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1 year ago+16 16 0A Tesla burst into flames during a crash test. The organizer admitted it was staged
A global insurance company is taking heat for staging a battery fire during a crash test of a Tesla sedan. The insurance firm Axa was claiming to demonstrate how electric cars can quickly erupt into a dangerous blaze after an accident. But it wasn ...
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1 year ago+9 9 0Doomsday or nuts: The H2O case for banning almond trees in California
It is impossible to miss all the headlines talking about the water crisis happening (and worsening) in the American Southwest. So what can be done? One big step: banning water-sucking along trees.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet shutdowns as a form of control
From Sudan to Syria, Jordan to Jaipur, the trend towards digital authoritarianism is deepening
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1 year ago+18 18 0Soon electric vehicles could charge faster than your iPhone
Consumers could charge electric vehicle batteries up to 90 percent in ten minutes within five years, far surpassing the best superchargers in existence.
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1 year ago+16 16 0How ‘Stranger Things’ VFX and Sound Artists Created the “Otherworldly and Monstrous” Vecna
The Emmy-nominated Netflix series’ newest antagonist took design inspiration from Freddy Krueger and sound with the power of Led Zeppelin drums.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Christina Ricci Hates Her Performance in 1995’s ‘Casper’: ‘I Am Terrible in It’
Christina Ricci may be revisiting her role in “The Addams Family” for Netflix’s “Wednesday” series, but that’s the only kooky character from the 1990s she’s willing to look back on. The “Yellowjackets” star revealed during the “WTF with Marc Maron” p ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0The art of effective trolling
Sometimes you can say more with humor than with a polished speech or marketing spot.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Rainwater Everywhere Now Considered Too Toxic for Safe Consumption, Study Finds
Atmospheric levels of toxic “forever chemicals” are so high that rainwater everywhere contains amounts that are unsafe for long-term human consumption according to safety guidelines, scientists say.
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1 year ago+16 16 0The Race to Remake the $2.5 Trillion Steel Industry With Green Steel
In the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb just north of Boston, a cadre of engineers and scientists in white coats inspected an orderly stack of brick-sized, gunmetal-gray steel ingots on a desk inside a neon-illuminated lab space.
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1 year ago+19 19 0Apple Removes Scam App That Led to Hijacked Facebook Ad Accounts
Apple has removed an app that it was unknowingly hosting on the App Store that scammed Facebook advertisers and led hackers to use advertisers' ad budgets to run possibly malicious ads on Facebook's platforms, Business Insider reports.
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1 year ago+9 9 0Carpe Diem, Motherf#ckers! What some seriously smart people can teach us about LIVING IN THE MOMENT
One day, hopefully many, many years from now, you are going to die. Sometime after that, everyone who ever knew you, your family, friends, acquaintances and so on, will also die, until one day every trace of your existence will be wiped off the face ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0An engineer who was fired from Google believes its AI chatbot may have a soul but says he's not interested in convincing the public about it
When Blake Lemoine worked at Google as an engineer, he was tasked with testing whether a robot the company was developing exhibited any biases. Lemoine didn't realize that his job with the company's Responsible AI department — a division wi ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Neutron star chaser: Telescope spots dead suns crash
Scientists have developed a new telescope to detect the collisions of dead suns known as neutron stars. The process is thought to create the heavy metals in the Universe including gold and platinum. The stars are made from a substance that is so heav ...
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1 year ago+8 8 0Putin Signs Ban on Crypto Payments in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments. The action comes after the Russian government and central bank have long debated what to do about cryptocurrency. Back in January, the Bank of ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Game of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke says she is ‘missing’ parts of brain after aneurysms
Game of Thronesstar Emilia Clarke has opened up about the two brain aneurysms she suffered while filming the show. The actor, 35, previously revealed she had survived two brain aneurysms in 2011 and 2013. An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caus ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups
Companies that promise groceries delivered in 15 minutes surged during the pandemic—but are now in retreat.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Albuquerque Erecting Statues of Walter White And Jesse Pinkman - IGN
In a move to reveal what is likely the first ever municipal statues honoring meth manufacturers, the city of Albuquerque is unveiling statues dedicated to Breaking Bad characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Peloton will stop building treadmills and bikes in-house to reduce costs
Peloton has announced it will completely out-source the production of its bikes and treadmills to Taiwanese manufacturer Rexon. The fitness company currently builds some of its hardware in-house, but says out-sourcing will allow it to reduce costs an ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Rage Against The Machine Roar Back to Life at Explosive Reunion Tour Launch
Near the end of Rage Against the Machine’s first concert in 11 years, frontman Zack de la Rocha walked to the tip of the stage, squinted his eyes shut, and roared out the “fuck you I won’t do as you tell me” climax of “Killing In The Name” as roughly ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
Researchers in Germany have demonstrated quantum entanglement of two atoms separated by 33 km (20.5 miles) of fiber optics. This is a record distance for this kind of communication and marks a breakthrough towards a fast and secure quantum internet.