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3 days agoCurrent Event tukka
Cillian Murphy Receives First BAFTA TV Award Nomination For ‘Peaky Blinders’
Cillian Murphy’s final turn as Tommy Shelby in the Peaky Blinders television series has earned him his first BAFTA TV Awards nomination. The actor will compete in the Leading Actor category, receiving recognition for six seasons of work in BBC1’s hit gangster drama. His only previous nomination from BAFTA was for the Rising Star prize at the 2007 Film Awards.
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5 days agoCurrent Event tukka
Amazon will lay off another 9,000 employees in the coming weeks
Amazon may not be done widening the scope of its layoffs. Amazon chief Andy Jassy has sent a memo to staff indicating the company will cut another 9,000 jobs in the "next few weeks." The reductions will primarily affect Twitch, advertising and cloud computing divisions like Amazon Web Services, according to the message. The CEO also warns that the final cuts aren't likely to be finalized until mid-to-late April, and that Amazon won't inform affected workers until that point.
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9 days agoCurrent Event tukka
NASA unveils new spacesuit with updated tech for new moon missions
On Wednesday morning, an engineer with private space company Axiom walked out onto a stage at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, smiling from behind a domed helmet and visor. He was demonstrating a prototype of a new spacesuit, intended for use in the Artemis III mission slated for 2025, which will send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than half a century.
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13 days agoExpression tukka
Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the enshittification of the internet | John Naughton
There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event tukka
Students ate less meat in the three years after hearing talk on its negative environmental impacts
A trio of climate scientists from Occidental College, Claremont Graduate University and the University of California, respectively, has found that after a 50-minute talk outlining the negative environmental impacts of raising and consuming meat, students ate on average 9% less meat over the following three years. In their paper published in the journal Nature Food, Andrew Jalil, Joshua Tasoff and Arturo Vargas Bustamante describe analyzing the eating habits of student volunteers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
An AI-generated image has won a photo contest, and it's just the beginning
It's the golden hour on a beach somewhere, and sun-kissed waves are crashing around two surfers as they venture into the ocean. The scene is captured in a captivating aerial photo taken with a drone by 'Jane Eykes', and the image, a cropped version of which you can see above, won a photography contest hosted by Australian photo retailer digiDirect.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Black Dahlia
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
NASA's "evolved structures" radically reduce weight – and waiting
Evolution has shaped the load-bearing skeletons of animals over aeons with incredible precision. Now, an accelerated simulation of the evolution process is helping NASA create stronger, lighter parts for its spacecraft projects – in record time.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Jennifer Lawrence Sells Tribeca Condo for $9.8M
Jennifer Lawrence is the latest celebrity to bid farewell to 443 Greenwich Street. The A-list actress sold her apartment in the star-studded, “paparazzi-proof” Tribeca building last month for $9.75 million, according to property records, which show that the unit was bought by three shell companies registered in Las Vegas.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Tech Giants Are Building a Dystopia of Desperate Workers and Social Isolation
Tech companies like Amazon and Uber are creating a society divided between the served and their servants, where the “friction” of in-person interaction is eliminated. That friction is the stuff of social connection — a world without it is nightmarish.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Holes in sun's atmosphere can help predict space weather on Earth
Coronal holes are cooler, darker regions in the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, from which solar wind streams into space at high speed. A new study has now found that the magnetic properties of these holes can be used to forecast the severity of geomagnetic storms that hit Earth.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Brain imaging study links socioeconomic disparities in children's sleep to reduced cortical thickness
A new study has found that children from disadvantaged families tend to sleep less, and that this lack of sleep is linked to reduced cortical thickness in areas related to language, self-control, and movement. Cortical thickness refers to the measurement of the thickness of the cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain. It is often used as an indicator of brain development and maturation, and can be measured using imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Republican demands "stronger laws" to stop women from leaving state to get abortions
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is expressing interest in supporting a piece of legislation that would prohibit women from leaving the state to receive abortion treatment. During a recent appearance on "The Pat Miller Show," Banks floated desire for stricter federal regulations to further restrict access to abortion care.
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2 months agoCurrent Event tukka
Supercomputer Says 27% of Life on Earth Will Be Dead by the End of This Century
No matter how scientists queued up one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, the results remained the same: Mass extinction of plants and animals isn’t slowing down. It’s only growing. A new study from a European Commission scientist and a professor from Australia modeled climate and land use changes and their impact on plant and animal species. The results are bleak: the supercomputer says 10 percent of all plant and animal species will disappear by 2050, and 27 percent of vertebrate ...