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8 hours agoCurrent Event messi
Spotify Brings Back Political Ads After Suspending Them in 2020
“We have spent the past two years strengthening and enhancing our processes, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content”
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1 day agoCurrent Event messi
DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers despite strong privacy reputation
DuckDuckGo is known for its privacy-first commitment to users on iOS, Android, browsers, and soon with its own Mac app. Now, a report puts in check the company’s privacy focus due to a search agreement with Microsoft that let the Redmond company continue tracking users on the browser.
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3 days agoExpression messi
How Valve is Changing Game Console Design
When it comes to repairability, Valve didn’t stop at the bare minimum. We hope their smart, repairable choices become industry standard.
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3 days agoCurrent Event messi
How Davos became the anti-establishment's punching bag
Nearly 2,500 global leaders from business, politics and civil society are expected to convene this week in Switzerland’s luxury Alpine ski resort of Davos. On the agenda will be issues including Covid-19, Russia’s war in Ukraine and the climate crisis.
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4 days agoCurrent Event messi
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
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5 days agoExpression messi
Where did all the small phones go?
Eric Migicovsky wonders where did all the small phones go? Launching a new phone company isn’t an impossibility, but will he?
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6 days agoAnalysis messi
More than 3,000 potentially harmful chemicals found in food packaging
International experts who analyzed more than 1,200 scientific studies warn chemicals are being consumed with unknown long-term impacts
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8 days agoExpression messi
Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s
Abortion rights continue to be the subject of fierce debate in the United States. But for one of America's founding fathers, they were as basic as mathematics and writing.
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13 days agoCurrent Event messi
‘Married… with Children’ Animated Series With Original Cast Heats Up TV Marketplace
EXCLUSIVE: Another classic 1990s comedy is making a comeback. An animated revival of Married… with Children headlined by the original series’ stars Katey Sagal, Ed O’Neill, Christ…
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
NYC wants to take 25% of its street space away from cars in favor of a walkable/bikeable city
Back when COVID-19 ravaged New York City and turned the city’s transportation needs upside down, significant portions of the road space were repurposed for non-car use. From bike lanes to public seating and urban parks, roads that previously saw gridlocked traffic were nearly instantly transformed into public spaces that benefitted a wider group of residents.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb
The numbers are startling. We know roughly how much more carbon dioxide we can put into the atmosphere before we exceed our climate goals—limiting warming to 1.5° to 2° C above preindustrial temperatures. From that, we can figure out how much more fossil fuel we can burn before we emit that much carbon dioxide. But when you compare those numbers with our known fossil fuel reserves, things get jaw-dropping.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
AirTags are sending a new kind of false alarm, report says
Too many false alarms could desensitize AirTag owners.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Ten years ago, when Benjamin Choi was in third grade, he watched a “60 Minutes” documentary about a mind-controlled prosthesis. Researchers implanted tiny sensors into the motor cortex of the brain of a patient who moved a robotic arm using only her thoughts. Choi was fascinated by the concept, likening it to something out of a Star Wars movie.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Elon Musk under fire for retaliatory "doxing" of journalist
Journalist Molly Jong-Fast had called Musk's complaints about "woke" censorship an example of "old, rich white men" being upset with "young people" during an MSNBC interview.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Rocket Lab launches smallsats, catches but drops booster
Rocket Lab declared success in its effort to catch an Electron booster in midair, even though the helicopter had to release the booster moments later.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Japanese railway company to use a giant humanoid robot for fixing power lines
Giant robots that can do some heavy-lifting while derisking human lives are a great way for technology to move ahead.
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3 weeks agoReview messi
‘It feels like a mushroom trip’: this cult sci-fi comedy is a phenomenal TV treat
Funny, brave, breathtakingly beautiful: Undone’s second season is a mind-warping joy. Its creator explains how she wrote a time-travelling comedy about generational trauma
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
One of China's biggest social networks is revealing user locations to head off 'bad behaviour'
Social media works a little differently in China, as the latest change from Weibo shows
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google’s trying to make a flagship
It sounds like Google’s upcoming Pixel Watch will be a flagship set to compete with Samsung’s latest Galaxy Watches and the Apple Watch, according to new specs leaked by 9to5Google. According to 9to5’s report, you’ll be able to get a cellular version of the wearable, and it will have a 300 milliamp-hour (mAh) battery.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Private astronaut just back from space station describes interactions with Russian cosmonauts
It didn’t take long for the crew of the first all-private mission to the International Space Station to experience the unique dependency that US astronauts and Russian cosmonauts share in orbit. “We had one day when the toilet was down for a couple hours,” Larry Connor, the pilot of Axiom Space’s AX-1 mission, told CNN. “The Russians were very cordial, very accommodating. We operate as one team up there and they said, ‘Hey, come on over and use ours.”
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event messi
Warren Buffett gives his most expansive explanation for why he doesn't believe in bitcoin
Bitcoin has steadily been gaining acceptance from the traditional finance and investment world in recent years but Warren Buffett is sticking to his skeptical stance on bitcoin. He said at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder meeting Saturday that it’s not a productive asset and it doesn’t produce anything tangible. Despite a shift in public perception about the cryptocurrency, Buffett still wouldn’t buy it.