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1 year ago+19 19 0Brendan Fraser Defends Janky VFX Scorpion King In ‘The Mummy Returns,’ Calls It ‘Just Perfect’
The Mummy star Brendan Fraser opened up about in the infamous Scorpion King scene in a career retrospective video for GQ.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Kevin Conroy, a defining voice of Batman, dies at 66
Kevin Conroy has died at 66. The prolific voice actor's gravelly delivery on the "Batman: The Animated Series" was for many Batman fans the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader.
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1 year ago+20 20 0TSMC reportedly looks to raise a second chip fab in Arizona
Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is said to be preparing to build another semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona, alongside the facility it completed this summer, in a move that may be seen as a vindication of the US government’s CHIPS Act fun ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0Twitter’s new gray “official” checks are rolling out to some high-profile accounts
Twitter’s solution to breaking its own verification system is beginning to roll out. Several celebrity and publisher accounts now have a gray “official” checkmark — in addition to the blue verified badge. News outlets, including Reuters, The New York ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0Vietnam to require 24-hour take-down for "false" social media content
Vietnam's information minister said on Friday authorities had tightened regulations to deal with "false" content on social media platforms so that it must be taken down within 24 hours instead of 48 hours previously.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Thawing permafrost exposes old pathogens—and new hosts
The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact, it’s warming nearly four times quicker than the rest of the world, with disastrous consequences for the region and its inhabitants. M ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Will India become a green superpower?
It gets almost three-quarters of its electricity from coal, and has 39 new coal-fired power plants under construction. It digs up and burns more of the stuff than any other country except China. And it is coal’s loudest advocate internationally: at l ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0India fines Google $113 million, orders to allow third-party payments system in Play Store
India’s antitrust watchdog has hit Google with $113 million fine for abusing the dominant position of its Google Play Store and ordered the firm to allow app developers to use third-party payments processing service for in-app purchases or for purcha ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0 x 1The end of Apple’s affair with China
By a dusty stretch of the deafening road from Chennai to Bengaluru lie three colossal, anonymous buildings. Inside, away from the din of traffic, is a high-tech facility operated by Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer. A short drive away Pegatron, anot ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0The best movies of 2022, so far
We’re in the back stretch of 2022, and there’s been no shortage of great movies to delight us at the theaters and at home. There have been big theatrical events like Top Gun: Maverick and Nope, straight-to-streaming hits like Prey, and much more to t ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders
Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci say mRNA Covid vaccine technology could be repurposed to help destroy cancer cells.
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1 year ago+18 18 086-year-old bodybuilder breaks own record as oldest to compete in Japan championships
An 86-year-old bodybuilder broke his own record as the oldest person to compete in the Japan championships on Oct. 9. Toshisuke Kanazawa, who lives in the city of Hiroshima, took part in the 68th edition of the men's Japan bodybuilding champions ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch
Hundreds of thousands of people in southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.
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1 year ago+21 21 0The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken – Custom Packages Can Now Be Installed
The PS5 has been jailbroken and can now install custom packages. This marks the first major hack in the console lifecycle since its launch back in 2020.
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1 year ago+18 18 0How Bots Corrupted Advertising
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
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1 year ago+25 25 0 x 1Suit: MGM paid problem gambler to not report online glitches
A New York City man is suing an Atlantic City casino, its parent company and its online betting partner, alleging he was repeatedly disconnected while gambling online, and was given payments to prevent him from reporting the malfunctions to New Jerse ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Litelok claims to have made the world’s lightest and toughest angle-grinder resistant locks
The new Litelok X-1 and X-3 locks are claimed to offer the best available protection from multiple attack methods and, most critically, the threat of angle grinders. The advent of improved battery technology brought a wave of new and very portable po ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Water in asteroid dust offers clues to life on Earth
Specks of dust retrieved by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres from Earth have revealed a surprising component: a drop of water, scientists said Friday. The discovery offers new support for the theory that life on Ear ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0California just struck a major blow to car culture
For decades, many California cities, like Los Angeles and San Diego, have been synonymous with sprawl. But by eliminating parking minimums in areas near public transit, the Golden State just took a major step to change that.
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1 year ago+16 16 0The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby
Some companies offer tests that rank embryos based on their risk of developing complex diseases such as schizophrenia or heart disease. Are they accurate — or ethical?