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The Truth social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of former U.S. President Donald Trump in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2022.Dado Ruvic | ReutersDigital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that agreed to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, warned Monday that potential damage to former President Donald Trump's popularity could hurt his firm.The warning came in a securities filing that set a Sept. 6 shareholder meeting to determine whether to…

21 July 2022, Bavaria, Essenbach: Water vapor rises behind sunflowers from the cooling system of the nuclear power plant (NPP) Isar 2.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesNuclear energy is at an inflection point. Early exuberance about its potential was undercut by a series of devastating and dangerous accidents: Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979; Chornobyl in Ukraine in 1986; and Fukushima Daiichi in Japan in 2011.But now, thanks to new technology and the increasingly urgent need to fight climate…

Last updated: July 29th, 2022 at 14:37 UTC+02:00 The Galaxy Z Fold 3, especially the Galaxy Z Flip 3, have truly established Samsung as the world’s leading foldable phone manufacturer. The Galaxy Z Flip 3 recorded the highest selling figures among all other foldable devices released so far, and according to a recent Samsung announcement, customers in Spain are lapping it up. The number of Galaxy Z Flip units sold in Spain in the first half of 2022 has increased sixfold compared to a year ago. That’s not a typo. Demand…

Screenshot: FXMatt Berry stars on FX hit What We Do in the Shadows, which is currently in its fourth season—but the British actor only just realized how popular the vampire series has become in America. Like, just realized.“It wasn’t until I was in Los Angeles two weeks ago that I realized how successful the show actually was, because it’s moderately successful in the UK, to put it kind of politely,” Berry said in an interview with Polygon. He most definitely knows now after a packed Hall H presentation and cosplay meet…

Image: Paramount/eOneParamount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie has been receiving a steady drip feed of information in recent years. This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con gave us our first extensive look at the film, which stars Chris Pine as a bard leading an adventuring party who find themselves tasked with saving the world after accidentally stealing an artifact that plunged the world into danger in the first place.Thieves’ trailer wastes no time attempting to sell viewers on how authentically D&D…

Dogecoin has become quite popular among crypto whales with raising digital asset values The crypto market is currently recovering and spiking new hopes for the investment community. Bitcoin has finally bounced back and is surging towards the US$24,000 range. This price rally has triggered several other meme coins and altcoins to rally, including Dogecoin. Whale activity around Dogecoin has increased dramatically, spiking Dogecoin’s market dominance. Recently, Analytics firm Santiment has revealed that its team has…

Conspiracy theories are hardly a modern affliction: think of the JFK assassination or the long history of UFO sightings. Yet the internet is often said to have ushered in a 'post-truth' era, with social media, in particular, allowing for the spread of viral misinformation.   Whether or not that's actually true is another matter, and it's a serious one that merits consideration.To date, there is little systematic evidence to suggest that conspiracy theories are increasing in popularity, despite what many journalists,…

For millions of people around the world, salvation from long periods of dark thoughts and oppressive feelings comes in pill form, with each dose doing its bit to ensure the balance of a humble neurotransmitter called serotonin remains relatively in check.  In spite of their popularity as a treatment for mood disorders, much of the mechanisms behind antidepressant pharmaceuticals are a complete black box. We can only guess at how they work in treating low moods.More shocking still, those guesses could be completely wrong,…

The surge in Ethereum’s (ETH) popularity over the past seven years represents the privileged development of cryptocurrencies and their widespread acceptance. Experts believe RoboApe (RBA) can emulate Ethereum’s spectacular run since it is poised to transform the cryptocurrency market with one-of-a-kind features. Many analysts even anticipate that RoboApe, which uses the Ethereum blockchain, would be preferred by investors and overtake the second-most valuable cryptocurrency. In this article, we will…

Make predictions with pure statisticsPhoto by Nika Benedictova on UnsplashThis article is in some sense a sequel to my previous article on Bayesian statistics. Long story short, the company I work for needed a model that not only predicts a target variable as a number but also estimates its probability density, i.e. estimates that the predicted variable will likely be in a certain range from the prediction. As a result, the model based on the naive Bayes approach has been created that not only suited the initial task but…