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21 hours agoExpression zritic
Why the Hell Do They Still Make Car Alarms?
They add to noise pollution while failing to prevent car theft. It's time for them to go.
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22 hours agoExpression zritic
Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged 1,500% in nine months
New board members and a massive short squeeze cause stratospheric short-term growth.
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1 day agoCurrent Event zritic
‘Peaky Blinders’ to End After Sixth and Final Season
Hit BBC drama “Peaky Blinders” will end after its sixth and final season, but creator and writer Steven Knight has promised the story will “continue in another form.” Hugely…
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2 days agoAnalysis zritic
Fear and Anxiety Drive Conservatives' Political Attitudes
Can brain differences explain conservatives' fear-driven political stances?
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2 days agoCurrent Event zritic
'I’m facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons
Arrested Trump supporters say they were ‘listening’ to the president
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3 days agoExpression zritic
How the MP3, Pirates and Apple Changed The Music Industry * TorrentFreak
When Karlheinz Brandenburg first released the MP3 format in the early 90s, it started a chain of events that disrupted the music industry.
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3 days agoExpression zritic
Viennetta, the Fanciest Dessert of the ’90s, Is Back
The height of sophistication — and the freezer aisle — is returning after 30 years
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4 days agoExpression zritic
New MacBook Pro Models to Feature Flat-Edged Design, MagSafe, No Touch Bar and More Ports
Apple is working on two new MacBook Pro models that will feature significant design changes, well-respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today
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6 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Elon Musk fights fellow billionaires at the FCC to protect spectrum for satellite broadband
Elon Musk is under siege by fellow billionaires at Amazon and Dish as he tries to get his fledgling space-based broadband service off the ground, with clashes involving airwave overload and the threat of satellite collisions.
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9 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Hulu Launches $2 Monthly Streaming Plan for College Students
Disney’s Hulu is courting the collegiate crowd with a new offer: The streamer has rolled out a special reduced-rate plan for U.S. college students, priced at $1.99 per month. Starting Monday (Jan. 11), eligible students over the age of 18 can sign up for the deal and watch Hulu’s full streaming library of movies and TV shows (with ads) for $2 monthly. That’s a 67% discount off the regular $5.99 price.
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11 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Boeing criminally charged for lying about 737 Max crashes, fined $2.5 billion
Boeing has been criminally charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by the Department of Justice and will have to pay a $2.5 billion fine for lying to the Federal Aviation Administration before and after the fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
'If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?': sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds
My approach to world-building is a bit smoke and mirrors – there’s only as much as you need to carry the story. I think of it as one of those sets they used to have for cowboy films: the facades look good, but if you walk around the back, it’s all props and plywood. I don’t want to sound lazy, but I want to do as little as possible. I don’t need to know how the sewage system works to tell a story about someone on another planet.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
2020 has been a bleak year in the climate crisis. So here’s the good news
The Covid pandemic put paid to that, and the year has closed out with a piling up of dire climate news. 2020 is on track to be the hottest year on record; an unprecedented fire season in the western US led to the country’s first ever “gigafire”, and Amazon fires were the worst in a decade. The Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record. Devastating typhoons swamped the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia while the Sahel and Greater Horn regions of Africa experienced severe...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
How Individuals With Dark Personality Traits are Reacting to COVID-19
Dark personality traits predict individual responses to global crises, according to results of a study recently published in Personality and Individual Differences. Though studies have shown certain personality traits to predict behavior during the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, the impact of dark personality traits on affect and cognition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been determined.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
The 10 biggest space discoveries and stories of 2020
For many reasons, 2020 may be a watershed year for society and science. Astronomers and space agencies spent the year managing the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. They also made breakthroughs in new technologies and bid farewell to several important projects.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
Apple Reportedly in Talks With Mariah Carey to Make 'Magical Christmas Special' Follow-Up
Apple is reportedly in talks with singer Mariah Carey to make a 2021 follow-up to her "Magical Christmas Special," which premiered on Apple TV+ earlier this month. According to The Sun, the festive show cost £4 million ($5.4 million) and went to number one in Apple's charts in over 100 countries, and was such a "runaway hit" that Apple executives now want to secure her for another special show next Christmas, but this time with an "unlimited" budget.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
U.S. cyber agency says SolarWinds hackers are 'impacting' state, local governments
The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it released few additional details.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
Nasa's Mars rover and the 'seven minutes of terror'
The US space agency (Nasa) has released an animation showing how its one-tonne Perseverance rover will land on Mars on 18 February. The robot is being sent to a crater called Jezero where it will search for evidence of past life. But to undertake this science, it must first touch down softly. The sequence of manoeuvres needed to land on Mars is often referred to as the "seven minutes of terror" - and with good reason.