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No, DNA Tests Cant Help You Find Your Soulmate, Despite What ‘The One’ Tells You
The Netflix drama The One centres around a geneticist who invents a new matchmaking service. It uses DNA to help people find their romantic and sexual match: their “one”. “A single strand of hair is all it takes to be matched with the one person you are genetically guaranteed to fall in love with”,…
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Here Are The Difference Fight Scene Styles Used In The Bourne Movies
Video: I’m still not entirely sure we needed another Matt Damon Bourne movie after not having one for nearly a decade, but we’ve gotten one. It’s probably not going to be as good as the original trilogy. That’s why it’s nice to look back on the three Bourne flicks that were actually good. Specifically, their…
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Killing The Australia Tax Versus Killing Piracy
Well this is interesting, isn’t it? Yesterday, a Government-appointed panel on Competition Law just told everyone it was OK to use their VPNs to circumvent international geoblocks in order to dodge the Australia Tax. So what does this mean for a government desperate to get people to stop using VPNs to access overseas services like…
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Can A Supercomputer Predict Revolutions?
Shades of Minority Report, anyone? Singularity Hub reports on the use of supercomputers to mine millions of news reports in order to more accurately predict political instability. It can’t quite read the future, yet, technically speaking.