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1 year ago+17 17 0Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in the U.S.
When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing. What he did know is that his tiny town needed an affordable way to get electricity and had ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Crypto wallets are targeted by a new “stealer” on Mac
New “stealer” malware was spotted this spring. It targets computers running macOS and seeks to steal a lot of information, including cryptocurrency wallets. Its name leaves little doubt as to its targets: computers running macOS. This is what the AMO ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Box Office Milestone: ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Crossing $1B Globally
Illumination and Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is checking off another notable milestone. The Nintendo video game adaptation will cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office sometime on Sunday, its 26th day in release. It becomes only the ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earned $226 million last year, making him one of the world's best-paid bosses
The Google owner's CEO is only paid an annual salary of $2 million, but has also been given shares every three years worth more than $200 million.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Maternal antipathy in childhood is linked to aberrant brain reactions to social reward anticipation in adulthood, study finds
A neuroimaging study of adults with varying levels of adverse childhood experiences showed that participants reporting higher levels of maternal antipathy (in childhood) exhibited reduced activation in the brain reward network when they anticipated s ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Global PC shipments slide in Q1, Apple takes biggest hit: IDC
Global shipments of personal computers (PCs) fell by 29 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 due to weak demand, excess inventory and a deteriorating macroeconomic climate, with Apple taking the largest hit, market research firm IDC said.
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1 year ago+4 4 0As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line
Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl. Ian Fleming. Classics are being reworked to remove offensive language. But some readers wonder, when does posthumous editing go too far?
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1 year ago+16 16 0ChatGPT being fooled into generating old Windows keys illustrates a broader problem with AI
A lot of folks have been messing about with ChatGPT since its launch, naturally – that’s pretty much compulsory with a chatbot – and the latest episode involves the AI being tricked into generating keys for a Windows installation. Before you begin to ...
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1 year ago+9 9 0Box Office: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Rolls $38.5 Million in Opening Weekend
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” emerged victorious over last weekend’s champ “John Wick: Chapter 4” at the domestic box office, rolling $38.5 million from 3,855 North American theaters in its opening weekend.
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1 year ago+17 17 0AOC Says GOP Energy Bill May as Well Have Been Written Entirely by Big Oil
House Republicans are preparing to pass a sweeping energy bill that Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), have condemned as nothing more than a Big Oil wish list that would pilfer the public’s pockets to pad corporate profits ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0These high-tech diapers double as urine tests
Doctors routinely ask for urine tests for a very good reason: they just work. A urine analysis can reveal essential basic information about a patient’s health and can be used to detect a wide range of common conditions and diseases. Even plainly visi ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0FDA 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 t ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Apple 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 chai ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0GM 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, reference ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Meta 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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1 year ago+11 11 0Life 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 be ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0William 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 Br ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Room-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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1 year ago+19 19 0OLED 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, introducin ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Alone 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.