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1 month agoCurrent Event j0rg
A Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time
Facing the staggering problems afflicting all legacy studios, is Bob Iger contemplating a once-unthinkable option? The signals he sent in Sun Valley suggest that it could happen.
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2 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
The Backlash to Plant-Based Meat Has a Sneaky, if Not Surprising, Explanation
During the pandemic, plant-based meat consumption and media coverage exploded. Now, a host of trend pieces decry its demise. That shift is no organic accident.
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3 months agoAnalysis j0rg
Why do some people get rashes in space? There's a clue in astronaut blood
A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel reduces the expression of 100 genes related to the immune system.
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3 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
World leaders headed to Paris summit in push for global debt, climate reform
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at building a "new consensus" to meet the interlinked global targets of tackling poverty, curbing planet-heating emissions and protecting nature. Ideas on the table range from taxation on shipping, fossil fuels or financial transactions, to innovations in lending and a structural rethink of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
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3 months agoLevel Up j0rg
Level 19
j0rg is now level 19 with 400,105 XP.
View Unlocks- Save Credits The maximum amount of save credits you can store has been raised by 2 to a total of 28.
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3 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
The A.I. Revolution Will Change Work. Nobody Agrees How.
The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.
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4 months agoExpression j0rg
Activision Quietly Adds Pay To Win To Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
As Season 3 is officially on its way in Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Activision has quietly snuck pay to win mechanics into its DMZ mode.
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5 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
NYPD reboots robot police dog after backlash and, again, civil rights advocates warn against high-tech hound
The NYPD robot pooch Digidog got a new leash on life Tuesday — and police leaders insist it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the robot landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights advocates, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell promised to keep New Yorkers abreast of how the operations of the cyber mutt and two other tech tools pilot tested.
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6 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Zimbabweans question membership to international convention on legal wildlife trade
Legislators are calling on the government to quit the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in order for the trade and consumption of wildlife animals to go on unencumbered, owing it to increased human-wildlife conflict.
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6 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Sheffield 'get well soon' message carved on snowy hospital roof
A giant "get well soon" message has been carved by a mystery artist into snow on a Sheffield hospital's roof. The words, accompanied by a huge smiley face, appeared on the top of of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital car park. Hospital visitor Joe Dawson posted the image on social media and said it had "really cheered everyone" and described the unknown snow-artist as a "legend".
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7 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
Ajarring divide cleaves modern physics. On one side lies quantum theory, which portrays subatomic particles as probabilistic waves. On the other lies general relativity, Einstein’s theory that space and time can bend, causing gravity. For 90 years, physicists have sought a reconciliation, a more fundamental description of reality that encompasses both quantum mechanics and gravity. But the quest has run up against thorny paradoxes.
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8 months agoAnalysis j0rg
A drug that increases dopamine can reverse the effects of inflammation on the brain in depression, Emory study shows | Emory University | Atlanta GA
An Emory University study shows levodopa, a drug that increases dopamine in the brain, has potential to reverse the effects of inflammation on brain reward circuitry, ultimately improving symptons of depression.
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8 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
10 people killed in mass shooting near Los Angeles after Lunar New Year celebrations
A gunman opened fire, killing 10 and wounding 10 Saturday, in the midst of Lunar New Year celebrations in Southern California’s Asian American enclave of Monterey Park, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. It was not clear what the motive was behind the massacre, and the suspect remained at large, Capt. Andrew Meyer from the department’s homicide division said at a news conference early Sunday.
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8 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Apple's 'Reality Pro' Headset Said to Launch Before WWDC, Ships in the Fall
Apple's AR/VR headset, likely to be named "Reality Pro," will be announced during an event this spring before WWDC, which is typically held in June, before the product begins shipping this fall. In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Apple's current plan is to announce the headset during an event in the spring, before the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June.