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Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says 3.5 billion people in poverty is 'fantastic news'
"What can be wrong with this?" investor asks
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UAE lunar rover will test 1st artificial intelligence on the moon with Canada
A Canadian company is testing technology on the Rashid rover that will help machines tell minerals apart.
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Asteroid 2023 BU about to pass Earth in one of closest ever encounters
No danger, says Nasa, from delivery truck-sized asteroid that was discovered on Saturday and will pass lower than communication satellites
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Scientists discover anti-aging gene that rewinds heart age by 10 years
Researchers from England and Italy have discovered an anti-aging gene in a population of centenarians that can halt decay in heart function and rewind the heart's biological age.
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Tesla plans $3.6 bln Nevada expansion to make Semi truck, battery cells
Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it would invest more than $3.6 billion to expand its Nevada Gigafactory complex with two new factories, one to mass produce its long-delayed Semi electric truck and the other to make its new 4680 battery cell.
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Bacteria are eating plastic dumped in the sea
The mystery of where plastic goes after it is dumped in the ocean has long puzzled scientists.
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Binary Dwarf Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Every 20 Hours. They Were Once Almost Touching
A team of astrophysicists has discovered a binary pair of ultra-cool dwarfs so close together that they look like a single star. They’re remarkable because they only take 20.5 hours to orbit each other, meaning their year is less than one Earth Day. They’re also much older than similar systems.
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Amazon Begins Its Largest-Ever Layoffs: 18,000 People
Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history, which it announced earlier this month. The cuts come as the retailer grapples with slowing online sales growth and braces for a possible recession affecting the spending power of its customers. The eliminations started last year and initially fell hardest on Amazon's Devices and Services group, which builds the Alexa digital assistant and Echo smart spea...
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‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Nears $1.9B WW
The estimated global cume through Sunday is $1.894B. Avatar 2 still ranks as the No. 7 biggest movie of all time. Ahead of it at No. 6 is Spider-Man: No Way Home with $1.921B, so it should overtake that early this week.
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15 years of MacBook Air: The iconic Steve Jobs unveil, the troubled years, and the future
The MacBook Air was announced by Steve Jobs 15 years ago today, on January 15, 2008. The event has become one of the most iconic Apple events ever, thanks in large part to the moment Jobs pulled the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope.
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French startup uses Hi-Fi speakers to develop eco-friendly heat pumps
French startup Equium wants to make conventional heat pumps greener by harnessing the energy of sound.
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'Robotic surgery helped save my life after cancer diagnosis'
A Scottish woman has credited an innovative robotic surgery procedure for helping to save her life. Deborah Speirs from Tollcross in Glasgow was told she had stage three bowel cancer in March 2021. Instead of opting for traditional cancer surgery, she agreed to having a robot perform the operation, directed by a surgeon.
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Association between work stress and depression differs across cultures
A study of data on the association between work stress and depression from 100 world countries revealed that this association depends on certain characteristics of the national culture. While this link was stronger in cultures with pronounced power distance and individualism, it was weaker in cultures with pronounced masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. The study was published in Cross-Cultural Research.
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China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics
Social media platform Weibo says it acted over personal attacks against Chinese Covid experts.
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Corrected ozone data estimate fracking and drilling produce more emissions than every Front Range vehicle
To explain Colorado's consistent smog problem, regulators and scientists often point to two main sources of local air pollution: traffic and oil and gas. Driving and fossil-fuel production both release large amounts of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, two categories of chemicals that react to form ozone when exposed to heat and sunlight.
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After competing without hijab, Iranian chess player heads to Spain in wake of threats
An Iranian chess player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan.
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Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live
In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on this New Year's Day, the population is 8 billion. Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live. The scientists you're about to meet say the Earth is suffering a crisis of mass extinction on a scale unseen since the dinosaurs. We'...
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'Misogynist' influencer Andrew Tate will be held in a Romanian jail for 30 days. Here's what his life may be like while in custody.
Self-described "misogynist" social media influencer and former kickboxer Andrew Tate will be spending the beginning of 2023 behind bars after police in Romania detained him and his brother as part of an investigation into rape and human trafficking. According to prosecutors, the siblings and two others "appear to have created an organized crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing, and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content."
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Apple's Next iPad Mini Is in the Works, Analyst Says
Apple is working on a new iPad Mini with a fresh processor aimed for release late next year or in the first half of 2024, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted in a tweet on Tuesday. He also said it's unlikely Apple will replace the Mini with a foldable iPad in 2025 because a foldable device would cost much more than a Mini, making it a poor proposition as a Mini replacement. Kuo is a widely followed analyst with a reputation for reliable Apple predictions.
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Adults are buying toys for themselves, and it’s the biggest source of growth for the industry
Kidults, who tend to spend more on toys, have a great fondness for cartoons, superheroes and collectibles that remind them of their childhoods.
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Billions of people still lack high-speed internet. This S.F. company is building satellites to change that
Inside a warehouse at San Francisco’s Pier 70