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S26Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Added the Most Inventive Xbox Exclusive of the Decade   You find yourself in a familiar world that somehow seems…unfamiliar. There's green grass and gross dirt, like you're used to, but it all looks massive — even the random forest mushrooms you find have caps as wide as a school bus. You're only a teenager, and you've been reported missing. But you don't seem preoccupied by that — or the fact that you've been shrunk down to the size of a button.Engaging and whimsical, Grounded arrived for Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation consoles) on April 16 after enjoying a few years as an Xbox exclusive. The new version includes crossplay for all available platforms, which should be useful for its up-to-four-person co-op. Or you could stick to going it alone, depending how terrified you are of oversized ants (you can always use the game's mollifying Arachnophobia Mode to take care of the spiders).
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S47Pharmacists should be able to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription. Here's why  HERA Program Director - Health Workforce Optimisation Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland Professor Nissen was a past president of the Queensland Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, and a past national board member and vice-president. of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Professor Nissen was a past member of the Therapeutic Good Administration Advisory Committee on Chemicals Scheduling (ACCS).
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S16'Final Fantasy XVI's' Massive Update Could Fix the Game's Most Glaring Flaw  Final Fantasy XVI’s second DLC, The Rising Tide, is set to release on April 18, and the game is getting a massive update to coincide with it. Square Enix has released the patch notes for Version 1.31, bringing some surprisingly drastic changes that will alter the entire game, specifically the combat system. But most of the modifications are smart, and address a core criticism that fans of Final Fantasy XVI have had since its launch. The big focal point of this patch is one singular change — the game is increasing player attack outside of select Eikon battles, according to the notes.
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S63Drugs that aren't antibiotics can also kill bacteria - new method pinpoints how  Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until penicillin made them treatable. Surgical procedures that once came with a high risk of infection became safer and more routine. Antibiotics marked a triumphant moment in science that transformed medical practice and saved countless lives. But antibiotics have an inherent caveat: When overused, bacteria can evolve resistance to these drugs. The World Health Organization estimated that these superbugs caused 1.27 million deaths around the world in 2019 and will likely become an increasing threat to global public health in the coming years.
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S30Space exploration is not a luxury, it's a necessity  Candidat au doctorat en océanographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) These were the words of my friend Max, during a Christmas party where I was discussing my thesis project: studying places on Earth where the living conditions are so extreme, they could hold lessons for future space missions.
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S38Climate change is causing marine 'coldwaves' too, killing wildlife  The effects of ocean warming are profound and well-documented. But sometimes changes in the patterns of winds and ocean currents cause seawater to suddenly cool, instead.Surface temperatures can plummet rapidly — by 10ºC or more over a day or two. When these conditions persist for several days or weeks, the area experiences a “coldwave”, which is the opposite of more familiar marine heatwaves.
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S58S69Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available  Clare Pastore is a former Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which is one of the ACLU offices included in the organization's amicus brief in the case supporting the homeless litigants in city of Grants Pass v. Johnson. Her employment with the ACLU ended in 2007, years before this case was filed.On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could radically change how cities respond to the growing problem of homelessness. It also could significantly worsen the nation’s racial justice gap.
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S3Editor's Note: They also point out that while the negative correlations between stocks and bonds since the late 1990s have made the two assets a hedge for each other, this period was the exception, not the rule. It was essentially the product of freakishly loose monetary policy and very low inflation. S9 Fashioning the Perfect Fit With AI: Stitch Fix's Jeff Cooper  The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.Jeff Cooper parlayed his interest in neuroscience and human behavior into a career in data science and today works as a senior data science director for online retail subscription service Stitch Fix. Jeff joins the Me, Myself, and AI podcast to share how the company pairs human employees with intelligent technologies to keep up with customer preferences while realizing operational efficiencies. He also talks about how the company sustains extremely high feedback rates from consumers and how humans are training models, as well as vice versa, leading to interesting feedback loops.
