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• Dish Network still reeling from week-old ransomware attack

  01-03-2023 21:47 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The TV provider Dish Network continues to recover from a ransomware attack it said disrupted operations, internet sites and call centers
  
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• Ice Age Europeans found refuge in Spain, doom in Italy

  01-03-2023 21:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New research reveals that the hunter-gatherer people who dominated Europe 30,000 years ago sought refuge from the last Ice Age in warmer climes, but only those who sheltered in the southwest of the continent appear to have survived
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee says his personal Twitter account was suspended

  01-03-2023 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  A personal Twitter account belonging to Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee was suspended without warning or explanation, according to the senator.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes has 2nd child as prison sentence looms

  01-03-2023 21:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes recently gave birth to her second child
  
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• Why you're about to see ChatGPT in more of your apps

  01-03-2023 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  Prepare to see ChatGPT responses in even more places.
  
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• Brutes and Brains: What We Know About Neanderthal Brain Size

  01-03-2023 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Tradition says that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were intellectually distinct. But archaeologists and anthropologists increasingly insist that the intellectual divide between the two species is shrinking. In fact, the traces of their ancient activities show more and more that the two species followed similar survival strategies. Residing in similar societies, they made similar sounds and manipulated similar tools. Apart from that, the most recent research shows that the two created sim
  
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• Metaverse in spotlight at MWC tech fair even as doubts arise

  01-03-2023 18:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Companies are spotlighting the metaverse at the MWC tech fair even as doubts of its viability have been creeping in following the initial hype
  
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• Flashback: Transhumanism’s “Wail Of Despair” For Immortality

  01-03-2023 17:19 via technocracy.news
  
  This article compares the path of Transhumanism with Christianity, noting similarities and contrasts. The Transhuman’s Holy Grail is achieving immortality, but alas, without a truly human body. Such a post-human dream is a dead end street because it strips away all that it means to be human. ⁃ TN EditorTranshumanism’s time seems to have come. The movement’s goals and most prominent personalities are ubiquitously boosted with laudatory stories in the media, its scientific-
  
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• The Gravettian Culture that Survived an Ice Age

  01-03-2023 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  The Gravettians dominated Ice Age Europe, where they hunted mammoths with particular aplomb. But in a warming world, their particular movement fell by the wayside. With so much of the world's water locked up in ice, the Gravettians built houses out of mammoth bones and carved early art — including the Venus of Willendorf statues.The Gravettian people first established themselves in Europe about 32,000 years ago, according to a new study that traces their movement across the continent, and
  
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• Animals That Have Gotten High or Drunk

  01-03-2023 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  You’ve heard of Cocaine Bear by now, the Georgia black bear that overdosed on cocaine dropped from a smuggler’s overburdened Cessna aircraft. But have you heard of Beer Bear? In 2004, a curious bear raided a camper’s cooler at Baker Lake Resort in Washington State and somehow made off with about three dozen beers, including Rainier Beer and Busch (which he eschewed). While Rainier suffers from a “Poor” score at BeerAdvocate.com, the bear drank the grainy beer until
  
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• Twitter users were unable to view tweets in latest service disruption under Musk

  01-03-2023 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter's timeline page appeared to experience a prolonged outage on Wednesday morning, marking the latest service disruption for the platform under new owner Elon Musk.
  
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• Twitter rolls out updated, 'zero tolerance' policy on violent speech

  01-03-2023 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  Twitter has unveiled a new policy on violent speech that expands restrictions on some types of threats uttered on its platform, including new prohibitions on using coded language to incite violence indirectly as well as a ban on wishing harm on others and on making direct threats against physical infrastructure.
  
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• House panel votes to advance bill empowering Biden to ban TikTok

  01-03-2023 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  A powerful House committee voted to advance legislation on Wednesday that would make it easier to ban TikTok from the United States and crack down on other China-related economic activity, amid vocal objections from civil liberties advocates who argue the proposal is unconstitutionally broad and threatens a wide range of online speech.
  
