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AutoCAD for Mac 2024 Gains Native Apple Silicon Support
Autodesk today announced that the updated AutoCAD 2024 and AutoCad LT 2024 software for macOS is able to run natively on Apple silicon Macs for the first time.
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Twitter moves free users to the spam folder and makes a risky bet on its future
Less than 0.12% of current Twitter users are paid subscribers. Elon Musk is determined to change that.
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Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the proposed ban aims to protect farmers and consumers.
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Famed Japanese Toy Company Good Smile Has Reportedly Propped Up 4chan for Years
Good Smile, one of the world’s most popular toy companies, reportedly acted as the brace for one of the internet’s worst cesspools, financially backing 4chan. The site has gone on to facilitate harassment campaigns, racism, misogyny, and homophobia while being a vortex for internet conspiracy theories.
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US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling
In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation as the ‘climate president’, 73.3m acres of the gulf will be offered for fossil fuel extraction
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After TikTok chief's grilling in Washington, Apple's Tim Cook is all smiles in Beijing
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a show of support for China as a market and manufacturing base during a visit to Beijing Saturday, even as trade and tech sector tensions escalate between the United States and the world's second-largest economy.
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New Research Shows Why Kids Need Play for Mental Health
Has our drive to protect our children impaired their mental health—and made our conversations with them less rich? Recently Dr. Peter Gray, a psychology professor at Boston College and prominent researcher on child play, alerted me to his recent article exploring exactly this question. The article, in-press as of March 2023 in the Journal of Pediatrics, and written along with David F. Lancy of Utah State and David Bjorlung of Florida State, comes to startling conclusions.
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Twitter is secretly boosting 35 VIP users including Lebron James, AOC, catturd2, and Ben Shapiro: report
Twitter engineers have ensured that tweets by people like Elon Musk and 34 others will automatically be more visible than others, Platformer says.
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There is no chance the government will regulate AI
What if the internet saw you as an individual? The business model we call “surveillance capitalism” watches as you use the internet, recording what you pay attention to and what you buy, then calculates what other information you might find compelling, what other products you might want. For all the hype about its power, it’s a passive and fairly general system: you are sorted into a bucket by what can be known about you, and there are lots of other people in that bucket, and you all see the same stuff.
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US says China may spy with TikTok. It uses Google to spy on world
Lawmakers’ push to ban app comes as they mull extending powers that force tech firms to enable mass snooping for the US.
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Jeremy Renner emotional in first interview since snowplough accident
Actor Jeremy Renner says he "chose to survive" after being seriously injured in a snowplough accident. The Marvel star broke more than 30 bones when he attempted to stop the vehicle from running over his nephew on New Year's Day. In his first TV interview since the accident, he said: "I chose to survive, it's not going to kill me, no way."
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Apple risks collision course with EU over its implementation of USB-C
Rumours that Apple plans to restrict charging and data transfer speeds when using third-party USB-C cables have drawn the EU’s ire. MEP Alex Agius Saliba, who spearheaded the European Parliament’s efforts to introduce a universal charging standard for electronics manufacturers, said on Wednesday that any such move would be in breach of EU law.
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Olympic chiefs provide pathway for Russians to compete at Paris 2024 games
President Bach has condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but believes governments calling for a blanket ban on Russians in sport amounts to political interference
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Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional, Ludicrous, and a National Embarrassment
It would also be an act of charity for Facebook, which the government has utterly failed to meaningfully regulate.
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Sea levels are rising — and it's going to get worse. Here's how some communities are adapting
Thirty percent of Americans live in a community near a coastline. While those people don't have the power to unilaterally solve the underlying problem of climate change, some communities are now grappling with how to adapt.
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‘The Night Agent’ Opens Big for Netflix
The thriller from Shawn Ryan has the third biggest series premiere week on record in the streamer's internal rankings.
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Is It Time for the MicroSD Card to Return to Phones?
For a good chunk of the 13 years that we’ve been chatting about Android and smartphones around here, we talked about the microSD card, the best versions of them, and where you could find them at the lowest prices. MicroSD cards were a big, big deal for so long because you could expand the storage of your phone for a reasonable price and then move to another phone easily by bringing that card with you.
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Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years.
"Before we can use it on people, everything needs to be adjusted. However, I believe that a feasible timetable is 10 years." Within ten years, a scholar with the European Space Agency (ESA) believes that it will be possible to conduct the first hibernation experiments on humans.
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A Meatball from a long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.
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Twitter to Stop Unverified Accounts From Appearing in Recommended Tweets
Twitter will prevent posts from unverified accounts from appearing in its "For You" algorithmic feed starting Saturday, April 15, CEO Elon Musk announced on Tuesday. The new policy means that only posts originating from paid-for Twitter Blue accounts will be included in the platform's stream of recommended tweets.