn) - more than double its value in 2007 - said the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). That makes it more lucrative than video and music combined. The success is largely down to three games: Fifa 19, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
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2 weeks ago
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Report: Netflix Bows to Saudi Request, Takes Down Critical Comedy Show Episode
“We strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only removed this episode in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal request — and to comply with local law,” the company said.
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2 weeks ago
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'We are not robots': Amazon warehouse employees push to unionize
As Amazon’s workforce has more than doubled over the past three years, workers at Amazon fulfillment center warehouses in the United States have started organizing and pushing toward forming a union to fight back against the company’s treatment of its workers.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
The 50 most anticipated games of 2019
Here comes 2019, and already the roster shows more than enough games coming out to keep us busy. From rollicking combat games to quieter indie explorations of the soul, here are 50 games (listed alphabetically) that we’re excited to see, coming in the year ahead. Given the nature of the game industry these days, it’s too early to read much in the way of trends from this list. Many games that we’ll see in 2019 have yet to be announced, or do not have a firm release date.
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3 weeks ago
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Bipolar: Physical activity may boost mood and energy
New research, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, found that higher levels of physical activity boost mood and energy levels. The benefits were particularly noticeable in people with bipolar disorder. Being physically active might help people with bipolar disorder fight off depressive symptoms. In the United States, almost 3 percent of adults experienced bipolar disorder "in the past year." Around 4.4 percent of adults have bipolar at some point in their lives.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event grandtheftsoul
Net neutrality battle heads to court in 2019
Time's run out for net neutrality supporters hoping to restore Obama-era regulations using a legislative loophole, but the fight's far from over as it heads to federal appeals court. Democrats in the House of Representatives failed to gather enough votes by the end of the year to use the Congressional Review Act to undo the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of the popular rules. The Republican-led agency voted a year ago this month to repeal the rules adopted in 2015, w...