A search engine that uses its advertising revenue to fund the planting of millions of trees has seen a 1,000% surge in users during the Amazon rainforest fires. Ecosia said they had ‘mixed feelings’ about…
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Joe Biden calls game developers “little creeps” who make titles that “teach you how to kill”
Not a Call of Duty fan, then? Politicians rarely have anything good to say about video games, and former US vice president Joe Biden is particularly unimpressed by the industry, calling developers he met at the…
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Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab
At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future. A national system to…
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Flying coronavirus class: Photos of American Diamond Princess passengers’ flight from hell
There’s first class and there’s business class. But on this flight, everyone flew coronavirus class. These exclusive photos show the surreal, polyethylene-wrapped aerial hell suffered by 329 American passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship…
The 40’s and 50’s were rife with the misleading mania of printed advertisements. Back when newspapers served a broader purpose than lining an assortment of animals’ cages and making pinatas, they ran on the ads…
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Biological laboratory with the “most dangerous pathogens in the world” opened in Wuhan shortly before the outbreak
More than 50 million people in China are practically quarantined because a deadly new virus has suddenly erupted in Wuhan. The disease is said to have originated in a meat market in Wuhan and spread…
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Deepfake danger: what a viral clip of Bill Hader morphing into Tom Cruise tells us
Are deepfakes a threat to democracy? The creator of a series of viral clips says he is raising awareness of their subversive potential You’ve heard of deepfakes – doctored videos fabricating apparently real footage of…
On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling 216,000 gaming dice onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta in what could be…
Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a…
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Democrats would prefer a ‘giant meteor extinguishing all human life’ than another Trump election win
If you need proof that some folks in America have had enough of Donald Trump already, look no further than an answer to a recent poll aimed at Democrats. As the New Hampshire primaries get…