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India blocks YouTube videos, tweets sharing BBC documentary on PM Modi — ‘We think this is a propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative’ (21 Jan. 2023)

gulfnews.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10ibkfy on January 22, 2023 at 5:02 AM in technology

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FTX says $415 million in crypto was hacked

reuters.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10erw8b on January 17, 2023 at 11:57 PM in technology

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Taliban hails Afghanistan's first ‘supercar’ The Mada-9, which took five years to build and is powered by a Toyota Corolla (2000) engine, has been described as an honour for the whole country (10 Jan. 2023)

telegraph.co.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_10d4hrh on January 16, 2023 at 4:02 AM in technology

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A document circulated by Googlers explains the 'hidden force' that has caused the company to become slow and bureaucratic: slime mold

businessinsider.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10bmv5v on January 14, 2023 at 12:01 PM in technology

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Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine “consistent with the value”

arstechnica.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_108jpyl on January 10, 2023 at 8:17 PM in technology

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Twitter sued for nonpayment of rent on San Francisco office — Company hasn’t paid rent on its headquarters, or any of its other global offices, in weeks

gulfnews.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_1010nwx on January 2, 2023 at 2:21 AM in technology

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Google mobility data shows San Francisco metro area led the nation in avoiding the office in 2022

sfchronicle.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10oqazk on January 30, 2023 at 2:33 AM in technology

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TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington — Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Will it be enough to stay in the United States? (26 Jan. 2023)

vox.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10o4npe on January 29, 2023 at 10:24 AM in technology

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ChatGPT can’t be credited as an author, says world’s largest academic publisher (26 Jan. 2023)

theverge.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10lqxny on January 26, 2023 at 12:43 PM in technology

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SpaceX completes fueling test and will now work toward the engine firing test — More than 10 million pounds of propellant was loaded onboard the vehicle, which, when fully stacked, stands 120 meters tall (24 Jan. 2023)

arstechnica.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10kvkf6 on January 25, 2023 at 10:23 AM in space

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‘Extraordinary’ footage shows one of the closest known approaches of a near-Earth object — On 26 Jan. 2023, asteroid 2023 BU was about 2,200 miles above the surface of the Earth

newsweek.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10on5pc on January 30, 2023 at 12:10 AM in space

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To survive a blast wave generated by a nuclear explosion, simulations suggest seeking shelter in sturdier buildings — positioned at the corners of the wall facing the blast, away from windows, corridors, and doors

publishing.aip.org

Submitted by marketrent t3_10nsdr0 on January 28, 2023 at 11:08 PM in science

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Evidence from mercury data strongly suggests that, about 251.9 million years ago, a massive volcanic eruption in Siberia led to the extinction event killing 80-90% of life on Earth

today.uconn.edu

Submitted by marketrent t3_10n55kw on January 28, 2023 at 3:40 AM in science

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About 73% of drugs advertised on TV are of ‘low therapeutic value’ — direct-to-consumer advertising is driving demand for expensive treatments, despite the clinical effectiveness of less costly alternatives

arstechnica.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10ezpm7 on January 18, 2023 at 5:57 AM in science

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Russian Twitter campaigns during the 2016 presidential race primarily reached ‘a small portion of the American electorate — and this portion was more likely to be highly partisan Republicans’

nyu.edu

Submitted by marketrent t3_107bnzq on January 9, 2023 at 11:00 AM in science

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Throughout the past 250,000 years, the average age that humans had children is 26.9. Fathers were consistently older (at 30.7 years on average) than mothers (at 23.2 years on average) but that age gap has shrunk

news.iu.edu

Submitted by marketrent t3_10582ku on January 6, 2023 at 10:46 PM in science

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Forest lizards have evolved genetically to live in cities — traits include longer limbs for sprinting across open areas, and larger toe pads with specialized scales for clinging to smooth surfaces like walls or glass

nyu.edu

Submitted by marketrent t3_10j1yvr on January 23, 2023 at 2:55 AM in science

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Trilobite tridents could be the oldest evidence of male sexual combat — Fighting for mates may be a behaviour that dates back over 400 million years

nhm.ac.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_10iocay on January 22, 2023 at 5:01 PM in science

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Access to modern military technology substantially reduces the probability of democratisation of authoritarian regimes — New details about the spread of 29 ground-breaking military technologies in all independent states from 1820 to 2010, as well as the form of government in these states

politicalscience.ku.dk

Submitted by marketrent t3_10lqcu0 on January 26, 2023 at 12:09 PM in science

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More than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia, an early hominin species made handaxes using only obsidian (a type of volcanic glass that can produce blades sharper than surgical steel)

nature.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10mcg0k on January 27, 2023 at 4:49 AM in science

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First proof of concept for editing a gene that causes heart disease, by modifying two letters — a therapy that would be applied once and last a lifetime

english.elpais.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10edrdt on January 17, 2023 at 2:35 PM in science

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87 newly-discovered galaxies, found using Webb space telescope, could be earliest known galaxies in the universe — the first indication that a lot of galaxies could have formed much earlier than previously thought

showme.missouri.edu

Submitted by marketrent t3_10b9bd9 on January 13, 2023 at 11:41 PM in science

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Some bacteria use electrical spikes to overcome antibacterial drugs, potentially leading to ‘superbugs’ that are resistant to antibiotics

york.ac.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_10awvqj on January 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM in science

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In England, the proportion of children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics doubled from 0.06% to 0.11% between 2000 and 2019 — study suggests antipsychotics are prescribed for an increasingly broad range of reasons, the most common being autism

manchester.ac.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_109vd7d on January 12, 2023 at 9:22 AM in science

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Before collapsing into a black hole, two merging neutron stars briefly form a single supersized neutron star ‘about twice the length of Manhattan Island’

nasa.gov

Submitted by marketrent t3_108uo4t on January 11, 2023 at 3:51 AM in science

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