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S15Amazon's Best Sci-Fi Apocalypse Show Just Made a Crucial Streaming Mistake  Fallout was made to be savored. The series, created by Westworld masterminds Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, played out over eight episodes, each peeling away a new layer from a devastating central mystery. There were flashbacks, side quests, and multiple storylines — everything you could possibly want from a video game adaptation. But instead of this series taking over the conversation for months, like other megahit prestige sci-fi show like The Mandalorian or The Boys, all eight Fallout episodes were available simultaneously. Suddenly, viewers were pulling all-nighters to watch the show as soon as possible, and the conversation surrounding the show was disjointed because everyone seemed to be at a different point in the show.
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S17'Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth' Sales Numbers Reveal a Growing Crisis for Square Enix  Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is one of the biggest games of the year, with its divisive open world and puzzling final hour dominating questions for weeks. Coming on the heels of the hit Final Fantasy 7 Remake, it’s natural to assume that Rebirth would be an easy win for Square Enix. But according to one analyst, its sales may not have stacked up, and that has me both worried and hopeful about the publisher’s recent shift in strategy.Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth only sold around half of what Remake did shortly after release, according to Daniel Ahmad, director of research and insights at Niko Partners. “It's selling about half of what Remake sold in the same timeframe and looks like it'll have a weaker tail (prior to any PS+-like release),” Ahmad said on social media.
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S1310 Years Later, Christopher Nolan's Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Is Finally Getting Its Fair Shot  There has never been another film like Interstellar — and it’s safe to say there never will be. Director Christopher Nolan, together with his brother Jonathan Nolan, crafted a sci-fi spectacle for the ages. Not only did Interstellar essentially rewrite the book on scientifically-accurate depictions of space and time, but it stuck a firm balance between its epic scope and its characters’ intimate inner lives. Interstellar is a film about humanity and hope, and one of the first to kick-start a new era of space-faring epics. Its impact cannot be overstated, even if its legacy largely lives on now in the form of out-of-context memes. Ten years ago, Nolan’s magnum opus was a global hit. Sure, its plot was dense and dizzying, and not many understood it. But many came out in droves to see it — and as Interstellar creeps up to its 10-year anniversary, many will have the opportunity to catch it on the big screen again.
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S2520 Years Ago, Quentin Tarantino's Most Underrated Revenge Thriller Pulled Off the Impossible  Kill Bill Vol. 2 was not the follow-up fans expected. But 20 years later, it has aged gracefully.When most people talk about Quentin Tarantino, they usually focus on either his skills as a visual stylist or his ability to pen memorable dialogue. It's not hard to see why, given the hyperviolent, flashy movies that he's made over the course of his career. However, what some fans of his work forget to mention is how much he loves his characters. One could even argue that there's no filmmaker alive right now who is as invested in the characters he creates as Tarantino.
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S32What happens when I stop taking a drug like Ozempic or Mounjaro?  Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them? This month, The Conversation’s experts explore their rise, impact and potential consequences.Drugs like Ozempic are very effective at helping most people who take them lose weight. Semaglutide (sold as Wegovy and Ozempic) and tirzepatide (sold as Zepbound and Mounjaro) are the most well known in the class of drugs that mimic hormones to reduce feelings of hunger.
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S33S40S48How the Lehrmann v Channel 10 defamation case shone an unflattering light on commercial news gathering  Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson’s victory in the defamation action brought against them by Bruce Lehrmann is the second big win inside a year for the Australian media using the defence of truth. However, it comes at a heavy cost to the reputations of the industry and the profession of journalism.The evidence about the Seven Network’s efforts to get Lehrmann to give an exclusive interview for its Spotlight program, allegedly including the purchase of cocaine and prostitute services for him, cast a pall over the way commercial TV news programs operate.
