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Desperate Americans Start GoFundMe Campaigns to Pay For Food and Medicine During Government Shutdown
President Trump, an unindicted co-conspirator and cause of pointless suffering in the United States right now, on January 6, 2019Photo: Getty Images It’s day 19 of President Donald Trump’s government shutdown. And with no end in sight, hundreds of Americans have turned to the crowdfunding website GoFundMe in an effort to pay for basic necessities…
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New Evidence Suggests Dogs Reached North America 10,000 Years Ago
The skeletal remains of the Stillwell II dog. Image: Del Baston/Center for American Archaeology The skeletal remains of three ancient dogs found buried in Illinois now represent the earliest evidence for the presence of domesticated dogs in the Americas. It’s also the oldest known intentional burial of individual canines in the global archaeological record. Domesticated…
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Monogamous Species Share Deep Genetic Similarities
Pigeons form lifelong pairs.Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet (Flickr) Regardless of your opinion on monogamy, it’s a trait found across many species, from songbirds to fish to many humans. But surprisingly, there are plenty of examples in which members of one species will form lifelong pairs, but those of a closely related species won’t. An international team…
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Vizio Has a Wacky Idea for Futuristic Dolby Atmos Soundbars
Photo: Mike Damanskis (Gizmodo) One of the most exciting innovations for home entertainment is Dolby Atmos. The technology adds an element of height to the audio coming out of your sound system, and the effect is honestly game-changing. Vizio has a wacky idea about how to make Atmos even better. What if your soundbar could…
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Miami Beach Cops Use Tethered Blimp for Surveillance to Get Around Drone Ban
Miami Beach Police begin setting up a surveillance blimp on December 28, 2018Photo: Major of Police Paul Acosta/Twitter The state of Florida passed a law in 2015 banning the use of drones to monitor citizens from the air. But police in Miami Beach, Florida have come up with a clever workaround: They’re using a tethered…
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Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos Announce Pursuit of New Romantic Ventures
Photo: Phillip Faraone (Getty) Jeff Bezos surprised fans and investors this morning with news that him and long-time romantic partner MacKenzie Bezos (neé Tuttle) would be divorcing. The news comes just a day after Amazon, Bezos’s ecommerce firm, was named as the most valuable company on the planet—dethroning Microsoft for that honor. Though MacKenzie has…
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So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job
Artificial Intelligence So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job Illustration: Sam Woolley (Gizmodo) Brian Merchant4 minutes agoFiled to: AutomatonFiled to: Automaton Automaton labor Save Edit Embiggen Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Move ad slots Change in-article video Go to permalink During his first day on the job at a small 3D-modelling…
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Low-Cost-Smartphones Alcatel 1 100 US-Dollar billiger
Auf der CES 2019, die vom 8. bis 11. Januar in Las Vegas, das Unternehmen TCL Communication präsentiert die neuen Smartphones Alcatel 1. Smartphones 1X Alcatel und Alcatel 1C 2019 ist ein Budget-Modell mit modischem jetzt rahmenlose Design.
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Apple und Samsung stiegen die Preise für Smartphones aufgrund der steigenden Mehrwertsteuer
Apple und Samsung haben begonnen, die Förderung in Russland die Preise für Ihre Produkte. Dies lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der Ausgabe «Kommersant».
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Zahl des Tages: Wie viel verdient Tim Cook für das Jahr?
Bekannt geworden sind die Einkommen der Top-Manager von Apple im Jahr 2018. Information wurde veröffentlicht in einem Bericht von der Kommission für die wertvollen Papiere und die Brsen der USA.