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MoviePass Bought a Stake in Gotti, Which Might Be the Worst Movie of the Year
Gotti.Screenshot: Gotti (YouTube) MoviePass, the movie-ticketing startup whose whole business model is essentially subsidizing enough impossibly cheap tickets with investors’ money that it gains leverage over theaters, is fast hemorrhaging cash. But with the firm possibly running out of funds by the end of next month (or turning to a line of credit) and trying…
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Oh Cool, Amazon is Peddling Conspiracy Theories Now
A general view of atmosphere during the Amazon Prime Summer Soiree hosted by Erin and Sara Foster held at Sunset Towers on July 16, 2015 in West Hollywood, California.Photo: Getty Amazon Prime Video, the streaming service you turn to when Netflix doesn’t have what you’re looking for, is best known for shows like Transparent, The…
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Word Salad President Demands ‘Really Long Strike’ Against Jeff Bezos
Trump shaking hands with Bezos at a White House event in 2017.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) In between bragging, retweeting himself, and managing to repeat the phrase “Russian Collusion” four times in one tweet, Donald Trump found the time on Sunday to rev back up his ongoing feud with billionaire Jeff Bezos, who controls two…
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A Paper Straw Factory Is Opening Up in Britain Before a Planned UK Single-Use Plastics Ban
A plastic McDonald’s straw.Photo: AP The first paper straw factory in the “last several decades” in Britain is planning to launch in Wales as fast-food chains prepare for a planned ban on single-use plastic products throughout the UK, the Guardian reported, with some chains already preparing their own plans to phase out plastic in favor…
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Google Translate Can’t Provide Consent for a Police Search, Judge Rules
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Silicon Valley Invents Shoes
Screenshot: Vimeo Silicon Valley firms crunched their hardest in 2017 to rebrand ordinary merchandise long produced by other industries as uniquely innovative product lines. Some of them were pretty obnoxious, like Lyft’s totally-not-just-a-bus shuttle service, or WeLive’s attempt to market living in communal housing as a lived experience, or the company selling a “private pop-up…
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A new form of matter may be beyond the periodic table
Currently, the heaviest element on the periodic table is ohannesson with an atomic mass of 294. He received the official title in 2016. As every element on the periodic table, Oganessian all of its mass is from the protons and neutrons (baryons), which are themselves composed of three quarks each. Important detail all known baryonic…
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Scientists have developed a method of extraction of uranium from sea water
Scientists made a scientific breakthrough that could open the door to a new method of production and source of nuclear fuel – the World ocean, which contains accumulated over a long time chemical. Check a special fiber that allows you to extract from sea water natural traces of uranium allowed scientists to produce the first…
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The average IQ of Europeans has declined since the 1970-ies
A group of researchers from the Center for economic research, Ragnar Frisch in Norway found that performance IQ tests slowly decreased over the last several decades. In a paper published in PNAS, burnt Bratsberg and OLE Rogeberg described your research and results and their possible explanation. Earlier studies have shown that people umnel in the…
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Scientists have figured out how many people are required to travel to the nearest star system
Dreams of settling other planets, the mankind began to dream even long before we had the first spacecraft for manned flights. And with the opening over the last few decades several thousands of new exoplanets, some of which may well be habitable, or at least suitable for colonization (currently of great interest b planet Proxima…