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22 hours agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
'The Last of Us' just made an early claim to one of the best TV episodes of 2023
If the hoopla surrounding “The Last of Us” has felt at all excessive through the first two episodes, the third chapter of the HBO series lives up to the weight of all the hype, laying early claim to what will almost inevitably be discussed as one of the best hours of television in 2023.
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3 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
The Disney empire was built on 100 years of near implosions
The Walt Disney Company’s massive modern empire is a far cry from the small animation studio Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded in 1923. One hundred years ago, the two brothers took a train from their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, to Los Angeles, where they worked out of their uncle’s garage before purchasing a tiny studio space on Kingswell Avenue.
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3 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit
The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues
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9 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Turning food waste into biodegradable bioplastics
The outcome of this three-year project will be a process that delivers marketable bioplastic products made from food waste. The reusability of food waste for bio-based plastic production could help reduce landfill quantity and waste management costs, offset petroleum-based plastic production and pollution, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
PSA: HomePod stereo pairs won’t work between first and second-gen speakers
Apple launched a new full-size HomePod today, two years after the original model was discontinued and not replaced. If you’re planning to buy a new HomePod, there’s one thing to keep in mind: creating a stereo pair requires two of the same HomePod models. Here’s what that means.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
The Wild West days of Crypto are coming to an end
When bitcoin was created back in 2009, no one really paid any attention to it. It was considered a pet project of a few cypher punks on the internet. Fast forward to present times and it has become a giant that has become a commonplace name and birthed an entire industry, comprising thousands of coins and projects that came from it. Cryptocurrency has become so big that at the height of the bull run in 2021 its marketcap was three trilllion dollars.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Hubble Space Telescope spots ghostly light from ancient wayward stars
Stars are typically very "social" things. Thanks to gravity, they're often found bound together in full-blown galaxies like our own Milky Way or much smaller star clusters.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
What Is Direct Air Capture And Why Should We Pay Attention?
Enhanced tax credits through the IRA is expected to give carbon capture projects a boost; the IRA offers tax credits of up to $180 per metric ton, up from the $50 per metric ton that was previously offered.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
McDonald’s Launches Vegan Double McPlant at Nearly 1,400 Locations
On January 4, global fast-food chain McDonald’s will roll out a new Double McPlant in all restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The move comes after a successful launch of its original plant-based burger, the McPlant, last year.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Greatest Sports Photos of All Time
A picture is worth a thousand words. But in sports, a picture also can be worth a thousand emotions. From happiness or sadness to awe or disbelief, sports photos have given fans a spectrum of emotions over the years. And every photo strikes a person in a different way. Some of the most famous sports photos have captured the best moments while others grab our attention for their sheer aesthetics.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
‘I’m just blown away’: The Webb Telescope is just getting started
So far it’s been eye candy from heaven: The black vastness of space teeming with enigmatic, unfathomably distant blobs of light. Ghostly portraits of Neptune, Jupiter and other neighbours we thought we knew. Nebulas and galaxies made visible by the penetrating infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Researchers explore the relationship between childhood trauma, gray matter, and social anhedonia
A new study published in Brain Imaging and Behavior searches for the potential relationship between childhood trauma, social anhedonia, and brain gray matter volume. The research found individuals with moderate to severe childhood trauma experienced higher levels of social anhedonia and exhibited differences in gray matter.
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1 month agoAnalysis wetwilly87
Researchers discover secret of building a better wildlife overpass
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to cross.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Welcome to the first ever McDonald's where you're served by robots—in Texas
McDonald's has begun testing its first-ever robot restaurant in Texas, sparking debate and intrigue in equal measure. In Fort Worth, Texas, the branch is fully automated and requires no human contact to order and pick up your favorite meal.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Millie Bobby Brown called out by intimacy coordinator: "Consent is mandatory"
Millie Bobby Brown has been criticised by an intimacy coordinator for her behaviour on Enola Holmes 2. Brown had discussed a scene from the Netflix sequel on the streamer’s TikTok account, recalling a moment she kissed her co-star Louis Partridge.