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1 year ago+19 19 0Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing heart-wrenching 'badge posts' on social media
Some laid-off Meta staff are using social media to maintain a tradition of revealing their next steps after losing access to the internal systems.
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1 year ago+27 27 0 x 1Think twice before pouring your "heart and soul" into a corporate job
In a call with workers at Meta on Wednesday, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees, “You’ve really put your heart and soul into this place,” before laying off roughly 11,000 people. Meta is joined by a number of other tech companies doing ma ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumor regression in mice, report investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Kaspersky to kill its VPN service in Russia next week
Kaspersky is stopping the operation and sales of its VPN product, Kaspersky Secure Connection, in the Russian Federation, with the free version to be suspended as early as November 15, 2022. As the Moscow-based company informed on its Russian blog ea ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Airbnb is adding cleaning fees to a new 'total price' of bookings in search results after people complained listings were misleading
Airbnb's CEO said that he's heard guests "loud and clear" that pricing on the platform isn't transparent and "checkout tasks are a pain."
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1 year ago+25 25 0How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole
When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how.
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1UK police fail to use facial recognition ethically and legally, study finds
Use of live facial recognition (LFR) by UK police forces "fail[s] to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards," according to a study from the University of Cambridge. After analyzing LFR use by the Metropolitan (Met) and South Wales pol ...
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1 year ago+29 29 0 x 1Apple Adds Nintendo Online Classic Controller Support to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
It seems that Apple slipped a little extra controller support into yesterday’s updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS: Nintendo Online classic controller support. Nintendo sells wireless versions of its classic NES, SNES, and Nintendo 64 controllers ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0New research provides evidence that the pandemic changed our personalities
For many of us, some personality traits stay the same throughout our lives while others change only gradually. However, evidence shows that significant events in our personal lives which induce severe stress or trauma can be associated with more rapi ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0‘House Of The Dragon’ Overtakes ‘Game Of Thrones’ To Become Most Viewed HBO Title In Europe, Claims Streamer
House of the Dragon has smashed HBO’s SVoD ratings records in Europe, Warner Bros Discovery has claimed. The fantasy drama’s debut run has surpassed season eight of progenitor Game of Thrones to become the most-viewed title on HBO’s subscription stre ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Discovery could dramatically narrow search for space creatures
An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most common type of star in the universe — appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets.
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1 year ago+23 23 0Apple stock ticks down on report of cut to iPhone 14 Plus production
Shares of Apple dipped Tuesday on a report that the company has asked one supplier to stop producing a component for the iPhone 14 Plus while the company re-evaluates demand. One of Apple's manufacturers in China has been instructed to immediate ...
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1 year ago+9 9 0New window into brain’s computational function
The function of the human brain is exceptional, driving all aspects of our thoughts and creativity. Yet the part of the human brain – the neocortex – responsible for such cognitive functions has a similar overall structure to other mammals.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Webb Telescope Shows the Pillars of Creation Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
The famous clouds of gas and dust are dazzling in the state-of-the-art instrument’s eye.
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1 year ago+22 22 0 x 1A 'game-changer' for millions of Americans: You can now buy hearing aids over the counter
Pete Couste said it was his wife who first noticed that he was turning up the TV louder than she liked. “I couldn’t hear the words in movies as much anymore,” admitted Couste, who lives just outside Washington, DC. Watching TV isn’t Couste’s only pro ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0National record for heaviest pumpkin crushed at annual Half Moon Bay weigh-off
A Minnesota grower squashed a national record for growing the largest pumpkin at the "Super Bowl of Weigh-Offs," otherwise known as the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Sky orders step-parent comedy from Schitt's Creek writer Monica Heisey
Sky has ordered a six-part comedy drama about step-parenting from Schitt's Creek writer Monica Heisey, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Predominantly shooting in London, Smothered is made by Roughcut (Stath Lets Flats, Big Boys) and ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Instagram Restricts Kanye West’s Account and Deletes Content for Violating Policies
The rapper recently posted an exchange to his Instagram account that was criticized as anti-Semitic.
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1 year ago+14 14 0Trump could 'throw everyone under the bus', Mary Trump predicts
The former president's niece said turning on people "won't do his cause any good."
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1 year ago+14 14 0Something’s in the air: It’s nanoplastic pollution
The tiny bits of plastic that wear off bottles, plastic bags, automotive parts and even cosmetics get into the soil and the water supply. They disrupt chemical cycles, throw off ecosystem health and pollute environments both marine and terrestrial.