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5 hours agoCurrent Event socialiguana
‘Willow’ Series Gets November Premiere Date, Teaser Trailer, First-Look Photos From Disney+
Disney+ said Thursday that Willow, its live-action original series based on the 1988 fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, will premiere on November 30.
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6 hours agoExpression socialiguana
We’ve All Failed Amber Heard
The deluge of abusive content targeting Heard is not only failing Heard and future survivors but is also shaping how young people understand domestic violence.
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5 days agoAnalysis socialiguana
This is just the beginning. Above-normal heat is forecast for most of the U.S. this summer.
The Northeast, from Delaware to Maine, has the highest likelihood of being extra-hot, along with parts of the West.
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6 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Scientists Use Gene Editing to Create Mutant Cockroaches in Breakthrough
For the first time, scientists have edited the genes of cockroaches using CRISPR-Cas9, a technology that can target and change parts of an organism’s DNA, reports a new study. The breakthrough not only produced the first so-called “knockout cockroaches” in history, a term that refers to cockroaches with artificially inactivated genes, it could also dramatically simplify gene-editing in numerous other insects, opening up applications for pest control, evolutionary biology, and other entomol...
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7 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Spain's monkeypox cases tally rises to 21
Regional authorities in Madrid reported 14 confirmed cases of monkeypox on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 21 in Spain.
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8 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
How Disney Won The Streaming War?
Riding the wave of home entertainment are streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime, Apple+, and Disney+. In a decade-long journey of streaming platforms, Disney+ is a relatively new contender which has taken the streaming world by storm. As of 2022, Disney+ has more than 137.7 million paying subscribers on its platform.
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8 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
The Disastrous History of Rikers
How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.
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10 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
El Salvador’s president is hosting the Davos for Bitcoin with more than 40 countries represented
The discussion will focus on Bitcoin along with other subjects like crypto’s role in the digital economy.
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10 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
New US lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on Earth
By studying isotopes scientists hope to gain insight into how elements within exploding stars came to be
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Elon Musk is wrong: research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation
Elon Musk said he wants to make Twitter a platform for free speech. Here is what research shows about claims of political bias and excessive moderation.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED review: a dual-screen laptop that works
Asus did it. It’s made a dual-screen laptop that — and there was a time when I never thought I’d be saying these words — is actually pretty good. Asus has been doing this dual-screen form factor for a while, and parts of the $1,999.99-and -up ZenBook Pro Duo 14 OLED are nothing we haven’t seen before. Like previous models in the Duo line, there’s a big 14.5-inch screen on the top and a smaller 12.7-inch screen on the back of the keyboard deck (the ScreenPad Plus). Below that screen i...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
SpaceX successfully returns four astronauts from the International Space Station
Four astronauts successfully returned home to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft today, bringing an end to their six-month-long stay on the International Space Station (ISS). After undocking from the ISS early Thursday morning, the crew dove through Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down underneath parachutes off the coast of Florida at 12:43AM ET.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Amanda Seyfried, Redefined: How ‘The Dropout’ Finally Opened the Door for More ‘Thrilling’ Roles
As much as Amanda Seyfried believed in “The Dropout,” she wasn’t expecting it to become a phenomenon. “I’ve never carried anything like this before, and now that it’s all done, it’s been amazing,” she marvels. “I’ve never felt the impact of something so viscerally. It feels like everyone I’ve talked to has seen it!”
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
TurboTax owner Intuit to pay $141 million to customers 'unfairly charged'
Intuit, the owner of popular tax filing software TurboTax, will pay $141 million in restitution to millions of low-income Americans who were “unfairly charged” for services that should have been free, according to a multistate agreement announced Wednesday.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
'Shocked' Bill Gates says a Roe v. Wade reversal 'would set us back 50 years'
On Monday, Politico obtained a leaked draft opinion that appeared to show that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Wyze’s smart thermostat now has room sensors
They measure temperature, humidity, and motion around your house.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.
Lawmakers receiving the latest secret briefings on UFOs say national security agencies still aren’t taking seriously the reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin violating protected airspace.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Look! Webb Telescope captures 5 different, dazzling views of a nearby galaxy
New alignments mean the telescope will be poised to perform science investigations soon.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter
A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is. IN EARLY FEBRUARY 2016, after reading an article featuring a couple of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were studying how the brain reacts to music, a woman felt inclined to email them. “I have an interesting brain,” she told them.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Scientists at MIT Have Developed a New Plastic Stronger Than Steel
Why is plastic bad for the environment? It is one of those seemingly necessary evils: It’s as lightweight as it is durable, and it’s in pretty much everything. Plus, unlike other popular materials (think steel and glass), it doesn’t cost very much money or energy to produce. That said, there’s a reason why coffee shops are puncturing their lids with paper straws, and grocery stores are piling up produce within the confines of...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple
The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers walked out the door as Tim Cook took charge. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing?
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda
SIX YEARS AGO, Rwanda had a blood delivery problem. More than 12 million people live in the small East African country, and like those in other nations, sometimes they get into car accidents. New mothers hemorrhage. Anemic children need urgent transfusions. You can’t predict these emergencies. They just happen. And when they do, the red stuff stored in Place A has to find its way to a patient in Place B—fast.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Activists keep up pressure as Biden weighs student debt move
WASHINGTON (AP) — For student loan activists, the week began with hope as President Joe Biden gave his clearest indication that he was considering canceling federal debt rather than simply allowing borrowers to defer payments during the pandemic.
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1 month agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE
The tech giant says it's offering repair manuals online, along with giving everyday people the chance to buy parts and tools to repair devices themselves.
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1 month agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR) has approved Bitcoin as legal tender - just the second country to do so. CAR is one of the world's poorest countries, but is rich in diamonds, gold and uranium. It has been wracked by conflict for decades and is a close Russian ally, with mercenaries from the Wagner Group helping fight rebel forces.