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21 hours agoAnalysis 8mm
A quarter of all known bee species haven't been seen since the 1990s
The number of bee species appears to have declined sharply in the past 30 years, which could mean many types of bee are extinct or so rare that no one has recording a sighting
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23 hours agoExpression 8mm
Whatever happened to the company that decided to pay all of its employees a $70K minimum wage? | Boing Boing
Back in 2015, Dan Price of the credit card processing company Gravity Payments decided to pay everyone at his company a minimum salary of $70,000 a year, including himself.
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2 days agoAnalysis 8mm
The COVID-19 pandemic made U.S. college students’ mental health even worse
College students struggled with mental health problems before the pandemic. Now, some vulnerable students are even more at risk.
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9 days agoCurrent Event 8mm
Apple fails to overturn VirnetX patent verdict, could owe over $1.1 billion
A federal judge denied Apple Inc's bid to set aside or reduce a $502.8 million patent infringement verdict favoring VirnetX Holding Corp, and awarded interest and royalties that could boost Apple's total payout in two lawsuits above $1.1 billion.
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10 days agoExpression 8mm
Trump's Twitter ban obscures the real problem: state-backed manipulation is rampant on social media
Social media censorship in the US fails to tackle the rising trend of ‘disinformation-for-hire’ cyber troops.
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11 days agoCurrent Event 8mm
Saudi Arabia launches 170km city built in a straight line
New eco-friendly project launched by the crown prince panned on social media as 'nonsense' and 'dreamed up from a sci-fi movie'
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13 days agoCurrent Event 8mm
Twitter, in Widening Crackdown, Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.
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13 days agoCurrent Event 8mm
PS5 CES 2021 sizzle trailer reveals release windows for Project Athia, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and more - Gematsu
The end card of the PlayStation 5 sizzle trailer shown during Sony Corporation's Consumer Electronics Show 2021 Digital Press Event mentions previously unannounced release windows
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event 8mm
Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. federal court system, according to a memo released Wednesday by the Administrative Office (AO) of the U.S. Courts.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event 8mm
Self-driving pioneer Waymo dumps the term 'self-driving'
Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, and which pioneered the self-driving car business, says it's done with the term "self-driving."
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event 8mm
Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event 8mm
FCC orders phone companies to help trace illegal robocallers
The FCC didn’t have a limit for non-telemarketing calls before this change.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis 8mm
Physical books still outsell e-books — and here's why
Do you prefer reading an e-book or a physical version? It might be a surprise, but for most people, old school print on paper still wins.
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1 month agoExpression 8mm
The Fetishization of Mr. Rogers’s ‘Look for the Helpers’
Turning the reassuring line for children into a meme for adults should make everyone uncomfortable.
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1 month agoExpression 8mm
An Oral History of the World’s Biggest Coupon
Bed Bath & Beyond’s plus-size mailer, known as Big Blue, has made it to TV, eBay, even a mobster’s kitchen drawer. “The poor mailmen,” the company’s former marketing V.P. said, “what we did to them.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event 8mm
Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection...
Kushner directed Lara Trump, the vice president's nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman to serve on its board, a person familiar with the operation told Insider.