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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-01-22 00:18:13+00:00.

Original Title: Muscular strength and good physical fitness could halve the risk of cancer patients dying from their disease. Combination of strength and fitness was associated with an 8-46% lower risk of death in patients with stage 3 or 4 cancer, and a 19-41% lower risk of death in lung or digestive cancers.

Physicists have long grouped the most basic building blocks of our universe into two categories. One group consists of fermions, which include matter particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons. 

The other group contains bosons, which include particles linked to forces like photons and the Higgs particle. These two families differ in their “spin” values and in how many can occupy the same place at once.

For anyone interested in the first article, it's on wccftech.com. For the second one we assumeably have to wait yet another year.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/FunnyGamer97 on 2025-01-22 00:19:14+00:00.

Original Title: Wild baboons not capable of visual self-awareness when viewing their own reflection | Study finds that while baboons notice and respond to a laser mark shone on their arms, legs and hands, they do not react when they see, via their mirror reflection, the laser on their faces and ears.

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Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect.

“I had a chance to go have a long, and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that he talked to Trump for three hours, along with Trump aide Susie Wiles and Gates’s aide Larry Cohen.

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It’s a stunning remark from Gates, one of the richest people in the world, who previously said he donated more than $50 million to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The news of the meeting comes after Trump claimed last month that the billionaire was begging to have a meeting with him.

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Gaza's Civil Defence agency said it feared there were more than 10,000 bodies still buried under rubble.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250121033007/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8x00mgjxmo

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcn8x00mgjxmo

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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/ALittleUseless on 2025-01-22 02:43:05+00:00.

I've sailing the seas since long time. When I started 10-15 years back, I was in an Asian country, when it was all about just installing uTorrent and downloading whatever you want. No need of VPNs.

Now I am in Canada, using SaskTel as my ISP. I bought Proton VPN Plus. Connect to Asian servers and always using Kill Switch feature of the VPN. Using qBittorrent. Bound VPN with it.

Am I taking enough steps for safe torrenting?

They must of just let there babies starve or something idk

This is a semi joking post

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Raul_1246 on 2025-01-22 03:38:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/xlethalia on 2025-01-22 02:11:36+00:00.

One of the reasons people like the Deck is because it enables them to chip away at games in small sessions of 30 minutes or less, and that’s what helped them beat more games. For some reason, I personally can’t do that. Like if I have 45 minutes before I gotta go to work, I just can’t bring myself to play a game for that little amount of time. If I don’t have at least 3 hours of time laid out, I just feel like there’s no point. So I end up laying around doing nothing instead. Kind of silly, but was wondering if anyone else strongly preferred longer sessions that way.

This post made me think of it as it's a good example of this.

Every now and then I encounter writing like this (often it's something someone is showing me) and I just read it, and then I re-read it and then I re-re-read it and my mind just stays completely blank and I have no clue of what it's saying. This seems to be happening to me quite regularly and honestly I feel quite stupid. I'm wondering if this is some ADHD / autism thing, granted that english is not my first language. However, like I said, it's not that I don't understand the words - just not the meaning of them together.

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/Odin7410 on 2025-01-22 04:10:50+00:00.

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Despite previously attempting to ban TikTok over national security concerns, Donald Trump now champions the platform, which went offline in the U.S. Sunday under a controversial ban upheld by the Supreme Court.

TikTok is good for Trump because it is a maelstrom of disinformation so massive that even Elon Musk-controlled Twitter cannot compete.

The app’s algorithm spreads disinformation and emotionally manipulative content, which boosts Trump’s messaging.

Critics warn that TikTok fosters disconnection, exploiting empathy to exhaust users and distract them from meaningful real-world action.

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, injuring 27 people, triggering landslides and causing ceilings of homes to cave in according to local authorities.

An AFP journalist in the capital Taipei felt tremors for nearly a minute as the shallow quake struck shortly after midnight.

The epicentre was recorded 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) north of Yujing, a mango-growing district in southern Taiwan, the USGS said.

Firefighters rescued three people including a child who were trapped in a collapsed house in nearby Nanxi district, video posted on Facebook and verified by AFP showed.

Elsewhere, authorities said a person was injured by falling debris while two people were rescued from elevators.

More than 50 aftershocks have been recorded, said Taiwan's Central Weather Administration which reported the initial quake at magnitude 6.4.

The ceilings of several homes collapsed, while roads were blocked by falling rocks and landslides, the National Fire Agency said. But the agency reported "no major damage" from the quake, which injured 27 people according to the health ministry.

The aftermath saw classes and office work cancelled in Nanxi district as well as Dapu Township in mountainous Chiayi County, north of the epicentre.

Some roads in Dapu were "damaged and impassable", and water and electricity supplies affected, Chiayi County chief Weng Chang-liang said.

Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC said it evacuated workers from some of its central and southern factories when the quake struck.

The last major earthquake occurred in April 2024 when the island was hit by a deadly 7.4-magnitude tremor that officials said was the strongest in 25 years. At least 17 people were killed in that quake, which triggered landslides and severely damaged buildings around Hualien.

April's earthquake was the most serious in Taiwan since it was struck by a 7.6-magnitude tremor in 1999. Some 2,400 people died in that quake, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the island's history.

Since then, Taiwan has updated and enhanced its building code to incorporate quake-resistant construction methods, such as steel bars that allow a building to sway more easily when the ground moves.

Famous for its cutting-edge tech firms, Taiwan has built up an advanced early warning system that can alert the public to potentially serious ground shaking within seconds.

The system has been enhanced over the years to incorporate new tools such as smartphones and high-speed data connectivity, even in some of the most remote parts of the island.