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A look at Vietnam's expansion in the $95B chip packaging industry; report: the country is expected to have 8%-9% of the global share by 2032, up from 1% in 2022




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Helix Studios: Derek Shaw and Cisco Silva

Helix Studios dives into the world of macrophilia and man o man is this pairing hot AF. Nebie Cisco Silva is welummed into the fold by the ever sensual Derek Shaw. Derek towers over Cisco and it’s incredibly sexy watching these two! See more on Helix Studios.

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How Matt Groening’s Childhood Fear of Robots Led to the Creation of ‘Futurama’

By JM McNab Published: November 13th, 2024




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Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid’s Reunion May Not Be What ‘Christmas Vacation’ Fans Were Hoping For

By JM McNab Published: November 13th, 2024




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ThinkComputers Podcast #427 – Ryzen 7 9800X3D Sells Out, ProArt AiO, Arrow Lake Fix & More!

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the of the Corsair iCUE LINK 3500X RGB Case, ASUS ProArt LC 360 Liquid CPU Cooler, and Crucial Pro Overclocking Edition DDR5-6400 32GB Memory Kit. We also discuss the Ryzen 7 9800X3D completely selling out, Intel promising a "fix" for Arrow Lake, new Ryzen AI 365 / HX 370 performance, a stretchable display and more!

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OvrC Platform Vulnerabilities Expose IoT Devices to Remote Attacks and Code Execution

A security analysis of the OvrC cloud platform has uncovered 10 vulnerabilities that could be chained to allow potential attackers to execute code remotely on connected devices. "Attackers successfully exploiting these vulnerabilities can access, control, and disrupt devices supported by OvrC; some of those include smart electrical power supplies, cameras, routers, home automation systems, and




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Belgian Studio Nwave Pictures To Double Workforce At Its New Studio In Liège

The studio's diversified approach to content production has led to continued growth for the company.





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Natural Selection Bike is Coming to Aotearoa New Zealand on February 15th, 2025



Tickets are available now.
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Fed up with high prices? Here's where things stand with inflation

Inflation remains substantially lower than it did during its 2022 peak — but Americans are still frustrated with high prices.




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Scientists Have Deciphered The World’s Oldest Map, And It Reveals The Location Of Noah’s Ark

A discovery of absolutely epic proportions has just been revealed, but the corporate media in the United States almost entirely ignored it.  A team of scientists led by Dr. Irving Finkel has deciphered the oldest map in the world, and we are being told that it actually reveals the location of Noah’s Ark.  This is …




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Trump Disinvites Haley and Pompeo From His Administration

Is it a good or bad thing? On Saturday evening, Donald Trump gave a strong signal of what his second term would be like, writing on Truth Social: “I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation. I very much …




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The Very Definition of Tyranny: A Dictatorship Disguised as Democracy

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”—James Madison Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across …




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The Deception Among The People Is Strong (Video)

The delusion the American people are under is quite amazing. Some are led by their fears and others by their idolatry. In this episode, we’ll take a look at how the new Trump cabinet is shaping up and it looks really good for special interests like Big Pharma and not so good for you and …




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Lula busca legado no G20 em meio a dúvidas após vitória de Trump

Governo brasileiro "driblou" temas espinhosos e apostou em assuntos consensuais como o combate à fome durante presidência do G20.




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Quem é Marco Rubio, filho de imigrantes cubanos nomeado secretário de Estado por Trump

Com nomeação desta quarta-feira (13/11), Rubio se torna o latino-americano a chegar ao posto mais alto no governo dos Estados Unidos.




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'Estamos exaustos': escala 6x1 e baixos salários turbinam insatisfação mesmo com taxa recorde de emprego

Geração de emprego atinge patamar recorde, mas esconde problemas como altos índices de informalidade, subutilização da força de trabalho e jornadas exaustivas




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Decaying tree that fell on car prompts inspections

Eyewitnesses say the lime tree fell "silently" and "could have killed someone".




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Euston is not in fit condition, says rail minister

Lord Hendy said the terminus had deteriorated to the point where its marble columns are held together by bands.




