On July 1, Mississippi and Virginia passed laws requiring adult websites to verify users’ ages, despite attempts by Pornhub to defy the law. Those efforts… Read More »Pornhub is shutting down more US users in continued protest against age verification laws
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Enlarge / Artist’s depiction of the early solar system, which was at risk of a nearby supernova. Stars are thought to form in huge filaments… Read More »Our solar system may have survived a supernova because of the way the sun formed
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As the Cold War was winding down, physicist Lewis Branscomb feared that America’s economic and scientific superiority was in danger. Declining scientific literacy and critical… Read More »Field science champion Lewis Branscomb dies at 96
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A Louisiana federal court on Tuesday banned parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about large amounts of online content, a… Read More »Federal judge restricts Biden officials’ contacts with social media sites
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The artist Stephanie Dinkins has long been a pioneer in combining art and technology in her Brooklyn-based practice. In May, she received $100,000 from the… Read More »Black artists say AI is biased, with algorithms erasing their history
Tartan, whisky, restaurants in the middle of nowhere – they are all reimagined in the new fashionable “Outlander” area.
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