Month: October 2022

I had early inklings that my relationship with alcohol wasn’t healthy—when I turned to addiction memoirs, things only got worse. When I started drinking—champagne at a party with my parents, when I was 14—I was not thinking about preventing my own addiction. I was not thinking about how addiction has popped up in numerous branches
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The Polygon blockchain NFT project Killer Cat Bengal Club, announced a new plan for releasing prize winnings faster to their holders. Starting this Fall, Killer Cat Bengal Club will award one of the many crypto prizes planned in their roadmap, every 15 mints. Gone is the old and antiquated roadmap which would wait until 25% of
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The logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google outside the company’s office in Beijing, China, August 8, 2018. Thomas Peter | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Alphabet — The search engine parent dropped 5.8% after Alphabet missed third-quarter earnings expectations, and reported a decline in YouTube ad revenue. Alphabet earned $1.06 per share
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“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.” Words beautifully stated by Graydon Carter. This quote inspired me ahead of my great interview with Kristina McKean, founder of
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In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT DETROIT – General Motors easily beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations during the third quarter, while signaling caution and confirming its full-year results are likely to come in near the “mid-point” of its previously announced forecast. The Detroit automaker on Tuesday stressed that demand for its
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This article is the second in a series of essays written by Black physicists and co-published with Physics Today as part of #BlackInPhysics Week 2022, an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and their contributions to the scientific community, and to revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like. This year’s theme
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Apple is cutting back production of iPhone 14 Plus and is increasing the output of the more expensive iPhone 14 Pro due to lukewarm demand, market research firm TrendForce said Tuesday. The share of more expensive iPhone 14 Pro series has increased to 60 percent of the total output from the initially planned 50 percent,
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US’ Women’s National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022.  Evgenia Novozhenina | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — A Russian court denied WNBA
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In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brent Lewin | Bloomberg via Getty Images Amazon announced Tuesday it’s adding Venmo as a payment option at checkout. The feature will begin rolling out in the Amazon app and on amazon.com starting Tuesday, before launching for U.S. users by Black Friday on Nov. 25,
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Sara Lippmann’s debut Lech is a difficult to describe, marvelous contradiction of a novel. It is, in the author’s own words, “quiet,” and yet Lech takes an unflinching look at some of the worst, most dramatic parts of human nature—addiction, voyeurism, abuse, antisemitism, violence. Ultimately a narrative driven by characters in various stages of crisis,
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SAN FRANCISCO – Looking for immortality? Space Crystals LLC might have the answer. The startup, founded in 2021 by Waypoint 2 Space CEO Kevin Heath, plans to send crystals grown in microgravity and infused with customer DNA to the moon next year. “We’ve got the technology,” Heath told SpaceNews. “We are in the midst of
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Two Chinese intelligence officers have been criminally charged with attempting to obstruct the prosecution of the Huawei global telecommunications company by trying to steal confidential information about the case, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday. Garland also announced two more criminal cases related to efforts by the Chinese government to interfere in U.S. affairs. One
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