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1 day ago
Video/Audio kxhDisturbing simulation shows power, terror of killer robots
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2 days ago
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Every Literary Movement in History, Summed Up in a Single Sentence
The problem with literature is that there's so much of it. Books go back a long time (like at least ten or fifteen years, I'm thinking), and if you're a student taking an English class, you're supposed to be familiar with basically all of them. But that's impossible. Allow us, then, to suggest an alternate strategy: you fake it. The following literary movements and periods span whole centuries, numerous cultural milestones, and multiple historical turning points, but we ...
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3 days ago
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Cloudflare Refutes MPA and RIAA's Piracy Concerns - TorrentFreak
Cloudflare is frustrated with the continued criticism from entertainment industry groups, which accuse the company of assisting pirate sites. In a letter to the U.S. Government, the CDN provider once again rebuts these claims, stressing that it's not obliged to shut down potentially infringing websites.
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3 days ago
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'Think of your family': China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests
Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing
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3 days ago
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Las Vegas: taking food out of people's mouths. Stay classy!
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4 days ago
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Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Hygiene Is Different in Space
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino breaks down all the differences between using the bathroom, washing your hair, and brushing your teeth on Earth and in space. How do you take showers in space?
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5 days ago
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Why Fiber is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G
While much of the Internet infrastructure has already transitioned to fiber, a supermajority of households and businesses across the country still have slow and outdated connections. Transitioning the “last mile” into fiber will require a massive effort from industry and government—an effort the rest of the world has already started.
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5 days ago
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Wall-E
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5 days ago
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Easy fix. Turn off Google Assistant.
Oh? You say you want Google listening to everything that happens around you and your phone, including everything you say? Go for it then.
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6 days ago
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Paris zoo unveils the 'blob' — a slime mould with 720 sexes which acts like an animal
Scientists are perplexed by the slime mould, which has no brain, mouth, stomach or eyes, yet is capable of learning, digesting food, has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself within two minutes if cut in half.
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6 days ago
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Why white married women are more likely to vote for conservative parties
Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.
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7 days ago
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Elizabeth Warren's Feud With Facebook Over 'False' Ads Just Highlights The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale
Except... it turns out that the latter part of Warren's "fake news ad" -- the part which she presents as truthful -- is actually false as well.
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7 days ago
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London police arrest man dressed as broccoli
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7 days ago
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London police arrest man dressed as broccoli
Reuters reports, without offering any context, the fact that a man dressed as a giant broccoli was arrested yesterday in London. While being detained, he yells “give peas a chance.”
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9 days ago
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Kurds reach deal with Damascus in face of Turkish offensive
Agreement to hand over border towns comes after more than 700 Isis affiliates escape camp
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9 days ago
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The largest number with a name? I immediately think of Graham's number.
Posted in: Honeybees Are Accomplished Mathematicians
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10 days ago
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How Australia's smallest state wound up in the middle of America's biggest drug crisis
Australia's island state is known for its rich history and pristine environment — it also plays a huge part of supplying the raw materials that make the painkillers at the centre of the United States' opioid crisis.
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10 days ago
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Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers
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10 days ago
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Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers
Google funds these lobbyists and astroturf operations because they also lobby for lax tax enforcement, lax labor laws, lax privacy laws, and so on. Google doesn't fund these lobbyists because they're climate deniers, nor because they're indifferent to climate change and its human costs.
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11 days ago
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Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.
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12 days ago
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As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, Turkey may be sinking deeper in the Syrian conflict.
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12 days ago
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Banksy's Fake Store Is An Attempt To Abuse Trademark Law To Avoid Copyright Law
You may have seen the headlines lately, saying that famed pseudonymous street artist Banksy was being "forced" into opening up a pop up store in London in order to secure a trademark and prevent "a greetings card company" from...
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13 days ago
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First-of-Its-Kind Quantum Vibration Produced by Shooting a Laser at a Diamond
Scientists have observed a quantum vibration at normal room temperature for the first time, a phenomenon that usually requires ultra-cold, carefully calibrated conditions – bringing us another step closer to understanding the behaviour of quantum m
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2 weeks ago
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There are three types of climate change denier, and most of us are at least one
It's easy to spot outright rejection of the facts on climate change. But it's far harder to see our own biases and excuses that lead us to delay or deny the need for real action.
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2 weeks ago
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If you use any 32 bit apps, don't upgrade yet. 32 bit apps will not work in 10.15.
Posted in: macOS Catalina is available today
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