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A Lab Accident Likely Led to a Woman’s Death From Brain-Destroying Prions 9 Years Later

A Lab Accident Likely Led to a Woman’s Death From Brain-Destroying Prions 9 Years Later

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A Lab Accident Likely Led to a Woman's Death From Brain-Destroying Prions 9 Years Later A lab accident in 2010 likely led to a woman’s untimely death nearly a decade later, according to doctors in France. In a recent case study, they describe how a woman in her early 30s developed a universally fatal brain disorder years after she had pierced her skin with equipment used to handle infectious rogue…Read more... Go to Source
3D TVs Didn’t Die, They Just Ended Up in Cars

3D TVs Didn’t Die, They Just Ended Up in Cars

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3D TVs Didn't Die, They Just Ended Up in Cars After dominating trade shows for years as the next big thing in home entertainment, 3D TVs seemingly completely disappeared overnight, replaced by technologies like OLED that are a genuine improvement on the television experience. Where all those gimmicky screens actually went was a mystery, though—until today, when …Read more... Go to Source
Harvard and MIT Sue ICE Over Policy of Deporting Students Forced Into Online Classes

Harvard and MIT Sue ICE Over Policy of Deporting Students Forced Into Online Classes

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Harvard and MIT Sue ICE Over Policy of Deporting Students Forced Into Online Classes Harvard and MIT have swiftly filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, following ICE’s surprise Monday announcement that the agency may deport international students if they don’t attend class in person. It’s a spectacularly on-brand counter-offensive via…Read more... Go to Source
‘It Really Is Otherworldly’: What It’s Like to Visit the Hot Springs of the Deep Sea

‘It Really Is Otherworldly’: What It’s Like to Visit the Hot Springs of the Deep Sea

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‘It Really Is Otherworldly’: What It’s Like to Visit the Hot Springs of the Deep Sea Thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, boiling hot plumes of seawater shoot like geysers into the abyss. There, some of the strangest life on Earth thrives. Thousands of white crabs with spindly legs creep along the seafloor. Eight-foot-long worms with bright red, mouthless heads poke out of white PVC-looking…Read more... Go to Source
Palm Springs Is an Excellent Time Loop Romance Fueled by Adorable Awkwardness

Palm Springs Is an Excellent Time Loop Romance Fueled by Adorable Awkwardness

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Palm Springs Is an Excellent Time Loop Romance Fueled by Adorable Awkwardness Take Groundhog Day, sprinkle in the Lonely Island, and add a bunch of heart, and you have Palm Springs, an excellent new film debuting on Hulu Friday. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star as two strangers who find themselves stuck reliving a mutual acquaintance’s Palm Springs wedding day over and over again while…Read more... Go to Source
Even Mild Covid-19 Can Sometimes Cause Hallucinations and Other Brain Problems

Even Mild Covid-19 Can Sometimes Cause Hallucinations and Other Brain Problems

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Even Mild Covid-19 Can Sometimes Cause Hallucinations and Other Brain Problems Doctors are starting to see the sort of serious brain problems that scientists had previously warned would become more common because of the covid-19 pandemic. A new study published Wednesday details patients who caught the coronavirus and went on to develop neurological complications, including cognitive impairment,…Read more... Go to Source
Racist Tech CEO Harasses Family at Dinner: ‘Trump’s Gonna Fuck You’

Racist Tech CEO Harasses Family at Dinner: ‘Trump’s Gonna Fuck You’

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Racist Tech CEO Harasses Family at Dinner: 'Trump's Gonna Fuck You' The man caught on camera delivering an anti-Asian diatribe at a restaurant in Carmel Valley, California has been identified by multiple news outlets as Michael Lofthouse, founder and CEO of the cloud computing company Solid8. Footage of the racist incident, which occurred on July 4 and was published to Instagram and …Read more... Go to Source
This Stop-Motion Build of the Lego Millennium Falcon Is Jaw-Dropping

This Stop-Motion Build of the Lego Millennium Falcon Is Jaw-Dropping

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This Stop-Motion Build of the Lego Millennium Falcon Is Jaw-Dropping Three years ago, I spent 34 hours building the biggest Lego set ever created: the Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon, which clocks in at 7,541 pieces. You may have even seen the video (and if not, you can watch it here). It was a fun but tedious and grueling experience. I mention this because what…Read more... Go to Source
10 Pokémon Shorts That Prove Trainers Are Overrated

