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What your Wikipedia browsing style says about you:
The 'down the rabbit hole' online-search behaviors of nearly 500,000 people from 50 countries has shed new light on how mood, education level, gender, background and culture influence how we sate our curiosity and seek out new knowledge.
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28 October 2024.
Finger-worn, camera-toting mouse ring turns desktops into touchpads:
Tired of running out of mousing room on your meagre li'l mousepad? If so, you might like the Padrone Primera mouse.
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28 October 2024.
Scottish Distillery Beats Silly Trademark Dispute Over Geographic Name ‘Port Of Leith’:
There must be something about the alcohol business that creates silly trademark disputes over geographic terms.
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29 October 2024.
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features:
In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools.
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12 December 2023.
Rich Knepper Elected Chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC):
The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) is pleased to announce that Rich Knepper from the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing has been elected as the new Chair of the organization.
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23 October 2024.
Keir Starmer says media firms should have control of output used in AI:
PM says content creators must be paid and vows to ensure technology ‘does not begin to chip away’ at press freedomsKeir Starmer has said media outlets should have control over – and be paid for – their work as artificial intelligence technology transforms the economy and the UK.
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29 October 2024.
Using avatars in psychosis therapy can help those who hear voices, study finds:
Therapy involves patients talking with animated digital representations of voices they hearDigital characters – avatars – could help people with psychosis hear voices less often and reduce the distress caused, research suggests.
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29 October 2024.
Google will sell you popular Pixel models at up to 40% off - here's how the deal works:
The company is officially selling refurbished, like-new models at a marginal discount.
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29 October 2024.
Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction:
Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.
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28 October 2024.
Tonally inconsistent ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ is still BioWare’s best action game:
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has superb combat and charismatic companions but if you're hoping for a return to the series' origins, you'll be disappointed.
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28 October 2024.
Why donors should ask local communities what matters to them while deciding what success looks like:
Have you ever asked a teacher whether something will be on an upcoming test to decide whether to closely pay attention to a particular lesson? Taken the long way back from a lunch break to get enough exercise to meet a goal monitored by a fitness app? Logged on to a virtual meeting to be seen showing up, even as you worked on other tasks?.
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29 October 2024.
Bezos Was Expected to Make a Splash in Washington. But He Never Arrived.:
The billionaire made splashy purchases of The Washington Post and a mansion in Washington.
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29 October 2024.
Douglas Elliman Realty president fired days after CEO stepped down:
Scott Durkin, president and chief executive of Douglas Elliman Realty was fired on Friday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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29 October 2024.
Google will sell you popular Pixel models at up to 40% off - here's how the deal works:
The company is officially selling refurbished, like-new models at a marginal discount.
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29 October 2024.
If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow:
The brainy birds carry big chips on their shoulders, scientists say.
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29 October 2024.
From Honeycrisp to Red Delicious — love it or hate it, your apple is a clone:
What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious.
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28 October 2024.
Diddy allegedly drugged, sexually assaulted 10-year-old accuser during an audition: lawsuit:
WARNING: ARTICLE BELOW CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of sexual assault by two minors in separate lawsuits filed in New York, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
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29 October 2024.
Fitness App Strava Gives Away Location of Foreign Leaders, Report Finds:
French newspaper Le Monde found that the fitness app Strava can easily track confidential movements of foreign leaders, including U.
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29 October 2024.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
Lasers reveal Maya city, including thousands of structures, hidden in Mexico:
The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court.
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28 October 2024.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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