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1 year ago+3 3 0Five things we learned about Canadian Bitcoin owners in 2021
As mentioned in the Bank of Canada’s Financial System Review, cryptoasset markets have been growing rapidly in recent years and have become somewhat more integrated into the traditional financial system. The most well-known cryptoasset is Bitcoin, wh ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells
Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now
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1 year ago+20 20 0SoftBank looks to form a 'strategic alliance' between Arm and Samsung
SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday he plans to meet with Samsung Electronics to discuss a potential "strategic alliance" between the South Korean tech giant and chip designer Arm.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Days after Democratic President Joe Biden gave a fiery speech attacking former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies as an extremist threat, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Wednesday found a majority of Americans believe Trump's mov ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Patton Oswalt: ‘I Don’t Think Cancel Culture Is Real’ — Interview
Patton Oswalt has several modes: There’s the affable, warts-and-all comedian who has been performing onstage for decades, the comedic performer with dramatic chops known for everything from “Ratatouille” to “Young Adult,” and a comic book junkie who ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Blinken: China should not hold global concerns 'hostage'
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that China should not hold hostage talks on important global matters such as the climate crisis, after Beijing cut off contacts with Washington in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space.
Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked more than 9 feet tall. It reminded him of either a burned tree or a piece of farm machinery. “Pretty frightening, actually,” Miners, 48, ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
“It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone d ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0The M2 MacBook Air has a heat problem according to reviewers
Apple’s new MacBook Air with the M2 chip goes on sale today. It represents a new era for the MacBook, with incredible battery life and awesome graphics, but reviewers all agree the machine suffers from overheating. Tech journalists and YouTube review ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0This 100-Year-Old Vegan Athlete is Still Running
To the average viewer, this year’s Wimbledon Finals matchup was nothing shocking, with two distinctly different players vying for the Cup, but the two finalists share one unique characteristic: They both follow vegan diets. Defying claims that plant- ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Earth-like planets in dead star 'cosmic graveyards' get stranger
The first world found orbiting a pulsar is rarer than previously believed, deepening the mystery of how planets survive around violent dead stars.
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1 year ago+3 3 0‘Nowhere is free from noise’: deep-sea mining threat to marine mammals
Noise pollution from proposed deep-sea mining could radiate through the ocean for hundreds of kilometres, scientists predict, creating a “cylinder of sound” from the surface to the sea bed.
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1 year ago+21 21 0The Future of Leather: How Pineapple Leaves, Cacti, and Mycelium Are Revolutionizing the Industry
Leather is everywhere – in our shoes, our purses and luggage, our winter jackets and stylish furniture – but its effect is seen globally. To create the leather for our clothing, homewares, and other purposes, billions of cows are slaughtered each yea ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Better Call Saul boss almost scrapped last season
Better Call Saul boss Peter Gould has revealed that he almost scrapped the final season of the show following star Bob Odenkirk’s health scare in 2021. Odenkirk suffered a heart attack after collapsing on set while filming the final season in 2021. H ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Jurassic World: Dominion proves that the once-beloved franchise is ready for extinction
After three decades and six Jurassic Park movies, audiences have been treated to all kinds of adventures—good, bad, brisk, repetitive, you name it. Until Jurassic World: Dominion, I would never have expected one that’s utterly boring. Back in 2015, J ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteoroid
A tiny rock fragment has hit the new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror. The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in the observatory's data but is not expected to limit the mission's ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0There’s no healthy economy (or planet) without healthy forests
Forests are among the world’s best bets for carbon capture. But according to this year’s State of the World’s Forests report from the United Nations, forests are also the foundation of green and equitable economies, sustainable resource management, a ...
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1 year ago+1 1 0The Milky Way may have two supermassive black holes
Measurements of stars orbiting our galaxy's core suggest our 4-million-solar-mass black hole, Sagittarius A*, may have another supermassive companion lurking nearby.
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1When a machine invents things for humanity, who gets the patent?
The day is coming—some say has already arrived—when artificial intelligence starts to invent things that its human creators could not. But our laws are lagging behind this technology, UNSW experts say. It's not surprising these days to see new i ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0George RR Martin: ‘I don’t get how people came to hate something they once loved’
The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at the Santa Fe Literary Festival to discuss toxic fans, the enduring influence of Marvel’s Stan Lee, and the new HBO series ‘House of the Dragon’