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  • Ancient Mars Had Energy Source for Potential Life Underground

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    If life got a foothold in the Martian subsurface long ago, it could have tapped into a plentiful chemical energy source, a new study suggests. That source was hydrogen, generated when radiation split underground water into its constituent parts. And there was probably enough available hydrogen down there to sustain a sizable community of Mars microbes for […]

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  • Survey: Boom In Content Marketing Continues As Marketers Increase Spending

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    A third of custom-content marketers increased spending this year compared to last year, while 53% are spending about the same and only 8% are spending less, according to new research conducted late last month of more than 300 marketers. The research, conducted by the New York City-based business-intelligence firm Advertiser Perceptions specifically for this website […]

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  • Juventus Soccer Club Is Launching a Crypto Token to Give Fans a ‘Voice’

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    One of the most popular soccer clubs in the world is launching a crypto token that it says will boost fan numbers by allowing them to “be heard.” For the effort, Italy’s Juventus Football Club, which boasts Cristiano Ronaldo as a current team member, is teaming up with Socios.com to launch the “Juventus Official Fan Token.” The token will be […]

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  • ‘There’s a rock on this beach!’ and other awful tourist complaints

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    An idyllic Cornish beach has been criticised for the placement of a rock out at sea. From Ben Nevis being ‘too high’ and the Louvre being ‘not very interesting’, finicky visitor reviews are now commonplace Lusty Glaze beach in Newquay, Cornwall, might have been 2017’s beach of the year, but it has a long way to […]

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  • Thomasina Miers’ recipe for spiced lamb and aubergine fatteh

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    A glorious muddle of lamb, roasted aubergine, Middle Eastern spices and crisp chickpeas Last year I was at Breddo’s, an extremely good taqueria in London’s Soho, and found myself ordering the crab nachos. They were superb, and reminded me why deviations from “authentic” recipes are not always a bad thing. El pastor, an exquisite street-food […]

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  • The troubled production of ‘James Bond’ is a symptom of how Hollywood operates today

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    Being a moviegoer used to be easy. You’d see a trailer for the new Star Wars or James Bond flick, get excited, maybe read a review or an interview with the director in your local paper, and then you’d go see the movie. End of transaction. All you would know of the casting process is who ended […]

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  • The Hollywood trope that men and women can’t be ‘just friends’ sets both sexes up for failure

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    When friendship is peddled as a means to a different end, it makes it hard for both sexes to build the intimacy that being friends requires. The events of the last year — the #MeToo movement and its exposure of rampant sexual harassment in the media and Hollywood, as well as accusations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughassaulted a fellow high school-aged girl more […]

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  • How SpaceX’s huge ‘BFR’ spaceship for Mars has changed

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    The Big Falcon Rocket system underwent a growth spurt since it was unveiled in 2017. SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) spaceflight system just went through a growth spurt. The reusable rocket-spaceship duo will stand 387 feet (118 meters) tall at launch, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Monday (Sept. 17) during a webcast event at […]

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  • Thailand’s Kasikornbank to Pilot Visa’s Blockchain Cross-Border Payments Platform

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    The biggest bank by market capitalization in Thailand, Kasikornbank, has become the first financial institution in the Southeast Asian country to get on board the Visa B2B Connect platform. Designed to enable fast and secure cross-border payments between businesses using blockchain technology, the platform relies on a permissioned private blockchain architecture which is operated by global […]

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  • The iPhone XS has a smaller battery than the iPhone X

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    A week ago that presented the new range of phones from Apple. The battery capacities of these smartphones; iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and iPhone Xr are one of the few data that we did not know until now. Luckily, we already have the battery data of the iPhone XS, thanks to a website that has done an analysis […]

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