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Credit: Steve Gale / Unsplash Social media are increasingly blurring the lines between our personal and professional lives, leaving us at risk of posting sensitive information that could have ramifications far beyond our "friends" list. …

Lead author Alison Towner with the carcass of a Great White Shark washed up on shore following an Orca attack. Credit: Marine Dynamics/ Dyer Island Conservation Trust. Image by Hennie OttoThe new research adds to our knowledge of how Great Whites employ their “flight” instincts to evade predators over long periods of time and in groups.Large numbers of Great White Sharks have been driven away from their normal gathering place by a pair of Orca (Killer Whales) who have been terrorizing and slaughtering the sharks off the…

Crystal and Brianne Williams, a married couple who live just outside of Denver, recently made a decision that would have seemed radical just a few years ago. The pair, 33 and 29 years old, ditched their car for a pair of electric bikes. Brianne rides hers every weekday, 18 miles round trip, to study at her university. Crystal, a less experienced rider, uses hers a couple of times a week to get to her job in downtown Denver, and for errands and outings. Their custom models, assembled by a local e-bike specialty…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lead researcher Dr. Qiang Jiang, a Curtin Ph.D. graduate from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the findings were vital to understanding how to prevent future climate disasters. …

Image via Marvel Studios Marvel fans couldn’t wait to watch Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when it hit theaters back in May, and then again when it dropped on Disney Plus last month. But someone who was much less keen to see it was the Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen. The WandaVision star has made no secret of the fact that she’s avoided the movie at every time. But it looks like she’s finally taken the plunge. Olsen revealed that she’d finally sat down to watch Doctor Strange 2 in a TikTok…

A spokesperson from PlayStation has confirmed that the company will be skipping Gamescom 2022. Running August 24 to 28, Gamescom 2022 is a trade fair for video games held annually in Cologne, Germany. The 2022 event will be the first in-person convention since 2019 but Sony won’t be taking part. A spokesperson confirmed the news to German gaming site Gameswirtschaft, which explains that “Sony Interactive is traditionally one of the most important and largest Gamescom exhibitors”. At Gamescom 2019, PlayStation displayed…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the U.K., it now costs more than £100 to fill up a typical family car with petrol, and oil prices could rise even further. But are such high prices for fossil fuels a bad thing? While attention is focused on measures to tackle the global cost of living crisis, there has been much less focus on a very uncomfortable truth—that solving the climate crisis requires fossil fuel prices for…

Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they sense danger, assuming that the danger will pass if they just avoid it long enough. We humans are no different. When dealing with unpleasant information, or information that challenges us in a way that we don’t want to be challenged, we pretend the information doesn’t exist. We bury our heads in the sand just like the ostriches.Don’t we all avoid conflict at work just because we fear the conversation or worry about the outcome? Ignoring your boss when you know they might…

When YouTube TV first launched, it was heavily focused on sports content. Now, there’s very little sports available, without using its new Sports add-on package. Why is that? Sinclair. When Disney bought Fox’s two studios, it also bought its regional sports networks. However, for the deal to close, it needed to sell off those RSNs since it already owned ESPN. So, Sinclair swooped in and bought them, renaming them to Bally Sports.After that, Sinclair slowly but surely removed its Bally Sports channels from streaming…

The “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500 mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99% of the trip. The 750 gross-ton vessel was powered by Orca AI, whose software helped the ship avoid hundreds of collisions autonomously. Orca AI is a developer of safety software platforms designed specifically for maritime vessels. Founded in 2018 by two naval technology experts, the company combines sensors with existing safety…