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The best video games out in 2023

The best video games out in 2023

Landwebs Jan 16, 2023 0 1

From exploring the world of The Expanse to Starfield, a sci-fi role-playing game...

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How to force your rhubarb for an earlier, sweeter crop

How to force your rhubarb for an earlier, sweeter crop

Landwebs Jan 16, 2023 0 1

Depriving rhubarb plants of light for several weeks forces them to grow fast and...

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Strong El Niño could make 2024 the first year we pass 1.5°C of warming

Strong El Niño could make 2024 the first year we pass 1.5°C...

Landwebs Jan 16, 2023 0 1

Early modelling suggests the world’s climate could shift to an El Niño pattern towards...

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Protected areas in Britain fail to stop loss of insects and spiders

Protected areas in Britain fail to stop loss of insects...

Landwebs Jan 16, 2023 0 1

Invertebrate monitoring data from 1990 to 2018 show that protected areas in Britain...

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Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every few years

Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every...

Landwebs Jan 16, 2023 0 2

A black hole almost 900 million light years away consumes part of an orbiting star...

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Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K, if the $500K of ads are run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl (Wall Street Journal)

Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad...

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Wall Street Journal:Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending...

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Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue office, and Microsoft doesn't plan to renew a Seattle office lease, amid job cuts and remote work's popularity (Paul Roberts/The Seattle Times)

Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue office,...

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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times:Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue...

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How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg, gives some insight into Elon Musk's Twitter (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)

How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis,...

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Nitish Pahwa / Slate:How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis,...

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Hackers have begun exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used web hosting interface (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Hackers have begun exploiting a critical remote code execution...

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:Hackers have begun exploiting a critical remote code execution...

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Amazon is testing a ~$12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day shipping and ad-supported Prime Video in standard definition; Prime costs ~$18/year in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Amazon is testing a ~$12/year Prime Lite in India with...

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:Amazon is testing a ~$12/year Prime Lite in India with...

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A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay park salaries and for infrastructure projects (Adam Popescu/MIT Technology Review)

A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running...

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Adam Popescu / MIT Technology Review:A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which...

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Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B units in 2022, the first annual drop since at least 2004, after growing 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 (Bloomberg)

Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B...

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Bloomberg:Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B units in 2022,...

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An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF ordered FTX co-founder Gary Wang to open a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money (Pete Syme/Insider)

An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF...

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Pete Syme / Insider:An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF ordered...

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SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil (Wall Street Journal)

SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the...

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Wall Street Journal:SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US...

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How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts impacted large markets outside the US, like India, with more hate speech, and Japan, with less political trending topics (Washington Post)

How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts impacted large...

Landwebs Jan 15, 2023 0 7

Washington Post:How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts impacted large markets outside...

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Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation would be provided publicly (Erin Woo/The Information)

Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access...

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Erin Woo / The Information:Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access...