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10 months ago+17 17 0A wealth tax could help poorer countries tackle climate crisis, economists say
Taxing world’s wealthiest people could help poorer countries shift economies to low-carbon and recover from climate damage
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10 months ago+28 28 0Fox News Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Tucker Carlson Over His Twitter Show
Fox News has sent a cease and desist letter to Tucker Carlson over his Twitter show that launched last week. The network recently pulled Carlson’s show from their lineup and announced that they had parted ways with the star personality, but he is sti ...
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10 months ago+14 14 0Game on—the most metal of asteroid missions is back on the menu
One year after NASA announced an indefinite delay of a much-anticipated mission to visit a metal-rich asteroid, the agency said Monday that the Psyche spacecraft is back on track. The Psyche mission is now scheduled to launch in four months on a Falc ...
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10 months ago+33 33 0Directors Guild of America Reaches Tentative Labor Settlement With Hollywood Studios
The Directors Guild of America said Saturday night that it had reached a tentative three-year labor deal with the Hollywood studios and streamers after a bruising skirmish. The DGA negotiating comm…
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10 months ago+23 23 0Amazon introduces palm-scanning technology that would let customers buy a beer without reaching for their wallet at the bar
Amazon is offering to check your ID for the bartender with a palm-scanning payment method, but a bar owner says it's not necessary for smaller bars.
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11 months ago+26 26 0Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organiza ...
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11 months ago+28 28 090 per cent of teachers can't afford to live where they teach: study
Research suggests housing affordability is a major issue for teachers and may exacerbate the shortage crisis further.
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11 months ago+4 4 0Ray Stevenson Dead at 58
The Irish actor had recently played the villain in the Tollywood blockbuster 'RRR'
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11 months ago+22 22 0Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2,500 of mum's money without her knowing
Tesco Bank initially refused to refund the mum but changed its mind after a BBC show got involved.
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11 months ago+24 24 0Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it
Microsoft admits there are Windows 11 problems it just can’t fix
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11 months ago+33 33 0 x 1Rimac's electric hypercar Nevera breaks 23 records, does 0-62 mph in 1.81 seconds
Who says the transition to all-electric forms of automobiles is not to the liking of car enthusiasts who typically highlight the thrill of driving? In a groundbreaking feat of engineering and performance, an all-electric hypercar has set a new world ...
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11 months ago+11 11 0Canada's Competition Bureau sues Cineplex for allegedly advertising misleading ticket prices | CBC News
The bureau alleged in a Thursday media release that Cineplex is breaking the law after an investigation found consumers can't buy movie tickets online at advertised prices because there is an additional mandatory fee of $1.50 for booking online.
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11 months ago+20 20 0iOS 16.5: The New Features That Could Come to Your iPhone Soon
Apple hasn't released iOS 16.5 yet, but on Monday the tech giant came out with an updated version of the iOS 16.5 release candidate for developers and beta testers. A news release last week pointed to Apple making the iPhone update available to ...
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11 months ago+35 35 0 x 1Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to avoid prison
Elizabeth Holmes will soon have to report to prison to begin her 11-year sentence after she was convicted by a jury last year of defrauding investors.
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11 months ago+24 24 0Russia, Belarus' IPC membership ban overturned
Russia and its ally Belarus have had their suspension from membership of the International Paralympic Committee overturned on appeal but their athletes remain barred from competing in IPC-run events.
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11 months ago+26 26 0A Google exec's jab at Apple about texting issues between iPhones and Android drew cheers and applause at a conference
Google took some time out of its annual developers conference to call out Apple on stage for not adopting RCS, and the crowd ate it up.
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11 months ago+17 17 0King Charles’s coronation watched by peak TV audience of 20 million
Event was most watched broadcast of year but substantially smaller than 29m who watched Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
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11 months ago+24 24 0Sky Sports Renews English Soccer Rights in Record $1 Billion, 1000-Game Deal
English Football [soccer] League (EFL) clubs have unanimously approved a record domestic rights deal with broadcaster Sky Sports worth £935 million ($1.1 billion) over a five-year period.
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11 months ago+22 22 0Pornhub shuts down site in Utah, Google searches for VPN access jump
After Pornhub blocked access to its site in Utah, it appears that residents took matters into their own hands — Google searches for VPN access spiked in the state, becoming the most popular search term statewide. While many searches came from Utah ...
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11 months ago+15 15 0Scientists catch real-life Death Star devouring a planet in 1st-of-its-kind discovery
The action 12,000 light-years away may presage what happens to Earth about 5 billion years from now.