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S54"Urban form" and the housing crisis: Can streets and buildings make a neighbourhood more affordable?  As of 2007, most humans live in cities. Though this is a relatively recent trend, many of our settlements contain street, block, and building patterns that have developed over centuries. These patterns – which collectively make up what we call “urban form” – are far from a neutral backdrop: they influence who lives where, what businesses find footholds in which locations, and what makes some areas more diverse than others.“Bottom-up” and “top-down” are terms which are often used to pin down the two ends of the vast range of urban form. Bottom-up refers to neighborhoods which develop naturally and gradually, without a strict masterplan guiding their development. Top-down, on the other hand, refers to urban form that is designed by singular authors, with much tighter controls over, and ideals around, how it should develop over time.
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S61S62S14'Fallout 4' Is Finally Getting an Overdue Update -- But There's a Catch  Days after the Fallout television show earned universal praise from critics and fans of the role-playing game series, Bethesda Game Studios has finally announced a release date for the much-anticipated next-gen update for the most recent single-player offering in the series.The free update for 2015’s Fallout 4 will drop on April 25, the studio announced. It will add both a Performance and Quality mode that will take advantage of new console hardware to boost the game’s resolution and framerate to 4K and 60 frames per second respectively. Players on newer and older consoles will also receive stability improvements and quest fixes in the update. Over on PC, the game will get ultra-widescreen support. Fallout 4 will be on the Epic Games Store and on the Steam Deck, according to a blog post.
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S2041 Years Later, Star Wars Is Finally Pulling Off an Overdue First  Star Wars is an action-packed franchise, but not every moment is spent fending off TIE fighters and making monologues about the state of democracy. Though we may not see it in the movies often, the world of Star Wars is full of downtime, and there are countless ways to spend it: bellying up to the bar at a cantina, seeing the Mon Calamari Ballet’s performance of Squid Lake, or watching over the son of your former padawan. But one of the most iconic leisure activities in Star Wars has long been a peripheral part of the experience: the card game Sabacc. Thankfully, that’s all about to change.
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S4S12Tesla's Latest Cybertruck Hiccup Could Be Its Worst Yet  Cybertruck stumbles are starting to pile up. This time around, Tesla has to deal with a potentially dangerous issue where the accelerator pedal cover can slip off. It may sound minor, but the loose pedal cover can wedge into the Cybertruck’s interior, causing the EV to accelerate at full speed.
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S21Final Fantasy XIV's Graphics Update Already Has Players Divided  On Friday, April 12, Square Enix hosted the latest Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter, giving us our first in-depth look at the graphics update coming with Dawntrail. Over the weekend, the company also released the Dawntrail Benchmark, letting players run a technical test to see how their PCs will handle the new graphical quality. While the update is a massive improvement it’s created a bit of a conundrum: some players aren’t happy with how their characters now look. While there’s still time to refine the update before July, this has led to a handful of posts on social media and the official FFXIV forums, asking for changes. During the Live Letter, producer Naoki Yoshida described all the improvements featured in the graphics update The segment made it clear that this update is making massive improvements to FFXIV’s environment, drastically upping things like foliage density, texture quality, and amount of detailed items. While those changes have been universally praised, the graphics update also makes a number of far less desirable tweaks to player characters.
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S7S10Is Dark Matter Real? Inside the Theories That Leave This Mysterious Phenomenon Out  Is there more to the universe than meets the eye, or are the rules different than we thought? (Spoiler alert: it's probably the first one.)Stars at the outer edges of galaxies whirl around the galactic center far more swiftly than the laws of physics say they should. At even larger scales, galaxy clusters clump together in ways that should only be possible if the galaxies were more massive than they appear. And most of our models of how the Big Bang happened suggest that much more matter should have been created than we see.
