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2 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It
Twenty minutes after Netflix announced the shocking news Tuesday that for the first time in a decade, it actually lost subscribers during a fiscal quarter, an executive at a rival streamer texted me a very simple reaction: “
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Amazon installs 'creepy' AI cameras to monitor more delivery drivers, report says.
Amazon is putting AI-powered cameras in more delivery vans in a move that privacy activists called "creepy", "intrusive" and "excessive" after rolling them out in the US last year, The Telegraph reported. The cameras monitor how drivers in the UK perform on the road and issue voice alerts if they speed or brake sharply and will score drivers accordingly.
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3 days agoAnalysis spacepopper
Over 100 years of Antarctic agriculture is helping scientists grow food in space
Scientists just grew plants in soil from the Moon, but Antarctica has long provided researchers with the perfect place to test their agricultural techniques for a future in space.
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6 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Over 10 million Bitcoin Addresses Hold At least 0.01 BTC or $298
Notably, the number of Bitcoin addresses with at least 0.01 BTC has been on an upward trend over the past year. For instance, from June 2021 to date, roughly one million addresses held at least 0.01 BTC. This trend points to general user confidence and an increasing number of HODLers despite market volatility that often shakes off weak hands.
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9 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Gurman: iOS 16 to Include New Ways of System Interaction and 'Fresh Apple Apps'
iOS 16 will include new ways of interacting with the system and some "fresh Apple apps," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has said, offering some more detail on what Apple has in store for the upcoming release of iOS and iPadOS set to be announced in a few weeks at WWDC.
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A landmark study tracks the lasting effect of having an abortion — or being denied one
Though it's impossible to know exactly what will happen to abortion access if Roe v. Wade is overturned, demographer Diana Greene Foster does know what happens when someone is denied an abortion. She documented it in her groundbreaking yearslong research project, The Turnaway Study and her findings provide insight into the ways getting an abortion – or being denied one – affects a person's mental health and economic wellbeing.
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2 weeks agoExpression spacepopper
The Problem of Food Waste
Learn more about our massive food waste problem, from fields and fishing boats to grocery stories and household kitchens.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Elon Musk Says “Expectations” Of Twitter Employees Will Be “Extreme” Following Takeover
Elon Musk took to Twitter on Friday to offer a sense of his vision for the social media platform, after the acquisition goes through, also offering a sense of what its employees can expect, with regard to work life under his leadership. Musk’s comments accompanied a screenshot of a recent Fortune article titled: “Job interest in Twitter skyrocketed more than 250% since Elon Musk moved to take over. But current employees are nervous.”
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
‘Goldilocks’ stars may pose challenges for any nearby habitable planets
If you’re an aspiring life-form, you might want to steer clear of planets around orange dwarf stars. Some astronomers have called these orange suns “Goldilocks stars” (SN: 11/18/09). They are dimmer and age more slowly than yellow sunlike stars, thus offering an orbiting planet a more stable climate. But they are brighter and age faster than red dwarfs, which often spew large flares.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Here's a Real-World Look At How the iPhone 14 Lineup Compares to the iPhone 13
New images of 3D-printed mockups, likely based on relatively accurate dimensions for the upcoming iPhone 14 lineup, have offered a close look at the design changes Apple is planning for the 2022 iPhones, particularly the enlargement of the camera systems compared to the latest iPhone 13 series.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Bill Burr: “I’ve Made Every Mistake You Can Make”
Burr has become one of the world's most successful stand-ups by leaning into his anger. In this candid interview, the actor-comedian shows there's a lot more to him – but he still gets plenty fired up too.
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3 weeks agoExpression spacepopper
It's the Billionaires' Internet, and We're Just Posting On It
You won't find liberation on a platform owned by this or that billionaire.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Netflix’s Stumble Could Be a Warning Sign for Streaming Industry
The company faces a number of challenges, but its problems may be an indication that its competitors are racing toward an unstable future.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Overlooked gravitational wave signals point to 'exotic' black hole scenarios
Revisiting their initial data, LIGO-Virgo Collaboration scientists discover 10 new black-hole mergers. In a new analysis of their gravitational wave data, scientists with the international LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have discovered 10 new examples of merging binary black holes.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Putin says no need to storm Mariupol steel plant where Ukrainians holed up
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm the Azovstal steel plant inside the port city of Mariupol, where thousands of Ukrainian defenders and civilians are holed up.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Twitter board announces poison pill measure to block Musk buyout
A billionaire doing billionaire things.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Scientists spot elusive mini red giant stars, victims of stellar stealing
A tug-of-war between neighboring stars led to the formation of two strange types of red giant star, as seen in the eyes of a lost telescope. Astronomers reported finding 40 examples of two different varieties of slimmed-down red giant stars. Scientists expected that such objects existed, since red giants are often in binary systems next to the dense core of a dead star, called a white dwarf, that can sometimes be a greedy neighbor. (These mismatched pairs arise because red giants form together; ...
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Citizens officially win fight to ban oil and gas development in Quebec
Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world Tuesday to explicitly ban oil and gas development in its territory after decades of campaigning by environmental organizations and citizen groups. “Citizens rallied, citizens regrouped and actually won this fight because it was in their backyards … it would have had major impacts on their way of living on the territory,” Émile Boisseau-Bouvier, Équiterre’s climate policy analyst, told Canada’s National Observer.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
‘Better Call Saul’ Cast and Creators Tease ‘F–king Amazing’ Final Season — and Other Possible Spinoffs
How would “Better Call Saul” co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould describe the series’ hotly anticipated final season? “Fucking amazing,” Gilligan told Variety on the red carpet at last week’s premiere at the Hollywood Legion Theater, while Gould offered: “Holy fucking shit.”