It seems like everyone has Covid-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests (www.cnn.com)
Rates of severe disease may be staying at relatively low levels, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can capture....
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The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern (www.theverge.com)
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TIL Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun on space missions (en.wikipedia.org)
It was purportedly (and probably in actuality) intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness, although allegedly was intended as a defensive weapon against in-space attacks by the US space program.
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Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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This AI generated ad on the front page of a newspaper. Can you find what is wrong with it? (kerala.party)
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OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050 (nypost.com)
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Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
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Pro-Russian mayor of city in eastern Ukraine who welcomed Putin’s invasion is found shot dead in the street after being kidnapped from his home (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring | The DOJ said that Apple's hiring practices favored visa holders and left out US citizens and perma... (www.engadget.com)
Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring | The DOJ said that Apple’s hiring practices favored visa holders and left out US citizens and perma…::This is the largest amount that the DOJ has collected under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and...
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Robot Kills Man After Mistaking Him for Box of Vegetables (www.theguardian.com)
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Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi (www.tomshardware.com)
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God of War is coming to GOG (www.gog.com)
www.gog.com/en/game/god_of_war...
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This indie dev (Indie RPG Inkbound) is removing all microtransactions after noting that "player sentiment is trending against" them (www.eurogamer.net)
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Senior Russian diplomat found dead in hotel in Turkey (the-news.com.ua)
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More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)
In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....
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Arizona moves to end Saudi farm's controversial groundwater deals to grow, export alfalfa (www.azcentral.com)
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa....
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Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall (www.reuters.com)
Tesla reported a decrease in total deliveries for the third quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter, delivering 435,059 vehicles....
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Jets are now banned for corrupting the youth (lemmy.world)
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New revelations from the Snowden archive surface (www.computerweekly.com)
A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.
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Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash (gizmodo.com)
Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash::Unity CEO John Riccitiello reportedly sold thousands of shares of stock in the weeks ahead of the fee announcement.
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Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. (www.penny-arcade.com)
Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle....
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GNOME 45's Nautilus File Manager Gets a Modern Full-Height Sidebar Layout (9to5linux.com)
Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)
Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
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France to spend €200m destroying wine as demand falls (www.bbc.com)
The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers....
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