Post Overview
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Current Event
1 year ago+22 22 0Trump charged with 4 felony counts for attempt to overturn the 2020 election
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents.
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Expression
1 year ago+27 27 0I was a die-hard Chromecast fan until I tried the Roku Ultra — and now I'm not going back
What was supposed to be a temporary swap has now become permanent
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1 year ago+32 32 0Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.
"For too long, Amazon has treated children's sensitive data as its own property," Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.
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Analysis
1 year ago+27 27 0Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones
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Analysis
1 year ago+18 18 0People are better at decoding emojis compared to real facial expressions, study finds
A study conducted in Italy found that people are better and faster at recognizing the emotions displayed by emojis compared to real facial expressions. Fear was the most challenging emotion to identify in both emojis and real faces. The study was pub ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0El Niño has officially begun. UN says phenomenon likely to threaten lives, break temperature records
The warmest year ever recorded, 2016, started off with a powerful El Nino that helped to boost global temperatures.
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Expression
1 year ago+26 26 0Is Mac on the verge of a gaming revolution?
Like Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Steam Deck, Apple has made the Game Porting Toolkit to let Windows games run on macOS - so we tested it.
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1 year ago+28 28 0Rick Froberg, Singer and Guitarist in Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes, Dies at 55
His passing comes two weeks after posting that the new Hot Snakes record was “very near done”
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1 year ago+30 30 0Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Fatal police shooting of teenager triggers protests and arrests across France
The killing of a 17-year-old boy, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in disadvantaged neighborhoods around France.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Nicolas Coster Dies: ‘Santa Barbara’, ‘All My Children’, ‘All The President’s Men’ Actor Was 89
Nicolas Coster, the British-American actor who played an evasive lawyer in All the President’s Men (“I’m not here,” he insisted to Robert Redford’s Bob Woodward as the…
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1 year ago+15 15 0U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
The number of pedestrians killed by drivers has been climbing for over a decade. Experts say some solutions are within reach.
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1 year ago+26 26 0How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI
Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. The number of high-profile names that have now made public pronouncements or signed open letters warning of the catastrophic dangers of artificial intelligence is striking.
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1 year ago+15 15 0A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform
A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company's controversial API changes..
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Expression
1 year ago+25 25 0Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?
Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield.
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Current Event
1 year ago+22 22 0The maker of the lost Titan submersible previously complained about strict passenger-vessel regulations, saying the industry was 'obscenely safe'
The founder of the company behind the Titan submersible previously described his industry as "obscenely safe" and complained that passenger-vessel regulations held back innovation. OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush is understood to be ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Pollution from gas stoves can be worse than secondhand smoke
Gas stoves release benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia.
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1 year ago+20 20 0George Orwell's 1984 returned to Portland library after 65 years
Man returns George Orwell's dystopian novel to library decades late because of its relevance today.
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1 year ago+16 16 0New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other cities may be next
President Joe Biden’s administration is set to allow New York City to move forward with a landmark program to toll vehicles entering Lower Manhattan, after a public review period ends Monday.
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1 year ago+18 18 0The EU tells social media companies that AI-generated content should be labeled
Vera Jourova, deputy head of the European Commission, said, "Signatories who integrate generative AI into their services like Bingchat for Microsoft, Bard for Google, should build in...