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Bendy camera the width of a human hair can take accurate 3D images

Bendy camera the width of a human hair can take accurate...

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A tiny flexible camera made from an extremely thin fibre-optic cable can transmit...

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Inside the fight to stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas

Inside the fight to stop destructive fishing in marine...

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Marine protected areas in the English channel are still at risk from fishing activities,...

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Japan extends emergency measures as covid-19 spikes during Olympics

Japan extends emergency measures as covid-19 spikes during...

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Tokyo is seeing a record-breaking rise in covid-19 cases as thousands of athletes...

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Black holes with magnetic field ‘hair’ shed it in loops of hot plasma

Black holes with magnetic field ‘hair’ shed it in loops...

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When black holes are born with magnetic fields, simulations show they shed those...

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SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and response services, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and response...

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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and response...

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After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly centralized control, online anonymity is starting to look like a threatened privilege than a right (John Herrman/New York Times)

After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly...

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John Herrman / New York Times:After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly...

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Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which offers AI-powered customer experience management tools, for $1.125B in stock (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which...

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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which...

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Profile of Bored Ape Yacht Club, an NFT collection that sold for $2M+ in April, spawned a collector community, and has since seen ~$100M in trading activity (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

Profile of Bored Ape Yacht Club, an NFT collection that...

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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:Profile of Bored Ape Yacht Club, an NFT collection that...

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How the radical environmental themes of the game Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997 for the original PlayStation, influenced a generation of environmentalists (Stephen K. Hirst/Ars Technica)

How the radical environmental themes of the game Final...

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Stephen K. Hirst / Ars Technica:How the radical environmental themes of the game...

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Square says it's buying Australia-based buy now, pay later service Afterpay for $29B in an all-stock deal, paying a 30% premium on Afterpay's last closing (Reuters)

Square says it's buying Australia-based buy now, pay later...

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Reuters:Square says it's buying Australia-based buy now, pay later service Afterpay...

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Some K-pop stars are bypassing Twitter and Facebook to create platforms for fans, like Universe, which features AI-generated voice calls with the idols (Stitch/The Verge)

Some K-pop stars are bypassing Twitter and Facebook to...

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Stitch / The Verge:Some K-pop stars are bypassing Twitter and Facebook to create...

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Zoom agrees to pay $85M and bolster its security practices to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged user privacy violations and Zoombombing (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Zoom agrees to pay $85M and bolster its security practices...

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:Zoom agrees to pay $85M and bolster its security practices...

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Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite ground station on the Isle of Man, aiming to provide "blanket coverage" across Great Britain (Francis Agustin/Insider)

Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite...

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Francis Agustin / Insider:Filings: Starlink has secured a license to build a satellite...

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Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok failed to act on 84% of posts spreading anti-Semitism reported via their own complaint systems (Maya Wolfe-Robinson/The Guardian)

Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok...

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Maya Wolfe-Robinson / The Guardian:Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,...

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Profile of Netflix's head of movies Scott Stuber, who has grown original film output from 21 in 2016 to 70+ in 2021, as it makes deals with Spielberg and others (Brent Lang/Variety)

Profile of Netflix's head of movies Scott Stuber, who has...

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Brent Lang / Variety:Profile of Netflix's head of movies Scott Stuber, who has grown...

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Bangalore-based online learning startup Unacademy raises $440M round led by Temasek at a $3.44B valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Bangalore-based online learning startup Unacademy raises...

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:Bangalore-based online learning startup Unacademy raises...