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Report: Drug Gangsters Sending Thousands of Illegal Across Border to Beat Trump Inauguration

The criminal drug cartels in Mexico are reportedly rushing thousands of illegals across the southern U.WS. border in an effort to get as many criminal operatives inside the country as possible ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. With more than 11 million illegals already having crossed into the U.S. thanks to Joe Biden’s disastrous border policies, […]

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Inflation Still Skyrocketing Under Joe Biden’s ‘Great’ Economy

Liberals keep claiming that Joe Biden’s economy is doing wonderfully, yet inflation continues to skyrocket, hitting the middle and lower classes particularly hard. By the end of October, for instance, inflation jumped again with the Consumer Price Index increasing 0.2 percent, according to Wednesday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Per CNBC: Inflation perked […]

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Dutch Publisher's AI Translation Plan Sparks Industry Backlash

Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning has announced plans to use AI for translating commercial fiction, drawing sharp criticism from literary professionals despite promises of human oversight and author consent. Award-winning translator Michele Hutchison, who won the 2020 International Booker Prize, argues that translation extends beyond word conversion. "We build bridges between cultures, taking into account the target readership every step of the way," she said, noting that translators convey rhythm, poetry, and cultural nuances while conducting precise terminology research.

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GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing On the Classics

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The classic PC games market is "in a sorry state," according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small games that aren't currently selling get abandoned, and compatibility issues arise as technology moves forward or as one-off development ideas age like milk. Classic games are only 20 percent of GOG's catalog, and the firm hasn't actually called itself "Good Old Games" in 12 years. And yet, today, GOG announces that it is making "a significant commitment of resources" toward a new GOG Preservation Program. It starts with 100 games for which GOG's own developers are working to create current and future compatibility, keeping them DRM-free and giving them ongoing tech support, along with granting them a "Good Old Game: Preserved by GOG" stamp. GOG is not shifting its mission of providing a DRM-free alternative to Steam, Epic, and other PC storefronts, at least not entirely. But it is demonstrably excited about a new focus that ties back to its original name, inspired in some part by its work on Alpha Protocol. "We think we can significantly impact the classics industry by focusing our resources on it and creating superior products," writes Arthur Dejardin, head of sales and marketing at GOG. "If we wanted to spread the DRM-free gospel by focusing on getting new AAA games on GOG instead, we would make little progress with the same amount of effort and money (we've been trying various versions of that for the last 5 years)." What kind of games? Scanning the list of Good Old Games, most of them are, by all accounts, both good and old. Personally, I'm glad to see the Jagged Alliance games, System Shock 2, Warcraft I & II, Dungeon Keeper Gold and Theme Park, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, and the Wing Commander series (particularly, personally, Privateer). Most of them are, understandably, Windows-only, though Mac support extends to 34 titles so far, and Linux may pick up many more through Proton compatibility, beyond the 19 native titles to date. [...] [I]f you see the shiny foil-ish GOG badge on a game, it's an assurance that GOG has done all it can to bring forward a classic title. It's important work, too. "Preserving" games doesn't just mean locking a stable media in a vault, but keeping games accessible, and playable.

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Bluesky Crosses the 15 Million User Mark

Bluesky has reached 15 million users, driven by a recent surge in U.S. signups following the presidential election. It's currently the top free app on iOS. The Verge reports: The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose Wang recently told The Verge that the "majority" of new users flocking to the platform have been from the US. Meta's Threads is still outpacing Bluesky, having recently hit 275 million monthly users and growing at a rate of over a million signups per day. But Bluesky offers a very different experience. Both are ad-free (for now), but whereas Threads uses a single Meta-made algorithmic feed, Bluesky offers user-created algorithmic feeds in addition to its "Discover" and "Popular With Friends" ones.

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IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done On Quantum Hardware

