The Postal Service have shared Sylvan Esso’s new remix of their 2003 Give Up cut “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.” The updated version arrives ahead of the Postal Service’s extended joint tour with Death Cab for Cutie, celebrating the anniversaries of Give Up and Transatlanticism. Check out the reworked track below. “‘The District Sleeps Alone
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A disabled chimpanzee who was orphaned by the illegal bushmeat trade in Africa has been given a new home. The Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Wareham, Dorset, has welcomed Chocolat, who has been cared for in Kenya for the past 20 years. The female chimp was an infant when her family were hunted and
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Police in Iceland have declared a state of emergency after a volcano erupted, forcing homes to be evacuated. The eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, in southwest Iceland, is the sixth outbreak since December. Iceland’s meteorological office recorded increased seismic activity and earthquakes at the volcanic hill, Sundhnukar, days before the volcano erupted. A large fissure
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Chinese tech company Baidu announced Monday it can sell some robotaxi rides without any human staff in the vehicles. Baidu BEIJING — Chinese tech company Baidu is reporting slower growth in its Apollo Go robotaxi rides than in prior quarters. Figures Baidu reported Thursday showed the number of robotaxi rides operated publicly grew by 26%
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Have you ever wondered what happens to your trash? Or who lives next to landfills? Or why recycling is so complicated? If you struggle to wrap your mind around humankind’s relation to waste, check out Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet’s Dirtiest Problem by science writer and illustrator Iris Gottlieb. Gottlieb offers a
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Sony/Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends with Us continues to blossom as it crosses the $200M global box office mark. With Wednesday’s numbers included, the Blake Lively-starring and -produced adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s popular novel counts $204.4M worldwide, of which $106.7M is from domestic and $97.7M from the international box office.  There are box office flowers yet
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When Transformers One‘s release date arrives next month, it is going to be a pretty significant departure from the ones we’ve had recently in a few big ways. First, Transformers One is an animated film set on Cybertron rather than the live-action/CGI blockbusters of the past. Secondly, Transformers One is by far the funniest the
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A massive 2,492-carat diamond — the second largest in the world — has been discovered in Botswana, the Canadian mining company that found the stone announced Thursday. The diamond was discovered in the Karowe Diamond Mine in northeastern Botswana using x-ray detection technology, Lucara Diamond Corp. said in a statement. Lucara did not provide an
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