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1 year ago+22 22 0Astronaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from space
Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the "overview effect." This change occurs when people see the world from far above and notice that ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Wastewater samples reveal new psychoactive drugs
More than a dozen new psychoactive drugs have been detected in 16 countries by an international wastewater surveillance program.
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1 year ago+18 18 0Arrest Made in Shooting Death of Koko Da Doll, Star of ‘Kokomo City’ Documentary
Atlanta Police say a 17-year-old is in custody in connection with the killing of the trans woman featured in the Sundance documentary.
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1 year ago+25 25 03 soldiers killed when Army helicopters crashed in Alaska
Two U.S. Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth. Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Netflix to invest $2.5 bln in South Korea to make TV shows, movies
Netflix Inc said on Tuesday it plans to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to produce Korean TV series, movies and unscripted shows, doubling the amount the company has invested in the market since 2016.
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1 year ago+21 21 0California’s push to ban natural gas hit a snag. Could it derail the entire effort?
Dozens of California cities have passed laws phasing out natural gas appliances
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1 year ago+23 23 0Harrison Ford Is Done With Indiana Jones After ‘Dial Of Destiny’ & Reveals He “Will Not Be Involved” With TV Series
Harrison Ford is revealing that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be the last time he plays the archeologist. “This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’…
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1 year ago+18 18 0World’s first carbon import tax gets green light
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the world’s first “carbon tax” for imported goods, imposing tariffs based on the amount of emissions generated in their production.
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Analysis
1 year ago+15 15 0Humans struggle to differentiate imagination from reality
The more vividly a person imagines something, the more likely it is that they believe it’s real, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Jony Ive's lifetime of design work honored with Edison Achievement Award
LoveFrom and ex-Apple chief designer Jony Ive has been given the Edison Awards' most prestigious honor, in a ceremony in Florida. Ive left Apple in 2019, reportedly following frustration at culture changes within the company. He did, however, co ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Sudanese army, its rivals announce another cease-fire
Sudan's military and its paramilitary rival each have announced that they will abide by a 24-hour cease-fire, after a previous attempt at a truce failed a day earlier.
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1 year ago+26 26 0Redbox Owner Interested In Buying Netflix’s DVD Business
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment CEO Bill Rouhana tells THR he wants to buy the DVD business, though a Netflix source said it is not for sale, and will be wound down.
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1 year ago+23 23 0Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing
Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware.
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1 year ago+19 19 0Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
It was only natural for Alexander Jones to feel thrilled when he saw a sixth-century palimpsest at the Ambrosiana library in Milan for the first time. It happened in 1984 when Jones was working on his dissertation using manuscripts in Italy. With the ...
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1 year ago+30 30 0 x 1Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – this is getting painful now
Microsoft might just have crossed a line with new Start menu adverts
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1 year ago+17 17 0'Big sponge': new CO2 tech taps oceans to tackle global warming
Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from Univ ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it
The narrative around cheating students doesn’t tell the whole story. Meet the teachers who think generative AI could actually make learning better.
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1 year ago+26 26 0Kroger Begins Accepting Apple Pay After Years of Holding Out
Kroger this week began accepting Apple Pay and other contactless payment methods at select locations in Kentucky and Ohio, allowing customers to tap to pay with an iPhone or Apple Watch at checkout, according to customers on Reddit and Twitter.
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1 year ago+17 17 0US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old US air national guardsman, is believed to have led an online group where classified files appeared
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Analysis
1 year ago+20 20 0Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean
Conditions that favor water may be common in the formation of rocky planets.