Day: January 10, 2022
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8 Facts About the Classical Music Composer Mozart
8 Facts About the Classical Music Composer Mozart Barbara Krafft, Posthumous Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1819 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) Few composers are as well renowned as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) . Alongside Beethoven, he is one of the most influential musicians of the Classical period, which dominated Europe between 1730 and 1820. […]
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Caring Lifeguards Carry a 95-Year-old Woman to the Beach Every Day of Her Vacation
Caring Lifeguards Carry a 95-Year-old Woman to the Beach Every Day of Her Vacation Everyone should enjoy their beach vacation, no matter their age or circumstance. Taking in the sight of lapping waves and an endless horizon is one of life’s great pleasures. The lifeguards at Orange Beach in Alabama were committed to making sure […]
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The next big Apple Watch upgrade should be an improved battery
There was huge anticipation for the Apple Watch Series 7 last year. Rumors suggested that Apple was working on a new flat design and features like blood pressure monitoring. While none of that happened (and probably won’t for the next Apple Watch), Apple should work on something that matters to all users: improving the battery […]
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30 Incredible Winning Photos From the 2021 Nature Photographer of the Year Contest
30 Incredible Winning Photos From the 2021 Nature Photographer of the Year Contest “Winter migration,” by Terje Kolaas. Overall Winner / NPOTY 2021” The beauty of nature is boundless. And through the lens of a talented photographer, we often get to see its magnificence from a new perspective. The winners of the 2021 Nature Photographer […]
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Meta will require employees to have a COVID-19 booster to return to the office
The company has announced changes to its office reopening plans. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will require staffers to have received a COVID-19 booster shot to be able to work from its US offices, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Meta had already said that […]
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Halo Infinite is getting a hotfix for the game’s epic but frustrating 12-player matchmaking
Having trouble connecting to a big game of Halo Infinite multiplayer with a bunch of your friends in the game’s 12-person Big Team Battle mode? That will hopefully soon be a thing of the past: developer 343 says it’s not only aware, it believes it has “a fix in hand for the core issue” and […]
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Super Pumped gets a new, longer teaser with more Uber shenanigans
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Travis Kalanick in the show’s first season. | Image: Showtime There’s a new teaser for the first season of Super Pumped, Showtime’s upcoming anthology show about Silicon Valley startups that hit it big. As we saw in the teaser from December, season one will revolve around Uber and its former CEO Travis […]
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“Aw, screw it”: LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery
Enlarge / Visitors view a 10-meter-tall Pikachu glass and steel sculpture in Shanghai, China On November 28, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Future Publishing) A California appeals court has upheld the firings of two Los Angeles Police Department officers who failed to respond to a robbery in progress and instead went searching for a Snorlax […]
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NASA Selects 10 Astronauts From More Than 12,000 Applicants To Join Artemis Mission
NASA Selects 10 Astronauts From More Than 12,000 Applicants To Join Artemis Mission Have you ever dreamed of one day being an astronaut in space? Just recently, NASA announced its latest trainee astronauts that will report for duty at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. Ten candidates were selected from a group of more than […]
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Poll: Would you prefer an iPhone with a pill-shaped front camera or a hole-punch design?
Rumors have been suggesting that Apple is working on a new design for this year’s iPhone models, which are likely to be called iPhone 14. While we already expected that the notch would give way to a more discreet cutout, a recent leak has suggested that iPhone 14 Pro will have a pill-shaped front-facing camera. […]