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Physicists Hunt Dark Photons as Large Hadron Collider Gets More Powerful
Gizmodo,
Scientists working on CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have published the latest data in their search for a long-lived exotic particle known as the dark photon. Read more...
India to block crypto exchanges Binance, Kraken websites
TechCrunch,
Financial Intelligence Unit, an Indian government agency which scrutinizes financial transactions, said Thursday nine global crypto exchanges — including Binance, Kraken, Kucoin and Mexc — are operating “illegally” in the country without complying with the local anti-money laundering act and asked the IT Ministry to block their websites. FIU said it has issued show cause […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody. Read more...
Honorable mentions: 19 other TV shows we loved in 2023
AV Club,
At the start of the month, we unveiled our 30 favorite TV shows of 2023, which included sendoffs like Succession and Reservation Dogs, worthy returns such as The Bear and Heartstopper, and the confident debuts of Poker Face and Beef. But you know what? There was a lot of great television this year. Here, in… Read more...
2023 Was a Big Year for Medication Abortion on TV
Jezebel,
In June 2022, Roanne Bardsley, a U.K.-based screenwriter, was writing the first season of what soon became Netflix’s YA hit, Everything Now, when she saw the news: The U.S. Supreme Court had just overturned Roe v. Wade. As she returned to writing shaken by this development, she pivoted, changing a subplot about a… Read more...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison and hopes to meet Taylor Swift
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, “Karma is my boyfriend, karma is a god, karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.” While the pop star was ostensibly writing about her emancipation from manager Scooter Braun, these lyrics could also easily be about today’s emancipation of tabloid star Gypsy Rose Blanchard… Read more...
The Best Movies You May Have Missed in 2023, and Where to Stream Them
No one can see every movie that comes out in a year. Heck, no one can even see all the good movies that come out in a year. These days, even if it’s literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day every day watching, you’d… Read more...
Lauren Boebert switches to redder district as reelection hopes fade in her current one
Boing Boing,
Facing defeat in Colorado by a Democrat she only beat by a few votes last time round, congresswoman Lauren Boebert is switching to a more reliably Republican district in hopes of keeping a job after the next election. Though representatives can live anywhere in the state, not just their districts, Boebert says she plans to reside in Colorado's 4th, where she faces a busy primary before getting the benefit of its +22 GOP voter base. — Read the rest The post Lauren Boebert switches to redder district as reelection hopes fade in her current one appeared first on Boing Boing.