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3 days agoCurrent Event timex
The great junk transfer is coming. A look at the burden (and big business) of decluttering as Canadians inherit piles of their parents’ stuff
Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age
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3 days agoCurrent Event timex
The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough
The same court that appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to protect innocents before they are born seems to lose interest when it comes to innocents later in life.
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3 days agoCurrent Event timex
Street View turns 15 with a new camera and fresh features
Celebrating 15 years of Street View with new product and feature updates.
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8 days agoCurrent Event timex
Canada to ban China's Huawei Technologies from 5G networks: Source
Senior government officials say the Liberals have decided to ban Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from Canada’s next-generation networks.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis timex
Just a Week-Long Break From Social Media Can Reduce Anxiety, Depression: Study
"Scrolling social media is so ubiquitous that [we] do it almost without thinking from the moment we wake up to when we close our eyes at night."
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2 weeks agoReview timex
The best camera phones in 2022
We've tested all the best camera phones — these are the ones that rise to the top
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
EU citizens could now claim damages over harmful air pollution levels
Poorer communities - who live and work in highly polluted areas - particularly need judicial protection.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Fred Savage Fired From Directing and Producing ‘The Wonder Years’ After Inappropriate Conduct Investigation
Fred Savage, who serves as a director and executive producer on ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” has been fired due to the findings of an investigation about his conduct on set. Multiple employees complained about Savage’s behavior while working on “The Wonder Years,” a reboot of the ’80s-’90s series of the same name that starred Savage as Kevin Arnold. The nature of the complaints remains unclear. However, a spokesperson for Disney-owned 20th Television confirmed that allegations were ...
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3 weeks agoExpression timex
Inside Young Rock's WWF Episode and Those Wrestling Cameos
Hiram Garcia and Brian Gewirtz talk about bringing Dwayne Johnson's first WWF match to life in the NBC series Young Rock.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
‘Austin Powers’ stars look back at the ‘outrageous’ film for its 25th anniversary
Mike Myers was already a comedy hero to a generation before "Austin Powers" unleashed another level of his genius.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis timex
How One Upstate New York Food Court Is Changing Hundreds of Lives
At West Side Bazaar in Buffalo, immigrants and refugees find a home for their food businesses.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Travis Scott Astroworld Tragedy Documentary Set for Release Despite Lawyers’ Concerns
The documentary, opening in 11 Texas cities including Austin, Dallas and Houston, includes interviews with several people who survived the crowd surge. The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a documentary set for release Friday.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
A shocking surprise: half of Europe's population suffers from digital illiteracy
New data showed that more than half of people in the European Union had at least basic digital skills in 2021. According to Eurostat, the "Statistical Office of the European Union", the Netherlands, Finland and Ireland scored the highest in eliminating "digital illiteracy", while the share of digital illiteracy was higher. Romania, Bulgaria and Poland least.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
A Library's Mysterious Trove of Wax Cylinders Will Soon Break Its Century-Long Silence
Boring chatter. Silly vaudeville acts. Bygone operas. These are just a few of the kinds of sounds that could be buried in a trove of wax cylinder recordings that no one has listened to in 100 years or more. Now, after a century of silence, the rarely-heard recordings will finally become audible—and available to the public. As NPR‘s Jennifer Vanasco reports, the library has acquired a new machine to digitize the priceless sounds.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Attention economy slowdown
After two years of unprecedented growth in social media and streaming, a post-pandemic reality is beginning to set in. Why it matters: Huge revenue gains during COVID inspired media and tech titans to take big bets. As growth stalls, Wall Street wants them to pivot from promise to profit.
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1 month agoExpression timex
How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life
In “Read Until You Understand,” Farah Jasmine Griffin explores how books have served as instruction manuals to guide her through difficulty and triumph.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Steven Donziger Walks Free After 993 Days of 'Completely Unjust' Detention
"He should have never been detained for even one day."
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Drought prompts Nebraska to divert water from river it shares with Colorado
With many Western states in severe drought and vying for their share of a diminishing amount of water, Nebraska is taking a new tact by trying to divert water from a river it shares with Colorado. The Nebraska Legislature this week approved construction of a $53 million canal in Colorado that would solidify its share of water from the South Platte River that flows through both states.