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Pornhub challenges EU over online content rules
One of the world's most popular pornography websites, Pornhub, is contesting new EU rules. Pornhub is facing new obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), including strict requirements on age verification.
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World's earliest forest discovered, scientists say
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Robot ships: Huge remote controlled vessels are setting sail
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AI can be easily used to make fake election photos - report
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Can the Panama Canal save itself?
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German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
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Dinosaur-age 'nightmarish' sea lizard fossil found
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Would a Submarine Work as a Spaceship?
How long could a nuclear submarine last in orbit? Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/books More serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/ Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and T
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Concern as the gambling industry embraces AI
"I remember setting alarms for 4am on payday, anxiously waiting to gamble as soon as my salary hit my account. By 8am, I found myself seeking loans to survive the month."Danny Cheetham started visiting local bookies aged 18, gambling on the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).
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ISS launch: New US-Russian crew heads to space station
A SpaceX rocket carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Florida on Monday bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Star dune: Scientists solve mystery behind Earth's largest desert sands
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What Happens If We Nuke Space?
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime EMPs aren’t science fiction. Real militaries are experimenting on real EMP generators,
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Elon Musk sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over Microsoft links
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, arguing it has breached the principles he agreed to when he helped found it in 2015. The lawsuit - which has also been filed against OpenAI boss Sam Altman - says the firm has departed from its original non-profit, open source mission.
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More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests
More than a billion people are living with obesity around the world, global estimates published in The Lancet show. This includes about 880 million adults and 159 million children, according to 2022 data.
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How ‘flow state’ can heal trauma | Steven Kotler for Big Think
Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► How to enter ‘flow state’ on command https://youtu.be/znwUCNrjpD4 Flow is an altered state of consciousness in which we
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Should You Walk or Run When It's Cold?
Hi! My name is Henry, I make MinutePhysics, and you can support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Is it better to walk or run when it's cold out? If you run, then you have to deal with wind, wind chill, etc, but your body generates more heat. If you stay still, standing or walking
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Call My Cell
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Leap year: French readers enjoy world’s only four-year newspaper
The world's only quadrennial, or four-yearly newspaper, has hit the kiosks again in France with the release of a new issue of the satirical La Bougie du Sapeur. The singularity of the 20-page tabloid is that it comes out only on 29 February - so once every leap-year.
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Ghana passes bill making identifying as LGBTQ+ illegal
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Organiser of 'white party' in Sri Lanka apologises after backlash
An organiser of a "white party" in Sri Lanka has apologised after the event sparked a backlash online. The event's advertisement specified a white dress code, but also had a line saying "Face control: White" - which was largely interpreted to mean the event was open only to white people.
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Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix
In the last few days, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini has had what is best described as an absolute kicking online. Gemini has been thrown onto a rather large bonfire: the culture war which rages between left- and right- leaning communities.
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Why South Korean women aren't having babies
On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, Yejin is cooking lunch for her friends at her apartment, where she lives alone on the outskirts of Seoul, happily single. While they eat, one of them pulls up a well-worn meme of a cartoon dinosaur on her phone. "Be careful," the dinosaur says.
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Nato allies reject Emmanuel Macron idea of troops to Ukraine
Several Nato countries, including the US, Germany and the UK, have ruled out deploying ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing should be excluded". Mr Macron said there was "no consensus" on sending Western soldiers to Ukraine.
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The Paradox of an Infinite Universe
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Climate change: 'Ice bumps' reveal history of Antarctic melting
Scientists say they now have a better idea of exactly where and when the margin of Antarctica started melting. They've traced the changing shapes of bumps on the ice surface that mark locations where glaciers are anchored in place.
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