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3 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
How Fast Are You Aging?
Five decades ago, Duke psychologists Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi began working with a long-term study of 1,000 people in New Zealand to get a better perspective on how childhood factors may have led to adolescent behaviors, such as risk-taking.
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4 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Elon Musk lost $10 billion in net worth in a single day after sexual misconduct claims emerged
Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost $10 billion in just a single day after claims of sexual misconduct against him emerged. He was worth about $212 billion on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. After news of the allegations broke on Thursday night, his wealth fell to around $201 billion, the index showed.
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8 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Google 'private browsing' mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a "private browsing" mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc(GOOGL.O) unit.
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11 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
New Zealand to help pay for cleaner cars to reduce emissions
New Zealand’s government said Monday it will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Netflix could launch streaming with ads even sooner than we expected
It has been less than a month since Netflix announced slowing revenue growth and its first subscriber drop in over a decade, and now The New York Times reports that it’s accelerating the schedule on initiatives to turn those things around.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
MacBook Pro Shipments Still 'Seriously Delayed' By China Lockdowns
Apple supplier Quanta's ability to manufacture MacBook Pro models at its Shanghai site remains seriously hampered despite the easing of lockdowns and resumption of production, reports DigiTimes. According to the Taiwan-based supply chain website, Quanta has so far only been able to restore around 30% production capacity at its Shanghai site since lockdowns ended last month.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Scientists say they've figured out how to turn moon soil into spaceship fuel and oxygen
Lunar soil, according to a team of Nanjing University experts, might be utilized to support long-term human living on the Moon since it contains alien survival elements like as oxygen and fuel.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Scientists are Experimenting with New Ways to Design Nanoparticles for Medicine Treatments
When you hear the word “nanomedicine,” it might call to mind scenarios like those in the 1966 movie “Fantastic Voyage.” The film portrays a medical team shrunken down to ride a microscopic robotic ship through a man’s body to clear a blood clot in his brain.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Channel 4 Hits Back at U.K. Government With New $1.25 Billion Plan to Stay Independent
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, which is facing the threat of being privatized by Boris Johnson’s government, has revealed an unsuccessful counter-proposal to remain independent. A key element of the proposal, which is titled “4: The Next Episode,” is creating an intellectual property joint venture (JV) proposition with an external investor as majority shareholder, which would see a significant private capital investment into Channel 4 for the first time.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift.
Oleg Tinkov spoke out against his country’s war in Ukraine. Now he is in hiding. In an exclusive interview he said, “I don’t believe in Russia’s future’’ under Vladimir Putin.
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1 month agoExpression wildcard
Life Extension - This Is How You Cheat Death
Doesn’t the mention of death make you cringe? It’s quite unsettling to know that our cells are biologically programmed to age, wither and die. Has human life meant to be that short of around 100 years? It seems like a tragedy. Apparently, we are living at the servitude of nature and the nature has punished...
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Apple Magic Keyboard sees first discount in over a year at $88.50, rare drops on Touch ID models
Amazon is now offering the Apple Magic Keyboard for $88.50 shipped. Normally fetching $99, this is the first discount in over a year with today’s offer beating that previous mention by $2 in order to mark the best price since 2020. Apple’s Magic Keyboard elevates your desktop workstation with a metal build that complements the rest of your devices.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
‘Absolutely staggering’: the true story behind TV’s buzziest new show
We Own This City, the anticipated new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, cracks open the story of a corrupt Baltimore police unit fallen from grace. He was praised as a positive role model. He enjoyed the admiration and respect of his superiors and was given special privileges. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as “a bulwark against chaos”.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
A combination of three simple treatments may reduce invasive cancer risk by 61% among adults aged 70+
A new study published in Frontiers in Aging found that a combination of high-dose vitamin D, omega-3s, and a simple home strength exercise program (SHEP) showed a cumulative reduction by 61% in cancer risk in healthy adults aged 70 or older. It is the first study to test the combined benefit of three affordable public health interventions for the prevention of invasive cancers. Following future studies, the results may impact the future of cancer prevention in older adults.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
‘Outer Range’ Is the Trippy ‘Yellowstone’ You Didn’t Know You Needed
With all the success that Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone—and its ever-expanding universe, which now includes a spinoff prequel called 1883—has had, it was inevitable that other major producers of television were going to make an attempt to capture that same fire and excitement. And if you want to picture an alternate universe version of the modern American West ranching landscape of Yellowstone, also starring a movie star in Josh Brolin, but with some weird, trippy, Lost-esque, Alex Garl...
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Netflix will charge more if you share your account
In light of Netflix’s concerning subscriber losses, the company announced today during its first-quarter earnings call that it will expand its test that charges members a higher price if they’re engaged in account sharing with people outside their household. The company first began testing the feature in March in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, but now says it plans to implement the solution in global markets, including the U.S., in around a year’s time.