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Pinterest Is Doing Livestreaming Now Too
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Image-sharing social network Pinterest is diving into the live events space, TechCrunch first reported on…
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Ransomware Gang Behind Pipeline Hack ‘Quits’ the Business
Photo: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP (Getty Images) Less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would seek to…
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Balmuda, Knonw for Fancy Toasters, to Release Android Phone
Balmuda is known for its modern take on kitchen gadgets overseas. Now it’s trying its hand at Android phones. Image:…
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Here’s What to Expect From Google I/O
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Google canceled last year’s annual Google I/O developers conference due to the pandemic, but this…
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Albert Einstein Ponders Birds and Bees in Previously Unpublished Letter
Einstein in 1946, a few years before he typed out his thoughts on animal physics.Photo: Photo by Central Press/Getty Images…
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Ex-Apple Worker Claims Apple Knew About His ‘Misogynistic’ Writings
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Former Apple employee Antonio García Martínez has refuted the company’s portrayal of his high-profile ouster…
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academic publishing
Archivists Are Trying To Save Sci-Hub
Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo) For roughly the past decade, Sci-Hub—aka, the “Pirate Bay of Science—has been giving researchers, reporters, and…
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Waymo Rescues Autonomous Taxi Stumped by Traffic Cones
Photo: Glenn Chapman (Getty Images) The taxi hurt itself in confusion! A comedy of errors unfolded after one of Waymo’s…
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Animals Men Think They Can Beat in a Fight and Why They Can’t
Some old timey dude preparing to lose a fight to a kangaroo in London in 1931.Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive (Getty…
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Scientists Want to Investigate the Origins of the Coronavirus
British artist Luke Jerram looking at his glass sculpture of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, titled “coronavirus COVID-19,” in a photo taken…
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