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3 years ago+21 21 0Netflix Reveals $17 Billion in Content Spending in Fiscal 2021
Netflix revealed that it will spend over $17 billion on content this year, according to its first-quarter earnings report. “As we’ve noted previously, the production delays from Covid-19 in 2020 will lead to a 2021 slate that is more heavily second h ...
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3 years ago+2 2 0Why Has PlayStation's Messaging Felt So Off Lately?
We’re nearly five months into this new generation of consoles, and things are largely going as expected. It’s still frustratingly difficult to purchase either versions of the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X | S. A wealth of high-profile games are bein ...
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3 years ago+15 15 0Automating scam call blocking sees Telstra prevent up to 500,000 calls a day
Telstra has said it is now blocking approximately 6.5 million suspected scam calls a month, at times up to 500,000 a day, thanks to automating the former manual process that sat at around 1 million monthly scam calls.
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3 years ago+12 12 0Opinion: Simone Biles penalized for having skills other gymnasts can't pull off
Simone Biles is the last person international gymnastics officials should be using to try and make a point. In an effort to deter other gymnasts from trying skills they are not physically capable of doing, the International Gymnastics Federation wate ...
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3 years ago+4 4 0FBI: Pranksters are hijacking smart devices to live-stream swatting incidents
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says pranksters are hijacking weakly-secured smart devices in order to live-stream swatting incidents. "Recently, offenders have been using victims' smart devices, including video and audio capable hom ...
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3 years ago+23 23 0Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.
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3 years ago+13 13 0Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces activation in brain regions related to self-blame in patients in remission from depression
New research suggests mindfulness-based cognitive therapy protects remitted depressed patients from relapse by reducing tendencies toward self-blame. The findings were published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
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Review
3 years ago+4 4 0HBO’s “How To with John Wilson” Captures the Weird, Wondrous New York City That’s Never on TV
As a documentarian, Wilson has a receptive spirit and a fascination with arcane institutions and subcultures.
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3 years ago+16 16 0How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse
Console “Developer Mode” offers a way in for RetroArch’s dozens of emulation cores.
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3 years ago+12 12 0‘A pivotal moment’: Democracies urged to band together to resist China
Top national security, foreign policy officials and activists this weekend issued a call for democratic nations to revitalize international institutions and pursue new, more flexible ways for governments to band together to confront China’s economic ...
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3 years ago+13 13 0Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought
Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks. The claim has earned a mixed response from geologists. Many argue that Earth was too hot at the time for ...
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3 years ago+18 18 0Great Fox-Spider Assumed Extinct in UK Found at British Army Training Area After 27 Years
One of Britain's largest spiders, the Great Fox Spider, once thought to have gone extinct, has been spotted for the first time after 27 years at a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey. After being untraceable for more than a quarter of ...
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3 years ago+11 11 0Exxon denies Trump called CEO for money. But Big Oil is donating way more to Trump than Biden
President Donald Trump is a fierce backer of the fossil fuels industry. And that support is paying off big time in the money race. Trump is crushing Joe Biden in campaign donations from the embattled oil-and-gas industry. The president and outside gr ...
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3 years ago+9 9 0Bloomberg: two Apple Watches, new iPad Air coming in a month
Apple has asked its suppliers to manufacture at least 75 million 5G-enabled iPhones as it anticipates 80 million shipments of its next-gen iPhones this year, reports Bloomberg citing people familiar with the situation. The Cupertino-based tech giant ...
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3 years ago+20 20 086% of US states increased internet speeds during COVID-19 lockdown
Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. However, the average internet speed in the US increased from 84.9Mbps to 94.6Mbps. This may surp ...
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3 years ago+16 16 0Uber and Lyft had time to comply with the law. They did not.
Uber and Lyft continue to fight back against laws that would require them to treat drivers as employees. The law is not on their side.
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3 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Instagram Retained Deleted Photos and Messages on Its Servers for Over a Year
Instagram has awarded a security researcher a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found photos and private direct messages on the platform's servers that he had deleted more than a year ago (via TechCrunch).
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3 years ago+14 14 0iOS 14 lets users grant approximate location access for apps that don't require exact GPS tracking
An iOS 14 feature that has gone a bit under the radar is the Precise Location toggle for Location Services. This new toggle gives the user more control over which apps can access your current location, and to what granularity.
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Analysis
3 years ago+4 4 0How understanding nature made the atomic bomb inevitable
Atomic bombs hastened the end of World War II. But they launched another kind of war, a cold one, that threatened the entire planet with nuclear annihilation. So it’s understandable that on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb explosion that devas ...
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3 years ago+4 4 0Divisive Trump nominee gets new Pentagon post, despite snub by Congress
After failing to secure a Senate confirmation hearing, U.S. President Donald Trump’s most divisive nominee for a Pentagon position so far has taken a different, less-senior policy role at the Defense Department, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.