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1 year ago+18 18 0Human activities have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds since 1700, dividing population into smaller patches
Despite their iconic status and long association with humans, Asian elephants are one of the most endangered large mammals. Believed to number between 45,000 and 50,000 individuals worldwide, they are at risk throughout Asia due to human activities s ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0The first of China's desert solar and wind projects is online, and it's huge
The first of many solar and wind projects in China’s deserts is now online, and it’s capable of powering 1.5 million households. This first phase of this solar and wind project is in the Tengger Desert, which lies on the southern edge of the Gobi Des ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0Used Routers Often Come Loaded With Corporate Secrets
More than half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn’t been wiped, exposing sensitive info like login credentials and customer data.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Apple still in need of Korea-made displays despite production push
US tech giant Apple will likely continue its reliance on Korean-made displays, although it has been making a “sweeping effort” to develop its own components for more direct control over its designs, a report showed Tuesday. According to a report rele ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0The Belief That Trump Is a Messiah Is Rampant and Dangerous
Psychologists have explained quite a lot about Donald Trump’s political invincibility and the unconditional allegiance of his followers. One well-supported explanation is that the president keeps his base loyal by keeping them fearful. Through persis ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Up in smoke: Human activities are fuelling wildfires that burn essential carbon-sequestering peatlands
For centuries, society has scorned bogs, fens and swamps — collectively known as peatlands — treating them as wastelands available to be drained and developed without realizing they’re important buffers against climate-changing carbon emissions.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services — and Half of Those Surveyed Say That’s Too Much
“Subscription fatigue” among consumers is only getting worse, making it even more challenging for direct-to-streaming video providers to retain customers, according to Deloitte’s latest Digital Media Trends survey. As streaming video competition cont ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Your water may be full of "forever chemicals" — and the EPA isn't even testing for many of them
The term "forever chemical" might sound ominous, but there is a good reason for that. Formally known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), so-called forever chemicals are used in hundreds of common products for water-proofing and s ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and “won’t for some time”
In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, has confirmed that the company is not currently training GPT-5, the presumed successor to its AI language model GPT-4, released this March.
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1 year ago+24 24 0You Can Now Order Domino's Pizza Using CarPlay
Domino's Pizza today announced that customers in the U.S. can now place a pickup order using Apple CarPlay. However, you can't freely choose toppings in the car, as the functionality is only available for preselected or recently placed orde ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Photographer Captures Ultra-Rare Red Ring of Light Over Italy
A photographer has captured a rare and mysterious phenomenon called ELVE which appears as a massive red ring of light in the sky and is generated from thunderstorm clouds. Valter Binotto captured the ELVE which appeared for only a few milliseconds ov ...
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1 year ago+26 26 0Having camera on during online classes increases social appearance anxiety, which decreases learning of students
Three experiments on university students and young people showed that having one’s camera turned on during online classes increased social appearance anxiety and decreased learning. Participants who had a chance to view themselves on screen reported ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?
You’ve likely heard that the US government is trying to ban TikTok. Lawmakers want to force TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, and become a fully US-based company; if that doesn’t work (the Chinese government has said it ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC. CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissi ...
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1 year ago+19 19 05 planets will align in a 'planetary parade' next week. Here's how and when to see it.
Though we all have differences, there’s one commonality that has prevailed for all of humanity: we are all floating on a rock, flying through outer space at over a million miles an hour. Thanks to the rapid advancement of technology in the past centu ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Australian shreds record for longest surf session
An Australian man has broken the world record for the longest surfing session - clocking more than 40 hours in the process. At the end, Blake Johnston was carried on the shoulders of friends up Cronulla beach in south Sydney, describing himself as &q ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0Ask a North Korean: How did you learn to use a computer?
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years. Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing ask@nknews.org and including ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0House of the Dragon Is Throwing in 5 More Dragons With Season Two
Bargain hunters everywhere, listen up. HBO just put out a limited-time offer, and you better act fast. For just one order of a second season of House of the Dragon, you can get five extra dragons. You read that right: five all-new dragons! House of t ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Measles exposure at massive religious event in Kentucky spurs CDC alert
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued a health alert for doctors and health officials to be on the lookout for measles cases after a person with a confirmed, contagious case attended a massive religious event in Kentucky las ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Outcry after New York mayor dismisses separation of church and state
Civil rights groups blasted the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, after he said he believed God had made him mayor, appeared to support compulsory prayer in public schools and said: “Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state.”