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1 day ago+16 16 0YouTube removes five TV channels run by Myanmar's military
Dozens of protesters were killed this week during anti-coup demonstrations.
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2 days ago+28 28 0 x 1“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
Social media is a civilization-level problem
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5 days ago+23 23 0 x 1Artificial intelligence research continues to grow as China overtakes US in AI journal citations
The artificial intelligence boom isn’t slowing yet, with new figures showing a 34.5 percent increase in the publication of AI research from 2019 to 2020. That’s a higher percentage growth than 2018 to 2019 when the volume of publications increased by ...
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12 days ago+24 24 0Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
Apple has acquired about 100 companies over the last six years, the company’s chief executive Tim Cook has revealed. That works out at a company every three to four weeks, he told Apple’s annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday.
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13 days ago+21 21 0Kuo: New form factor MacBook Pro to feature HDMI port and SD card slot
In January, Ming Chi Kuo excited fans of Apple’s pro laptops with news that the 2021 MacBook Pro would feature a new design, Apple Silicon, and the return of MagSafe and more IO ports.
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13 days ago+21 21 0'Rick and Morty' writers start work on season seven
Rick and Morty writer Alex Rubens has confirmed that work has begun on season 7. Rubens teased the news in a tongue-in-cheek tweet, writing: “Am I allowed to say we started writing Rick and Morty Season 7? (If not we didn’t and I’m not)”
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13 days ago+21 21 0Electric cars rise to record 54% market share in Norway
Norway became the first country in the world where the sale of electric cars has overtaken those powered by petrol, diesel and hybrid engines last year, with the German carmaker Volkswagen replacing Tesla as the top battery-vehicle producer, data sho ...
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2 weeks ago+19 19 0Biocrusts Are an Entire World Beneath Our Feet
New research in Brazil highlights how distinctive the "living skin" of the planet can be.
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2 weeks ago+19 19 0This 28-year-old turned his college side hustle into a $1.3 billion start-up backed by Jeff Bezos
Francis Davidson rented out his college apartment over the summer for extra cash. Now, Sonder is a $1.3 billion start-up that may be the next big hospitality brand.
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2 weeks ago+22 22 0White House working with social media giants to silence anti-vaxxers
The White House is asking social media companies to clamp down on chatter that deviates from officially distributed COVID-19 information as part of President Biden’s “wartime effort” to vanquish the coronavirus. A senior administration official tells ...
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2 weeks ago+10 10 0Emilia Clarke to Replace Amber Heard As Mera In Aquaman 2?
After Johnny Depp was fired from the Fantastic Beasts franchise back in November, fans across the world raised their voice for Warner Bros’ seemingly unfair decision. However, it now seems, according to a new rumor, that the studio has finally cleare ...
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2 weeks ago+16 16 0Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole
Black holes are regions in space where gravity is very strong—so strong that nothing that enters them can escape, including light. Theoretical predictions suggest that there is a radius surrounding black holes known as the event horizon. Once somethi ...
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2 weeks ago+15 15 0Here’s how to watch NASA’s Perseverance lander touch down on Mars
The spacecraft will arrive at Mars on February 18, joining missions from China and the United Arab Emirates.
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3 weeks ago+24 24 0All of Disney's streaming services are booming
Very quickly, Disney has become perhaps the dominant force in the video streaming world. Just about six months after the company announced it had over 100 million streaming video subscribers, Disney has revealed it has almost that many on Disney+ alo ...
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3 weeks ago+27 27 0 x 1Google apps feel strain as firm's privacy standoff with Apple drags on
Google’s privacy standoff with Apple has lasted so long that even the company’s own apps are complaining about it. Since early December, Apple has required any iOS app to include a privacy “nutrition label”, listing all the ways the app uses personal ...
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3 weeks ago+12 12 0Fatal school shootings linked to increased antidepressant use among youths
The rate of antidepressant use among youth rises after local exposure to fatal school shootings, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The study represents largest ...
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3 weeks ago+18 18 0When Piggly Wiggly Tried to Stick It to Wall Street
The recent volatility in the price of GameStop and other stocks has been characterized—rightly or wrongly—as an unprecedented populist revolt by small-time traders against big hedge funds. While the offensive by users of the Reddit forum WallStreetBe ...
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3 weeks ago+21 21 0What exactly is the polar vortex?
At the start of February 2021, a major snowstorm hit the northeast United States, with some areas receiving well over two feet of snow. Just a few weeks earlier, Spain experienced a historic and deadly snowstorm and dangerously low temperatures. Nort ...
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1 month ago+13 13 0Why keeping one mature street tree is far better for humans and nature than planting lots of new ones
Thanks to Victorian street planners, many British streets were designed to be full of big trees and, with 84% of the population living in urban areas, most people are more likely to encounter trees in the streets than they are in forests. The UK is o ...
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1 month ago+16 16 0Can Your Outfit Influence the Way You Feel?
"I used to have low confidence a few years ago and a shaky self-image, and would often think nobody would love me, and I feel that fashion, dressing up and looking good plays a big role in giving my confidence a boost,” Aastha Mehta, a fashion a ...