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1 day agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
Joggers who jiggle should stop fooling themselves: the idea that you can be chubby but healthy is false, a study suggests. The debate has raged for years: is it better to be a stout sportsperson who regularly exercises, or can you expect fewer health problems if you are sedentary but skinny?
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4 days agoExpression Pfennig88
Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?
An eminent astrophysicist argues that signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life have appeared in our skies. What’s the evidence for his extraordinary claim?
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6 days agoAnalysis Pfennig88
Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump
Zignal Labs charted a 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president.
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8 days agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
NASA Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000th day on Mars with stunning panorama of planet
The glorious new image captures the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater and part of Mount Sharp, its central mountain.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes broke all kinds of records in 2020
2020 was a year of unremitting extreme climate events, from heat waves to wildfires to hurricanes, many of which scientists have directly linked to human-caused climate change (SN: 8/27/20). Each event has taken a huge toll in lives lost and damages incurred. As of early October, the United States alone had weathered at least 16 climate- or weather-related disasters each costing more than $1 billion.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Tens of thousands of people living in the Caribbean are on high alert as volcanoes come back to life after remaining dormant for decades
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert a Caribbean volcano came back to life. La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but remained dormant for decades before beginning to spew ash on Tuesday this week, AP reported.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Mystery of Dark Matter is going to be solved soon
Have you ever wonder what is the universe made of? If you want to find the answer in syllabus books then it says the universe is made of energy and matter. If you ask the same question to a scientist then he will say it's dark stuff (Dark energy & Dark matter) then if you ask him what is dark matter? then his reply is probably is it's a riddle for science to solve. We are going to tell you about the mystery of dark matter and how scientists of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) gonna solv...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Activists, Christian singer's fans clash on skid row over COVID-19 'superspreader' concert
Activists and evangelical Christians skirmished on skid row over masking and social distancing Wednesday night, as singer Sean Feucht and his followers launched three days of New Year's gatherings with prayer, singing and food distribution to the 50-block district's homeless people.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Apple Car launch could be delayed to 2028 or later
The rumors about Apple making its own EV shot back onto the scene last week with a report from Reuters about production possibly starting by 2024. Sources have said that Apple has a breakthrough monocell battery in the works and more. However, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a special note on Apple Car that says the market is “too bullish about Apple Car” and that 2025 would be the very earliest we could see the vehicle launch and says realistically, 2028 or later is possible.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Congratulations, the US got you cryptocurrency regulation for Christmas
Under new proposed regulations from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, it may become much easier for the government to track bitcoin transactions. And while there’s currently a 15-day comment period open, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are calling foul because that period includes Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
The year we gave up on privacy
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data, and track my actions. Then the pandemic came, and I threw most of that out the window. You probably did, too.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Atheists to save historic wooden German church plank by plank
Ask Hans Powalla if he is a believer and the immediate response is a firm "no". Yet he and other villagers in and around the German town of Stiege have embarked on the Herculean task of saving a picturesque church by moving it from the middle of a forest into the centre of town. Former electrician Powalla, 74, said they were driven by the "unique architecture of the building" and the "meaning that it gives to the region" in the Harz mountains.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Google employees in the US will be able to get a COVID test for free every week
90,000 Google employees have just received access to free weekly COVID tests. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that every US Google employee (and its subsidiaries, including YouTube) will be eligible to sign up for a free at-home test. This differs from other companies, like Amazon, which are only offering tests to employees who still have to work in a physical location, like a retail location or warehouse.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Tesla full self-driving code contains secret "augmented reality view"
While digging through the code of their Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature, a noted Tesla hacker-owner who goes by the handle “green” found an augmented reality view of everything the vehicle is capable of seeing in vivid detail, Teslarati reports. The Elon Musk-led company began rolling out its Full Self-Driving beta in October, allowing a select group of Tesla owners to test the feature.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Diablo IV Quarterly Update—December 2020
We’re excited about several big updates and revisions that the team’s worked on for a long time that we are trying to complete before the holidays.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Facebook hit with antitrust probe for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
Facebook’s bad week just got worse: It’s being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
A Meat-Free World By 2035 Is 'Totally Doable', Says Impossible CEO
'I was confident that we would succeed when I launched this company, now I'm completely confident. It's game over for the incumbent industry'
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1 month agoCurrent Event Pfennig88
Little pygmy possum found safe after Kangaroo Island fires
A species of tiny pygmy possum has been rediscovered on Kangaroo Island, South Australia for the first time since the devastating bushfire season. As the one of the world's smallest marsupials it has always been difficult to spot. The nocturnal animals weigh only 8 grammes and are rarely seen, but the island worried it might have been wiped out in the blaze. Half the 500-hectare island was burned at beginning of the year, including much of the possum's habitat.