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8 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Space drugs factory denied reentry to Earth
The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work
No detectors "reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Spain’s Top Soccer Official Resigns Over Unwanted World Cup Kiss
Pressure had been building on Luis Rubiales, with prosecutors opening an investigation, his soccer federation calling for him to step down and FIFA suspending him.
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1 month agoExpression wildcard
‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable
There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.
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1 month agoUnspecified wildcard
Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of its phone hacking technology secret.
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1 month agoUnspecified wildcard
Doctor Who missing episodes are "out there", says TV archive boss
Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Disney Plus Takes Down $53 Million Original Movie 'Crater' Just 48 Days After Its Premiere
Looking to further trim EBITDA losses on video streaming in its current fiscal third quarter, Disney said in an SEC filing a month ago that it expects to write down as much as $400 million as it removes more original movies and TV shows from Disney Plus and Hulu. And making one of its more conspicuous trims to date, the conglomerate just took down a teen-targeted original movie from Disney Plus that cost a reported $53.4 million to produce and was only on the platform for 48 days.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement. The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available ...
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Seven Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sophisticated space observatory ever built, has been sending back images and data for almost a full year now—and in that time it has delivered a treasure trove of information about everything from stars and planetary systems in our own galactic neighborhood to distant galaxies that formed when the universe was a tiny fraction of its current age.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Apple is now the first publicly traded company to close above a $3 trillion market value
Apple is the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value. The company’s shares climbed about 2.31% on Friday to a new high. The tech giant first reached a $3 trillion market cap back in January 2022, but failed to close at that level.
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
CRISPR’d plant is resistant to the “cancer of rice”
Thanks to CRISPR, farmers may finally have a good defense against rice blast, a fungal disease so devastating, it’s known as the “cancer of rice.”
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
New satellite SOS feature on iPhone 14 saves Tujunga hiker without cell service
A woman who suffered a broken leg while hiking in Tujunga was able to call 911 despite not having cell phone service due to a new and innovative feature on the iPhone 14. Juana Reyes was hiking with friends in a remote part of Trail Canyon Falls in the Angelos National Forest when the trail collapsed underneath her.
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Meta is setting up a taskforce after Instagram was found to guide users to child-sex context
Meta has set up a taskforce to counter child exploitation after a news report said Instagram helped promote networks of accounts trading child-sex content. The photo and video sharing app owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta allowed pedophiles to operate accounts that were openly sharing sexual content of minors, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Twitch apologises as streamers leave after adverts row
Twitch has apologised, after a backlash over new advertising rules. The Amazon-owned livestreaming service had said it would restrict the size and type of ads used by streamers who create content on Twitch. This would have substantially reduced the ways in which streamers generate income on the platform.
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
City of Buffalo celebrates Pride with annual parade, festival
Thousands were in attendance for the annual parade in Elmwood and festival at Canalside.
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3 months agoAnalysis wildcard
Man spends 93 days at the bottom of the Atlantic - now he's 10 years younger
Retired naval officer Joseph Dituri has spent more than three months living inside a 100sqft pod in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to research the effects of pressurised environements on the human body
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4 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
New DNA testing technology shows majority of wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids
Wild dingo populations have less dog lineage, with a significantly greater proportion of pure dingoes than previously thought, according to new research, challenging the view that pure dingoes are on the decline due to crossbreeding. The findings, published in Molecular Ecology, suggest previous studies significantly overestimated the prevalence of dingo-dog mixes in the wild and that lethal methods to control ‘wild dogs’ target pure dingoes.