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9 days agoCurrent Event lexi6
NASA Perseverance rover drops Ingenuity helicopter off on the surface of Mars
NASA has plenty of experience operating wheeled rovers on Mars, but it's never tried to fly a helicopter on the red planet before. The Ingenuity rotorcraft will get a chance to make history this month by flying the Martian skies, but first the Perseverance rover had to drop it off on the ground.
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9 days agoCurrent Event lexi6
Rick and Morty Season 5 Release Date Trailer Features Ocean Men and a ‘Blade’ Universe
The wait for the new Rick and Morty season is almost over! Adult Swim has released a trailer for Season Five, which includes a lot of juicy details as well as the global premiere date.
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13 days agoCurrent Event lexi6
How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (Published 2016)
Philadelphia — First you get your coat. I don’t care if you don’t remember where you left it, you find it. If there was a lot of blood you ask someone to go quickly to the basement to get you a new set of scrubs. You put on your coat and you go into the bathroom. You look in the mirror and you say it. You use the mother’s name and you use her child’s name. You may not adjust this part in any way.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event lexi6
LA officially becomes 'no-kill' city as animal shelters achieve 90% save rate
When the "No-Kill Los Angeles" initiative was launched in 2012, only 56% of dogs and cats were emerging from L.A. city shelters alive.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event lexi6
Why did Elon Musk finally invest in Bitcoin?
Tesla recently announced its $ 1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of company annual earnings report.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event lexi6
Netflix is asking some users to prove they’re not sharing passwords
Don’t call it a crackdown just yet, but Netflix is testing a new way to keep password sharing under control. In a screenshot shared on Twitter this week, Netflix appeared to seek extra verification before letting users into the app, offering to send a one-time passcode to the account holder via email or text message. The prompt also showed an option to “verify later.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event lexi6
Personal income leaps 10% in January thanks to stimulus, but inflation still in check
A fresh round of government stimulus checks sent personal income up to its biggest monthly gain since April 2020 though inflation remained tame, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Personal income jumped 10% after a 0.6% increase in December. That was even higher than the 9.5% Dow Jones estimate.
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1 month agoCurrent Event lexi6
New Projects Combine Vertical Farming With Affordable Housing
A new project utilizes unused space inside affordable housing blocks to implement multistory vertical farming greenhouses. In an interview with Fast Company, Nona Yehia, CEO of Vertical Harvest, describes how "bringing the farm back to the city center can have a lot of benefits."
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1 month agoCurrent Event lexi6
The Pixel camera curse could be beyond a software fix
The Google Camera app, an exclusive to the company's Pixel phones, has seen a spate of one-star reviews on the Play Store recently. In fact, its overall rating has declined over the last year and a half from 3.8 stars to 3.3, and details in the bulk of complaints may indicate that the well-known Pixel camera curse is spreading to affect more devices. However, Google tells us there aren't any known app or software issues related to the problem, implying the apparent increase in customer...
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2 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
Lawyers said it was the longest sentence yet for violating Thailand’s notoriously harsh lèse-majesté law.
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3 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
Oppo introduces new “slide” concept phone with three hinges
The product was designed in cooperation with the Japanese studio Nendo.
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3 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
U.S. to approve $1.9 billion to replace telecom equipment made in China due to security reasons
US lawmakers are set to approve $1.9 billion aimed to fund a program to remove telecom network equipment manufactured in China, which the U.S. government says poses national security risks. The fund is expected to be drawn from the $900 billion COVID-19 relief aid.
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3 months agoLevel Up lexi6
Level 25
lexi6 is now level 25 with 1,080,320 XP.
View Unlocks- Invite Codes You have been awarded 2 invite codes to invite your friends to join you here at Snapzu.
- Snapzine The maximum amount of snapzine editions you can create has been raised by 1 to a total of 18.
- Following The maximum amount of users you can follow has been raised by 30 to a total of 360.
- Tribe Claiming You can claim tribes with max level 6.
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3 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
'Deepfake' Queen delivers alternative Christmas speech in warning about misinformation
A fake Queen Elizabeth danced across TV screens on Christmas as part of a "deepfake" speech aired by a British broadcaster. Channel 4 said the video was supposed to offer "a stark warning about the advanced technology that is enabling the proliferation of misinformation and fake news in a digital age."
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3 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
Deepfake queen to deliver Channel 4 Christmas message
This year's Channel 4 alternative Christmas message will be delivered by a deepfake of the Queen. While the Queen is delivering her traditional message on the BBC and ITV, her digitally created doppelgänger will be sharing its "thoughts" on Channel 4. Buckingham Palace told the BBC it had no comment on the broadcast. Channel 4 said the intention was to give a "stark warning" about fake news in the digital age.
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3 months agoCurrent Event lexi6
Wausau man saves Christmas by returning $3,000 found on the sidewalk
A good Samaritan in Wausau helped save Christmas for a perfect stranger by going the extra mile to return thousands of dollars in cash that he found just sitting on the sidewalk. According to the Wausau Police Dept., the unnamed white knight spotted the $3,000 along with “numerous Christmas gift envelopes and a receipt.” Picking up all of that money, he next called police to turn it in.