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Google may actually be serious about tablets this time
Android tablets have been the butt of jokes for years now, and as much as I love the platform, I can’t disagree with most of the criticisms about its tablet experience. While most critics focus on the poor selection of tablet-optimized apps in Google Play, Android also fails tablet users in other key areas. For starters, there’s a dearth of premium hardware models, few decent input options, and subpar multitasking support.
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ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
Russia and its websites will remain on the internet. In the meantime, both Anonymous and US companies are maintaining their pressure on Russia's internet presence.
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Facebook's most-viewed page last quarter was taken down for being a suspected data-mining scam
The company's most recent transparency report did not identify its most-viewed page, only saying it was removed after getting millions of views.
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Putting Big Bad Pharma Back on Trial in the COVID-19 Era
After graduating from Columbia University with a chemical engineering degree, my grandfather went on to work for Pfizer for almost two decades, culminating his career as the company’s Global Director of New Products. I was rather proud of this fact growing up — it felt as if this father figure, who raised me for several years during my childhood, had somehow played a role in saving lives.
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‘Tinder Swindler’ Shimon Hayut Paid Scam Artist Over $6K to Get Verified on IG, Leviev Family...
Shimon Hayut—who was introduced to the world as “Tinder Swindler” Simon Leviev via a Netflix documentary of the same name—was himself recently swindled.
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Most Bitcoin Investors Who Bought at All-Time High Have Sold: Report
Bitcoin nearly reached $69,000 in November. New data shows that most who bought at the top of the market have since sold.
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Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
The study of fossils and prehistoric species is exploitative of local communities, says international team
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Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old
The impact crater is the second discovered in China.
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Jeff Bezos is looking to defy death – this is what we know about the science of ageing
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the ambitious new anti-ageing company with billions of investment. So what does science really say about this? Could we beat ageing?
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Battery-electric "Infinity Train" will charge itself using gravity
Australian mining company Fortescue is working to clean up its own operations by 2030, while developing green solutions it can sell to others. It's forking out into green tech through a subsidiary called Fortescue Future Industries, which has recently acquired Williams Advanced Engineering. Today, the two companies announced their first project together: an electric "infinity train" designed to move loads of iron ore without ever needing to be charged.
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Sensor breakthrough paves way for groundbreaking map of world under Earth surface
An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology—a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security.
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Owning a dog could be key to “successful aging” — study
A study reveals lower rates of disability among Japanese seniors who owned dogs, likely owing to increased exercise.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service is active in Ukraine with more...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his space company's Starlink satellite internet service is available in Ukraine and more terminals to use it are on the way.
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Risks of using AI to grow our food are substantial and must not be ignored, warn researchers
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the cusp of driving an agricultural revolution, and helping confront the challenge of feeding our growing global population
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Elon Musk says Starlink satellite service is activated in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion has...
A Ukrainian government official tweeted at Musk on Saturday, asking him to provide Starlink terminals to Ukraine. Musk responded just hours later.
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What is the metaverse? A deep dive into the ‘future of the internet’
The metaverse is a future evolution of the Internet based on shared, persistent virtual worlds in which people interact as 3D avatars. Blockchain technology can form the backbone of the metaverse, with interoperable NFT assets that can be used in different spaces of the metaverse.
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Apple Store Gunman Demanding €200 Million in Crypto Confirmed Dead
The robber caused a stir when it started a hostage situation in an Amsterdam-based Apple store, before demanding more than 200 million euros in crypto.
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Google plans privacy change that could once again kick Facebook's business model
Google is set to make changes to its Android operating system that aims to cut back on the amount of tracking it allows. It’s that kind of tracking that allows big tech companies to gather information about consumers, and in turn target you ruthlessly with advertisements for things it believes you want to buy.
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Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon
The "Server-Side Tagging" version of the Google tool allows you to bypass browser and other adblocker protections
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Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’
Solar panels are not a new way of providing cheap power across much of the African continent, where there is rarely a shortage of sunshine. But growing crops underneath the panels is, and the process has had such promising trials in Kenya that it will be deployed this week in open-field farms.
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Trump’s free speech app Truth Social is censoring content and kicking off users
Nearly 500,000 people are on the app’s “waitlist”..
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Crypto companies are tempting top talent away from Big Tech to build ‘Web3’
Executives at tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon are quitting to take jobs in the buzzy world of crypto. Blockchain platforms such as Polygon and Circle have hired top talent from Big Tech firms lately, enticing them with the pitch of working on the next “big thing” in tech — Web 3.0, or Web3.
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The President of the Bitcoin nation el Salvador to offer citizenship for foreign investors
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wants to offer citizenship to those who invest in the small Central American nation. Recall that in September, El Salvador became the first country to recognize bitcoin as a legally recognized currency, and seems to want to continue with reforms to attract foreign capital. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a tweet on Sunday that he plans to introduce a series of reforms including offering citizenship to foreign investors.
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Sex Robots and VR Porn: Sex in the Future Looks Wild
The human need for intimacy is never going to go away – it's just going to get weirder, at least according to anthropologist Roanne van Voorst.
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Putin recognises Ukraine rebel regions, drawing Western vows of sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities on Monday, drawing U.S. and European vows of new sanctions and upping the ante in a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.
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Windows 11 will soon be closed off to anyone without internet
The age of the offline Windows installation is over
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The next private SpaceX flight will be on a science mission
The research will look at key questions about how humans fare during long periods in space.
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Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth's Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below
Quaise is trying to tap the energy of Earth's core by drilling deeper than anyone one else—with a beam of microwaves that can vaporize rock.
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Online harassment, real harm: Fixing the web's biggest bug
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It should have been a time of celebration: Brittan Heller would soon graduate from college and head to one of the nation's top law programs. But when a classmate with unrequited feelings for Heller wasn't admitted to that same school, he turned his rage on her.
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A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives.
Their daughter’s online venture plunged a Florida family into a nightmare, but they decided not to pull the plug.
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