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• “Organoid Intelligence” (OI): Biocomputing And Intelligence-In-A-Dish

  01-03-2023 16:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need to do so. Now scientists are intending to use real human brain cells to leapfrog silicon technology to create a competitor to AI that is being called Organoid Intelligence, or OI. This is another slippery slope that could push boundaries in both directions. ⁃ TN EditorMachine-learning models like the one that powers ChatGPT are generating essays, short stories, and entire podcasts. But scientists are looking into
  
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• Musk To Start His Own Non-Woke AI Company To Compete With OpenAI?

  01-03-2023 15:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI that created ChatGPT. It turned out much darker than he had anticipated, with ChatGPT spewing woke diatribes and false information. Now, Musk is jockeying to create a non-woke competitor to OpenAI and challenge Microsoft’s domination of the resulting marketplace for the product.
  Microsoft has now added ChatGPT technology to its search engine, Bing, its browser, Edge, and its Office suite that includes Microsoft, Excel, etc.
  Since both Musk and Sam Altman (OpenAI
  
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• Examples of Gaslighting in a Relationship

  01-03-2023 15:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  These days, it seems like the word “gaslighting” is everywhere. The term has surged in popularity over the past decade, given new life by political commentators and columnists and buoyed by social media, where it now attracts billions of views across Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. In 2022, Miriam-Webster crowned gaslighting its word of the year.  But despite the term’s increasing ubiquity in pop culture, it underscores a serious
  
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• 5 Times Radioactive Items Went Missing

  01-03-2023 15:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Radioactive materials, also known as radionuclides, are chemicals in which the atom is unstable. As atoms try to restore balance, they break down and decay-causing the release of energy, known as radiation. Small amounts of radiation are all around us, including in everyday products such as microwaves and smoke detectors.Other uses include killing germs in food as well as helping diagnose and treat certain medical conditions. However, exposure to large amounts of radiation (by inhalation, a
  
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• Hoda Kotb handling family health matter

  01-03-2023 14:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  "TODAY" co-anchor Hoda Kotb has been away from the broadcast to handle a family health matter.
  
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• Here are the countries that have bans on TikTok

  01-03-2023 13:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The U.S. and Canada have banned the use of TikTok on government-issued mobile devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns grow in the West
  
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• Edmunds: The most affordable EVs for 2023

  01-03-2023 13:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The push for new, appealing electric vehicles has gained considerable momentum recently
  
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• TikTok to set one-hour daily screen time limit by default for users under 18

  01-03-2023 12:10 via cnn.com
  
  TikTok announced Wednesday that every user under 18 will soon have their accounts default to a one-hour daily screen time limit, in one of the most aggressive moves yet by a social media company to prevent teens from endlessly scrolling.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes has 2nd child as she tries to avoid prison

  01-03-2023 11:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes recently gave birth to her second child
  
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• India leads global list of internet shutdowns

  01-03-2023 08:30 via cnn.com
  
  India imposed the highest number of internet shutdowns globally in 2022, a new report has revealed, in what critics say is yet another blow to country's commitment to freedom of speech and access to information.
  
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• EU bans TikTok from official devices across all three institutions

  01-03-2023 05:44 via cnn.com
  
  The European Parliament on Tuesday banned TikTok from staff devices over cybersecurity concerns, meaning the Chinese video-sharing app is now barred in all three of the EU's main institutions.
  
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• Could TikTok be banned in the U.S. for good?

  01-03-2023 01:03 via nbcnews.com
  The social media giant TikTok is the latest front in rising tensions between the U.S. and China. NBC News’ Jacob Ward shares more about the ban on government devices due to data concerns.
  
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• US Marshals computer system hit by ransomware attack

  01-03-2023 00:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  There was a major breach of a U.S. Marshals Service computer system this month with ransomware
  
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