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It's still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful calculations at an earlier point. IBM is one of the companies that's betting the answer is yes, and on Wednesday, it announced a series of developments aimed at making that possible. On their own, none of the changes being announced are revolutionary. But collectively, changes across the hardware and software stacks have produced much more efficient and less error-prone operations. The net result is a system that supports the most complicated calculations yet on IBM's hardware, leaving the company optimistic that its users will find some calculations where quantum hardware provides an advantage. [...] Wednesday's announcement was based on the introduction of the second version of its Heron processor, which has 133 qubits. That's still beyond the capability of simulations on classical computers, should it be able to operate with sufficiently low errors. IBM VP Jay Gambetta told Ars that Revision 2 of Heron focused on getting rid of what are called TLS (two-level system) errors. "If you see this sort of defect, which can be a dipole or just some electronic structure that is caught on the surface, that is what we believe is limiting the coherence of our devices," Gambetta said. This happens because the defects can resonate at a frequency that interacts with a nearby qubit, causing the qubit to drop out of the quantum state needed to participate in calculations (called a loss of coherence). By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it's possible to avoid these problems. This can be done when the Heron chip is being calibrated before it's opened for general use. Separately, the company has done a rewrite of the software that controls the system during operations. "After learning from the community, seeing how to run larger circuits, [we were able to] almost better define what it should be and rewrite the whole stack towards that," Gambetta said. The result is a dramatic speed-up. "Something that took 122 hours now is down to a couple of hours," he told Ars. Since people are paying for time on this hardware, that's good for customers now. However, it could also pay off in the longer run, as some errors can occur randomly, so less time spent on a calculation can mean fewer errors. Despite all those improvements, errors are still likely during any significant calculations. While it continues to work toward developing error-corrected qubits, IBM is focusing on what it calls error mitigation, which it first detailed last year. [...] The problem here is that using the function is computationally difficult, and the difficulty increases with the qubit count. So, while it's still easier to do error mitigation calculations than simulate the quantum computer's behavior on the same hardware, there's still the risk of it becoming computationally intractable. But IBM has also taken the time to optimize that, too. "They've got algorithmic improvements, and the method that uses tensor methods [now] uses the GPU," Gambetta told Ars. "So I think it's a combination of both."

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Scotland Nations League games to be shown on YouTube

Scotland's concluding Nations League matches against Croatia and Poland will again to be broadcast on YouTube, rather than on television.




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Horse abuse sanctions strengthened after scandals

Punishments for those found to have abused horses are being strengthened by the body which governs equestrian sports globally.




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Serrano 'ready to put on a show' against 'warrior' Taylor

Seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano speaks to BBC Sport before her rematch against Katie Taylor in Texas on Friday.




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Tyson health 'just fine' but precautions in place

Mike Tyson says his health is "just fine" with organisers saying the fight with Jake Paul will "100% go ahead".




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Robertson beats Trump to make Champion of Champions semis

Neil Robertson claims a 6-4 win over world number one Judd Trump to move into the semi-finals of the Champion of Champions.




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Gatland comfortable with questions on his future

Coach Warren Gatland says he is comfortable with any decision made about his future as his Wales side hope to avoid an unwelcome piece of history on Sunday.









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Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife

To pay tribute to his wife, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg got in the recording booth with T-Pain for the heavily autotuned track.





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Online misinformation about Ozempic runs rampant — here's what the science says

Online conversations about Ozempic and similar medications are full of misinformation — and echo decades of flawed teachings on weight management.





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Russia's economy is heading toward a fate worse than recession, pro-Kremlin economists say

"The Russian economy is effectively facing the threat of stagflation — simultaneous stagnation or even recession and high inflation."




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Stock market today: Indexes trade mixed as investors assess rate outlook after new inflation data

Inflation accelerated slightly for the month of October, sparking concern the Fed could pause its interest rate-cutting cycle in January.





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Judge explains why he handed Elon Musk his $1 million-a-day sweepstakes win

A Philadelphia judge has explained why he didn't shut down Musk's $1M-a-day sweepstakes last week.





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What Marco Rubio's nomination as Trump's secretary of state means for China and Taiwan

The nomination of Rubio, a China hawk who's been sanctioned by Beijing, comes at a tense moment in the Indo-Pacific region.





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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector’s Edition: What’s included and more

If you’ve watched any of the movies, it’s easy to see why the Indiana Jones franchise is so popular and… Continue reading Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector’s Edition: What’s included and more

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Pepe Unchained Presale Hits $28 Million as Analysts Predict 10x Gains in Ongoing Bull Market Rally

Pepe Unchained has raised over $28 million in its presale and is rapidly making a name for itself in the… Continue reading Pepe Unchained Presale Hits $28 Million as Analysts Predict 10x Gains in Ongoing Bull Market Rally

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News24 | Mozambique protests: Border Management Authority temporarily suspends operations at Lebombo border

The Border Management Authority has confirmed that it has temporarily suspended operations at the Lebombo port of entry due to ongoing post-election unrest in Mozambique on Wednesday.