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1 day agoCurrent Event sasky
Fitbit recalls 1.7 million smartwatches due to burn risk
So far, the company has gotten 115 reports in the U.S. and 59 reports internationally of the lithium-ion battery in the Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch overheating.
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4 days agoCurrent Event sasky
US halts Blinken China visit after spy balloon row
The US secretary of state's trip to China is postponed after a spy balloon is tracked across the US.
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6 days agoCurrent Event sasky
Astronomers identify 1st twin stars doomed to collide in kilonova explosion
Although massive stars usually die with spectacular explosions, a handful fizzle out like dud firecrackers. Astronomers have identified the remnants of one such dud firecracker in SGR 0755-2933, a neutron star about 11,400 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Puppis. In new research, scientists say that earlier in its lifetime, this star transferred abnormally high amounts of mass to its binary companion — so much so that it was not left with enough material for an explosive...
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10 days agoExpression sasky
James Cameron has now directed 3 of the 5 highest-grossing movies ever
With 'Avatar: The Way of Water' hitting a new box-office milestone, James Cameron has now directed three of the five highest-grossing movies of all time worldwide.
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11 days agoAnalysis sasky
ChatGPT has only been around for 2 months and is causing untold chaos
While ChatGPT's long-term influence remains to be seen, people are already finding creative ways to use it.
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11 days agoCurrent Event sasky
11 of the Sleaziest Snake Oil Ads From Truth Social
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to abandon Truth Social, the destitute social media platform he created after Twitter and Facebook kicked him off their sites. But in recent months, both Twitter and Facebook have welcomed him back. That’s bad news for Truth Social which, like all social media platforms, makes its money on holding users’ attention long enough to show them ads.
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11 days agoExpression sasky
How Much of Forza Motorsport Is Actually 'Built From the Ground Up?'
The phrase appeared four times in yesterday's official trailer. For a racing sim previously knocked for its repetitiveness, what does it mean?
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2 weeks agoExpression sasky
This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever
A college kid's mission to prevent misuse of artificial intelligence.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
Getty Images is suing an AI image generator for copyright infringement
Getty Images claims Stability AI copied millions of copyright-protected images to train its text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
The latest 'Mandalorian' season three trailer is all about redemption
Disney+ has released a new trailer for The Mandalorian during the NFL Wild Card Game on ESPN and ABC Network. It shows Pedro Pascal's character Din Djarin and Grogu reunited and going on their next adventure. Din also reveals in the trailer that he's going back to the planet Mandalore in an effort to redeem himself after removing his helmet and showing his face to other people by the end of season 2.
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3 weeks agoReview sasky
'The Last of Us' Is One of the Best Video Game Adaptations Ever
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal turn in admirable performances that make the video game adaptation—yet another postapocalyptic plague tale—worth watching.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans
George Santos inspired no shortage of suspicion during his 2022 campaign, including in the upper echelons of his own party, yet many Republicans looked the other way.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
2022 was a record year for space launches
180 rockets lifted off successfully, with SpaceX driving the pace.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
iPhone 15 may get USB-C, but the rest of the world isn’t ready for USB-C yet
Here’s what it’s like traveling with a USB-C smartphone
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
Bob Odenkirk's Saul follow-up gets a new title, Lucky Hank
Ever since Better Call Saul wrapped up last year, intense TV nerd scrutiny has been focused on what its stars would do next. There’s the new Vince Gilligan/Rhea Seehorn Apple TV+ series, of course, currently set for two seasons at the streamer. But what of Bob Odenkirk? Post-Saul, post-heart attack, post-unlikely vigilante action movie: What would Odenkirk, newly established as one of the kings of TV drama, do next?
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
The Arctic and Antarctic saw record warmth and ice melt in 2022
The sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest area ever recorded in early 2022, and there were exceptionally high temperatures at both poles
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
Dana White credits cocaine scandal for UFC’s huge ESPN windfall
Dana White believes a cocaine scandal led to the UFC getting a blockbuster deal from ESPN.