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S23The Best Sci-Fi Anthology Series of the Year Is Streaming For Free Right Now  The most classic trick of science fiction is brevity. Although the genre is known for epic novels, dense films, and sprawling media franchises, historically, science fiction ideas propagated through short stories in magazines. Even Dune and Foundation were written and published in brief installments before becoming long-ish books. When big ideas of this genre seem long and complicated, very often, the best sci-fi ideas come in small packages.One indie sci-fi anthology series, just released on YouTube, proves that the short form is still alive and well. A Thousand Suns is a series created by filmmaker Macgregor, a cinematographer who has worked on everything from music videos for Dua Lipa to the Gerard Butler spy thriller Kandahar. Produced by Blackmilk Studios, with work from directors Ruairi Robinson, Tyson Wade Johnston, Tim Hyten, and Philip Gelatt, A Thousand Suns is basically a miniature, independent sci-fi film festival that you can watch right now. The creators describe it as “a gateway to our hopes, dreams, and nightmares,” but that description isn’t quite enough. Instead, A Thousand Suns does what an old issue of Astounding or Fantastic or Amazing Stories — it delivers great science fiction in short bursts that all leave a lasting impression. Here’s why you should watch all six episodes right now.
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S31Canada's Arctic defence policy update: All flash, no bang  The Canadian government’s recent defence policy update, Our North: Strong and Free, was recently released with considerable fanfare.Promised for a year, the delay seemed to indicate the Liberal government’s budgetary pressures given the ballooning deficit. In the end, it was more heat than light and was less of an update to address a worsening international security environment than a simple restatement of traditional approaches to Canada’s defence.
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S35S36S39How self-compassion can help activists deal with stress  In some cases they might be driven to leave activism altogether, hurting their activist movements as a whole.Activist work often isn’t successful at first: social progress takes a long time, especially in the face of systemic barriers. Activists tend to be very aware of the injustices they fight against and how hard it is to make change happen. In the face of these struggles, many activists can feel hopeless about the issues they are passionate about, causing serious mental distress.
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S42From forced kisses to power imbalances, violence against women in sport is endemic  Former Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales may face significant consequences for his non-consensual kiss of Spanish soccer star Jenni Hermoso. Even after millions of people watched Rubiales’ actions, it was obvious that Hermoso’s experience was minimised, that powerful organisations attempted to coerce her into stating it was consensual, and that it took the collective voices of women standing with Hermoso to fight back with a resounding “no”.
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S445 reasons why the Fast-track Approvals Bill threatens NZ's already fragile ecosystems  Conservation “good news” stories – the release of native birds into new habitats, for example – are always welcome. They recognise the work of conservation staff and volunteers who do the hard slog of checking trap lines and removing weeds.The reality is, however, that Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment is in deep trouble. Talk of a “crisis” can be unhelpful if it encourages a sense of hopelessness. But with the government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill approaching rapidly, now is arguably the time to use the word.
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S45For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery. Now we think it's partly about sex  The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered in illustrations of stars and planets, plants, zodiac symbols, naked women, and blue and green fluids. But the text itself – thought to be the work of five different scribes – is enciphered and yet to be understood.In an article published in Social History of Medicine, my coauthor Michelle L. Lewis and I propose that sex is one of the subjects detailed in the manuscript – and that the largest diagram represents both sex and conception.
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S49Why is the Sydney church stabbing an act of terrorism, but the Bondi tragedy isn't?  Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Just days after the deadly Westfield Bondi attacks, a second knife attack in Sydney has generated widespread shock and grief. This time, a 16-year-old entered an Assyrian church and rushed forward to stab the popular bishop presiding over a service, together with a priest who rushed to his defence. The shocking events were captured on the church’s video stream, and the news quickly reached thousands of members of Sydney’s large Assyrian community.
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S55The secret world of earthworms: meet the tiger worm and the nightcrawler  Most people are aware of earthworms, but probably give them little thought. Some have a notion they are “good for the soil”. Others regard them with distaste and think of slimy animals associated with decay. But these alien-looking animals are remarkable and control the foundations of life from their subterranean world.Earthworms engineer the soil that grows the food we eat and the flowers we love to look at. Indeed, they are the primary drivers in soil formation.
