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1 year ago+17 17 0How Surprised Should We Be When Christians Express Hate?
This is going to be a short one. Most of you reading these words will already be familiar with what I'm about to say. It may even remind you of thoughts you've had countless times. I'm writing it because some people still need to hear ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Apple is trying to avoid a possible EU fine of $39 billion
Executives from Apple will meet with EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday (Feb 14) in a closed-door meeting to discuss the market dominance of Apple Pay, the iOS mobile wallet feature, according to Reuters. The company based in Cupertino, California, w ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Study Shows How Corporations Are Deceiving the Public to 'Greenwash Their Brand'
A detailed study published Monday finds that the climate pledges of some of the world's largest companies are often highly misleading, lack transparency, and fall well short of what's necessary to avert catastrophic warming.
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1 year ago+20 20 0Quantum data conversion offers a path to scale up quantum technology architectures
Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have succeeded in building the first converter between the two different types of quantum-bit encodings—an equivalent to converters for classical information, but targeted to different types of q ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them | Engadget
It’s 2034 and Warner Bros. decides it needs to wring more cash out of Friends, the decade defining cultural juggernaut and sitcom behemoth. Imagine what that show would be like; A warm and cozy three-decades-later check-in on characters you know inti ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0How to Live an Extra Ten Good Years
“How’d you like to live an extra ten years? And I’m not just talking about a decade of decrepitness tacked on at the end of life, but another ten or fifteen percent of all ages, from your twenties through your golden years. Think of what you could do ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Netflix's Crackdown On Password Is A Mistake
Netflix recently announced plans to crack down on password sharing. However, many experts believe that this could be a mistake for several reasons, including the normalization of password sharing, the cost of implementation, potential loss of revenue ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Woman who survived cardiac arrest at 24 shares the warning sign she dismissed
Brittany Williams' life nearly ended in 2014 in a restaurant in Times Square in New York City. At just 24, Williams went into cardiac arrest and lost consciousness. Two strangers jumped into action and gave Williams CPR for eight minutes, and af ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Elon Musk's Twitter ordered by officials to properly label bedrooms in San Francisco HQ as sleeping areas — or convert them back to offices within 15 days
San Francisco officials ordered Twitter to restore its bedrooms back to offices in 15 days if it doesn't label them as sleeping areas, per a notice.
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1 year ago+2 2 0Jobs That ChatGPT May Wipe Out
Even though ChatGPT is actively promoted as a tool that people can use for assisting their jobs, the fear of losing jobs because of the model's generative capabilities is still looming large.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Bitcoin Premium Hits 60% in Nigeria as It Limits ATM Cash Withdrawals
The Bitcoin (BTC) price in Nigeria has soared well above market levels amid continued efforts by the central bank to push its citizens towards digitized cash. At the time of writing, the price of 1 BTC on the Nigerian NairaEX crypto exchange is curre ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0Going Nuclear: Bitcoin Mining’s Potential Energy Future
Though the prevalence of bitcoin miners using nuclear energy at scale could take years to materialize, several players in the space are bullish on the prospect. Volatility around bitcoin and the general slow pace of movement in an often risk-averse p ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Working from home might be good for your wallet as well as your mental health
Working from home often pays more than working in an office for jobs in the tech industry, new research has claimed. HR company Remote collected data on more than six million jobs ads from 2022 from employee resource Glassdoor and found that web deve ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0'Shameful': UK Approves 'Emergency' Use of Banned Bee-Killing Pesticide
Biodiversity defenders have sounded the alarm about the United Kingdom government's Monday decision to provide another so-called "emergency" exception for the use of an outlawed neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Ghislaine Maxwell hates the food and work regime in prison
The disgraced socialite – serving 20 years for sex trafficking and grooming underage girls for her late paedophile partner Jeffrey Epstein – said in an interview from her jail cell she despised the small portions she is served behind bars and lashed ...
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1 year ago+24 24 015 NES Game Secrets You Never Knew Existed
It turns out that some beloved NES games have been hiding incredible secrets.
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1 year ago+27 27 0 x 1Former Porn Star Ron Jeremy to Be Declared Incompetent to Stand Trial for Rape Due to 'Severe Dementia'
Ron Jeremy will reportedly be declared incompetent to stand trial for more than 30 counts of rape. According to the Los Angeles Times, the retired adult film star, 69, whose legal name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, is suffering from "severe dementia&q ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0SpaceX activates nearly 100 Starlinks in Iran amid country-wide protests: report
As Iran reaches 100 days of civil unrest, SpaceX has deployed nearly 100 Starlinks in the region. SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted "approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran" on Monday(opens in new tab) (Dec. 26) in response to a tweet showi ...
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1 year ago+31 31 0 x 1Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network
Elon Musk’s chaotic autumn at Twitter has produced one clear winner: Mastodon, the open-source social network, has now grown to 2.5m users – triggering a land-grab for space on it from groups including browser makers, cryptocurrency advocates and oth ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse
New research finds nearly 30% of land animals could disappear form their local area by 2100 due to climate change and habitat destruction. This is more than double previous predictions.