Have you ever seen a nine-year-old boy smiling happily as he looks over the steering wheel of a supersized truck, blasting down the highway? No? Not yet maybe, my fellow parents, but give it time. And forget medicine, architecture or the law for your offspring. Nah. Truck that. Driving a …
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That’s about the same as the power consumption of the Philippines. According to a Bloomberg report, the bitcoin network will have consumed 91 TW/h by the end of the year, and it has already consumed more than the 67 TW/h estimated for all of 2020. A separate study by Science …
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As the Queen is head of state, the British monarchy is supposedly above politics. No monarch in modern times has ever endorsed any political movement. So when the Queen, last week, apparently expressed her support for the American racial-equality project, Black Lives Matter, it marked a tectonic shift in the …
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Minaj didn’t attend this year’s Met Gala because of the red-carpet event’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement but, even though she missed the big ball, she still made international news… when she tweeted about her cousin’s friend’s swollen testicles. “My cousin in Trinidad,” she explained, “won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend …
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The simple graphics, posted on the occasion of the 74th birthday of the USAF, featured three top-down views of warplanes. The silhouettes don’t feature much detail, but their tail sections strongly implied that the aircraft are not from the fleet deployed by the American armed forces. Instead, they strongly resemble …
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Pieterse, who plays as a lock for French side Castres, is sure to face the wrath of rugby’s disciplinary bodies for the rash challenge which occurred in a French Top 14 match against Bordeaux. The 23-year-old former Bulls player badly mistimed a tackle on opposition scrum-half Maxime Lucu as he attempted …
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Swansea and Republic of Ireland ace Manning was apparently attempting some gamesmanship during Swansea’s 3-3 draw with Luton Town on Saturday – but former Arsenal academy prospect Henri Lansbury wasn’t having any of it. In footage which has since been viewed more than 1.1 million times from the Championship fixture, TV …
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The launch was conducted off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida on September 17 from USS Wyoming, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1996, and recently underwent an technological overhaul and refueling. The D5LE is the latest ‘life-extended’ version of the Trident II missile …
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A menacing group of fans broke onto the pitch where the Ligue 1 match against Lille was being held and headed towards the away end in search of a scrap, forcing riot police to form a defensive line and pin some supporters to the turf in a troubling fracas. The derby …
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Awesome. There’s a name for how millions of people are feeling right now. And, for once, it’s a moniker that actually describes perfectly what it’s all about: cave syndrome. Are you hanging onto your masks even if you don’t have to? Are you sitting outside in the beer garden even …
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