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S60The US is losing access to its bases in Niger - here's why that's a big deal  The United States was forced to stop its military operations in March 2024 in Niger – a landlocked, western African country in the Sahara desert. Niger may not immediately seem like a key ally for the U.S., but it served as a crucial staging ground for the U.S. military to carry out work and respond to terrorism in the region.U.S. representatives are currently trying to negotiate a deal to maintain some sort of military presence in Niger. But, for now, Niger’s new ruling junta has declared that the U.S. military presence is a violation of Niger’s constitution. The fate of the U.S.‘ presence, including two military drone bases, remains uncertain.
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S64Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity  Deepfakes – essentially putting words in someone else’s mouth in a very believable way – are becoming more sophisticated by the day and increasingly hard to spot. Recent examples of deepfakes include Taylor Swift nude images, an audio recording of President Joe Biden telling New Hampshire residents not to vote, and a video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on his troops to lay down their arms. Although companies have created detectors to help spot deepfakes, studies have found that biases in the data used to train these tools can lead to certain demographic groups being unfairly targeted.
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S67Grizzly bear conservation is as much about human relationships as it is the animals  In 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act following decades of extermination efforts and habitat loss that severely constrained their range. At that time, there were 700-800 grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, down from a historic 50,000. Today, there are about 2,000 grizzly bears in this area, and sometime in 2024 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to maintain their protected status or begin the delisting process.Listed species are managed by the federal government until they have recovered and management responsibility can return to the states. While listed, federal law prevents hunting of the animal and destruction of grizzly bear habitat. If the animal is delisted, some states intend to implement a grizzly bear hunting season.
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S68S70S1110 Years Later, Alex Garland Is Still Defying Hollywood's Worst Habit  Throughout his career, Alex Garland has prioritized vibes over plot, even while tackling some of the most controversial topics of our era.Alex Garland is a machine who takes in sociopolitical debate and puts out cinema. And I mean that in a good way. The director behind Civil War, Men, Annihilation, Ex Machina, and Devs (along with even more screenwriting credits, including 28 Days Later) has a penchant for taking hot-button issues and turning them into unforgettable genre movies that mostly coast on vibes. Expecting anything more from Garland is a mistake.
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S188 Years Later, the Biggest Marvel Movie of 2024 Could Repeat an MCU Trick  2024’s biggest Marvel movie is technically the only Marvel movie premiering this year — at least within the franchise’s cinematic universe. Sony Pictures is still working out the kinks of its Spider-Man adjacent franchise after the demise of Madame Web, and though the MCU is scaling back to focus on quality control, a fan-favorite anti-hero has become the face of a very public retooling.That anti-hero is none other than Deadpool, whose latest adventure, Deadpool & Wolverine, will reportedly be cleaning up Marvel’s multiversal mess. Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth is making the jump from Fox’s X-Men universe into the MCU proper, and he’s bringing a host of heroes — including Fox’s most famous X-Man, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) — along for the ride.
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S19Microsoft's New Surfaces Need to Beat MacBooks or Die Trying  Microsoft has the AI chops and big chip plans, but it needs to prove that those add up to a better experience than what Apple offers.Will putting all of its eggs in the AI basket pay off for Microsoft? The company has spent over a year reorganizing everything around its AI assistant Copilot, but with new hardware on the way, whether that was worth it will be put to the test.
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S24S27S28Why robots can be culturally insensitive - and how scientists are trying to fix it  A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanour and a pleasantly high-pitched voice.The robot – perhaps because of the man’s age – starts asking him about his memories of the second world war: “Please tell me what was the most difficult thing you and your family had to go through?” The elderly man goes on to talk about how his father was in the Royal Air Force and they didn’t see him for almost four years.
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S34S41Journalism students see an industry in crisis. It's time to talk about it  In February, Bell Media announced it was ending multiple CTV newscasts, making other programming cuts and selling 45 radio stations. Its parent company, BCE Inc., also announced it is cutting 4,800 jobs “at all levels of the company,” saying fewer than 10 per cent are at Bell Media. These decisions followed CBC’s December 2023 announcement that it would cut 600 positions, and news last fall that some Canadian journalism schools had shut down or paused their programs.
