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Analysis aj0690Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money
In a windsurfers’ paradise, turbines capture gusts that pick up at exactly the right time - or the wrong time, if you're trying to sell natural gas.
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9 hours ago
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An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper, our megaphone. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to turn it in something more akin to commercial cable TV, and we all have to work together to stop it.
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2 days ago
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Ford Announces New Focus Manufacturing Plans, Shifts Production From Mexico To China
Ford is shifting production of its next-generation Focus from Mexico to China, planning to import the small car to the United States. While other U.S. companies such as Apple have been manufacturing products in China, Ford's decision to source the Focus from the country in East Asia is likely to draw more attention than the others. That's because this marks the first time that the carmaker will make a vehicle in China targeted at U.S. consumers.
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3 days ago
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Islamophobic attacks in Manchester surge by 500% after arena attack
Islamophobic attacks soared more than 500% in Greater Manchester after the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert last month, police have said. There were 224 reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the month after the attack compared with 37 in the same period in 2016, official figures show.
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4 days ago
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26 weird objects seen on Mars, explained (pictures)
From Donald Trump's face to crabs to jelly doughnuts, entertaining images from Mars amuse scientists and excite conspiracy theorists and alien fans.
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5 days ago
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It’s So Hot in Phoenix, Planes Can’t Take Off
Planes have been grounded in Phoenix as life-threatening heat descends across the Southwest.
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5 days ago
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Georgia’s Special Election Comes to a Nail-Biting Finish
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Georgia’s Special Election Comes to a Nail-Biting Finish
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, and Karen Handel, a Republican, will face off Tuesday in the most expensive House campaign in history — and one of the most consequential since the 1970s.
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5 days ago
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Older fathers have 'geekier sons'
They are more focused, intelligent and less bothered about fitting in, say scientists.
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6 days ago
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Facebook and Twitter being used to manipulate public opinion
Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals
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6 days ago
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US student freed by North Korea in a coma has died at 22
Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week, died Monday afternoon. He was 22.
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6 days ago
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Raid Battles and New Gym Features are Coming!
The biggest update to Pokémon GO is nearly here! Very soon, Trainers around the world will be able to participate in a revamped Gym gameplay experience, including the opportunity to join together with others to battle against powerful Pokémon in the new Raid Battle feature!
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7 days ago
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Elon Musk: Launching a Satellite with SpaceX is $300 Million Cheaper
The U.S. Air Force's recently released budget reveals that the cost of a SpaceX launch is dramatically lower than that of the traditionally used United Launch Alliance. As CEO Elon Musk pointed out via Twitter, SpaceX's launch costs are so much lower, the satellites used by the company are "basically free."
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7 days ago
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A Crack in Creation review – Jennifer Doudna, Crispr and a great scientific breakthrough
It began with the kind of research the Trump administration wants to unfund: fiddling about with tiny obscure creatures. And there had been US Republican hostility to science before Trump, of course, when Sarah Palin objected to federal funding of fruit fly research (“Fruit flies – I kid you not,” she said). The fruit fly has been a vital workhorse of genetics for 100 years. Jennifer Doudna’s work began with organisms even further out on the Palin scale: bacteriophages, tiny viruses that...
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7 days ago
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57 dead in focal Portugal rapidly spreading fires, many killed in cars - Top on News
Seething woods fires in focal Portugal killed no less than 57 individuals, a large number of them caught in their autos as flares cleared over a street, in what the PM on Sunday called “the greatest catastrophe of human life that we have known in years.”
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8 days ago
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Man I'm all for justice and all that, but this verdict leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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8 days ago
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Senators introduce bill to end federal medical marijuana prohibition
United States Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Corey Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand from New York introduced a bill that would end the federal prohibition of medical marijuana and take steps to improve research.
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8 days ago
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Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start
The massive iceberg poised to break off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp coastal cities around the world.
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9 days ago
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The secret origin story of the iPhone
This month marks 10 years since Apple launched the first iPhone, a device that would fundamentally transform how we interact with technology, culture, and each other. Ahead of that anniversary, Motherboard editor Brian Merchant embarked on an investigation to uncover the iPhone’s untold origin. The One Device: The secret history of the iPhone, out on June 20th, traces that journey from Kenyan mines to Chinese factories all the way to One Infinite Loop. The following excerpt has been lightly co...
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10 days ago
Kefir is great, I figure I can live to 120 just drinking that.
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11 days ago
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Baby dropped from 10th floor of Grenfell Tower 'caught by man on ground'
A baby was caught by a member of the public after being dropped from Grenfell Tower as it was engulfed with flames, a witness said.
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11 days ago
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Gunmen asked congressmen 'are you Republicans or Democrats' before opening fire
The gunman who opened fire on a group of congressman playing baseball, reportedly asked the men if they were Republicans or Democrats before he opened fire. Reports said that shortly he opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon - spraying as many as 50 or 60 bullets - the suspected shooter, approached one of those present and asked about their political affiliation. “I’m told Rep Jeff Duncan plans to give a statement to police regarding a conversation he had with the shooter before leaving pr...
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12 days ago
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Couples divorcing after a short marriage 'may no longer have their assets split equally'
Couples who divorce after only a brief marriage can no longer expect to have their assets split equally by default following an appeal court ruling. Energy trader Julie Sharp, 44, successfully challenged a ruling that her former husband was entitled to half of the fortune she built up during their four year marriage.
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12 days ago
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The oldest living thing on Earth
Mayflies live for a day, humans live a century - if we’re lucky - but what is the oldest living organism on the planet?
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12 days ago
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Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
It’s now official. After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition of Yahoo, which it plans to combine with its AOL assets into a subsidiary called Oath, covering some 50 media brands (including TechCrunch) and 1 billion people globally. It will be led by Tim Armstrong, who was the CEO of AOL before this.
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