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New research predicts the “ideal” mammal is 2.5 times bigger than an elephant
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More than half of all Robinhood users own at least some GameStop stock. They are now unable to freely trade it; the app is only allowing users to close out their positions.
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40% of Detroit is without internet and ignored by telecoms, so this group is bringing the internet to the people
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Robinhood has stopped allowing users to buy GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia stock.
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Twitter is censoring links to a BBC documentary that examined Prime Minister Modi's role in violent 2002 riots that saw over 1,000 deaths.
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NEW: We've obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a Nebraska teenager’s private chats about her abortion, then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.
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CBD is a potent blocker of SARS-CoV-2 replication in human cells, new research shows. In even better news, a survey of real-world patients taking prescribed CBD found a “significant” negative relationship between CBD consumption and COVID-19 infection.
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Stanford scientists saved drops of the COVID-19 vaccine destined for the garbage can, reverse engineered them, and have posted the mRNA sequence that powers the vaccine on GitHub for all to see.
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NEW: Around 500 mail sorting machines across the US will be taken out of service, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. This accounts for about 15 percent of all USPS letter sorting machines.
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Stop ratioing us and go yell at Science instead. I just write the tweets.
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Two black holes merged almost 2 billion years ago and we have the receipts
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This Taiwanese grandfather might be the most dedicated 'Pokémon Go' player out there
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Scientists just erased certain memories from a snail's brain—and they think it'll work with humans, too
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Major discovery: Archaeologists find the ruins of a massive ancient Mayan city in Guatemala
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An anarchist collective that makes DIY medicine has released detailed instructions for making abortion pills.
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FCC boss Ajit Pai is being investigated by his own agency over potential corruption allegations
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New research predicts the “ideal” mammal is 2.5 times bigger than an elephant
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An unofficial army of cartoon Shiba Inu dogs is making life hard for people who post Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.
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Students across the country are taking matters into their own hands: organizing strikes, participating in city-wide walk-outs, and laying out detailed proposals for how their well-being could be prioritized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Elephant seals completely took over a beach during the government shutdown and they're refusing to give it back
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All references to climate change have been deleted from the White House website
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Last night's Twitch stream was so thoroughly modern that I was actually able to calm down.
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NEW: USPS emails obtained by Motherboard instruct post office maintenance managers to not reconnect or reinstall any mail sorting machines they had already disconnected.
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Hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites. This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a now defunct video hosting service.
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NEW: Hardcore porn is embedded all over regular-ass websites because a porn company has purchased the domain of a popular, defunct video hosting site.
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Workers at one Amazon warehouse were previously offered several different shift options. Now that it's closing, they're only being offered one at a new facility from 1:20am to 11:50am, called the "megacycle."
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Magnus Carlsen turned his webcam on, made one move, resigned, then turned his camera off and disappeared. He did not say anything.
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Brian Kibler announced he’s cutting ties with Activision Blizzard over the company's decision to suspend a pro player for his support of protests in Hong Kong.
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Researchers got a computer to "hallucinate" and then learn to play “Doom" while tripping
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According to local union officials, USPS hasn't announced any policy, explained why they're doing this, nor what will happen to the machines and the workers who operate them.
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Pepe the Frog’s creator goes legally nuclear against the alt-right
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Pornhub is banning all AI-generated fake porn on the grounds that deepfakes are "nonconsensual"
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For the first time, scientists have imaged the brain on LSD
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Turning into crystal spheres is the ultimate fate of billions of stars in our galaxy, including our own Sun.
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The history of ASCII porn, which still persists in the age of Pornhub
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Here's 520 hours of Trump interviews, complete with a search function and video editor
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The US military is studying how memes can be used to win wars
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Don't have sex with anyone who wants to get your consent uploaded to the blockchain
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Elon Musk says we shouldn't need an environmentally motivated reason to ditch fossil fuels:. http://t.co/kv0wVukbkx
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RRR is basically an ideal summer movie, combining the story of an unlikely friendship with mind-boggling action and stunts, as well as being a three-hour-long musical.
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The supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just two hours.
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RIP: Young King Dave of "smokin' doinks" fame has died, and it will never be "fuckin' nice out" again
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Someone crashed a virtual event from the Italian senate on Monday, and streamed 3D porn featuring Final Fantasy characters in front of several politicians, academics, and one Nobel Prize winner.
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NEW: An Amazon Web Services employee emailed a series of internal Amazon listservs and told them that their communications were being monitored for labor organizing efforts.
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The USPS initially proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines before revising its plans weeks later, reducing the number to closer to 15 percent.
