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Chinese Province Could Ban Bitcoin Mining to Cut Energy Use
Inner Mongolia said: Bitcoin is not accepted here anymore!Photo: Lam Yik Fei (Getty Images) Over the past decade, bitcoin has…
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Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Republican Senator Rand Paul appears before a Facebook logo at a Fox News/Facebook hosted presidential primary debate in 2015; used…
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How This Ancient, Defleshed Human Skull Ended Up in Such a Strange Spot
The skull as it was found inside the cave shaft. Image: Belcastro et al, 2021, PLOS ONE Archaeologists may have…
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Activision Blizzard Hires Bush-Era Torture Apologist As Chief Compliance Officer
Photo: Lukas Schulze (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard announced yesterday that Frances F. Townsend, a former George W. Bush-era counterterrorism appointee…
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Big Oil’s New Slate of Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst
Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M.Photo: Charlie Riedel (AP) The past year has been not great for oil…
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Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute is planning to endorse a carbon tax but has no plans to stop funding climate-denying candidates—or…
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Glitch Workers Win Historic Union Bargaining Agreement
Graphic: Glitch media asset Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with…
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An AI Was Taught to Play the World’s Hardest Video Game
What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that…
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Abigail Allwood’s Hunt for Alien Fossils on Mars Has Begun
When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down on the iron-rich…
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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies
Austin Beutner, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), receives the covid-19 vaccine on March 1, 2021 in…
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