Alex Dobrenko

☁️🐦 What the heck is Bluesky and why are all the cool kids talking about it? A look into the social network that may replace Twitter -->

☝️ You’re looking at the closest example of a black hole devouring a star ever recorded; the phenomenon was recently discovered ~137 light-years from Earth by an MIT-led team of researchers. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

⏰📺 Hollywood’s writers have decided to strike. Here’s what happens now →

☝️ Highly-preserved fossils of 170+ species were recently discovered in 460-million-year-old rocks from Wales, per a peer-reviewed study published yesterday.

🤔 Wondering how Gen Z feel about President Biden, the Supreme Court, and their generation’s mental health? Results from the latest Harvard Youth poll are in -->

☝️ You’re looking at an incredibly rare stone called a diamond within a diamond, which was recently discovered by an India-based mining company; the new “Beating Heart” diamond features a smaller piece that moves around freely within the larger stone.

📰⏱️ Why made Time decide to remove its digital paywall? A deep dive into the company’s strategy that, somehow, involves selling NFTs -->

☝️ Before Japanese startup ispace’s lunar lander apparently crashed into the Moon’s surface on Tuesday, it snapped this pic of an “Earthrise” that depicts a total lunar eclipse occurring over Australia.

🍿👚 How did Warner Bros. Discovery impress a room full of anxious movie theater owners at CinemaCon? Pink. Lots of pink. Also, the CEO said some nice things... -->

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from this year’s GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition, which were selected from nearly 7,000 total entries.

☝️ This “unprecedented” composite image – which shows Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons – was recently captured by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe, which has been orbiting the red planet for the past two years.

☝️ You’re looking at the Manhattan apartment belonging to fictional character Kendall Roy in Succession; the 5,500-square-foot triplex apartment just went on the market for $29 million. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

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📰🔌 BuzzFeed News is no more. What caused the newsroom to shutter, and the broader trend affecting the digital news industry more broadly -->

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📺💰 How much do you think people spend, on average, on subscrption streaming services? $48. And about half of them aren't happy about it -->

☝️ You’re looking at some of the world’s best science images from March, as selected and published by Nature’s photo team. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Thursday, April 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤔🤖🎨 Have y’all heard the new Drake x The Weeknd banger, “Heart on My Sleeve”? It’s great, but there’s just one...little...problem. It’s 100% made w/ AI-generated voices.

When AI meets art, the 360° view →

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