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1 year ago+29 29 0Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards
Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.
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1 year ago+27 27 0The big idea: why climate tribalism only helps the deniers
From nuclear power to electric vehicles, battles between activists risk getting in the way of reducing emissions
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1 year ago+25 25 0Majority of Americans Say TikTok Is a Threat to U.S. National Security
The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…
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1 year ago+30 30 0Google updates privacy policy to train its AI on everything you post online
Google quietly updated its privacy policy over the weekend to mention that it will use public data to help train its AI models.
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1 year ago+21 21 0Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confidential emails, notes, and other docume ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0In the aftermath of 'The China Initiative' a survey finds a third of Chinese scientists feel unwelcome in U.S.
A small team of biostatisticians and engineers from Princeton, Harvard, and MIT, has found via survey, that Chinese scientists working in the U.S. no longer feel welcome in the country. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0NASA makes contact with Mars helicopter after long silence | Digital Trends
NASA has restored contact with its Mars helicopter after 63 days of silence. The communications dropout, however, wasn't unexpected.
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1 year ago+25 25 0Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down
Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment. NASA’s CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, welcomed its ...
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1 year ago+25 25 0NASA to develop oxygen, water on the moon within the next decade
NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already taken steps toward excavating moon soil in 2032, a scientist said on Wednesday.
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1 year ago+29 29 0Meta’s new AI lets people make chatbots. They’re using it for sex.
From sex chats to cancer research, “open-source” models are challenging tech giants’ control over the AI revolution — to the promise or peril of society
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1 year ago+25 25 0NASA is recycling 98 percent of astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS into drinkable water | Engadget
This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station..
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1 year ago+21 21 0Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation
Microsoft says Sony paid third parties to keep games off Xbox
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1 year ago+33 33 0A TikToker is NBA draft eligible — and he's never played basketball in college or high school
Basketball fan Jordan Haber found a loophole in the NBA's collective bargaining agreement. Now he's attending Thursday's draft as an eligible prospect.
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1 year ago+27 27 0Lab-grown meat is cleared for sale in the United States
Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat, has been cleared for sale in the United States.
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1 year ago+4 4 0I Just Translated ‘1984’ Into Russian. I’m Gasping for Air
Opinion | This year, I spent a suffocating four months living inside George Orwell’s “1984.” I didn’t know what I was getting into when a Moscow publisher suggested that I translate the classic dystopian novel into Russian, so I agreed too lightly.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Himalayan glaciers melting 65 percent faster than previous decade: study
Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists…
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1 year ago+26 26 0Book checked out of Queens Public Library in 1926 finally returned
"It turns out it is the oldest book ever returned to the Queens Library," assistant manager Florence Palomo said.
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1 year ago+31 31 0'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' quietly pulled from Mideast cinemas
A trans flag may be the reason.
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1 year ago+21 21 0At least 41 have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a Ugandan school
Police said rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces, who have been launching attacks for years from their bases in eastern Congo, carried out the raid on the school in the border town of Mpondwe.