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2 years ago+4 4 0NASA 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 ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Users, 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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2 years ago+19 19 0Students 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, stud ...
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2 years ago+33 33 0 x 1An 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 cr ...
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2 years ago+16 16 0Black Dahlia
Thecrime is a site, that delivers crime news that is happening around the world.
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2 years ago+22 22 0NASA'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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2 years ago+11 11 0Jennifer 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 t ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0Tech 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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2 years ago+12 12 0Holes 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 severit ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Brain 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 measure ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0Republican 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 fo ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0Supercomputer 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 profes ...
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2 years ago+25 25 0Apple Card Has Cost Goldman Sachs Over $1 Billion in Losses
Goldman Sachs has lost $3.03 billion in nearly three years on its group of businesses, called Platform Solutions, that houses Apple Card. Bloomberg reports that the credit card made up a significant portion of those losses. In a regulatory filing dis ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Tiny, 'beautiful' endangered turtle hatchlings spotted in the wild for first time in four years
For the first time since surveying for the endangered Australian freshwater turtle species began in 2019, Manning River turtle hatchlings about the size of a 20-cent coin are spotted in the wild.
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2 years ago+35 35 0 x 1DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
DuckDuckGo apps and extensions are now blocking Google Sign-in pop-ups on all its apps and browser extensions, removing what it perceives as an annoyance and a privacy risk for its users.
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2 years ago+22 22 0Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Bill Gates: 'Our grandchildren will grow up in a world that is dramatically worse off' if we don't fix climate change
In a letter published Tuesday on his personal blog, Bill Gates addresses areas he has been focusing on in the past year and what lies ahead.
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2 years ago+12 12 0MacKenzie Scott reveals details of her $14bn in donations to 1,600 non-profits
The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s donations have yielded more than $14bn for about 1,600 non-profits since 2019, according to her new website Yield Giving, which was unveiled on Wednesday night. Scott’s wealth largely comes from her di ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again
On this stretch of the Amazon River, you don't need a fish finder to locate the pirarucu, one of the world's largest freshwater fish. The splashing gives them away. Like the saltwater tarpon, the pirarucu is an air-breathing fish that must ...
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2 years ago+1 1 0As the Arctic warms, beavers are moving in
It began decades ago, with a few hardy pioneers slogging north across the tundra. It’s said that one individual walked so far to get there that he rubbed the skin off the underside of his long, flat tail. Today, his kind have homes and colonies scatt ...