Alex Dobrenko

🃏⚫️🔴 Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have been shifting the odds further in their favor in recent years for two widely-popular games: blackjack and roulette, per a newly-published report by the WSJ.

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👶 Angel, Riley and Taylor are all baby names that have at some point switched from being mostly used for one gender to the other -->

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🧜🍿 Want to make the live-action Little Mermaid film a part of your world? Starting today, you can. The film opens wide in 4,300 theaters across the country today.

🌎 China is on a path to securing access to one-third of the world’s lithium-mine production capacity, ~400 new species were recently discovered in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, and more.

🗳 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed paperwork to run in the 2024 Republican presidential primary yesterday afternoon.

🧠👁 A research team in Singapore has developed a new mind-reading technique that uses AI to recreate "high-quality" video of what humans are seeing in real-time, per a new study published on the arXiv preprint server.

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💻 ❌  The halcyon days of sharing Netflix passwords has officially come to an end —>

🏥 So far this year, 16 states have enacted new laws restricting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors, while 11 states have passed new laws protecting healthcare for all trans residents.

☝️ A suspected meteor lit up the night sky above Queensland, Australia, on Saturday night; dozens of local space enthusiasts are currently searching for possible remnants.

📡👽 How would humanity respond if, someday, we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Well over the next few weeks, a first-of-its-kind project aims to answer that question irl.

👏 What’s the real reason every film at Cannes gets a standing ovation? It’s a festival tradition —>

🤖💥 A fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter yesterday morning, causing a brief dip in the US stock market before government officials confirmed it was a hoax.

🌎 Youth unemployment in China is at a record high, the EU imposed a record $1.3 billion fine on Meta, and more.

🤝🌊 The seven states that rely on water from the Colorado River reached a breakthrough agreement yesterday. It’ll keep the water supply for some of America’s most productive farmland, as well as major cities like Phoenix and LA, from falling to critically low levels.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners of this year’s Food Photographer of the Year awards held by Pink Lady.

📺👋 Over 70 TV shows and movies are being pulled from Disney+ and Hulu on May 26 →

🌎 Orcas have sunk three boats off Europe’s Iberian coast in a series of attacks experts say is learned behavior, a UK study indicates bankers perform significantly less financial misconduct when working from home, and more.