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Three extremely rare white lion cubs were born at the Las Delicias Zoo in Venezuela. This week in our wrap up, we lull you into a false sense of security with adorable lion cubs then ambush you with terrifying pulsars. We do this not out of a sense of malice but to prepare your mind for the possibility of a giant cosmic void. Also, Japan has launched a new fusion research facility. …

Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen and Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran pledged to lower prices, pay employees’ retirement pension funds, respect their union contracts and not to lay off frontline associates if their proposed grocery merger prevails. Nine months after the announcement of the almost $25 billion deal, the executives sat down for the first time with a newspaper on Friday to provide updates on the merger process. If successful, the deal would directly impact Coloradans – Kroger serves as the parent company of King…

Apple could remove FaceTime and iMessage from the UK if the government updates its Investigatory Power Act from 2016. According to BBC News, the UK government wants messaging services to “clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers.” Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. With that in mind, the government…

Scientists have picked the bottom of Crawford Lake in Ontario as the "golden spike" to mark the start of a new proposed geological epoch — the Anthropocene. The announcement was made at a media conference in Berlin Tuesday by a group of scientists called the Anthropocene Working Group — more on them later. Here's why the lake was chosen and what evidence it provides that humans have made such big changes to the Earth that we may be in a new geologic time period.Crawford Lake is unusually deep compared to its surface area.…

In a statement about the strike, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that its proposal included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.”When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their…

Toyota and Stellantis, two of the world’s largest automakers with a history of opposing an all-electric future, filed complaints with the US government as the EPA finalizes its 2027-2032 proposed emissions standards to slash air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. In April, the EPA revealed new, more aggressive proposed emissions standards under its Clean Air Act authority that improved upon President Biden’s previous goal of having 50% of new vehicle sales be electric by 2030. The…

A proposed federal rule calls for forcing companies to disclose whether their products contain toxic “forever” chemicals, the government’s first attempt at cataloging the pervasiveness of PFAS across the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency rule would require manufacturers to report many products that contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They’re a family of chemicals that don’t degrade in nature and have been linked to cancer, birth defects, and hormone irregularities. Companies would…

Jennifer Lawrence says it was both ‘terrifying and exciting’ when Maroney proposed to her ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Actress Jennifer Lawrence said that when Cooke Maroney proposed to her, it was both a “terrifying” and “exciting” moment for her. Recalling her reaction to Maroney’s proposal, the ‘X-Men’, ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘No Hard Feelings’ actress said: “Terrifying, but very, very exciting. I didn’t say what I wanted to. I imagined it a million times, and then I ended up just going, ‘What? What? What?’ And…

As part of the ongoing trial between the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft, an internal email from Xbox Game Studios chief Matt Booty encouraging Microsoft CFO Tim Stuart to "spend Sony out of business" has been made public. The email, which was sent in December 2019, explains Microsoft's aggressive acquisition plans, which almost resulted in the company purchasing Sega, Niantic, and Bungie.In the email, first shared by The Verge, Booty writes, "We (Microsoft) are in a very unique position to go…

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector.Under the proposed legislation, the owners of platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and podcasting services would face penalties worth up to five percent of annual global turnover -- some of the highest proposed anywhere in the world.The Australian Communications and Media Authority, a government…