SpaceHey is a new social media platform with MySpace vibes
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SpaceHey is a new social media platform with MySpace vibes

SpaceHey allows you to put all your style on your social media profile while connecting with other users like it’s 2006. Anton Röhm, an 18-year-old student with a passion for the retro world of the internet, came to the conclusion after talking with a group of friends that there is currently no social media network…

Can we please get rid of the abomination that is Daylight Savings Time?
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Can we please get rid of the abomination that is Daylight Savings Time?

It’s early Sunday morning. Our clocks “spring forward” an hour even as the position of the Earth relative to the sun barely changed. Thanks for nothing, Daylight Savings Time. Like millions of Americans, I wake up groggy. That grogginess (and grumpiness) spills into Monday and the rest of the week as our internal clocks have…

Will Notre Dame be in the new EA Sports College Football game?
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Will Notre Dame be in the new EA Sports College Football game?

Notre Dame football fans may soon get a chance to play as the Fighting Irish in an upcoming video game. EA Sports College Football was just announced today. The new college football video game comes from the same company that makes Madden NFL 21. Of course, anyone who knows football has heard of Madden. Slightly…

Robinhood app freezes GameStop and AMC stocks; trading to resume tomorrow
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Robinhood app freezes GameStop and AMC stocks; trading to resume tomorrow

Robinhood will allow “limited buying” of GameStop and AMC tomorrow, the company announced late Thursday. The soaring GameStop stock took a hit on Thursday as the free trading platform Robinhood froze the stock along with AMC. GameStop‘s stock – which traded as low as $2.80 in April 2020 – peaked at $467 this morning as…

Call of Duty publisher Activision wants AM General’s lawsuit thrown out
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Call of Duty publisher Activision wants AM General’s lawsuit thrown out

Year after year, Call of Duty is one of the top-selling video games on the market. Each entry in the series is the video game equivalent of a summer blockbuster. The first-person shooter features over-the-top stories based on both classic and modern warfare. Early games in the franchise were set during World War II, but…

AI pioneer warns of dangers posed from misused AI
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AI pioneer warns of dangers posed from misused AI

A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence warned that “dangers of abuse” of AI “are very real.” The warning from Canadian computer science professor and leading AI researcher Yoshua Bengio came in a Q&A with the journal Nature published Thursday. The interview was conducted back in January, before Bengio was named along with two others the latest recipients of…

Ruptured Pipeline Dumps Crude Oil Along California’s Pacific Coast
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Ruptured Pipeline Dumps Crude Oil Along California’s Pacific Coast

An oil pipeline that runs along the coast of southern California broke on Tuesday, according to officials, dumping tens of thousands of gallons of crude onto local beaches and creating a 4-mile slick in the Pacific Ocean. Initial estimates put the spill at about 21,000 gallons Tuesday, but the Associated Press cited a U.S. Coast…

Bees Dying Off in Record Numbers Continue Dire Trend
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Bees Dying Off in Record Numbers Continue Dire Trend

A nationwide survey of U.S. beekeepers released on Wednesday found that the pollinators have been hit by another massive population drop, with 42 percent of bee colonies nationwide dying in the last year — the second-largest annual recorded loss to date and a number that is too high to be sustainable, according to researchers. The…

Grand Canyon Development Project Draws Conservationist Opposition
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Grand Canyon Development Project Draws Conservationist Opposition

The U.S. Forest Service is considering approval for a mega-development on the outskirts of the majestic Grand Canyon — a project the superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park has called one of the greatest threats in the 96-year history of the park. The Stilo Development Group, based in Italy, has proposed a sprawling urban development…