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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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Edward Fredkin, who, despite never graduating from college, became an influential computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer of artificial intelligence… Read More »Edward Fredkin, 88, who saw the universe as one big computer, dies
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Even as the rain fell, the sprawling construction site was buzzing. Yellow and orange excavators danced slowly around a maze of muddy pits, waving giant… Read More »The war between Russia and Ukraine has forever changed this business in Finland
