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In 2016, YouTube released its first original movie: a near-future tale called The Thinning about a world where children are killed for failing a standardized test. Starring Logan Paul, The Thinning was almost immediately forgotten; nevertheless, YouTube still started the production of a sequel the following year. This past January, however, Paul filmed the body of a suicide victim in Japan’s Aokigahara forest in one of his vlogs, igniting international controversy, and the project was shelved “indefinitely.” There simply wasn’t much reason to revisit the world of The Thinning, a generic sci-fi film released near the end of the Hunger Games-fueled YA dystopia gold rush.

Last week, Paul tweeted the trailer for the sequel, signaling that…

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The BioLite CampStove 2 cooks your food, boils your water and charges your phone.

This season, The Walking Dead has been taking the opportunity to reinvent itself. New showrunner Angela Kang has streamlined the pacing, cut down on the filler, and focused the plot on grounded issues like governance, punishment, and the necessary work required to rebuild a functioning society. Minor characters have been given well-written moments to take on more of the spotlight, while the main cast truly feels like they’ve earned their stations as high-ranking leaders and decision-makers.

Rather than focusing on the grim nature of the zombie apocalypse, this new and improved TWD has been interested in hope and rebuilding society. But in last night’s episode, “Warning Signs,” the show felt like it could all too easily tumble backward…

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The 34-mile bridge links Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland city of Zhuhai.

Lime plans to open physical stores in the US and abroad in the coming year as it seeks to elevate its electric bike and scooter business from just a cheap way to get around to more of a lifestyle brand.

The news about Lime’s plans first came to light in the job posting for a “store manager” in Santa Monica, California, which is ground zero for dockless scooter services. This future location will “place heavy importance on brand experience and customer engagement,” the listing reads.

Lime doesn’t sell electric scooters, so why does it need a brick-and-mortar store? When reached for comment, a Lime spokesperson said, “In the coming year, Lime will be opening brick and mortar storefronts in major US and international markets, starting…

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Many of the plants inhabiting northern mountains depend on the snow cover lingering until late spring or summer. Snow provides shelter for plants from winter-time extreme events but at the same time it shortens the length of growing season, which prevents the establishment of more southern plants. This is why the reduced snow cover may be an even larger threat to the Arctic plants than rising temperatures.

A new study provides a more comprehensive accounting of the greenhouse gas emissions from EU diets. It shows that meat and dairy products are responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse emissions from the EU diet.

A new study of anonymous interactions suggests that humans switch off their automatic inclination to share in dealings with strangers.

A new building material is about to be launched on the market: ‘memory-steel’ can not only be used to reinforce new, but also existing concrete structures. When the material is heated (one-time), prestressing occurs automatically.

NASA engineers have figured out how to bring the ailing Hubble Space Telescope back online after troubleshooting an instrument that wasn’t working properly. The observatory, currently in orbit around Earth, has been in safe mode since October 5th when a crucial piece of steering hardware — needed to point the telescope — failed. A backup piece of hardware will be used instead, allowing Hubble to operate at its full capacity again.

One of Hubble’s gyroscopes, the devices that are needed to measure how fast the telescope is turning in space, failed on October 5th. Two of Hubble’s six gyros are already offline, and the failure brought the working number of gyros down to three. Hubble only needs three of them to work at any given time in…

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