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2 years ago+20 20 0Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting.
Google cut the pay of workers in some of its North Carolina offices. It's one of the places the firm is targeting for hiring a more diverse workforce.
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2 years ago+21 21 0Netflix to debut Dave Chappelle-produced comedy specials 'Chappelle's Home Team'
Dave Chappelle has earned praise, condemnation and millions of dollars while starring in his own series of Netflix stand-up specials over the last few years. The 48-year-old Chappelle’s Show creator will share the Netflix spotlight with some of his f ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Psychology study sheds light on a meditation training that may help people overcome automatic habits
Meditation practice that focuses on nurturing an awareness of the present may help people overcome problematic habits, according to findings published in the journal Mindfulness. After eight sessions of open monitoring meditation, participants were b ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Hackers Move $3.55B Worth of Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack
Bad actors will have a tough time cashing out the stolen bitcoin as most of them are blacklisted.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported
There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to e ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Chinese space plane company targets suborbital tourism, point-to-point travel by 2025
The Chinese company Space Transportation is developing a "rocket with wings" for space tourism and point-to-point travel. "We are developing a winged rocket for high-speed, point-to-point transportation, which is lower in cost than roc ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?
Everyone reading this sentence likely (hopefully!) agrees that women deserve the same rights as men. But just a couple of centuries ago, that idea would’ve been dismissed as absurd.
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2 years ago+14 14 0US introduces new privacy bill to ban targeted advertising on digital platforms
The US has unveiled a new privacy bill that would ban targeted advertising on digital platforms by social media giants like Meta (formerly Facebook), Google and others. The bill allows users to sue platforms like Facebook and Google if they break the ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0What Drives Bitcoin Fees? Using Segwit to Assess Bitcoin's Long-Run Sustainability
Bitcoin is a decentralized payment system: a central institution to verify and settle transactions does not exist. What drives the transaction fees in this system? Can it remain tamper proof in the long run? We develop an empirical model to study how ...
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2 years ago+3 3 030 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2022
The new year is here, bringing the promise of new video games to one and all. We've have seen some fantastic games on Switch in 2021, but it's also true that several big names slipped into 2022 — for understandable reasons. Add those to the ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Germany to pull the plug on 3 of its last 6 nuclear power plants
"For the energy industry in Germany, the nuclear phase-out is final," said Kerstin Andreae, the head of energy industry association BDEW.
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2 years ago+16 16 0The fight to save horseshoe crabs from the biomedical industry
Conservationists fear that horseshoe crabs, a 450-million-year-old living fossil, will be pushed to the brink of extinction because of the value of their blood to the pharmaceutical industry. Horseshoe crab blood provides a natural source of limulus ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0States are investigating how Instagram recruits and affects children
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is investigating how Instagram attracts and potentially harms children and young adults. The probe follows revelations from a whistleblower about how Instagram's parent company Meta, formerly known a ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Engineers Design Autonomous Robot that Can Open Doors
One flaw in the notion that robots will take over the world is that the world is full of doors. And doors are kryptonite to robots, said Ou Ma, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati. “Robots can do many things, but if you ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Nvidia CEO expects global chip shortage to last into next year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expects the current global chip shortage to impact the company's production line into the next couple of years. Speaking to Yahoo, Huang said that he expects "demand to far exceed supply" through to 2022, partic ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Exclusive: Seth Rogen Donkey Kong Solo Movie In Development
Seth Rogen has been branching out into voice work. He’s done this with projects like Big Mouth and Invincible. Now, he’s all set to voice the classic Nintendo character, Donkey Kong. After some work from one of our trusted and proven inside sources, ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0New The Last of Us TV show set photos have Joel, Ellie, Tess, and a whole lot of fungus
A new batch of The Last of Us TV show set photos show Joel, Ellie, and Tess on a set covered in Cordyceps, the fungus that infects and turns people into groaning, gnashing, killer zombies.
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2 years ago+20 20 0Yes, Dune Part 1 will get a Part 2, says Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has done everything it can to indicate that it will make a sequel to Dune and finish the story. Everything...except actually announce one.
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2 years ago+10 10 0Cotton prices just hit a 10-year high. Here's what that means for retailers and consumers
The last time cotton prices were this high, it was July 2011. “In 2011, we needed a prayer meeting,” Levi Strauss Chief Executive Chip Bergh told investors on an earnings call Wednesday.
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2 years ago+14 14 0It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists
The daughter of Fikile Ntshangase says that last October, three armed men entered her mother's home and shot her dead. Ntshangase had publicly questioned a local coal mine that she thought was — quite literally — undermining the small South Afri ...