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Cruz Roasted For Tweet That Appears To Reveal His Ignorance About The Paris Climate Agreement
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) mocked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) early Thursday for wrongly suggesting that a multinational pact on climate change — the Paris Agreement — was designed to serve “the people of Paris.”
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Owner Spends $300 to Treat His Dog's Limping, Later Finds out He was Imitating Him out of Sympathy
Dogs and humans have a special connection; afterall they are called a man's best friend. Many dogs have specialised training to help the ill or the injured and even non-trained dogs seem to sense whenever their owners are unhappy. However, one particular dog’s sympathy for his owner resulted in a big financial hiccup for his dad.
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6 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Microsoft's Brad Smith says health companies should be off-limits from cyberwarfare
Amid escalating cyberattacks from across the globe, Microsoft president says companies need to share data about online threats.
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Cyberpunk 2077 staff knew how bad the bugs were before launch, confirms report
No surprise here: CD Projekt employees reject the idea that they didn't know about Cyberpunk's issues before release.
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7 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash
Facebook-owned WhatsApp said they would delay the rollout of a change to its data sharing practice and work to "clear up misinformation" around its privacy policy.
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7 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases
The analysis comes as Congress wants to know how much white supremacy has penetrated the military.
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7 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Google's burying of news in a pandemic 'grossly irresponsible', experts say
Google says burying links to some commercial news sites is an insignificant experiment, but experts argue the tech giant is throwing its weight around in retaliation to being asked to pay news organisations for original content.
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9 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Microsoft Tried to Buy Nintendo, But Got Laughed Out of the Room
Somehow, it’s already been two decades since Microsoft first announced the Xbox, its foray into console gaming. Specifically, the Xbox was unveiled at CES in 2001. To commemorate that launch, Bloomberg has published an in-depth oral history of how the console came to be. It’s a fascinating read, but one particular passage stands out: details on Microsoft’s efforts to secure games for the brand-new console.
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11 days agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
CIA unexpectedly releases all of its documents on UFOs – and you can read them now
The CIA claims this is every document it has collected, but such a claim is impossible to verify
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Nicolas Cage’s History of Swear Words Is a Freakin’ Delight
The Netflix series traces the history of expletives with sensitivity and nuance, but if you just want to hear Cage scream the F-word, it’s got you covered.
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In 'Brutal Blow' to Wildlife and Gift to Big Oil, Trump Finalizes Rollback of Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Just over two weeks before President Donald Trump is set to leave the White House, his U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday finalized a rollback of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act—a law that's been in place since 1918 and which conservation groups credit with holding corporate polluters accountable for harming bird species.
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The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States
Stretching almost 6,000km and crossing 12 states, the Great American Rail-Trail will enable cyclists, hikers and riders to traverse the entire US. The multi-use trail will run from Washington DC in the east to Washington state on the Pacific coast. Launched in May 2019, the route will eventually connect more than 145 existing paths. So far more than 3,200km of it has been completed.
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Major Computing Breakthrough: Copenhagen Researchers Can Now Achieve “Quantum Advantage”
University of Copenhagen researchers have advanced their quantum technology to such a degree that classical computing technology can no longer keep up. They have developed a chip that, with financial backing, could be scaled up and used to build the quantum simulator of the future. Their results are now published in Science Advances.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism
There was no direct connection between the “Central Park Karen” incident in New York City and the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, beyond the coincidence of timing. Time in the pandemic has been elastic and confusing, and reports of the separate incidents did not emerge immediately, but the two events occurred on Monday 25 May, Memorial Day.
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What 'The Great Gatsby' Copyright Expiration Means for Its Legacy
Between the glitzy parties, secret backstories and climactic murder in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, there’s a tiny detail that readers may have missed: right before he gets in a car with antagonist Tom Buchanan—the ride that kicks off the novel’s tragic end—narrator Nick Carraway realizes he’s forgotten his own birthday. It’s a detail that stuck with author Michael Farris Smith when he re-read the novel in his 40s, and sparked a lingering question: What mak...
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1 month agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Toyota unveils new fuel cell car in fresh push on hydrogen technology
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp put its revamped Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car, with 30% greater range, on sale on Wednesday in a fresh push to promote the zero-emission technology amid rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles, including its own.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Watch Trump Walk Out of Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony
Stuck in the denial stage of his electoral grief, Trump can’t even commit to things he likes anymore, like gold medals and ceremonial events.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ubthejudge
Breakthrough in Turning Straw Into Valuable Biochemicals
Many have dreamed of being able to turn straw into gold like the fabled Rumpelstiltskin. While this may not be possible in the literal sense, scientists are using sunlight to turn straw into something more valuable.