Month: August 2022

Accept Irrelevance! You’re Being Replaced! Alexandra Wuest  Share article The Replacement by Alexandra Wuest The news comes in the form of an email. YOU’RE BEING REPLACED, the message says, and I glance around the office. The typists are typing, the copy machine is copying, and the shredder is shredding. The room looks like the type of
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Customers buying pork at a food market in Shanghai, China. Prices of pork, a food staple in China, rose by 20.2% in July 2022 compared to a year ago, official data showed. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s consumer price index hit a two-year high in July as pork prices rebounded,
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LOGAN, Utah — Blue Canyon Technologies won its largest constellation order to date, a contract with weather technology company Tomorrow.io. Under a contract announced Aug. 9, Blue Canyon, a Raytheon subsidiary, will provide products and services for 18 Tomorrow.io cubesats. In addition to providing cubesat buses and payloads elements, Blue Canyon will support payload integration,
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News Talib Kweli Sues Jezebel Over 2020 Story on Alleged Harassment The website published an article about the rapper’s suspension from Twitter, and the rapper now argues that it has caused him “emotional distress” and cost him $300,000 By Matthew Strauss August 9, 2022 Facebook Twitter Talib Kweli, March 2022 (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter
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Before smartwatches took the spotlight, there was another type of techie timepiece wrapped proudly around the wrist of the world’s fashion-forward men. Featuring stylish silhouettes and technical dials, digital watches were the modern alternative to the analog designs next-gen wearers were growing tired of.  However, while their introduction to the world of watches was welcomed,
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Magnetic spins that ‘freeze’ when heated (Courtesy: Radboud University) Usually, when materials heat up, they become more disordered. Now, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have found evidence for the opposite happening in the element neodymium, which develops long-range order as its temperature increases. The presence of this phase transition could shed light on
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Serena Williams of the US waves as she walks off the court after losing against Japan’s Naomi Osaka during their women’s singles semi-final match on day eleven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on February 18, 2021. William West | AFP | Getty Images Tennis legend Serena Williams announced her retirement in a
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Gaming software company AppLovin on Tuesday made an offer to buy peer Unity Software in a $17.54 billion (roughly Rs. 1,39,600 crore) all-stock deal, looking to tap into growing demand for three-dimensional gaming. Both companies make software used to design video games. Game-making software has also been expanding to new technologies such as the so-called metaverse, or immersive
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