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2 years ago+7 7 0The tomatoes at the forefront of a food revolution
As global temperatures increase and extreme weather events become more common, can gene editing help to tweak our food plants so they can cope with the changes?
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2 years ago+4 4 0Worlds next door: looking for habitable planets at Alpha Centauri
In collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Astronautics and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Professor Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney is leading TOLIMAN, a project to discover if the nearest stars have planets that coul ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0These are the best and worst countries in which to buy a Samsung or Apple phone
If you want to buy a Samsung phone (or Apple phone), you're going to have a better time of it in some countries as compared to others.
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2 years ago+16 16 0Fight over U.S. wolf protections heads to federal courtroom
A U.S. government attorney urged a federal judge Friday to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country, as Republican-led states have sought to drive down wolf ...
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2 years ago+8 8 0Kansas district orders 29 books removed from circulation
A Kansas school district has removed more than two dozen books from its library shelves to review them after other school systems challenged the material. KMUW-FM reports that Julie Cannizzo, assistant superintendent for academic affairs in Goddard, ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0More disease, more suicide: Study shows human cost of climate change
Climate change is not only warming the planet, it's negatively affecting human health in myriad ways, with researchers reporting surges in heat-related illnesses, infectious diseases, poor sleep and an increase in suicides, according to a major ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0The Great Supply-Chain Massacre | by Diane Coyle
It is unclear whether current widespread product shortages are merely a temporary disruption or evidence of a global production meltdown. But today’s supply shocks offer striking parallels with the 2008 global financial crisis, and may require a simi ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0OpenAI unveils model that can summarize books of any length
OpenAI has developed an AI model that can summarize lengthy books, using a combination of task decomposition and reinforcement learning.
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2 years ago+19 19 0Apple facing class action lawsuits over MacBook M1 screen cracks
Last month, we covered reports of screen cracks appearing on the MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro M1 laptops, seemingly without any mishandling. In some cases Apple reportedly offered free repairs but not in others. Now, the problem has caught the atte ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Did the Bitcoin Twitter Handle Change Hands?
Observers on Twitter have pointed out that the @Bitcoin handle may have changed hands — and not everybody's happy with that. Twitter is one of the main assembly points for bitcoiners online, and the Bitcoin account has had its fair share of atte ...
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2 years ago+7 7 0Inside Louis C.K.’s Gross, Unapologetic ‘Comeback’ Show at Madison Square Garden
The admitted sex predator performed in front of a giant “SORRY” sign on Friday night in New York City. Nobody was buying it.
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2 years ago+9 9 0The Simpsons writers enter season 33 with self-awareness and no signs of slowing down
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con panel for The Simpsons was substantial, but the most telling moment happened during a 20 minute game of “Simpsons Pictionary.” The group of show writers and animators, moderated by voice actor Yeardley Smith, were pair ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Amazon convinces Apple to remove review analyzer Fakespot from the App Store
Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which ones are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon has successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application provides mi ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Dead Space YouTube Channel Updates Profile Pic After 8 Years of Inactivity
After drifting in space for almost a decade, it seems that Dead Space might actually be floating back into Earth’s orbit. The official YouTube channel for the Dead Space franchise has updated its profile picture for the first time in almost nine year ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Pull your Western Digital My Book Live NAS off the internet now if you value your files
Western Digital has alerted customers to a critical bug on its My Book Live storage drives, warning them to disconnect the devices from the internet to protect the units from being remotely wiped.
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2 years ago+3 3 0The Southern Baptist Church Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket
A generation ago, hard-core conservatives took over the largest Protestant church denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, and birthed what we now call “the Christian right.” They overcame a tradition of congregational and state-con ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Patrisse Cullors: Black Lives Matter co-founder resigns
Black Lives Matter's co-founder says she is resigning from its foundation, but not because of what she called right-wing attempts to discredit her. Patrisse Cullors said Friday would be her last day at the foundation, which she has led for nearl ...
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2 years ago+2 2 0Nintendo Switch Pro reveal expected before E3
Nintendo's long-awaited Switch upgrade is expected to be shown ahead of E3 2021, according to a report published by Bloomberg today and Eurogamer's own sources. I understand this is to ensure third-parties working on games which support the ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Bitcoin and housing market collide as home sellers increasingly accept crypto
When real estate agent Whitney Pannell listed an investment home that she bought and renovated for $300,000, she added an unusual note to the description: "Sellers are accepting Bitcoin for this home."
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3 years ago+13 13 0The world's 'most powerful' tidal turbine is nearly ready to power on
Earlier this week, a company Orbital Marine Power successfully launched its latest tidal turbine. Once it’s connected to the European Marine Energy Centre off the Orkney Islands, the two megawatt O2 will have the capacity to generate enough energy to ...