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1 year ago+24 24 0Apple workers hit back against the company's return-to-office plans, saying they have carried out 'exceptional work' from home
A group of previously office-based workers at Apple circulated a petition arguing employees have shown they can do "exceptional work" from home.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Alec Baldwin Feared Trump Supporters Would Kill Him After ‘Rust’ Shooting: I Was ‘1000% Nervous’
Alec Baldwin revealed during a recent CNN interview (via TMZ) that he feared Trump supporters would kill him following the “Rust” shooting last October. Baldwin, the star and producer of the indie Western film, was holding the firearm when it fired d ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Neuroimaging study finds people who exercise more display an elevated brain response to reward
New research published in the journal Biological Psychology revealed that people who exercise more show increased brain activity when receiving an unexpected reward, specifically in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex. These findings may suggest th ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0'The Netflix effect': Why Western women are heading to South Korea in search of love
Popular K-dramas are inspiring young women from the US and Europe to travel to South Korea.
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1 year ago+26 26 0 x 1Google Fiber expands for first time in five years, and is coming to five new states
The Google Fiber broadband service is one again expanding, announcing plans to bring the service to five states - Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho - over the next several years. It's the first major expansion of Google Fiber since h ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Opinion: Loot Boxes in Games Aren't the Problem, Regulation is
The news making the rounds today is that FIFA 23 will be retaining loot boxes in its insanely popular Ultimate Team mode. Well, of course, loot boxes are staying in Ultimate Team. EA likes money, and Ultimate Team, via its loot boxes, generates an ey ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Netflix’s ‘1899’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season Five & Lars Von Trier’s ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Lead TIFF Primetime Programme Competition
Dark creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s 1899, the highly-anticipated fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus have made the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022 Primetime program. Seven series hav ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0 x 1Apple is building a demand-side platform
Apple may have blown up the digital ads business but it left enough fertile ground to build its own, more focused play for media dollars. The company is building a demand-side platform if recent job listings are to be believed.
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1 year ago+19 19 0What a decade of Curiosity has taught us about life on Mars
Ten years ago, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab celebrated the successful landing of its fourth robot on Mars, The Curiosity rover. Now old enough to enter the fifth grade, the Curiosity rover was set on its mission in 2012 to determine wh ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Trump-backed candidates prevail in U.S. midterm primaries
Republican voters on Tuesday chose a raft of candidates supporting Donald Trump's 2020 election falsehoods in multiple party primaries for the November general election - a stark display of the former president's grip on his party.
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1 year ago+19 19 0Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations
Carbon capture is having a moment, and it’s not hard to see why: As Texas Monthly reports, “the worldwide carbon-capture market is expected to grow from about $2 billion this year to about $7 billion in 2028.” Last year’s bipartisan infrastructure la ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Bill Russell, basketball legend with record 11 NBA titles, dies at 88
Bill Russell was one of basketball's all-time greats. He won a record 11 NBA titles, all with the Boston Celtics. But his dominance didn't stop off the court — he was a voice for racial justice, too.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Barcelona school and residents create solar energy community
A secondary school and a residents’ association have teamed up with Barcelona city council to create a solar energy community with the capacity to grow – rooftop by rooftop – across large areas of the city. The solar panels on the roof of Quatre Cant ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Astronomers develop novel way to ‘see’ first stars through fog of early Universe
The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, have developed a methodology that will allow them to observe and study the first stars through the clouds of hydrogen that filled the Universe about 378,000 years after the Big Bang.
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1 year ago+20 20 0iPhone may still be the best value among smartphones - seriously
In the face of a global economic downturn, one thing you wouldn't expect is for some of the market's most expensive smartphones to grow in marketshare. And yet that's what Apple's iPhone has done.
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1 year ago+20 20 0How China became ground zero for the auto chip shortage
From his small office in Singapore, Kelvin Pang is ready to wager a $23 million payday that the worst of the chip shortage is not over for automakers – at least in China.
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1 year ago+28 28 0 x 1Samsung announces 24Gbps GDDR6 memory for next-gen graphics cards
In brief: Samsung is improving its GDDR6 portfolio with a new module capable of data transfer rates of 24Gbps per pin. This is mostly aimed at high-end graphics cards and AI accelerators, but the company will also be making low-power variants for oth ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Another Drop in Bitcoin’s Hashrate – Mining Companies Lose Huge Profits
After reaching an all-time peak on June 8, 2022 at block height 739.928, Bitcoin's hashrate has been declining in recent years. The hashrate fell from 243 exahash per seconds (EH/s), to today's 178.44, losing 26.56% in that time period. The ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0The Supreme Court Case That Could 'End American Democracy'
What seems like a narrow point of law could have profound consequences for American elections — including the race for the White House in 2024.
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1 year ago+15 15 0SpaceX Shares an Image of the Super Heavy Booster Bristling With 33 Newly Installed Raptor Engines
Not long ago, SpaceX passed their Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) with the FAA, though many corrective actions were recommended. With this hurdle in its rearview mirror, SpaceX is busy preparing the Starship and Super Heavy prototypes for ...