Meggie
@Meggie
443 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie upvoted the following post 2 months ago:
Jimmy @Jimmy - 2 months ago
Innocn 28C1Q Monitor Review: An Odd Display With Some Nice Surprises
Pros Built-in KVM switch and okay bundled webcam Color accuracy isn't bad for the price Vertical orientation good if you read a lot of documents Cons Some connectors blocked by the s...continued
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Priscilla @Priscilla - 2 months ago
Former England batter Thorpe dies aged 55
Former England and Surrey batter Graham Thorpe has died aged 55, it has been announced.Thorpe played 100 Tests for England between 1993 and 2005, as well as 82 one-day internationals.A stylish left-handed batter, he scored 6,744 Test runs for England, including 16 centuri...continued
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Ismael @Ismael - 2 months ago
5-year-old killed after wind propels bounce house into the air
A 5-year-old boy was killed and another child was injured when the bounce house they were playing in lifted 15 to 20 feet in the air by the wind during a baseball game Friday night, officials in Maryland said.The bounce house was in the right field stands of Regency Furni...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - 2 months ago
What business can learn from Biden's resignation
Two or three years ago, it's hard to pinpoint exactly when, employees at an investment firm started to notice something was wrong with their aging CEO.The executive, an octogenarian who'd founded the firm decades earlier, was trying to make nonsensical trades that employe...continued
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Minnie @Minnie - 2 months ago
Vintage photos show how glamorous train travel used to be
Vintage photos from decades ago show how traveling by train used to be a lot fancier. First-class cabins were furnished like living rooms and included radio gramophones. ...continued
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Roger @Roger - 2 months ago
Katie Ledecky and Leon Marchand Put on an Incredible Show at the Paris Olympics
One of the champions is unlikely to lap up adoration or show an overwhelming emotion in the pool. The other is all strut. Both styles were on display Wednesday night at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, where Frenchman Leon Marchand and American Katie Ledecky added to...continued
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Meggie @Meggie - 2 months ago
Tesla's biggest competitor just announced a collab with Uber
Uber drivers could get discounts on 100,000 electric vehicles in various markets, and the companies are working on self-driving technology.
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Meggie upvoted the following post 3 months ago:
Raoul @Raoul - 3 months ago
Google tweaks Search to help hide explicit deepfakes
Google is rolling out new online safety features that make it easier to remove explicit deepfakes from Search at scale and prevent them from appearing high up in search results in the first place. When users successfully request the removal of explicit nonconsensual fake ...continued
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Rowan @Rowan - 3 months ago
Melinda French Gates says MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex, helped her with parenting kids that we...
French Gates revealed in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday that she and Scott share similar parenting styles.French Gates told The Times that she and her then-husband, Bill Gates, didn't want their children to grow up spoilt and entitled."Well, first o...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - 3 months ago
A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
Congress is moving closer to putting US election technology under a stricter cybersecurity microscope.Embedded inside this year’s Intelligence Authorization Act, which funds intelligence agencies like the CIA, is the Strengthening Election Cybersecurity to Uphold Respect ...continued
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Jarod @Jarod - 3 months ago
I Tried 5 AI Logo Generators. Here's My Favorite
Welcome to “I Tried…,” the series where I try different marketing tools and strategies so you don't have to. In this series, I document my experience and let you know if a tool or strategy is worth your time.AI and marketing are becoming like peanut butter and jelly—insep...continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - 3 months ago
What to Know About Nikki Hiltz and the History of Trans and Nonbinary Olympians
Nikki Hiltz doesn’t just represent the U.S. on the race track.“This is bigger than just me,” the 29-year-old from California told NBC after qualifying for the Paris Olympics after running 1500 meters in 3 minutes and 55.33 seconds, a personal best and a meet record in the...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - 3 months ago
Mark Kelly and the History of Astronauts Making the Jump to Politics
Mark Kelly knows a thing or two about flying high—both literally and otherwise. As a NASA astronaut, he was part of four space shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011, amassing more than 54 days in space and covering more than 22 million miles. Now he's a Senator from Ariz...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - 3 months ago
Wes Moore praises Kamala Harris for moving the race beyond the age issues that dogged Biden, puts...
