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Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts - perhaps hundreds of thousands of them - to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that…

Image via DC Comics The entire DCU could be affected by Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest $2 billion loss, but CEO David Zaslav swears the company is backing the 10-year plan of James Gunn and is relying on the strength of the upcoming DC Superman and Flash projects. Does Warner Bros. Discovery’s huge $2 billion quarterly loss push the new DCU movies off the table? Kevin Winter/Getty Images/DC Comics It’s probably not going to be a very happy quarterly shareholders report going out from Warner Bros. Discovery.…

A World of Warcraft player has taken the art of leveling to new heights, having reached the game's recently increased max level of 70 without ever stepping off the tutorial boat that takes players to the Exile's Reach starter zone.As spotted by GamesRadar, Reddit user Cheatcho is claiming the title of "world first level 70 on Exile's Reach starting ship." At first glance, the feat sounds absurd. There are no enemies or quests to complete on the ship that takes players to the starter zone. There's not even…

Saturday, February 4 will see 5 giant asteroids zooming towards Earth at fiery speeds. All these asteroids are of varied sizes ranging from 100 feet to 58 feet. Since they will be coming very close to Earth, it becomes important to track their movement. NASA, keeps an eye on all the near-Earth objects like asteroids, comets, among others, which can pose a threat to the planet. Here are the details the research organisation provided about the asteroids nearing Earth today. As per the latest information shared…

Postdocs—the Ph.D.s who do much of the labor of science—are notoriously underpaid. But the problem has intensified over the past year as postdocs struggle to get by amid soaring inflation and professors report problems recruiting Ph.D. graduates to fill positions. Several institutions and states have recently implemented policies to increase their pay. But these policies haven’t always come with an increase in funding, leaving lab leaders wondering how to cover…

Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock)Move over, OnlyFans, there’s a new feet-sharing game in town. At least, that’s what the plaintiffs argue in a new $25 million class-action privacy lawsuit filed against Foot Locker on Monday. I’m sorry to say that even your feet data isn’t safe.Specifically, the allegation is that Foot Locker is harvesting and distributing the details of conversations you’re having about your feet, or at least the shoes that you put on them, as reported in Bloomberg Law. Consent is sexy, whether you’re…

Micro-credentials are a place to start in data science if you know how to leverage them properlyPhoto by Corinne Kutz on UnsplashNowadays, you can get micro-credentials in anything from animation to basket weaving and everything in between.Micro-credentials have taken the learning world by storm over the last 7 years, allowing people to earn badges for acquiring and demonstrating a specific skill. Some of the first micro-credentials were for programming skills, but have since grown to include skills in a variety of…

Marvel, in partnership with Foot Locker and Champs Sports, have revealed a collection of new shoes inspired by the X-Men. The line features designs based on Wolverine, Phoenix, and Storm.  The designs for the shoes were revealed with snazzy posters harkening back to the 80s and 90s (the same time frame as the explosion of the X-Men franchise) and an explanation of the design choices: A pair of the Phoenix Magic Basket Demi kicks The Phoenix Magic Basket Demi arrives straight out of the basketball section of the 1985…

Scientists have found an ingenious way for NASA to find alien life on Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn which would be done without even landing on the celestial sphere. Are there aliens out there? The question of whether we are alone in this world has pushed the scientific community to devoting ever greater resources on the answer. We have searched in far away galaxies looking for planets which are similar to Earth in composition and are placed in similar orbits in their solar system. However, NASA now believes…

An illustration of Microraptor chowing down on a mammal foot.Illustration: Ralph AttanasiaPaleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach.It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating mammals, the researchers say. Specimens of the dinosaur, Microraptor zhaoinus, have been discovered containing ancient birds, fish, and lizards, so the mammalian find is just the latest known source of protein for this spunky hunter. The…