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Elon Musk will build a “submarine baby-sized” to rescue children out of the flooded caves of Thailand
On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted that the team of SpaceX engineers “finishes work on submarine baby-sized”, which can be used to rescue 12 teenagers, trapped in a flooded Thai cave. Mask engineers are working to solve the problems the last few days, and he keeps the CEO abreast. On Thursday evening, Musk has offered to…
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FCC Refuses to Back Down From Plan to Strip Phone and Internet Subsidies for American Indians
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks to members of the media after a commission meeting December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC.Photo: Getty Late last year, the Federal Communications Commission under Ajit Pai voted to make it harder for American Indians to receive subsidies for broadband internet service. Despite legal challenges, the commission decided this…
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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel and May Not Have Much More Time
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The UK Wants Its Own Version of FOSTA/SESTA That Could Push Sex Workers Off the Internet
A man passes by an adult video store January 8, 2009 in New York.Photo: Getty The passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA)—two well-intentioned but ultimately deeply-flawed laws—have been devastating for sex workers in the United States by pushing them off the internet. Despite the…
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Facebook Stock Hits All-Time Record High Despite Ongoing Screw-Ups
Photo: AP Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the social media giant gave access to the data of up to 87 million users to an app partnered with an ultra-sketchy election data firm, still isn’t totally resolved, with news breaking this week investigators from four agencies are looking into Facebook’s conduct. But all the negative…
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Get Screwed by the MoviePass Outage? You Can Get Reimbursed for Buying Your Own Ticket
A view of signage at the MoviePass House Park City during Sundance 2018 on January 21, 2018 in Park City, Utah.Photo: Getty MoviePass, makers of an increasingly complicated and likely unsustainable movie ticket subscription service, experienced a significant outage Friday that left users out in the cold (or if you were in California and trying…
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Elon Musk Says He’s Building a Tiny ‘Submarine’ to Rescue Thai Soccer Team Trapped in Cave
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In the laboratory created the first embryo rhinos. They will help to rescue the almost extinct species
In March, died last male Northern white Rhino, leaving only two females of this subspecies. Not having any way to reproduce naturally, the rhinos went to the edge of extinction back to back. But some scientists want to be involved in the disappearance of the Northern white rhinos. An international group of scientists successfully created…
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Study: walnuts improve fertility in men
Eating nuts “significantly” increases the number and improves the health of sperm in young males, the study found. The findings “support a beneficial role of chronic consumption of tree nuts to improve sperm quality,” say the researchers, stressing, however, that the study tested healthy, able to produce offspring men. The potential benefits of nuts for…
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Try to Top My Airbnb Horror Story
Illustration: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo) I should start by saying I do not hate Airbnb. Actually, despite its shortcomings, I love it, and I use the app almost exclusively when I’m traveling for leisure. I’ve had plenty of great experiences: a villa on the beach of a surf island in the Philippines, a cabin in Scotland…