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1 year ago+17 17 0Kevin Spacey to Be Charged With Further Seven Sexual Offenses in U.K.
The U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service has said that actor Kevin Spacey will be charged with a further seven sexual offenses. The new charges span three offenses of indecent assault, three offe…
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1 year ago+15 15 0Nasa’s rocket launch to the moon next week aims to close 50-year-long gap
Fifty years ago this month, mission managers at the US space agency Nasa gave the final go-ahead for what would turn out to be humanity’s most recent odyssey to the moon. Few realized at the time it would be more than half a century before Nasa would ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Parasocial relations can enhance social media influencers' persuasive power, study suggests
A parasocial relationship refers to a one-sided relationship in which one person develops an emotional connection with another person (typically a celebrity, an influencer, or a popular fictional character). According to new research, these relations ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0‘Angry’ Jessica Simpson claps back at haters after concerning video
“I woke up at the same time anxious and insecure but also also angry and defensive — like some of you,” the pop star shared alongside an Instagram video.
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1 year ago+10 10 0$4,500 for a plate of pasta? How billionaires squander their money
There are 3,000 ultra-rich individuals around the world who don’t flinch at spending $32,000 for a hotel room and thousands more for dinner without a moment’s thought about inflation.
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1 year ago+23 23 0The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody
The satirical publication is supporting a Parma, Ohio, man fighting a civil case against police after his arrest for creating a parody Facebook page.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Europe has warmed faster than any other region in the past 30 years
Europe is warming faster than any other region, according to a new State of the Climate in Europe report from the World Meteorological Organization.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Say Everyone Had 'Transactional' Sex Before #MeToo
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers are trying to convince a jury that everyone in Hollywood had "transactional sex" back in the day. It’s a bit of a weird flex to pay someone six figures to stand up in a courtroom and tell everyone that you ca ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Philippines storm Nalgae kills dozens in floods and mudslides
A severe tropical storm has killed at least 45 people in the Philippines, unleashing floods and landslides in southern provinces, officials say. Storm Nalgae caused the most havoc in Maguindanao province, on Mindanao island. There is extensive floodi ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Pilots tend to have less emotional intelligence than the average person, new research suggests
Being emotionally intelligent may be important for a teacher, salesman, or therapist, but what about for a pilot? A study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports suggests that pilots are less likely to be emotionally intelligent compared to the aver ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Ford and Volkswagen hit reverse gear on self-driving cars
Legacy automakers don’t believe it’s time for driverless vehicles yet
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1 year ago+15 15 0Math scores mark historic declines across the country during COVID pandemic: federal data
Student test scores plunged in the US as the COVID-19 pandemic erased decades of academic progress — with math scores recording their largest decrease ever and reading scores at a 30-year low, alarming new data known as the “nation’s report card” sho ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Months after floods, Brazil's Amazon faces a severe drought
Just months after enduring floods that destroyed crops and submerged entire communities, thousands of families in the Brazilian Amazon are now dealing with severe drought that, at least in some areas, is the worst in decades. The low level of the Ama ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Young LGBTQ+ people more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online
Young LGBTQ+ people are more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online compared with those who identify as heterosexual, according to a new report on how young people use the internet.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Stories of Bill Murray Terrorizing Celebrities Are Spreading Like Wildfire
Everyone from Geena Davis to Rob Schneider seem ready to expose Murray’s alleged history of bad behavior on set.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Meta’s New Quest Pro VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face
In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western Universit ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0House of the Dragon isn’t working toward the Game of Thrones show ending
The more House of the Dragon dives into the mysteries of the Targaryens’ past, the less it seems to take place in the same universe as Game of Thrones. While the series may be a prequel to Game of Thrones, it’s becoming clear that the new show’s crea ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75,000 in court
A remote employee of a U.S. business who was fired for refusing to leave his webcam on while he was working was awarded roughly 75,000 euros by a Dutch court for wrongful termination. The resident of Diessen, Noord-Brabant, was hired by the the Rijsw ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0‘Stay away from WhatsApp,’ warns Telegram founder
Pavel Durov claims security flaws in messaging app are ‘planted backdoors’
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1 year ago+10 10 0Eight Reasons Why There Hasn't Been a Global Climate Revolt Yet
"There is a permanent emergency of injustice and inequality, but the suffering of the majority world has been normalized, and climate change is quickly joining the long list of things that are tolerated."