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2 years ago+12 12 0Scientists find 17-pound meteorite in icy Antarctica
A daring team of scientists has endured the inhospitable conditions of the icy desert of Antarctica to recover five new meteorites, including a near-17-pound monster space rock. The team of scientists included Field Museum and the University of Chica ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0The Last of Us TV Show Leads To Huge Boost In Game Sales
The arrival of The Last of Us TV show has given a major boost to sales for both entries in Naughty Dog’s game series. According to game sales charts data available at online retailer Amazon, sales of The Last of Us Remastered and The Last of Us Part ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0North Korea pledges to revitalise economy after COVID ‘victory’
North Korea has pledged to “re-energise” industrial production and put the economy back on a “normal track” after the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to state media.
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2 years ago+23 23 0Here come the robot doctors
ChatGPT, the generative AI juggernaut, is getting a lot smarter when it comes to health care. Why it matters: A lot of clinical diagnoses and decisions could someday be made by machines, rather than by human doctors. Driving the news: ChatGPT recentl ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0‘The Last Of Us’ Becomes HBO’s Second Largest Debut After ‘House Of The Dragon’ Since 2010 With 4.7M Viewers
The Last Of Us drew a healthy number for HBO on Sunday night. The videogame adaptation, starring Pedro Pascal, drew 4.7M viewers across linear and HBO Max. It marked the largest debut after House of the Dragon since Boardwalk Empire launched in 2010. ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Why are most rocks on Earth much younger than the planet itself?
The rocks on Earth are not all the same age. In fact, most are significantly younger than the planet itself. The oldest sections of the oceanic crust are thought to be 200 million years old—a blink of an eye in the planet's billion-year lifespan ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Meghan Markle is losing America's sympathy
Meghan Markle is once again at the centre of a media storm after a public attack that her supporters say is wildly disproportionate and evidence of racialised bias. However, this familiar story is now taking place on U.S. soil. The Duchess of Sussex ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition
Switching off fossil fuels is going to be a bumpy ride — an energy disruption.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Blinded by the light: how skyglow pollution is separating us from the stars
On a clear dark Queensland night in 1997, Brendan Downs was staring up into the cosmos alongside a band of other amateur astronomers. He trained his telescope on a galaxy called NGC 6769, floating more than 169m light years away, and took a picture. ...
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2 years ago+22 22 0Apple's rumored electric car may not be fully self-driving after all
Apple isn't done scaling back its plans for an electric car, apparently. Bloomberg sources say the EV, codenamed Project Titan, is no longer a fully self-driving machine. It will reportedly have a conventional wheel and pedals, and will 'on ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Crowds angered by lockdowns call for China's Xi to step down
Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the r ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0Google’s new Nest Wifi Pro mesh Wi-Fi looks good and works even better
Google’s new Nest Wi-Fi Pro is an excellent upgrade if you’re coming from an existing Google router. I saw significantly faster speeds, improved reliability, and better performance on the Nest Wifi Pro — which adds Wi-Fi 6 and 6E — compared to the pr ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0Elon Musk tells advertisers that Twitter cannot become 'a free-for-all hellscape'
Elon Musk published a note addressed to Twitter advertisers on his account this morning, the day before his court-ordered deadline to close his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform. In the short address, Musk — who is currently in San ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0New Flash Of Deep Space Could Be Massive Star Explosion
Scientists have discovered an ultra-bright phenomenon in the distant universe that could have come from a star destroyed by a black hole. The fleeting phenomenon evolves much faster than a supernova but is just as bright as the massive star explosion ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Police arrested a suspected serial killer in Stockton, Calif.
A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, armed with a handgun and possibly searching for another victim, pol ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Leaked email reveals that Amazon is walking back employees' raises after an internal bug miscalculated their compensation
Frustration over low pay has been building at Amazon. The glitch reinforced a sense among some employees that Amazon is nickel-and-diming them.
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2 years ago+10 10 0Arizona Legislature won't defend law limiting police filming
The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature will not try to defend a new law limiting up-close filming of police that has been blocked by a federal judge, a decision that essentially ends the fight over the contentious proposal.
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2 years ago+21 21 0TSMC to mass produce chips on upgraded version of 3nm process in 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, plans to roll out chips made on an upgraded version of its sophisticated 3 nanometer process in 2023.
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2 years ago+17 17 0Psychology experts urge social media giants to increase transparency around algorithms to protect users’ mental health
In a new article published in the journal Body Image, a team of psychology researchers outline a mountain of evidence linking social media use to body image issues. The researchers describe how algorithms may be intensifying this link and urge social ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0What Prey Haters Fail to Grasp About the Original Predator Movie
It must be gratifying for filmmakers to know that the Monday after Prey’s premiere on Hulu (and Disney+ in Europe), many were debating whether the Predator prequel should’ve been released in theaters. The quality is certainly good enough with the fil ...