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4 days agoCurrent Event timex
Performer of the Week: Anna Torv
To say Torv made the most of her brief time on The Last of Us would be quite the understatement. In just two episodes, the Fringe vet crafted such a complex, multi-dimensional character that we were genuinely heartbroken when Tess was killed off in Sunday’s tense hour.
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5 days agoCurrent Event timex
If not him, who? Florida man begs for action on sister’s cold case murder
The Walker family murders haunt a victim’s brother, who wants answers before he dies. He points to the ‘In Cold Blood’ killers.
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8 days agoCurrent Event timex
ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
The bot’s performance on the test has “important implications for business school education," wrote Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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9 days agoCurrent Event timex
U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server
The list, which was discovered by a Swiss hacker, contains names and birth dates and over 1 million entries.
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10 days agoCurrent Event timex
Buzz Aldrin marries ‘longtime love’ on 93rd birthday
The Apollo 11 astronaut tied the knot with Anca Faur, who has a doctorate in chemical engineering, in Los Angeles. It is his fourth marriage.
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2 weeks agoExpression timex
Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans
'The Dawn of Everything' fundamentally shifted my view of … everything. I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
50 Cent Says He's Bringing '8 Mile' Series to Television, and Eminem's Involved
Rapper/producer says he’s working on Bel-Air-style modern retelling of Slim Shady’s 2002 semi-autobiographical film
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Damar Hamlin's breathing tube is out amid his 'substantial improvement' after in-game cardiac arrest, Buffalo Bills say | CNN
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s breathing tube was removed overnight and he “continues to progress remarkably in his recovery,” the team said Friday morning, four days after the 24-year-old’s in-game cardiac arrest. “His neurologic function remains intact and he has been able to talk to his family and care team,” it tweeted, citing physicians at the Cincinnati hospital where he’s being treated.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Apple's new audiobook narration service uses AI voices
When you browse Apple Books for your next audiobook, you might come across a few titles with a note that says they were "Narrated by Apple Books." That's because the tech giant has released a catalogue of titles that make use of its new AI-powered digital narration service. The company said the service uses the advanced speech synthesis technology it developed "to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file."
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1 month agoExpression timex
Katie Couric: Barbara Walters Didn’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer
Because of her, generations of working women in journalism heard “yes” a lot more often.
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1 month agoExpression timex
Lisa Simpson and meh!: meet the woman who brings the character to life
Yeardley Smith has been the unmistakable voice of Lisa Simpson for almost 750 episodes. But she also finds time to host a hit true crime podcast with her husband ‘Detective Dan’
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Black hole sun could support bizarre life on orbiting planets
A reversal of thermodynamics could allow life to exist on planets orbiting a black hole, as seen in the film Interstellar.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Shaq — who starred in an FTX commercial in June — says he 'was just a paid spokesperson' for the exchange and doesn't believe in crypto
"I'm all in. Are you?" O'Neal said in the June commercial, during which he said he was partnering with FTX to make "crypto accessible to everyone."
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
John Carmack is leaving Meta
“We built something pretty close to the right thing.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are teaming up to make a next-gen browser benchmark
And making sure there’s a way to test new web tech.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Children with autism show improvement after being treated with cannabidiol-rich medicinal cannabis
A study of children with autism spectrum disorders in Israel reported significant improvements in their social communication abilities after six months of treatment with cannabidiol-rich cannabis oil. Additionally, parents reported a reduction in restrictive and repetitive behaviors of children. Children’s cognitive scores were not changed. The study was published in Translational Psychiatry.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Eight weeks of mindfulness training improves adolescents’ attentional control, study finds
A new study published in the Journal of Adolescence tested an 8-week mindfulness training program among a group of adolescent and adult females. The results revealed that both teens and adults showed improvements in reorienting their attention following mindfulness training.