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5 years ago+47 47 0 x 1Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432,500, beating estimates of $10,000
Christie’s has sold its first piece of AI art, a canvas named the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, for $432,500. The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0Tiny Island Nation to Host World's Largest Microgrid
Palau, under threat from sea level rise, wants to have 70 percent renewable energy by 2050
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5 years ago+23 23 0 x 1How Sears Kit Homes changed housing
These mail-order dwellings democratized homebuying, one kit at a time
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5 years ago+18 18 0‘We'll have space bots with lasers, killing plants’: the rise of the robot farmer
Tiny automated machines could soon take care of the entire growing process. Fewer chemicals, more efficient – where’s the downside?
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5 years ago+41 41 0 x 3A neuroscientist who studies motivation and behavior found there are 7 factors that can help you change anyone's mind
You can painstakingly show somebody tons of bulletproof evidence and present flawless logical arguments but often they still won’t change their mind. What gives? The problem is that the human brain is not a purely rational computer. And when we igno ...
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 12018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, and they’re hilarious
There are plenty of great wildlife photographers who take awe-inspiring and interesting shots. But when these animals do funny things and take silly poses: it adds a whole new level to wildlife photography. The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is c ...
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5 years ago+42 42 0 x 1I woke up unable to speak English
Hannah Jenkins survived a cycling accident - but woke up no longer being able to understand English.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
It turned out that there is the possibility of transmitting information with the help of nonmetricity waves and transferring it spatially without distortions.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall In Florida Panhandle, With 155-MPH Winds
Before Hurricane Michael, no Category 4 storm had hit the Panhandle since 1851 — when records were first kept. The storm was just below Category 5 status when it arrived.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else's life looks perfect
Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Limo Crash Leaves 20 Dead at Popular Tourist Spot in Upstate New York
Local reports said the limousine was carrying a wedding party when it collided with another vehicle.
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5 years ago+34 34 0 x 1The Race to Replace Your Keyboard
QWERTY keyboards have been around for over a century, but a new era in tech needs a new kind of input. WSJ’s David Pierce tries out the keyboards of the future.
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5 years ago+21 21 0Singer Charles Aznavour dies at 94
French singer and songwriter Charles Aznavour dies at the age of 94.
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5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Watching a Friend Get Eaten Could Help Animals Learn to Stay Alive
“Predator boot camps” in Australia are teaching a group of native animals some hard lessons in coexistence
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until long after the war
92-year-old Wren tells us about life cracking German codes
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5 years ago+20 20 0Equifax Breach: Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law
A federal law now allows people to freeze and unfreeze their credit at credit bureaus for free. Before, it cost $3 to $12 a bureau in many states.
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 187 days of smog: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
Southern California went 87 days without a clean air day, the longest stretch of consecutive ozone pollution violations in at least 20 years. Regulators blame the persistence in pollution on hot, stagnant weather and are studying whether climate chan ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Creating Disneyland Was Like Building a Brand New City
Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza
The latest entree to join the Army’s roster of M.R.E. field rations is a Sicilian-style slice that stays fresh for years and took decades to develop.
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
The EU is doing away with the twice-yearly clock changes and has given member states until April to decide if they will remain on summer or winter time. But there are fears Europe is heading for time-zone chaos.