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1 day agoCurrent Event larylin
FDA clears lab-grown chicken as safe to eat
Lab-grown chicken has taken a step closer to hitting American grocery stores. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared cultured "cultured chicken cell material" made by GOOD Meat as safe for use as human food. While the FDA said the lab-grown chicken was safe to eat, GOOD Meat still needs approval from the Agriculture Department before i can sell the product in the U.S.
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4 days agoCurrent Event larylin
Apple pushes for labor reform in India, wants 'working hours, flexibility on par with China'
Earlier this month, a report revealed that Apple and Foxconn had successfully lobbied for more relaxed labor laws in the Indian state of Karnataka. The companies, however, aren’t stopping there, as Bloomberg now reports that Apple and its supply chain partners are now pushing for labor reform in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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10 days agoCurrent Event larylin
GM studying artificial intelligence assistant that could answer driver questions
General Motors is studying the possibility of an artificial intelligence voice assistant in future vehicles, according to the company. GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra, who was asked for details Tuesday by Fox Business channel anchor Liz Claman, referenced the company’s Ultifi “end-to-end” vehicle software platform.
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11 days agoCurrent Event larylin
Meta to lay off 10,000 more workers after initial cuts in November
will lay off 10,000 more workers and incur restructuring costs ranging from $3 billion to $5 billion, the company announced Tuesday, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg warning economic instability could continue for “many years.”
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11 days agoCurrent Event larylin
Life in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
In addition to the stresses of living through the War in Ukraine, Maks also worries about his relatives, such as his father, currently living in Russian-occupied territory. It has been a few weeks since he last talked to them. A lot of cities have been damaged by the Ukrainian Army trying to retake land.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
William Shatner on ‘Star Trek,’ Space Travel and Mortality: ‘I Don’t Have Long to Live’
William Shatner kicks things off with a compliment. We’re talking via Zoom — he’s beaming in from the sprawling kitchen of his Los Angeles home, which overlooks the San Fernando Valley. I’m dialing in from the living room of my walkup apartment in Brooklyn, a much more modest setting. But Shatner is impressed by the over-stocked bookcase behind me, as well as the paintings, a seascape and an impressionist pastoral scene that I inherited from my grandmother, that line the wall around it.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Meets With Resistance
A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a superconductor that operates at room temperatures and near-room pressures. The claim has divided the research community.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
OLED iPads might be a lot more expensive than predicted
The retail price of an OLED iPad is rumored to be considerably higher than current models, with one key component likely costing Apple three times more than what it pays now. Apple is thought to be working on a update to the iPad Pro line, introducing OLED displays to the range sometime in 2024. While the use of the technology could result in an even thinner design than the current miniLED-backlit models, it could end up being quite expensive to consumers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make some of the country’s best-known products.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Microsoft Bing AI ends chat when prompted about 'feelings'
Microsoft Corp. appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its "reimagined" Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning "feelings" or "Sydney," the internal alias used by the Bing team in developing the artificial-intelligence powered chatbot.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Steven Spielberg on Age, Mortality and How the Pandemic ‘Gave Me the Courage‘ to Tackle Buried Traumas in ’The Fabelmans’
Steven Spielberg has confessed that the coronavirus pandemic forced him to reckon with age and mortality, acknowledging that his fears are what drove him to make his multi-Oscar-nominated film “The Fabelmans.” “The fear I felt about the pandemic gave me the courage to tell my personal story,” Spielberg said during a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? They run the US as well’
The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden’s inner circle, and is still fighting his country’s vast inequalities
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Family of US tourist killed in Mexico takes action to demand justice
Frustrated friends and relatives of a North Carolina tourist who was killed under suspicious circumstances on a Mexico holiday four months ago are taking matters into their own hands this weekend. A group of Shanquella Robinson’s loved ones and local activists plan to walk from Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church in Charlotte Saturday to a local post office and mail 1,000 pink letters to authorities to demand justice in her death, the Sun reported.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks ChatGPT is 'pretty impressive,' but warned it can make 'horrible mistakes': CNBC
"The trouble is it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanness is," Wozniak warned.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
The Berlin start-ups tearing up capitalism and putting workers first
Unlimited holidays, no bosses, democratic salaries, and the same wages for less work. That’s the pitch vegan condom company Einhorn makes to potential co-workers. Einhorn is a pioneer of what is known in Germany as "New Work": a re-imagining of the often hierarchical structures of the business world to make things more humane for workers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
People with attachment anxiety tend to have heightened collective narcissism, study finds
People with higher levels of attachment anxiety are more likely to have higher levels of collective narcissism, according to new scientific research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The findings shed light on the role of attachment for national in-group commitment.