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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
French education minister announces ban on Islamic dress in schools
Students will no longer be allowed to wear the long, flowing dress known as the abaya in classrooms.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sauce
Huge cyberattack disables telescopes in Hawaii and Chile
Around ten National Science Foundation-funded space telescopes in Chile and Hawaii have been offline for around two weeks by a curious cyberattack.
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1 month agoAnalysis sauce
Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues
A link between vision issues in older adults and an increased likelihood of dementia.
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1 month agoExpression sauce
Bitcoin is finally trading like 'digital gold' – but only because nobody cares about crypto anymore
Investors fled digital assets after a nightmarish 2022, and the largest token by market capitalization now trades way below its record high.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Cultivated meat: Lab-grown meat without killing animals
For thousands of years, humans have slaughtered animals for meat. But Dr. Uma Valeti dreamt of a different way: eating chicken without having to kill a chicken. He figured out how to "grow" meat directly from animal cells. It's completely different from the meat alternatives Beyond Meat or Impossible, which are made from plant-based ingredients, including vegetable proteins. "This is real meat, no compromise, made in front of you," Valeti said.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans blast Google’s plan to exploit water supply
A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years. Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been declared in Montevideo and the authorities have added salty water to the public drinking water supplies, prompting widespread protests.
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2 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Apple supplier TSMC hit by data breach, ransomware group demanding $70 million payment
Apple’s chipmaker partner TSMC has confirmed that it was impacted by a data breach on one of its third-party suppliers. As reported by TechCrunch, the ransomware group LockBit claimed responsibility for the breach and is demanding a ransom payment of $70 million not to leak the stolen data.
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Scientists discover critical factors that determine the survival of airborne viruses
Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface today [21 June], reveal how cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and why opening a window may be more important than originally thought. The research could shape future mitigation strategies for new viruses.
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Vision Pro Features 'Left Out' For Now Include Fitness Apps, Full-Body Tracking, and More
The Information's Wayne Ma today reiterated several features that Apple apparently developed but did not announce for the Vision Pro at WWDC earlier this month, including various fitness and wellness apps, full-body tracking, and more.
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
The big bet on meat alternatives fails
Shares of meat alternatives soared when Beyond Meat, the California-based producer that's come to epitomize the sector, went public four years ago. But a fall in stock prices suggests that venture capital's appetite for such investments may have gotten ahead of market realities.
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children's personal data
Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting the personal information of children without their parents’ consent — and in some cases retaining it “for years.”
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Chris Hemsworth Admits ‘Thor 4’ Was ‘Too Silly,’ Calls Scorsese and Tarantino’s Marvel Criticisms ‘Super Depressing’: ‘I Guess They’...
Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” was a box office hit with $760 million worldwide, but a lot of Marvel fans were turned off by writer-director Taika Waititi’s silly humor and the film’s unappealing visual effects. Thor actor himself, Chris Hemsworth, is aware of the negativity around his fourth “Thor” movie, and he even admitted in a new GQ magazine profile that “Love and Thunder” was “too silly” for its own good.
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3 months agoAnalysis sauce
How new lithium extraction technology could help us meet electric vehicle targets
A suite of new but largely unproven technologies called direct lithium extraction could revolutionize lithium mining, making it more efficient and sustainable.
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3 months agoCurrent Event sauce
Drone attacks hit Moscow, stirring fury at the Kremlin
Drones struck Moscow on Tuesday but were neutralised, Russia said, in what one politician called the worst attack on the capital since World War II, while Kyiv was also hit from the air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia invaded its neighbour in February last year, the war has largely been fought inside Ukraine, though Moscow has reported some attacks on its territory and blamed them on Ukraine, including an alleged assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin.
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4 months agoExpression sauce
AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize
AI expert Rodney Brooks is arguing that we're overestimating OpenAI's large language models and that they're far stupider than we think.