Nikolai Vinokurov | Getty Images René has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine. The 34-year-old lives more than 1,000 km away in Nuremberg,… Read More »Activists reach Russians behind Putin’s propaganda wall
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Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as an alien who comes to Earth in hopes of saving the humans on his home planet in Showtime’s new series The… Read More »Watch the First Five Minutes of Showtime’s Man Who Fell to Earth
police supp. David Brown’s Update on Mass Shootings in South Chicago
Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of… Read More »DeepMind’s new AI helps restore damaged old texts
Sony’s latest versions of the Walkman, the groundbreaking portable music player first released in 1979, look nothing like the original cassette player that came with… Read More »Do you still love the Walkman?
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It seemed like a funny question, meant to provoke the star witness: “Do you think you’re good at lying?” But it is the crucial issue… Read More »The Key to a $4 Billion Fraud Case: A Banker Who Says He ‘Lied a Lot’
Neil Bradbury is a professor of physiology whose first book, A taste for poison, uses stories of poisons and poisons as a means of explaining… Read More »Learning Physiology By Watching The Poisons That Turn It Off
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you saw the many cryptocurrency-related Super Bowl ads, and you may have found them weird, or deeply dystopian, or just unsettlingly familiar. Nevertheless, you may… Read More »How people actually make money with cryptocurrencies
Long hailed by its proponents as a safe hedge in uncertain times, Bitcoin’s value has been falling steadily over the past few weeks.
As Fox News defends itself in the Dominion case and in a lawsuit by another voting systems company, Smartmatic, the network’s attorneys have argued that… Read More »First Amendment scholars want the media to lose these cases
