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1 day agoCurrent Event zobo
Did the Game Gear Bring Down Sega?
Sure, it was vastly inferior to its nemesis Game Boy — not to mention, the size of a brick — but the people who had one loved it, and continue to do so this day. Isn’t that worth a second look?
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2 days agoExpression zobo
Google’s worst hardware flop was introduced 10 years ago today
The Nexus Q’s sci-fi looks couldn’t make up for its deep flaws.
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3 days agoCurrent Event zobo
The drought-parched West wants to take Mississippi River water? Fat chance! Or is it?
Leave it to the Westerners to come up with solutions to their problems by causing problems for others. Las Vegas resident Bill Nichols' June 22 suggestion of diverting Mississippi River water to the Southwest to help solve the Southwest's drought problem is nothing more than a plan to steal, under federal-government oversight at taxpayers' expense, water that belongs to the Midwest.
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3 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge’
Large, simultaneous heat waves are growing more common. China, America, Europe and India have all been stricken recently, and scientists are starting to understand why certain far-flung places get hit at once.
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4 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe v. Wade decision and is deleting internal messages that mention abortion: report
Meta has warned employees not to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on its internal system and deleting messages that do so, The New York Times reported. Managers cited a policy that put "strong guardrails around social, political and sensitive conversations" in the workplace, according to company insiders, the newspaper reported.
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8 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Jury finds Bill Cosby sexually assaulted 16-year-old girl at Playboy Mansion in 1975, awards her $500,000
The trial represents one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out by an appeals court last year.
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8 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Artificial intelligence on the hunt for illegal nuclear material
Millions of shipments of nuclear and other radiological materials are moved in the U.S. every year for good reasons, including health care, power generation, research and manufacturing. But there remains the threat that bad actors in possession of stolen or illegally produced nuclear materials or weapons will try to smuggle them across borders for nefarious purposes.
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9 days agoCurrent Event zobo
VHS copy of 'Back to the Future' sells for $75,000, setting new auction record
A sealed, near-mint condition 1986 VHS tape of "Back to the Future" recently sold at auction for $75,000, setting a new record for a videotape.
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9 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Volvo says it has started testing trucks with fuel cells powered by hydrogen
Hydrogen has a diverse range of applications and can be deployed in a range of industries.
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11 days agoCurrent Event zobo
Julian Assange US Extradition Given Green Light by UK Home Secretary
The WikiLeaks founder is one step closer to being extradited on espionage charges.
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11 days agoCurrent Event zobo
No petrol, no cars: Cubans turn to electric transport
There is a new sight on the streets of Havana: increasing numbers of electric vehicles whizzing among the old American cars so emblematic of the Cuban capital.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
The Sexist Pseudoscience at the Heart of Biology
FOR YEARS, STUDYING zoology made me feel like a sad misfit. Not because I loved spiders, enjoyed cutting up dead things I’d found by the side of the road, or would gladly root around in animal feces for clues as to what their owner had eaten. No, the source of my disquiet was my sex. Being female meant just one thing: I was a loser.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
Australia Beaches See Plastic Pollution Drop by 30% in 6 Years
Plastic waste across Australia’s beaches and coastlines has declined by a third over the past six years as a result of a wide range of local initiatives to reduce litter, according to research by Australia’s science agency.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
Scientists find ‘long-extinct’ giant tortoise alive in the Galápagos
Believed to be extinct for more than a century, a rare species of giant tortoise is in fact still alive. Scientists assumed that the chelonoidis phantasticus had died out more than a century ago. The species is better known as the ‘fantastic giant tortoise’ and is native to the Galápagos Fernandina island.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives By 2023: Report
The push for SSD-everything intensifies
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3 weeks agoExpression zobo
Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties
Tom Brown's retirement hobby is a godsend for chefs, conservationists, and cider.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
Ted Lasso's Brett Goldstein: We Are Writing Season 3 as an Ending
The Ted Lasso team appears to be sticking to its original game plan.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zobo
Apple announces new flagship M2 processor
Apple Silicon moves up a gear.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis zobo
The Tick That Causes a Meat Allergy Is on the Move
The lone star tick can trigger an allergic reaction to red meat in those bitten. Now this arachnid’s territory is expanding.
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1 month agoCurrent Event zobo
Top Gun: Maverick has reversed a controversial change that critics say was made to appease China
A lot has changed in the years since Top Gun: Maverick first previewed in 2019—including, some early viewers noticed, the controversial patches sewn onto the jacket of Tom Cruise’s title character. In the original Top Gun film, which premiered in 1986, Cruise’s navy pilot character, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, wears a bomber jacket that belonged to the fighter’s father. The back of the jacket is emblazoned with patches commemorating tours Maverick’s father served in the U.S. Navy, in...
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1 month agoCurrent Event zobo
31-Year-Old Man Invited 89-Year-Old Neighbour To Live With Him To Spend Her Last Days In Company
A man has paid tribute to the woman he lived with up unto her death in what was an unusual and unique partnership. When Chris Salvatore, who is 31, moved into the local area, he didn't know anyone. However, he soon became friendly with the 85-year-old woman who lived next door, Norma Cook, who lived alone with her cat Hermes. Throughout the years that followed, the two would come closer and closer, speaking daily and learning more and more about each other's lives
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1 month agoCurrent Event zobo
Why the Cult of ‘Doing What You Love’ is Losing Steam
In 2012, feminist activist Silvia Federici wrote to dismantle much of what we know and hold dear: “Nothing so effectively stifles our lives as the transformation into work of the activities and relations that satisfy our desires.”