10 Pokémon Shorts That Prove Trainers Are Overrated

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10 Pokémon Shorts That Prove Trainers Are Overrated Much as Pokémon trainers would love to believe that their pocketable monster friends are well taken care of, each and every single Pikachu-centric short has made it abundantly clear that Pokémon thrive and are at their best when the humans are just gone. Left to their own devices, the Pokémon get to be their…Read more... Go to Source
Feds Charge Seventh eBay Exec Over Obsessive Plot to Cyberstalk Critical Bloggers

Feds Charge Seventh eBay Exec Over Obsessive Plot to Cyberstalk Critical Bloggers

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Feds Charge Seventh eBay Exec Over Obsessive Plot to Cyberstalk Critical Bloggers Another former eBay exec, Philip Cooke, has been charged in federal court for allegedly participating in an amazingly dipshit plot to cyberstalk a couple that criticized the e-commerce site in a newsletter. That brings the total number of former eBay workers facing charges to seven—and the number of former cops in…Read more... Go to Source
Watch Sarah Jane Smith’s Final Doctor Who Adventure, Cut Down to Just 30 Minutes

Watch Sarah Jane Smith’s Final Doctor Who Adventure, Cut Down to Just 30 Minutes

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Watch Sarah Jane Smith's Final Doctor Who Adventure, Cut Down to Just 30 Minutes While Doctor Who might be fine with telling adventures over the course of a single, 50-odd-minute episode these days, back in its classic iteration, serials could run twice as long or even longer, broken up into 30-minute chunks over the course of several weeks. But it seems like the BBC’s official YouTube channel is…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Ad Boycott Will Go on After Zuckerberg, Sandberg Blow Off Civil Rights Groups’ Demands

Facebook Ad Boycott Will Go on After Zuckerberg, Sandberg Blow Off Civil Rights Groups’ Demands

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Facebook Ad Boycott Will Go on After Zuckerberg, Sandberg Blow Off Civil Rights Groups' Demands CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook—the social media company you may recognize from United Nations accusations of complicity in genocide and its role in recklessly flooding the web with conspiracy theories and extremism—predictably failed to placate a coalition of civil rights groups leading an ad…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Prime Video Mercifully Rolls Out Individual User Profiles Similar to Netflix

Amazon Prime Video Mercifully Rolls Out Individual User Profiles Similar to Netflix

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Amazon Prime Video Mercifully Rolls Out Individual User Profiles Similar to Netflix Long-awaited support for individual user profiles has finally arrived on Amazon’s streaming TV service, Prime Video. This means the niche streaming interests of your partner or family members can be saved to their own profiles—meanwhile, you, reader, can continue to binge the original Unsolved Mysteries at your own…Read more... Go to Source
Samsung’s Next Galaxy Unpacked Event is Aug. 5, and We’re Excited to See Whatever This Copper Thing Is

Samsung’s Next Galaxy Unpacked Event is Aug. 5, and We’re Excited to See Whatever This Copper Thing Is

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Samsung's Next Galaxy Unpacked Event is Aug. 5, and We're Excited to See Whatever This Copper Thing Is After months of rumors, Samsung has finally confirmed that its next Galaxy Unpacked event is Aug. 5. Unlike previous Unpacked events, this one will be entirely digital, which means anyone can watch to see what the company will reveal. (Spoiler alert: It’s almost certainly gonna be a giant copper phone.)Read more... Go to Source
Facebook: We Were Going to Do the Right Thing Anyway, Believe You Me

Facebook: We Were Going to Do the Right Thing Anyway, Believe You Me

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Facebook: We Were Going to Do the Right Thing Anyway, Believe You Me Over the past decade and a half, we’ve watched Facebook mature from its halcyon era of “moving fast and breaking things” into one where it can’t seem to stop apologizing for doing exactly that. It does’t matter if it’s being implicated in multiple(!) human rights abuses, election interference, conspiracy peddling, or,…Read more... Go to Source
How to Make Your Phone Read Everything On Screen Out Loud

How to Make Your Phone Read Everything On Screen Out Loud

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How to Make Your Phone Read Everything On Screen Out Loud It’s not always convenient or possible to glance at your smartphone’s screen as you normally would, but with a few tweaks to your phone’s settings, you can get the most important information without having to look down at the display. Here’s how to get your phone to read the info you need aloud to you through the…Read more... Go to Source
Keystone XL Is Blocked for Now, but the SCOTUS Ruling Helps 70 Other Pipelines

Keystone XL Is Blocked for Now, but the SCOTUS Ruling Helps 70 Other Pipelines

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Keystone XL Is Blocked for Now, but the SCOTUS Ruling Helps 70 Other Pipelines Climate justice activists have had an ecstatic start to the week. In a 24-hour period, three major planned fossil fuel pipelines were delayed or possibly cancelled altogether: Developers cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Sunday, a court ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline be cancelled on Monday, and just hours…Read more... Go to Source
A Paralyzing Childhood Disease Is Set to Surge This Summer, but Coronavirus Precautions Could Stop It

