A new study suggests that the Gulf Stream – an Atlantic Ocean current that plays a large role in shaping Earth’s weather patterns – is weaker now than at any point in the last 1,000 years. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/gulf-stream-atlantic-weakest-in-over-1000-years…
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Google To Allow Gambling Apps In the Play Store
Android users in the U.S. will soon gain access to betting and gambling apps through the Play Store, Google announced Thursday. CNET reports: As of March 1, online casino games, sports betting, lotteries and daily fantasy sports apps will be allowed in certain states. You can see a complete list of what types of gambling apps are allowed in each state…
Google Stadia, Nvidia GeForce Now Support is Coming To LG’s 2021 TVs
Game streaming has been slowly growing in recent years with the launches of Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google’s Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud and Amazon’s Project Luna. This year, however, it looks to finally be picking up more steam. At CES 2021, LG announced that some of its 2021 TVs will support apps for playing games from Google Stadia and GeForce Now right on…
Hikers find ghostly ‘hair ice’ clinging to trees in an Irish forest
Hair ice has appeared on rotting trees all over the world, and fungus may be to blame. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hair-ice-ireland-fungus.html
Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount
Alphabet’s Google waived a 1.1 billion-pound loan ($1.5 billion) to DeepMind in 2019 after the U.K.-based artificial intelligence lab continued to ramp up the scale of its research and development. From a report: Revenue jumped 158% in 2019, DeepMind said in a financial filing this week. Sales were 265.5 million pounds, up from 102.8 million pounds a year earlier. Its losses…
Facebook To Move UK Users To California Terms, Avoiding EU Privacy Rules
Facebook will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook’s Irish unit and out of reach of Europe’s privacy laws. From a report: The change takes effect next year and follows a similar move announced in February by Google here. Those companies and…
‘Possessed’ woman at center of Irish court case
A man has been cleared of assaulting his ex-partner who had been allegedly possessed by ‘demonic forces’. An unusual court case in Ireland ended recen… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340925/possessed-woman-at-center-of-irish-court-case…
Instagram’s Handling of Kids’ Data Is Now Being Probed In the EU
Facebook’s lead data regulator in Europe has opened another two probes into its business empire — both focused on how the Instagram platform processes children’s information. TechCrunch reports: The action by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), reported earlier by the Telegraph, comes more than a year after a U.S. data scientist reported concerns to Instagram that its platform was leaking the…
Cheap Ouija boards removed from sale in UK
A budget retailer in Northern Ireland has come under fire for selling inexpensive Ouija boards to young shoppers. A staple of horror movies, paranorma… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/339831/cheap-ouija-boards-removed-from-sale-in-uk…
Stone Age people in Ireland had dark skin and were lactose-intolerant
Bone fragments from a mountain chamber in Ireland belonged to Stone Age people, and genetic analysis has revealed they had moderately dark skin and couldn’t digest raw milk Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256812-stone-age-people-in-ireland-had-dark-skin-and-were-lactose-intolerant/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…