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This is funny, unfortunate, and also, an example of a much larger problem: The internet is a collective hallucination that is fading away thanks to link rot.
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NEW: The City of Uvalde and its police department are working with a private law firm to prevent the release of nearly any record related to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, according to a letter obtained by Motherboard.
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Some people need a little extra time to put their masks away as they stroll around the park—and they should take it given the traumatizing year we've had.
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A 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors after an apparent at-home abortion in Nebraska. The state's case against the pair relies on evidence obtained directly from Facebook via court order.
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Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple’s top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It’s also one of few apps that has said it will voluntarily—without being legally required to—comply with law enforcement if it’s asked to share user data.
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BREAKING: Customs and Border Protection is flying a Predator drone, military tech used for surveilling and killing terrorists, over Minneapolis.
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We've found an adorable dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system and nicknamed it 'Goblin'
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Don't put USB cables up your dick hole, a Cautionary Tale
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Forensic expert: There is no evidence the White House video of Jim Acosta was doctored
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Facebook accidentally shipped VR devices with secret messages saying 'Big Brother Is Watching'
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No charges have been brought against former Eugene police officer Christopher Drumm—but St. James is now facing charges of her own after protesting her assault.
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The Sims 4's December update is the end result of years of Black Simmers like Amira Virgil campaigning for better skin tones in the game.
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As detailed in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, a survey of 1,212 U.S. patients taking prescribed CBD found that people taking oral doses of CBD returned positive COVID tests at much lower rates than control groups who did not take CBD.
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The FCC is blocking a law enforcement investigation into net neutrality comment fraud
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Rockstar Games intervened to save uber-popular "Grand Theft Auto V" modding tool
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NEW: Apple has announced plans to let customers repair their own phones in a monumental shift from its current repair policies.
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Here's our guide to protecting your digital security while protesting. For more information, check out
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Yes, net neutrality is being stolen from us in a fucked up, undemocratic heist
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Chris Cantelmo had been the leader of a Reddit pseudo-cult known as Cantelmoism. He was famous for handing out free money and claiming DMT, a drug he wanted to turn the world on to, cured his cancer. But within two years of first trying DMT, he was dead.
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Goodbye world: we've passed the atmospheric carbon level tipping point for good
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This week, thousands of students in NYC walked out of class to protest conditions and demand temporarily shutting down schools. Students in Boston and Chicago are planning walkouts for this Friday.
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Detroit Police Chief: Facial recognition software misidentifies people 96 percent of the time.
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While the docs allege that the abortion took place before Roe v Wade was overturned. they show in shocking detail how abortion could and will be prosecuted in the US, and how tech companies will be enlisted by law enforcement to help prosecute their cases.
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Alex Jones really made things worse for himself as he took the stand in the first of his three damages trials.
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In Oakland, CA, over 1,000 students signed a districtwide petition threatening to boycott classes entirely until the school district meets its demands—which include KN95 masks, increased testing, and more outdoor space for students to safely eat lunch.
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Pennsylvania teenager Kelvin's "best friend" is a white-tailed deer he named Money
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Study suggests that regular pot smoking could cause vision problems
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But what if the new “Hong Kong” was not confined to a singular geographical location; instead, existing virtually?
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Breaking: EPA transition team tells staff not to believe what they see in the news, according to a leaked memo
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But what if the new “Hong Kong” was not confined to a singular geographical location; instead, existing virtually?
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A computer-generated, pro-Trump Instagram model said she hacked Lil Miquela, another CGI Instagram model:
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A letter sent to Motherboard in response to public information requests says that Uvalde and its police don't want records released because they could include “highly embarrassing information.” . It did not explain why the records would be embarrassing.
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California police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.
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Hackers can easily hijack this dildo camera and livestream the inside of your vagina
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Facebook handed over the teenager's private messages that show that she and her mother allegedly bought medication to induce abortion online, and then disposed of the fetus.
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Writer Jules Gleeson told Motherboard that Judith Butler has also emailed the Guardian about its decision to remove that section of the interview, but has not heard back.
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Voice actors are increasingly being asked to sign rights to their voices away so clients can use artificial intelligence to generate synthetic versions that could eventually replace them.
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Wikipedia bans right-wing site Breitbart as a source for facts
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About a month ago, Lauren Albanese went to the mall with her uncle and dad. It was the first time since the pandemic began that the 27-year-old from Staten Island had been around people outside her household, and it had her shaken.
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On the Joe Rogan Experience, Sanders said that if he learns anything about aliens, he'll announce it to the public on Rogan's podcast.
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A new service offers to vibrate your IoT buttplug in sync with the ups and downs of cryptocurrency markets
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