How China Impacts the Future of Gaming

China banned videogames for almost 15 years, but how dies Chinese video game censorship impact the gaming market? The Chinese impact on the international gaming market is huge and leads the direction of the future of gaming. China still bans video games and this is for certain reasons!
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Air pollution: 30 million in China died from polluted air in 17 years - study

TENS of millions of people in China died as a consequence of air pollution in a matter of years, a new study has revealed.
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Spijkenisser Eurobruggen (Euro Banknote Bridges)

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.
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A new book offers a rare glimpse inside North Korea's frozen-in-time tourist hotels

From poolside stands decorated with pumpkin vines to neon karaoke bars, Pyongyang's tourist hotels look nothing like their exteriors make them seem.
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Agent Orange’s devastating effects on Vietnam

The Vietnam War ended almost 50 years ago, but it’s still killing Vietnamese people. Children are born with severe birth defects due to Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed by the Americans during the war. While some 5 million in Vietnam live with incurable or chronic diseases caused by Agent Orange, thousands are killed by unexploded ordnance.
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‘It works.’ Groundbreaking data proves success of Santa Clara County homeless housing program

New research by UCSF shows Santa Clara County’s approach to housing its sickest and most desperate homeless residents is working.
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Study finds Russian prescription drugs hiding in "brain-boosting" supplements

Analysis of eight "brain boosting" supplements and two work-out supplements identified drugs that are illegal in the US, but are prescribed in other countries.
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Taiwan: The threat that the world ignores

China openly threatens Taiwan with invasion. The world assumes it will never follow through. Yet as Beijing flexes its muscles at home and abroad, is that being dangerously complacent?
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The alien invaders threatening Scotland's wildlife

Invasive species are killing wildlife and damaging habitats - and experts warn that more threats are on the horizon.
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She's building Los Angeles' first solar community fridge. Will it help extinguish hunger?

Bee Burlingame is building Los Angeles' first solar community fridge
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This is what it's like to walk into a building filled with a billion cockroaches

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the key to more sustainable farming and reducing landfill.
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Made in Japan — Ishikawa and Gifu Craftsmanship

A documentary-style film exploring traditional Japanese handcrafts and artists from Ishikawa and Gifu, in partnership with Japan Tourism.
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'He was in agony': How the Australian stinging tree hurts — and keeps on hurting

Australia's rainforest-dwelling stinging trees are notoriously painful, and Queensland researchers say they now know why.
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Painting the Sky, by Thomas Kast

Kast was searching for clear skies in Finnish Lapland to capture the beauty of a polar night when he encountered these polar stratospheric clouds.
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The Green Lady, by Nicholas Roemmelt

On a journey to Norway, "the lady in green" unexpectedly appeared for Roemmelt, making the whole sky burn with green, blue and pink colours.
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California’s wildfire smoke plumes are unlike anything previously seen

Smoke plumes have reached 55,000 feet in height with embedded thunderstorms, lightning and tornadoes.
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California Can’t Afford to Wait for Climate Action

The horrific fires of 2020 are just a preview. No matter what we do, two to four times as much land area will soon burn annually in the West.
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Australia's Banana Republic move: protecting lazy locals in battle with Google, Facebook

Proposal to force digital giants to hand a colossal sum of money to local media companies is almost a textbook definition of ‘sovereign risk’.
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How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.
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California blaze, which burned 7,000 acres, caused by firework at gender-reveal party

The El Dorado fire in California that has burned more than 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) was caused by a firework set off at a “gender-reveal party”, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has found.
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Humans might have lived at this coastal site 120,000 years ago — the trick lies in proving it

Scientists examining an ancient Aboriginal site are split over whether charred rocks and weather-worn shells are 120,000-year-old evidence of Indigenous life.
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In China, the ‘Great Firewall’ Is Changing a Generation

Once it seemed inevitable that the internet would create a more open society. Now it’s fostering young nationalists.
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The catastrophic science behind the stunning photos of Arctic crater

A 160-foot-deep crater has opened up in the Arctic permafrost. It is the result of built up methane gas released during the frost's thaw, scientists say.
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New research shows lyrebirds move more litter and soil than any other digging animal

The Superb Lyrebird is famous for its song and dance, but what is less known is their extraordinary role as world-class ecosystem engineers.
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