After President Joe Biden's decision to step aside as the Democratic presidential nominee, the stunning move upended the 2024 race.For Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, a strong ally of Biden who had lined up behind the president's reelection bid, a trusted political partner wi...continued
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Angus @Angus - 3 months ago
Drone Spying Just Cost Canada Women’s Soccer 6 Points in the Paris Olympics
FIFA is coming down hard on Canada after assistant coaches for its Women’s Soccer team were found using drones to spy on New Zealand practices ahead of their opening match on Thursday. After New Zealand complained, the organizer of Olympic socc...continued
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Teagan @Teagan - 3 months ago
What is 'underconsumption core'? A new trend on TikTok aims to get GenZ to buy less.
Influencer marketing has become a staple of the social media era, and Gen Z is one of its most significant targets.For many Gen Zers, the generation between the ages of 12 and 27, TikTok is the primary social media platform where they find products to buy. But while the i...continued
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Nestor @Nestor - 3 months ago
Best shots as Root passes Test milestone
Watch some of the best shots as England's Joe Root scores 87 against the West Indies to surpasses 12,000 runs in Test cricket on day two of the third Test at Edgbaston.FOLLOW LIVE: England resume on 38-3 in reply to West Indies' 282Available to UK users only.Source: BBC ...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - 3 months ago
Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing
Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational to them, you might say—was boosterism for open source AI.It was a stark left tur...continued
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Anderson @Anderson - 3 months ago
How Microfinance Became the ‘It’ Development Program
Yabom was lucky. She heard a flat tone, then an abrupt pop. A moment of silence, then the flat tone again. “Thank God,” she thought. The phone was ringing.Yabom hadn’t been certain that her friend Musu’s phone would be on. It was almost late afternoon, and Yabom, who was ...continued
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Eleanora @Eleanora - 3 months ago
New Jersey's $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter
New Jersey itself is a home to many large pharmaceutical companies—and if these companies use AI to design new drugs, nearby data centers are vital, Sullivan says.“If you’re three people at a desk trying to develop the next Google, the next Tesla—in the AI space or in any...continued
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ariana zoe @arianazoe - 3 months ago
Promise Rings: Wear Your Commitment On Your Sleeves
What is a Promise? Promise is a commitment made to someone and in a romantic relationship promise rings are the representation of their love and devotion. Since ancient times, these rings have been used to signify promises or pledges between couples. and Promise Rings is ...continued
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Immanuel @Immanuel - 3 months ago
Samsung S90D OLED TV: Sleek Design Complements Great Picture Quality
Pros Superb picture quality Easy-to-use interface Great contrast and off-angle viewing Cons Expensive Reduced black levels in a bright room Each year, OLEDs...continued
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Satpalda @satpalda - 3 months ago
Types of Satellite Imagery - Satpalda
Established in the year 1997, for over twenty-one years of operations SATPALDA has carved a niche for itself in the Geospatial, IT & Engineering Service sector. In other words, our main service primarily hinges upon the potential that can be obtained from satellite im...continued
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Giles @Giles - 3 months ago
Is the ‘Diaper’ Method in 'Twisters' a Real Solution For Massive Tornadoes? Not Exactly
A storm that hit Dunlap, Indiana, during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in 1965 spawned twin tornadoes that cycled around one another just as we see in the film. Those twins were memorialized in one of the most well-known photographs in weather history.Larger tornadoes ...continued
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Ariel @Ariel - 3 months ago
Their son did well in high school and on his SATs, but got rejected from 30 US colleges. So they ...
When it was time for his children to apply to college, Lou Zeidberg faced a conundrum.Part of him wanted them to experience the traditional American college life he had as a student at the University of California, Berkeley."When I was in college, I was really into that s...continued
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