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3 hours ago+3 3 0New research highlights job growth of small businesses on the App Store
The iOS app economy continued its track record as an engine of economic growth and opportunity in 2021, supporting more than 2.2 million jobs in the US and helping small businesses find more success than ever. The insights come as two new research an ...
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5 hours ago+5 5 0Johnny Depp Calls Kate Moss Who Undercuts Amber Heard's Allegation
Kate Moss took the stand in Depp vs. Heard Wednesday ... and squarely told a radically different story from the one Amber Heard told the jury. Kate and Johnny Depp were a couple in the mid-90s, and Amber had said on the stand ... she was on a stairca ...
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9 days ago+18 18 0Verbal cues of authenticity are linked to positive social and business outcomes, according to new research
People make impressions of others using the limited information available such verbal cues or communication patterns. New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science found that high verbal authenticity is associated with positi ...
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12 days ago+3 3 0'Like an inferno:' US West burning at furious pace so far
Wildfires are on a furious pace early this year — from a California hilltop where mansions with multimillion-dollar Pacific Ocean views were torched to remote New Mexico mountains charred by a month-old monster blaze.
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2 weeks ago+15 15 0Mars just shook more than we have ever seen it shake before
Nasa’s Insight lander has recorded the largest quake ever observed on Mars and any planet other than Earth, a magnitude 5 quake that rumbled the Red Planet on 4 May. While Nasa scientists are still analyzing the data, the results so far were impressi ...
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2 weeks ago+16 16 0The less intelligent are more fertile -- so why aren't humans becoming dumber over time?
A new test of 5.9 million texts spanning years 1850 to 2005 suggests that genetic factors of intelligence have been declining as environmental influences have been improving. In a new study led by Michael A. Woodley of Menie, of the Technische Univer ...
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2 weeks ago+22 22 0How scientists are giving robots humanlike tactile senses
There’s a nightmarish scene in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth in which we are confronted by a sinister humanoid creature called the Pale Man. With no eyes in his monstrous, hairless head, the Pale Man, who resembles an eyeless Voldem ...
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2 weeks ago+9 9 0‘Canaries in the coalmine’: loss of birds signals changing planet
Billions of birds are disappearing because of humanity’s impact on Earth, global review finds
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2 weeks ago+10 10 0‘It’s Very Unusual’: Experts Baffled By Mysterious Disease Infecting Children Globally
Indonesia announced three deaths this week that health officials suspect are linked to a liver disease hospitalizing hundreds of children worldwide.
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2 weeks ago+20 20 0Hyperfast white dwarf stars provide clues for understanding supernovae
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on the scale of thousands of years, giving researchers a way to look for examples of supernovae of this mo ...
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3 weeks ago+23 23 0 x 1Prolonged solitary confinement is common in US maximum-security jails
If the Home Secretary certifies the US request to extradite Julian Assange it will violate the prohibition against torture and set an alarming precedent for publishers and journalists around the world, Amnesty International said today, following the ...
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3 weeks ago+20 20 0Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Twitter on Monday agreed to be acquired by Elon Musk for around $44 billion in cash. The news came just weeks after the tech mogul launched his unsolicited, take-it-or-leave-it offer. State of play: Before he announced he had made an offer for Twitte ...
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3 weeks ago+19 19 0Gene Wilder's life is getting the documentary treatment
It’s been six years since Gene Wilder died, and another thirteen, before that, since he retired from acting, ending a long and storied career with an Emmy-winning guest performance on Will And Grace. (He spent the following years working primarily as ...
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3 weeks ago+12 12 0James Cameron’s ‘Avatar 2’ Debuts Visually Dazzling Footage at CinemaCon, Gets Official Title
“Avatar 2” is real, and it’s here — naysayers be damned. After at least seven delays in the last eight years (the film was originally supposed to open in 2014), director James Cameron is finally ready to show audiences his otherworldly, underwater vi ...
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1 month ago+17 17 0Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Seizes $3 Billion in BTC; pays off government debt
The Justice Department confiscated funds in 2020 from a hacker who exploited Silk Road before closing it and transferred BTC to a private wallet in 2013 – five years after Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole Was. The 69,370 BTC confiscated ...
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1 month ago+4 4 0Having an unsupportive romantic partner is associated with neurophysiological changes in error processing
Being subjected to unsupportive behaviors from a romantic partner appears to influence how the brain processes mistakes, according to new research published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology. The findings indicate that unsupportive beh ...
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1 month ago+10 10 0Students with Dark Triad traits cheat don’t feel responsible for their own learning, making them more likely to cheat
Plagiarism and cheating are persistent problems in higher education, note the authors of a new paper in Personality and Individual Differences. Better ways of combatting academic misconduct are clearly needed. And in their paper, Guy J. Curtis at the ...
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1 month ago+15 15 0The 36 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time
Our fascination with what the future might look like has made science-fiction a staple of cinema since the silent era. Georges Méliès’s Trip To The Moon was a landmark moment in film way back in 1902, and filmmakers have been exploring stories of how ...
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1 month ago+11 11 0Jennifer Lopez was taking a bubble bath when Ben Affleck proposed
Jennifer Lopez was soaking in a bubble bath when Ben Affleck proposed. She revealed last week that the two are now engaged, but says the way it went down was pretty quiet and private. The “Marry Me” star said in her newsletter that it was a dream com ...
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1 month ago+15 15 0Brain regions linked to empathy bigger in monkeys with more friends
Adult rhesus macaques with bigger social circles have enlarged brain regions associated with social decision-making and bonding, a study has found.