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1 year ago+11 11 0FCC taking a stand against spam texting
Under new regulations for telecom firms, the Federal Communications Commission is taking action against spammy text messages in response to an increase in consumer complaints in recent years related to unsolicited robotexts.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Nintendo May Be Working On A 3D Donkey Kong Game For The Switch Successor
Multiple sources have reported that Nintendo may be working on a brand new 3D Donkey Kong game for the Switch successor. According to information shared by Famiboards member Professor Chops as well as YouTuber Nintendo Prime, Nintendo had been workin ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0 x 1A crucial building block of life exists on the asteroid Ryugu
Uracil, a building block of life, has been found on the asteroid Ryugu. Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues discovered the precursor to life in samples collected from the asteroid and returned to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, the team reports March ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0Exclusive: New ‘Beats Studio Buds+’ headphones coming, possibly using same chip as AirPods [U]
iOS 16.4 is coming soon with a bunch of new features, including new emoji, web app notifications, and more. But under the hood, today’s RC update adds support for an unreleased Beats Studio Buds+, as discovered by 9to5Mac. Read on as we detail what t ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0How institutions like the Catholic Church can weaponize bankruptcy
Across the United States, various institutions that have faced sexual abuse allegations ranging from the Boy Scouts of America to USA Gymnastics have filed for bankruptcy. Could the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow?
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1 year ago+20 20 0Long-awaited Fed digital payment system to launch in July
The Federal Reserve’s digital payments system, which it promises will help speed up the way money moves around the world, will debut in July. FedNow, as it will be known, will create “a leading-edge payments system that is resilient, adaptive, and ac ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Bill would increase tipped minimum wage to $15 an hour
Maryland state lawmakers are considering a bill to put more money into the pockets of restaurant workers. House Bill 803 would give restaurant servers a base hourly wage of $15, plus tips. "We will make sure that people will always get a wage wh ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0iOS Game Emulation Cracked For the First Time Ever
YouTuber Stop Skeletons From Fighting has made a video explaining the latest endeavours of touchHLE and how it will preserve digital games.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Taiwan's TSMC to recruit 6,000 engineers in 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) , the world's largest contract chipmaker, will recruit more than 6,000 new staff in 2023, the company said in a statement on Saturday.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Robot dogs are taking over the US military
Who let the dogs out?
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1 year ago+21 21 0Meteorite Crater Discovered in the Vineyard of a Winery
Our planet has been bombarded by celestial bodies and meteorites since the first moment of its formation. While some of these meteorites disappear while still in the atmosphere, some can reach the earth and shape geographical landforms. For example, ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0London to offer free school meals to all primary pupils for a year
Free school meals will be offered to all primary school pupils across London for a year under plans by Sadiq Khan to tackle what he said was a failure by ministers to step up support during the cost of living crisis. The move will come into force fro ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Sean Penn Lashes Out at ‘Creepy Little Bully’ Putin After Berlin Premiere of Volodymyr Zelenskyy Documentary ‘Superpower’
Sean Penn said he was happy to be a “propagandist” for the Ukrainian war effort and called Russian president Vladimir Putin a “creepy little bully” Saturday in Berlin, after the world premiere of his gonzo documentary “Superpower,” a gripping, courag ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Salesforce CEO says he took a 10-day 'digital detox' trip to French Polynesia in the wake of company layoffs
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told NYT he went to French Polynesia for a device-free trip after layoffs, and said the "digital detox" was "freeing."
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1 year ago+23 23 0iFixit HomePod 2 teardown finds a lot less glue, a lot more repairability
The iFixit HomePod 2 teardown isn’t the first one we’ve seen since the launch of the new model, as Brandon Geekabit got there first. But the company does echo the comments on repairability of this model compared to the original, together with a cool ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Politics May Trump Medicine In Shaping Doctors' COVID Treatment Beliefs
Conservative physicians were about five times more likely than their liberal and moderate colleagues to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine. The authors of a new study suggest that this willingness to pre ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Why humans may not be able to live on Mars without horrific health consequences
In July 1969, as the Apollo 11 astronauts prepared to trek to the moon, the Nixon Administration prepped some worst-case-scenario remarks in case this risky mission became deadly — a distinct possibility. Nixon's prepared statement, which was no ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Nintendo Wins "Switch Joy-Con Drift" Class Action Lawsuit
Drift? What drift? Remember a story we ran about some parents in the US who were trying to get their kids to sue Nintendo over "Joy-Con drift" in a class action lawsuit? Well, it seems the video game giant has come out on top.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Apple 14-Inch MacBook Pro M2 Teardown Reveals Big Changes Due to Substrate Pricing
Apple’s bean counters surely form one of the most powerful forces within the organization, despite much of the company's high-profile success being tied to design. A case in point is provided by one of Apple’s leading new consumer products, the ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut stay united by common goal
Despite ongoing tensions between their countries, American astronaut Stephen Bowen and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev stay united in their space mission. Fedyaev said he hopes the crew on the International Space Station can inspire people on Earth ...