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3 days agoCurrent Event wildcat
45 years old Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18 again
Bryan Johnson's drive to reduce his biological age is much like a full-time job. He does look like he will stop till he reaches the biological age of 18.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wildcat
A colossal 18 MW wind turbine is about to debut in China
A Chinese manufacturer is on the brink of launching what will be the largest offshore wind turbine when it's complete.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcat
Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022
This was not a great year for Big Tech. In 2022, the economy slumped, stocks fell, inflation skyrocketed, and belts tightened. Silicon Valley was one of the hardest-hit places, partly because some of its companies had experienced such explosive and sustained growth for so long that it almost didn’t seem possible for that growth to stop or even slow down. And yet, here we are.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcat
Somebody invented luggage with legs so that they can turn into tables
In the movies, there is a frequent cliché line that goes, “It’s so crazy it just might work.” Props luggage fits that criteria. At the most simple of descriptors, it’s carry-on luggage that turns into a table. The catchphrase is it’s the first luggage with legs.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcat
NASA's Orion spacecraft offers last breathtaking views of the moon as it begins journey home
NASA's Orion spacecraft zoomed behind the moon once more, providing stunning views again of Earth and our planetary neighbor, before firing up its engines Monday to set it on course for Earth in the final stages of the Artemis 1 mission.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcat
A Diamond "Blanket" Can Cool the Transistors Needed for 6G
High-power radio-frequency electronics are a hot commodity, both figuratively and literally. The transistors needed to amplify 5G and future 6G signals are struggling to handle the thermal load, causing a bottleneck in development. Engineers in the United States and England have teamed up to demonstrate a promising solution—swaddling individual transistors in a blanket of thermally conductive diamond to keep them cool.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Orion flies far beyond the Moon, returns an instantly iconic photo
"It’s really hard to articulate what the feeling is."
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Amazon workers strike in the US and 30 other countries on Black Friday in global 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign
Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season. For Amazon, it's already off to a rocky start. Today, Amazon workers and activists are protesting to secure better working conditions across the globe. The campaign is led by Make Amazon Pay, a coalition of 70 trade unions and organizations including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Alec Baldwin files suit over 'Rust' shooting, seeks to 'clear his name'
The actor filed a cross-complaint Friday in a lawsuit that was originally brought against him last year. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins will killed in the 2021 incident.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Americans take a stand for decency as the GOP red wave turns to dust, surprising all of us
Let’s cut to the chase: The ebullient Republicans who marched into Tuesday’s midterm elections smugly confident they would surf to power on a mighty, nation-sweeping red wave were left high and dry. Why? I’d argue it’s a testament to Americans’ distaste for indecency.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Jennifer Aniston Says ‘There Are No More Movie Stars’ and Hates Social Media: ‘It’s Torture for Me’
Jennifer Aniston briefly lamented on Hollywood’s fading glamour during a recent Allure magazine cover story. The writer of the piece read a text aloud to Aniston in which a friend wrote the following about the “Friends” superstar: “No one’s ever going to be famous the way she is. That kind of mass-fame phenomenon burning so bright for so long, it’s just not achievable today. She’s like a silent-film star among a generation of TikTok dipshits.”
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Apple Announces More Ads Coming to App Store Starting Next Week
In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store's main Today tab and in a "You Might Also Like" section at the bottom of individual app listings starting Tuesday, October 25, in all countries except China. All ads in the App Store have a blue background and an "Ad" icon.
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3 months agoCurrent Event wildcat
Why are EU countries leaving the Energy Charter Treaty?
The Netherlands has been the last EU country to announce that it would quit the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over climate concerns — after Poland and Spain. The announcement comes after attempts to modernise the treaty, in a bid to make it compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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3 months agoAnalysis wildcat
How did the moon form? A supercomputer may have just found the answer
The scientists need lunar samples from future Artemis missions to confirm their hypothesis.
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4 months agoAnalysis wildcat
Extinct wood eating cockroach rediscovered after 80 years
The Lord Howe Island Wood-feeding cockroach – long thought to be extinct on the main island – has been rediscovered at the foot of a single Banyan tree