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1 day ago
Current Event jasontBlack Mirror's 'Bandersnatch' Takes Viewers on a Wild Interactive Ride
When was the last time you watched a movie where you could control the plot? Bandersnatch is the first interactive film in the sci fi anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade, the film tells the story of young programmer Stefan Butler, who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel called Bandersnatch into a video game. Throughout the film, viewers are given the power to influence Butler’s decisions, leading to diverging pl...
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2 days ago
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Wyoming Looks Determined to Legalize Bitcoin as Money
Wyoming is introducing a bill that will put cryptocurrency like Bitcoin on the same legal footing as money. The bill will also provide a precise Wyoming is introducing a bill that will put cryptocurrency like Bitcoin on the same legal footing as the US dollar, which would make it a tax-free cryptocurrency.
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5 days ago
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Backlash over Gillette's 'MeToo advert'
The video about toxic masculinity, bullying and men's behaviour sparks outrage online.
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8 days ago
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Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
Nick Winke, a photographer in the Pacific northwest, was perusing internet forums when he came across a complaint that alarmed him: On certain Samsung Electronics Co. smartphones, users aren’t allowed to delete the Facebook app.
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8 days ago
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Shutdown of the US government becomes the longest in their history
The "shutdown" or US government shutdown that paralyzes some of the federal administrations of the US government has become the longest in the history of the United States on the night of Friday to Saturday, entering its 22nd day. This partial halt to the functioning of the federal authorities, which began on December 22, now exceeds 21 days of "shutdown" under the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1996.
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9 days ago
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Is this the start of the final season?
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9 days ago
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Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
A new government report highlights just how pervasive the problem is.
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11 days ago
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Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves
Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves. For the population to reproduce itself at current numbers, the “total fertility rate” needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age over their lifetime, researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in their report, released early Thursday. But the latest data show a current rate of just 1,765.5 per 1,000, or 16 p...
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11 days ago
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Targeting an RNA-binding protein to fight aging
As we age, our bodies undergo biological changes that cause a decline in the function of our cells and tissues. However, most studies attempting to identify molecules involved age-related dysfunctions have focused only on mechanisms based on mRNA transcription, a very important step in gene expression, but nonetheless only part of the complex regulatory mechanisms in our cells.
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11 days ago
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Astronomers find the brightest quasar yet
It shines with a brightness equivalent to 600 trillion suns. “We don’t expect to find many quasars brighter than that in the whole observable universe,” said the astronomers. Researchers announced this week (January 9, 2019) at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington, that they’ve discovered the brightest quasar yet known, detected from the period when the universe was just beginning to make luminous objects, such as stars and galaxies.
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2 weeks ago
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Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric.
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3 weeks ago
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Russian teenagers have been using pictures of a retired US general for target practice
The Russians do not like Robert Scales one bit, and that's not just in the halls of the Kremlin. According to the Moscow Times, Russian students participating in a charity-sponsored "air rifle shooting competition" in the country's Urals region were invited to take aim at a photo of the retired U.S. Army major general instead of the conventional rifle target.
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3 weeks ago
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TSA to deploy more floppy-ear dogs because they're less scary than pointy-ear dogs
In its effort to make the airport security screening process faster, the Transportation Security Administration is employing new high-tech baggage scanners, facial-recognition cameras and “automated lanes” to eliminate passenger gridlock. But TSA Administrator David Pekoske said the agency is also making at least one new change to reduce traveler stress: deploying more floppy-ear dogs, rather than pointy-ear dogs, to sniff out explosives in public areas.
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3 weeks ago
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Google reaffirms commitment to require 2 years of guaranteed Android updates for Android One devices
Many would say that Google’s Android One program is an evolution of the company’s Google Play Edition series. Although, the Android One program in and of itself has also evolved over the years too. When it was first introduced, the idea was to give low-end budget phones a baseline to follow. This would allow them to not only offer a certain level of performance (thanks to a clean install of stock Android and minimum hardware requirements), but it would also allow them to get timely updates, ...
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3 weeks ago
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Instagram accidentally made users' feeds scroll horizontally
Your main feed now feels a lot more like stories.
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3 weeks ago
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Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
Two years ago, Apple killed the headphone port. I still haven’t forgiven them for it. When Apple announced that the iPhone 7 would have no headphone port, I was pretty immediately annoyed. I figured maybe I’d get over it in a few months. I didn’t. I figured if worse came to worse, I’d switch platforms. Then all of the other manufacturers started following suit.
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1 month ago
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Nintendo Had a Fantastic 2018
Some may have thought of this year as a down year for Nintendo. They came out with a number of ports for the Nintendo Switch from the Wii U, and although they were good, they lacked original titles. That all changed at the end of the year though. Torna: The Golden Country, which was a DLC add-on for Xenoblade Chronicles 2, was also released as a standalone game. Octopath Traveler was one of the best games of the year.
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1 month ago
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The Brain's Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness
Freud’s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions
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1 month ago
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I had to turn off the video. All the screaming and panic was just too much. Let alone the attempts to rip out the child from the mother.
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1 month ago
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
The underloved social network will now close in April
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1 month ago
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YouTube Kicks off Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes
Far-right commentator and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes has been kicked off YouTube on Monday, marking the latest social media platform to remove the Proud Boys founder.
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1 month ago
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UK can cancel Brexit, says EU court
The European Court of Justice rules that the UK can cancel Brexit without the consent of the other EU states.