Photograph: MyroslavaPavlyk/Getty Images The sex tech industry has conditioned us to think of toys in terms of male and female, penis and vagina, but that’s reductive and inaccurate, and it contributes to a larger narrative about the relationship between genitals and gender. It’s unhelpful, and I have a lot of feelings about it. We opt […]
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THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge
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Welcome to Playing Through’s daily ritual — Golf Talk Today. Each day, the crew will discuss various elements of the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, and more. It is Day 2 of the Solheim Cup, and Team USA leads 6-2 after two successful Friday sessions. Saturday morning’s format will be Foursomes. Tee times are from
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In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, a steadily growing epidemic continued to burn its path across the United States. Gun violence stole the lives of 45,222 Americans that fateful year, the worst year on record for gun deaths to that point. The path leading to each one of these deaths is layered and complex.
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After Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server environment, known as Private Cloud Compute, which attempts to replicate in the cloud the security and privacy of processing data locally on users’ individual devices. The goal is to minimize possible exposure of data processed for Apple
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Photograph: Simon Hill Multi-Link Operation Perhaps the most exciting advance in Wi-Fi 7 is Multi-Link Operation (MLO). Every previous Wi-Fi standard establishes a connection between two devices on a single band. Even a tri-band Wi-Fi 6E router connects two devices on a single band on a fixed channel (the router decides whether to connect on
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Apart from that, the trip over the Atlas mountains was uneventful, if not for the heavy traffic that had churned up the road while carrying equipment to the French atomic research base (a year prior, scientists had tested a nuclear bomb at a still-classified location, releasing four times the energy of the bomb dropped on
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What a month for Land Rover Defender residuals, with the announcement of not one but two restoration-and-modification specials. I also see that we’re deep into territory that I predicted (go me) in 2016, when I thought that within a few years, old Defenders would be rebranded as Defender Classics. I was partly right: it seems to
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This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2023, the fast-fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencersâ â#sheinhaulâ videos advertised the companyâs trendy styles
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College football is wonderful when it’s good. It’s also great when it’s terrible. Kansas and UNLV were closer to the latter than the former when they met on Friday in Week 3, but the end product was still one of the more entertaining games of the short season. UNLV beat Kansas, 23-20, for a come-from-behind
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