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5 days agoCurrent Event takai
Amazon layoffs hit amid an increase in robot automation: what to know
Amazon maintains that employees and robots will continue to collaborate within its warehouses, however, according to specialists in robotics, the business may eventually be able to rely on robots to carry out much of the jobs that it currently delegates to human workers.
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7 days agoCurrent Event takai
The Last of US season two is ‘likely’, Bella Ramsey says
Speaking to the BBC, Bella Ramsey – who plays Ellie in the TV adaptation – said the reaction to the show’s first episodes makes a second season all but certain, but stressed that nothing had been officially confirmed yet. “If people keep watching, I think [a second series] is pretty likely,” she said. “It’s down to the guys at HBO.”
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11 days agoCurrent Event takai
‘Cobra Kai’ Renewed For Sixth And Final Season
Netflix’s Cobra Kai has been renewed for a sixth and final season. The final run, which promises to be “the biggest and baddest” season of all, is set to begin production in late spring, Deadline hears.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event takai
Dodgers release Bauer, set to pay him over $21M
The Dodgers couldn't find a trade partner for Trevor Bauer by Thursday's deadline, prompting the starting pitcher to be placed on the release waivers that ultimately make him a free agent.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event takai
DNA in the water shows South African scientists where to find a rare pipefish
Keeping track of the world’s wildlife populations is fundamental to conservation efforts in the face of the continued deterioration of global biodiversity. But some species are harder to study than others. Some aquatic species, for instance, elude detection because they are extremely rare and sparsely distributed.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event takai
Here Are Some Alternative Protein & Future Food Innovations Heading to CES 2023
Ever since Impossible stole the show at CES with the debut of the Impossible Burger 2.0 in 2019, a growing number of future food startups head to Vegas each January to try to repeat the feat
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1 month agoCurrent Event takai
Box Office: ‘Avatar 2’ Scores $90 Million Over Holiday Weekend, ‘Babylon’ Bombs at Christmas
James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” dominated at the box office over Christmas even as a massive winter storm kept audiences at home. Extreme weather conditions are pummeling a large portion of the U.S. with frigid temperatures, high winds and blankets of snow, contributing to lackluster turnout at the movies.
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1 month agoCurrent Event takai
Playing Competitive Video Games Helps the Brain & the Soul
Yes, “try-harding” in Mortal Kombat or Call of Duty will improve your mental functions and values in life. Even if you do not play video games, this post will show you how impactful video games, but even more specifically, competitive video games are to your well-being.
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1 month agoCurrent Event takai
U.S. expected to announce major breakthrough in quest for zero-carbon nuclear fusion energy
The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a "net energy gain" from an experimental fusion reactor.
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1 month agoCurrent Event takai
The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility
Republicans have found a new front in the culture war. For months, Republicans have been attacking ESG, the financial shorthand for how some companies consider all the ways the environment, social issues, and corporate governance impact their bottom line. One of the GOP’s recent targets is BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, which oversees some $8 trillion in assets, as a symbol of the financial community’s growing recognition that climate change is too big to ignore.
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1 month agoCurrent Event takai
BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general
The BBC is preparing to shut down its traditional television and radio broadcasts as it becomes an online-only service over the next decade, according to the director general, Tim Davie. “Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite,” he said. “A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active in planning for it.”
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2 months agoCurrent Event takai
Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly owns a $100 million stake in Elon Musk's Twitter
Private texts reveal Elon Musk invited Sam Bankman-Fried to roll over his Twitter shares into the company. Publicly, Musk has slammed the FTX founder.
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2 months agoCurrent Event takai
Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth
At about 10 o'clock on the night of Feb. 28, 2021, a fireball streaked through the sky over England. The blazing extraterrestrial visitor was seen by more than 1,000 people, and its descent was filmed by 16 dedicated meteor-tracking cameras from the UK Fireball Alliance and many dashboard and doorbell cams.
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2 months agoCurrent Event takai
40% of traffic to ecommerce sites comes from bots raising cyber security threat level
While consumers may be looking to scam retailers as the cost of living crisis deepens, cyber criminals are also on the rampage through the sector, with a range of automated threats – from account takeover, credit card fraud, web scraping, API abuses, Grinch bots and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – all becoming a persistent challenge for the eCommerce industry, threatening online sales and customer satisfaction.