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S43S46Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried  Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just by imagining it moving. Can neural implants and generative AI really “read minds”? Is the day coming when computers can spit out accurate real-time transcripts of our thoughts for anyone to read?
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S51A timer can shorten your shower even when you have no incentive to save water - new study  Water Literacy and Sustainable Water Behaviour area lead at the Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey From Barcelona to Mexico City, popular tourist destinations are facing droughts and running out of water. Yet, a huge 40% of household water is used for showers and baths, with products like shower gel actively encouraging people to spend longer washing so finding simple and scalable ways to cut water consumption is crucial.
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S52Rihanna's religious imagery is a protest against feminine ideals of respectability and decency  Rihanna’s no stranger to causing a stir. This time, she’s attracted controversy and outrage with her “dehumanising and degrading” representation of a nun for the Spring 2024 cover of Interview magazine.This isn’t Rihanna’s first use of religious imagery in her work, either. Take her “sexy pope” outfit at the 2018 Met Gala, for example. It became an iconic look, since immortalised in a Madame Tussard’s wax work, that inspired Vogue magazine to declare “Rihanna won the Met Gala”.
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S53Water theft laws and penalties in the Murray-Darling Basin are a dog's breakfast. Here's how we can fix them  Water is one of Australia’s most valuable commodities. Rights to take water from our nation’s largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, are worth almost A$100 billion. These rights can be bought and sold or leased, with trade exceeding A$2 billion a year. But water is also being stolen (no-one knows how much) and the thieves usually get away with it.The federal Labor government came to power promising to crack down on water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin. The Productivity Commission has also expressed concerns about a lack of compliance and enforcement.
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S56Curb Your Enthusiasm bows out after 24 years - or does it?  Curb Your Enthusiasm, the show that revelled in awkward social encounters and misanthropy, came to an end on April 7 2024. Over its 12 seasons and 120 episodes, the show became a cult classic, leaving a lasting legacy on television comedy. Debuting in 2000, just over two years after the end of Seinfeld, we had a new groundbreaking sitcom from one of its creators.The show’s popularity was attested to by the number of stars who wanted to appear in it including Ted Danson, Meg Ryan, Jon Hamm, David Schwimmer, Mel Brooks, Vince Vaughn and Lin-Manuel Miranda among many others.
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S57Venezuela: why Maduro is ramping up his attack on free speech  Oscar Alejandro Pérez, a popular Venezuelan YouTuber who uploads travel videos, was arrested on terrorism charges on Sunday, March 31.Pérez was detained, and subsequently held for 32 hours, over a video he uploaded in 2023. In the video, he points to the Credicard Tower, a building in Caracas that hosts the servers that facilitate the country’s financial transactions, and jokingly adds: “If a bomb were to be thrown at that building, the whole national banking system would collapse.” He was accused of urging people to blow up the building, something Pérez denies.
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S59Man who caught virus from a monkey in a critical condition - B virus explained  A 37-year-old man wounded by a wild monkey in Hong Kong is in intensive care suffering from infection with B virus.Although this is the first reported case of a B virus infection in a human in Hong Kong, it is not the first in the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 50 cases of human infection since 1932, when the virus was first identified. Twenty-one of those infected died.
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S65In the age of cancel culture, shaming can be healthy for online communities - a political scientist explains when and how  “Cancel culture” has a bad reputation. There is growing anxiety over this practice of publicly shaming people online for violating social norms ranging from inappropriate jokes to controversial business practices.Online shaming can be a wildly disproportionate response that violates the privacy of the shamed while offering them no good way to defend themselves. These consequences lead some critics to claim that online shaming creates a “hate storm” that destroys lives and reputations, leaves targets with “permanent digital baggage” and threatens the fundamental right to publicly express yourself in a democracy. As a result, some scholars have declared that online shaming is a “moral wrong and social ill.”
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