Airbnb will soon show you the actual total price you’ll have to pay when you search for a rental on the platform. Imagine that — no more surprise high-priced cleaning fees snuck in at checkout. Users have long complained about fees hidden from search. As...
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November 8, 2022 albert
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The oldest, thickest, and toughest Arctic sea ice is weakening. Arctic sea ice has starkly declined over the last 40 years, though polar scientists believed a region dubbed the “Last Ice Area” was largely resistant to melting as the planet warmed. Yet new research published...
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October 16, 2021 albert
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The jury’s still out on where Loki will rank in the growing Marvel television universe, but Natalie Holt’s musical score has been a mind-blowing highlight since episode 1. A British composer who grew up playing violin, Holt gives Loki a sound that is at once...
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July 11, 2021 albert
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The Wildlife Photography Awards really is the gift that keeps on giving. A couple of months back we had the contest’s highly commended entries, then we had the overall winners, and now it’s time for the People’s Choice category. On Tuesday, London’s Natural History Museum...
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December 1, 2020 albert
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We know that wildlife photos of large mammals and wide open vistas can be breathtaking, but you know what doesn’t get enough of a look in? Close-up shots. As in microscopic, invisible-to-the-naked-eye kind of shots. Enter the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, which celebrates images...
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October 13, 2020 albert
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A new small study out of Harvard and Boston University is targeting the use of soft robotic exosuits among stroke survivors. The aim is to demonstrate how such technologies could impact the rehabilitation of patients suffering hemiparesis, a kind of paralysis that impacts muscles and...
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May 13, 2020 albert
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Netflix’s “Tiger King” is a docuseries focusing on the man who calls himself Joe Exotic — owner of a private park full of tigers and other big cats. We learn in the opening minutes of the first episode that he’s been accused of hiring a...
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March 28, 2020 albert
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As I walk into an inner Sydney gallery space, I’m greeted by a member of Tinder’s local PR team; we introduce ourselves, and swap a brief, wry smile in the moment where we’d usually shake hands. Another sticks her hand out blithely, and we make...
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March 11, 2020 albert
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A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging to refashion the Los Angeles studio system for the digital age forming companies that combining live-streamed video, podcasts, and the newfound social media celebrities to craft entertainment for a new breed of consumer. Two of those startup founders,...
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November 13, 2018 albert
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The pressure of being on TV coupled with the possibility of winning a ton of money is part of what makes game shows so entertaining. People will inevitably embarrass themselves for the viewers’ enjoyment. But sometimes a blunder will happen that’s so egregious, it feels...
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