Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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TikTok's algorithm leads users from transphobic videos to far-right rabbit holes
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Repeatedly clicking the first link on Wikipedia ends up at "Philosophy" 97% of the time
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Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside
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Coca Cola and soda consumption growth in India
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Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down
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At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church
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Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
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India’s power outage risks increase as coal stockpiles plummet
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Swedish fuel retailers required to display eco-labels at pumps – colour-coded labels will show buyers the percentage of renewables and fossil raw materials
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A letter from a jailed Line 3 water protector
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Leeks, tropicalizers, and cutting the soap: A guide to global startup slang
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Merck says research shows its COVID-19 pill works against variants
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The Mustard Museum: Passion for a condiment
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Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats eighteen months before outbreak
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China deems all cryptocurrency transactions illegal
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Twitter rolls out tipping with bitcoin, explores verifying NFT profile pics
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Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
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Finnish director Jalmari Helander has started principal photography in Lapland and Helsinki on the majority English-language World War II action film ‘Immortal’
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Denmark risks falling short of its 2030 climate targets unless it builds far more wind and solar farms and overcomes bureaucracy and local resistance to turbines
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Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
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Emmys: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ wins best limited series
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Google, Apple remove Alexei Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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Scientists present plan to cool the world through geoengineering whiter clouds
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Vihreä liitto become first party in the Finnish Parliament to call for legalisation of cannabis – initiative approved at party conference by narrowest possible majority 183-181
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Employees of Activision Blizzard file Unfair Labor Practice charge against the gaming company
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MIT scientists report 'major advance' in fusion energy
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World's biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland – operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year
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Danish government has presented a proposal to get foreigners and people with immigrant backgrounds to work thirty-seven hours a week in exchange for welfare benefits
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Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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Michael K. Williams found dead in apartment
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Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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China cuts amount of time minors can spend playing online video games to three hours a week, with an hour extra during holidays
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Fire rainbow over West Virginia
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Queen Margrethe II, reigning monarch of Denmark, is to design the sets for a forthcoming Netflix film adapted from a novel by Karen Blixen
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People are paying millions of dollars for digital pictures of rocks
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Manchester United confirm Cristiano Ronaldo agreement
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NBC still really wants a reboot of The Office
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
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NotOnlyFans: An open source, self-hosted digital content subscription platform like `onlyfans.com` with cryptocurrency payment
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McDonald’s runs out of milkshakes amid ‘supply chain issues’ in UK
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Gamasutra is becoming Game Developer - Switching to a new name, domain, and website this Thursday
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Sweden's Anna Nordqvist holds on to claim third major title at AIG Women's British Open – ends a personal victory drought that stretches back 1,435 days
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Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots
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OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
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New Jeopardy host Mike Richards steps down
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The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: The appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies
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Action star Shinichi 'Sonny' Chiba dies at 82 from COVID-19 complications
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Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT has made the world's first customer delivery of steel, produced without using coal, to Volvo
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These people who work from home have a secret: They have two jobs
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