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In 2014, the bodies of nearly 800 babies and small children were found in the septic tank of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, Galway. They had been deposited over four decades, a practice that only ended in 1961. This grisly discovery, made by a local historian, forced a long overdue public reckoning in Ireland.Why was it considered necessary, by individual families as well as the Catholic church and the Irish state, to place unmarried pregnant girls in brutal institutions, to subject their babies to coerced…

For years, we’ve been able to quickly reply to messages through Google Messages notifications. It eliminates you having to open the app and tap on the text field just to reply to a message. However, a feature is only useful if it works, and it appears that this might not be the case. Some users are reporting that the reply feature is missing from Google Messages notifications. Google Messages is missing the reply function in the notifications This was first reported by a Reddit user who posted a screenshot. We see that,…

Missing Persons must have been a very difficult book to write, for certainly it is difficult to read. This is not due to any defects of style or execution – it is an expertly crafted work, at once vigorous and subtle, which manages its effects and conserves its revelations with all the skill of a master novelist. The difficulty for the reader is in struggling to absorb the pain and pity of the story, or stories, which it relates.All families nurse guilty secrets, secret sorrows, as Clair Wills more than once acknowledges.…

January 22, 20243min readRussia makes up nearly half the terrestrial Arctic, but global collaboration with researchers there has ground to a halt since the invasion of UkraineBy Rachel NuwerA polar bear is seen on ice floes in the British Channel in Russia's Franz Josef Land archipelago on August 16, 2021. The Arctic is warming at a rate of about two to four times that of the global average. As polar ice caps melt and permafrost thaws, scientists are scrambling to keep tabs on the changing region and its effects on the…

Pocketpair’s Palworld is a very pretty game with adorable creatures and hilarious moments that provide no end of fun for players. However, they’ve left out something that many Palworld players think would improve their gameplay experience – Photo mode.  Within the first day of playing, I racked up 11 hours of adventure with my Pals and shared a lot of screenshots of my progress. I’m not alone, either. Over a million players joined the game within the first eight hours of the Beta being released and many of them are…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends There’s a rising tide of handheld gaming PCs, and Nvidia is missing out on the action. The push of handhelds into the mainstream started with some purpose-built AMD systems on a chip (SoCs), but now Intel is joining the fray with its Meteor Lake platform. Out of the big three, only one company is missing: Nvidia. Nvidia probably isn’t too concerned with making an SoC for handhelds — after all, it was AI that pushed it to become a trillion-dollar company — and it’s a long shot that the…

Map depicting current extent of permafrost in Northern Hemisphere (light blue) and projected extent of permafrost in 2070 (dark blue) under RCP 4.5 scenario. Credit: Greg Fiske / Woodwell Climate Research Center The way science is funded is hampering Earth system models, and may be skewing important climate predictions, according to a new comment published in Nature Climate Change by Woodwell Climate Research Center and an…

However, some industry leaders are sounding the alarm that organizational data may not be ready to support growing AI ambitions. "To remain competitive, CIOs and technology leaders must adapt their data strategies as they integrate gen AI into their technology stacks," says Matt Labovich, US data, analytics and AI leader for PwC. "This involves understanding data and preparing for the transformative impact of emerging technologies."Also: 5 ways to explore the use of generative AI at workTechnology professionals and…

In a surprising first, scientists might have observed a supernova turning into a black hole or neutron star. This supernova may have been a missing link between stars and black holes, the astronomers say.For decades, astronomers have hoped to find direct observational evidence of the stellar process that changes stars to black holes or neutron stars. And now, while observing a supernova detected last year, researchers may have found such evidence.When a star reaches the end of its lifespan, it runs out of the…

A UK woman’s missing cat appears to have done the most cat thing imaginable—spending years on his own just 900 feet away from home. The missing Bengal cat, named Duke, was discovered leading a new life in a nearby factory seven years after he went missing.Are You Rich Enough to Buy This Folding TV?The not-so-homeward-bound tale was first reported by British outlet SWNS this week. According to SWNS, Corby resident Stephanie Barstow bought 6-week-old Duke and his brother Nero in May 2015. In January 2017, soon after a…