A Paralyzing Childhood Disease Is Set to Surge This Summer, but Coronavirus Precautions Could Stop It

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A Paralyzing Childhood Disease Is Set to Surge This Summer, but Coronavirus Precautions Could Stop It Outbreaks of an infectious, polio-like disease have popped up every other summer in the U.S. since 2012. This year, the viral illness would have been expected to surge yet again—but the widespread measures taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus may also prevent large spikes of the paralyzing condition it can…Read more... Go to Source
Our First Look at Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Appears to Confirm Almost Every Design Rumor

Our First Look at Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Appears to Confirm Almost Every Design Rumor

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Our First Look at Samsung's Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Appears to Confirm Almost Every Design Rumor Just last week, renders allegedly showing the unreleased Galaxy Note 20 appeared on Samsung’s official Russian website. But now, it appears the Galaxy Note 20 has been photographed in the wild for the first time, confirming details we’ve gleaned from previous reports.Read more... Go to Source
Warrior Nun Is the Patron Saint of Boring Chosen Ones

Warrior Nun Is the Patron Saint of Boring Chosen Ones

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Warrior Nun Is the Patron Saint of Boring Chosen Ones Netflix’s adaptation of Ben Dunn’s Warrior Nun Areala is a series that wants you to have faith. Not necessarily faith in the biblical divinity or hellish demons that drive the uneven plot forward over 10 episodes, but faith in the narrative trope of an unsuspecting Chosen One™ being called upon to save the humanity…Read more... Go to Source
Trump Regime Might Ban TikTok and Other Apps Owned by Chinese Tech Companies

Trump Regime Might Ban TikTok and Other Apps Owned by Chinese Tech Companies

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Trump Regime Might Ban TikTok and Other Apps Owned by Chinese Tech Companies The Trump regime is considering a U.S. ban on the popular music and dance app TikTok, as well as other apps owned by Chinese companies, according to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the world, with roughly 800 million users globally, but the Trump regime believes user data…Read more... Go to Source
Shady Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says It’s Left Canada Amid Two Federal Investigations

Shady Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says It’s Left Canada Amid Two Federal Investigations

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Shady Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says It's Left Canada Amid Two Federal Investigations Dystopian, U.S.-based face recognition firm Clearview AI has suspended its contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), effectively locking its business out of Canada entirely, Bloomberg reported on Monday.Read more... Go to Source
Tax Amazon’s Successor Passed Seattle’s City Council, and You Can Already Guess What It Does

Tax Amazon’s Successor Passed Seattle’s City Council, and You Can Already Guess What It Does

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Tax Amazon's Successor Passed Seattle's City Council, and You Can Already Guess What It Does Unemployment in the US is still over 11%, and yet during this economic crisis, Jeff Bezos has added an astonishing $56.7 billion to his already colossal fortune. If ever there was a time to redistribute some of that wealth, it’s now, and it seems that experiment in equity will begin in Seattle. Read more... Go to Source
In Netflix’s New Transformers Trailer, Even Optimus Prime Is So Very Tired

In Netflix’s New Transformers Trailer, Even Optimus Prime Is So Very Tired

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In Netflix's New Transformers Trailer, Even Optimus Prime Is So Very Tired Another day, another war for the fate of Cybertron, and things are looking dire in Netflix and Rooster Teeth’s take on the latest version of the Transformers origin story. So dire that even Optimus Prime, scion of hope and occasional truck, is getting a bit defeatist.Read more... Go to Source
ICE Threatens International Students With ‘Immigration Consequences’ if Schools Go Online-Only

ICE Threatens International Students With ‘Immigration Consequences’ if Schools Go Online-Only

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ICE Threatens International Students With 'Immigration Consequences' if Schools Go Online-Only International students in the U.S. will be forced to attend at least some of their fall semester classes in person during the coronavirus pandemic, or their visas to enter the country will be revoked, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced on Monday.Read more... Go to Source
Apple Might Make Future MacBook Keyboards Out of Glass, and I’m Concerned

Apple Might Make Future MacBook Keyboards Out of Glass, and I’m Concerned

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Apple Might Make Future MacBook Keyboards Out of Glass, and I'm Concerned When I saw that Apple recently filed a patent application for transparent keycaps made of glass, possibly for use in future Bluetooth desktop or MacBook keyboards, I was intrigued. This could be Apple’s solution to making a longer-lasting and more reliable keyboard, something the company has struggled with over the…Read more... Go to Source