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Social media loses ground on abortion misinformation
Big Tech platforms are blocking abortion-pill distribution information and permitting false narratives about abortion to spread, more than 100 days after the Supreme Court's ruling overturning a constitutional right to abortion.
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A 'game-changer' for millions of Americans: You can now buy hearing aids over the counter
Pete Couste said it was his wife who first noticed that he was turning up the TV louder than she liked. “I couldn’t hear the words in movies as much anymore,” admitted Couste, who lives just outside Washington, DC. Watching TV isn’t Couste’s only problem. In his church choir, he can’t always hear his part and get the pitch right. It’s also affected his work at the Fire Safety Research Institute, a nonprofit that generates safety research.
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Seabed 2030: Almost 25% of World’s Seafloor Now Mapped
It's the most prominent international effort to chart the world’s entire ocean floor.
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DeepMind’s game-playing AI has beaten a 50-year-old record in computer science
The problem, matrix multiplication, is a crucial type of calculation at the heart of many different applications, from displaying images on a screen to simulating complex physics. It is also fundamental to machine learning itself. Speeding up this calculation could have a big impact on thousands of everyday computer tasks, cutting costs and saving energy.
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Australian research finds cost-effective way to recycle solar panels
Process involves using electrostatic separation on PV panels to collect valuable materials, reducing them to 2-3% of original weight
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Meta has burned $15 billion trying to build the metaverse — and nobody's saying exactly...
Meta's losses from its metaverse project continue mounting. The company says it's due to heavy spending on research, but it's light on the details.
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Surface Laptop 5 announced with Intel 12th-gen, Thunderbolt 4, and Dolby Vision IQ
... but AMD gets punted with the refreshed Surface Laptop 5
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Google Partners With Coinbase to Accept Crypto Payments for Cloud Services
Google (GOOGL) will start accepting crypto payments for cloud services early next year, according to a press release. Announced Tuesday at Google’s Cloud Next conference, the tech giant said it will receive crypto payment via an integration with crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN).
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TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
Children are among those pleading for hours for digital gifts, as the company takes a cut of up to 70%.
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It's painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing
At Meta Connect 2022, the company’s annual developer conference for its VR efforts and Oculus hardware platform, the company announced a lot of stuff — but what it communicated more effectively than anything else was just how incredibly thirsty — one might even say desperate — Mark Zuckerberg is for his metaverse bet to pay off.
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The Rich Are the Ones Burning the Planet
Research repeatedly shows that expanding inequality is intimately tied up with the destruction of the planet. We can’t save the world without taking on the rich.
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How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails
America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
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This gaming chair makes your butt a part of the action
Cooler Master's cheeky team of designers have cracked the butt-immersion problem of gaming with the new Synk X haptic gaming chair.
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Elon Musk dreams of dying on Mars—now he might be one of the pioneering colonists
Before SpaceX’s Starship has even completed its first orbital flight successfully, Elon Musk is already dreaming of joining its maiden voyage to Mars. Once his youngest children are more grown up, the visionary CEO can imagine participating in a colonizing mission to the red planet, he told the Financial Times.
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Google remembered the phone part of the smartphone
It hasn’t forgotten the basics.
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Kanye West Says It 'Hurts' His Feelings That People Think He's 'Crazy'
Kanye West is addressing being called "crazy." During part two of his sit-down interview on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight that aired Friday, the controversial rapper, 45, said, "They keep on using the 'Oh he's crazy, he's crazy' thing. And it hurts my feelings when people say that."
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Harvey Weinstein goes on trial in LA, where he once reigned
Five years after women's stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in the city where he once was a colossus at the Oscars.
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“Infantile Love For Batman And Other Superheroes Can Be Precursor To Fascism,” Comic Legend Alan...
One of the world’s most admired comic creators has expressed his concern at the crowds queueing up to watch superhero movies in recent years, saying such urges can be “a precursor to fascism,” and pointing out the correlation with Donald Trump’s election.
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With Advent of Super Mario Bros. Trailer, It’s Time to Banish the Chris Pratt Hate
While people aren’t shy about withholding their thoughts on Chris Pratt’s role as Mario, we should no longer tolerate the bullying behavior of people who do not agree with things assume…
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In the Battle With Robots, Human Workers Are Winning
Technologists have long been warning that robots will replace human workers. It doesn’t seem to be happening.
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Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website visitors
When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori
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How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
A new warning is being issued for anyone who uses wireless security cameras like "Ring" to protect their home.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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The Internet Had A Cruel Response To Dream’s Face Reveal
Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream revealed his face behind the mask, prompting mixed reactions.
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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Rights holders got Google to remove 6 billion links from Search over 10 years
Experts say policymakers mostly ignore Google's transparency reports.
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Genetically engineered, cancer-killing herpes virus may be able to fight tumors
Genetically engineering viruses to create an injection that can treat cancer is the aim currently being pursued by a number of different laboratories around the world.
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The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine
Skeptics deem Rhine’s famous ESP trials a bust. The record says otherwise.
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YouTube appears to be testing making people pay in order to watch videos in 4K resolution by...
In a reply to a user who tweeted that 4K was showing up as a premium-only feature, YouTube Support tweeted the user was part of an "experiment."




















