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1 year ago+3 3 0Consumers Battling Cost of Living Crisis Are Choosing Affordability Over Brand Loyalty
Affordability is the leading concern for 35 percent of global consumers today, according to new survey data from EY, increasing by 10 percent since October 2022. EY’s Future Consumer Index surveyed more than 21,000 consumers across 27 countries to un ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0This PC fits in your pocket and uses a revolutionary cooling system backed by Intel, Qualcomm
Popular mini PC vendor Zotac has launched the ZBox PI430AJ, the first device we’ve come across that uses the AirJet, a solid-state active cooler, from Frore Systems. The tiny PC, which was unveiled at Computex, has a retail price of $499 (around £400 ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0How Zelenskyy got Luke Skywalker and Bear Grylls to fight Russia: The inside story
Everyone in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office was crying. The Ukrainian president and football legend Andriy Shevchenko fell into each other’s arms, unable to find words for their perilous predicament.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better
A future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment
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1 year ago+19 19 0NASA Scientists reveal largest Uranus moons may contain oceans
A recent analysis from NASA's Voyage spacecraft has led scientists to conclude that four of Uranus' largest moons contain water. These moons are believed to have an ocean layer that exists between the icy crust and core, and they could be m ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Star Chukwudi Iwuji Is Making No Excuses for His Sadistic Baddie: “I Cannot Defend Him”
The 'Peacemaker' actor, who reunited with James Gunn to help him close out his trilogy, sought to shut out the pressure and focus on the work of bringing The High Evolutionary to life.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Apple and Google aim to expose Bluetooth tracker abuse
Apple and Google on Tuesday proposed a tech standard to make sure people get tipped off when their movements are being tracked with Bluetooth devices like AirTags or Tile. The tech titans behind rival mobile operating systems that, together, power mo ...
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1 year ago+27 27 0Ex-Apple employee owes $19 million for elaborate fraud scheme
A former Apple employee will go to prison for a scheme that defrauded the Bay Area-based tech giant of more than $17 million, and he has been ordered to pay for what he stole. Dhirendra Prasad received the three-year prison sentence Wednesday in fede ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99 billion last year, bringing its total losses since 2020 to $30 billion
It seems that no matter how much money Meta's Reality Labs unit loses, Mark Zuckerberg refuses to give up on the company's metaverse ambitions. In its first-quarter earnings report, Meta said Reality Labs, responsible for its metaverse-rela ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0The Mortuary Assistant is now available on Nintendo Switch
The Mortuary Assistant is now available on Nintendo Switch. The smash-hit indie horror hit – which offers some genuinely unsettling moments in its 10ish hour run time over numerous playthroughs – doesn't seem to boast any Switch-specific feature ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Do We Need Armageddon to Create Sustainable Societies?
There’s a narrative that the climate crisis will lead us down one of two pathways. The road towards sustainability, where a radical social transformation is triggered so that each person’s needs are met within environmental limits. Or, the road towar ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Maggie Rogers selling concert tickets in person: ‘F – – k bots + f – – k fees’
In a world of online bots and Ticketmaster lawsuits, singer/songwriter Maggie Rogers is resorting to the old-school way of selling concert tickets. The 28-year-old “Light On” singer announced Thursday on social media that tickets to her upcoming “Sum ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Robert Smith Forces Ticketmaster to Cancel Scalped Tickets, Donate Fees
God Bless Robert Smith. Although the neverending war against Ticketmaster has been going for decades, it’s only recently that the counter-movement is being taken seriously. When Pearl Jam attempted to take on the ticketing empire almost three decades ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss
The plane’s engine groans, and its small frame rises. Through a thin membrane of cloud, the spine of the southern alps rises like a dark sawblade. “I’m wondering if my favourite glacier is going to be there,” says principal climate scientist Dr Andre ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Sam Altman admits OpenAI is 'a little bit scared' of ChatGPT and says it will 'eliminate' many jobs
The CEO of OpenAI told ABC News that artificial intelligence could replace many jobs, but that it should also lead to "much better" roles.
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1 year ago+3 3 0Sam Bankman-Fried transferred $2.2bn in FTX customer funds for personal use, filings show
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX made transfers of about $3.2 billion to its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and key employees, according to court filings seen by Bloomberg and the Financial Times. The funds were moved in the form of “payments and loa ...
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1 year ago+3 3 0Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
Greenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it may be due to atmospheric changes
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1 year ago+4 4 0Ben Savage of 'Boy Meets World' launches bid to replace Adam Schiff in Congress
Ben Savage, the former star of the popular 1990s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” announced he is running for Congress to represent a Los Angeles-area district currently held by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. “I’m running for Congress because it’s time to resto ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Chinese city claims to have destroyed 1 billion pieces of personal data collected for Covid control | CNN
A Chinese city says it has destroyed a billion pieces of personal data collected during the pandemic, as local governments gradually dismantle their coronavirus surveillance and tracking systems after abandoning the country's controversial zero- ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0China and France prepare to launch satellite to hunt for gamma-ray bursts
France is set to send a pair of advanced science instruments to China in preparation for launch of a joint space observatory. The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a collaboration forged in 2014 between the China ...