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Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing
From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever the cost.
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Ajit Pai promised cheaper Internet—real prices rose 19 percent instead
Home-Internet prices rose four times faster than inflation in Trump era.
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FTC finds 'scant' reason for repair limits in right-to-repair report
The Federal Trade Commission told Congress "there is scant evidence to support manufacturers' justifications for repair restrictions" in a Thursday report that promised to consider new rules or enforcement around consumers' right to repair their goods.
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LiveLeak is finally dead after 15 years
The gore is no more.
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Bitcoin is coming to hundreds of U.S. banks this year, says crypto custody firm NYDIG
Bitcoin may be taking another step toward mainstream adoption, CNBC has learned. For the first time, customers of some U.S. banks will soon be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoin through their existing accounts, according to crypto custody firm NYDIG.
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Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Social Network’s Ban of Trump
A company-appointed panel ruled that the ban was justified at the time but added that the company should reassess its action and make a final decision in six months.
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The Internet Comes Together To Mock The CIA’s New ‘Woke’ Ad
With a poorly thought-out advertising campaign, the CIA sparked a deluge of mockery.
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Ethereum's 27-year-old creator is now a billionaire
Vitalik Buterin, a 27-year-old Russian-Canadian programmer, created ethereum in 2013 when he was 19. The cryptocurrency launched in 2015, and now Buterin holds about 333,500 ether in his public wallet. Multiply that by the $3,500 record high ether stood at on Tuesday, and you get more than $1.1 billion. Not bad.
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Sotheby's to accept bitcoin and ether for an upcoming auction of a Banksy painting
Sotheby's is partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin and ether as payment options in an upcoming auction of a Banksy painting.
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Trolls can be hunted down and rooted out. So why aren’t social media giants doing it?
Four-day sporting boycott reinforces the need for Twitter, Facebook and others to get rid of those dishing out abuse – now
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Baidu rolls out paid driverless taxi service in Beijing
Chinese tech giant Baidu has rolled out its paid driverless taxi service, making it the first company that's commercialized autonomous driving operations in China
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Fish May Actually Feel Pain After All, Argues a New Paper
The parts of the human brain that process the unpleasantness of pain have no equivalent in the brains of fish. So, does that mean fish aren't able to feel pain? Not necessarily, according to a new paper.
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Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) Daily Builds Are Now Available to Download - 9to5Linux
Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) daily builds are now available to download for all supported flavors, for early adopters and public testers.
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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house
A Dutch couple have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house in a development that its backers believe will open up a world of choice in the shape and style of the homes of the future.
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Microsoft wants to reduce its Xbox store cut and shake up console gaming
Microsoft has been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent, according to confidential documents filed in the Epic Games vs. Apple case. The software maker details its store fees and changes in a document from January, where it also lists the 12 percent cut to PC games it announced this week. While most of the important parts of the document are redacted, one page reveals Microsoft also wants to reduce its 30 percent store cut on the Xbox console side.
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Dear wireless carriers: the 5G hype needs to stop
Please just let us know when 5G is good.
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Tesla is now sitting on $2.5 billion of bitcoin
The company announced earlier this year that it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin and planned to accept it as payment for vehicles.
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Scientists find 25,000 barrels of possible DDT at 'staggering' dump site near...
Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating to World War II has long been suspected.
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This survey shows that people prefer printed books – even in the digital age
With smartphones, tablets and e-readers reaching mass adoption over the past few years, many have predicted that printed books would soon become a thing of the past. And while it’s true that people use their electronic devices to read, they still rely heavily on ink and paper when it comes to reading books.
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Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won't keep you up all night
To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles and sleep disturbances. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed a prototype LED that reduces -- instead of masks -- the blue component, while also making colors appear just as they do in natural sunlight.
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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating...
Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees
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The best broadband in the US isn’t in New York or San Francisco. It’s in Chattanooga.
Chattanooga's broadband, the best in the US, is city-owned, making it a shining case study for Biden's push to have municipal bodies provide internet.
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Meet 5 of Australia’s tiniest mammals, who tread a tightrope between life and death every night
One mammal, the long-tailed planigale, can weigh less than a 10-cent coin. But it's ferocious, bringing down far larger prey with persistent, savage biting to the head and neck
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Why Apple’s latest gadget is catching the attention of antitrust regulators
Apple’s new AirTag looks and works a lot like the trackers produced by Tile.
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Bitcoin is a fraud that will blow up, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon claims cryptocurrency is only fit for use by drug dealers, murderers and people living in North Korea
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Elon Musk predicts human language will be obsolete in as few as five years
Neuralink chief says firm planning to connect device to human brain within 12 months
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China could save $1.6 trillion by replacing coal with clean energy, report finds
China could stand to benefit economically if it can successfully replace coal with renewable energy, according to a report by financial analytics company TransitionZero. The study looked at the costs, or savings, that the Chinese government would incur if it replaced its existing coal-fired power plants with zero-carbon alternatives.
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Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life
Just moments before then president Trump left office, a Florida company claimed responsibility for 56 million IP addresses owned by the Pentagon. Three months later, it was managing nearly 175 million.
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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
Chris Poole hopped around to several groups within the company before departing.
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Researchers Take Down Botnet Pretending to Be Millions of People Watching TV
Fraudsters operate off the assumption that it’s way more profitable to think up byzantine ways to cheat people out of money than it is to just, like, work hard and ask for a promotion occasionally. For instance: an Israeli tech company is currently accused of using a very convoluted method to screw advertisers out of buttloads of cash by pretending to be a bunch of people watching TV.
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