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Current Event NelsonThousands of people have raised more than $1 million for a man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit
Thousands of people are raising money online for a Missouri man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Kevin Strickland, 62, was exonerated Tuesday morning after serving decades at Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri. Strickland was convicted in 1979 of one count of capital murder and two counts of second-degree murder in a triple homicide. He received a 50-year life sentence without the possibility for parole for a crime that, over the years, he m...
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3 days ago
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Scientists use seismic noise to image first hundred meters of Mars
Mars' winds create enough noise to see what's underneath the InSight lander.
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3 weeks ago
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A high school principal is apologizing for lack of sportsmanship after the football team won a game 106-0
A Los Angeles high school is apologizing after facing criticism that its football team didn't simply defeat an opponent but rather trounced the opposing squad by a score of 106-0. Inglewood High School Principal Debbie Tate issued the statement on Monday, saying that her school's team did not conduct themselves "with sportsmanship or integrity and the final score was unacceptable."
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3 weeks ago
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Apple’s app tracking policy reportedly cost social media platforms nearly $10 billion
An investigation by The Financial Times found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost around $9.85 billion in revenue following Apple’s changes to its privacy practices. Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy that requires apps to ask permission to track users’ data. The policy went into effect in April, barring apps from tracking users if they opt out.
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1 month ago
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Apple sued by Chinese students over iPhone’s lack of cables
A group of Chinese students is suing Apple for not providing a charger with the iPhone. Apple stopped shipping power adapters with new iPhones in 2020, claiming that it would reduce carbon emissions. However, students in Beiking and Shanghai have reportedly challenged this argument in court, according to Vice and the Shanghai Law Journal, arguing that the USB-C to Lightning cable that came with the iPhone 12 was not compatible with other chargers on the market. As such, the students were not abl...
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1 month ago
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UC San Diego Study: E-cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay Off Cigarettes
E-cigarette use did not help smokers stay off cigarettes and may increase smokers' chances of relapse, according to a study by University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
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1 month ago
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Canadian city becomes first to heat buildings through Bitcoin mining
North Vancouver announced Thursday it would become the world's first city to be heated almost entirely by bitcoin mining, an innovative way to tackle climate change by creating valuable cryptocurrency coins and usable thermal energy at the same time.
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1 month ago
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A Boeing test pilot has been indicted in connection with the 737 Max
A former Boeing pilot involved in testing the 737 Max jetliner was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of deceiving safety regulators who were evaluating the plane, which was later involved in two deadly crashes.
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1 month ago
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UN declares access to a clean environment a human right
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday recognised access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate change and its devastating consequences.
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1 month ago
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Clubhouse needs creators, but creators need cash
Where are the brand deals?
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1 month ago
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Grigory Perelman, the maths genius who said no to $1m
Perelman cracks a century-old conundrum, refuses the reward, and barricades himself in his flat
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1 month ago
Basically haha
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1 month ago
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is a 'toxic' workplace, some current and ex-workers claim in essay
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is described as a "toxic" workplace in an essay by 21 current and former employees.
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2 months ago
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Why NASA Is About to Cut Contact With Its Mars Explorers
NASA is about to cut communications with its Mars rovers and other robotic explorers on the red planet. But don’t be alarmed — there’s a good reason for the move and normal operations will resume soon. The downtime is necessary as the current orbits of Earth and Mars mean the two planets are on opposite sides of the sun, a situation that occurs once every two years.
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2 months ago
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Five Human Species You May Not Know About
We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not so long ago in our evolutionary history, multiple types of humans occupied various landscapes. The environments of the Paleolithic, or Stone Age, were dynamic. Populations moved, interacted, and sometimes even interbred.