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Today, a federal judge ruled Alphabet’s Google must defend itself against antitrust charges brought by 16 states sooner than it had hoped.Five days ago, Google settled a separate lawsuit—a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit claiming the company had secretly tracked consumers in “incognito” mode.Ten days before that, Google announced it would pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit in which all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands argued that Google’s app store was an illegal…

India’s Aditya-L1 probe will arrive in a few days at a patch of space between Earth and the sun, almost a million miles away.The location is remote yet isn’t very lonely. Four active spacecraft are already in orbit near the same spot—known as the Earth-sun system’s first Lagrange point, or L1—and others are parked nearby.It’s a privileged place where the gravity of our planet, the gravity of the sun and the centrifugal force of a spacecraft’s orbit almost exactly cancel one another out, creating an “island” of comparative…

A great hammerhead shark’s two eyes can be 3 feet apart on opposite sides of its skull.Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer-shaped heads?Hammerhead sharks are the strange-looking ones. They look like someone grabbed their skull by the eye sockets and stretched their heads out sideways, while the rest of their bodies look like those of a normal shark.You might wonder – what are the advantages of having a hammer-shaped head? And how did hammerhead sharks get that way in the first place?I’m a scientist who has been studying…

Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, has sustained her new signature look after stepping out again wearing tiny dresses that leave little to the imagination while accessorizing her looks with huge stuffed animals.However, her latest choice of stuffed animal might’ve been shade at Kanye’s, AKA Ye’s, ex-wife: Kim Kardashian.Currently attending various artsy events in Miami, Bianca was spotted again wearing an extremely revealing outfit, barely covering her body with an elaborate silver string ensemble.Kanye West’s wife,…

The Roots and Live Nation Urban announced Monday the Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life festival, which will take place June 29 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The Roots will headline with additional performances by Queen Latifah, Common, and others. It’s the Philly festival’s inaugural Los Angeles event. The Roots’ Questlove and Black Thought landed on Hollywood Bowl, a live music venue since 1922, due to their shared love for the event space. “The first time we played Hollywood Bowl was way…

December 9, 20232 min readBurials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in PeruBy Owen Jarus & LiveScienceThe ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient archaeological site on the Pacific coast just south of Lima, Peru. Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the burials of at least 73 people dating to around 1,000 years ago, a few hundred years before the Inca took over parts of western South America. Each of the 73 individuals was bundled in fabric — some of it colorful — and rope. Some of…

Elon Musk went off on the heads of presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for choosing to be politically correct and find nuance in a antisemitism, and genocide of the Jews…

In 2018, archaeologists made a staggering discovery in Swaga Swaga Game Reserve in central Tanzania: 52 previously undocumented rock shelters, deliberately painted with rock art. Weathering had mostly destroyed all but a handful; but of those that were preserved, one was an absolute enigma.The site, named Amak'hee 4, was elaborately painted with a frieze of figurative art - including three mysterious, anthropomorphic figures with extremely oversized heads.These could be, according to archaeologist Maciej Grzelczyk of the…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksToronto & GTAMusicPublished Nov 21, 2023  •  3 minute read Canadian punk rock group Teenage Head at a Hamilton area basement studio on Friday June 9, 2023. From left: Dave "Rave" DesRoches , Trent Carr, Gene Champagne and Steve Mahon. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Postmedia NetworkReviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.Article contentTeenage Head’s Performance: Live…

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted forward a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected them of engaging in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named so after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, has rankled privacy advocates, who see the proposed legislation as a gateway to broad internet surveillance efforts by the federal government. Proponents of the bill say it would help crack down on…