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2 years ago+18 18 0Apple illegally fired five labor activists, union says
The workers, who were disciplined and fired for attendance-related issues, believe they were let go because of their union organizing.
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2 years ago+16 16 0Bella Ramsey on Ending ‘The Last of Us’: “I Was Completely in Denial”
In an exclusive sit-down, the breakout star reflects on the queasy ending of the HBO drama’s first season—and the beautiful, bumpy journey to getting there.
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2 years ago+14 14 0The Great Realignment That Still Isn't Happening
In January 2022, I wrote an article debunking what might be called the realignment hypothesis — the increasingly popular notion that we’re living through a political realignment. Broadly defined, a political realignment is “A rare, significant, long- ...
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2 years ago+22 22 0The stupidity of AI
In January 2021, the artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI gave a limited release to a piece of software called Dall-E. The software allowed users to enter a simple description of an image they had in their mind and, after a brief pause, ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Parents prone to black-and-white thinking are less likely to vaccinate their children against COVID-19
A study of parents of children aged 5-11 in Italy showed that black-and-white thinking was associated with the tendency to believe in conspiracies. This was in turn associated with a negative attitude towards vaccinating children against COVID-19. Th ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0California Proposes Bill to Protect Contract Workers from Sudden Layoffs
Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, has proposed a bill that would extend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) to cover contract workers, increase the required notice period for layoffs to 90 days, and ban companies f ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Alligator allegedly taken from Texas zoo as an egg or hatchling has been returned nearly 20 years later, officials say | CNN
A nearly 8-foot alligator that allegedly was taken from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago as an egg or a hatchling has been returned to the facility after it was spotted living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, officials say.
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2 years ago+19 19 0Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species
The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn’t the norm.
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2 years ago+10 10 0Oil CEOs Should Be Barred From Global Climate Summits, Not Running Them
The Chief Executive of the twelfth largest oil producer – Sultan Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) – has been appointed as president of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP28, the biggest climate c ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0For the first time ever, physicists see particles form through quantum tunneling: ScienceAlert
Chemistry takes effort. Whether by raising the temperature, increasing the odds of matching atoms colliding in a hot collision, or increasing the pressure and squeezing them together, building molecules usually requires a certain cost in energy.
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2 years ago+18 18 0Soaring SUV sales make it harder to hit climate goals
SUV sales soared in 2022, a trend that makes it much harder to reach global climate goals, experts say. And while car buyers flocked to electric SUVs along with their gas-guzzling counterparts, supersize EVs pose their own environmental challenges.
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2 years ago+18 18 0Gen Z is key to Apple's dominance, due to their fear of green bubbles
Gen Z is key to Apple’s dominance, according to a new report – which says that fear of being “the green bubble guy”‘ in group chats is a key motivation. The report also underlines the importance the iPhone plays in hooking people into the Apple ecosy ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Rely on Microsoft Bing Search APIs? Price hike incoming
Microsoft is implementing massive price hikes for developers that use the Bing Search API, with some of the tiers scheduled to see rises up to nine times their current level. The overhauled price list is due to be introduced from the start of May and ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0ChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours Too
Most of you have by now heard of ChatGPT already, but if you haven't, first I'm happy to hear you're out of your coma, and second, it's what's called a "generative artificial intelligence" that was built by OpenAI t ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Could End Disease's Chronic Inflammation
A new study IDs a key contributor to the hyperactive autoimmune response and neuroinflammation that are the hallmarks of multiple sclerosis.
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2 years ago+17 17 0AI Chatbot Spontaneously Develops A Theory of Mind
The GPT-3 large language model performs at the level of a nine year old human in standard Theory of Mind tests, says psychologist.
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2 years ago+18 18 0Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says A.I. will change everything about war
A.I. could be as disruptive for warfare as nuclear weapons, but the US needs to move fast to catch up with rivals.
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2 years ago+14 14 0California Awards $15 Million In Grants To Support Local Marijuana Equity Programs
California officials on Friday announced that they’ve awarded $15 million in grants to support local efforts to promote equity in the marijuana industry. The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) distributed the funds to 16 ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0‘Dr. Phil’ tried to revamp itself in final months as sponsors fled: sources
Dr. Phil’s decision to call it quits last week came months after producers tried and failed to revamp the long-running CBS daytime show in a desperate bid to lure back skittish advertisers, The Post has learned. After years of Dr. Phil McGraw staging ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Washington D.C.'s free bus bill becomes law as zero-fare transit systems take off
D.C. is the largest U.S. city to codify a fare-free public transit system into law.