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ProtonMail rebrands as Proton: VPN, email and cloud storage now available under one bundle
Proton Mail, Proton VPN and Proton Drive now fall under a single $9.99/month subscription
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3 days agoExpression hiihii
The Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Trial Is Not as Complicated as You May Think
The entirety of the case rests on twelve words.
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3 days agoAnalysis hiihii
You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
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3 days agoAnalysis hiihii
No, MIT's new AI can't determine a person's race from medical images
MIT researchers claim they've built an AI that can determine a person's race from medical X-Rays. That would be a miraculous breakthrough.
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4 days agoCurrent Event hiihii
Cambridge Analytica scandal: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued by Washington, DC AG
The Cambridge Analytica scandal returned to haunt Meta aka Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with Washington District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A Racine announcing that his office is suing the social media behemoth's founder for his role in Facebook's misleading privacy practices and failure to protect millions of users' data.
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5 days agoExpression hiihii
‘SNL’ and the Ugly Comedians Feasting on Amber Heard’s Misery
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial sparked a revolting online circus. By joining in, “SNL” proved it’s no longer influencing meme culture but instead embracing its worst impulses.
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5 days agoExpression hiihii
Future foods: What you could be eating by 2050
Scientists say we need to future-proof our diets in a warming world by eating little-known plants.
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6 days agoExpression hiihii
The Depp-Heard trial is monstrous. It’s just the start.
Amber Heard is just the first target of a new extremist playbook.
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6 days agoCurrent Event hiihii
Facebook secretly planted op-eds in local papers to lobby against tech reform: report
Facebook used a front group to secretly plant op-eds in local newspapers nationwide in order to lobby Washington to back down from antitrust legislation aimed at improving competition in tech, acco…
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12 days agoCurrent Event hiihii
Elon Musk wants to know how many fake accounts Twitter has, but experts say his approach is all wrong
Researchers say Elon Musk’s suggested approach for tabulating fake accounts on Twitter is woefully deficient.
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12 days agoCurrent Event hiihii
Ukraine Wins Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final 2022
Kalush Orchestra of Ukraine was named the winner, pushed to the top by the public vote. The band was victorious with a performance of a rousing, anthemic song delivered as a tribute to Ukraine as a motherland.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event hiihii
Apple restructuring Services team to focus more on streaming and advertising businesses
According to a report, Apple wants to restructure its Services team to make the category even more profitable with streaming and ads.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event hiihii
Microsoft's Kinect is being used by ghost hunters to track spirits, demons
Kinect was more powerful than we ever expected. It might have failed us as a gaming peripheral, but it has found new life tracking undead spirits and evil demons, at least according to Linda the Ghost Hunter.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event hiihii
Amazon fires senior managers from unionized Staten Island warehouse | Engadget
Many of the employees had been involved in JFK8’s unionization campaign..
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2 weeks agoAnalysis hiihii
UK's flying insects have declined by 60% in 20 years
The UK's insect population has fallen sharply as the invertebrates are affected by rising temperatures and fragmented habitats.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event hiihii
Bank of England set for 4th straight rate hike to fight inflation
The Bank of England sent a stark warning that Britain risks a double-whammy of a recession and inflation above 10% as it raised interest rates on Thursday to their highest since 2009, hiking by quarter of a percentage point to 1%. The pound fell by more than a cent against the U.S. dollar to hit its lowest level since mid-2020, below $1.24, as the gloominess of the BoE's new forecasts for the world's fifth-largest economy caught investors by surprise.
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1 month agoAnalysis hiihii
Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims
Professor theorises electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be similar to human language
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1 month agoCurrent Event hiihii
Florida Atheist Uses State's New Book-Banning Law To Object To The Bible
“If they’re gonna ban books, then the whole library should be in play," Chaz Stevens told the Miami New Times.
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1 month agoUnspecified hiihii
Meat consumption must fall by at least 75% for sustainable consumption, says study
Every EU citizen consumes around 80 kilograms of meat per year. But every juicy steak, every delicious sausage has a price that we do not pay at the counter, because livestock farming damages the climate and the environment. Ruminants, for instance, produce methane, which accelerates global warming.
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1 month agoCurrent Event hiihii
Lexus announces the RZ, its first purpose-built EV
Lexus has today announced the RZ, the luxury marque’s second entry into the EV market, and the first designed from the ground-up as an electric vehicle. With a 71.4kWh battery and a claimed range of around 280 miles, the RZ will also show off a new active four-wheel drive system dubbed DIRECT4. That will, so the company says, enable the car to automatically distribute force to each wheel according to its need. And Lexus says that DIRECT4 will offer “excellent driving performance” with a ...
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1 month agoCurrent Event hiihii
Netflix India observes an uptick in user engagement after reduction in prices
Content streaming platform Netflix, which reduced its subscription prices in India late last year, is witnessing an uptick in user engagement in the country, as it doubles down on creating more localised. According to Netflix COO Greg Peters, the subscribers in India are largely behaving similar to the subscribers they have added over the last 12 months.