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2 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
A new Knights of the Old Republic is reportedly in development ‘outside of EA’
That’s according to multiple sources including credited Star Wars insider Bespin Bulletin, which states in a recent podcast that a new instalment in the fan-favourite RPG series is indeed in development at an unnamed game developer.
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2 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Netflix's CEO says it has to catch up with Disney+ on animated family hits like 'Soul'
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings had positive things to say about Disney's new competing streaming service, and said it's encouraging his company to continually improve through new, more diverse, content.
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3 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
House lawmakers reintroduce bipartisan bill to weed out foreign disinformation on social media
Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.) on Friday reintroduced legislation intended to cut down on foreign disinformation and propaganda spread on social media, in particular following a spike in the content after the presidential election and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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4 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Massive Apple VR leak reveals headset price, release window
A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's first VR headset will cost well over $900 and have a chip faster than the M1 Mac.
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5 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Boy who bonded with Biden over his stutter writes book
They bonded nearly a year ago after Joe Biden bent down to greet Brayden Harrington, a 13-year-old boy who stutters, at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “Don’t let it define you,” Mr Biden said, squeezing Brayden’s shoulder and looking him in the eye. “You are smart as hell.”
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5 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
“I Think My Gmail Has Crashed”: The Teacher Who Made Bernie Sanders’ Mittens on Watching Them Go Viral
Joe Biden’s inauguration doubled as a promenade of style, featuring thousand-dollar Dior Air Jordan 1s, monochromatic jewel-toned looks, and a skirt so wide it enforced its own sartorial social distancing. But the fashion icon who stole the show was, of all people, Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose casual ’fit became instant meme fodder, with special attention paid to his extremely cozy-looking mittens.
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6 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
Parler videos of Capitol attack assembled into timeline
Over 500 videos taken as rioters stormed the Capitol building have been arranged in chronological order and can be scrolled through by users. ProPublica published the interactive timeline using videos sourced from Parler, the social network favoured by supporters of the president, which was also gathering users’ GPS data.
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7 days agoCurrent Event wildcard
U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’
The finding by the Trump administration is the strongest denunciation by any government of China’s actions and follows a Biden campaign statement with the same declaration.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
SpaceX wins $150 million contract to launch Space Development Agency satellites
SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon’s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
We Need a Paris Agreement for Plastics
My entry into the ocean plastics crisis began when our organization, SoulBuffalo, ran the first ever activist-to-industry ocean plastics summit in May of 2019. To imagine the summit, picture 165 senior leaders from Coca-Cola, Dow, Greenpeace, the American Chemistry Council, the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and representatives of some of the world’s 15 million informal waste pickers all stuck on a boat together in the middle of the Atlantic Garbage Patch for four days.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcard
Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Phil, an IT worker in the Midlands, has worked a four day week for two years. "I fit my 36 hours into those days, which works very well," he said. "The biggest bonus is being able to schedule personal chores - those 'must be done on a week-day jobs' for the Friday, so I don't have to waste precious holiday on them."
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Researchers map DNA from ice-age wolves in bid to trace origin of dogs
A dog laid to rest with care some 7,000 years ago, the now-fossilized bones adorned with a necklace of elk teeth. Near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the bodies of dogs were given proper burials by the humans who loved them.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
The Relief Bill’s Biggest Blind Spot
Millions will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities next month. But the latest aid package did too little to address housing.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Jim Carrey Resigns From Joe Biden Duties at ‘Saturday Night Live’
The nation has a president-elect. But who will play him on “Saturday Night Live” as he prepares to be sworn into office? The question is open anew after actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter Saturday to tell fans he was leaving behind the impression of Joe Biden he has offered over the course of the first six episodes of the show’s 46th season. Carrey has not appeared in sketches in “SNL’s” last two broadcasts, nor has Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed President Donald Trump for the past f...
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
We Need Five Days’ Pay for Four Days’ Work
Working time reduction has always been used as a way of distributing available work and reducing unemployment. In our era of crisis, we need to fight for a four-day week.
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1 month agoAnalysis wildcard
New Research Bolsters Claim That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead
A re-analysis of the skeleton of a 2-year-old Neanderthal is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Eye-popping wage report charts 40 years of worsening income inequality as the top 1% thrive
Wage inequality is getting worse, according to new data from the Social Security Administration, which shows a steady trickle-up effect in worker income during every period for the last four decades. That’s happening as wages for the bottom 90% of earners are being “continuously redistributed upward” to the top 10% and often even further to the top 1% and 0.1%, reports the Economic Policy Institute, which analyzed the data. Since the year 1979, while wages for the bottom 90% saw a modest g...
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
Internal Sony Docs Explain How "Activities" Became a Cornerstone for PS5
Video game companies like Sony and Microsoft spend years planning their next-generation machines. The moment one machine is out the door, they're sketching out what the next one will look like, even if it won't ship for another decade. Sony's big plans for PlayStation 5 were in motion long before the hardware showed up at people's doors, and that included its ambitious ideas for the PS5 interface, such as the "activities" that I wrote about last week, where people c...
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2 months agoExpression wildcard
How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
Exploring the comment-section emotion of music as served by a mysterious algorithm.