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UK's Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel
Rob Beschizza
Virgin Media was fined $28m by regulators in the U.K. for preventing customers from canceling contracts. The method was not especially sophisticated: its agents would simply hang up on customers who ...[Continue Reading]
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Leap Seconds Were a Headache. Now Timekeepers Are Considering a Leap Hour
Gayoung Lee
In 2022, international timekeepers voted to phase out the leap secondan extra tick of time added to account for Earths erratic rotation. But as our planets spin grows weirdly faster, timekeepers are ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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Cubas top leadership endorses Castro grandson in U.S. negotiations
Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY
Ral Guillermo Rodrguez Castro has Cuba's blessing "from the top leadership" to negotiate with the United States for the future of Cuba, despite having no official role in the government, according ...[Continue Reading]
USA Today
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NY attorney general sues chemical companies for PFAS pollution
Rosemary Misdary
New York is suing several large chemical companies it says polluted the environment with PFAS, commonly known as forever chemicals. In a suit filed Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James ...[Continue Reading]
Gothamist
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Assassins Creed Devs Celebrate Black Flag Remake Launch With Layoffs: This Is Not How I Imagined It Would End
Ethan Gach
Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced is out today and is already having one of the best Steam launches in the franchises history. Unfortunately, the celebrations are bittersweet for developers who w ...[Continue Reading]
Kotaku
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Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Hits Grim New Milestone as Cases Top 1,000
Matthew Phelan
More than half of U.S. states29 and countinghave now reported cases of a parasitic illness that can induce weeks of watery, explosive diarrheasince the wave first emerged in May. But this mysterious ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
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