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2 years ago+20 20 0Hodlonaut Wins Norwegian Lawsuit Against Self-Proclaimed ‘Satoshi’ Craig Wright
Magnus Granath, known on Twitter as “Hodlonaut,” won a lawsuit against Craig Wright on Thursday, a Norwegian judge ruled. Granath sued Wright in Norway to try and preempt a defamation suit Wright planned to bring against Granath in the U.K., where de ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Bosses Are Winning The Battle To Get Workers Back To The Office
In the first week following Labor Day, office usage in 10 major metro areas neared 50% of 2020’s pre-pandemic attendance. A showdown between bosses and employees may be imminent.
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2 years ago+19 19 0Todd proposes 400 MW solar farm for New Zealand’s North Island
New Zealand’s large-scale solar PV market is poised for a momentous shift with energy company Todd Generation pursuing plans to establish a 400 MW solar farm at Rangitāiki on the North Island.
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2 years ago+15 15 0New psychology research indicates that cleaning oneself helps alleviate the anxiety from stress-inducing events
Washing yourself can attenuate the psychological consequences of stressful events, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. The new findings provide some of the first scientific evidence that cleaning onese ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0CEO's LinkedIn crying selfie about layoffs met with backlash
"Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way. But I'm not," Braden Wallake wrote.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Teresa Xu: Chinese woman loses court case over bid to freeze eggs
Teresa Xu took legal action after a Beijing hospital refused to freeze her eggs as she is not married.
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2 years ago+4 4 0120fps GeForce Now cloud gaming comes to all compatible Android phones
Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, now supports 120fps game streaming across all Android phones with high refresh rate displays, rather than being limited to specific preapproved models. The rollout was announced last month, 9to5Google repor ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Adele’s Las Vegas residency production crew laid off amid rescheduling uncertainty
Eleven members of the production crew responsible for building Adele’s set at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas have been told they will be laid off for the summer, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The workers, who ar ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Apple Increasing Starting Pay for Hourly Workers to at Least $22 Per Hour
Apple today notified employees that it is increasing starting pay for hourly workers to a minimum of $22 per hour, and higher in certain markets,...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Big meat threatens to gobble up fake meat companies, say studies
Big meat and food conglomerates threaten to push out smaller producers of meat alternatives in the same way they have affected other food industries, according to two recent reports. Meat companies such as JBS and Cargill have invested heavily in pla ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0The Mastermind Episode 3: He Always Had a Dark Side
How did a Usenet troll and encryption genius become a criminal mastermind? For a man who built an empire in pixels, Paul Le Roux seemed like a digital phantom. After his name surfaced in the press in late 2014, I spent the better part of a year tryin ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change
Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change, echoing a policy already in place at Google. “Ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis,” the company ...
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3 years ago+3 3 0Mike Bossy, New York Islanders legend and 4-time Stanley Cup champion, dies at 65
Mike Bossy, one of hockey's most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s Stanley Cup dynasty, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65. TVA Sports, the French-language network in Canada where he ...
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3 years ago+3 3 0Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors
Elon Musk is planning yet again to rocket beyond the status quo. And if he succeeds, the aerospace giants that won the first space race may never catch him in this one. Standing in front of the towering Starship rocket at Space X’s southwest Texas “S ...
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3 years ago+17 17 0A museum guard draws eyes on a pricey painting due to boredom
A valuable avant-garde painting of artist Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures painting, valued roughly at $1 million, was vandalized by a bored security guard who was on his first and obviously last day at work. The 90-year-old painting was on exhib ...
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3 years ago+18 18 0The guards caring for Chernobyl's abandoned dogs
The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area.
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3 years ago+4 4 0People with stronger Buddhist beliefs are more likely to donate blood due to greater sensitivity to morality
A study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology suggests that appealing to the moral elements of Buddhist teachings might encourage more people to donate blood. The researchers found that people with stronger Buddhist beliefs were more ...
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3 years ago+3 3 0Novak Djokovic: Tennis star wins court battle to stay in Australia
The Serb tennis star challenged his visa cancellation on vaccination grounds ahead of the Australian Open.
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3 years ago+4 4 0Wind power becomes Spain’s leading energy source for 2021
Renewable sources already cover almost half of the country’s consumption needs – so far this year, they have contributed almost 47% of the total compared to less than 30% a decade ago.
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3 years ago+4 4 0Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a study. The research scanned more than 200m genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 differ ...