Timelapse footage of a blizzard dumping feet of snow on a neighborhood is giving people a glimpse at how powerful winter storms can be.
According to the video description, the video was captured via Nest cam in the town of St. John’s in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The timelapse captures 24 hours of the storm when it blew through on Friday, starting at about 5:30 in the morning.
The storm dumped 30 inches of snow in parts of St John’s, according to the Washington Post, and even created drifts upwards of 12 feet high.
Spring, if you’re out there, feel free to swing by whenever. Read more…
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Cars from Google spin-off Waymo have logged 20 million milesRussia’s Yandex and China’s Baidu have programmed cars to stop at streetlights, yield to pedestrians, and pass slow vehicles.
But these companies don’t build their own cars. Instead, most of them rely on a few popular models with easy-to-hack computer and infotainment systems that don’t require a lot of retrofitting. The cars might have different logos and sensors on them, but underneath, they’re the same. So what cars are self-driving companies using?
Lincoln MKZ
Qualcomm is building an advanced driving system that is basically autonomous, but still keeps the human driver in charge. The chipmaker is focused on giving car companies a “plug-and-play supported platform.” That means a carmaker can pick and choose what tools and features they want built into the car, from warning systems to fully automated highway driving. Read more…
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Netflix is great, but after a massive binge it can sometimes feel like there’s nothing left to watch. It’s at this point that a VPN comes in handy. A VPN can be used to watch content that is not available in your location, like all the extra shows on US Netflix, in the UK.
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Those of us in the UK can use a VPN to unlock a treasure chest of content that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to get. You can make the most of your Netflix subscription and get access to even more great movies and TV shows by tapping into another region’s service via any of the carefully curated VPN services listed down below. Read more…
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They were once abundant, in our hairsprays, bug sprays, and refrigerators. And then scientists figured out these substances ripped a hole in the ozone layer, leading to a 1987 plan to phase them out that over time would be agreed to by every country in the world.
More than three decades later, researchers have made a new discovery.
Ozone-depleting substances do more than just gnaw at Earth’s protective layer. They’re also greenhouse gases, so they contribute to the planet’s overall warming by trapping heat, too. And now we may know just how much these substances have contributed to Arctic warming, thanks to a study published in the science journal Nature on Monday. Read more…
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The trailer for HBO’s documentary about a speech competition honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. dropped on MondayWe Are The Dream: The Kids Of The Martin Luther King Oratorical Festival dives into how the young competitors prepare for their performances.
The annual Martin Luther King Oratorical Festival brings hundreds of pre-K through 12th grade students together to perform published and original poetry and speeches. The documentary follows the young students as they prepare for the competition and show their passion for social justice issues like immigration reform and racial equality.
“They’re profound, and they have a vision,” one of the teachers featured in the documentary tells the camera. Read more…
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Bong Joon-ho is the dad you’ve always wanted to make proud.
His black comedy Parasite made history on Sunday night when it won the Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It’s the first non-English film to win the award. Director Bong Joon-ho couldn’t be more proud — like a parent recording his kids’ first steps, he whipped out his phone and took pictures of his cast throughout the ceremony.
Bong Joon-ho recording the cast at the end is sending me 😂😂😂 https://t.co/yZSG1teOQf
— zach ☁️ (@idanozach) January 20, 2020
The cast and director celebrated backstage with cheering. Read more…
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On the holiday honoring her father’s legacy, Bernice King reminded Twitter users that the fight for equality doesn’t just happen once a year.
“Honoring you today and every day,” she captioned a photo of her family, more than 50 years after the civil rights leader’s death. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated four years after segregation was banned under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Honoring you today and every day
Your legacy is large, your love lingers
I’m grateful to be a woman who was born a King#MLK #MLK91 #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/GQAk1uvKuO
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SpaceX and NASA exploded a Falcon 9 rocket to test a very important safety feature, Crew Dragon’s in-flight escape system. It was the final milestone before SpaceX gets NASA’s approval to take astronauts to the International Space Station.
This test was part of NASA’s plan to launch “American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttles,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. Read more…
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It’s Monday, which means it’s the perfect time for you to watch David Lynch asking a suited monkey if he’s ever been a card-carrying member of the communist party.
It’s a genuine thing that happens in David Lynch’s new Netflix short, What Did Jack Do?, a 17-minute film which sees the legendary director interrogating a monkey called Jack in a train carriage.
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Co-presented by Lynch’s company Absurda and Parisian contemporary art museum Fondation Cartier, the film was written, directed, and edited by Lynch himself. Along with a small crew, he also did the sound editing, set design, and assisted with set construction. Read more…
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