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6 months ago+46 46 0Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before
Every sub-1,000 stream will still generate revenue for the company — but now, that revenue will not be shared.
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Video/Audio
6 months ago+37 37 0Mathematics in Movies: The Warmachine
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Analysis
6 months ago+42 42 0Human Beings Are Not Puppets, And We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are
A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disi…
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Analysis
6 months ago+52 52 0Amazon is a ripoff
The idea that a company can do anything to create or perpetuate a monopoly so long as its prices go down and/or its quality goes up is directly to blame for the rise of Big Tech.
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6 months ago+51 51 0Giant Pyramid Buried in Indonesia Could Be The Oldest in The World
A giant underground pyramid hidden beneath a hillside in Indonesia far outdates Stonehenge or the Giza Pyramids and may come to rival the oldest megalithic structures ever built by human hands.
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6 months ago+49 49 0After watching Russia's and Ukraine's electronic warriors battle it out, the US military wants to 'dial up' up its own 'jamming power'
Russia and Ukraine are jamming each other's radios and zapping each other's drones, and the US military is preparing for the same kind of combat.
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Expression
6 months ago+38 38 0As the Hamas-Israel war rages, Islamophobia and antisemitism are rising in Australia
As fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, some Australians are increasingly afraid to venture outside in clothing that readily identifies them as either Muslim or Jewish.
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Analysis
6 months ago+50 50 0Brown, red, black, riceberry: Which is the healthiest type of rice?
There are more than 40,000 varieties of cultivated rice. If you've ever wondered about the differences between all the colourful rices at the supermarket, here's a rundown.
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6 months ago+56 56 0Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format
For the seventh year in a row, recorded music revenues in the United States rose, hitting a record high of $15.9 billion.
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Expression
6 months ago+49 49 0The "enshittification" of tech extends to space, too
From Google to Netflix, tech is becoming more useless. The commercialization of space is no different
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6 months ago+63 63 0Telemarketer goes belly-up after data breach
Sensitive details of charity donors leaked and also sensitive employee information had also been leaked during the attack – including police checks, child support documents, HR incidents, immigration sponsorship details, COVID-19 vaccination credent ...
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Current Event
6 months ago+48 48 0Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses
Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay
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Current Event
6 months ago+43 43 0Plan to save world's only wild macadamia trees from extinction
Given the lack of genetic diversity in the farmed crop, the race is on to preserve wild macadamia trees to improve traits like disease resistance, size and climate adaptability.
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Video/Audio
6 months ago+36 36 0An Introduction to Flashover - Episode 9
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Video/Audio
6 months ago+42 42 04K Slow Motion Backdraft
Gav and Dan film one of the most dangerous occurrences in a firefighter's occupation in terrifying 4K slow motion.
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Current Event
6 months ago+36 36 0California Bans ‘Excited Delirium’ As A Cause Of Death
Excited delirium is a very unique medical condition. It almost always kills its victims. The victims of this apparent sudden cause of death are almost always in the presence of police officers when…
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6 months ago+34 34 0Superlensing without a super lens: physicists boost microscopes beyond limits
Attempts to break the diffraction limit with “super lenses” have all hit the hurdle of extreme visual losses. Now physicists at the University of Sydney have shown a new pathway to achieve superlensing with minimal losses, breaking through the diffra ...
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6 months ago+43 43 0Physicists Say Magnets Offer Room Temperature Quantum Computing
The breakthrough material, a blend of aminoferrocene and graphene, has magnetic properties 100 times stronger than pure iron, eliminating the reliance on rare Earth materials for magnet construction.
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6 months ago+37 37 0Can’t stop binging on fries and BBQ?
Buck researchers uncover a mechanism that may explain why eating tasty but unhealthy foods makes us hungry for more. People overeat and become overweight for a variety of reasons. The fact that flavorful high-calorie food is often available nearly ...
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Current Event
6 months ago+47 47 0Rural brigades boss hoses down talk of national firefighting force
A key group representing Queensland's volunteer fire brigades pours water on the idea of a "semi-professional firefighting service" akin to the Army Reserve, saying it could alienate those already tackling this year's bushfire sea ...