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A man with a metal detector searching a freshly plowed carrot field in Switzerland found a large ornate jewelry set dating to the Bronze Age — as well as other surprising items including a bear’s tooth, a beaver’s tooth and a fossilized shark’s tooth, local officials said this week. Franz Zahn made the unusual discovery
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Netflix is increasing its subscription fees as it cracks down on password sharing. Watch CBS News Netflix announced an increase in the rates for its basic and premium plans due to a surge of around 9 million new subscribers. This spike in numbers can be attributed to the company’s efforts to prevent password sharing. View
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Why does Elon Musk intend to restrict access to X with a paywall? Why Elon Musk wants to paywall X, formerly known as Twitter 04:19 X, the popular social media platform previously known as Twitter, revealed on Tuesday that it is currently experimenting with a new subscription system. This system would require new users to
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Health care costs rise as some struggle for coverage Health care costs rise as some struggle for coverage 02:34 Climbing food and housing prices aren’t the only costs causing consumers to dig deeper into their pockets these days. Insurance premiums are forcing them to shell out more money, too. According to a new survey from
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Scientists explore deep sea plastic trash crisis off Panama – CBS News Watch CBS News A whopping 170 trillion pieces of plastic litter our seas, impacting ocean health and entering the human food chain. Scientists recently probed the depths off the coast of Panama to learn more. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben
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NASA reported that a recent satellite photo depicted a large area of the United States covered by a dark patch. However, this was actually the moon, which created an eclipse and cast a shadow over North America last weekend. On Saturday, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera captured an image of the moon causing a significant
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company to offer free tutoring services to its members The second biggest teachers’ union in America has joined forces with a business to provide complimentary tutoring services to its members. A business that has the ability to identify instances where students are utilizing artificial intelligence. to complete their assignments. The AFT has recently entered into
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A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around northwestern France. The so-called Saint-Belec slab was found at the site of a tomb and claimed as Europe’s oldest known map
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As e-scooters, hoverboards and e-bikes increase in popularity, emergency rooms are seeing a surge in injuries — fractures, contusions, burns and cuts — related to the products, continuing a multiyear trend, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission finds in a report released Tuesday. Injuries related to micromobility devices including e-scooters, e-bikes and hoverboards have risen
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Ebay may have to cough up as much as $2 billion in fines for allegedly allowing the distribution and sale of hundreds of thousands of products that significantly increase pollution spewing from diesel pickup trucks. The e-commerce giant is accused of letting more than 343,000 aftermarket “rolling coal” devices — made to neutralize motor vehicle
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